To ask what you use your conservatory for

[Skittlesss]

We're buying a house and it has a conservatory, but I don't know what to do with it?! What do you use yours for?

Winter: boot room. Way point for logs being brought in from the shed. General dumping ground.

Summer: dog oven. I also work there, to the tune of the two of them overheating, then tottering through to lie in the cool. If we're going camping I prepare all the kit there.

It's amazingly useful.

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My conservatory is currently a rescue room for sick animals as the floor is wipe clean. Our present guests include a young hedgehog with a poorly leg, a wood-pigeon with a dodgy wing and a wounded squirrel, possible due to cat attack. Temperatures vary wildly in there so we've set up air conditioning systems to ensure that the animals neither bake nor freeze. It's also slightly out of the way so that the animals don't get too used to us and we can release them as soon as they're healed.

In summer, drying washing.

In winter, storing junk.

I have air conditioning (also does heating in winter) and use it as a dining room.

My children have slowly filled it with their belongings, so it's 'their space' downstairs now.

Growing plants, especially climbers, sitting and looking at the garden, entertaining when there are too many of us for the dining room table, just being in it, we use it all time . We have a Chesterfield there which is a sofa bed and we sleep on it. on hot summer nights.,

Storing walking boots & wellies
Reading
Drinking tea
Eating, especially breakfast on a lazy sunny morning
Chatting
Watching the birds in the garden
Overwintering tender plants
Starting off tender vegetable plants before they go outside
Drying washing on wet days
Airing waterproofs
Temporary home for things on the way to the charity shops

And probably many others I can't think of.

Napping when it's sunny

at dog oven.
Our dogs love it in the morning when it gets full sun. I have my coffee in there too with the doors wide open because it gets stifling otherwise. It's shady all afternoon and much more comfortable. We only use it from about April to October. I have two big comfy dark grey sofas and a coffee table.

I use it for drying washing and growing fruit and veg. DP uses it for his dusty exercise bike

We put a roof on ours was a playroom but now study/ homework room.

We use it daily as another room in the house, we have corner suite ,Dining table, and a tele on the wall for when Dh wants to watch sport. My hairdresser uses hers for her hairdressing business.

its the playroom at my moms house.. the conservatory was built onto the existing house and they left the old patio doors in.. when you shut them, they still do a marvellous job of blocking out the noise from er... 'outside'

its bliss.

Ours is our dining room and also has a very comfy sofa in it. Our old dining room is smaller and darker so became a gym when the conservatory was built.

Half playroom, Half lovely light sitting room. Actual living room is v gloomy dark.

We grow stuff in ours (grapes,orchids, dry rot and carnivorous plants) are we the only ones who actually do that? Grape vine was well established when we moved in...

Dining room, nursery for young plants, area for nice green plants to live, nice area to sit and drink and look out on the world.

it cd be an exotic plants greenhouse e.g/ MJ!

I just evicted the last toys out of mine and it is back to being my sanctuary and plant room again. I have a thermostatic plug controlled heater and so can reliably keep it frost-free in winter and I grow tropical plants, from orchids to bird of paradise. I am about to fire up the heated propagator for beans and courgettes, and the cucumbers are already in their summer positions. Every time someone says it could be a nice sitting room if I would only get rid of all the plants gets introduced to a dictionary, opened at the word conservatory.

Playroom and drying room. Also plan to use it as a dining room when we have lots of guests.

unofficial laundry room. No washing machine or tumble dryer. Just piles of clean clothes waiting to be put away :D

Our conservatory is massive and I love it, even if it is a bit ramshackle!
One end is effectively our dining room, the other end is the kids playroom. We have two big radiators in there so its usable all year round. Oh, and DH has wired up white curtain wire in lines matching the roof beams so we can dry washing in there, I can get about 10 full loads hung up at a time - we is great after camping wkends etc, and as the lines match up with the beams just above them you cant really notice them there when washing is down.

We used to have a large conservatory, which we mainly used as a playroom. It was useful having the extra space for larger toys (eg play kitchen) and we also had a little tikes picnic table in there fit drawing and snacks etc. However in the winter it was freezing and summer boiling hot, so it was mainly useful in spring and autumn, especially if it was too wet to go outside. It ended up being a bit of a junk room and so last year we took the plunge and got it demolished and replaced with a single story extension. Ended up being quite expensive but is now a much more useful room and feels like part of the house.

Dining room and children's tv room

Breakfast room
Dining room
Garden room
Drying room
Woodstore

I love it, it's the best thing about my flat.