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?

It's an excellent spot for collecting flies !
We use ours as a party room/ garden room/ place to sit and read the Sunday papers/ place to eat when it's sunny but too cold to eat outside.

Today I used ours for breastfeeding newborn, drinking a g&t with my sister, listening to her play on her new drum from Bali, listened to music & read a book.
we've also got some seedlings waiting to go out into the garden, DS did his spellings in there and had an ice lolly. It was hot in there but a bit more shaded than the garden so better for the baby.
We use it as an extra living space and also for parties as its huge and opens directly into the family room so that makes a rather nice large space with a fab hard floor that's easy to keep clean. Oh and the pram tends to live in here as its out of the way.

Used to be the playroom when dd was little, now we lovingly call it 'the Armoury'.

We are a family of star wars costumers and are always building. All my tools are in there and boxes of tie and xwing pilot stuff at the moment. There is also my comfy chair and occasionally I'll curl up in there and read.

Ours has been many things over the years.

It started off as our dining room.
Then a place to have weekend morning coffee with a toy storage and play area for toddlers, we used it lots like that.
Then an office. We have ikea Kallax units with the desks that attach.
We no longer work at home but kept the Kallax and desk layout, nice office chair and a relaxing chair. It now gets used as a sun room, when one of us wants a desk and large second screen for laptop, kids and friends want to do online gaming together. The smaller desk is now mainly used as a lego building station.

Our conservatory is 3m x 3m , one brick wall, one part brick and the other all doors and windows, radiator, wall lights. We don't often have the heating on in the house and do keep one of those mini oil radiators in there and a tiny fan heater. If its freezing out we blast with the fan heater then keep the oil radiator on low.

We put several of similar hooks to these

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Over the ridge under the roof and rested curtain poles on the hook part. Then went Dunelm Mill and hung their blackout curtains on the poles.

Its not perfect as we still have some glare through the roof but makes it more useable.we had spent years dithering about spending £'ssssss on various blindd options.

10 full loads of washing can be hung up at the same time!! This is a dream come true!

Playroom here too!!

armami you must have a huuuuuge conservatory

Ours is awful, came with the house when we bought it and its practically falling to pieces. So ours is mainly used for storage. But when we have friends round in the summer or bbqs it has a good clean so people can sit in there if they want to.

I've only been living in a house with a one for a few months, but I can't work out what your meant to do with it other than dry washing in it. I put a thermometer in mine earlier, after an hour it was reading 56 degrees! That's not a room, it's an oven, even with all the doors open its hot and smells funny

I love my conservatory.

It is fairly big- 20ft x 20ft and heated.

In winter it is a grotto of lights, we host a christmas eve drinks party. In summer it is lovely for basking. OH and I love it for escaping from the family and drinking a glass of wine at weekends. I grow vines and have comfy seating.
It is North facing and I live in Scotland so never gets too hot, even in summer.

We have the dining table in there and two extra sofas. We love it, and it is really an extra living room. It has good heating, so can be used all year round.

Ours was a playroom when the DC were younger.

Now it's a gym and bike storage room.

When the DC leave home it'll probably get turned back into an extra sitting area.

Pearly that sounds lovely. Ours will only be small thinks it's about 10x12ft. I quite like the sound of growing things in there and sitting in there, but it's south facing so on days like today it would be roasting! The plants would like it though.
I'm going to go with playroom and plant room with a couple of nice chairs. I think. We will see. Everything is signed, just waiting to agree a completion date now.

Dining room and extra sitting room. I love ours :) long term it will probably become a playroom.

Skitless ours is south facing
We open all the windows and doors and put the fans on and there are very few days when it is too hot. Probably depends what kind of roof it has got. Ours is supposed to be good for south facing conservatories.