Sometimes good plans don’t always work out the way you would like. When I built our house, I wanted a patio under the existing roof. I have seen too many add-ons that just look bad, leak, and were just a waste of money. That was a good plan, the bad; we live about 3 miles from the start of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with pasture land around us and a seasonal creek about ½ mile away. Mosquitoes at first weren’t a huge problem, but over the years with all the cut-backs, the local spraying has stop except for the worst areas. West Nile virus is a big concern so many nights starting in Spring through late Fall mosquitoes made it almost impossible to enjoy the patio. So the patio became well, just a spot for junk, spiders including the black widows, and just an eye sore. Today with many indoor project completed and the greenhouse built I turned to the patio and turned it into a sunroom. Don’t tell my wife sunroom/more room for plants!
Total time was about 5 weeks of work on the weekends. The sunroom is 10' x 22'. 220 sq. ft. of usable space. I say for plants, my wife says "We need some outdoor furniture." Okay both!
Not quite a greenhouse, yet
- cactushobbyman
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Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
I figure that if you build in shelves under all those windows you'll have at least 26 linear feet of shelves for cactus just on the top shelf, and your wife will still have the bottom shelves and an 8x 20 space to put stuff on and furniture in. Sweet deal for you both!
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Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
looks like yhe only thing left is to add that final touch of some cacti and or succulents.
- Melt In The Sun
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Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
Looks good! Gotta love the old fan...
Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
Looks good. I would pretend that it was my green house!
I like this idea:
I think it is curious that you didn't hinge the door so it opened right instead of left. Are you left handed?
I like this idea:
Genius!I figure that if you build in shelves under all those windows you'll have at least 26 linear feet of shelves for cactus
I think it is curious that you didn't hinge the door so it opened right instead of left. Are you left handed?
Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
I'm liking that bent-blade ceiling fan. Did the blades straighten out when you turned it on?
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
- JeffWhiteDevil
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Re: Not quite a greenhouse, yet
You did a really good job!