12 MORE Ways to Enjoy Your New Sunroom, Conservatory or Patio Enclosure.

1. Leisure Room- Many homeowners want a sunroom so they can use it as a breakfast/sitting area. These rooms are the perfect space for drinking your morning coffee and reading the paper. Specially designed to include cable and electrical outlets, homeowners can enjoy a quiet place to read, watch TV, or just enjoy the scenery.

2. Guest Room- More and more, families are looking for a convenient yet attractive way to accommodate overnight guests. Instead of putting your family and friends in a cramped office or in the middle of the living room, a sunroom can double as a leisure room during the day and easily be converted into a comfortable guest bedroom at night with the use of a day bed. You will find this a welcome alternative to adding a conventional, single purpose bedroom to your home.

A Conservatory is really just another, wonderful class of Sunroom.

Other names used for Conservatories include: Orangerie, Solarium, Green house, Atrium, Garden Room, Patio Room, and more.

A well-designed, high quality conservatory or sunroom will quickly become the most used room in your home.

As with any addition to your home, you should absolutely seek out the help and advice of an excellent contractor, designer and/or architect to help you decide what styles and materials will best compliment your home, your lifestyle, and your budget.

As you may know, we are hosting a very neat little contest that’s just wrapping up and is currently in the judging stages. We have results in from one judge already, and the suspense is very thick around here…. there’s $5000 dollars on the line - HELLO! Winners of that contest won’t be announced till this Friday, December 7th, 2007.

So, in order to temporarily satisfy the ‘WHO WON?’ itch, we held an open contest over the weekend for anyone to write a creative post about our recently added ‘Christmas tree decorating ideas’ page. See our free decorated Christmas tree pictures for some of the lovely trees in our collection. We had a handful of great posts that shared about everything from family Christmas tree picking day to needing to decorate the tree to accommodate ‘new hands’ in the house, but, as we’re sure you’ll agree, (my Mom was the judge of this contest, and I just hung up the phone with her….) the winner of this little contest we held for a $100 grand prize, has to go to….

The Winner Is:

Well I just went through the fun and sometimes intimidating process of picking interior paint colors for my new home. I love color and I have been a graphic designer for years so I enjoying working with color.

When I started with the task of picking colors for my new house, I knew I wanted color. So first I started with a theme . I live in Southern California near the ocean and have chosen Beach-y - Tropical with a modern twist as my theme.

Second, I used things I collect for inspiration. I collect the vintage jadeite dishes that Martha Stewart has made so popular. So naturally when I discovered that Martha Stewart had a paint color called Jadeite I knew that would be one of my colors.

Well I’ve struggled with what advice I should give you all. I’ve been through the remodel process now and I’ve supervised at least a dozen others in the past year. I have a wealth of advice to give you so if you have any particular questions just ask. Leave a message for me on our blog.

The most consistent compliment we get on our home is how cool it is for a little house. Our house is just over 1100 sq.ft. but because of a few things we have done it feels much larger. I thought I would give you all a few tips on how to maximize your space and make your home feel much larger than it actually is.

Here you will find customer photos of installed kitchen backsplashes and tile murals. Hopefully this will give you some ideas for your own kitchen backsplash.

Well, the online world anyway.

So many people write to us and tell us how great they think our site is. I can’t help thinking that they must not see many good sites then, because there are SO MANY MORE great home remodeling and design websites out there, it’s amazing to think that we even rank among them.

10 Best Home Design Blogs

For the past while Home Rejuvenation has been asking people to vote on what they feel are the best design blogs out there, and the results came in today. Here’s what their email this morning said:

“Based on 4931 votes polled over the last month, the 10 most influential design bloggers are revealed! “

Read their post on the “10 MOST INFLUENTIAL DESIGN BLOGGERS“.

Our congratulations to all the winners!

Who I Nominated

We’ve been cooking up small kitchens photos.

We’ve been at it again. In order to bring you more free resources and design ideas, we’ve been hard at work collecting kitchen images of all kinds… modern, French, white, red, dark, country, funky and more. And since so many have asked for pictures of small kitchens, it was our first priority. From elaborate yet simple modern small kitchens, to as basic as it gets, we have small kitchen pictures for you to peruse to get those creative juices flowing and get some ideas for your small kitchen…. because whether it be an apartment, condominium or cabin kitchen, small kitchens need design love too!

Here’s just a sample for your small kitchen design pleasure….

It seems our research shows that ‘French Country Kitchens’ are one of the most popular design choices for kitchen remodeling or renovation projects. Not only are French country kitchens warm and inviting, but they also offer simplistic practicality for storage, workspace and design.

If you’ve been thinking about remodeling your kitchen with the French country theme, have a gander at our recently posted ‘French country kitchens photo gallery’, or get a good idea of what makes up a comfy kitchen from the South of France by reading our support article, ‘How To Design a French Country Kitchen‘. Here you’ll learn about color schemes, building materials, accents and accessories, furniture and fabrics, lighting and storage used in a French country kitchen.

While you may NOT want ‘la cuisine française de pays’, you can get some great ideas for creating ample storage space, texture ideas, the country ‘feel’, and ways to save money.