A four-season room is a sunroom enclosed with glass, allowing for breathtaking floor-to-ceiling views of the outdoors. Consider a four-season sunroom if you are looking for all-year-round usage. The roof and frames of sunrooms are thermally engineered, serving both heating and cooling functions.

A sunroom, also frequently called a solarium (and sometimes a "Florida room", "garden conservatory", "garden room", "patio room", "sun parlor", "sun porch", "three season room" or "winter garden"), is a room that permits abundant daylight and views of the landscape while sheltering from adverse weather.

As suggested by its name, sunrooms are all about inviting as much sunshine into your home as possible. Whether you live in a cold climate or warm climate, are looking for a place to grow loads of houseplants, or a spot to watch the sunrise from inside, sunrooms can be the perfect way to invite the outdoors inside.

Pros and Cons of Adding a Sunroom. With windows and glass roofs, sunrooms offer an abundance of natural light and provide homeowners with a special place to dine, relax, and host guests.

In the early twentieth century, hospitals began using solariums (glass rooms) to help people recover from illnesses like pneumonia, pleurisy and tuberculosis. At the same time, homeowners, who enjoyed their covered back patios or front porches, were looking for ways to extend their use.

If you're thinking about someday adding a sunroom or turning an existing space into a sunny and relaxing oasis, here are some features to consider.

• Comfortable seating.
• Multiple purposes.
• Environmental controls.
• Privacy shades.
• Greenery.
• Decorations.
• Rugs.
• Simplicity.

To make the conversion to a four season room, you'll need to remove the interior drywall, if present and add additional insulation to the walls and ceiling. You may also consider installing smaller windows, reducing the size of the glass to make your exterior walls less susceptible to losing heated or cooled air.

: a glass-enclosed porch or living room with a sunny exposure. called also sun parlor.

Sunroom: A sunroom is a room primarily meant for lounging. With glass windows and skylights, sunrooms emulate the feeling of being outside while being indoors. You can grow potted plants and some fruits or vegetables in a sunroom, but this space is still a part of a house and, as such, is meant for living in.

Sunroom: A sunroom is a room primarily meant for lounging. With glass windows and skylights, sunrooms emulate the feeling of being outside while being indoors. You can grow potted plants and some fruits or vegetables in a sunroom, but this space is still a part of a house and, as such, is meant for living in.

Pros and Cons of Adding a Sunroom. With windows and glass roofs, sunrooms offer an abundance of natural light and provide homeowners with a special place to dine, relax, and host guests.

A sunroom is an addition to the home, often separated by patio doors or sliding French doors. The frame and roof of the room are the same materials that are used to build the rest of the home, but the wall frames hold numerous large windows. Some may even have floor-to-ceiling windows or skylight windows.