The Indoor Winter Garden
Green plants in the house make the home seem alive and well. It brings a balance to nature and helps me pass the winter months with hope and anticipation to start it all over again.
Green plants in the house make the home seem alive and well. It brings a balance to nature and helps me pass the winter months with hope and anticipation to start it all over again.
Another homeowner concern that I read on the internet is that of temperature control in the conservatory.
Comments on Houzz often say “it’s beautiful but you will never afford to keep it warm in the winter” or “you will roast like a bug in an oven in the summer”
A cornucopia of organic vegetables and fruits can easily be grown in your conservatory or greenhouse. Backyard gardening helps the planet in many ways. If you choose to grow organically, you will also save the earth of any air and water pollution that comes from pesticides.
The natural resources of the world, though abundant, are being threatened by climate change and global warming. As a result, people are becoming more aware of their carbon footprint; how much energy we consume, the environmental factors in which their food is grown, and how to incorporate it all into our everyday life.
As energy costs continue to rise and environmental concerns grow, it helps to start thinking about ways on how you can minimize your home’s daily energy consumption. There are now ways for you to conserve and offset the amount of non-renewable energy your household uses on a daily basis.
Our most recent project in Kansas City, MO was a bit of a tricky one. We were tasked with installing a 3-bay, mahogany conservatory in the ‘L’ of a house while ensuring that rain and excess water would indeed flow away from the room.
The drone craze has captured our imagination We love images from aerial perspective! Aerial photography can show you features of a conservatory in a way you cannot capture from the ground.
I received a call from a lady with a slight southern charm to her voice, right after Christmas. She said, she needed a conservatory and was coming to see me, ON NEW YEAR’S DAY!
Recently, we were asked to develop a plan for integrating a conservatory into a kitchen and eating area, located in the western part of Minneapolis.
A kitchen is a challenging spot to add a glass roof because of cooking moisture and condensation on glass, but with proper air ventilation design, this has never been an issue in this great kitchen.
When we travel across the country building new conservatories, we often stop to pay our respects to the old timers that graced so many cities, large and small, in America from 1890 to today.