Find Your Perfect Sunroom Extension with Ultraframe
Our conservatories, orangeries and house extensions are often also referred to as sunrooms, they are designed to let in plenty of natural light, provide a comfortable temperature for year-round use and create a sense of space.
Sunroom Extensions: Your Choices
Our diverse range of products can be customised with a range of design options allowing you to create a sunroom that delivers on your design inspiration.
INSPIRATIONAL IDEA 1 – USE BIFOLD DOORS TO CONNECT YOUR SPACES
When designing your new sunroom extension, you’ll need to consider three separate spaces: your home, the room you’re planning to create and your garden. These different areas of your home will need to flow together flawlessly, or else your plans may not work in reality.
If you're looking to create a new living space with expansive views of your garden, choose our Contemporary Orangery. This is a modern sunroom extension that’s compatible with bifold or sliding doors, which can be opened up to create extensive views of your garden and create a seamless link with your home.
The impact of using bifold or sliding doors in conjunction with the Ultraframe Glass Roof to open up your space and draw natural light into your sunroom extension is demonstrated in the image below. Natural light can enter the room from all angles to create a bright, roomy environment.
If you're looking to install a modern conservatory, our Glass Roof system with the slimline ridge features a neat, lantern style ridge end for a modern, contemporary finish.
Refine Your Design
Opt for super-insulated columns to create a modern external effect on your sunroom extension. The columns will sit at the corners of your extension and are used as an alternative to traditional brick piers. Available in fluted or flat designs, they provide more than just decorative value, our super-insulated columns are five times more thermally efficient than a brick pier of the same size.
To allow for an easy transition between your three spaces, consider using french doors to connect your home to your new sunroom extension. These can be closed for privacy when you need some quiet time.
If you're planning to create a sunroom extension to be used as a living room with plenty of soft furnishings and carpeting. The Glass Roof is available in any RAL colour, allowing you to match your roof to your windows and doors.
This interior shot of a Performance Conservatory shows how the internal pelmet is used to house downlighters to provide the conservatory with light.
INSPIRATIONAL IDEA 2 – BUILD A KITCHEN DINER EXTENSION WITHOUT INTERNAL DOORS
If you want to create an open plan extension that can be used to serve a range of functions, explore our Livinroof and Ultraroof extensions.
Livinroof is a solid roof system that combines the best of both solid and glass conservatory roofs, allowing you to position shaped glazing almost anywhere in the roof to create stunning designs not possible with other solid roof systems on the market. Ultraroof is a tiled conservatory roof that looks outstanding and provides incredible thermal performance.
Internally, the insulated pelmet retains warmth and can include spotlights to keep your room cosy at night and speakers can be included too to help create a light filled modern sunroom extension that’s perfect for entertaining or relaxing all year round.
As you can see below, the Livinroof's shaped glazing creates a stunning internal design and floods natural light into the open plan kitchen, creating a warm, inviting environment.
When viewed from the outside, the Livinroof is equally as stunning:
Create your dream kitchen diner extension
- Exclude internal doors from your design so that your new room is accessible from your kitchen area.
- Livinroof and Ultraroof house extensions comply with the latest Building Regulations.
- Depending on the space you have available, you could create a dining room that also includes a seating area with couches where guests could relax afterwards. The addition of carpets could be used to separate the space into two distinct sections.
- For an easy passage from your kitchen through to your garden, use bifold or sliding doors to introduce your bespoke sunroom extension to the outside. If space is limited, opt for French doors that open fully outward for better access.
INSPIRATIONAL IDEA 3 – CREATE AN ORANGERY EFFECT SUNROOM EXTENSION
Choose a Contemporary Orangery that features a Glass Roof and internal pelmet to create an orangery effect as an alternative to a traditional flat roof extension with a lantern. Use our structural Goalpost to create larger sunroom extensions with large, open spans of bifold or sliding doors.
Internally, an insulated pelmet will keep your extension space warm and create a orangery effect, room-like feel. As well as this, with the addition of speakers, you’ll be able to listen to music when entertaining or relaxing. Why not add a central lighting panel to create a focal point in your extension and include additional lighting?
Externally, add style to your roofline with the decorative cornice available in a variety of flat and curved designs to hide guttering.
Must Have Sunroom Additions
Connect your orangery to your home via French doors so that your space can be screened off when privacy is needed but opened up when your house is busy.
Use the larger part of your sunroom extension as a lounge that your family or visitors can relax in when you’ve finished eating.
Externally, use masonry to create a traditional effect or flat super insulated columns to highlight a modern sunroom extension design.
Open your T shaped orangery to the garden with bifold doors so that guests can come and go freely during busier times.
Here, the Ultrasky Roof is used to create two distinct spaces - a large lounge area that leads into an alcoved dining room.
Sunroom Extensions: FAQS
How big can a sunroom extension be?
Your sunroom extension, conservatory or orangery can’t take up any more than 50% of the land around your home as it stood when it was first built. Take care to account for sheds, greenhouses and any other outbuildings, which will need to be included in your calculations.
Can I choose different colours for my sunroom extension?
You can customise your sunroom extension using a range of RAL colours. The completed installation will blend in with the rest of your home and look the way you expected.
How do I find an Ultra Installer to build my sunroom extension?
You can find one of our Ultra Installers by using our search tool.
Find a Trusted Sunroom Extension Installer Near You
Use our search tool to locate an approved sunroom extension in your local area. Explore our range using a VR tool that lets you take a tour of the orangeries, conservatories and extensions we offer. If you like an image you see, save it in your dedicated Scrapbook to look at later.
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We'll put you in touch with your nearest Approved Ultra Installer, who has been tested and assessed for their competency.
