Considering having an orangery living room added to your property? In this article, we’ll explore several design ideas to impress those who visit your home, covering both the interior and exterior. We’ll also touch on pricing at the end of this piece.
Rustic Dining Chairs
If you’re looking to create a rustic aesthetic in your orangery, consider mixing and matching with a range of stylish and rustic dining chairs. This could be the perfect place for old worn-down dining chairs that you had been using in your kitchen. Of course, how it will look in your orangery will depend on the general design of the structure. Also, it may or may not be your cup of tea, but it’s certainly worth considering.
Light Up Your Orangery
A fantastic choice of doors for a modern orangery is folding doors. While French doors would be a more suitable choice for a traditional orangery, folding doors can open up the space entirely to your garden on warm summer days.
You should consider a flush threshold (i.e., no height difference between the garden and your orangery to create a sort of ‘indoor outdoor space’. Obviously, you would need to consider what items would and would not suit your orangery if being opened up to the air such that nature has access. You may decide to cover certain fittings over if opening up your orangery on warm days.
If you want to ensure you maintain an ‘indoorsy’ feel of sorts, even with the folding doors fully open, you could include sofas that directly face one another. While you’re aiming to keep your orangery largely modern, it may still interest you to use traditional furniture for a homely look. After all, there are many ‘traditional’ elements of living rooms that are trendy nowadays all the same.
Use Decorative Colours
Considering that windows are such a predominant feature of orangeries, it’s easy to overlook the colour or lack thereof inside an orangery. By ensuring various fittings and items included in your orangery come in an array of colours, you can add life to your orangery and give it some additional charm.
Indoor Garden
This idea might work best if you’d rather not open up your orangery completely to your back garden. With this design approach, you can bring your garden indoors. We’d recommend plant-decorated and otherwise colourful furniture to match a range of indoor plants. This can give a lovely tropical feel to your orangery, along with a beautiful aesthetic and a lovely natural scent. An indoor garden is certainly one way to impress visitors.
Blue and Grey Exterior
You should also consider the exterior when it comes to an orangery design. The use of blue and grey can provide a seaside aesthetic. This is in contrast to the usual choices of beige or white. Of course, it’s critical that you choose the right paint product. That means finding one that is suitable for the specific material used to build your orangery (e.g., Wood or uPVC).
Patio and Stairs
Another way of impressing friends and family is by having an elevated orangery installed and adding a patio and stairs leading out into the garden. Of course, this will require very specific design plans to achieve and may or may not be possible for your garden depending on a range of factors. However, the architect or designer you consult with for planning your orangery will be able to help you.
Related Materials to Your Existing Property
Sometimes keeping the exterior simple can work just fine. This can be achieved by matching the materials and colours to your existing home. This would include selecting paint finishes and window frame styles to match your house.
Final Thoughts
Building an orangery can add a new lease of life to your property and increase its value. On average, it costs between £20,000 and £40,000 to have a mid-range orangery constructed. This includes the cost of labour and supply costs. For a low-end orangery, you’d look at paying somewhere in the region of £10,000 to £20,000, while the prices could reach up to about £60,000 for a high-end orangery.
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