In Naperville and other Chicago suburbs, you can incorporate the outdoors in your daily living all year-round with indoor-outdoor living spaces with a sunroom connected to your kitchen, dining area, recreation room, den, or even your living room.
Other options for connecting your indoor space with outdoor living could include a screen porch or a new patio. Any of these options can be applied with a seamless transition and with no bold standout or noticeable difference. Whether you like to entertain or you have a family that enjoys bringing the outdoors in or the indoors outside, Reliable Home Improvement can combine your current living space with your dreams of enlarging into the great outdoors.
Sunroom, Screened Porch, and Patio Additions
Today’s families are making their outside more functional. Daily outdoor living luxuries are becoming more important to many looking to spend more time outside. Some indoor-outdoor room ideas include:
- Connecting the kitchen to outdoor space, whether an extension of the current kitchen to an outdoor kitchen, a breakfast nook sunroom, or an outside dining patio surrounded by beautiful, warm landscaping for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a nighttime snack, making any meal an outdoor adventure.
- Adding a sunroom to your office, library, or primary bedroom to enlarge your personal space for work or much-needed time off to read a good book, take a nap, or just enjoy some me, or us time.
- Enlarging an existing window or exchanging it for a single door, or a pair of French doors for ambiance and access to a porch, screened or not, or a greenhouse and sunroom.
The possibilities are only limited by the imagination, with such a variety of options with seamless transitions made possible to combine indoor and outdoor living.
Materials, Lighting, Furniture, and More
Making those seamless transitions may include matching color schemes from indoors to outdoors, coordinating flooring transformations from the kitchen, dining room, or den into the sunroom or porch decking, and coordinating matching or similar style lighting both indoors and out. Don’t forget to incorporate landscape and mood lighting throughout your property. Sensor lighting can work well along pathways.
Focal point options may differ on the settings from an outdoor firepit for a porch, richly planted wood, brick, or stone planters for decking, or a warm fireplace or a big-screen TV in a sunroom.
Of course, your furniture choices should embrace a similar style from indoors to out, with particular attention paid to weather-resistant outdoor furnishings. Easily moveable furniture can provide a variety of seating options from smaller gatherings to larger group get-togethers, allowing for intimate conversations or group meetings.
Integrating Landscaping with Naperville-style Home Indoor-Outdoor Living Spaces
From its beginnings as a 19th-century pioneer outpost to its current size of nearly 40 square miles and a population of more than 150,000, Naperville doesn’t have just one style of housing, but several.
Different styles command different forms of softscaping integrating a variety of trees, plants, and grass including native prairie Indian plantain, prairie milkweed, purple coneflowers, and black maple, white and bur oak, redbud, and black cherry and other common trees and plants that do well in the local environment and weather such as red maples, boxwoods, daylilies, plantation lilies, catmint, and hydrangeas.
Once you have chosen your new indoor-outdoor living space, you can consider your hardscaping such as paver walkways, stone retaining walls, and more that will blend into your living space accommodations and your softscaping.
Ready to Combine Some Outdoor Space with Your Indoor Living Space?
Reliable Home Improvement has been transforming Naperville, Barrington, and Inverness homes for more than 50 years. Let our designers work with you to bring your ideas to life by extending your living space to the outside of your current indoor space. Schedule your consultation today!