A sunroom and a basement are two completely different rooms with two completely different functions. Other then adding more square footage to the house by adding a sunroom, there is no other way to compare a sunroom to a basement.

 

I have hosted many parties and we all hang around the kitchen which coincidentally is not big enough. I am looking right now for a house with a big ass kitchen and Hearth (family room) right next to it.

 

My next house (hopefully) will have a massive kitchen. I dont care if it eats into all the other rooms.

 

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I'm starting a new thread anyway once the construction gets underway. so flame away



As for the bonus room/living room/sunroom/basement....

Basements are a very expensive upgrade with the builders here, which is why I didn't even consider it for more than two seconds. Many builders don't even mention it unless you bring it up. Most of them opt for that bonus room over the garage instead, or with the size of houses that we were looking at, the plans often had the bonus room as the only room on the second floor with a half bath or something similar. We would use it for something like juniorbean, I've got a set of drums that would go in there, along with the dartboard/arcade basketball/etc. That's essentially what we're using the larger 2nd bedroom for on the floor plan that I posted on page 3.

As for living rooms, I have an uncle on each side of the family that has a living room in addition to the family room. We never go in there in either of their houses, it ends up being a room that looks nice from outside or when you first walk in. I remember using it once during thanksgiving a couple years ago, but that was almost like a large family reunion. So for me, this being my first house, I didn't want to spend any money on something we weren't going to use or get a good return on later. The only house we really considered that had the formal living room didn't have a seperate study, so that's what I was going to use the living room for.

Oh and sunrooms can be nice, but for what you use a sunroom for, I'd rather be outside. That's why we extended the front porch across the front of the dining window, and extended the back porch out a little bit. And there aren't too many really cold months here where it makes sense to stay inside to get sun.

And if it makes you feel any better Yam, the dining room window on the front of the house is practically a bay window. sortof.

just my carry on...

 

I agree with you on the living room, it is a room just for decorating. But down the road, you may thinking about selling the house and people will wonder why there is no living room.

I also agree with FDL and Mamboking, a massive kitchen is a must; since, people hang around the kitchen most of the time. One way to extend the kitchen is to add a sunroom next to it. It will make everything look better and bigger. It will also serve as an extra dining room.

 

That right there is a very true statement. What's funny is that a few of our neighbors that did a sunroom don't even use them for that anymore. The plan was to extend the kitchen.. but it's turned into a kids playroom . Glad I don't have kids yet