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Read the house first
Window rhythm, brick coursing, roof pitch, trim profiles. A site-built room has to answer to all of them, so we measure and photograph the existing elevation before a single line is drawn.
Traditional Sunrooms
The traditional sunroom, done properly.
A custom, site-built sunroom for Chesapeake and Hampton Roads homes. Designed as original architecture and built for every month of the year.
How we approach it
Matched to the house, then built
A site-built room answers to the architecture it joins. The drawing work that makes that happen comes before any foundation is poured.
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Drawn to match, not to fit
Elevations, trim profiles, and material samples worked out together. Matching an existing house is a drawing problem before it is a building problem, and it is where a room either earns its place or looks bolted on.
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Real construction
A poured foundation, framed and insulated walls, and rafters tied into the existing roof. Built the way the rest of the house was built, because it becomes part of the rest of the house.
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It should look original
Wainscot below the glass, a plank ceiling above it, proportions carried through from the rooms it adjoins. The test is whether a visitor can tell it was added.
Site-built
Constructed, not attached
A traditional sunroom is real construction: the most seamless, most permanent way to add a room made of light, with total freedom over size, shape, glass, and finish.
A real room, built on site
Foundation, framed walls, insulated glass, and a roof tied into the house, constructed like the rest of your home, because it is part of your home.
Four seasons by design
Insulation, high-performance glazing, and heating and cooling are designed in from the first drawing, so the room is comfortable in January and July alike.
Architecture, continued
Rooflines, proportions, trim, and materials continue the house's own language. The finished room reads as though it was always there.
One team, drawing to walkthrough
Design, engineering, permitting, and construction under one contract. The design-build method applied to the brightest room in the house.
Also consider
Prefer a faster, lighter path?
Engineered Sunspace sunrooms install sooner at a friendlier investment, from screen rooms to insulated year-round rooms. We build both, and we will recommend honestly.
Good to know
Traditional sunrooms, answered
What makes a sunroom 'traditional'?
It is a site-built room with a real foundation, framed walls, insulated glass, and a roof tied into the house, designed from scratch for your home. It is the most seamless, most permanent way to add a room made of light.
Is a traditional sunroom a four-season room?
It can be, and usually is: insulation, high-performance glass, and heating and cooling designed in from the first drawing make it a room for every month of the year.
How is this different from a Sunspace system?
A traditional sunroom is custom construction: maximum integration and design freedom, at a larger investment. Sunspace rooms are engineered systems that install faster at a friendlier price. We offer both, and we will tell you honestly which serves your home better.
Does a sunroom add value?
A well-built sunroom adds usable square footage and daylight, two things buyers and appraisers both notice. What we will not do is quote you an inflated return figure; we would rather show you rooms that speak for themselves.
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See the materials, meet the team, and talk through your project at our Chesapeake showroom, serving Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, and the wider Hampton Roads region.
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