Conservatory Or Orangery – How Do You Choose Between The Two?

Around this time of year, we are usually constructing lots of home extensions, conservatories and orangeries for customers, but for the moment, we’re unable to do that.

Modern Orangery with Closed Bi-Folding Doors

If having a conservatory or orangery fitted at your home was in your grand plans for the summer, the present situation will come as a blow. However, it needn’t stop you at least beginning to organise the extension you want, whether it happens to be a conservatory or orangery. 

You will save yourself a load of money if you buy one from us now too as living spaces are included in our ‘Stay at Home’ sale – a total saving of up to 35% is on offer!

Can’t decide if it’s best to extend with a conservatory or orangery? We’ll tell you a bit about them both to try and aid your choosing of one or the other. 

Conservatory

To identify a conservatory from any other type of extension, just look to see if it has a sloped or angled roof that’s over 75% glazed and fully glazed sides. If it does, it’s a conservatory. 

A further giveaway is the inclusion of a dwarf or single solid wall and either a glass or polycarbonate roof. The very newest conservatories often have solid roofing systems, which you can recognize from the lifelike slates or tiles used or call the Siding Contractor in Columbia MD to suggest the best for your roof.

As far as cost is concerned, conservatories generally aren’t as expensive as orangeries, partly down to them having not as much brickwork and a less expansive roof. 

Orangery

Not a lot of people realise that orangeries have been in existence for longer than conservatories, having first been born and built in Italy in the 17th Century. Quite enclosed spaces, orangeries traditionally have a central roof lantern, with less than 75% of it being glazed. 

Solid pilasters (columns) are a notable feature of an orangery, which is often either square or rectangular shaped. Like most 18th Century buildings, it also has a shallow pitched roof.

Viewed internally, a pelmet runs along the full perimeter length of the ceiling where downlighters and spotlights get placed to make orangeries usable at night.

The consensus amongst many is that orangeries are a more natural fit as a home extension.

 

We couldn’t argue against you opting for either one of these extensions, that’s why we sell them both. It’s impossible to make a wrong decision.

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Everyone is welcome to come in and browse around our Gillingham Showroom in Kent, where our friendly sales team will be pleased to help with any questions you may have.

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