2020 Dealer Awards

Congratulations to our Winners! 2020 was full of challenges that the entire world had to overcome together. Businesses were impacted in ways they would never suspect. Supply chain issues, shortages of products and employees, and so on.  Despite what LivingSpace dealt with, we had a fantastic year with dealers who went above and beyond to make sales and get homeowners into their new, amazing 4-season sunroom. So, without further ado, let’s meet our 2020 LivingSpace award winners! Dealer of the Year: Peter Burley Since 2015 Peter Burley of NJ Sunroom Additions has dominated sales, wearing the crown for seven years now for Dealer of the Year. He says his long-running success selling LivingSpace sunrooms comes from teamwork and excellent communication. Watch the video below to hear more from Peter and his advice to other dealers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDu-y6RvJm4 Dealer of the Year, Midwest Region: Jude Tindal Jude Tindal of SE Wisconsin Sunrooms has taken home the Dealer of the Year, Midwest Region Award. We talked with Jude about his win and what it means to him. "It's a great honor. There are many good dealers and builders in the LivingSpace network, so winning an award amongst those organizations is always a great honor. I'm very lucky to have a great group of guys that work for us that take a lot of pride in their work." Jude also gave some great advice to pass on to other LivingSpace dealers. He speaks on having confidence in yourself and the LivingSpace product. "You got to take the leap of faith. This is the best sunroom product hands-down. There's nothing even close right now on the market.” Presidents Continued Excellence Award: Tom Casey & Tom Thiel We have two winners in this category, Tom Casey from Home Town Restyling and Tom Thiel from Chesterfield Fence…

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Spring is the Perfect Time to Add a Sunroom Addition

After a long and cold winter getting outside and enjoying the beauty and warmth of spring is the perfect way to spend the day! Unfortunately, spring also means a lot of rainy days, unpredictable cold spells, and the return of outdoor insects. That's why adding a sunroom is the perfect solution to soak up the springtime sun and still be protected from the many elements of Mother Nature! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP4qLAln9A4 Although our sunrooms can be enjoyed during all four seasons, many people find that they get the most use out of them in the spring and summer months. When the snow starts to melt and the days are getting longer, it is the perfect time to think about adding your new sunroom addition. Plus, there are several benefits to adding a sunroom in the spring. Perfect temperature for construction More daylight, allowing builders to maximize their time during construction. Temperatures are more ideal for builders to work in, not too hot and not too cold. Safely enjoying the return of the sun  Vitamin D from the sun helps you stay healthy and even happy, but the sun can also be dangerous. Using a sunroom in the warmer months helps you stay protected while still getting to enjoy the sun's rays. Avoiding pesky bugs and mosquitos   Spring brings a lot of benefits, but it is also the time of year that flies and mosquitos return with a vengeance. Get the best of both worlds by utilizing your new sunroom addition to enjoy the beauty of nature without needing to dig out that bottle of bug spray. As you can see there's no better time than spring to break ground on your new sunroom addition! The experts at LivingSpace Sunrooms offers custom designed, energy efficient sunrooms that can be installed quickly and efficiently…

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Choosing the Right LivingSpace Sunroom

LivingSpace offers a variety of sunroom additions that are fully customizable to meet your needs and style preferences. These rooms are designed for all four seasons so you can enjoy it on a hot summer day or even when there’s snow! If you’re debating which option is best for you, LivingSpace has you covered. In this post you’ll find details on each sunroom  to make your decision that much easier. The Cathedral Previous Next Looking for a fancier look? Cathedral sunrooms are a luxurious option and our most popular! The most notable characteristics of the Cathedral layout include: high vaulted ceilings, natural light flood each room, and tall windows. You even have the option to add skylights to bring even more light into your new space! The Studio Previous Next If you’re looking for a more common sunroom look LivingSpace’s Studio sunroom option is for you. It offers that traditional sunroom style, but our version is more unique, as this type of layout is fully customizable. Notable characteristics include: low pitch roof, angled ceilings, and large windows.  The Integrated Previous Next For a seamless flow from your current house's architecture choose LivingSpace’s Integrated sunroom. The Integrated layout is designed to look like another natural section of your home but you can still create your own look with this customizable option. Choose your windows, doors, walls, and roof to bring your space to life! The Speciality Previous Next Want to go all out with your new sunroom? LivingSpace’s Speciality sunroom will be your best option. While all of our sunrooms are customizable, the Speciality will bring your most unique ideas to life. Notable characteristics include: top-quality windows and materials, tons of natural light, most customizable options making it easier to create your dream sunroom layout.   Request a quote today! With four…

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The Stock Family Sunroom in Marion, IA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8bWkXPoTaA When Kent and Lori Stock first moved into their Marion, IA  home, it had a wooden deck outside the sliding doors on the back of their house. Over time, they grew to realize that they weren't really utilizing this deck that much because of the summer bugs and winter cold. The Stock's wanted to enjoy the outdoors, though, and some friends suggested they consider a sunroom. In a sunroom, they could bring the feelings of the outdoors inside. The beautiful pine trees bordering the back wall, for example, could line the windows and make the couple feel like they were living in a mountain vacation home year-round. With this in mind, the Stocks started looking into their local sunroom contractors. After doing some preliminary research online, they attended a local home remodeling show and met our Premier Partner, Home Town Restyling. Home Town Restyling showed them what we used to build our LivingSpace sunroom, and the Stocks were impressed by the care we took while crafting our products. After a further in-home consultation, they recognized that our LivingSpace Sunrooms® home addition was indeed the solution they'd been searching for. “All the features that it had, where you could see glass. That was the main thing. There's not a lot of walls in the way of our view. It makes us feel like we're on vacation in our own home.”  Since the Stocks built their sunroom, they say it’s been above and beyond what they could have imagined. When they host parties, everybody congregates in the sunroom, and in the laid back environment, conversation flows freely. On more quiet days, the room is a cozy place to sit down and relax. For Lori, the room has even been able to help improve her quality of work. She works from home and has turned the sunroom into a…

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Turning a Deck into a Sunroom

When Dallin and Olivia Allred found out they would be welcoming a third child into their family, they recognized that the three bedroom house they lived in was about to get a lot more cramped. At the time, Dallin and Olivia slept in the master bedroom on the main level. Their first two kids, Maxine and Ruby, shared one of the upstairs bedrooms while the other was set aside for TV and board games. With two kids, the house felt cozy and comfortable - most of the time. A third child, though, would require some adjustments. The couple didn’t want to make too many adjustments, though. The neighborhood they live in is perfect for the family’s current situation. The house is just down the road from Olivia’s office and a half mile away from the hospital that Dallin works in. The schools in the area are some of the best in the state. Alongside this, both sets of grandparents live in town and are eager to babysit their grandchildren during working hours. At the same time, both grandparents live far enough away that they aren’t dropping by the house unannounced throughout the week. To top it all off, they’re neighbors with a family that shares their extra garden vegetables. Essentially, the Allreds needed to find a solution that didn’t require them to pack up and move. Searching through their options Quickly, Dallin and Olivia decided that the upstairs entertainment room would need to be converted into the baby’s nursery. It was difficult to keep the house clean with two children around, and a third would definitely intensify the mayhem. By keeping the baby’s bedroom upstairs, the couple hoped to keep a bulk of this chaos away from the main floor. With this decision made, the family refocused their home redecorating…

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The Nash Family Sunroom / Milwaukee, WI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dew-wGPHT0M Jim and Susan Nash have lived in their Milwaukee home for the past 44 years. During this time period, they've loved spending time in Wisconsin's beautiful outdoors environment. Over the past few years, though, the summer's heat and humidity have become too tiring to endure, and the Nash's have been limited in the time they can spend in the sun. This frustrated the couple, and they brought the dilemma up with some of their neighborhood friends. These friends suggested a sunroom. By building a room filled with windows, they could still enjoy the sunshine and remain comfortable inside their air conditioned house. The Nash’s liked this idea and started to meet with Milwaukee contractors to see what a sunroom could look like on their home. Through these meetings, they realized that a sunroom could really help transform their house and improve their moods. They continued learning more from contractors, but they decided to focus on the relationships they built during each consultation. This helped build their trust in the builder' integrity and ability to build a reliable sunroom. "We did look around at other builders, but frankly, other than just giving it a real superficial look, we were looking at what the experience would be like. We spent a lot of time with Jude [of SE Wisconsin Sunrooms], and he was a very easy man to talk to; a real down to earth guy.”  Since they’ve had their sunroom, the Nash’s feel like it’s been more than they could have expected. Before their sunroom, they didn’t really appreciate the view to the south of their house. Now, they can look at it every single day.   Even more than this view, though, Susan has loved the opportunity the sunroom has given her to show off her style. Susan had always wanted…

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4 Interior Design Essentials

The interior design plan is essential to your sunroom building process. But can quickly become a daunting task, knowing that this new sunroom can become the main hangout spot within your house. Because of this, we’ve got a few tips that can help.  Tip 1: Determine the function of the room The first and most critical step of interior design is determining how you will utilize your sunroom. This will promote unity between your sunroom and your home and accommodate the activities you’ve planned for your new addition. By thinking about the function of your room, you can also zero in on your preferred sunroom style. Different styles provide different purposes. For example, a Cathedral sunroom is often used for parties or dinners, while a Studio sunrooms generally feels a little quainter and is utilized as a quiet get away. By choosing the style that best fits your needs, you can make sure you design the sunroom you want.  The sunroom featured here was built as a spot to relax and host guests. The family wanted an area to sit for conversations before and after mealtime. Because of this, they built their sunroom extension just off the dining room. Likewise, they chose a Cathedral sunroom with enough room to fit larger groups of people. Tip 2: Keep the colors consistent Most likely, you’ve created a home with a style that's consistent from room to room. There's no need to alter that style when building a sunroom. We offer a variety of sunroom color options to ensure your sunroom will match the rest of your house. As you plan your sunroom, use the other parts of your home to guide your decisions.  If you’re having trouble making up your mind, there’s inspiration available here to help you design your dream sunroom. For most,…

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The Suter Family Sunroom / Sunrooms in Iowa City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A07IEjvDiu0Londa Suter is an avid gardener and outdoors lover, but when her family bought their Iowa home, she found herself stuck in an area without natural light. She keeps an array of plants inside her home, and without the sunlight, her collection was suffering. Seeing a need for change, Londa began searching for a remedy. The solution needed to be something that her plants and family could both enjoy throughout the year, and since Iowa is known for bad weather, this meant it would likely need to be inside. Some friends and neighbors had sunrooms, and Londa liked the idea of large windows shining sunlight into her home. She began attending home shows and researching companies near her, and visions of her ideal sunroom started forming in her mind.  “I interviewed with four contractors in the area, but I decided that I preferred an actual sunroom more than what the others were offering. I was very impressed with the quality of Home Town Restyling’s sunrooms and how they were set up. And specifically, I was so looking forward to the light that it would give to the rest of the house and the visibility to the outside.”  As the family has used their sunroom, they’ve watched it transform their home. The sunlight has added a feeling of openness to the house that’s completely reshaped the way people feel inside it. Now, the family uses their sunroom often, for eating meals, drinking coffee, and spending time together. The sunroom has also been perfect for Londa’s plants. She keeps an eclectic diversity of plants inside her sunroom, and each has flourished in the environment. Our sunroom’s thermal efficiency has helped this tremendously. Londa fills the room with plants, and she’s seen that even those placed next to the windows flourish throughout each season. During the winter, the cold will creep in through the windows and siding of lesser quality rooms.…

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Sunroom Designs: Piecing Them Together

Clueless about sunroom designs? It may be challenging to recognize what you are looking for in a sunroom when you start researching different products. Looking at pages for Cathedral sunrooms or Studio sunrooms can seem overwhelming, but these are common sunroom designs across each company you’ll talk to. Understanding the styles and purposes for each is critical. If neither of these designs fit with what you are looking for, you can explore the Integrated sunroom or the Specialty sunroom. Our Premier Partners are happy to help you determine which fits best for your home. Below, we’ll take you through each of our sunroom designs to help you know what you can expect at your in-home design consultation. The Cathedral Sunroom The Cathedral sunroom is one of our most popular sunroom designs. It merges well with traditional home construction and offers the ‘wow’ factor people are looking for when they build a sunroom. This charm comes mostly from the room’s high, vaulted ceilings. The triangular section of the Cathedral sunroom, called the gable, brings additional sunlight into the house and extends your view of the outdoors.   There are many different options you have when building a Cathedral sunroom. In a Cathedral sunroom, ridge beams are required by building codes as a structural component. Many people accessorize this ridge beam with a decorative ridge beam cover. This dresses up the room so you can subtly show off your style.  You can choose to cover it with an aluminum skin or with a wood veneer finish. Most of the people we talk to like to spend time with friends and family while using their Cathedral sunroom. One customer said her family loves to eat meals and drink coffee in their sunroom, and another said that friends and family gravitate towards the sunroom as if the rest of the house didn't exist.  The Studio Sunroom Other people may see a Studio sunroom as a better fit for their home. This…

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The Kubricky Family Sunroom / Sunrooms in Milwaukee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znovx_D3xDE Bill and Marilyn Kubricky love living in Wisconsin because it lets them experience each season throughout the year. With all these seasons come common problems with the outdoors. Mosquitos, rain, and snow. The couple loved the sunroom they had to leave behind in their previous house, so they decided an all-seasons room would better let them enjoy their current home. With this, Bill started a three-year research project of the area’s sunroom companies.  The Kubricky’s met with our Premier Partner, SE Wisconsin Sunrooms, at a home show and were sold by the quality of the sunroom’s display. The exterior of the sunroom’s surface is void of nails and screw heads, and the clean presentation gave Bill and Marilyn confidence that we put the necessary care into every sunroom we build. To make sure, the couple attended a few more home shows.  “Competition was Jude [of SE Wisconsin Sunrooms]’s best advertising. We didn’t care for others’ salesmanship and presentation. It only sold us more on the LivingSpace sunroom.”  Now, they can enjoy Wisconsin without the rain, snow, and mosquitos that irritated them before. And their sunroom has greatly exceeded their original expectations. Marilyn says that generally, you would have small problems or nitpicks with home remodeling, but there’s absolutely nothing that she wishes was improved.   The couple uses the sunroom to drink coffee and watch the news during mornings, but their favorite time to enjoy it is the late afternoon, as the sun is setting. The windows fill the house with beautiful, golden hour colors to perfectly end each day.   During the evenings, they’ll have friends or family over to their home, and it’s like the rest of the house doesn’t exist. Everybody loves using the sunroom.  After a year, the Kubricky’s have already seen the benefits of a LivingSpace sunroom, and they’re very proud to have one on their home. As they sit in it, they’ll see…

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