Whether choosing to add on a conservatory comes from the need to extend living space indoors or the desire to create an outdoor space inside, there can be considerable benefits to choosing hardwood conservatories over UPVC or aluminium conservatory styles:
- Hardwood conservatories offer enduring qualities, including a sophisticated style that a material such as UPVC just does not have. Indeed, hardwood has been used for conservatory framing and finish since the Victorian era, so even contemporary hardwood conservatories offer an evocative appeal, which cannot be matched by an ultra-modern UPVC alternative.
- As such, a hardwood conservatory can offer modern advantages, such as safety double glazing, opening and locking features, lighting and power alongside the appeal of a traditional, elegant design.
- As well as a traditional appeal, hardwood conservatories can also offer a more natural and unobtrusive look as an ‘add on’ to a property, that can be much more in keeping with the design of an older style home in town or a more rurally based home, with the warmth of wood complementing the home and surroundings much more than the cold fascia of aluminium.
- Hardwood conservatories also offer a versatility that is not available from its UPVC contemporaries. The hardwood feature can be broadly finished to any specification from stained and varnished, to painted, if so desired! Hardwood makes an easy base from which to ring the changes to accommodate home-style design trends, personal taste or a wish to incorporate the outside of the conservatory into the design of the garden. A hardwood conservatory offers a wealth of options for ringing the changes both inside and out!
- Another key feature of a hardwood conservatory comes of course from the environmentally friendly nature of using hardwood. Hardwood from a reputable dealer or bespoke conservatory building company is supplied from approved, sustainable sources who work to a regulated system of using older trees and replanting with new. This is environmentally friendly in a two-fold way as there is a constantly replenished source of trees to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, plus the processes used to create the hardwood conservatory components from the original tree are far more environmentally and energy efficient processes than those generally used in the manufacture and working of UPVC.
A significant plus to homeowners is that hardwood conservatories offer an increased thermal efficiency. A double glazed hardwood conservatory is not only a well insulated, energy efficient room in its own right, but with careful thought as to its position on a home, can offer wider insulation and energy efficiency benefits to the whole property
