So at one end of the spectrum is an $8,000 sunroom: which equates to a bare-bones version of a screened-in porch, and on the $80,000 end of the spectrum would be the gabled, rock-fireplace modern sunrooms I’d been frantically pinning on Pinterest.

Plus, if you’ve been an eavesdropper in any conversation about home renovations, you know these types of projects tend to eat money like a 16-year-old boy eats pizza. If you Google “how much does a sunroom cost,” you’ll be greeted with a very unhelpful snippet that states a sunroom “costs somewhere between $8,000 and $80,000”-minor detail, that extra zero. Sunroom Ideas on a BudgetĪfter some brief back-and-forth, we decided to go for it. With this addition came the promise of a cozy sunroom filled with natural light that would add almost 300 square feet to our house’s footprint, and would easily become the biggest room in the house. My husband and his dad sketched the sunroom design on the back of a napkin. We could just build right on top of that.īefore picture of house-it’s cute, right?! The table and grill are resting on the cement slab. Besides, there was already a cement slab in place for the patio. Why don’t we add a small sunroom to the back of the house? Nothing fancy, just a little extra room.

When my in-laws came for a long weekend, my father-in-law (who is always looking for his next house project, bless his heart) had an idea.

By no means was it unlivable (and believe you me, we made it work for years!), but a little more elbow room would’ve been…nice. And to us, it was! Compared to our 777 square-foot apartment, our new house was a mini mansion-clocking in at almost 1,300 square feet! We could do big-house things now, like shop at Costco and store toilet paper for months (a little-known feature that would save our behinds come 2020).īut as our circle of friends increased in our new town, and family and friends came for weekend visits, we realized our 150-square foot living-room-slash-dining-room was a bit petite. When we moved into our home, it felt huge. So you need some sunroom ideas on a budget, eh? We did too! We built our sunroom on a budget of $15,000 all-in: here’s how we did it.

Ynab budgeting for furniture