Sunroom design in Anaheim CA - a room that stays comfortable, planned before it's built

Most people who call us want a patio closed in, a deck turned into a room, or a sunroom they'll finally use instead of one that's too hot by midafternoon, and if you're starting from a slab out back, patio-to-sunroom conversion is usually where the design leads. The price moves mostly with the size of the room, whether it needs its own foundation, whether it's heated and cooled, and how much you put into the glass and insulation. The schedule turns on how quickly we settle the drawing together and on what the city asks for before we build, and your own figure comes out of the estimate at your home.

We start with how you want to use the room, because a spot for morning coffee and a room the kids play in all summer need different things. Then we look at which way the wall faces and where shade will come from, pick the type of room, and draw it up. Insulation and window choices get settled with you on paper before anything is built, since well-insulated glass and insulation in the walls, floor and roof go in far more easily while the room is going up, and adding them later often costs more. It's a lot easier to change a drawing than a finished wall. Once you sign off on the plan, it goes to the crew that builds it, and you'll know what comes next at each step.

Design is the first part of a build, so it ties into the rest of what we do. Most rooms we draw end up as sunroom additions framed onto the back of the house, and if you want a frame that needs little upkeep, we can plan the room as one of our vinyl sunrooms from the start.

Anaheim's Building Division handles plan review and inspections, and the work it lists names single-family homes and patio covers but not sunrooms, so that list alone doesn't settle what your room needs. We find out what the city's building office asks for on each project, take care of the permit paperwork when the job needs it, and check with the city before we build if anything is unclear. If your room is treated as a patio structure, the city's code doesn't hold it to lot coverage or area limits beyond what the Building Code requires, though in single-family zones its rules on what can extend into required yard space still apply. The state's energy rules for additions that follow its set requirements call for an energy form filed with the building plans, or with the permit application when no plans are needed, so we plan the windows and insulation with that in mind. For questions about your own lot, the city is the place to ask.

We're based in Anaheim and work here and in the cities around it. Many back yards here already have a concrete patio or an older aluminum cover, so before we draw anything we check whether the slab and the house wall can carry the room you want, and we see the same setups on jobs in Fullerton and Garden Grove.