Porch Renovation
Extend your living space outsdoors with a beautiful new porch or sunroom
What’s Your Why?
Who says porch season has to end when summer does? We build porches made for all four seasons: cozy enough for a blanket and hot cocoa in January, breezy enough for iced tea in July. With options like enclosed and screened designs, weather-ready materials, and temperature control, your porch becomes the room you use every single month of the year.
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Porch Renovation FAQs
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At Owners Choice, we are a design-build contractor specializing in full scale, custom designed porches and sunrooms.
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If you’re looking for the turnkey approach rooted the commitment to exceptional quality and client experience, we’re the ideal contractor for you.
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A 15 × 15 covered porch addition will start in the $50-60K range. Once custom features such as screening, fireplace, heaters, and tongue a groove ceilings are added the cost will be in the $90K to $150K+.
Sunroom costs will generally start in the $60-80K range and depending on size, interior materials, windows, and HVAC needs can be in the 100K+ range.
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The main difference is that a porch isn’t finished square footage, while a sunroom generally is. Where a porch will have screens or a retractable window system, a sunroom will have windows, finished flooring such as hardwoods, and will have drywall, trim and paint to match the interior of the home. Typically a sunroom will also have HVAC installed in the form of a vent from the home, or a minisplit single room HVAC system.
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There are several options that can greatly enhance your porch experience. Electric or gas ceiling mounted heaters come at a lower cost point than a fireplace, and generally do a much better job at heating the space, allowing you to enjoy it almost year round. A quality composite deck material like Trex or Timbertech is an added cost but is comfortable on the feet, won’t splinter or warp, and takes minimal maintenance. Lastly, quality screens are an excellent investment in keeping pesky bugs to a minimum.
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A porch addition that ties in easily to the home and doesn’t incorporate any premium details (fireplace, outdoor kitchen, etc) should take 8-10 weeks. A porch that includes premium features, has a high level of complexity due to the lot or tying in to the house, or has a high level of finish required will typically take 12-16 weeks.
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Yes, you can generally live in your home during the porch or sunroom addition renovation, as long as the layout of the home allows for clear dividing of living and construction space, and there isn’t significant impact to the roofline.