Sunroom design in Eastvale CA - a room planned around how you'll actually use it

Most people who call us want more use out of the backyard, and they've usually seen rooms they like without being sure which kind suits them. If there's already a slab and a cover out back, a patio-to-sunroom conversion can be a sensible place to start. The price mostly moves with the size of the room, whether it needs its own foundation, the roof and glass you choose and whether it gets heating and air conditioning, and bigger rooms that need a foundation and heat and air sit at the higher end. The schedule mostly turns on how quickly we settle the design and, when a permit is needed, on the city's plan review, and your own figure comes from an estimate at your house.

Design is where we slow down. We start with how you'll use the room, whether that's morning coffee, a play space or somewhere to read, because that answer decides most of what follows. Then we talk through the room type, the roof and how much sun you want coming in, and we look at where the room meets your house and how water will run off it. Those choices are a lot cheaper to change on paper than once the frame is up, so I'd rather ask too many questions now than have you wish for something later.

Once the design is settled, it becomes the plan for the build. For many homes that means one of our sunroom additions, framed in and tied into the house like any other room, and for others it's one of our vinyl sunrooms, which suit people who'd rather not repaint frames down the road.

In Eastvale, the city's Building Safety team reviews construction plans, issues permits and inspects residential projects, so that's the office that decides what your sunroom needs. When your job needs a permit, we put the paperwork together, submit it to the city and meet the inspector for the visits. If your lot sits in a Planned Residential Development, or PRD, that development's own document sets how far a building has to stay back from the property lines, along with lot sizes and widths, and that can decide where the room goes and how big it can get.

A lot of what we see here is newer tract homes with a slab or a patio cover already out back and strong afternoon sun, so shade, roof choice and the tie-in to the existing roofline come up on most designs. The state energy code also sets efficiency rules for additions to existing homes, which is one more reason we settle glass and insulation early. We're based in Eastvale and work in the cities around it in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and we plan rooms for the same kind of yards in Jurupa Valley and Ontario.