How to make winter gardens your own?

The fragrances of fresh greenery and exotic flowers all year round please the owners of winter gardens. Those wishing to arrange at home do not become less and less summer, and the options to create winter gardens with their own hands, thanks to innovative ideas, are becoming more interesting. The industry offers a huge assortment of prefabricated structures for the construction of winter gardens, and the independent solutions of gardeners for the design of mini-greenhouses generate new original images.

Where can I organize a winter garden?

The theory says that a winter garden is a glazed extension to the house for rest and creating a green zone. Mostly it happens, but in private mansions. Residents of high-rise buildings have found a way out for themselves and create a winter garden at home, with their own hands, on balconies, loggias, in rooms. Of course, such transformations must be done carefully and take into account the specificity of an eternally humid room with a large weight load on the structure. But modern building materials and new technologies help to solve these problems. In multi-level apartments, under the favorite plants, sometimes a whole floor is allocated, while there there are also rest rooms, dining rooms, reception rooms, game rooms. And the inhabitants of the upper floors of skyscrapers on the sly rebuild the roof over their own apartment for the organization of magnificent gardens of different styles and directions. Large companies with their own office buildings know how to make a winter garden - it's beautiful and stylish, it increases the prestige of the company. Roofs, atriums, glazed transitions are attached to the building as an exotic lobby. Especially relevant are such extensions in high-class hotels.

What constructive materials are used to create gardens?

Creating greenhouses and winter gardens with their own hands, use a ready-made metal, more often aluminum, plastic or wooden profile with glazing or fully constructed of modern composite materials. For small gardens, which are created in high-rise buildings or on roofs, metal-plastic blocks are often used. Ready-made prefabricated structures for detached houses are easier to install, since engineers have foreseen the materials used, the roof slopes, the degree of illumination of these structures. Individual, independent projects require closer attention to the technical and architectural details of the beautifully painted garden, so that in future snow and water do not stay on the roof, sunlight worked for the benefit of plants, and the design did not require annual repairs. Using films that protect against ultraviolet radiation, helps maintain the necessary temperature and humidity regime for a green massif.

New materials that can replace glass

To build a winter garden with their own hands, instead of conventional glass, modern technologies recommend using self-cleaning ETFE material, which is called "synthetic foil" or in trade - Teflon. This plastic from the group of fluoroplastic possesses optical transparency, lightness, rejects liquid, is resistant to loads, friction, perfectly connects with various materials, which makes it possible to use this weightless glass substitute when creating winter gardens on roofs, loggias, atriums.

Glazing glass composite or glass fiber reinforced plastic, consisting of 65-75% of glass, allows you to get all the necessary qualities to create an ideal atmosphere in the garden. The properties of this material are unique, because with the transparency necessary for light penetration, the composite additives increase strength, high resistance to temperature changes, ultraviolet, are ecologically clean, resistant to moisture and tested in windows, doors, greenhouses. Such materials allow you to create a winter garden anywhere, without overloading the structure.

What you need to know about constructing a floor in a conservatory?

A good waterproofing of the floor is important for the garden under construction, because the influence of constant humidity, the action of water and elevated temperature have a bad effect on the walls, floor and foundation of the house, and in high-altitude environments this can cause much more serious trouble. Therefore, the construction of a winter garden with their own hands must begin with a qualitative isolation from the action of moisture. For this purpose it is recommended to use various bitumen-rubber insulating mastics, bitumen-rubber, insulating roofing, universal hot and cold method of use or use roll materials: pergamon or hydroglass. To effectively glue these materials, you can use a primer.

New technologies make it easier to perform similar works using polyurethane adhesive materials that are poured on a concrete screed as a basis for tile or other floor covering. After the completion of the preparatory work, the floor is laid with expanded clay or paving slabs, linoleum for rooms with high humidity, natural stone or natural expensive materials, for example, cork.

What style to choose for a winter garden?

Construction work is completed, and winter gardens should be filled with plants, create a certain style, and be supplemented with furniture. Landscape designers offer subtropical plants, an ethnic orientation in the design, for example, the creation of a Chinese or Japanese garden, an exotic flora that sometimes requires additional construction in the form of a small pond or imitation of a waterfall, stream, spring.

You can arrange a rose garden or a flower garden in a green corner. Orchid lovers turn their winter gardens into a real tropical paradise and enhance the impression of exotic birds. If desired, part of the winter garden can be used as a mini-garden or grow your favorite berries and citrus fruits. Excellent you can use in a private house a small part of a winter garden, covered with grass, as a small simulator for golf or tennis, or combine it with the pool.

Recently, creating winter gardens with their own hands, these rooms are rationally combined with rest rooms, dining rooms, bathroom, lobby, atrium or connect various buildings on the site.

What equipment is needed for the functioning of the garden?

To create the necessary conditions for plants, winter gardens should be equipped with the supply and exhaust ventilation, the adjustable heating system, and the irrigation system.

Ventilate the room can be natural, but it is ineffective, as well as the use of outdated systems with a couple of functions - the influx and exhaust of air. And for heating it is possible to use a warm floor, but it is much easier and more pleasant to once install an expensive air-conditioning system with the functions of humidifying, cleaning, dehumidifying, ionizing, ventilating and blowing ventilation or a computer-controlled climate control system that performs all functions independently. Excellent photoelectric converters have proven themselves, which will help provide the necessary electrical equipment to the garden.

For watering plants in enclosed spaces, also managed controlled drip systems that allow you to gently moisten the soil, without getting moisture on the floor and in regulated volumes, which is especially important for plants that are home to various belts of the Earth.