Many home improvement projects are meant to improve aesthetics or to make the home more comfortable by maximizing space. In particular, room additions offer an unmatched opportunity to transform your home’s layout. In particular, sunrooms and screen rooms are excellent ideas for remodeling your home to add serious value and curbside appeal to your property.

While sunrooms are amazing home additions, they’re less affordable than screen rooms and porch enclosures, which are two of the most popular types of additions in home remodeling. The benefits are numerous when it comes to building a screen room—however, most homeowners choose this project to expand their home’s layout and enhance their property value in the most cost-effective way possible.

Before you decide on the first screen room addition you can find, it’s important to consider the material you’re using for the project. While wood can be a great choice in dry weather, it can be problematic for homes in Florida’s wet and humid climate. Wood is known to split and rot over time and requires heavy maintenance to keep in good condition over the years. An aluminum screen room, on the other hand,is well-suited for Florida weather and offers a number of important benefits that all high-quality screen rooms provide—which our experts at Hometown Contractors will explain in this article.

Exploring the Benefits of an Aluminum Screen Room

When it comes to screen rooms, there are very few parts of the country homeowners can fully enjoy them. Florida is one such area, so let’s take a look at what your aluminum screen room can do for your Florida home:

  • Indoor and Outdoor Comfort: A screen room creates a perfect divide between indoors and outdoors. You get to enjoy the breeze and the outside space without worrying about direct sunlight, pests, and other concerns that make the outdoors troublesome.

  • Insect Protection: Speaking of pests, a screen room is a perfect defense against all manner of insects from mosquitos to ticks. Without this barrier, that outdoor experience your family might quickly become a bad one. A screen room offers unmatched comfort to allow for full enjoyment of the beauty of nature without the problem of pests.

  • Weather Protection: Spending time inside a screen room can be lovely in many types of weather—on sunny days, windy days, and even when it’s raining outside. With a screen room, you can experience all kinds of weather with that degree of protection needed to fully enjoy the experience.

  • Less Maintenance: An aluminum screen room is less maintenance than a screen room made of other materials. It also lowers the amount of maintenance needed for the area being screened in. For those with a patio or pool deck, a screen room can be a blessing in this matter.

  • Entertainment Space: Many people like to be the host of the party, but fewer actually have the space required. An affordable screen room is an excellent way to add valuable space for entertaining to your home, whether you use it for a simple barbecue, holiday parties, or other gatherings.

  • Property Values: While this isn’t foolproof and depends on the quality of your installation and other factors, a screen room can increase the value of your home. This is because it ultimately adds to the square footage of your home. The more square footage you have, the higher the value.
  • Instant Charm: Screen rooms come in a number of designs and styles. This means that yours can be simple and functional, or an ornate showpiece in its own right. For those who desire to enhance the aesthetic appeal of the house in an affordable way, a screen room is a great place to start.

Screen Rooms with Hometown Contractors

Without a doubt, the year-round warm weather that Florida offers is one of the best things about living in this wonderful state. However, as any resident knows, rain showers, extreme heat, and mosquitos are just some of the negatives we have to deal with every day. That’s why our team set out to be the solution by offering a versatile space in our beautiful screen rooms that combine the best in indoor/outdoor living in a manner that leaves homeowners protected.

Are you thinking about improving your home with a screen room, a bathroom remodeling project, window replacement, or another improvement project? If so, then give us a call to speak with one of our agents from Hometown Contractors about your options. Or, fill out our online form to schedule your free, in-home price estimate and complimentary design consultation for your project.