3 Reasons Your Next Home Addition Should Be a Sunroom

Choosing a sunroom as your next home improvement project will increase the value of your home by adding more space and boosting your home's curb appeal. The financial considerations alone justify remodelling to include a sunroom. But money isn't everything. Sunrooms add new light to your life. That light will bring you a wealth well beyond what's in the bank.

Here are three reasons for adding a sunroom:

Energy: Researchers have found that sunlight can help boost your energy and do away with that late afternoon drowsiness. Apparently, sunlight stimulates the parts of the brain involved in alertness, as reported at PreventDisease.com. You could even skip your coffee and instead just take a few moments to enjoy the light spilling into your sunroom every morning.

Get Happy: Tend to feel blue in the winter? Most people do, as serotonin levels dip in the darker months. But you can skip the annual gloom with a bit of remodelling. The time you spend in your sunroom will let you soak in the sunlight more regularly and your brain should respond with higher serotonin levels. Now there's something to smile about.

Live Longer with One Simple Home Improvement: Researchers have made the discovery that mortality rates for some cancers--particularly breast, colon, ovarian, and prostate--are often lower in sunnier parts of the world, as reported on PreventDisease.com. Other studies have found that those unlucky people who get little or no time in the sun tend to have higher rates of breast and colon cancer. Why? It's probably due to the vitamin D produced by the body during exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D also helps you use calcium, building bones and teeth and helping to ward off osteoporosis. Given how important this home improvement can be to your health, we should get the insurance companies to pay for the sunroom remodelling. Yeah, right. Remodel for a sunroom, and you'll get a home improvement you can truly live with!