A house with a veranda is a dream come true for a summer resident or a family who wants to acquire their own housing. And this is not at all surprising: the covered outdoor part of the house can be used not only as a warehouse for unnecessary things and household equipment, but also as a recreation area, if it is equipped for this. The project of a house with a veranda will help to realize the desire, especially since it is quite inexpensive.
What could she be?
Veranda (terrace) can be attached to the house separately or be part of it initially. More often it is equipped as a recreation area, depending on the seasonality of use, it can be:
- Cold. Rest on this is possible only in summer and other warm times (spring, autumn). The walls of the veranda are not insulated, they are made of thin and heat-permeable materials. In winter, this room is not used.
- Insulated. You can gather in it for recreation all year round: thickened walls, insulatedfloor, special double-glazed windows - nothing lets cold air through.
In addition to the temperature regime, the verandas can be classified by the presence of glazing. This is more of a cold type:
- glazed;
- open.
The presence of transparent fences depends on the personal preferences of the owner: an open terrace gives maximum contact with the outside world, unlike a glazed one. At the same time, the second one is protected from precipitation, penetration of animals, birds, insects and other unexpected guests.
How to use?
Country house with a veranda is the most common type of building for seasonal living. Garden lovers prefer a quiet outdoor recreation near their site, because the summer recreation area is located near the house. The room can be used as a dining room or kitchen, where you can temporarily put the furniture. Less and less space is cluttered with unnecessary rubbish - they try to use the available space as efficiently as possible.
Veranda in a private house, where people live all year round, is often insulated. This can accommodate a living area, office or kitchen.
The project of a house with a veranda always provides for its further use, depending on this, at the stage of calculations, materials are laid for the construction of an extension that will be warm or cold. You can change the decision during the construction process, but if the changes relate to the transition from a cold veranda to a warm one, technical problems may arise.difficulties: foundation mismatch, difficulties in pairing structures, etc. But you can always replace a warm one with a cold one, but few people decide on this.
What could be a house with a veranda?
The needs of the developer determine all the subtleties of the architectural solution, from the facade to the layout. Accordingly, the cottage can be one- and two-story, made of different materials, have a peculiar configuration. Houses with a veranda and an attic are popular: in such areas the area is used as efficiently as possible, while the building does not take up much space on the site. Such a cottage can be a seasonal residence or a full-fledged home.
Building material
A cottage or a country house can be bought ready-made along with a plot, but it is much more profitable to purchase land and conduct your own construction separately. It is on this option that most families stop.
Country dwellings are increasingly being created from natural wood materials: timber, logs, and frame type. This is due to the fast method of construction, the affordable cost of structures and the safety of the raw materials used for the environment and the he alth of households.
The house can be built from stone and concrete blocks, and the veranda from wooden products. But in such cases, the extension is not erected immediately, but after shrinkage of the main part to avoid deformation of the structures.
Features of the technical solution
Project of a house with a verandadoes not imply the construction of a heavy foundation for an extension if it is made of wood, which significantly saves time and money on construction. In addition, the recreation area can have any area that customers wish, there are practically no restrictions in this matter.
A country house with a veranda in most cases is made of logs or timber without insulation, since the dwelling is not designed for operation in the cold winter period. Such a cottage can be built in one season.
A house made of timber with a veranda, in which people stay all year round, has more solid structural components: insulated floors, ceilings, foundations and roofs. The use of materials of the correct thickness for the construction of walls does not require additional insulation. Installing such a house will take longer, but one season is quite possible to meet.
Choose a project
The first step is to decide on the general appearance of the house, namely:
- number of floors;
- the presence of an attic;
- veranda type;
- building material.
These are the main questions that engineers start from before creating a project for a house with a veranda. In addition, it is important to know the seasonality of living in it.
The number of rooms and their location in a private house should be thought out for trifles - no one needs the use of usable space in vain. Specialists-architects will prompt the most optimal options for solving this issue. If you wish to create your own layout according to yourneeds, take a sheet of paper and draw a diagram on it to scale. It is convenient to use the ratio of 1 meter - 2 cells in a student notebook.
Building a house
After determining the layout and developing the project, you can start building your own home. Thrifty owners prefer materials such as timber, logs. Modern construction methods offer a new type of construction: frame-panel. In Russia, it appeared relatively recently, and in America it has been used for a long time. The effectiveness of the design has been proven by time: houses retain heat well, serve for a long period and are not inferior in performance to more solid buildings.
Frame houses with a veranda are the cheapest in terms of construction costs, therefore they are rapidly gaining popularity. The technology of their construction is as follows:
- Establish a lightweight foundation.
- A frame of wooden beams is mounted on the established base.
- Modular shields made of chip materials with insulation or smaller sandwich panels are attached to the resulting skeleton. The difference in the use of one or another type of sheathing lies in the frequency of the installed support bars. These materials practically do not differ in technical characteristics.
A panel house with a veranda can be built in the shortest possible time, since large OSB panels are used for sheathing. A small one-story house can consist of 4-6 fragments, a residential cottage, of course, requires more fragments.
A house made of timber with a veranda is a more capital structure. In this more often live all year round. The beam can be profiled or glued. Both types serve for a long time, often without requiring additional finishing.
Building a veranda
The annex can be separate or included in the total volume, which looks the most organic.
A house made of timber with a veranda is basically made as a single whole. For this, a system of wooden elements is being prepared and the assembly of the entire volume of the building is carried out at a time on one foundation. A feature of this type of construction is the absence of the need for additional finishing, if this does not contradict the design preferences of the owner.
Frame houses with a veranda are also often built simultaneously throughout the entire volume, arranging a frame immediately for all rooms. Sheathing is carried out according to the purpose of the recreation area: with single-layer materials for the purpose of simple fencing or with the same insulated elements.
The veranda along the perimeter can be fenced with decorative posts with railings, then the effect of maximum contact with the outside world is created.
Sometimes the terrace area is equipped with sliding frameless glazing. This method of fencing gives full visual contact with the outside world.
A panel house with a veranda, built according to the same technology throughout, does not shrink, therefore glazing, as necessary, can be carried out immediately after completion of work: the windows will not lead, the seams will not crack. This is due to the low weight of structures and largethe size of the shields, creating a powerful load-bearing frame.
