I was just thinking it would feel damp and chilly in England! 😄 I wonder too how they would keep all that glass from being perpetually rain-spotted.

And bird poo, which is fresh in my mind after my recent car incident. :/

My inlaws have to wash their conservatory roof and sides every three months :(

I like the way it looks, but continuously cleaning the one brick wall where all the kitchen action occurs would get old fast . . . never even considered having to clean all that glass . . . it's bad enough having to do our gutters every other week during leaf fall season . . .

This is one of those ideas where looks over practicality took over when designing. Have had a sunroom in our last house I can tell you they are a pain to keep clean.

deVol is one of my favorites. I really enjoyed their show on Discovery+ If it's not showing yet on the Magnolia Network it should soon.

Love it, of course. As y'all know, we have a stone wall behind our stove, The stove itself has a small integrated stainless backsplash, IDK maybe 6-9"? We have no grease stains or anything on the stone. We wash it down once in a while, no biggie. It might vary if you fry a lot or use a deep fryer, but it is a non issue for us.

We have a Parish Conservatory, imported from the UK, and assembled by them here, attached to the indoor pool. Never have washed the glass 12 years. I guess maybe the sides were washed, when our windows were washed (every few years). But they we are not in any area with any pollution really? It can get very hot in there at times, but it all opens up so you get a breeze. And usually you are coming out of the pool so want it warm.

I never had a dirty backsplash issue back when I had a stove/oven combo with a back panel. The burners were far enough away from any wall or panel so that any spills or splashes from a pot or pan would get mostly on the stovetop. Now I have a separate stovetop which is one of those totally flat electric ones, and the large back burners is right up against the back wall, and I am constantly cleaning/scrubbing the back wall from splashes and grease splatters, even though I don't deep fry, but I do saute and stir fry a lot. Hubs says the vent is installed too low also, not up to code and it's hard to reach back there. I've become very "backsplash aware." Some day, when my Dad is gone, we are going to replace it with a gas burner, a proper vent hood and a really nice backsplash. The kitchen appliances are all on their way out anyway. My Dad is an extremely anxious and controlling person and since it is his old house, he obsesses over even minute changes we make when he comes over, which is a couple times a week. He obsessively goes on and on about how it "used to be." And any change we make, no matter how nice, is a disaster and the old way was better. Right now we pick our battles. He's 90, so who knows. It's not like we don't make changes, we just pick and chose priorities we are willing to hear him obsess about endlessly.

Well, there are new coatings for surfaces that repel everything. Not sure if they're suited for outdoor use, tho.

Very pretty. I agree that it would likely broil the occupants in a hot sunny climate.

You could also install shades, or that glass that creates its own shade.

I would like to see how it looks at night - and also a year from now.

I'm not a fan of Shaker cabinets, and I especially do not like the brass hardware that they used - they could have done better IMO.

Otherwise I like it, although I would need more storage. The pantry looks too small, and I do not think I would be able to store all of my pots and pans in there, but then I do have a lot - most of which I store on a rack hanging from the kitchen ceiling.

I think it would be nice to have some herbs growing in there, but I guess they ran out of space.

I can't imagine an atrium kitchen in southern California, and especially not in Palm Springs, although with enough solar panels, one could air condition the space enough to be comfortable.

I hire someone to clean our solar panels two or three times a year, and I can imagine that this glass would need to be cleaned more often than that. I think I would want the glass to be frosted.

I LOVE the look....but....not practical here. I had skylights over the dinning room table and I had to put black-out shades in them in order to use the dinning room. The shades rotted, turned to dust.

Pink…as to gutter cleaning…there are covers that slip over gutters to prevent leaves falling in...easy diy to just snap them in

Nicole, we have a skylight in our art studio/dining room (which has a vaulted ceiling), but it is in the middle of the art studio part of the room and not over the dining table. It is also frosted, so that the light is somewhat diffused.

When my BIL first visited, he asked me how to turn off the light in the studio before we left the house, and I told him that we usually left the skylight on when we went out. In fact, we have no way of turning it off at all, but it is not so big that it creates much of a problem.

In Cathedral City, I have plantation shutters on almost all of the windows, and I keep them closed almost all the time, and we still get more light in that house than I usually want. I can't imagine having a skylight there.

Over the years people have posted about skylights and mostly they seem to all have some sort of problem or challenge that is atleast an inconvenience at most a sort of a disaster…i am a big fan of lots of natural light and pretty views but prefer to enjoy these features through big windows facing the right way(southeast) …however it is also necessary to have sun shades for the times of day when sun heats the house too much…we lived in Aspen ,Co for years.and had this feature …loved it on the cold but sunny winter days

And LARS…we winter in Cathedral City Cove…love the sun …but also have all shaded outdoor spaces…where we live mostly outdoors…keeping the indoor spaces shielded from any direct sun!…

I just love that kitchen and can imagine how lovely it would feel to be in there on a rainy afternoon, cooking something wonderful, or making coffee on a sunny morning. I wouldn't normally consider black/dark cabinets, but with all that natural light, they probably are fine and look terrific. There are surely solar shades rigged for the roof. Or since it's in the UK, perhaps sunny days aren't such a worry - depending on how far north they are. Just looked and they aren't too far north.

Really like this but with my reoccuring precancerous skin spots it is not to be. Do love lots of windows and sunlight, makes me a much happier person.

I would love that as I'm a cloud watcher, love watching clouds since I was a child.

I was just in a lovely kitchen with the cathedral ceiling and lots of glass. They had a pulley system for opening up a cupola at top to let the hot air out...