If you live in Florida, chances are you love soaking up the sunshine. After all — they don’t call it the “Sunshine State” for nothing! In fact, Florida homeowners love sunshine so much that they’ve created a room to embrace natural light without dealing with the elements — it’s called a Florida room!

Whether you’re a homeowner getting ready to sell your Florida home or are a short-term rental owner preparing to put your vacation rental on the market, a Florida room is an excellent addition. Here’s the scoop on how to decorate a Florida room to appeal to buyers and renters alike.

What Is a Florida Room?

A Florida room (known as a sunroom, sun porch, garden room, or conservatory) is a home addition with three screened windows or glass walls. It’s often an extension of the outdoors and is an ideal indoor-outdoor living space — perfect for Florida’s warm, balmy climate!

While Florida rooms are similar to screened porches, they have indoor flooring instead of decking and can be built with glass windows instead of screen walls. Although the Florida sunroom originated in the “Sunshine State,” these rooms were popularized nationwide in the 1950s and 60s.

Florida rooms can be created as a four-season or three-season room. Four-season rooms have insulation, HVAC, and glass walls, ensuring you can use them year-round. Three-season rooms are only intended to be used in the spring, summer, and fall — not during the cold winter — so they’ll often forgo insulation and HVAC. However, since Florida’s weather is lovely year-round (even in the winter!), you usually can get away with just a three-season room. 

Florida Room Ideas

How you style your Florida room depends on how you’ll be using the space. Here are some creative ideas of how to use a Florida room to impress buyers or renters:

Entertainment Space

Consider transforming your Florida room into a relaxing living space for entertaining guests. You can install a wine cooler, add plenty of plush couches, chairs, and furniture for guests to lounge on, or add a card table for playing games and a TV for watching shows and movies.

Home Office

Want to create a relaxing atmosphere for reading with plenty of natural lighting? Need a bright, well-lit space to focus in when working from home? Want to work on crafts or projects on sunny mornings? From typing on your laptop and reading books to scrapbooking and crafting, the ample natural sunlight in a Florida room makes it the perfect spot for focusing on all kinds of projects!

Dining Room

Transforming your Florida sunroom into a dining room or outdoor kitchen is the perfect way to enjoy the perks of dining outside — like natural light, gorgeous views, and sunset views — without the frustrations of pesky bugs and inclement weather. Consider installing a mini fridge, cooktop, food prep counter, and wet bar for mixing cocktails, and add a dining table and chairs as the focal point of the room.

Playroom

Want to attract families with young kids to your Florida property? If so, turn your Florida room into a playroom with a small table and chairs, beanbags, a bookshelf filled with books and games, and even a TV for older kids to watch movies and play video games. Choose bright, bold colors to make the space appealing for kids, and add built-in furniture, like window seats, to make it easy for parents and adults to hang out with the kids.

Beautiful Greenhouse

Since Florida rooms have large windows or screened walls and receive so much natural light, decorating with potted plants and flowers is a smart idea. Bringing the great outdoors inside offers many benefits, like reduced stress levels, cleaner indoor air quality, and a boost in productivity — and bonus, it’s a great way to make your home look more beautiful and inviting to buyers or renters!

Design Ideas for Florida Rooms

Regardless of how you use your Florida room, here are some design ideas to create visual interest in your sunroom to appeal to renters and buyers. For more styling tips, contact our professional team of home stagers and interior designers at THE STAGING COMPANY!

Neutral Furnishings

With screened walls and floor-to-ceiling windows, the purpose of a Florida room should be to showcase the beauty of the outdoors! That said, choosing a neutral color palette for the walls and floors and natural materials for furniture, like bamboo, wicker, and linen, can keep the room from feeling too “busy” and cluttered and make it a relaxing space to spend time.

Patio Door

A Florida sunroom is an indoor-outdoor living space that should be an extension of the backyard or patio. A glass door, like double French doors, sliding doors, or even full-wall stacking doors, makes it easy to move between your Florida room and beautiful backyard.

Window Treatments

Even though a Florida room is meant for soaking up the sunshine, depending on the room’s purpose, you might want a little more privacy. Window treatments, like woven shades, gauzy drapes, or modern between-the-glass blinds, are a great addition to a Florida room. You can pull the shades when you need some privacy or want to darken the space for sleeping and open them when you’re ready for the sunshine to stream in to start the day.

Embrace Florida Design and Coastal Living with THE STAGING COMPANY

Whether you’re considering adding a Florida room to a beachfront vacation rental in St. Petersburg or Clearwater or need some help styling your Florida room in Orlando or Kissimmee before putting your home on the market — our team at THE STAGING COMPANY would love to help!

Our professional team of home stagers and interior decorators is well-versed in styling Florida homes with an eye-catching, modern design that appeals to contemporary buyers and renters. Contact us to start designing your bright, beautiful, sunny Florida room!