19 Greenhouse Design Ideas That Will Inspire You
Looking for a way to enjoy the great outdoors and gardening all year long? Then a greenhouse may be your answer. Survey these greenhouses for every style, budget and setting. Some are elegant and elaborate but others are easy enough to set up in a weekend.

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Photo By: Tomas Espinoza
Photo By: Tomas Espinoza
Consider Adding the Functional Beauty of a Greenhouse to Your Home
If you're a gardener, then greenhouses are a great way to extend the growing season all year so you can enjoy orchids or fruit trees or even vegetables any time of year. But greenhouses are more than just a place to grow. Whether attached to the house or designed as a separate building, greenhouses can be contemplative spaces that allow you to relish the great outdoors even in the dead of winter. Their glass windows offer an often 360 degree view of the outdoors and allow you to stay warm and toasty even when there is snow on the ground.
This sweet steel-and-glass greenhouse offers year-round gardening opportunities for residents of the Maryland manor estate adjoining it.
Read on for more greenhouse design ideas and see the many ways these structures can serve various needs. Or shop for a cool backyard greenhouse here.
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New England Style
The San Juan Greenhouse
Greenhouses are no longer just for growing plants and are now being enjoyed by homeowners as garden retreats, artist studios, exterior living rooms and architectural showpieces. The SolarGro San Juan Greenhouse, for example, has all the attributes of a nature conservatory but can serve many other purposes with its 12 by 16 foot all glass structure with auto roof vents.
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The Potting Shed
The English Orion Greenhouse
Washington State Cedar
The Northern Heritage greenhouse offers gardeners the beauty, warmth and natural ambience of a solid cedar conservatory. The 8 x 16 foot structure features a high peak roof which allows summer heat to rise and easily sheds snow in the winter. The red cedar frame, made in Washington State, is insect resistant and easy to assemble for the DIY gardener.
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The Estate Providence greenhouse
Glass Artistry
Interior Luxury
The Lean-To Look
The English Jupiter greenhouse
The Vancouver Garden Room
The All-Season Solarium
The Cascadia Rainier greenhouse
Mahogany Beauty
Big and Wide
The Cape Cod Parkside greenhouse
DIY Greenhouse Offers a Place for Desert Plants
Atlanta couple Cary Smith and Libby Hockenberry, Owners of the Victorian Atlanta, have built several small greenhouses in their back yard to allow them to experiment with new kinds of plants to sell in their shop, so that they’re experts on everything before they try and sell them to anyone else. In this greenhouse, they leveled the ground, covered it with Indiana creek gravel, and built a nurturing environment for desert plants that wouldn’t otherwise do so well in the Atlanta humidity of the outside world. See Cary and Libby's plant-filled home tour here.
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Metal Greenhouse
A dramatic, beckoning feature in Douglasville, Georgia resident Susanne Hudson's garden, this greenhouse is a place to display her collections, but also to unwind and spend time.
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