Custom solariums · CSLB #1101551 · San Bernardino Mountains
A room shaped around your view, your home, and the life you want to live inside it—from a quiet garden nook to a private pool-and-waterfall retreat.
Concept visualization · Not a completed project
A solarium is not defined by its furniture. It is defined by what becomes possible when daylight, shelter, and the landscape meet.
Grow through winter. Read while it snows. Work beneath the trees. Swim under a glass roof. Host dinner in the last light of the day. We design the room around the ritual you want to create.
Protected growing · all seasons
Give citrus, herbs, orchids, and everything you love a luminous room of their own—without surrendering the space to a utilitarian greenhouse.
There is no single correct size. The right solarium fits the property, the intended use, and the way the addition should feel beside the existing home.
Concept visualization · Not a completed project
The compact retreat
An 8×10 or 10×10 concept can become a reading room, garden retreat, breakfast space, studio, or place to simply sit among the pines.
Concept visualization · Not a completed project
The signature retreat
At the grandest scale, a solarium can hold a pool, spa, waterfall, lounge, indoor landscape, and panoramic mountain outlook—all composed as one architectural experience.
A useful threshold—not a blanket promise
Some jurisdictions exempt certain one-story, detached, non-habitable accessory structures at or below 120 square feet from a building permit. Attachment, use, utilities, height, setbacks, fire rules, grading, and the specific address still matter. We help identify the likely path; the local authority makes the final determination.
Mountain homes ask more of glass
A successful solarium begins long before the glass arrives. Orientation, seasonal heat, snow exposure, drainage, structure, access, and the architecture of the home shape every decision.
Place daylight where it feels best while managing heat, glare, views, and privacy.
Develop the enclosure around mountain conditions, the existing home, and the intended use.
Use frame, timber, stone, and finish choices that make the room belong to the property.
Coordinate ventilation, shading, lighting, utilities, and circulation as the project requires.
The complimentary Solarium Fit Check is a focused first conversation—not free design work. It tells us whether there is a promising project to explore together.
Share the property, the way you want to use the room, approximate scale, and a few helpful photos.
We discuss the site, likely constraints, size direction, priorities, timing, and the appropriate next step.
For a good fit, we move into site assessment, design development, approval coordination, scope, and proposal.
Artisan Craft coordinates the project from approved direction through construction and completion.
Local by design
Artisan Craft Custom Builders serves homeowners across the San Bernardino Mountains, including Lake Arrowhead, Twin Peaks, Crestline, Running Springs, Big Bear Lake, Big Bear City, and nearby communities.
Talk with Anthony · 909.567.6488Almost any use that benefits from abundant daylight and a strong connection to the outdoors: gardening, reading, dining, entertaining, working, art, yoga, spa, pool, or a quiet four-season living room.
Yes. Compact concepts are an important part of this offering. A 10×10 room can feel generous when the proportions, glazing, furniture, and view are handled well.
Not always—but size alone does not decide it. The jurisdiction, attachment, use, utilities, height, setbacks, zoning, grading, and fire requirements can all affect the answer. We avoid blanket “permit-free” claims and check the likely path for the property.
Yes. Larger custom atriums can be developed around pools, spas, water features, indoor landscapes, and entertaining spaces. These are substantial design-build projects with site-specific engineering and approvals.
If the project and company appear to fit, the next step is typically a paid site and feasibility phase or a design proposal. That work defines the project more carefully before construction pricing.
The solarium images are design visualizations that communicate possible scale, use, and atmosphere. They are labeled accordingly and are not presented as completed Artisan Craft projects.
Complimentary Solarium Fit Check
Give us the first outline. Anthony will follow up to learn about the property, the room you have in mind, and whether a custom solarium is a promising fit.