YEARS AGO, when I floated the idea of a screened-in porch to my opinionated, renovation-savvy friends, some thought it frivolous. One considered the plan old-fashioned. “I don’t get it,” she said. But ...

I get to witness her in her first corporate role and see her grow. I'm also learning to let go, while we also enter a new stage of our relationship. By 9 a.m., my daughter and I are in our "office," ...

My favorite room in our house is damp, loud and blows hot and cold with the seasons. In truth, a screened porch barely qualifies as a room at all, which is exactly why I like it. It's the outdoors ...

A spacious screen porch addition to a Mediterranean-style home in Vienna has won a national Contractor of the Year Award for Sun Design Remodeling. The indoor/outdoor solution was judged the nation's ...

Dear Jim: We enjoy spending time outdoors on our patio, but the insects are bad. There is a nice breeze out there, and we have to air condition the house less. What are my options for installing a ...

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Q. I’d like a modest screened porch on the back of my house, which has a walkout basement and a slight overhang, similar to the front of a garrison. Is this a job to hand over to a good contractor, or ...

Screened porches get plenty of action in the fall, from serving as spots for a morning coffee or an evening cocktail to football watching. The spaces have an element of nostalgia as well. “My ...

I sat on my screened porch this morning early, when it was as cool as it is going to get. A squirrel made a hole in the screen last winter, coming in to get at a bag of birdseed I had sitting on a ...