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Bring The Living Room Outside. On the 50-foot-long porch of CL Editor-in-Chief Rachel Hardage Barrett’s Mississippi farmhouse, wicker furniture, woven lanterns, and, for an old-fashioned touch ...
Porches were a natural idea in India, a mostly warm, tropical country. In Gujarat the porch area is called the otala and in the Hindi belt it is known as alinda . These structures are not only used to cool off, but also as a centre of social life where neighbours can talk and kids play, or as a religious centre where rituals and worship of ...
In the UK, the temple-front applied to The Vyne, Hampshire, was the first portico applied to an English country house. A pronaos (UK: / p r oʊ ˈ n eɪ. ɒ s / or US: / p r oʊ ˈ n eɪ. ə s /) is the inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, situated between the portico's colonnade or walls and the entrance to the cella, or shrine.
A rain porch is a type of porch with the roof and columns extended past the deck and reaching the ground. The roof may extend several feet past the porch creating a covered patio. A rain porch, also referred to as a Carolina porch, is usually found in the Southeastern United States. [6]
Porch was founded in September 2012 after co-founder Matt Ehrlichman. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Porch was launched as an online home improvement network connecting homeowners with professionals. As of 2018, the listings are in excess of 300,000 professionals [ 5 ] across the U.S. Porch partners with Lowe's , [ 6 ] Wayfair , [ 7 ] and Pottery Barn . [ 8 ]
A screened porch on the rear of a house in the southwestern United States. A screened porch, also known as a screen room, is a type of porch or similar structure on or near the exterior of a house that has been covered by window screens in order to hinder insects, debris, and other undesirable objects from entering the area inside the screen.
Sleeping porch in the main house of the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. A sleeping porch is a deck or balcony, sometimes screened or otherwise enclosed with screened windows, [1] and furnished for sleeping in warmer months. They can be on ground level or on a higher storey and on any side of a home.
The highly decorated two-storey porch of St Mary's, Yatton, England [1] [2] A church porch is a room-like structure at a church's main entrance. [3] A porch protects from the weather to some extent. Some porches have an outer door, others a simple gate, and in some cases the outer opening is not closed in any way.