Six kinds of Porches for your home | Suburban Boston Decks …

Thinking about a porch for your house? How about a portico? A lanai? Would you like a loggia? Hey, this is America, not Italy. Lets use American words.

Porches in America come in several categories.

An OPEN PORCH has a roof over a deck or a patio but has no screens. Really, it is just a roof with support columns it is totally open to breezes, but is also open to bugs and wind-blown rain. Its shade lowers sunny summer temperatures inside by ten or fifteen degrees. Would you and friends enjoy an afternoon relaxing on these open porches?

Put an open porch on the front of your house, and well call it a FRONT PORCH. Although some front porches in urban areas are enclosed, most front porches are open.

The roofs of smaller PORTICOs and FRONT ENTRY Porches protect arriving guests from the weather, but the best Front Entries entice guests to your front door:

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In New England, our FARMERS PORCHES are wide and inviting:

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