The "outdoor room" gives you more fresh air and maybe fewer germs. In a recent post, I showed a new house designed by Tom Bassett-Dilley with screened porches, which you don't see very often anymore ...

If you want to enhance your home's indoor-outdoor living area, one of our favorites ideas is to add a screened-in porch. The change can be almost as dramatic as adding an entirely new room to your ...

You can add this screened-in porch to almost any house, but the attachment details may vary from what we show here. On most two-story houses, you won’t have to worry about tying into the roof, but you ...

Lisette Oser uses her family's screened back porch as an extension of the family room in their Arts and Crafts home on Audubon Boulevard. She and her husband, Rusty, have dinner on the porch almost ...

As an extension of your home's interior, a back porch can double your living space and create an intentional hang-out zone for warm weather days. Whether you have a small patio or sprawling outdoor ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fall is a great season for a screened porch. Spring is equally a wonderful time of year for a porch, and even summer can be enjoyable. Why are screened porches so appealing? A ...