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 ...
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 ...
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," ...
Q. I have an existing patio at my home that I'd like to enclose with screening and a roof. The rear wall of my house is irregular, the roof is at different heights and one corner of the patio abuts an ...
A screened-in porch delivers on serenity and curiosity, whether porch-sitters are watching birds, flowers or the neighbors. For many, a cup of coffee on a screened-in porch hearkens back to a slower ...
Bill and Vivian Nelson of Hoover wanted to update their screened porch because their furniture cushions were faded. The screened porch is their favorite room, so they wanted to spruce it up. Vivian ...
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 ...
New Orleans, LA – September 2025 – Big Easy Landscaping, a prominent landscape design and construction company serving the New Orleans metropolitan area for over fourteen years, announced today the ...