If you’re planning a new screened porch for your Nashville area home, one decision is worthy of early consideration: Do I want porch windows?
Wait, isn’t a porch with windows just a sunroom addition? Not so much. In our industry, a screened porch with windows is typically called a 3-season room or 3-season porch.
Unlike a full-scale sunroom, which has insulated walls and some form of HVAC, a 3-season room boasts standard porch framing with walls of adjustable windows.
On cool days, the windows will block wind while soaking up the heat of the sun. On warm days, with the windows open, you’ll have a true screened porch.
Here are a few reasons you might want to consider porch windows for your new Nashville screened porch design.
Enjoy More Protection from the Elements
There’s no doubt that screens are great for helping keep bugs and other pests out while allowing fresh air to move through your porch. However, screens alone aren’t great at filtering out heavy pollen, blowing rain, and wind.
Porch windows provide an added layer of protection – giving you on-demand control of your porch environment.
Extend Your Porch Time By Hours or Days
A screened porch stands as one of the most versatile outdoor living additions you can have built. Adding windows takes that versatility to another level. With a 3-season room, it’s not that you’re getting a month added to the beginning and end of the typical outdoor living season. It’s about having a space you can use when less-than-ideal conditions roll through.
Nashville weather can change considerably from one day to the next. When an unseasonably warm and sunny winter’s day rolls around, you’ll love spending time on your porch, behind the protection of windows. Or should a full-sun day in April, spring a seasonal shower, you won’t have to retreat indoors.
The versatility of porch windows is very much about taking advantage of outdoor living opportunities right now, when you might not otherwise be able to with screens alone.
It’s a Room, It’s a Porch – It’s Both!
At Archadeck, we speak with many clients, who aren’t quite certain if they wish to build a sunroom or a screened porch. For some, a sunroom has too much of the vibe of an interior room in the end. And for those people, we have found that a 3-season room, or a screened porch with windows has more of the outdoor feel they’re looking for without having to give up comfort and protection.
And while 3-season rooms don’t have the level of climate control as an interior room would have, amenities, like radiant heating and an outdoor fireplace can make them very cozy for out-of-season use.
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