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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 home, but the process of designing and decorating a screen-in porch isn t quite as straightforward. Before you invest in an enclosed porch, ask yourself a few key questions about the function and style of your new space. Think of the View and Flow
One of the biggest decisions you ll make about your new space is where to put it. For some homeowners, screening in an existing porch feels like an obvious choice, but think carefully about how it will change your entrances, exits, and windows, says Jeff Rossen of Rossen Landscape. You want to have a place where it won t negatively impact your view, says Rossen, or else come to terms with the fact that you re going to be lo