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A sleeping porch is a deck or ''Create a Restful Refuge with a Traditional Sleeping Porch''
Bob villa (2017); By Donna Boyle Schwartz.- Retrieved 2017-08-27 and furnished for sleeping in warmer months. They can be on ground level or on a higher
''Buffalo as an Architectural Museum: Illustrated Architecture Dictionary'' (2005). Retrieved 2011-01-31.
A sleeping porch is a deck or balcony
A balcony (from it, balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
Types
The traditional Maltese balcony is ...
, sometimes screened or otherwise enclosed with screened windows,Bob villa (2017); By Donna Boyle Schwartz.- Retrieved 2017-08-27 and furnished for sleeping in warmer months. They can be on ground level or on a higher
storey
A storey (British English) or story (American English) is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are ''storeys'' (UK) and ''stories'' (US).
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and on any side of a home. A sleeping porch allows residents to sleep on a screened-in porch, avoiding warm convection currents from air and wall materials beneath or beside. Before affordable electric fans and/or air conditioning
Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C or AC, is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior environment (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling ...
were installed, families often created such rooms, well-aired, where children would sleep during summer. The idea dates to around 1900 and became common in much of the United States
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See also
*Arizona room
An Arizona room is a semi-outdoor recreational room found frequently in homes in Arizona, based on similar concepts as the Florida room. The room is often a patio that has been covered and screened-in, creating an outdoor feeling while preventin ...
* Screened porch
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A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...
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