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Originally Posted by BigRedBeta
Well, this girl was a princess to the nth degree...there's absolutely no way she would have grown to love them.
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Sleeping porches are not uncommon in houses (and I mean
private homes) built in the 1880s through, oh, the 1940s. This was before air conditioning. The sleeping porch was a screened porch furnished with what we might call daybeds. In the summer, you'd go out there where it was cooler to sleep.
Older Greek houses in the South often have them. I loved ours, which was on the 3rd floor where there were no rooms. We kept the windows open year round. Always quiet, always kinda dim. Great place to nap, or sleep late, without music and yelling etc. Daughter's sorority house had 2 on each floor, and they were a lot noisier. The rooms in both our houses had closets, twin dressers (all built in), a day bed and 2 desks.