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[quote=Anonymous]Much rather have a screened in porch.  Sunrooms are inevitably terrible energy sucks, and I've seen some that leak like a sieve in rain.  And if you do seal it off well enough to make it a "four season" sunroom, its still usually not energy efficient and now adds to your square footage (good at resale I guess, but bad for tax assessment).  They usually just feel like poorly designed interior space to me.

By contrast, a screened in porch actually feels like being outside, because you are.  There are usually bigger, and much cheaper to maintain.  You don't use them as much in the winter, and you need to bundle up a bit more in the early spring or late fall... but you don't really use the sunroom then either.  And in the summer, it's much less stuffy (especially with a ceiling fan).  And although we aren't as in the throws of the pandemic, for any communicable disease that increased ventilation is nice.

It kinda comes down though to why you want the space.  If I was looking to do a lot of gardening where I need to bring plants in for the winter, for example, a properly designed sunroom can almost double as a greenhouse.  But that's not my use case, I just want a nice place to sit with friends outside without needing to spray for bugs.  That's a screened in porch.

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