Most houses could accommodate the addition of a screened-in porch. Adding a screened porch onto a house:

1 .Be aware of how it would influence views and light inside the house. A porch would divorce the room it’s adjacent to from the yard. It also might affect second-story windows. In the McKinney’s’ case, the porch was additional at a point of view from the kitchen to reduce the impact on the house. The angle preserved the full north view out of the kitchen/family room and kept the room from flattering dark. The porch post also shades the house from the western sun.

2. Tie the porch back to the house architecturally. In this case, you took a cue from the bay windows on the front and back of the house and abrupt the corners of the porch so that it’s almost an octagon.

3 .Make the porch feels as outdoorsy as probable. This was attained at the McKinney house by making the porch look as if it had once been a gazebo and only recently screened in. Also as long as permanence with the outside is the same brick on the porch floor that is used on the neighboring patio and landing.

4 .The porch has to hold up itself. At the McKinney’s’ house, the porch only touches the house in a small zone, so steel was placed inside the wooden columns and was fasten to real to provide support.