Front, back or side.

[Sharky]

Commonly referred to as a porch.

Well, it's sorta different. A porch is a porch - I have a porch and it has a couple of rocking chairs and that's all. A lanai is furnished, just like a room inside the house - with comfy chairs, tables with lamps, bookshelves, stereo, framed art hanging on the walls, ceiling fan, etc. There is a fully equipped bar with a grill and refrigerator on one end.

 

[Gonz]

It must not snow & get to -32 in January very often there

 

[Sharky]

It must not snow & get to -32 in January very often there

Heh! If it did I would move.

As it is, it gets too damn cold - it goes down into the 20's sometimes late Jan & early Feb. Never seen it snow here, but it has happened (with no accumulation).

 

[Mare]

Heh - yeah, I get a little carried away sometimes.



It's an outdoor room that is open on one or more sides.

Just a southern term for a back porch and its usually screened in.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I'm purt near as Southern as yer gonna git on here, and I ain't never heard nothin referred to as a lanai or a pergola. I think it's transplant-speak m'self.

 

[tonksy]

I'm purt near as Southern as yer gonna git on here, and I ain't never heard nothin referred to as a lanai or a pergola. I think it's transplant-speak m'self.

SnP? Tropical south...like them Floridians and whatnot.

 

[Sharky]

I'm purt near as Southern as yer gonna git on here, and I ain't never heard nothin referred to as a lanai or a pergola. I think it's transplant-speak m'self.

It's a Florida thang. We ain't Southern, we're North Cuban.

And we stole "lanai" from the Hawaryans.

 

[Sharky]

Just a southern term for a back porch and its usually screened in.

Sorry, hun - I hate to be pedantic, but there is a difference. "Lanai" refers to an outdoor room specifically. One that is furnished, but open to the outside. Porches are screened in, and not furnished, other than rocking chairs.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

SnP? Tropical south...like them Floridians and whatnot.

Like I said...transplants.

 

[Professur]

SnP, you got that fucking door yet?

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Next week, prof...next week.