I get to witness her in her first corporate role and see her grow. I'm also learning to let go, while we also enter a new stage of our relationship. By 9 a.m., my daughter and I are in our "office," ...

YEARS AGO, when I floated the idea of a screened-in porch to my opinionated, renovation-savvy friends, some thought it frivolous. One considered the plan old-fashioned. “I don’t get it,” she said. But ...

My favorite room in our house is damp, loud and blows hot and cold with the seasons. In truth, a screened porch barely qualifies as a room at all, which is exactly why I like it. It's the outdoors ...

A spacious screen porch addition to a Mediterranean-style home in Vienna has won a national Contractor of the Year Award for Sun Design Remodeling. The indoor/outdoor solution was judged the nation's ...

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Bill and Vivian Nelson of Hoover wanted to update their screened porch because their furniture cushions were faded. The screened porch is their favorite room, so they wanted to spruce it up. Vivian ...

Dear James: The mosquitoes are really annoyed by my flower beds, so I want to build a screened porch. Do you have any design and construction DIY tips? — Brandon P. Dear Brandon: Early evening is when ...

I sat on my screened porch this morning early, when it was as cool as it is going to get. A squirrel made a hole in the screen last winter, coming in to get at a bag of birdseed I had sitting on a ...