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Old 10-24-2012, 10:04 AM   #1
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Do you have a front porch or a back porch or a screened porch on your home?
If so, do you have furniture on the porch? Do you bring the furniture in for the winter or do you leave it out all year long?
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We have a small front porch with no furniture. In our backyard we have a patio with furniture and we store the furniture during the winter.
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We have a small front porch. Occasionally, I'll put a chair out there, but not often. We have a decent sized back deck. We have patio furniture on it that stays all year. The seat cushions come inside in the winter, but the furniture stays.
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At my house: Front of house we have a very large brick circle then multiple steps up to a covered "stoop". In the back of the house we have a 12'x12'screen porch with cushioned wicker furniture (swivel chairs, tables, love seat) and area rug. That leads out to a deck where we have a swinging love seat sized chair, a table and chairs with umbrella and a gas grill.
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We have a front porch with a small bench on it all year long. I want to get a couple of rocking chairs from Cracker Barrel and put them on the porch.
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We have a raised deck that comes off the back of our house (the yard slopes down). We have a table with an umbrella and chairs on it that we leave all year round. (It doesn't snow here.) We also have a fire pit type grill and our gas grill on it. We tend to use it most in the winter when it isn't super hot and the mosquitoes/sand gnats/deer flies are not out in full force. I like to sit out there at dusk and watch the bats fly over the marsh. (Bats = mosquito eaters = my best friends!)
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We have a large 3 season room off our kitchen....It was a deck but we had it expanded and encloded . It has 8 large windows and 2 skylights. We have a daybed, wicker chair and love seat and tables......and wicker plant stands. Furniture stays but plants come in.
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I have a small front porch, no furniture would fit on it.
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I don't know whether ours is a front, side or back porch. We have a ranch style house, the side walk comes up to the front door, which connects to the covered porch. It runs the full length (about 100 ft.) of the house, I guess on the side/front, then goes around the corner and runs along the back of the house.

We don't have any furniture yet as we bought the house last Dec and haven't bought any yet. We plan to buy a porch swing and some bistro sets. We will get things that can stay out all year.


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I live in a condo and have a large balcony. We have patio furniture and our grill that we keep out all year long.
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We have a front porch, and we keep the furniture out all year long, except for in really bad weather.
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I have a small front porch that I keep a couple of white outside chairs on year round. I would love, love, love to have a porch that goes all the way around the house (a wrap around porch) with atleast part of it screened in...
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