This is why many Victorian-era and early 20th-century homes have what's known as a sleeping porch. The sleeping porch was an enclosed deck or balcony with screened windows, typically accessible ...

We’ve got front porches and wrap-arounds; sleeping porches and screened ones; some with columns, and others with rails. We’re ...

But my favorite aspect had to be that front porch, which stretched from one side of the house to the other. As an adult, I've mainly lived in apartments and condos, so I've never had my own porch.