Enjoy Blissful Sleep on Your Sleeping Porch

[sakiraa1]

Sleeping on your porch is not something that we often think about doing. But it is the best of both worlds - the comfort of being somewhat indoors but the ability to watch the stars, feel the breezes and wake up to the birds singing. Sleeping porches have been around for hundreds of years and today there is a resurgence.

Usually a sleeping porch is on the 2nd story of a home. Often in the back of the home but occasionally on the front. It is basically a screen porch that is furnished with comfortable furniture, including a bed with all the comforts. We all know that a screen porch is a great place to spend time with your family and not have to deal with bugs eating you alive. But just think of your screen porch as a place where you can also enjoy blissful sleep!

Sleeping on your porch is a good idea in the spring and fall when the evenings are cool. Even when there is a gentle rain, you can enjoy your sleeping porch. On hot summer nights, some people will prefer blissful sleep on their porch more than sleeping inside with air conditioning. A sleeping porch is also a great place for an afternoon nap. How about mowing the lawn and then enjoying a brief nap on your sleeping porch? Nothing like smelling the fresh-cut grass while you take a break.

Kids really love the adventure of being able to sleep outdoors. They see this as an adventure and will remember it as happy times when they get older. Screened in porches definitely teach children how to spend time with family and enjoy nature and this is something they will also teach their own children. Your porch can be used for so many different family times, even sleeping in nature without the hassle of bugs and rain and this is something that everyone in the family will definitely look back on and remember with a smile.

[bdp522]

Yep, love the screened porch! I just take my Everest machine out there, mask up and have a great nap! Mow the lawn first and the fresh cut grass smell comes right into the machine! Still too chilly here for that, but the warm weather is on it's way!

Brenda

[BlackSpinner]

A little uncomfortable at below freezing temps which we have here from October to May.

[2flamingos]

My childhood home (soon to be home again) was built in 1923 (I was not around at the time ) and has a real sleeping porch. It's wonderful. French windows on the North and South sides, jalousied windows on the West, and access to the attic on the East. All of the windows have screens, and it is glorious this time of year. The view from "up there" is great - the only down side - the steep, windy stairs to get up there. A real pain in the a$$ if you have to get up in the middle of the night to go downstairs to the bathroom - the trip down could easily be a trip.

[park_ridge_dave]

No real input to the thread other than it brings back a lot of great childhood memories of nights spent sleeping on the sleeping porch

My dream retirement home has a sleeping porch

I wish that I could sleep like that now

Cheers,

Dave

[kteague]

Sounds idyllic. Somehow it has escaped me all these years that some porches were built for the purpose of sleeping. I just thought porches were at times utilized for sleeping. In my area, there would have to be no way that even an acrobat could scale the house or trees to intrude. Talk of sleeping in a semi outdoors setting takes me back to my country childhood, when on hot summer nights we slept under the breeze coming thru the screen doors and open windows. Ahhhhhhhh

[kteague]

Just noticed every post by sakiraa1 is generic "advice" and a google search showed a gazillion forums they have joined. And the ones that hadn't already deleted the posts had generic advice posts like these. I'm not easily "had" but I think this time I've been had. But was fun thinking about porch sleeping. I'll post this on the other 4 threads.
Kathy
P.S. In asking myself "WHY?" I noticed a link at the bottom of their posts, but don't trust my virus protection enough to click it.

[Uncle_Bob]

You are welcome to come sleep on my porch when its 115 degrees out during the Arizona summer

[2flamingos]

You are welcome to come sleep on my porch when its 115 degrees out during the Arizona summer

That's why we now have a window unit air conditioner in the sleeping porch now. It may not get to 115 here, but 102 with 98% humidity is pretty darn miserable. Even a fan does not help then - is just a hot, wet breeze.

[BlackSpinner]

You are welcome to come sleep on my porch when its 115 degrees out during the Arizona summer

Maybe we could exchange porches - you could get half of my below freezing one and I could have half of your hot one and then they would even out.

Of course my balcony is only 3 by 5 feet and has a BBQ and garbage can on it so I would have to use a hammock....

[Stormynights]

I had a friend that live in a remote wooded area . They had a screened porch on the back of their house. There was a little spring fed creek behind the house. I slept there one night in the dead of winter. They put an electric blanket on the bed and it was just heavenly. I was snug as a bug in a rug.

[Country4ever]

Ahhhhh.....what wonderful feelings your posts bring to mind. I would love a screened in porch. We live out in the country, and the night sounds in the summer are just heavenly. I keep my bedroom window opened a little (even with a.c. on) and love falling asleep to the songs of the crickets, katydids and frogs. (Although I can't hear it as well now over the cpap). I have a little water garden right outside that window and can hear the water splashing too.
One year, down by the bridge at the end of our property, it was an exceptionally frog-filled summer. We would stop the car on the bridge at night coming home from somewhere and open all the car windows and listen to all sorts of frogs......including a bull frog. It was heaven. I fantasized about somehow stringing a hammock over the creek and sleeping there.
But I would settle for a screened-in porch!

[sleepycarol]

Mom used to tell us stories about neighbors (including her family) sleeping on porches and the kids dragging their blankets out under the trees to sleep on hot summer days. I used to love to hear her tell about it. Neighbors would often visit over cold glasses of lemonade and then wonder back home to sleep on their porches.

Those were much kinder gentler days. I know I used to sleep with the windows open and never felt afraid -- until the past year or so. I have lived in this same neighborhood for nearly 55 years (I will be 56 in May). Everyone knew the other and watched out for each other. Now the neighborhood has changed to mainly run down rental property meaning the increase of drug related issues including breaking and entering, rape, stabbings, etc. Now I am afraid to have the windows open at night since I am alone. Our house is paid for and I have brothers close by (a block away) so I don't see us uprooting and moving.