10 Inviting Lanais, Covered Porches and Outdoor Rooms
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023Cozy up with a view of the great outdoors with these screen porches, rooms and lanais.
Tropical Lanai Porch
This second-story lanai allows for a different type of vantage point than your typical ground-level view. An exposed-beam ceiling, cypress columns and a swinging day bed make for a dreamy space to chill out in.
Treehouse Screen Porch
The architects behind this unique design sought to create a more intimate connection with nature. To do so, they introduced natural materials and organic, rounded shapes. Much like the tropical lanai, this treehouse screen porch is situated high in the sky, with a view of the surrounding forest.
Modern Lake House Screened Porch
When there’s a beautiful view right outside your home, it would be an injustice not to invite it in. The design of this home takes advantage of southern lake views and solar exposure. The result is a sunny, warm and serene space, including the screened porch that’s equal parts modern as much as it is rustic. No wonder screened-in porches are a trending DIY project.
Cedar Porch
This slightly more urban home takes advantage of the backyard trees by creating a cedar wood screened porch that allows you to feel a little touch of outdoor living while still protected from the elements.
Domed Lakehouse Room
This lake house room creates a relaxing space to hang out in with a massive domed ceiling overhead. The natural materials make for a very comfortable area, while the large, open windows bring the outside in.
Over-Water Porch
You can actually rent this home that’s built over the water in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. The house, which can accommodate eight people, features a brilliant view of the water from its massive covered back porch.
Indoor Pool Room
This gorgeous estate, situated in Cantabria—an autonomous region on Spain’s north coast— s done in classic Mediterranean style with a very castle-like feel. Among the best features is surely the indoor pool room that offers incredible natural light to make it feel like it’s outside, but without the elements getting in the way.
Rustic Family Room
This Big Sky, Montana log cabin mansion has one inviting rustic family room that brings the mountains in. If you don’t live in the mountains but would like a backyard stream that looks like you do, check out this one-weekend, low-maintenance fountain.
French Country Greenhouse Room
This remote home tucked in the woods offers a room perfect for the plant lover. An ode to a typical greenhouse, you can get your hands a little dirty even on a rainy day.
Poolside Lanai
Swimming pools contained with a lanai are particularly popular in Florida. Not only does this extravagant lanai porch design permit some privacy, but also protects the pool, patio furnishings and toys.
