Porch vs Patio vs Deck vs Stoop vs Balcony. Discuss

[Tim The Enchanter]

A porch is in front. Maybe open uncovered, maybe covered, screened or even enclosed. In front it's a porch.

In back or on the sides it's a patio. Covered, uncovered, whatever. Unless it's made of wood or wood substitute, then it's a deck. So there's some overlap.

If it's on top a roof, it's a deck, no matter what it's made of. If it sticks out over open space, it's a balcony.

Now, how about cabana, casita, rec room.

 

[residentialguy]

If it's attached in front, its a porch, but if it's attached in back, it'a a deck? Lee, I lived in CA for 15 years (in your neck of the woods) and have never heard such a thing.

 

[residentialguy]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/porch

porch(pôrch, p

rch)
n. 1. A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a building.
2. An open or enclosed gallery or room attached to the outside of a building; a verandah.
3. Obsolete A portico or covered walk


Porticos and verandas are also covered, btw.


http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porch
porch

noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Roofed structure, usually open at front and sides, projecting from the face of a building and used to protect an entrance. If colonnaded, it may be called a portico. A veranda is typically a long porch surrounded by a railing, often extending along more than one side of a building.



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/porch
porch

   /pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ/ Show Spelled[pawrch, pohrch] Show IPA
noun 1. an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.

2. a veranda.

3. the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.

4. Obsolete . a portico.

 

[George Ellerman]

So what do you call an 8 x 20 masonry uncovered attachment at the same floor level as the interior on the front of a house on a crawlspace?

A mistake ???

 

[Mr Rex]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/porch

porch(pôrch, p

rch)
n. 1. A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a building.
2. An open or enclosed gallery or room attached to the outside of a building; a verandah.
3. Obsolete A portico or covered walk


Porticos and verandas are also covered, btw.


http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porch
porch

noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Roofed structure, usually open at front and sides, projecting from the face of a building and used to protect an entrance. If colonnaded, it may be called a portico. A veranda is typically a long porch surrounded by a railing, often extending along more than one side of a building.



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/porch
porch

   /pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ/ Show Spelled[pawrch, pohrch] Show IPA
noun 1. an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.

2. a veranda.

3. the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.

4. Obsolete . a portico.

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[residentialguy]

Yes...an open porch; a verandah

 

[Mr Rex]

We don't have such crappy weather that all porches need roofs.

 

[residentialguy]

We have decks, too.

 

[Mr Rex]

A deck is a deck, a porch is a porch. Alot of houses in the south have front porches that are not covered.

 

[residentialguy]

A deck is a deck, a porch is a porch.

Problem is that your description is the same for both.