This time of year, we see all sorts of articles and ads for these "outdoor rooms." Why we do is what is so annoying. I live in the New Jersey-New York metropolitan area, and I can assure you the climate around here in no way, shape or form supports the cost of installing one of these things.
California? No doubt. Arizona? Of course. New Jersey? Only if the servant wing of your estate can support the staff needed to race out and set it all up on a good day, and then quickly put cushions, dish ware, decorative froo-froos, throw pillows and all the other crap the ads show away before that afternoon thunderstorm hits.
My Sainted wife and I have had an outdoor furniture set for quite some years. Let me be clear on this point: furniture, NOT a "room." Just keeping a furniture set clean is a nosebleed. This stuff gets dirty. Really dirty. Moldy. Bird-crapped-upon. Insects mating upon. Insect-crapped-upon. Even trees get into the act. We have to have a way to store all that stuff for the 6 months it isn't used AND that emergency area to hold the cushions when the weatherman gets things wrong on a supposedly GOOD day.
"Outdoor rooms" - pah. When saner heads prevailed, they were wherever you wanted to plant your picnic basket and blanket.
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