When does a porch become a Lanai or a portico?
Well, here again I think it depends upon how big the house is and how big the porch is ....Lets say you have a porch, 800 sq ft, on a house that is 1600 sq ft, we probably would call it a porch .... but if the same porch were on a house of say 3200 sq ft, we would call it a lanai. The same goes for a portico and foyer for that matter....under around 3000 sq ft, there is no portico and the foyer is pronounced
for-yur' On a house over 3000 sq ft, the foyer now becomes a
fo-yay' and now your front entry becomes the portico .. it is funny how rich people change the rules for all of us poor folks .... or maybe we are the ones who are too stupid to know the difference?
Incedently, a porch does not neccessarily have a roof over, but a lanai always has a roof over. Now I know someone will say that it is not a porch without a roof, but then I would wonder just how much time they spent listening to the folks on my side of town.
Using the term anywhere else is austentatious
Well most of the "upper crust" of society is austentatious anyway and probably wouldn't be caught in one of these forums, so we can bad mouth them all we want now can't we...