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Special Front Porches

Some of the most beautiful front porches in the world can be found at bed and breakfast inns, historical homes, and other important structures.

Because these porches come in all architectural styles, you can get some wonderful and unique porch ideas from them.

Callaway Gardens Porches

Callaway Gardens-
Just a porch connected to a back porch.
(photo courtesy of pandorea)







Bed and Breakfast Porches

Dave and I love staying at bed and breakfasts and enjoy the variety of accommodations and hospitality. It's a different experience from staying at a hotel. And you get to enjoy their porch!

San Francisco's Seven Sisters

The famous Seven Sisters Victorian Porches, San Francisco, CA



Bed and Breakfast inn porches are usually furnished with comfortable porch furniture and adorned with pleasant amenities and features. Porch designs range from the very simple like country porches to the ornate on Victorian inns.

You'll find everything from many interesting railing and column designs to outdoor fans, lights, curtains, and awnings. Older historic homes, many of which have beautiful large wrap-around porches remind us of an era gone-by, one where people sat on their porches and visited with neighbors and friends.

All of these types of porches have great ideas for designs, railings, columns, steps, and even landscaping around your porch.


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Chinese porch





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The story behind B & Bs

In Cuba, bed and breakfast inns are called casa particular; Germans refer to B&Bs as zimmer.

In the U.S., opening one’s home to people dates back to Colonial America. Lodging was intermittent in the 1700s, and aside from an occasional inn, travelers relied on the kindness of strangers.

Bed and breakfast sign

Through the 1980s and 1990s, B&Bs increased rapidly in numbers and evolved from rooms with shared baths and simple furnishings to renovated historic mansions with luxurious décor and amenities.

B&Bs are found in all over the United States and in many other countries. They are located in major cities as well as remote rural areas.

From modest cottages to opulent mansions, from restored structures like schools, cabooses, and churches to boats, B&B inns can be found in almost any structure.





A front porch or a garage?



One minute video. We never saw a porch that does this.
Would they need to nail down the porch furniture? Hmmm...





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