What is a Sleeping Porch?
A sleeping porch is a deck or balcony that is screened and furnished for sleeping in the warmer months. Sleeping porches can be on ground level or on a higher story and in either the front or back of a home. The idea of a sleeping porch dates back nearly a hundred years when people would sleep on a screened-in porch to get the coolness of the night air during summer without being bothered by bugs. The start of the sleeping porch in the United States is thought to be at the beginning of the twentieth century with the large wraparound porches of Southern plantations. The popularity of screening products led to these porches being screened in to keep out bugs. Children often slept on a second story sleeping porch on hot summer evenings. Southerners often refer to sleeping porches as galleries. Those who had tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses also slept on a sleeping porch. Doctors recommended sleeping in the fresh air to help ease respiratory problems. Those who didn’t have uppe
A sleeping porch is a room full of bunk beds that is dark and silent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All of your personal belongings remain in your study room, and your bedding and alarm clock (if you wish to have one) go in the sleeping porch. At the beginning of the year you select a bed and you sleep in it all year. There is the option of switching beds if there is an available one to switch to.
