Here is an excerpt from the introduction:
When we first began doing them they were often still called Florida rooms, but the concept has evolved many times over since then. Like the family living room, the garden room can be anything, and it is not uncommon to see these two rooms combined. The operating factor is light (mostly from skylights and views from generous outside walls of glass). Light attracts people, and the views let you enjoy the garden whatever the season. Such rooms also emphasize easy movement between inside and outside via French doors or other ready access , allowing them to expand into the garden as the season permits. We have even seen the return of the open-air room lately as people find ways to extend the number of days a week and weeks a year without conditioned air.
A sense of working with the environment has always been an important part of Southern Living homes selection. We have looked for houses that go out of their way to respect a beautiful wooded site, to orient properly for sun and breeze, to make the most of what nature has provided in the way of views and other amenities. This book's extensive chapter on this multifaceted topic stands as testimony to the regional awareness we have cultivated over the years, and elaborates on a matter of great concern for most of us as we build or remodel.
The book concludes with a chapter on personal style, the counterpole to regional style mentioned above. These are wonderful examples of just how full and original-almost eccentric-houses can be as a reflection of individual likes. These are the kinds of houses that in the South you may hear people talking about for counties around, while they figure out how to get you in to see. It is that extra measure of personality and individual expression we think comes through in these pages, the feeling of houses lived in and loved a little beyond reason.
We remember a young couple outside a small North Carolina town we visited once who had largely restored an eighteenth-century gambrelroofed house moved from land originally owned by his family. Both were schoolteachers, but they were slowly, carefully doing everything just right, had even sent their doors away to Virginia to be redone properly. And the basement was to be their true eighteenth-century room to the last detail. Not even electricity. They hadn't completed it, and it might be the devil to photograph by candlelight, but maybe someday.... So this is a story without an end, and we like it that way. We hope you do, too. -- Philip Morris Executive Editor, SOUTHERN LIVING
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