Like this? It's not an enclosed porch, but covered.

Yes, yes, yes.

We bought an old farmhouse a year ago, and we have been remodelling it. The kitchen is down to the studs --- but I kept the interior windows which look into a windowed conservatory/dining area, which is an old enclosed porch. I love the look, its very farmhousey, where porches become enclosed and windows that used to be exterior remain.

We also have a lakehouse built 5 yrs ago, and they built it so that the window over the kitchen sink opens into a sunroom --- new construction, to give it the old look/feel.

I have photos, but Shutterfly is giving me problems so its taking me a bit of time.

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In the middle of our webpage there is a film strip. MIdway through the photos you will see a window with a bookshelf running across the top third, with cookbooks. That is one of the interior windows.

If Shutterfly is better behaved tomorrow i can try to post better photos of the interior windows.

PS I had to change the title to resend

Here is a link that might be useful: house photos --- with the relevant one buried in there too

Oh...And, in our last house, we added a dining room to the exterior of our kitchen and kept the window as a pass-through. It also allowed a lot of light to come from the dining room windows into the kitchen.

Our kitchen looks out onto a covered porch. It lets a lot more light in.

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And our patio doors look out onto the porch too. These doors face west.
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Our old house use to have a window that looked out to the south. when the south deck was added, the window now looked out onto the deck. When the deck was enclosed and turned into a laundry/pantry, the window looked into that. There was another window looking outside from the laundry room. The someone added a covered porch off the laundry room - so from the kitchen you looked through the laundry room out the second window, through the covered deck and outside. By this time it let very little light into the kitchen.

The PO before us took out the window and put in shelves between the kitchen and laundry room.

This is the only picture I can find showing the shelves.

While that is my DH standing in the kitchen, this was before we put in an offer so none of the belongings are mine. I'm not "into" collecting stuff.

We had serious rot and foundation issues to deal with, and all this was gutted and changed.

Right now I do have a window in my sewing room that looks out over the deck. The deck is small and open. It faces east so I only get direct sunlight for a few hours in the morning.

To an extent, we just did this with the new "front porch". The old front porch had been enclosed at some point but the poor construction caused a sidewall and column to rot out.

The column only held up about a third of the second floor. We rebuilt it from the foundation up as an unheated enclosed porch. We left the 6 foot casement in the living room that looks out into the enclosed area (now a foyer with closet). Because the enclosed area has windows, its still possible to look outside and it still lets a lot of light into the living room.

If the laundry room/pantry is climate control, consider eliminating the window in favor of a passthrough that has some form of insulated light control like a cellular shade (that will also control sound when you need it to). That will give you the best of both worlds.

The window above my sink "looks out" into our enclosed porch/sunroom. Our home is a late 1940's cape cod that desperately tries to be an arts and crafts style. Here is a picture - taken during the remodel.

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