Throughout the year, we compile some enjoyable ways to cherish your screened porch while doing the activities that you love the most. While this list seems to be endless, depending on your interests and daily life, we decided to list a few ideas nonetheless, providing you additional options if you want to try a new activity within your screened porch. Continue reading for some wonderful things to do in your screened space, and make sure to share your favorite porch pastimes with us on social media.

Painting & Drawing

A wonderful hobby to do within your screened porch is painting or drawing. The surrounding nature serves as an inspiration to many, and it tends to be a quieter location than inside your home. Painting and drawing is the perfect hobby for both individuals and groups, so feel free to invite over friends to work with if that suits you. Screened porches are also often easier to clean than within your home, so don’t fear if a drop of paint spills, or a marker drops - it’ll be manageable.

Practicing Music

If you’ve ever lived with someone who practices a musical instrument or plays music persistently, you’ll know how tiresome the constant noise can be at times. A screened porch is the ideal location for music lovers to practice their instruments, or simply blare some tunes, without distracting or disturbing others. Additionally, many musicians and music lovers find outdoors a beautiful place to practice and enjoy, as the surrounding nature serenades you. For those practicing outdoors, however, a friendly reminder that instruments are temperamental, and should not be stored outside, nor in the screened porch.

Reading

Magazines, books, newspapers, the works - there’s something for everyone literature-wise. Reading is considered a very calming and beneficial activity to engage in, so why not enjoy some fine print in your screened porch?! The views of nature will help give the occasional break, while the surrounding sounds will serve to relax you. Books are also an easy table piece to store in your screened porch, so leaving a few out will prompt you during your free time to enjoy the activity.

Photography

Why merely witness the sharp, natural views when you can photograph them?! Photography has been picking up in recent years as the hobby of many, and understandably so - it’s calming, fulfilling, and leaves evidence of a great time. Of course, most photographers start within one room and practice on everything in sight, which a screened porch is perfect for. Screened porches provide crisp, unobstructed views of nature, plenty of decorations in an airy environment, and great lighting.

Sports

Although we’ll admit that many sports require more space to practice within than a screened porch, sometimes just lightly tapping a soccer ball around, or gently tossing a baseball to a friend is all an individual needs to feel both content and practiced in their desired sport. Keeping a few soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs, footballs, or what have you within your screened porch for “light” tossing can be very beneficial to your more athletic guests. Keeping these by the door that leads out into the yard is an even better idea, as it allows the more committed of players to exit the enclosed space to utilize the less-damageable one.

Games

While some people enjoy board games and others enjoy active games, a screened porch is a great place to host them all. Board games can easily be stored in a cabinet or table in your screened space. Active games, like charades, can be presented in the more open spaces of the screened porch. No matter what your preference is, there is most definitely a way to enjoy these activities within the confines of a screened porch.

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