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A greenhouse for humans, minus the commitment to actual plants.
means A room, usually glass-walled, added onto a house to let in maximum sunlight and blur the line between indoors and the yard.
from Straightforwardly compound: 'sun' + 'room,' first stitched together in English as houses began sprouting glassed-in additions designed purely to trap daylight — a domestic cousin of the greenhouse and the conservatory, which were busy trapping light for plants while the sun room trapped it for people in armchairs.
- real estate math
- adds value but counts as outdoor space for insurance
- glass tax
- heats up like a car in summer, freezes in winter
- original purpose
- Victorians used them to grow citrus indoors
- modern use
- where the treadmill goes to be ignored