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A room that admits it just wants to bask, like a cat with property rights.
means A room with lots of windows (or glass walls and roof) built to let in sunlight, used for relaxing, lounging, or growing plants.
from A transparent English compound of "sun" and "room," both ancient native words — "sun" from Old English "sunne," a cousin of German "Sonne" and ultimately the Proto-Indo-European root for the sun, and "room" from Old English "rum," meaning space. The pairing is a modern one, sibling to terms like "sunporch" and the fancier "solarium" (Latin for a sun-spot), naming a feature that became popular as glass grew cheap and houses grew leisurely.
- glass tax
- Greenhouse effect means it bakes you in summer
- ancient roots
- Romans built sunrooms to grow plants year-round
- plant graveyard
- Where ambitious houseplants go to slowly perish
- resale boost
- Adds usable square footage buyers willingly overpay for
solarium at dumbarton oaks — historic 1920s glass-enclosed room in washington dc mansion with rare plants