Many Florida homeowners are deciding to install privacy screen enclosures around their outdoor living areas. You may be one of them! Enclosing your space provides your family with many benefits to enjoy year-round.
If you’re enclosing your pool area, mesh privacy screen enclosures are less costly than glass structures. Moreover, glass structures prevent natural airflow and cause some people to feel uneasy or closed in after a short time. Installing proper ventilation is an added expense many could do without right now.
Mesh screen enclosures, on the other hand, allow free airflow eliminating the threat of becoming claustrophobic. Moreover, when air circulates throughout the structure, it allows every nook and cranny to dry out. If surfaces remain damp, it provides an environment that encourages mold growth—especially with the high humidity that we experience here during the summer months. Constant exposure to mold can negatively affect your family’s health—and your pets.
Benefits Abound
Whether you are enclosing the pool or your outdoor living room, screen enclosures provide your family with privacy. Even if you love your neighbors, it’s nice to have an area to hang out in out of the public eye. It truly heightens your ability to rest and relax proving that old adage “out of sight, out of mind” true to its word.
The sights and sounds of your busy neighborhood seem to fade away enabling you to focus on what’s important. And that’s spending quality time with your family.
You won’t be bugged either
Your enclosure is going to provide you with a bug-free zone too! The finely woven screen blocks all manner of bugs and insects. Mosquitoes and noseeums included!
Imagine night swims without being swarmed by mosquitoes every time you surface. You can put away all the citronella candles and tiki torches too. Moreover, your family might dine outdoors more often because the flies won’t be joining you.
Fun in the sun
Screen enclosures don’t completely shade you from the sun’s damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays, but they do provide a measure of protection. The kids won’t have to get dragged out of the pool to reapply sunscreen as often. Your patio or poolside furniture and other stuff won’t suffer sun fade as quickly either.
Blocks yard debris
Enclosing your space means that when storms pass through, they won’t leave a mess of limbs and yard debris everywhere. That stuff is staying out in the yard where it belongs which means no more cleaning up before sitting down. Nothing wrong with that picture!
Are we right?
The creature feature
Florida is blessed with all types of wildlife. Even though we appreciate it, that doesn’t mean we’re thrilled to discover it directly outside our door. An enclosure provides a barrier that keeps unwanted guests from getting close to your home.
No more worries about discovering a snake burrowed under the throw pillows or seat cushions. And should the occasional alligator find its way into the neighborhood—or out of the waterway bordering your property—it won’t be tempted to take a dip in the pool or sun itself on your lanai floor. Enclosing the pool also eliminates the possibility of making the gruesome discovery that some poor creature has found its way in and couldn’t get out before being overtaken by exhaustion.
A safe space
You wouldn’t leave your kids unattended near the pool, but when you enclose your outdoor living room area, your enclosure provides a safe space for small children—and pets alike—to get some fresh air and play outdoors. You, however, won’t have to worry about them getting away from you when focused on something else.
That means you could actually take a bit of time to catch up on social media or read a chapter of your book without the giggle of an escaping little one breaking into your thoughts or, worse, looking up to discover you’re all alone.
The key difference
So far, we’ve listed all the benefits of installing a privacy screen enclosure. And of course, those same benefits apply to customized screens. If that’s the case, there is only one difference between traditional privacy screen and customized screens.
Some companies offer to customize privacy screens using digital imagery. It adds another level to the privacy factor. Customers choose the images from either their digital library or a company catalog. The screens are printed using dyes manufactured with added UV protection. It prevents sun fade and the images remain vibrant for years.
The results are quite astounding.
Homeowners report that their customized screens create a completely different environment. For instance, if using images from a favorite vacation spot, the emotions felt when being there are recreated when spending time in their backyard enclosure.
Adding your furniture and decor completes the transformation and your backyard getaway will soon become one of your family’s favorite gathering spots. Your friends are going to love the space too. Don’t be surprised if your home becomes the favored go-to spot for get-togethers.
If that happens, you’ll understand why though. The ambiance you create flows throughout the entire “vibe” your new space creates. Odds are it’s going to be a positive force lent to creating a space filled with love and laughter.
Always important facets of life—which points to a job well done.