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The patio is the room you built because the indoors got jealous of sunlight.
means A patio is a paved outdoor area, usually right beside a house, set up for sitting, dining, or lounging in the open air.
from Straight from Spanish 'patio,' meaning an inner courtyard — the open-air heart of a house. The deeper root is uncertain, with some tracing it to Latin 'patere' (to lie open) or Occitan 'pati' (pasture or wasteland), but the trail is murky. English borrowed the word in the 19th century, and as American homes spread outward, the patio migrated from a walled interior court to the sunny slab out back.
- origin
- From Spanish for inner courtyard, often roofless and central
- property value
- Outdoor living space boosts home resale prices measurably
- furniture
- Patio sets are designed to survive weather you wouldn't
- social gravity
- Every party drifts toward it, eventually
patio de los leones — courtyard in the alhambra palace, granada, spain, built in the 14th century with 124 marble columns
patio de la orangerie — historic courtyard at the palace of versailles featuring orange trees planted in 17th century france