Prices range from $109 a night in the summer to $350 in the winter for a standard room with a patio.
On the conservative side, the journalist David Brooks, writing in The Weekly Standard, introduced us to Patio Man, so named because of his love for complex outdoor grills purchased at cavernous home-improvement stores.
During the Spanish Renaissance the patio became a standard element in houses.
Garages, patios, landscaping, the standard number of kitchen appliances and a community clubhouse are included.
Additional outdoor amenities for all residents include a courtyard with "a lawn, a play area, a play surface that meets Americans with Disabilities Act standards, a rain garden, a patio with grills, a fire pit, and seating".
After all, Mr. Obama had a very small elite group of columnists to lunch on the White House patio on Thursday, a fairly standard event at the White House.
As for new construction, virtually none of the major developers of new houses include screened porches as a feature in their standard building plans, instead concentrating on elaborate decks or patios as the transition space between indoors and outdoors.
Wilkinson took Sanders out to the patio and asked her to leave, telling her the restaurant had "certain standards" like "honesty, and compassion, and cooperation," Wilkinson told the Post.
Standards have been pushed higher than ever these days; a dining table with an umbrella on the patio and a few chairs on the lawn no longer make the grade.
