It's personal preference. We bought a brand-new Sun Kist model and used the screened lanai that first fall/winter/spring. BUT then summer came (it faces the east) it was too hot....never used it. Then it got really dirty with the weather. about the 5th year we enclosed it...made it into an actual room. The floor is raised to meet the rest of the house. We had the slider moved to one end so there are glass sliding windows (with screens) that have a knee-height wall. Our house was small enough that more heat and air wasn't needed. I don't know that it has increased the taxes on our house but then again it's a small house. We've used it as a "sun-room". Had a couch out there and a chair or two. We would do this again.
****edit. Before the remodel it was essentially a small screen porch. It's set higher as the lot slopes so no mud ever splashed in. It was just dirty from dust etc.
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