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Old 10-17-2010, 05:12 PM
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A lanai is just a patio with a roof over it. Screen it in and it becomes a screened lanai. Enclose it with windows (and perhaps air conditioning), it becomes a Florida room. A bird cage is a patio with the walls and roof made of screening. And a popular roof design for that screening is Mansard.

I think the term “Mansard Lanai” just confuses the terms.