Light luxury entrance porch decoration painting, nine fish inlaid with diamonds, modern simple vertical crystal porcelain painting, corridor wall painting
Large double-pane windows along the southern frontage of this enclosed porch... let winter sunlight strike the floor, which serves as a thermal mass. At night the floor releases its heat to warm adjoining rooms. Eye-level windows open to admit breezes; an overhang helps shade the windows during the warm months when the sun travels higher in the sky.
Better Homes and Gardens: Stretching Living Space, 1983
This is the kind of strip where, if the comic was more than just one day a week, I could have run with a bunch of fun variations on this theme. Alas, there are only so many hours in the day and I have a LOT of pots in a lot of fires. lol
That said, the desire to make this gag more than it is was tempting, but I felt that its core idea was best served with simplicity.