To get to the inside you have to go outside

This is a shot from the Edison's main house to a bedroom on the left. Now this would be enclosed with screens but we love the idea of a separate room still viewed as part of the house based upon its sharing of the deck/porch/lanai/veranda. I didn't know these people but Edison is quoted as saying something like, "[when you are working you work and when you are playing you play- no point in confusing the two.]" He also liked that fact that while partially deaf it was OK because it kept out distractions from his work. He credits his success to having no clocks in his laboratory so he would nap and eat not based on schedule but based on when he physically felt he needed it.