I've only ever had one once, and that was in Colorado. Great setup, seriously bad situation. The balcony out there was really my space, as my roommate never used it. So I had a couple planters full of kitchen garden herbs and spicy peppers set on the little table someone had put out there.

I am truly looking forward to the upcoming balcony. It'll be entirely mine from the start, for one. There will be a radio antenna for sure, plants for sure, probably a windchime or two, and when the weather is nice, I'm going to skip the air conditioning, open the sliding door but leave the sliding screen in place, and let cross ventilation do its thing. My roommate in Colorado and I were forever in a battle about that; she was one to turn up the AC and have a fan blasting, which froze me.