Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Porches and Southern homes often go hand in hand, particularly if the house is older. They are places to take naps, relax, enjoy ...

Haint blue is a longstanding tradition for porch ceilings. Here, paint pros sound off on their favorite blue-green paint picks to help you get the look. Anthony Masterson Haint blue is a longstanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue porch ceilings can be traced back to the Gullah Geechee people, who believed they kept ghosts out of the home. Today people ...

About a decade ago we painted the ceilings of eaves and porches at home and at the office with a light color blue paint traditionally called "haint." I continue to be fascinated by how clean these ...

In recent years, various media outlets have published commentary on a custom in some parts of the U.S. South in which homes have light blue paint on exteriors, particularly porch ceilings, eaves, ...

Armed with that knowledge, I have wanted to paint our porch haint blue, and so in the last couple of months, I started making moves toward doing just that. When I went to the paint store a few weeks ...

If you are in search of the perfect haint blue for your own space, we've got you. When it comes to design, there's no denying that Southerners love a classic. And haint blue? Well, it's definitely one ...

If you grew up in the American south you may be familiar with these words. But if you didn’t here’s the scoop: haint blue is the color of paint applied to the ceiling of a front porch. Why? “Haint,” ...

You’re walking the historic streets of Charleston, oohing and ahhing over the sprawling porches of the antebellum mansions, and then you see it the pale blue hue that graces ceilings above. It’s not ...