Porches and Southern homes often go hand in hand, particularly if the house is older. They are places to take naps, relax, ...

It’s calming, like a sunny day, and adds charm to just about any house style. You’ll often see colors like robin’s egg blue, sky blue, or a pale aqua. They all give off that cool, breezy ...

More than 10 years ago, Anna Colborn-Knoll helped a friend move to Savannah. The Georgian, Federal and Regency styles of architecture were striking. But there was a subtle splash of color that intr… ...

What started as superstition has since translated into a design trend. "No one would think twice about painting their porch blue, because their grandmother's and their parents' (porches) were blue ...

Whether your porch mirrors a rural, country home warmth or a plantation-style elegance, you want it to reflect you and what you hold dear. It's the entrance to your home and your heart.

You can see evidence of this in the 2016 Southern Living Idea House, which opens Saturday just outside of Birmingham, Ala. Here, in a classic Southern cottage with a wrap-around porch, designers ...

If you’ve ever taken a stroll through Savannah or Charleston, you’ve no doubt admired the beautiful homes and their welcoming porches. And if you looked really closely, you may have noticed that many ...

Actress and model Angie Bolling recreated the summer porches of her Southern childhood in this 30s-era, M-Street bungalow.

Blue porch ceilings are a Southern tradition dating back 200 years or so, ... they won't come into a house with a blue porch ceiling. ... I think the haint thing is part of a style.

If you’ve ever taken a stroll through Savannah or Charleston, you’ve no doubt admired the beautiful homes and their welcoming porches. And if you looked really closely, you may have noticed that many ...