The cheerful blue beadboard ceiling draws the eye up and nicely mimics the real blue sky just beyond the screens. The ...

Porches attract mosquitoes, moths, and wasps. We decided to investigate which porch ceiling paints could be attracting bugs, ...

This blue porch ceilings is on a contemporary farmhouse in Easton, CT. What started out as a Southern tradition, blue porch ceilings have become a trend across the country. “Haint” blue is a ...

Sitting under the shaded porch of a Southern home, your eye may wander and catch a blue colored ceiling above your head - a staple across the South - and people are just finding out why.

In Richmond, people debate their favorite sky blue paint color for porch ceilings like they do their favorite biscuit recipe. "It's all about bringing the outside in," says designer Suellen ...

“When we were restoring our front office, it had the original beadboard ceiling and it was that color,” she says. “When I found the haint blue underneath the trim, I realized the porch used ...

Porch ceilings in the American South (and parts of the Northeast) are almost always painted blue — whether the rest of the home's exterior is white, yellow, pink or any other color of the rainbow.

Have you ever passed a beautiful mansion or cozy cottage and wondered why the porch ceiling was painted blue? It’s a southern tradition based on folklore but many Alabamians claim its true ...