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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The hydrophobia of haints is one reason porch ceilings across the South are painted "haint blue," said Rodgers, who is community relations liaison for the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little ...

Haint blue is a pale shade of blue that is traditionally used to paint porch ceilings and under eaves.(Howard Garrett) About a decade ago we painted the ceilings of eaves and porches at home and ...

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.