Have you ever passed a beautiful mansion or cozy cottage and wondered why the porch ceiling was painted blue? It’s a southern ... site includes a dogtrot log house built around 1818, a ca.- ...

"It's permeated into porch design." In fact, the pale blue-green tint is now known in design circles as "haint blue." Even if you don't believe in ghosts, a blue ceiling adds plenty of benefits ...

"We painted the (porch) ceiling ... early shades of haint blue, as is often said, the colors would have faded quickly. Natural dyes like indigo are not colorfast in exterior house paints, and ...

Porches and Southern homes often go hand in hand, particularly if the house is older ... it's back. Light blue paints for porch ceilings are now marketed as haint blue by paint companies Sherwin ...

The hydrophobia of haints is one reason porch ceilings across the South are painted "haint ... confuse the blue ceiling with the sky and fly off in that direction, away from the house.

Have you ever noticed that many porch ceilings are painted the same sky ... The color, known as "haint blue," was used by the Gullah people — descendants of enslaved Africans from west and ...

And haint blue? Well, it's definitely one of many Southern classics. The tradition of painting your porch ceiling this cool .

According to southern traditions, "haint blue" is said to repel bugs (and supernatural spirits) from your home when added to your porch ceiling. To investigate this claim further, we tapped Dr ...

What kind of blue is this haint blue ... repelling bugs than painting your house exterior any specific color. Finally, for ...

"We painted the (porch) ceiling ... early shades of haint blue, as is often said, the colors would have faded quickly. Natural dyes like indigo are not colorfast in exterior house paints, and ...