And haint blue? Well, it's definitely one of many Southern classics. The tradition of painting your porch ceiling this cool, green-tinted shade of blue can be traced back to the enslaved African ...

Matthew Coates, of Coates Design Architects, explains that ‘‘in places in the South like Charleston and Savannah, people used ...

Painting porch ceilings "haint blue" is a long-held Southern practice. (This tradition came to the region via enslaved West African people, who believed the color would ward off evil spirits ...