What comes to mind when you think of a typical American porch? White columns? Haint blue ceilings? Perhaps a pair of rocking chairs ... us more Inspired by 1970s Brazilian brutalism, Arches House is ...

They wanted Sammie's house, filled with ... painted some of that wood blue. "Not just any blue," as Champagne noted. But haint blue, the color used on porch ceilings across the South.

You’re walking the historic streets of Charleston, oohing and ahhing over the sprawling porches of the antebellum mansions, ...

Haint blue is more than just a soft pastel hue adorning Southern porch ceilings. It’s a spiritual holdover from African and Gullah Geechee traditions. According to Atlas Obscura, enslaved ...

Give your screened-in porch a Southern sensibility by painting the ceiling haint blue. This tradition was started by enslaved Gullah Geechee people, who believed that the light blue color that ...

If you want to participate, simply install blue light bulbs in your exterior porch lights. You can also wrap blue lights around your home or business, place blue ribbons on your mailbox ...

The South painted its porch ceilings "haint blue" not as a stylistic flourish, but as an act of magical desperation — to trick restless souls into thinking the sky itself blocked their way inside.

Haint blue is the specific shade that is associated with Annie's home, according to production designer Hannah Beachler. 2.Meanwhile, red represented a connection to blood, life, and being ...