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

Pale-blue was historically the colour old Scottish church painted their doors before it became fashionable in the 19th ...

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 ...

What comes to mind when you think of a typical American porch? White columns? Haint blue ceilings? Perhaps a pair of rocking chairs and chilled glasses of sweet tea? But what about a public park? Or a ...

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 ...

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.

The ceiling, for example, was painted with Behr Seaglass to mimic haint blue, which is often seen on porch ceilings in the south. “Traditionally, the color is thought to discourage spirits from ...