For years, she had longed for a house on some land, but it wasn’t until she serendipitously found this parcel that she took the plunge ...

It’s not a coincidence that so many porch ceilings are often painted blue in the South, and the history of why is even more fascinating.

Plus, the history of haint blue porches is just as fascinating as these porches are beautiful. Designer Roger Higgins of Nashville-based R. Higgins Interiors recommends "a pale blue that is subtle ...

Styles certainly come and go, but if this one ever really went away, it's back. Light blue paints for porch ceilings are now marketed as haint blue by paint companies Sherwin-Williams as well as Behr.

But usually I’d describe our forever home, a century-old white farmhouse with a big porch. “Oh, you live in Mrs. Kaiser’s house,” they said.

The color on porch ceilings has a name — haint blue. The word "haint" basically means evil spirit or haunt, and the color blue is intended to confuse any such specter.

Built in 1919, the reimagined living space in this Clay Twp. farmhouse includes two bedrooms that walk out to covered porches. It's on the market for $479,747.

Blue Heron Farm, the Martha’s Vineyard estate that the Obama family made into their de facto summer White House before architect Norman Foster bought and redid the property in 2011, has sold for $37 ...

HOUSTON – A charming Waller County estate with a renovated farmhouse and 221 acres of land is on the market for $7,250,000. The three-bedroom, four-bathroom home, built circa 1934, underwent a ...

The color is called "haint" blue, and the story on why we paint with it starts with the Gullah people in 19th century South Carolina.