Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Listen to the rain without getting wet? Yes please. Unlike a traditional porch, rain porches’ supporting posts are positioned a ...

On sweltering summer days, you might be tempted to stay inside and enjoy the air conditioning. However, there are ways to bask in the great outdoors without sweating up a storm—like sleeping porches.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Some spaces once popular in older homes have fallen out of fashion in modern constructions. Case in point: the sleeping porch. These outdoor ...

At the peak of summer in the South, there is no possession more valuable than an air conditioner. On those days when the thermometer hits 90 before 10 a.m., you probably think to yourself, "How in the ...

Traditional architecture has long been desirable, but as interior design trends embrace all things historic, features that were once deemed old-fashioned are creeping back into homes across the ...

A reader and friend, Zilphy DuRant of Florence, South Carolina mailed me a letter and clipping from The Post and Courier about an architectural feature I’d never heard of, rain porches. In the ...

FLORENCE — Driving through the rural Pee Dee, you can still catch a glimpse of it — something you’re unlikely to see anywhere else in the world. It’s a porch, but it’s not like other porches. The ...

Covered front porches can vary in size from modest covered entryways to grand, architecturally intriguing outdoor rooms. Aside from protecting your front entry from rain, snow and summer heat, they ...