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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sort of indoor-outdoor architectural integration so valued today was once a matter of course for those in the warmer parts of the United States, where summertime temperatures dictated a number of ...

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 ...

Home design, like fashion, follows trends and the ever-churning mantra of “out with the old, in with the new.” Health professionals in the early 20th century touted the health benefits of screened ...

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 ...