Here are colorful homes, each with distinctly different looks, along with design tips other homeowners can incorporate into ...

The renovation of a 120-year-old home in Athens, featured in Southern Living emphasizes color and comfortable living.

Many southern homes sport light blue painted porch ceilings to deter unwanted insects and spirits, so we asked an ...

In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Jon Bon Jovi invites Willie Geist to his home in New Jersey with a behind-the-scenes look at the studio where his band made its most famous albums, chronicled in ...

Southern porch ceilings painted “haint blue,” cobalt-blue bottles decorating crepe myrtles. Those “bottle trees,” Perry writes, originated in “the Kongo,” where shiny objects were ...

If you are unfamiliar, the ceilings of porch roofs were traditionally painted a shade of blue known as “haint” blue. This color was believed to mimic water, which would ward off ghosts who apparently ...