What Is A Rain Porch? Unlike a traditional porch, rain porches’ supporting posts are positioned a few feet in front of the porch itself, allowing the roofline to extend well past the seating area and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...