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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historic Southern home with large columns and wraparound porch - Wileydoc/Shutterstock There aren't many secrets in Southern ...
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 ...
I love porches; not patios, not balconies, not decks. Porches. My grandparent's house had a wide porch across the front. Dutchman's Pipe vine crawled up the webbing on the side railings right up to ...
There aren't many secrets in Southern architecture quite like the rain porch. It's something that isn't well known (or used!) outside the region, but it should be. But what exactly is a rain porch?