As an extension of your home's interior, a back porch can double your living space and create an intentional hang-out zone for warm weather days. Whether you have a small patio or sprawling outdoor ...

There's no better place to soak in the charm of the South than on a back porch. It’s where sweet tea flows as freely as conversation, where brunches turn into lazy afternoons, and where warm summer ...

Parking: The lot next door to Carson’s has more than 50 free spaces. There is also metered street parking on Water Street ...

At this point, our porch represented a deserted gas station in South Dakota. We used to have a back porch that was hell on earth. Because it was always sunny. Always. For 10 years, we put a grill, a ...

The "outdoor room" gives you more fresh air and maybe fewer germs. In a recent post, I showed a new house designed by Tom Bassett-Dilley with screened porches, which you don't see very often anymore ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The Back Porch has been a tradition in Kilgore, Texas for nearly four decades. When Jackie and Vicki Clayton took over ownership in 1990 they had big plans for the place, but they also knew that they ...

Chicago apartment buildings have fire escapes in the back, the story goes, because after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 the new city fire code stipulated that every apartment have at least two means ...