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With a lakeside setting like this one in upstate New York, it’s not surprising that a knockout front porch was part of the plan for this new home. It has all the essential elements: boxed columns, a bluestone floor, a wood ceiling (fir V-groove boards with a clear finish) and wicker seating with lots of plush cushions.
In the U.S. South, deep porches with lofty ceilings provide cooling shade to the home. With their screened enclosures, these porches really serve as outdoor rooms — and this one in Charleston, South Carolina, definitely feels that way, fitted with cushioned rockers and even a coffee table with a potted orchid. Note the ceiling: It’s painted in traditional Haint Blue, a shade thought to repel wasps (or, for the superstitious, haints — ghosts or lost spirits).
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This stately porch is attached to a house on balmy Daufuskie Island, South Carolina; the homeowners can enjoy it year-round. The dark wicker cushioned furniture contrasts beautifully with the house’s white walls and black shutters, and the porch is so spacious (54 feet long, with 11-foot ceilings), that a full-size dining table and chairs fit easily. The porch is lit by Bevelo’s French Quarter lanterns, and the ceiling paint is Benjamin Moore’s Sage Tint.
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