Sentences with phrase «haint blue»

For generations, Southerners have painted their porch ceilings a soft blue shade called haint blue because it makes ceilings appear higher and is rumored to deter wasps.

My exterior project would be adding wood strips to our front porch ceiling and painting it haint blue!

Love the haint blue ceiling!

Are you keeping the haint blue?

There is a story behind it, and you can read about the haint blue porch ceiling here.

Mine is too bright (almost haint blue) and I hate it!

On this Andrew Howard - designed porch at The Prairie by Rachel Ashwell in Round Top, TX, a perfect shade of haint blue (Yarmouth Blue by Benjamin Moore) sets a «Good Times Only» vibe.

I meant to say «porch ceilings» when I wrote about «haint blue ceilings» above.

If you love the blue color, maybe paint the front porch ceiling with that same «haint blue» to give the house a real southern farmhouse feel?

Some of the ceilings of the piazzas are painted in a colour called haint blue, a tradition originating with the local Gullah people, descendents of slaves who believed the colour would prevent ghosts from entering the house.

«Earthquake bolts,» «piazzas,» «single houses,» and a popular shade known as «haint blue,» are common in Charleston real estate parlance.

The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down «the touch» that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster.

Painting porch ceilings «haint blue» became popular in the South, and if you're interested in the... [Read more...]

Not exact matches

Plus, it's a Southern tradition to paint your porch ceiling «haint» blue, and I love to carry that [color] throughout the home.