These back porch ideas will turn your outdoor space into your favorite place to be this summer and beyond ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 "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 ...

Before opening a celebrated destination dining location, Joe Pappalardo advised family and friends that providing “quality service, food and atmosphere” was integral to being successful. “Dad would ...

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 ...

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 ...