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 ...

If you have a large outdoor space and you're building your back porch from scratch, consider creating a porch with multiple areas, or zones, to serve different purposes and break up the back of your ...

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 front porch — that icon of traditional American life at home — is making a comeback. But this is not your grandmother’s front porch. At one time in our history, in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Chicago wrote an autobiography and called it the wood back porch. The city’s long history in the lumber industry explains the use of wood, and its even longer history of trying to keep people safe ...