Haint Blue

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
Vicki White

As you sit on a comfortable porch in the Lowcountry sipping your sweet tea, look up. What color is the ceiling? If the porch ceiling is a light shade of blue, you’re looking at a color known in the South as haint blue. Steeped in superstition and tradition, haint blue is used on porch ceilings (door and window frames, too) throughout the South to protect homes from natural and supernatural pests.

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