Today’s Photo-Essay: The Front Porch You can’t walk the streets of the Queen City without observing, and admiring, its porches. Buffalo is a front porch city.

The back porch is an equalizer. Not all Chicagoans have the luxury of living in a lake-view tower, but the wood back porch serves as the proletariat version of the 15th-floor terrace.

As to why we don't see more front porches, I'm quite certain that a front porch is one of the first things to go when a plan comes in over budget. It's a shame, but it happens.

A front porch can be a comfortable outdoor room, and it also does an important job of protecting the front door from the weather. (Dreamstime) Perspective by Tim Carter Q: The house I grew up in ...

“First impressions are the most important impressions.” Here are six ways to make your front porch-- and first home impression-- game stronger. 1. If You Create It, They Will Come (Nicole Lamotte) ...

Before your next cookout, grab some aluminum foil to clean your grill grates. Just warm up the grill, shape some foil into a ball and scrub the hot grates with it. Since the grill is hot, hold the ...

So let's talk about porches and neighborhoods. I have pictures of my dad's mom, my nonna, sitting on a folding chair in front of our grocery store.

Who better to inspire our modern farmhouse porches than the woman who brought the style into popularity, Joanna Gaines? Ahead, we take design ideas from the Fixer Upper star's front-porch playbook.