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Jess & Mikaylah’s Simple and Sweet Austin Cottage

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Porches. They make houses look official, they give the mailman a place to drop off your latest Amazon/ASOS splurge, and they have a long history in American architecture. For centuries, porches have served as places for people to congregate, share stories, gossip, and convene.

This is especially true where I’m from — Down South — where the power of the porch is comparable to the power of the stiff drink. It’s no wonder that the porch features prominently in Queen Bey’s visual album, Lemonade. The porch is where she “finds her chill … giving middle fingers to her tormentors, and belting out freedom hymns before the mothers of black boys slain by police,” writes reporter Brentin Mock in CityLab.

But you don’t need to take it to those extremes — and you don’t even need to have a real porch. Below are five ways to porch, minus the actual porch.

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