She plans to use the palm trees in front of her home as decoration for tiki huts. But the drive to turn houses into Mardi Gras floats goes beyond just keeping the holiday tradition alive.

Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras. Given the close proximity to Christmas and the start of the Mardi Gras season, Mardi Gras trees are another ...

or maybe a gingerbread house that’s cozy and wonderful and it’s just decorated to the hilts,” said Anne Monlezun. Work has begun on building a new Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu.

Axios New Orleans readers have spoken, and the No. 1 signature Mardi Gras throw is ... and recipients often leave them around their houses as decorations all year long. Yes, but: Zulu's ...

René Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats. "My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept ...