Daring Wood

Mixing different kinds of woods is usually considered faux pas, but in this cabin in Georgia, the mix is just what this home needs.

Cathedral Antiques Show

Celebrating its 41st anniversary, the Cathedral Antiques Show & Tour of Homes held its second-ever Inspiration House which was located on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. Philip. There, designers showcased antiques and vintage furnishings in everyday settings.

Elisabeth Jordan Interiors

Dawn Trimble’s Sir John Soane-inspired passageway

Jenny Rothman, Hammersmith

Allison Harper and Nancy Pendergrast Duffey, Scout for the Home

Amy Morris Interiors

Verde Home by Laura Walker

Lindsey Coral Harper Interiors

Hammersmith, Mimi Williams Interiors

Images via Atlanta Homes Magazine

Creams, Browns, and Blues à la Susan Ferrier

For this showhouse, Susan Ferrier (of the amazing McAlpine Booth & Ferrier) was given a residence with white walls. Wanting to focus more on the furniture and window treatments, Ferrier installed huge custom art pieces that spanned the width of a wall and brought the viewers attention forward, onto the furniture. I love when a showhouse doesn’t look like it’s trying to sell a designer’s work or a showrooms products, but looks as though you could move right in.

Those chairs look like the abominable snow man!

What an amazing rug and attention to detail on the chair skirt.

horse print | velvet sofa | slipper chair | peacock fan | floor lamps | pedestal table

I’m not a fan of taxidermy so let’s hope Susan didn’t use a real one and swap that peacock for a comical peacock fan!

Bring on the Boyd

The materials in the home of designer Michael Boyd are ridiculous. Malachite and pyrite mixed with smokey blues, rich copper browns and lush furs (faux hopefully). Mixing and matching seems to be a theme throughout.

Your senses are immediately heightened upon seeing this home.. imagine what it must be like in person. More on Boyd’s other projects tomorrow.

Shopping in Atlanta: The Best of the Best

Anthony | Wolf is a lifestyle studio that entends from Wolf Design Group. While the interior resembles a home, everything is for sale. Along with her husband, restauranteur Justin Anthony, interior designer Kelly Wolf Anthony has brought a source of luxury and class to Buckhead, Atlanta. With adorable shop neighbors such as Pieces, Scout, Lush Life, and Boxwood (just to name a few), Anthony | Wolf fits right in while maintaining its own style and grace. For the Atlanta Homes Magazine article, click here.

 

Alabama, Arkansas, I Do Love My Mom and Pa

Two things have been on my mind a lot recently: Atlanta Homes Magazine and Bobby McAlpine. And this home is proof that my mind’s in the right place. With architecture by McAlpine Tankersley, interior design by Susan Ferrier, and a backdrop like Lake Martin, Alabama, a quintessential serene home has been created. With its clean lines, muted colors and generous use of wood, the home’s a muse for all my future work.

Designer Susan Ferrier’s Style Secrets

What are the essentials for any lake house?  A comfortable place outside to lounge with evening cocktails, a great sound system throughout, WiFi and comfortable beds to land in at the end of the day.

What’s on your weekend playlist?  On the weekends, I like to listen to movies, mostly old, because it makes me feel like my house is full of stimulating people that I would not normally have access to, and it takes my mind to remote locations.

I can’t live with …  small ideas and ideals.

I can’t live without …  my husband, my jewelry, global travel, my pets and my dreams.

No home is complete without …  reminders of the life you have lived and the life you intend to live.

How do you relax?  I have to leave the country. Traveling abroad places me in unfamiliar settings and circumstances, so I am forced to let go and walk through it all by observing but not participating. It is like listening to music rather than having to compose the music that makes up my everyday life.

How do you beat the heat and stay cool?  If I cannot be totally submerged in water with a cocktail full of ice, an air-conditioned parked car will do.

Another Amy Morris Classic

Amy Morris (along with my idol, Suzanne Kasler), is one of those designers who can do no wrong. I’ll be browsing through images, stop to stare wide eyed at an interior project, only to find out it’s by Amy Morris. The Atlanta designer has made an appearance on this blog before and this home is another perfect post.

Architecture by Bradley Hepner. This house makes me feel like I should be studying it in my design principles class along with the Vanna Venturi House. And Amy Morris as the interior designer? Her look tends to gravitate toward the more traditional, so to see that she can work in multiple styles was both a relief and somewhat expected when you’re as talented as she.

Country Cottage

Sweet little Brookhaven. Designer Beth Ervin created an oasis in her clients home, paying attention to scalloped detail and infusing old doors throughout the home to create a sense of history and warmth.

Neutral Color Palette, Jaw Dropping Accessories

Pick my jaw up… because it just fell to the floor.

A house where each room is better than the next? Where the color palette is so neutral that each individual and unique piece of furniture and accessory can stand on its own? Beth Webb creates an oasis in this rural Georgian estate. And I am not done with Beth yet. Her portfolio is admirable and her taste, quite influential.

I also have a feeling I am going to need two homes. One that’s more modern and city-like, and one that’s more country and rustic.

Mountain Home

I have been so inspired by the work on Atlanta Homes Magazine recently. A testament to my true calling being in the South. This home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains is so gracefully put together and every room flows cohesively into the next. Atlanta interior designer Nancy Warren “set out to achieve a casual, timeworn-yet-timeless aesthetic for the retreat” according to the magazine, and “timeworn-yet-timeless” is the perfect way to describe it. It is also my new favorite phrase.