WHILE MANY LUXURY RESIDENCES CLAIM TO BE ONE OF A KIND, this newly constructed lakefront estate at Reynolds Lake Oconee has the credentials to back up the title. Awarded this...
WHEN A BUSY, CAREER-DRIVEN COUPLE BEGAN PLANNING TO BUILD a legacy home for themselves and their extended family, the first order of business was finding a like-minded custom homebuilder who...
Not every house asks to be left alone, but this one did, and interior designer Janie Hirsch was smart enough to listen. The lakeside retreat she recently completed for a...
FROM THE FOYER OF THIS ISLE OF PALMS HOME, YOU CAN SEE STRAIGHT through to a private dock to a glorious Lowcountry tableau. Past the reclaimed pecky cypress ceiling overhead,...
HE STARTED PULLING A THREAD,” SAYS ARCHITECT AND INTERIOR designer Shawn Alshut, co-founder of Studio A2, when talking about the renovation of a Sandy Springs home that was completed during...
ATLANTA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CITY THAT BUILDS. THE POSTWAR BOOM reshaped the suburbs, and the decades of growth that followed kept the pace. Ambition has never been the problem....
THERE’S A QUIET PLACE TUCKED BETWEEN HILTON HEAD ISLAND and Savannah where the Spanish moss hangs so thick over the roads that you lose the sky entirely. At some point...
GOOD LIGHTING DOESN’T JUST ILLUMINATE A ROOM. IT CHANGES HOW IT FEELS, MAKING A CEILING SEEM TALLER, A DINNER TABLE MORE INTIMATE OR A WORK OF ART COME ALIVE ON...
WHEN EDER FEITOSA AND RICK MORGATO FOUNDED CAZA DESIGN In Atlanta, they were working from a conviction that most people in real estate had quietly given up on: That the...
Founded on design-centric construction with a heavy emphasis on craftsmanship, relationships and a strong sense of community, DreamBuilt has been building custom homes in the Lake Oconee area since 1999....
FOR THOMAS BRAME, LANDSCAPE DESIGN ISN’T JUST A CAREER—IT’S A PASSION. Only someone who truly loves this work would describe the incorporation of various plants, trees, flowers and shrubs as...
In what seems at times like an overly modernist world—fast-paced and dizzying—meticulously crafted traditional furnishings are not only a guarantee of the finest quality but reassurance that timeless beauty and...
IN NATURE, ART FLOURISHES WHERE THERE IS A KEEN SENSE of place and an abiding respect for the creatures which inhabit it. For contemporary impressionist painter Rana Jordahl, the South...
For 20 years as an engineer, cobb pearson harbored the dream of life as an entrepreneur, forging his own company and making a difference in the lives of others. That...
LONG BEFORE “CURB APPEAL” ENTERED THE MODERN VOCABULARY, OWNERS OF GREAT HISTORICAL ESTATES UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL: A HOME IS NOT MERELY ITS WALLS AND CEILINGS. THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE IS ITS...
STEP OUTSIDE THE GLASS DOOR OF A RECENTLY REMODELED HOUSE IN CARMEL VALLEY, California, and you arrive in a small open-air room with a tree canopy for a roof. A...
A COMPANY THAT HAS BEEN BRINGING ENERGY AND SMILES TO THE LOWCOUNTRY of South Carolina since 2020 has geared up to serve Metro Atlanta. Jason Bullock and his wife and...
MANY ATLANTANS WILL REMEMBER JOVITA MOORE, the award-winning journalist who anchored the WSB-TV Channel 2 newscast for nine years before receiving a life-altering medical diagnosis. After recovering from cystic fibrosis...
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, ALLEN JONES WANTED A REFRIGERATOR FOR his garage. He found such a good deal that he sold it for a profit instead, and something clicked. As a...
FROM SPRAWLING ESTATES IN REYNOLDS LAKE OCONEE TO TIMELESS BEAUTIES in the heart of Cuscowilla, Georgia’s luxury lake homes draw discerning buyers in search of both tranquility and sophistication. In...
MOST PEOPLE MAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY WERE doing in 1999. Ryan DeCesaro isn’t one of them. It was his first year embarking on a career designing...
ARTIST DANIEL ZIMMERMAN MAY LIVE AND WORK IN THE Metro Atlanta area, but his rural roots shape how he views the natural world and the way he manipulates it to...
THE WORK OF THE ARTISAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY CRAFTSMANSHIP, ATTENTION to detail and the creation of handcrafted products with exceptional quality. An artisan’s skill often rises to the level of...
“OUR NEED WILL BE THE REAL CREATOR.”—PLATO It’s long been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of The Drapery Room’s founder Amy Hunley, it was...
WITH ENERGY PRICES SOARING, HOMEOWNERS HAVE INCREASINGLY embraced solar as a clean, renewable and cost-effective option. It’s a wise choice, economically and ecologically—but also for reasons that are more far-reaching....
TOO OFTEN, ACCULTURATION DIVERTS CHILDREN FROM their most unrestrained creative impulses by the time they reach adolescence. Clearly, Temple Reece believes in getting kids off on the right foot before...
WHEN ARCHITECTS JULIE AND JEREMY GRIFFIN DECIDED TO GO INTO business together, they were worried that their differences might be their biggest challenge. As it turned out, those differences became...
IN AN AREA THAT IS ALWAYS CHANGING, GROWING AND REINVENTING ITSELF, greater metropolitan Atlanta is rife with architects, homebuilders, designers and contractors who must all keep their fingers on the...