GROWING UP ON A FAMILY ORCHARD, ELIZABETH JOICE WAS LATE TO her current career as an interior designer. After marriage, she had plenty of time to practice design as she,...
WITH A STORIED HISTORY IN A BREATHTAKINGLY PICTURESQUE, natural setting, Reynolds Lake Oconee serves as the perfect backdrop to a life well lived. Founded in 1988—the year George H. W....
Divorce is a term that we, as a modern society, are intimately familiar with. With an estimated one in three adults having experienced divorce themselves—and countless more having watched friends...
Historically, interior design was never about the client. it was about displaying wealth, status, power and beauty for nobility and aristocracy, rather than functioning for the needs of those who...
FOR MANY PEOPLE, MANAGING MONEY MEANS JUGGLING A BROKER AND an accountant, and an estate attorney who’s never met either one. Jamison Private Wealth was founded on a different idea:...
There’s an iconic scene in the 2006 film the devil wears prada in which the movie’s main protagonist, played by Meryl Streep, icily schools Anne Hathaway’s doe-eyed fashion skeptic on...
THIRTY YEARS AGO, A SEMINAR DEVOTED ENTIRELY to Chianti Classico Gran Selezione would have been almost unimaginable. Chianti was still shaking off the lingering image of straw-covered fiasco bottles and...
HOME. THE WORD EVOKES SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN EACH OF US. OUR PERSONAL style, memories made within its walls, and the feeling we get when we walk inside reflect who we...
JULIE ALLAN KNOWS THE SOUND A WELL-BUILT HOUSE MAKES. WALK THROUGH A HOME with her, and she’ll check the floor for any give, assess a stair baluster to see if...
DESIGNER PACITA WILSON IS DRIVEN BY HER PASSIONS—INTERIOR DESIGN, cooking and entertaining. She has turned her creative pursuits into a successful brand that spreads joy as she serves both homeowners...
IMAGINE ARRIVING HOME AFTER A LONG DAY TO FIND YOUR FAVORITE PLAYLIST already filling the house. Throughout the afternoon, the window shades have quietly adjusted themselves to block the harsh...
WHEN THE OWNER OF ONE OF ATLANTA’S PREEMINENT DESIGN FIRMS ANNOUNCED plans to shut its doors, its staff stepped up with a plan to replicate the business. The Ansley Park...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR ONCE SAID: “I ADORE WEARING gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance; you can only admire it.” One can’t possess radiance, but if you...
LONG BEFORE KITCHENS BECAME THE HEART OF THE HOME AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY, residential kitchens were made for efficiency and workability, only recently having undergone the stylistic trends of...
YOU CAN TELL WITHIN SECONDS OF WALKING INTO A MADEWELL HOME WHETHER the people who built it truly cared. It’s in the way the light falls across the entry, how...
IF YOU ASK SAVANNA KIDD IF SHE COULD IMAGINE WHERE SHE WAS TO WHERE SHE IS now, she’d smile and with infectious laughter reply, “I’m a doer, and for some...
SINCE ESTABLISHING ELITE MILLWORKS IN 2005, CO-OWNERS BEN WATROBA and his father, Jeff, have been creating storage solutions that are both beautiful and functional. Having come from a family business...
LONG BEFORE HER LOVE OF FLOWERS TOOK CENTER stage, Zhana Pesa spent three decades immersed in hospitality. Her career in hotel sales and catering took root in New York, but...
DECADES AGO, A SLEEPY, UNDEVELOPED ISLAND JUST OFF THE COAST OF Savannah, Georgia, began a slow creep toward transformation—inching its way forward on a plan that would realize its potential...
Most people who settle in beaufort, south carolina, can point to the moment they decided to stay, whether it was an evening walk along the waterfront as the tide came...
BY 6:45 A.M. ON A SATURDAY MORNING, 40 PEOPLE ARE ALREADY ON THE outside a brick colonial in Buckhead, coffee cups in hand, a few of them filming vertical video...
IT IS INDICATIVE OF THE CALIBER OF DESIGN, EXECUTION AND CLIENT RELATIONS THAT Crowebuilt Homes not only was invited to join the Southern Living Custom Builder Network (SLCBN) but that...
SARAH-HAMLIN HASTINGS WAS STANDING IN HER NEWLY PURCHASED CHARLESTON HOUSE, at bare walls, when she realized she had very limited local options for what to put on them. She had...
EXPRESSING YOURSELF THROUGH YOUR HOME DÉCOR PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY to bring both dramatic impact and daily enjoyment to your living space. And choosing an Oriental rug for your statement piece...
KUDZU IS A PLANT THAT HAS EARNED A PARTICULAR kind of infamy in the South—particularly in North Georgia, where the tenacious weed is known as “the vine that ate the...
CAREFULLY CHOSEN SMALL DETAILS AND CREATIVE flourishes often say as much about a home and its personality as do larger and more imposing pieces. Just as often, they can give...
LOVED FOR ITS DURABILITY, VERSATILITY AND WIDE ARRAY OF COLORS, MATERIALS, textures and finishes, tile is an architectural material that finds its way into homes of every style across the...