Best of Atlanta 2015 Home & Design

ADAC

Free Design Tips: ADAC

You don’t have to enroll in art school to learn from the nation’s top interior designers. ADAC regularly hosts presentations by big names like Nate Berkus and Kathryn M. Ireland, especially during its annual spring and fall conferences, and often invites the public for free.
Sugarboo

Place for a Pick-Me-Up: Sugarboo

If you’re having a bad day, pay a visit to Sugarboo. The art prints and home accessories stamped with sweet sayings—“Hello sunshine!” or “To the moon and back”—are sure to cheer you up.
Switch Modern

Real-deal Modern: Switch Modern

For more than a decade, owners Roy Otwell and Doug Henderson have helped Atlanta homeowners embrace modern designers like Minotti, Knoll, and Alessi—no easy task in a city that was once a bastion of traditional decor.
Bungalow Classic

Place to Furnish Your Whole House: Bungalow Classic

Bungalow was a game changer when it opened on Howell Mill Road, helping to launch the Westside Design District in 2000.
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Original Rugs: Verde Home

Enough already with the heirloom Oushaks. Our new favorite rugs are contemporary interpretations of antique patterns, created in colors and scales more harmonious with today’s streamlined decor.
Homepolish

New Design Service: Homepolish

This New York–based service landed in Atlanta last year as an alternative to the industry’s traditional commission model, which can incentivize designers to select expensive products.
Cococo Home

Place to Buy a Sofa: Cococo Home

In this cozy Buckhead showroom, you’ll find leather man-cave couches as wide as a truck and upholstery hues you can’t imagine anyone wanting in their living room.
Room & Board

Made-in-the-USA: Room & Board

If election season has you in a patriotic mood, head to Room & Board, where more than 90 percent of the inventory is made right here in the States.
Gibbs Gardens

Floral Display: Daffodil Festival at Gibbs Gardens

Jim Gibbs, who made his fortune with an eponymous landscape company, spent decades creating one of the nation’s largest residential gardens, now open to the public.
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Upholstered Seating: Stanton Home Furnishings

Whether you’re seeking the perfect wooden spool chair or a klismos chair with nailhead trim, this posh store will have you sitting pretty.
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English Accents: The Shop on Paces

After opening and closing a half dozen or so antique and home accessory shops, owner Stephen Barnwell knows the ups and downs of retail.
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Home Accessories: Steve McKenzie’s

Here’s where you’ll find that perfect hostess gift or finishing touch for a tabletop display.
The Shade Store

Window Coverings: The Shade Store

The Shade Store—which offers far more than just shades—has a wide range of sophisticated custom drapery, blinds, and hardware at reasonable prices.
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Place to Reimagine Your Kitchen: Pirch

This innovative kitchen, bath, and outdoor showroom, which sprawls over 32,000 square feet in Lenox Marketplace, has been open for almost a year.
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Atelier Alley: The Galleries of Peachtree Hills

Throughout the city are many lovely shops that double as design ateliers, but our favorites are at the Galleries of Peachtree Hills.
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Touch of Texas: The Front Porch of Vinings

Inside, farm tables and antiques from Texas’s famous Round Top market mix with modern marble consoles.
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Glam Style: Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings

No mainstream home furnishings brand quite captured 1960s-era Mad Men glamour better than MGBW.
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Affordable Furniture: Intaglia Home Collection

Since 1999, this locally owned store has offered a wide range of furniture and accessories in transitional styles that blend easily with any decor.
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New Southern Style Source: The Porch on South Main

With its wide, inviting front porch, red door, American flag, and clusters of hydrangeas, this circa-1919 white clapboard house looks straight out of Southern Living.
Restoration Hardware

Personal Endorsement: Restoration Hardware

I wrote my first story about Restoration Hardware in 1998, after it opened in Lenox Square. Admiring the Arts and Crafts–style casegoods, I realized how stupid I’d been to dismiss my grandparents’ Mission buffet as “old-fashioned.”