Atlanta Magazine

Kim Anderson never thought she’d return to Atlanta, where she spent much of her childhood. Her father’s job at the Atlanta Falcons brought the family to Roswell when she was in middle school. After graduating from Stanford, she headed to New York, then London, then Brooklyn for several years. Yet, she felt a pull to the city she grew up in. “I realized I hadn’t fully experienced Atlanta and how it had expanded and transitioned into what it is today,” she says. She and her husband settled in a 1930s Prairie-style craftsman bungalow in Ormewood Park with details like original picture railings and wood paneling.

James Farmer has put his trademark style on the map and is considered a fresh voice for an upcoming generation of designers and homeowners.

"This is the most diverse collection of plants found anywhere in the world outside of a tropical rainforest, and we wanted to keep it forever wild.”

From classic to bold to elegant — these Atlanta-area kitchen remodels make us excited to do some remodeling ourselves.

When designer Jessica Davis met the young owners, who bought the house to use as their second home while working in the film industry, she knew she had to showcase its lush views. The diamond in the rough came with its quirks. But when the homeowners found Jessica on Instagram and asked her to inject their home with her vibrant style and rework its layout to make it more livable, she delivered.

Home buyers sometimes realize they are in over their heads with the number of choices they need to make for new construction and call in the big guns. In the case of a five-bedroom home in Marietta, Beth Kooby of Beth Kooby Design was tapped quickly.

A six hour drive from Atlanta, St. Augustine is a coastal town that doesn’t feel like a typical beach destination, thanks to its Spanish Revival buildings, brick-paved streets, and historic attractions.

Georgia Design Awards Recognize Excellence and Highlight Projects: Top Designers Awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze at Third Annual Gala

Atomic Ranch homes of the ’50s and ’60s were “a cooler, more contemporary cousin” of the popular one-story style. For the Decatur couple who renovated this midcentury modern house, the style also taps into nostalgia.

These pages are an excerpt from the third book by internationally renowned kitchen, bath, and product designer Matthew Quinn, which will be released this month: Quintessential Kitchens and Collaborations by Matthew Quinn: Volume Three presents 16 exquisite projects consisting of kitchens, baths, dressing rooms, and other treasured spaces within a uniquely curated collection of client homes and design inspiration.

This boutique neighborhood became a peaceful city escape after Hurricane Michael made landfall and cleared the area in 2018. A developer restored the dunes and regraded the entire zone to make certain that lots would be insurable and above the flood line as determined by the Army Corps of Engineers.

If you would have told Lisa Frank 40 years ago that the woodlands she inherited when she bought her 1950s ranch house in Buckhead would turn into a whimsical garden, she would not have believed you. Frank was a busy writer who launched public relations departments at the High Museum of Art and Atlanta Botanical Garden. In the 1990s, she started dating Terry May, the then-superintendent for grounds at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The gardener had permission to take home rare plants that the garden could not accommodate, and he started planting in Frank’s garden on a whim.