Tag: home

The Homeowners: John and Wendi Wells, with their two teenage children, Brant and Audrey. John’s dedication to green practices crossed over from his job with eco-minded Interface, the Atlanta-based carpet company, to the family’s new custom home.

Crate and Barrel’s younger, hipper sibling, CB2, has opened an 8,000-square-foot retail store at the new 12th & Midtown building. The brand chose Atlanta because the metro area is already one of the national chain’s largest markets for online and catalog sales.

Antique auctions attract unique characters. Eccentrics, hoarders, and quirky dealers have turned reality shows such as Pawn Stars and American Pickers into hits. So when Discovery Channel launched its own auction series, Bidder Rivals, casting took top priority.

For anyone decorating on a budget, celebrity designer Suzanne Kasler’s new partnership with Ballard Designs is the most exciting news since Liberty of London teamed up with Target. Of course, Kasler’s graceful, muted style is the polar opposite of Liberty’s vibrant florals.

You don’t have to be an interior designer to enjoy decorating, any more than you have to be a fashion designer to appreciate clothing. But everyone can benefit from a little expert direction. The new website FoundMarket.com provides just enough professional guidance to help you create your own dream home.

Light fixtures made from corrugated cardboard, birch sconces made of lumber scraps, a curved desk of black walnut remnants, and a chair with elliptical rockers inspired by a wrecked motorcycle wheel comprise Joe Manus’s modern-cum-rustic furniture collection.

Knees bent, Ormewood resident Dan Bush cocks his sledgehammer like Casey at the bat. He and a few similarly armed friends eye their target: an eighty-year-old wall separating the kitchen from a pantry in the home Bush shares with his wife, Caroline.

Kristine and Joe Hope’s summer house is not at the lake, it’s in their backyard. Architects Rick Spitzmiller and Robert Norris designed the freestanding structure after giving the Hopes’ house an exterior face-lift.

Fifteen years ago, when Jeff Jones bought a 1930s Midtown house that had been destroyed by fire, the residential designer vowed to rebuild an even better one. “You always hate to lose an old house, but sometimes it’s an opportunity to redesign and do it right,” he says.

Many blogs have grown out of stores, but Quatrefoil Design is a store that grew out of a blog. Launched last October by Holly Street, author of Things That Inspire, this online venture specializes in hard-to-find intaglios—tiny, cameolike plaster engravings depicting classical scenes and characters.