People fall in love with finished products all the time. If a house is perfectly move in ready, it sells fast. Not everyone has the vision for taking a 5 acre lot, even if it is situated on the banks of the Chattahoochee River on the northern outskirts of Atlanta, and…
We Are Selling A Dreamy Renovated Marietta Home
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to live in one of the homes you see in a magazine or on your favorite design show, imagine no more. We’ve got it! We are currently selling this Dreamy Renovated Marietta Home which has been completely gutted and then built back…
By George, I think We’ve Got It. The Vintage Bathroom…
Just when I started to think we would never be able to decide what to do to the master bathroom, we finally did it. We simply could not agree on what we wanted. He wanted light walls. I wanted dark. He wanted white subway tile. I wanted taupe. We would find a…
This home got stuck in my brain :: Sara Costello
This home got stuck in my brain like a song stuck on a broken record. According to Google there are only four effective ways to remedy this problem: Listen to the song all the way through. Most stuck songs, or “earworms,” are actually parts of a song, such as a catchy chorus or even…
Bathroom Art Wall: What You won’t mind Looking Back At You
As a real estate agent, I spend a lot of my time advising my clients to simplify their decor and generally remove clutter. But once the place is yours? Bring it on, Donkey Kong. I remember Yiyoula (Greek for Great Grandmother) complaining that my mom had hung a family portrait in the bathroom….
To Live Between Darkness and Light
I found myself mesmerized by the play between darkness and light in the home of Tom Delavan. My clients often struggle with feeling like they need to choose one or the other, but I constantly encourage a balance between the two. Neither one can exist without the other and it is the harmony…
No, We Are Not In Europe: Modern Design Alpharetta
When I saw this first image, I genuinely thought our local Alpharetta magazine, Alpharetta Lifestyle, had jumped the shark (or the pond!) and headed for Denmark. It looks SO Scandinavian, but incredibly, it is the new office building for Fiserv, a financial technology service company. And it’s located in Alpharetta. Alpharetta is…
You May Want To Glam It Up :: The Art Deco Bathroom
I have spent a great many years promoting the raw and the natural. Some have told me that it was my way of combating the chaos around me. Maybe they were right. But I’m pretty sure that with running a quickly growing real estate business, having three children, and a husband who has…
They Dressed a Traditional Home with Skinny Jeans
“Skinny Jeans are going out” some fashion blog proclaimed a few weeks ago. My daughter was reading the article and I snorted and exclaimed melodramatically with a fist raised towards the sky that I would wear them til I die. My sister-in-law, who happened to be visiting with us, snorted and said very…
Why Staged Houses Sell Faster
Even though I have moved 23 times in 17 years, I don’t stage houses because I like moving furniture in and out of them. I stage them because according to research done by the Accredited Staging Professionals, 95% of Staged Homes sell on average in 11 days and sell for more than…
How Danes Live in the Burbs :: Modern Marietta Home
My absolute favorite part of blogging is the connection it has given me to friends, some of whom I have known for ages and others whom I meet through this wild little social media outlet. Among my newer connections is a lovely Danish family living in my hometown of Marietta. They just recently moved…
I’m Tired of Strange Men in My Bathroom
There is nothing that will stir up the neighborhood gossip more than a long line of men showing up at the door day after day, week after week. The fact that I take them directly through my master bedroom and into the bathroom definitely makes things downright awkward. Ugh! I never thought…
