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….
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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…
