Ridgeline Retreat
Time to Wash Away the Covid Gray
This article was published in Appalachian Country Living Magazine. It goes without saying that color trends are associated not only with advances in technology, but also with current events in our world. You can look at the past and associate many the colors of that time with historical events. Colors permeate everything we touch: our […]
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A Scrapbook is a Great Place to Being the Design of Your Dream Home.
Collect Your Life Style and Put it on Paper First
Living Rustic and Loving It
Interior Motives: Getting the most from your second home
Design Ideas for Making a Speculative Home Fit Your Design Style
Wood Flooring: The floor finish of choice in the Appalachians
Wood flooring is by far the most popular choice in the greater Appalachian Mountains for both residential and commercial projects. There are so many different choices on the market today making it difficult for the average homeowner to make their minds up. In addition to the aesthetic choices, there are so many different construction methods […]
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Options for Building your Home
How exciting to be building a new home! Do your homework, due your due-diligence, “get educated” on your building options, your liabilities and warranties provided in all these options. Being your own Builder: In Georgia, homeowners can build their own homes without a license. However, there are stipulations. Many do this thinking they will save […]
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Modern Window Shades for the Mountain Modern Home
One of the final details added to our projects are window treatments. Whether to add window treatments or not to home with beautiful architecture and spectacular views always creates a debate with our clients. During the daytime, everyone wants to maximize the views that our area is abundant with. But when the night falls, with […]
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Is Renovation a Good Idea or Tear it Down and Start Over?
The pros, cons and costs of renovation vs a new rebuild
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Good Mold and Bad Mold
Many people cringe when the word “mold” is mentioned in relation to a house. Mold is used in positive ways in so many aspects of our lives today including medicine, foods, etc. But when it comes to our homes mold is not good. The wrong mold can wreak havoc on our lives, our allergies and […]
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Drawings to help you Visualize Your Home
Building a home for the first time can challenge your abilities in so many ways. We have found that many of our clients’ struggle when visualizing three dimensional designs by simply looking at a two-dimensional floorplan. You cannot fully understand a home by a verbal description. As designers, it is critical that we communicate our […]
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Come On In!
Have you ever arrived at someone’s house and wondered “where is the front door?” Creating a warm, inviting front door and entry to your house is so important. It needs to scream out “Here I am – enter here!” When we are working on budgets for the overall house, I am emphatic with our clients […]
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Bunking Up and Down
Style and design editor Cindy Trimble offers ideas on how custom designed bunk beds can make cabin life easier.
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Is Your Home Retirement Ready?
Style & Design Editor Cindy Trimble Considers Aging in Place and How we Can Begin to Prepare Doors and Pathways: It is best to make all doors and hallways at least 36” wide. Avoid thresholds whenever possible. Doors to the outside should be step free, including front doors and doors to decks and patios. There […]
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Necowa Cove
Skybound Lodge
Hatfield Condo at The Sovereign
Located on the 34th floor of Atlanta’s Luxury Contemporary High Rise – “The Sovereign”
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Choctaw Residence
Choctaw was designed and constructed to be a very low maintenance, easy living accessible home for a retired couple to “Age in Place” comfortably and easily. The main living area is all on the main level. The lower terrace level houses two guest rooms with baths, a Den with a TV and game table and […]
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Chester Brunnenmeyer’s Bar and Grill
Lake Blue Ridge Point
Brett and Suzanne Ponton purchased this lake front home out of foreclosure and transformed it from a Mediterranean Villa to Tuscan style home to fit in with the Blue Ridge environment. The home is 4 levels, connected with both a central grand staircase and elevator and covers 15,000 square feet. The home was not finished […]
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Rome Point
Summit at Ellijay – Atlanta Home Show
Utana Bluffs Lodge
Drake Lodge, Lake Blue Ridge, GA
Twin Peaks, Mineral Bluff, Georgia
ReMax Town & Country Offices, Blue Ridge, GA
Coastal Federal Credit Union
Ciao Bella Cafe, Boston, MA
Cadence Equestrian Sales Center
The sales center for The Cadence Equestrian Center was built on East Main Street in downtown Historic Blue Ridge, GA. approximately 11 miles from the site. This facility was built specifically for their Sales & Marketing center but also housed their corporate offices with retail on the terrace level. This building now is the home of […]
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Kelly’s Cove, Lake Blue Ridge, Ga
Nestled on a quiet, secluded cove of Lake Blue Ridge against the National forest, Kelly’s Cove was a rustic log cabin family retreat for over 20 years. When their youngest was soon to graduate from high school, the clients decided it was time to expand and update their cabin. Their desire was to convert the “rustic […]
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Four Bear Lodge, Lake Burton, Clayton, GA
This is a lovely vacation home designed to accommodate two different families, thus requiring two separate master suites and bunk rooms for both the girls and boys. The project was a renovation of an existing cabin with severe restrictions on the footprint of the house, so the expansion required primarily going up.
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Camp Donald, Ellijay, GA
This was a true family project for Vic and Diana Donald and their extended family who live in Baton Rouge, LA full time. From the day the tractor’s arrived to clear the lot to the day they moved in, everyone was welcome to attend design meetings, site meetings and share their thoughts and ideas. The […]
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Mountain High Ridge – Mineral Bluff, GA
A complete renovation and expansion of a 20 year old family “true log house” retreat that resembling a well used (and loved) “frat-house” that sat on a million dollar lot into a comfortable, brightly colored “cottage” with eclectic furnishings that could sleep at least 15 comfortably in beds. This all started when their kids were […]
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