Lonesome Valley was first established in 2005 by Dickie Jennings, grandson of the man who purchased the land in 1895 as a family farmstead and who had zealously protected its natural beauty during the hurly-burly years of development in the area. Jennings teamed up with real estate developer William McKee to create a community that both respected the dramatic views and met a high bar for quality.
McKee enlisted Cashiers designer Lynn Monday to decorate the first houses in an elegant but comfortable style that would reflect the community’s philosophy of land stewardship and its vision of an enduring future.
Known for her ability to design rooms that celebrate the outdoors, Monday had furnished the house with pieces that suggest Alpine forest more than Appalachian backwoods. A Dutch door, window seats, and a massive stone chimney offer a fairy-tale-like charm befitting a mountain cottage.
