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Text: Lydia Somerville Photos: Carmel Brantley When developer Rob Thompson brought his latest real estate purchase to designers Lisa Peterson and Melanie Hayes, they quickly realized he had gifted them with a significant design challenge. The house in Jupiter, Florida, stood out for its incongruous look in a neighborhood of light, bright waterfront dwellings. From the street, the house was squat...

Text: Andrea Kavanagh Photos: Carmel Brantley Tucked among the hustle and bustle of Miami, Florida, lies Coral Gables, a historic enclave known as The City Beautiful. Established in the 1920s, the city contains various villages designed to reflect international architectural styles such as French, Dutch, Chinese, Italian, and Colonial American. The village homes that remain today are highly coveted and carefully...

Text: Tiffany Adams Photos: Michael Hunter Styling: Jenny O'Connor Growing up in Houston, Kristen Nix would have rather been pulling drapery fabrics and arranging samples than doing homework. “My parents had a commercial interior design firm, and they officed in the Decorative Center, so instead of coming home after school, I went there.” While she didn’t major in the field, the knowledge...

Text Margaret Zainey Roux Photography Rachel Manning Styling Jessica Holtam They say, “like mother, like daughter.” So, when a Houston couple called on their longtime friend and interior designer Tami Owen to reinvent their “new” old home in River Oaks, they knew they would be in good hands when they learned that Brelan, her daughter and business partner, would be stepping up...

Text Jeanne de Lathouder Photography Carmel Brantly Styling Brianna Washburn A fun-loving couple with a large, blended family aspired to create the ultimate Florida retreat where everyone could gather often and enjoy each other’s company. Avid world travelers with grown children living all over the country, the homeowners envisioned a getaway with laid-back indoor/outdoor appeal—a magical and nostalgic haven to draw the...

Text: Alice Welsh Doyle Photos: Emily Followill Interior designer Chris Socci’s client Wendy Hovancik has a fabulous sentimental streak. “I’m inspired by experiences in my life and memories of the past,” she says of her Atlanta, Georgia, home. It reveals a road map of Wendy’s childhood and her life with husband Andy and her three grown children in small ways and...

Text Tiffany Adams Photography Jack Thompson Styling Walker Wright When Nadia Palacios first stepped inside this storied home, she felt an almost immediate affinity for the structure. Designed by famed Houston architect Birdsall P. Briscoe, the 1935 Regency-style home had retained much of its original character, from detailed millwork to the wallpaper of its era. However, some of the grandeur had either...

Text Blake Miller Photography Stephen Karlisch Styling Melanie McKinley As a child, Andrea Taylor would hop on her bike with friends and roam her North Dallas, Texas, neighborhood day after day. Pedaling up and down the streets, she’d bike by the 1960s ranch-style homes that lined the sidewalk and stood shaded by towering oak trees, shielded from the blazing Texas sun. Life is...

Text Sherry Moeller Photography Stacy Zarin Goldberg Stylist Kristi Hunter While many of the homes in the historic Chevy Chase Village, Maryland, district are more than a century old, some are newer, such as the one renovated by Katy Anderson and Thomson & Cooke Architects. Incorporated in 1951, Chevy Chase Village is the original streetcar suburb of the nation’s capital and offers...

Text Alice Welsh Doyle Photography Paul Costello Styling Margaret Zainey Roux "The size of our cottage in Uptown New Orleans is something that really appealed to me,” say interior designer Rivers Spencer. “Unlike some grandes dames in the city, we use all the rooms in our home every day, including the expansive double parlor that serves as our primary living space.” In that...