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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...

The first thing Leigh Misso’s clients said was that the white-on-white had to go. “The home was very vanilla,” says the designer of the home located in Homewood, Alabama’s, historic Hollywood district. “Everything was white with pops of gray. There was nothing that had been curated intentionally. It felt very leftover and very boring.” Despite the dated finishes, Misso and...

Text and Styling Margaret Zainey Roux Photography Jacqueline Marque A flocked noble fir trimmed in hand-blown baubles creates a dramatic centerpiece in the atrium. Dining room: “I only have one rule—leave your plastic at the door and enjoy the good stuff while you’re here,” says McIntosh, who savors the experience of setting a formal table. Strappy barrel back chairs and solid...

Text: Sherry Moeller Photo: Stacy Zarin Goldberg Just as interior designer Stephanie Bradshaw, her partner Brett Bernard, and their son, Dallas, were deciding whether to stay in Maryland or move to Colorado, a friend took them on a four-wheeler tour of a one-and-one-half-acre hilltop property in Sparks Glencoe, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. With miles of trails and hundreds of wooded...

Text: Jeanne de Lathouder Photo: Jean Allsopp Melanie and Stephen Schoen’s home wears Christmas greens well. With classic dormer windows dressed in fresh wreaths topped with red bows and lit garland draped between a columned front porch, their holiday tableau transforms into a magical nighttime scene, casting a luminous glow across the hushed pastoral landscape. Positioned beside the polo fields of...