Southern Home · Department
Homes & Rooms
Shoal Creek (Birmingham), Alabama
In the pastoral community of Shoal Creek, an idyllic town along the banks of one of Alabama’s finest shoals, this pristine home serves as a place of tranquility. What began…
November 14, 2017
Birmingham, Alabama
by Robert C. Martin | Photography by John O’Hagan “To emulate this English Country aesthetic, we specified textured stone, board-and-batten siding, and steeply pitched rooflines with flared ridges,” says architect…
November 8, 2017
Palm Beach, Florida
It was out of a competitive spirit that Cielito Lindo, “A Piece of Heaven,” was born. At the time, wealthy Palm Beach residents competed with one another to possess the…
October 20, 2017
Dallas, Texas
and Corey Prestidge, the need for change was clear. Their current house, with its lack of square footage, no longer fit their active family of five. In addition, the couple…
October 11, 2017
Mableton, Georgia
How do you make a 9,000-square-foot home on a 5-acre lot feel warm and welcoming? It may sound like a trick question, but the answer is short and sweet—lots of…
October 10, 2017
Coral Gables, Florida
by Marion Laffey Fox | Photography by Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn When Donna Shalala became president of the University of Miami in 2001, she moved into the tropical colonial residence the…
October 4, 2017
Corinth, Mississippi
In the mid-19th century, downtown Corinth, Mississippi, was a bustling community filled with merchants, dining halls, and warehouses. Today, many of the buildings that once housed these establishments have been…
October 3, 2017
Lake Martin, Alabama
by Lydia Somerville | Photography by John O’ Hagan When Jason and Kate Price of Birmingham, Alabama, approached Tom Adams and Adam Gerndt of Adams Gerndt Design Group about building…
September 22, 2017
Debordieu, South Carolina
and Jim Trebilcock bought a piece of land in Debordieu, South Carolina, they naturally turned to Charlotte Comer, the Dallas designer who had worked on their primary residence. “She was…
September 20, 2017
Potomac, Maryland
hat’s what piqued the interest of Joe and Missy Walsh. They found a sprawling property close to the nation’s capital that offered space for their three boys to grow and…
September 15, 2017