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Text: Tiffany Adams Photos: Carmel Brantly With a home base in Jupiter, Florida, designer Kara Miller is no stranger to creating dreamy vacation retreats. “This is such a great place to escape to; with the beaches and golf courses, we have a lot of secondary or tertiary homes here,” she says, noting almost half of her projects are vacation homes. Miller...

Photos: Emily Followill Lathem Gordon and Cate Dunning of the Atlanta firm GordonDunning were brought on by a young family who were lovers of design, but up until this point had mostly a pieced-together collection of hand-me-downs and quick grabs from early married life. GordonDunning Completes Small but Impactful Renovation GordonDunning Completes Small but Impactful Renovation GordonDunning Completes Small but Impactful Renovation GordonDunning Completes...

Text: Jeanne de Lathouder Photos: Rebecca Lehde of Inspiro 8 Studios A spectacular modern outlier perched along the shores of South Carolina’s coveted Lake Keowee, this breathtaking property wows the beholder at first glance with its majestic views. Located in an exclusive enclave called The Landing at Keowee Springs—a posh community amid The Cliffs—the undeveloped lot surprisingly did not reveal the...

Text: Courtney duQuesnay Photos: Claudia Casbarian of Julie Soeffer Photography Styling: Walker Wright Houston, Texas, interior designer Jennifer Burgess Loh approaches each new project with a magic recipe of collaboration, conversation, and creativity. And that tactic worked again in 2019, when she was contacted by a couple who had recently moved into a luxury mid-rise condominium bordering Houston’s River Oaks neighborhood. Houston High...

Text: Lydia Somerville Photos: Richard Leo Johnson When clients decided they weren’t up for the renovation their Sea Island house required after years on the rental market, they enlisted designer Minnette Jackson to mastermind a move to a new location just 200 yards down the beach. Jackson tackled the job of giving them a new and improved getaway, situated between the...

Text: Eleanor Lynn Nesmith Photo: Jean Allsopp and Chris Luker More than a dozen years ago, a Birmingham couple wanted to purchase a place at the beach and found a 1950s concrete block house high on the bluff in Seagrove, Florida. “With a tweak here and there, the little cottage was perfect for us,” explains the homeowner. But a decade later,...

Text: Alice Welsh Doyle Photography: Emily Jenkins Followill “I wanted a house in the mountains, not a mountain house,” is what Carolyn Kendall’s client announced at the beginning of the renovation and decoration of his family’s Cashiers getaway. Nashville-based Kendall, head of Alcott Interiors, answered the call by sending the heavy references to the location packing and adding fresh paint, smart...

Text: Sherry Moeller Photography: Mark Roskams Styling: Frances Bailey When designer Marissa Stokes was referred to the Vero Beach homeowners in 2019, she had just started her own firm—Marissa Stokes Interior Design. Based in New York, Stokes met with the owners, who have a primary residence on Long Island, and their design styles gelled perfectly. “The clients and I had the same...

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Charlotte, North Carolina’s The Duke Mansion bed-and-breakfast combines Southern charm and modern amenities in a beautiful setting. Built in 1915 and named after its most famous owner, James Buchanan Duke, The Duke Mansion was nearly lost in 1996 before being acquired and subsequently converted into a bed-and-breakfast by The Lynnwood Foundation,...

Text: Lydia Somerville Photos: Jeff Herr When a couple from New York decided to build a Southern getaway in Georgia’s Reynolds Lake Oconee, they sought out the talents of residential designer William T. Baker to design the retreat for gathering with their grown children and grandchildren. Baker, whose projects at the luxury property are numerous, took on the enviable site, a...