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Could Your House Be Our Home of the Year?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:45:53 +0000

We invite homeowners, designers, builders and architects to show off their projects for the Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles 2011 Home of the Year Award! Whether your style is formal, laid back or lively, we’d love to see where—and how—you live. Winners will be featured in the November 2010 issue, which will preview upcoming design trends for 2011. Enter now—download the entry form here, or look for the “Home of the Year” button on the right side of our home page. All of the contest rules are included on the entry form. The deadline to enter is August 1, but please note that there is a reduced fee for entries postmarked on or before July 16. So, don’t delay! We look forward to seeing your entries!

Employees of Network Communications, Inc. and their families are not eligible to enter.

Friday Favorites: Flower

Rachel — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:11:42 +0000

Ahhh… spring is near and all the blooms are beginning to bud. I love it! My husband, Michael, and I went on a walk a few nights ago around the neighborhood and there was a Saucer Magnolia tree in full bloom. It was so pretty, it instantly made my day. Flowers have that effect on us. It’s crazy to think about, but true. Flowers lift us up. In college, I volunteered for Perenity, where I made flower arrangements for hospice patients. It was so rewarding. Not only did I find it to be very therapeutic and a wonderful getaway from endless hours and many sleepless nights of design work, but I really enjoyed working with my hands, smelling the sweet aroma of fresh-cut flowers and making small bedside arrangements that I knew would brighten somebody’s day.

We all love flowers, but do you have a favorite? We do!

(Image credits: 1. Erica George Dines via AH&L 2. Erica George Dines via AH&L 3. Mikkel Vang 4. Erica George Dines via AH&L)

1. Clinton Smith – Quince
2. Kate Abney – Peony
3. Rachel Cardina Lasserre – Magnolia
4. Heather J. Paper – Sweet Pea

Friday Favorites: Color

Rachel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:43:59 +0000

Before spring comes and strikes us with vibrant colors like Pantone’s 2010 color of the year, Turquoise, I would like to make one last nod to the moody hues that I have been swooning over for the last few wintry months. There is something mysterious about dark rooms that I just love – they are dramatic yet calming and softly romantic.
I find myself pulled toward the stormy shades of these rooms…

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Photographed by Melanie Acevedo via Moodboard

(Image credits: 1. Erica George Dines via AH&L 2. Apartment Therapy
3. Erica George Dines via AH&L)

1. Heather J. Paper – Sherwin-Williams Sealskin SW7675
2. Clinton Smith – “The Veuve Clicquot Orange” like
Benjamin Moore’s Mandarin Orange 2018-20
3. Katy Wharton – Benjamin Moore Plum Royal 2070-20
4. Kate Abney – “Raspberry,” like Sherwin-Williams’ Cerise SW6580
5. Rachel Cardina Lasserre – Ralph Lauren Surrey TH28

Let us know what color you can’t get enough of! You can join Heather and me on the darker side or team up with the rest of the AH&L staff with their bright and bold hues.

The new look of nurseries

Sejal Bhima — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:37:10 +0000

Last month, I become the proud aunt of two handsome nephews and one precious little niece. And in two months my family will be welcoming yet another boy. This recent baby boom in our rather large family has everyone in a nursery-decorating frenzy. Here’s what I pulled from the pages of AH&L as inspiration…

Room designed by Robert Brown Interior Design; Photography by Lauren Rubinstein

: Room designed by Lee Kleinhelter; Photography by Erica George Dines

Room designed by Liz Williams Interiors; Photography by Erica George Dines

I love the simple, yet playful appeal of these three rooms. And I especially love how the designers elected to not use typical pink and blue hues. Instead, a gender neutral palatte gives the little gems a soothing (and classy) place to play and sleep.