Kitchens with Beams

above, a Frank Neely kitchen

We are very excited to be working on a beautiful Frank Neely designed white kitchen with beams. The beams will be installed this week or next and we can't wait to see them. (BTW, the Frank Neely website is now updated and there are many new portfolio pictures. Be sure to spend some time on his website.)

In the meantime, some photos of kitchens with beams....



above and below Brad Heppner kitchens




This kitchen above is from the Morgan Creek website.


Image from House Beautiful. I love the lighter beams.



This kitchen was on a house tour this Spring in Atlanta and won the Southern Accents Kitchen of the Year award in 2008.




image via decorpad


another Morgan Creek kitchen

These last three are all from Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles:






Isn't it interesting to see how the different colors of the beams impact the overall feel of the kitchens?

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Dreams House - Minimalist Home Design

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July Recap

July was really an exciting month for us!  Here are a few of the highlights.

Now back from vacation, we spent weeks getting ready for our next special event, The Design House, on August 5, 6 & 7.  We posted sneak peek photos on our Facebook page & our website, and ripped a few pages out of our Design Notebook to show you what inspired us for the August Design House.   

We did some shifting around the store and a few vendors moved spaces.  You can learn more about Pete, Marian, & Kim here and here.

We started a new feature on our blog called "What the...What?", which is a Lucketts-ism we use for an item that is unusual or tough to identify.

We posed a Design Dilemma to you, asking how you would decorate a man cave with antiques and vintage items.  We got some really great ideas from everyone.  Thank you!

Several of us have been thinking about how we're going to decorate our rooms for the holiday season.  We are busy going through books, magazines, and hunting down great items for inspiration.
  

In August, you can look forward to...

...getting the scoop on how the August Design House event  went and watching us prepare for our September event.

...hearing from one of our vendors as she scours markets in Germany this August on her summer vacation.

...going behind the scenes as we prep for the fall and winter holidays.

...our answer to another Design Dilemma question posed by one of our customers.

...more unusual items featured in our What the... What? posts.
  
Happy August everyone!

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Middle East House Design - Minimalist Home Design

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Ancient House - Minimalist Home Design

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House of the Week

Evolution of a House


This was my grandparents' house when I was growing up in Atlanta in the late 1960's and 1970's. It is located on one of Buckhead's prettiest streets. I thought it would be fun to see how the house has evolved over the years.

My grandparents bought the house in 1967 and hired architect Henri Jova to redesign the house. Here is what it looked like when they bought it:



Here it is after Henri Jova's improvements:





I have so many fond memories of big family dinners at the house. In the large area between the back terrace and the pool area there was a pea gravel courtyard. We all used to play for hours in the pea gravel, but I remember how much it hurt your feet when you walked on it barefoot. I learned to swim in the pool:



A close up of the pool house - my grandmother is on the left, and the zebra painting is an early work by artist Helen Durant (who is my aunt):



Here is the house today. The driveway now swings across the large front yard.





I have always loved the pair of double bay windows, the Chippendale railing over the wings and the red door.







Isn't it fun to see how the house has changed over the years? It is a beautiful piece of property in a beautiful neighborhood. I wonder if there is still a pool and if there is, what it looks like now?

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