FOREST HILLS RESIDENCE

Smyrna, Georgia 

This elegant yet quaint 1950s Brick Cottage Style house is located in Smyrna. Georgia’s Forest Hillss neighborhood has a special place in our heart. My husband and I occasionally would drive by this home and admire it and say: “If we did not love our home so much, then this would be the one for us.” Fast forward a year, and this home went up for sale, and then 6 months later, the new owners called our studio requesting to consult with us on the home’s design. As magical as that call was to receive it was just as magical working with the home’s new owners to come up with a design together for my client’s next stage in life: children all grown and flown but wanting a house that will be close to where their children live, and grandchildren can come over for the night.  

The house received a complete re-habilitation of the exterior, interior and landscape that entailed both adding on to the rear and side and an interior gut-down to the studs along with all new mechanical and electrical. The exterior façade brickwork was cleaned, repointed and whitewashed, along with new shutters, new windows, new roof, new driveway. For the interior we opened the foyer ceiling from 8 feet to 16 feet high, added a new first floor primary suite, gourmet kitchen that flows seamlessly to an informal breakfast area and living space- all flanked by a new full width of the house deck and screened in porch that overlooks a sanctuary of green. Our studio also designed a guest powder room, walk-in pantry, front porch extension, overhaul of the basement with a full bathroom and the addition of a 3-car garage. The top floor was updated to create 2 cozy bedrooms, a full bathroom and a playroom for the grandchildren. Cheers to the sweetest house in Forest Hills!