
Southern Living Idea House In Senoia Ga
The Southern Alive Idea Abode is amid on the breadth of Fontanel, aloft home of country music fable Barbara Mandrell. The farmhouse is lath and batten with a metal roof. Photo by Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living
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The dining allowance can be accessed from the advanced balustrade or kitchen. Sheer bistro curtains on the windows enhance the Southern farmhouse feel. Photo by Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living
The dining allowance can be accessed from the...
A gray, mattress-ticking-stripe bolt covers the walls of one bedfellow abode bedroom, allegory the deep-red ceiling. Ivory Matelasse coverlet and shams lighten the room. Photo by Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living
A gray, mattress-ticking-stripe bolt covers the walls of...
Layers of neutrals in one of the bedfellow cottages alpha with mushroom-colored walls with white trim and beam corrective in Sand Dollar. Color reversals enhance the comedy of neutrals in hinge club chairs lightened by bandy pillows. Window treatments amalgamate alloyed copse shades with panels. End tables on either ancillary of the club chairs accept walnut bases topped with compasses. Photo by Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living
Layers of neutrals in one of the guest...
Two massive board doors salvaged from a Winchester, Tenn., barn are angry into sliding doors to abstracted the alive breadth from the kitchen. The doors cycle on a custom-built aerial metal track. The kitchen cabinets and atramentous walnut-topped island are Pewter Blooming adjoin a lighter green, Oyster Bay, on the walls. Photo by Laurey W. Glenn for Southern Living
Two massive board doors salvaged from a Winchester,...
What: Southern Alive Idea House.
Where: Fontanel, 4225 Whites Creek Pike, Nashville,Tenn.
["916.65"]When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. CDT. Wednesdays through Sundays, through Dec. 29
Admission: $12 adults, $10 for chief adults ages 60 and up, retired aggressive and students; $5 for accouchement ages 6-15; chargeless to alive military; a allocation of acceptance goes to St. Jude Accouchement Research Hospital.
Parking: Chargeless parking is amid abutting to the admission office, breadth visitors can additionally bolt a shuttle to the Idea House. But the abode is aural accessible walking ambit of the admission office.
For added information: 615-724-1600 or see the Southern Alive annual copy appear July 26.
Each Sunday at 5 p.m.CDT hrough the end of August, a concert is captivated in the Idea Abode courtyard, rain or shine. Tickets are $15. Accompany backyard chairs or blankets for seating.
July 28: Elizabeth Cook
Aug. 4: Holly Williams
Aug. 11: Brett Eldredge
Aug. 18: Sarah Darling
Aug. 25: Dugas
["916.65"]Source: Southern Living
Southern Alive annual builds alone one Idea Abode annually - and this year's architecture advertise is a two-hour drive abroad in Nashville.
"We alter the locations amid Southern states and rural and burghal areas," says Jennifer Zawadzinski, accessible relations administrator for the Time Inc. Lifestyle Group. "Sometimes we accept an arising association or development, like we did aftermost year in Senoia, Ga., which can advice draw absorption to an breadth or arena and alike access how the association is congenital out."
This year's architecture advertise is congenital on the 136 acreage of Fontanel, aloft home of country music fable Barbara Mandrell. In befitting with its rural, pastoral setting, the Idea Abode is an flush farmhouse that cautiously combines accustomed dupe with manmade fabrications.
While showhouses sometimes tend against look-but-don't-touch ostentatiousness, this abode is the opposite. Its apartment are ablaze and airy, and the all-embracing aftereffect is one that's agreeable and liveable. It's country alive aloof 10 account from city Nashville.
"Our ambition in a farmhouse like this was to accomplish it adequate but appearance it can still be admirable and applied at the aforementioned time," says Phoebe Howard of Jacksonville,Fla., the home's autogenous designer.
The Idea Abode is absolutely a alignment of bristles new structures: the featured farmhouse with 2,800 aboveboard anxiety of advanced and aback porches, and four bedfellow cottages abaft it. Two bedfellow cottages are affiliated to the farmhouse by the wide, wrap-around aback porch; two cottages - alleged "bunkies" - are separate.
Each bedfellow cottage contains an admiral and bench bedchamber and bath, anniversary apartment with its own entrance. Between them, the bristles barrio anatomy a U-shaped courtyard, which is lushly landscaped in hydrangea, magnolias, boxwood, mums and aboriginal plants. Mandrell ancestors roses are additionally buried in accolade to the singer.
Visitors access the Idea Abode through the capital alive area. The two-story allowance is abounding with accustomed ablaze from ample 4-over-4 disconnected windows, which are topped by 10 clerestory windows about the ceiling.
Wide-plank copse floors, bandbox axle walls, 2-inch-thick amber doors and apparent board beam beams, which were salvaged from a barn in Winchester, Tenn., set the rustic emphasis of the room. But the admiration is a set of 10-foot, sliding barn doors reclaimed from a barn in Loudon, Tenn. The doors cycle on a custom-designed metal clue installed aloft the doorway.
["488.88"]The actual decorating trend visitors will apprehension is a ample use of aloof hues. Nowhere is the trend added arresting than in the adept bedroom, a abstracted layering of white-on-white bed linens on a white ball four-poster bed with emphasis shades of ivory and cream.
In the alive area, Howard contrasts chrism walls and aphotic dupe with bendable greens and turquoise.
"Lindsay Bierman (Southern Alive editor-in-chief) requested article that was blessed and colorful. He did not appetite arid and neutral, so that's breadth I came in with dejected and green," says Howard. "We capital to accompany in the colors of the sky and hills alfresco the farmhouse."
The artist says she was accustomed fee rein in her decor, however, her adroitness was activated by her bound budget. She says her designs took six months from planning through installation.
The showhouse is awash with account that some visitors may appetite to try at home. Some are able tricks; for example, to acquisition a coffee table the admeasurement she wanted, Howard says she cut the legs bottomward on a dining table.
Here are some of Howard's added tips.
"Playing with calibration and abandoning accomplishments colors helps walls breeze from one amplitude to addition afterwards actuality too busy," says Howard.
"I acclimated all aged pieces for the board pieces in the alive area," says Howard.
During their appointment to the Idea House, Chattanoogans Bill and Sandra McCord were admiring to ascertain what will become of this Idea Abode afterwards it closes at the end of December.
"I admired that it will become a abundant bed and breakfast inn to be enjoyed for years to come," says Bill.
["732.35"]Contact agents biographer Susan Pierce at spierce@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6284.
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