TEXT Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY Kristen Elizabeth Photography For Lexi Powell, design has been a lifelong passion. Originally from Montana, she grew up watching her mother Jennifer, who is also an interior designer, work with colors and fabrics. With an innate sense of color harmonies and composition, Powell moved to Hong Kong in 2003 to work for an international product development design house.…
TEXT Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY Kimberly Murray Photography Tavia Forbes and Monet Masters are taking the Atlanta, GA, design market by storm. Their bold approach to design is exactly what hip homeowners are craving. The duo teamed up when they serendipitously crossed paths on a design project, and saw a kindred spirit in one another—they each possess a…
TEXT Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY Bob Fortner Photography When Rima Nasser opened her design firm, TEW DESIGN STUDIO, she founded it on the principal that design should be fun, exciting, daring, and visually inspiring. Originally from Palestine, Nasser brings a unique worldly view to each project. With a natural propensity for color, texture, and spatial relationships, she honed…
A historic home with textural appeal TEXT Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY Thom Gaines, Outside In Photography After designing residential spaces, commercial spaces, optical retail, and showrooms for High Point and Las Vegas, by the time interior designer Gini Crowder- Marshall arrives home, she’s ready for a tranquil oasis. The owner and principal designer at HIVE Interior Design, based in…
A 1950s home in Richmond, VA, gets a thoughtful renovation. TEXT Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY Mick Anders + INTERIOR DESIGN Breese Romano When Breese Romano was a little girl she used to go to her grandmother’s house and pour through issues of her Veranda magazines, ripping out pages to create her own dream home. Now, as the…
A Stately Home Gets a Graceful Facelift TEXT by Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY by Andrea Hubbell This stately home in Charlottesville, VA, beckoned for more than a facelift. When the owners decided to renovate, they enlisted interior designer Alana Woerpel of Alana’s, Ltd. to spearhead the project. Woerpel lives just down the street and had always admired the property. Her…
An Anything But Average Bachelor Pad TEXT by Jasmine Bible + PHOTOGRAPHY by Bonnie Sen When interior designer Jessica Taylor Williamson of JTW Design was approached by her client, his end goal was clear—a home that felt, “put together and well designed.” The path to getting there was a bit more complicated. The young bachelor had just…
A historic elementary school becomes a grand estate. In 1922, the first class began at the Batesville Elementary School in historic Batesville, VA. Now, nearly a century later, the former school has been transformed into a grand family home. École, French for “school,” sits atop a lovely hill with manicured gardens, pool, and original barn. Inside, the 4,400-square-foot home has…
