It Takes Two
A high-end interior plant design company grows in Germantown post pandemic By Hollie Deese Portrait photography by Pamela Monaghan Interior photography by Erin Hines Alesha Sebie arrived in Nashville in 2015 from Wisconsin to get her master’s degree in social work. She finished, through the UT-Knoxville satellite campus, with a concentration in substance abuse, mental health and HIV, and
A Bucolic Brentwood Escape
A 1960s ranch gets a total renovation in the suburbs By Hollie Deese Photography by Emily Followill Designer Mark Williams never intended to stay in Atlanta, much less put down roots in Nashville. Raised in Boston, he always assumed he would return after college. But after studying at Georgia Tech he leaned on the connections he had made in
Creating a Space That Fits
A Green Hills home is renovated to grow with a family By Hollie Deese Photography by Allison Elefante When Leigh Hillenmeyer and her husband, Morgan, moved into their Green Hills home in 2012, she was pregnant with their son, Parks, and their daughter, Reiling, was 3. Drawn to the traditional feel of the house, they saw a home set
A Home for High Design
Nashville Design Collective aims to be a community center for the design-minded By Hollie Deese Photography by Nathan Kirkman When you first walk into the two-story Nashville Design Collective building in Wedgewood-Houston, it is hard to envision it as the mop factory that it once was — until you look up and see large-scale art inspired by the textile.
Hometown Hero
A New England Patriot invests in Columbia, with a new home and a foundation that gives back By Hollie Deese Photography by Reed Brown Shaq Mason knew his first home had to be in Columbia, Tennessee. His hometown, it’s where the New England Patriot first learned to play football, and where he now operates the Shaq Mason Foundation. The
From Concept to Completion
Designer Amhad Freeman takes clients on a journey to their dream spaces By Hollie Deese Photography by Nicholas McGinn Amhad Freeman may be one of Nashville’s most sought-after designers right now—constantly being approached by bigger firms in Chicago and clients out of state—but it is not anything he could have imagined when he first arrived in Tennessee. Originally from
A Very Glamorous Christmas
Michelle Kraker, half of the style duo team of Interior Edit Nashville, has strong memories of her childhood Christmases and traditions that she remains faithful to today. Her mom would go all out for the holiday, cramming all the ornaments Kraker and her three siblings had made over the years onto the tree ringed with ’90s-era multicolored lights and
Hola Yoga Features Fine Design
Hola Yoga, one of the East side’s newest studios, open for in-person and virtual classes, is totally worth visiting, and not just for its traditional yoga classes including vinyasa, heated vinyasa, flow foundations, slow flow, yin, restorative and Bhakti. It is also worth going to see how owner Khrystyne Baltodano crafted her intentionally-designed boutique fitness space. Her vision for
San Diego Firm Designs The Place at Fifth + Broadway
Photography By Zack Benson Jules Wilson Design Studio, an award-winning multidisciplinary design studio based in San Diego, recently completed the interior design of The Place at Fifth + Broadway, the multifamily residential tower that opened earlier this summer in the heart of downtown. Principal Wilson and her team designed inspiring, elevated spaces for the community that includes 381 residential units,
Sophisticated Scary
Autumn has arrived and the nightmare before Christmas is upon us. Halloween is probably (and most likely) the most fun and exciting holiday all year, with costumes, spooks, candy and haunted houses. But a lot of thought and planning goes into providing the perfect spooky, yet refined, setting. But that doesn’t mean decorating for this season has to be a
