Wendy's Buckhead home was featured in the March/April issue of Simply Buckhead magazine.

Simply Buckhead magazine featured my Buckhead home in the current March/April issue in a story called Southern Sanctuary which is quite ironic because without the writer realizing it, when she titled this story, that my parents had a farm in northern Georgia now in Kalispell, Montana named Sanctuary Farms. So I guess I have the southern Sanctuary while they have the western Sanctuary. But no matter where your oasis is located (or what it might be named), you know when it’s time to spruce it up and make it even more special.

Giannina “Gina” Smith Bedford’s story features an interior design project that we completed in our own home last year. (Click the photo to the right to read the entire story). After living in our Buckhead home for over seven years, it was time to make some changes. After finishing off a section of our unfinished daylight basement including an office space or future media room, wine room and gallery hallway, it was time to call in an interior design professional. We hired Amy Morris of Amy D. Morris Interiors located in Peachtree Hills to assist us with several core areas of our home including several of these new rooms on the basement level. But since we spend so much time in our kitchen, we wanted to start there first. So we had Amy and her team completely transform the breakfast room off the kitchen into a gorgeous St. Regis-style lounge. At the same time, she gave the adjacent mud room and powder room the same elegant treatment. She continued her design magic by addressing our design needs in the new wine room and accented the guest bedroom and guest bath just off the remodeled lower foyer. Enjoy the story.

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Shannon's new St. Regis-style lounge located in the breakfast nook off the kitchen transformed by Amy D. Morris Interiors in Peachtree Hills, Atlanta.