For us, the search for the most beautiful mantels and well-appointed fireplaces always begins with Chesney’s. Their unsurpassed artisanship joined with deliciously sumptuous materials and brilliant design work lend elegance and world-class cachet to your MH Akers Custom Home.
How sexy is this? A clear glass chair from FIAM Italia. I’ll take six, please!
Our congratulations to Karen Kassen of Kitchens Unlimited in Memphis for winning a prestigious Tri-Star Award from the 2010 Tennessee ASID Design Competition!
Roof top garden and conservatory, anyone? We found some great examples on USA Home and Garden: Who among us wouldn’t be tempted to abandon our daily commute from suburbia by this delicious slice of enlightened urbanism?
At MH Akers Custom Homes, we constantly search for new ideas, new materials, new techniques and new talent. A recent discover for us is Tyler Engle Architects PS firm in Seattle, Washington. What a marvelous balance of symmetry and asymmetry; tradition and contemporary; richness and understatement; function and aesthetic that Tyler Engle Architects PS has …
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Courtesy of Atlanta home builder Benecki Fine Homes, what a well conceived and well executed example of a dining booth…the sort of dreamy, cozy space every homeowner would love to call his or her own. Bravo!
Leave it to our friend Steve Mouzon, Miami architect and The Original Green author to thoughtfully analyze and creatively design a charming and uber-efficient dining/homework/office space in his noble mission to size-down and smarten-up the American homeplace. Bravo, Steve! Read about it here!
From our friends at the The Wall Street Journal, some intelligent tips on that age old problem: what wines to serve with Thanksgiving dinner: click here
It’s fireplace season again, and here are some helpful accessories and how-to tips from our friends at The Wall Street Journal. Click here!