Homeowners at 14 different houses around Atlanta opened up their homes for the Modern Atlanta Home Tour last weekend. My date and I hit Octane first for tickets, coffee, and donuts before squeezing in 8 of the 14 houses. This really should be eight separate posts, but I am cramming it into two parts. I love these kinds of tours of real people’s homes (and by real people I mean really creative and fun people) where you see the items they collect, meaningful art, clothes in the closet (awesome sneaker collection, by the way), and their personal hygiene products (I really would have put my toothbrush up if I were you). This was my kind of day.
Bryan Keller Residence
Designer: Lee Bryan Interior Design
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Liotta Residence
Front entrance surrounded with a series of waterfalls and koi pool.
Sitting area off of guest bedroom, overlooking rear courtyard.
Architect: Dencity
Interior Design: Habachy Design
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Bencich Residence
Rear view of the 1939 house with the recent loggia addition.
Oak cabinetry in a simple waxed finish.
Architect: John Bencich
Interior Designer: Vivian Bencich
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Shotgun XXI
My date on one of Dima Zaitsev’s chairs, obviously not in pain, smiling and making friends wherever he goes…one of the reasons I love him.
Architect, Interior Design, and Furniture Design: Dima Zaitsev
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Any favorites that you have from the few photos I shared? The Liotta home was stunning, glamourous, sexy, which makes it in my top two for the day. I also loved the modern take on the Bencich 1939 traditional home–it felt familiar but fresh. The Bryan Keller house was playful and warm to me, and it left me with the feeling that the homeowners would be fun to hang with. Zaitsev’s house projected an off-kilter glitzy Euro rawness. Come back tomorrow for part II!
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I’ll be at Scott Market this month. I hope you will come by and say hello…I’m going to bleach my mustache for you. June 11-13.
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Why couldn’t I have married someone rich? I loved them all! I thought the first house looked really neat from the outside and the one with the waterfalls and koi pond.
Clayboy never meets a stranger. I don’t see how that’s a chair though.
I hope your date enjoyed the tour as much as you did. I, too, enjoy seeing how others decorate with individual creative ideas flowing. Robin would love the modern decor.
How fun! I loved the series of waterfalls/koi pond and the awesome view of the first floor interior and exterior at the Liotto home.
I was hoping you’d do a photo tour for me. Didn’t know about MA tour till sunday. Only place to get tickets then was in a neighborhood this old lady doesn’t venture into alone anymore. Also, MA website said houses weren’t wheelchair accessible. (which is a design feature all modernists need to consider–universal design for life’s sudden emergencies at any age. Very green. Very contemporary concept.)
I’m not in a chair–yet–but enough mobility problems that I wouldn’t have been able to get into most of the homes. So, again, thanks for the visual tour; please provide it again next year??
I love your house tours. I am a modern girl at heart, except for kitchens and bathrooms. How will I ever mix the two? What I love more than anything is the wall art; my eye always goes there first and that is what excites me the most. I think I might like a concrete and metal house (my husband’s choice) with all white walls and furniture and then a rotating gallery of fabulous art. That’s the dream. The reality is far different and not likely to change.
We also went on the MA house tour – such COOL houses!! You have not yet covered my favorite house, maybe that one will be tomorrow. Did you see the all white CRIB with the boom-boom room downstairs? That was worth my $35 right there! Loved it just cause. The Dencity house was awesome. Great use of space. Could spend all my days and nights on that back porch. Not crazy about the Zaitsev house. A little too cold but interesting none-the-less. Loved the Bencich house. Great mix of traditional and modern. Thank you for displaying these photos!
Did you take a front picture of the bencich house? I love that they have drapes on the back patio. I’m saving that idea. As far as the decor I prefer the bencich home but the outside of the first house is AMAZING.
I need to see more pics of the girl’s room in the Bencich house! That’s the exact color scheme I have going for our “big kids” room when the girls start sharing. I’ve been inspired by the dark wood bed!!
I’m so glad you got some pictures. I couldn’t do justice to them so I only took few of each. I did get a picture of the horse lamp though, my daughter insisted and she was right.