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Downtown Sizing
Lucy Cope was ready for a change. It was a transition that would put her living right smack in the middle of the action of Downtown Mobile, alongside the...
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A Head of the Game
In Alabama, like most of North America, January isn’t a particularly fruitful time of year. The landscape is mostly bare, and farmers’ markets are boarded...
A Country-Chic Christmas
Katie and Philip Hagan appreciate tradition, but the decor of their Daphne home needed a little bit of sprucing up to set the scene for their big annual holiday...
All the Trimmings
The Woodland Tree A rustic cabin provides the perfect backdrop for designer Stephanie Easterling’s interpretation. She selected a brown-flocked tree because it brought in a bit of...
Our Environmental Protector
Bill Finch is our own John Muir. Often atop a bicycle, and instantly recognizable with his long, graying blond hair, “fin-de-siècle” beard and jaunty cap,...
Houses of Fun
As a child, the closest I got to owning a playhouse was the green storage shed in my family’s wooded backyard. It housed enough snakes, in...
First Place
bohemian chic Home decor is in Audrey Phillips’ blood. Her dad is Charles Phillips, of the popular Charles Phillips Antiques and Architecturals. Working with her dad...
Gulf Getaway
Back in 1998, when April and Chris Boudreaux closed on their Atticus Street vacation home, it was hard to envision what the town would look like a...
Urban Farm
When Jim and Margaret Mangham bought their house in the Old Dauphin Way Historic District in 1982, their youngest son, Will, was just a baby....
The Majesty of Mobile
From grandiose Queen Anne mansions to quaint Creole cottages, the Port City’s architecture is full of character. Jim Frazier’s book, “The Majesty of Mobile, ” delves...