The Modern Atlanta Home Tour is a two day self-guided tour of homes in Atlanta. The architecture tour is mostly private residences, but occasionally a few commercial buildings are featured. It is usually held on a weekend in mid June – MA was founded in 2007. The tour is the finale of “Design is Human Week” – a week of speakers and events focusing on design, sustainability, and innovation.
Project Name: Florian-Hart House
Location: 225 Corley Street NE, Atlanta, Ga 30312
Architect: bldgs – Brian Bell & David Yocum
Year Completed: 2008
Approx. 3,200 sq. ft.
Four levels:
– Basement/mudroom
– Kitchen, living, dining, screened porch, deck
– Mezzanine/office
– Bedrooms, decks
View of the front of the house from the street.
The “foyer” area, view from the front door: stairs are to the left, closet straight ahead with the living room beyond, & kitchen to the right.
Guest half bath near the stairs.
The stairs drop only a few steps before they turn down to a longer stair case to the basement. The floor to ceiling window allows a ton of light to flow down into the space. I enjoy how they used wood as the ceiling material in this landing space – it all flows nicely together, since you can see the underside of the walnut stair treads.
Looking at the metal structure of the “floating” treads from below.
The basement/mudroom features this foyer/storage area along with a tv room and bathroom.
Interesting wall/window placement.
Stair detail. Notice the riser slants backward to create a “bullnose” function to the steps (without actually needing one). Finishing the smooth drywall edge along the wood risers/treads isn’t easy. We were paying particular attention to modern stair and rail finishings that were on the tour this year because we were in the process of making decisions for our own stairs.
Back up on the main level: the kitchen is to the right of the front door. There are walnut floors throughout the house.
View of the kitchen from the direction of the dining room/screened porch. (This is the front of the house.)
Swiveling around to the right to view the kitchen – looking back toward the entry door. The balcony above is where one of the desks in the office is located.
Starting back at the entry door/foyer area again – the living room. (The dining room and screened porch are toward the back of the image… which is actually the front of the house. The kitchen is out of view to the right of the blue wall.)
Turning to the left, large windows with a view of the back porch.
The dining area. Here, you can see a bit of the kitchen peaking around the blue wall.
The partition between the kitchen and the living space was filled with little nooks & display shelves. I love the kid’s growth chart written on the wall.
View of the dining and living room.
Backing up to the edge of the kitchen for a wider view. The door to the screened front porch can bee seen on the right.
The combination of the super high dark ceilings and wall panels help the screens almost disappear.
Up the stairs to the next level which includes this hall/library that leads to an office. Again, the floor to ceiling windows are just great – I like how the staggering of the architecture shrinks the width of the hall while the windows keep the space open without a constrained feeling.
As you walk down the hall and look to the left, a book shelf creates a partition from an open shaft down to the floor below. Across the opening, is one of two desk spaces.
At the end of the hall is space for a desk. Through the window, you can see the entry ramp that leads to the front door.
A little lounge nook sits between the two desks. Across the balcony, the grey structure is the fireplace.
Turning to the left is the other desk (that was across the opening).
Looking back toward the stairs that lead up to the bedrooms and down to the living level.
The top level has all three bedrooms, two bathrooms, laundry, and two decks.
Bedroom #1 is hardly a rectangular box: little wall protrusions and a change in the ceiling height is a reminder that we are still in a modern house. The built-in desk really looks cozy and purposeful.
The shared bathroom (accessible from the hall) for the two guest bedrooms. The grey square tile – that was so popular in the modern homes on the tour this year – shows up again in this house.
The hall on the top floor has a built-in seat, it looks past an open space to the master’s deck. It seems they were able to avoid typical partitions in this house – on the second floor, it was a bookshelf… here, it’s a built-in bench. A skylight provides light from the top level, through the office, & all the way down to the living room.
Leaning over the seat to see the skylight – this area really gives off the illusion like you are in an exterior space.
Looking down to the living room from the seat in the hall.
The long, rectangular shape of this bedroom is broken up by the closet – this protrusion creates an entry space into the room as well as a spot for a desk.
Back in the hall, past the laundry, is the door to the master bedroom suite.
The first master deck accessible from the bedroom. I like the built-in shelf with contrasting paint color.
Second master deck (the one that could be seen from the hall bench area) is accessible from the master bathroom.
It was a treat to have a second chance see this home – we missed it when it was originally on the tour. A few years ago, Spencer and I had attended a lecture from the architect where he highlighted this home – so, it was nice to tour it in person. If I recall correctly, they said that this home was being built during the recession and that the owners went through multiple contractors during the process. I believe they also mentioned a finishing technique for the exterior that will change as the home weathers and ages. I apologize for not quite remembering – it’s been a little while. Here’s a link to bldg’s website – if you’d like to see the floor plan of this beautiful modern house!
Cool house! Thanks for the tour.