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: Kings Court Residence
Location: 916 Kings Court Atlanta, GA 30306
Architect: DNK Development
General Contractor: Cablik Enterprises
Interior Design: Suzanne Seymour Interior Design
Square Footage: 4,200 sq ft.
3 levels:
– basement: 2 finished rooms (bedroom & bonus living), bathroom, 2 unfinished rooms (storage)
– garage, dining room, kitchen, half bath, living room, deck
– master bedroom, master bath, office nook, 2 decks, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms
The exterior – A modern home with bedrooms above the garage and a deep-set entry door:
Metal support columns keep the space bright and open:
At the entry, you are greeted with both smiling people, but also – unfortunately – a support pilar. I had a similar feeling in 2014’s home tour of 200 Pearl.
Looking back a the glass seamless corner entry:
Past the support pillar is the shared dining room/kitchen with the living room behind the fireplace:
A closer look at the dark cabinetry and white tile & countertops of the kitchen:
Backing up to get a different view of the same space. Here, you can see stairs up to the second floor and down to the basement:
Moving into the living room I spotted this nook with a power outlet:
I like the floor to ceiling windows. I also like that the window wall doesn’t fill the entire wall.. it still allows for enough space for furniture:
The kitchen half again. That back hallway leads to the garage:
In the garage hallway is a tiny half bath:
Keeping the stairs open yet safe with a wood screen detail:
Upstairs hallway which leads to a “platform area” and then on to the flat roof deck (before that is the large grey doors of the laundry closet an door to the master bedroom):
The master bedroom suite with views onto the roof deck:
Master bath with the trendy “tub inside the shower” space. I like the upper windows here and if I didn’t know any better, I’d have thought that vanity was the walnut veneer version from Ikea – but they don’t sell this configuration.
The weird space (office?) at the end of the hallway with access to the roof deck:
The roof deck with artificial turf:
Looking down over the edge to the first floor deck off of the kitchen/living room. This property does not have a lot of usable yard space btw.
Guest bath. No idea why that vent is so dirty in a (I’m assuming) new house:
One of the two bedrooms that sits over the garage. It has a closet with no door and a private mini deck:
Going down the stairs to the basement:
A landing space with a door to a basement bedroom, bonus space, and unfinished storage space:
To a bonus room with some exposed concrete:
Unfinished storage room #1 (To me, the drywall makes it pretty finished looking):
Unfinished storage room #2. This is the room directly below the garage. The ceiling in this area is made of metal to support the weight of vehicles parking on it’s surface. (It was super dark in there, Spencer had to turn his iPhone flashlight so I had something to focus on.)
A better look a that ceiling and metal I beams:
I’m not sure why the engineers/designers went to the lengths of making that space below the garage useable. It’s very nice to have extra space, but using a special decking to support the cars – when one could just infill – is an interesting choice. They already had a bedroom, bonus room, and large storage area in the basement… so it seems like overkill. I will say this, though: It seems when a home owner is building a house, extra bonuses like this room can get kicked out early – in order to save money. Perhaps this was an item that was kept because the builder constructed this house before they had a buyer in place.
Anyway, neat house for somehow 4,200 sq. ft. You know what? Maybe that’s it: I would guess that the basement counts for square footage in this home, because I didn’t see it in the upper levels. In my opinion, overall, the layout was kind of awkward. Not all new homes have to be completely open, and it’s always nice to see a different layout than a typical traditional box – but this one just felt a little uncomfortable. I will also have to say (from experience), unless they have a whisper quiet garage door opener, the occupants of those two bedrooms above the garage are going to be disturbed by the noise/vibration of the door and that is just not very good design. (And yes, our master bedroom on our home has this situation… but we have a garage opener from 1980.)
Well, on a less negative note, more Modern Atlanta Home Tours from 2015 and 2016 coming up in the future!