Tucked Away in Buckhead

In suburban north Atlanta, a seasoned design team creates a two-acre retreat for a family of four.

BY J. MICHAEL WELTON

ONCE HOME TO A 1940S COTTAGE, a two-acre lot on the western edge of the coveted Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, is now a secluded residential compound. As is true of neighboring homes, this one is barely visible from the street, in part because of its natural setting and in part because of a ready collaboration between the architect and landscape architect. “The clients asked me to design a house—they had renovated another home and now wanted something more accustomed to the times,” explains Tim Adams, founding partner at Atlanta’s T.S. Adams Studio, Architects. “We talked about, stylistically, how they lived as a family, to get an understanding for the basis of the design.” Adams’s landscape architect of choice, Alec Michaelides, is the principal at Atlanta-based Land Plus Associates. He’d worked with this…

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