Southern Living Idea House

Saturday afternoon, Brent and I visited the Southern Living Idea House in Dahlonega. This was my third attempt at going, so I was very excited to finally get to see it! The boys were with Nana and Pop-O for the weekend, so we had a nice date that afternoon. After we went to the house, we ate at The Smith House in Dahlonega. Then we finished a little Christmas shopping at the outlets. Here are the pictures from the SL house. Warning, there are lots of pics!


The house is in the Achasta neighborhood and is in the craftsman style. It's now decorated for Christmas.


great room

master bedroom

master bath - You would not believe the shower in this place. I felt a little funny taking so many pictures, so I skipped the shower.

This was a really great idea. There is a little "breakfast kitchen" in the master bedroom. It has closet style doors that close and hide everything.

The veranda outside the great room and master suite. We both loved these outdoor living spaces.

the dining room - It's between the kitchen and great rooms with a big pass through window to the kitchen.

The kitchen has electronic doors that open onto the veranda. They completely disappear into the walls, and the bar pulls up to make it an open air kitchen. Might be very handy if the cook were to accidentally "blacken" dinner one night!

the kitchen

gorgeous Viking appliances

This was my favorite space. The laundry/mom's office area. Brent saw it first and came to find me in the pantry. He said, "You have GOT to see this. You will love it." He was right.

the upstairs sitting area/study

downstairs in the children's room

downstairs living room

guest room downstairs - I could not believe wallpaper was in so many of the rooms. I guess it's a coming trend.

the back of the downstairs living room - That man would not move for me to make a picture! I waited and waited and finally walked outside. Then, he went into the next room. When I came back in to make the picture without him, he stepped right back in when I snapped the camera. Good grief!

I know that was a ton of pictures, and they really don't do the house justice. I made a bunch more, but these turned out the best. You can see a professional slide show at the Southern Living website.

Okay, here's a funny story I have to share. After we left, we went to The Smith House. It's a family style restaurant in Dahlonega that is yummy! You sit at big tables with lots of people you don't know and the server brings all the food in bowls. You pass the bowls around and visit with the people at your table while you eat. It's really fun.

So we were seated with two other couples. One couple was from Elijay, and the other from Roswell. The server brought out all the food. Ham, roast beef, fried chicken, fried okra, sweet potatoes, peas, collards, slaw, mashed potatoes, all kinds of good stuff. As we are starting to pass the food, I hear the man from Roswell pick up a dish and say to his date, "I believe this is what they call creamed corn. I think that's what it is." I almost laughed out loud! Instead, I asked him, "So where are you originally from?" He was very nice and laughed and said, "Northern Ohio. So I'm not just a Yankee, I'm a damn Yankee." Everyone laughed at that! He was very nice to talk to and said he did enjoy the creamed corn, and even the collards!