Haverty House, Paces Valley Road, Atlanta, Georgia
When I set out to share the next chapter of Haverty House I had no idea it would be such a dramatic sequel.
Back in June we toured the house of Clarence Haverty, son of furniture store founder J.J. Haverty. Today we'll see the next generation, the house owned by Clarence's son Rawson Haverty.
This is J.J. Haverty (1858-1939) and his house Villa Clare (no longer standing) on Atlanta's Peachtree Road:
This is Clarence Haverty (1881-1960) and his house on Cherokee Road in Atlanta:
This is Rawson Haverty, (or James Rawson Haverty, Sr.) (1920-2007) and his house on Paces Valley Road:
What I didn't realize at first is that his house is also this house...
It was the 2017 Designer Showhouse for Atlanta Homes and Lifestyle magazine.
I didn't recognize it because the listing photos from 2015...
are very different from how it looks today:
The changes started with the new gates and hedge in front:
After the house sold in 2016, wings were added to both sides, giving it a new family room, master suite with an upstairs laundry room, and new lower level. Architect Yong Pak also added an attached three car garage and an infinity pool.
{builder Michael Ladisic}
Then they brought in the designers! Let's look at the befores and afters.
The house was designed by architect James Means in 1962. The brick was reclaimed from the Federal Reserve building in downtown Atlanta.
The design was inspired by old Georgian houses in Virginia, and has a front parking court of reclaimed cobblestones instead of landscaping.
The foyer continued that idea with its brick floors:
Its new design got its influences from China and from the Pompeian wave they highlighted on the stairs.
{Jackye Lanham}
The living room paneling was kept intact...
and highlighted with artwork and separate seating groups:
{Stan Topol}
This next room may have been the family room before...
but it became a very atmospheric study/library after:
{Chad James}
Meanwhile, the previously traditional dining room...
now has influences from an English country house (I'm not sure exactly how, but that's what the designer said):
{Tammy Connor}
The kitchen was barely shown in the 2015 listing photos:
Now it's light and bright and shiny:
{Matthew Quinn}
We also get to see its breakfast nook. It made quite a splash on blogs and Pinterest when it was revealed:
{Lauren DeLoach}
I'm not sure how this bedroom was changed during the remodel, but the new architect was inspired by it.
He used a similar arched bookcase design in the newly created "master passage" below:
{Anna Braund}
Now let's look upstairs. The house originally had seven bedrooms and five bathrooms in 5,310 square feet.
Now it has five more bathrooms and 9,478 square feet.
This bedroom was the only one pictured in the old listing photos:
I'm not sure which of these new designs it evolved into, so I'll just show them all. Maybe you can help me figure it out.
{B.D. Jeffries}
{Lisa Palmer}
{Susan Jamieson}
{Mark Simmons}
{Sarah Bartholomew}
The exterior space was a little easier to match the before with the after. (It always did look more like a farmhouse than the red brick Georgian front of the house.)
Looks like they kept the original columns that James Means salvaged from a building in downtown Atlanta.
Last is the before and after view of the yard which now has the infinity pool:
It's been fun to follow this Haverty House story to a bit of a conclusion. Puts me in mind of another family story with another exciting chapter. I should have named this post Haverty House: A New Era.
