Bathroom project hits cover of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles 21st Annual Bath Contest Winner!

You watched the drama of Musso Design Group designer Catherine Cocke's long and tortuous house renovation on HGTV's My Big Amazing Renovation. Through 18 months and two pregnancies, Catherine and Byron masterfully transformed and updated a Mid-century home into a spacious retreat for their growing family.

During the filming Catherine and her family dealt with floods, roof leaks, falling trees, no-show contractors and a gamut of other issues. But in the end they prevailed and the result is fantastic.

Now that hard work is paying off. Catherine and husband Byron are winners of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles 21st Annual Bath Contest! And, their master bathroom graces the cover of the July, 2010, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine.

"It's an amazing honor to be an Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Bath Contest winner," Catherine says. "I love the result, although the journey here was tough. But I can't wait to do the next one!"

Find more photos of this bathroom, and several others, on our website.

Alys Beach Project Published

"Ideal Escape"

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles published a fourteen page article with seventeen photos about our project at Alys Beach in their July issue. Once again, AH&L Editorial Director Clinton Smith executed the photo shoot with precision. Photographer Erica George Dines and her artist husband Michael were equally charming.

Getting ready for a photo shoot is always interesting. I spent hours pondering what rooms will be photographed and from which angles. To prepare, I photographed each room myself to critically examine it from a distance. A list of “deficiencies” was prepared and action plans developed.

Ultimately, it is their show, which means you have to be prepared for anything and everything must be the best it can be. The shoot certainly helped prioritize projects and speed up the timeline on a couple of planned projects. Albeit for adding beautiful wallpaper (shipped via FedEx from France) in a bedroom that was not ultimately photographed, I did not do much more than I had originally planned for the house.

I did spend time fussing over several wardrobe selections for shots of me I had imagined they would take. Instead, they used impromptu shots taken in clothing purchased at an outlet mall (horrors!)

Erica was one of the first photographers to drop film for digital. Her shots appeared on a nearby computer screen seconds after pressing the shutter button. At the end of each day, we hunched over her Mac and excitedly reviewed the day’s shots.

I am very pleased with the resulting article. (Except the aforementioned photo of me). I think the photos really capture the essence of what the house really feels like. I hope you enjoy it.

Bill