Cheerful hues and meaningful treasures greet you the moment you step foot into Kate Evans’s Birmingham, Alabama, home. “The biggest compliment I can receive is, ‘Your house makes me happy,’ and, for me personally, color makes me happy,” she says. With a background in advertising and print styling, Kate’s talent for décor is inherent. “I always say I like to help others fluff. I’m not a decorator, but I like to help people make their home theirs,” she says, adding that she does so with a budget-conscious approach that often incorporates vintage finds as well as family heirlooms.
This natural ability was key when she and her husband, Hunter, began to build a home in the Lake Wilborn neighborhood to share with their three children, Henry, Mial, and Rhen. Kate…
