Beth Ervin knows that a house should be much more than pretty; a truly well-considered residence is versatile, too. And for the people who inhabit it, a home should include familiar comforts, sounds, smells, and feelings. It’s precisely that je ne sais quoi that clients of this long-standing Atlanta, Georgia, designer rely upon so implicitly.
In 1996, Beth and her husband, Jeff, got wind of a charming 1937 Colonial Revival, situated on a sidewalk-framed corner lot just a stone’s throw from the famed Bobby Jones Golf Course in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. Beth took a brief tour, and Jeff agreed to the purchase sight unseen. “The neighbors couldn’t believe it,” Beth recalls. “They said, ‘Oh my gosh, Beth, he trusted you enough to buy a house without seeing it?’”…
