Six years ago Robin Short and her husband Henry moved from Chattanooga to the Shoals to settle down and be close to family. However, their search for a home in downtown Florence proved to be a wild journey as they put bids on a few houses and missed out on all of them. However, there […]
Category: midcentury modern
Creekside Cabin
On a blistering Summer day in 2018 while riding his motorcycle over the steep hills of the Heritage Village neighborhood that runs along the rambling Cypress Creek, Austin Shirey found a red For Sale sign for a baby blue, vinyl cabin hidden in the back of the woods on Creekside Drive and immediately made an […]
The Gunrunner
1930’s Tennessee Street in Florence, Alabama was a bustling boulevard — a straight shot to downtown, lined with store fronts and possibility. The Great Depression didn’t stop the two story brick building from housing Foote Auto Company, a car dealership stocked full of Cadillacs and Oldesmobiles, until the mid-seventies when the Gunrunner Pawn Shop took […]
Navy Bungalow
Wes and Tera Wages have spent the better part of their marriage traveling the world. They’ve seen the ancient temples of Kyoto, ambled across Egypt on camels, splashed in puddles with elephants in Chiang Mai, and brunched on the cobblestone streets of Paris— all in search of magic. Yet, that spark of joy, sense of […]
Blue Door Cottage
In 2016 Rachel and Brenton Rohler began searching for their first home together as a married couple, and after months of looking finally found a little red brick cottage with a blue door in the middle of downtown Florence, Alabama only a few blocks from the University of North Alabama. The interior of the home […]