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 […]
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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 […]
Stone Cottage Restoration
Sarah Baxter is a 5 foot nothing Texas spit fire—all wild, black hair and red lipstick– an ever steady forward march regardless if it’s a season of joy or uncertainty. Tackling challenges head on with a spirit of curiosity and determination, she has used this same energy to breathe love and life into her 1945 […]
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 […]
An Artist’s Abode
Tucked away in the back of the Riverbend Neighborhood on Palisade Drive is an adorable brick home surrounded by a large dogwood, crape myrtles and azaleas. However, this traditional Southern home is anything but ordinary, with an interior eclectic style that is the perfect mixture of family memories and art. Everything in Natalie Wester and […]
Elegance and Spunk
Five years ago Brandeis and Shawn Short moved from a sprawling farm in rural Tennessee to Florence, Alabama to begin their businesses and settle down to raise their two girls. They were searching for a town that had Southern charm and community, and like many who move here come to find, the Shoals provided everything […]
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