Real-Life Redo: Cottage Makeover

An Atlanta couple drew on their New England roots to renovate their Cape Cod-style cottage without adding on

Cape Cod-Style Makeover
Photo by: Laurey W. Glenn

Cape Cod-Style Makeover

Before settling in the South, Wendy Meredith spent many happy years in Nantucket and other quaint Massachusetts towns, so it’s not surprising that she’d bring a little New England charm to her current Atlanta home. The Cape Cod-style house she and her husband, Cleve, bought several years ago had been built in the 1930s and was more or less in its original state, so the interior designer had a clean slate for incorporating her best ideas. “Before we bought the house, I would pass by it while walking my dogs, and I could just tell it had so much character,” Wendy says. “But it definitely needed to be freshened up.”

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