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Impact & Give Back: Mobile Ballet
The Art of Dance -Liesel Schmidt There’s something incredibly beautiful about ballet that commands attention, something unique and romantic that no over-engineered, technically enhanced screen production can replicate or replace. In this day and age of...
Impact and Give Back | Prodisee Pantry
Feeding is Believing -Liesel Schmidt Have you ever been hungry? For the thousands of local families we serve, the answer is yes! Deann Servos’s recent speech poses the question, a question that most of us never ponder. We pass by homeless or hungry people on the...
Social Living | 2023 BCHBA Showcase Home
-Liesel Schmidt As Don and Sylvia Rayfield began planning their home in 2021, they enlisted the talents of Delia Pierce, owner of Lemongrass Custom Home & Design, to work with them and bring their vision to life. Having built the reputation of her firm over the...
Social Living | Sweetbay
At Home in Sweetbay -Liesel Schmidt When Prentiss and Beverly Smith look at their home, they don’t see what others do. The coastal home boasts an architectural style that sits right at home on the water, complementing the landscape with its use of brick and clapboard...
Social Living | The Bonner Family
At Home in Windrose -Liesel Schmidt Based on the iconic Tara from Gone with the Wind, the stately Greek Revival home where Ashley and Britton Bonner are raising their three children in Historic Montrose may have been built in the 1990s, but it could easily pass...
Impact and Give Back | Adrian “Goose” Johnson
Sudden, untimely death is always a tragedy and an incredibly heavy loss—especially in the cases where those lost are young and in the place where life should have been just beginning. That was the case for Adrian “Goose” Johnson, who was killed in a car accident on...
Belle Maison | The Bay House
When it was built in 2006, this waterfront home in Fairhope comprised 1980 square feet and eight rooms, fitting in a great deal of usage into less space than one might expect from gazing at the outside. Nearly 20 years later, the house has had some updates—both inside...
Belle Maison
Black House/White House -Liesel Schmidt They say that not everything is black and white. But in the case of the Little home in the Verandas subdivision of Fairhope, it’s all black and white. The classic modern farmhouse stands one-story high, clad with...
Belle Maison | The White House
The White House -Liesel Schmidt There’s not quite one defined style for the white brick house in Fairhope where Michele and Michael Strength live. Instead, it’s a fusion of Dutch Cape, modern, and Spanish revival, all somehow married together in a way that makes sense...
Impact and Give Back | The Berry Strong Foundation
Finding Strength -Liesel Schmidt Cancer is a diagnosis that’s devastating at any age, but even more so when that diagnosis is being given to a child. Childhood is a time that should be filled with hope and joy, with laughter and innocence, with learning and exploring...
Belle Maison | At Home on the Bay
At Home on the Bay -Liesel Schmidt There’s a distinct feeling of escapism in the home that Robert and Renee Burroughs own in Orange Beach. It's a sense of grandeur that fits the Mediterranean architecture, which is surrounded by lush tropical plants and a landscape to...
Belle Maison | A Southern Sanctuary
With a moniker like “The Estate,” the Smeraglia family property sets up the expectation of grandeur—and grand, it is. Originally built in the late 1990’s, the main house boasts 4700 square feet sitting on 6.5 acres of picturesque landscape that is the embodiment of...