Resort-Ready Retreat

The great room’s 24-foot vaulted ceiling allowed Adams to introduce a wall of windows, flooding the space with natural light. To complete the airy feel, Webb upholstered the room’s seating in pale performance fabrics.

Atlanta architect Tim Adams and interior designer Beth Webb selected interior finishes for the Frederica residence, such as the limestone floor and wood paneling in the foyer.

To cozy up the music room, Webb employed patterned fabrics and watery shades of blue. A Rosa Bernal linen fabric, available through Travis & Company, covers the chair and sofa pillow. The vintage blue bowls and ceramic lamp are from Bungalow Classic.

Designed in the English Manor style, the house “has to live and has to be comfortable,” says Adams.

The painted-brick exterior lightens up the residence’s footprint; the builder is Macallan Custom Homes and Renovations.

The kitchen’s layout and flow is a study in smart space-planning. Two islands provide space for food prep and dining, while a working pantry, butler’s pantry and bar are tucked away behind the range. Concealed storage—in the form of retractable slabs located in the backsplash on both sides of the range— hide spices and oils.

The kitchen’s layout and flow is a study in smart space-planning. Two islands provide space for food prep and dining, while a working pantry, butler’s pantry and bar are tucked away behind the range. Concealed storage—in the form of retractable slabs located in the backsplash on both sides of the range— hide spices and oils.

“Keep it simple” was Webb’s mantra when decorating this house, particularly when it came to the breakfast room. Palacek’s rope dining chairs surround a Noir dining table.

Because the property sits at a bow in the lake, Adams took advantage of the site and angled the home’s footprint so that each room of the house, including this screened porch, offers views of the water.

The only room on the first floor defined by four walls (the other rooms follow a more open floor plan), the dining room is enveloped in a woven wallpaper by Phillip Jeffries. Webb chose unobtrusive linen draperies for the windows because “the view is everything.”

Webb extended her use of softly-toned woods into the music room, where a late 19th-century English buffet is joined by a modern caned chair from Bungalow Classic.

“I don’t like to compete with the outdoors,” says Webb, who kept the guest bedroom’s drapery soft and simple. A Ralph Lauren linen adorns the bed pillows, while a bench from Serena & Lily sits at the end of the bed.

The bunk room was built out by builder David Childers of Macallan Custom Homes and Renovations.

French textile artist Paule Marrot’s “Lillies,” a print the designer obtained from Max & Company, offers a splash of color in the otherwise neutral master bedroom.

For the master bedroom, “the homeowners wanted it zen and very quiet,” says Webb. Tranquil fabrics, such as an Arabel linen, was used for draperies, and a softly patterned C&C Milano fabric appears on a bench and pillow.

A pool, cabana and grilling porch are situated behind the house and close to the lake. The dining chairs, lounge chairs and chaises are from Logan Gardens.

Live oaks line the roads on Frederica.

Atlanta-based landscape architecture firm Planters was engaged for this project.

Ideally, a family home should cater to all who live in it, but when the family is comprised of two busy doctors and their four active teenage children, creating a home that satisfies everyone requires a great deal of planning. Just ask architect Tim Adams and designer Beth Webb, who recently completed a lakeside house for this family of six at Frederica, a golf community located on St. Simons Island, where the family lives full-time. Together, the Atlanta-based duo worked creatively yet methodically to design a spacious residence that is, in Webb’s words, “engineered for a very busy family.”

Because the homeowners wished for their house to be a destination for their children and their friends, Adams needed to make the house large enough to accommodate their requests for a media room, game room, pool and cabana, and even an indoor basketball court, not to mention the myriad bedrooms and a workhorse kitchen that are necessities for any large family. 

But despite measuring a sliver over 11,000 square feet, the house feels anything but cavernous thanks to Adams’ sensitive design, which placed the activity-oriented rooms on one side of the house, the quiet rooms—such as the library—on the opposite end and an airy great room in the middle that connects both sides. “Because of the large footprint, I had to break the house down into components, which in turn gives one the impression that the house was built over time through additions,” explains Adams. Adding to this effect was the architect’s decision to base his design loosely on English Manor-style architecture, which, with its gables and tucked-back roof lines, gives the house a rambling appearance.

Likewise, the home’s easygoing interiors suggest that they, too, happened over time, despite the fact that everything was carefully selected for this house. “The wife wanted a fresh slate, which meant that I was not working with anything pre-existing,” says Webb, who not only selected furnishings for their durability and comfort but also their ability to stand out against a predominantly neutral color palette. Textured fabrics, nubby wallpaper and woven rugs all lend visual interest, as do the bleached, weathered finishes that grace some tables and chairs, which have the added benefit of imbuing rooms with both a sense of warmth and age. Although Webb and Adams worked hard to design a comfortable, convivial residence, the house they helped to create has proved remarkably easy to live in. As Webb puts it, “this house fits the family’s casual lifestyle to a T.”

INTERIOR DESIGN Beth Webb, Beth Webb Interiors, (404) 869-6367; bethwebb.com ARCHITECT Tim Adams, TS Adams Studio Architects Inc. (404) 262-3499; tsadamsstudio.com LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Planters, (404) 261-6002; plantersgarden.com BUILDER David Childers, Macallan Custom Homes, (404) 603-8833; macallanhomes.com