From Retrofit Home, Fall 2022 When something good starts to form amid destruction, it brings with it many emotions—the most powerful of which is hope. On the banks of Fort Loudoun Lake in Louisville, Tenn., a small town just outside Knoxville, sits a sprawling log home reminiscent of a mountain lodge. However, this home has much more personality thanks to …
From VIP Knoxville, November-December 2022. When Jeff and Karen Williamson first saw their home in Sequoyah Hills, Karen immediately loved it. Jeff saw three obstacles: 1) We can’t afford it, 2) Someone’s living there and 3) It’s not for sale. Neither thought the fact that the home would need extensive renovation was an obstacle. The Williamsons, who met in architecture …
From Retrofit Magazine, March/April 2021 Marble Hall and Pavilion at Lakeshore Park are highlighted in a feature on repurposed religious facilities across the country. Click here to read the story.
From USA TODAY, July 27, 2020. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – It’s difficult to say whether they’ll be permanent, but experts agree life in the office will come with some changes as businesses adjust to the pandemic in a way that, well, works. The pandemic has led to speculation that the open office layout is gone for good. But many businesses are …
From Shopper News, June 10, 2020. The old Lakeshore Mental Health Institute chapel has literally come out of its shell and is experiencing a praised second life as the remodeled Marble Hall at Lakeshore Park. Not only has its inside/outside layout started drawing numerous people doing their own inner reflection and outward glancing, but the structure has also drawn the …
From VIP Knoxville, May 2020. Daryl Johnson and Polly Fisher remember the day they first saw the house they now call home. “We had looked everywhere,” said Daryl, owner and principal architect at Johnson Architecture. “We hadn’t really thought about Holston Hills, but our realtor told us about this house.” “It was a snowy day in February,” recalled Polly. “We …
From VIP Knoxville, April/May 2020. Indiana natives Dawn and John Skeens never dreamed they’d be living in Tennessee. “When we started thinking about what retirement might look like, we figured we’d end up in Florida like everybody else,” said Dawn. “But then we asked ‘what might give us a different pace? And a milder winter?’” “Moving here is the best …
From Knox.biz, January 2020. Johnson Architecture is bringing up more than buildings. The company’s rising star, Emily Haire, is quickly becoming one of the top project designers at the firm. The 34-year-old project architect joined Johnson in 2011 as an intern and rose to the top because of the creativity and dedication she brings to the job every day. Click …
From Shopper News, Sept. 5, 2019. At more than 115 years old, First Presbyterian Church’s sanctuary on State Street with its colonnaded Greek Revival front is considered a valuable landmark of Knoxville. During some remodeling and addition work completed within the last year, a few more treasures of both the man-made and natural variety were also found alongside the iconic …
From VIP Knoxville, August 2019. Camp Fish Lips looks as though it might have been lifted from a lake in the Adirondacks and placed on its rock bluff overlooking a quiet inlet on Norris Lake. And that’s what Hope and Mark Ingram had in mind. Click here for the story and photos.
