Southern Home

City Sophisticate

n a corner lot near Fayetteville, Arkansas’s, idyllic Wilson Park sits the 1930s home designer Melissa Haynes’s client shares with her two teenage children. Stately and classic inside and out, Haynes notes the residence was hardly in need of an overhaul—it had been kept up-to-date—when the owner purchased it several years ago.

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