Southern Lady

Sentimental Spruce-Up

In Maggie Griffin’s line of work, she rarely steps into a space without envisioning how she’d change it from top to bottom. A 1980s mountain home designed by notable Atlanta-based architect Norman Askins became the exhilarating exception.

“It was love at first sight,” says Maggie, the owner of her eponymous interior design firm in Gainesville, Georgia. “I

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