In need of a change after her husband passed away, Lucia Hillenmeyer found an ideal community in The Grove, a neighborhood just outside of Franklin, Tennessee, where she could live comfortably with her two Aussies, foster her avid golf hobby, and build the farmhouse filled with antique treasures that she’d always dreamed of—with the help of her go-to designer Connie Vernich of Nashville-based Vernich Interiors.
“We have worked together over the last 20 years on three different homes,” Connie says. “This new build