Southern Home

Passion for Color

ith five children, Mike and Julie Holmes knew they needed a house with lots of bedrooms and space to work and play. Designer Kelley Proxmire had helped the Holmeses with their previous house, and when they bought an empty lot in Vienna, Virginia, Proxmire introduced them to architect David Neumann, whose rigorously traditional houses

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