Southern Home

Living the Dream

“If someone asked me how our owning this house came about, I would say it was a once upon a time story about a little boy who wanted a horse,” says homeowner and designer Maridonna Rogers of her husband’s childhood dream.

That little boy never got his horse, but as fate would have it, the couple’s son shared his father’s dream. “Russell was 5 at the time, and he barely had the sentence

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