The Cottage Journal

Old Meets Bold

ecently single with her children just out of the house, Frannie Martin was ready to embrace this next phase of life in a new home she could make her own. “The market in Nashville at that time was extraordinarily competitive, and I was determined not to settle for something I didn’t really love,” she says. Knowing she wanted to be in the historic and quintessentially Southern Belle Meade neighborhood, Frannie rented in the area for two years

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