The moment Whitley Esteban saw the aging white cottage, tucked behind a thin picket fence and a bed of weeds in Pensacola’s Seville Historic District, she knew it was the one. “It’s like that dog at the shelter that has really big, beautiful eyes but just needs a couple more baths than the others,” says the architect and designer, who was aching to return to her native Florida from her home in New York City, where the pandemic had fanned her case of slow-burn homesickness into a
