Jeff Moore remembers being able to stand in his Buckhead kitchen and put his hands flat on the 7 ½-foot ceiling. It was just one sign that the home had problems, but potential.
The fixture and décor also were from the 1980s, which was the last time the home had been renovated. Jeff and his wife, Elizabeth, started with the bathrooms, kitchen and sunroom in the home, which is on 2 ½ acres.
“Both of us probably do have a bit of vision, I suppose, walking into a house like that,” Jeff said. “We’re still definitely a work in progress.”
Snapshot
Residents: Jeff and Elizabeth Moore and their 8-year-old son, Will. The Moores own Green Olive Media, a marketing, public relations and graphic design firm specializing in the food & beverage, retail and hospitality industries.
Location: Buckhead
Size: About 4,500 square feet, five bedrooms, four baths
Year built: 1956
Year bought: 2010
Architectural style: Colonial
Architect and designer: Seiber Design
Contractor: Paddocks Group
Renovations: The Moores have renovated the master bathroom, a main level bathroom, the kitchen and the sunroom. Although the footprint of the home stayed the same, expanding the narrow 1950s doorways and raising the low ceilings from about 7-and-a-half feet to 9 feet opened up the interior space. Paddocks Group also made items such as the steel shelves in the kitchen, which were designed by Jeff.
Interior design style: Modern/industrial/vintage. “We’re both really drawn to older things, things that have some history and character,” Jeff said.
Favorite interior design features: Vintage pieces such as Eames and Knoll chairs. Much of the furniture came from yard sales and thrift shops. The dining room table is an old school table purchased from an antique store for $300, which required Jeff scraping gum off the bottom.
Favorite personal touches: The walls display food or travel-related photographs by Jeff and country music posters from Hatch Show Print in Nashville, where Jeff is from and where Green Olive Media has an office. “Just about everything you see in our house has a connection to what we do for our living,” Elizabeth said. Another photograph by Jeff in the kitchen, which has Viking appliances, is of Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles.
Favorite heirloom: One of the coolest things in the house, Elizabeth said, is a beaten biscuit machine from the 1800s. Elizabeth’s grandmother left the machine, which is in their sunroom, when she passed away two years ago.
Kid-friendly living tip: A Heywood-Wakefield coffee table was a previous Mother’s Day present. Their son, Will, “tattooed” the piece with Sharpies a few year ago, said Elizabeth, who strategically placed a stack of books to cover it up. The dining room table is topped with a Belgian linen tablecloth that can be washed, to protect against messy art projects.
