Danielle Rollins grew up in Dallas, where hay wagons covered with Christmas lights and living nativities were part of her Christmas memories in the Lone Star State.
In her historic estate - Boxwoods - in Buckhead, which has hosted events and fundraisers whose guests included celebrities such as designer Oscar de la Renta, she doesn’t shy away from displaying her holiday spirit, either.
“I still have a little bit of that childhood in me that wants to have things magical and festive and pretty,” Rollins said.
Snapshot
Resident: Danielle Rollins, author of “Soiree: Entertaining with Style,” and a contributing editor to Veranda magazine and lifestyle editor for luxecrush.com, and her children, Emerson, Carlyle and Preston
Location: Buckhead
Size: About 13,210 square feet (according to Fulton County tax records), 5 bedrooms, 6 full and 3 three half baths
Year built: 1929
Year bought: 2005
Architect: Philip Trammell Shutze
Architectural style: English vernacular
Renovations: The renovation won a 2008 Shutze Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s Southeast Chapter. The changes included (according to the award information at classicist.org): updating the kitchen, breakfast room and keeping room, and adding a mud room, side entry, stairway, wine clear, home office, butler’s pantry and bathroom. The original gardens and fountain were restored.
Renovations by: Pak Heydt & Associates, Mark A. Palmer, John Howard of Howard Design Studio
Design consultant: Miles Redd, an Atlanta-raised, New York-based designer
Favorite interior feature: The Chinese wallpaper - put up by the home’s original owner - in the “bird room,” which overlooks the backyard. “It’s my happiest spot in the house. It’s a glassed-in room with beautiful birds everywhere. It’s very indicative of the whole house.”
Favorite holiday touches: Boxwood wreaths, live greenery over the doorways and giant nutcrackers at the entrance, with spotlights.
