When planning their retirement, Memphis natives Jim and Julie Powell wanted to invest in a bed-and-breakfast to provide themselves a place to live and a source of income.

Among the homes across the Southeast they considered, some were “so Victorian” and others “so froufrou,” Mrs. Powell said.

When they saw the Captain’s Quarters Bed & Breakfast Inn on Barnhardt Circle in Fort Oglethorpe in 2005, it was just right.

“When we found it,” said Mrs. Powell, “we thought we could make this work.”

Today, the former Army officers duplex is one large home with nine guest rooms or suites.

The B&B is one of seven historic buildings on the annual Barnhardt Circle Candlelight Tour of Homes, scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.

The 106-year-old Captain’s Quarters is a gray frame structure with white trim and lattice work built in the Classic Renaissance Revival style. It is lovingly filled with antique furniture that came with the home and the Powells’ furniture and decorations gathered from many years of living abroad.

In fact, said Mrs. Powell, they had so many of their own furnishings, “our attic looks like a furniture showroom.”

The couple are the third owners of the home since 1988, when it was converted to a bed-and-breakfast. They have put their mark on the Captain’s Quarters by covering beds with handmade quilts and decorating with Asian accents they amassed during Mr. Powell’s years as a hotel architect in Indonesia and Thailand.

Even their Christmas decorations reflect their travels, with Nativities from Germany, Indonesia and Thailand.

There are gas fireplaces — the flames turn on with the flick of a knob — in eight of the nine bedrooms. Almost all rooms have their own or an adjoining bathroom. Several baths have claw-foot tubs.

Mrs. Powell’s favorite bedroom is wallpapered in a yellow print and overlooks Chickamauga Battlefield. The room has two twin beds, Battenburg curtains, and blue and white Asian lamps and accessories such as a decorative umbrella and scene pillows from Thailand.

Unique among the bedrooms is the only ground-floor room — once one of the duplex’s kitchens — known as “The Alcoves.” Its queen bed is set in one alcove, and its oversize tub/shower — a former butler’s pantry — in another. There’s also a window seat and adjoining porch with rocking chairs.

The inn’s kitchen, where Mrs. Powell prepares sumptuous breakfasts that guests have bragged on in comment books, is the former captain’s office and takes in part of a former wraparound porch.

Other interesting features in the home include built-in cabinets in the library and dining room, pocket doors, evidence of a dumbwaiter that once raised food to the second floor, a set of chairs with needlepoint seats that Mrs. Powell inherited from her great aunt, teak dining room furniture, a sculpture that once topped a Buddhist temple, a hand-embroidered tablecloth from Vietnam and a handmade ceremonial head scarf of gold and silk from Sumatra.

Guests also talk about the sense of peace and calm the inn offers, the couple said.

Facilitating that feeling are wraparound porches on both ends of the home, warm pine and oak floors, seasonal wreaths and candles in each window, exotic orchids grown by Mr. Powell and the couple’s friendly 14-year-old golden retriever, Sadie.

“We’ve thoroughly enjoyed it,” Mrs. Powell said of her and her husband’s jobs as innkeepers. “We enjoy our guests. We feel like it’s our house and our guests’ house.”