After an old-fashioned, whirlwind romance kicked off their midlife marriage 10 years ago, Emily and Paul Campbell were content in their simple yet charming 1930’s stone cottage on the side of Lookout Mountain. Little did they know that adding on a master suite would put them over the moon.
“We’re happier than we ever dreamed we would be,” says Emily, a Baltimore transplant who moved into the cottage Paul had bought years before.
Paul had moved there to be closer to his mother who was still living in the Lookout Mountain home where he had grown up. His father, Paul Campbell Jr., lived there too, but as the family joke runs, Paul and his father didn’t need to see any more of each other. They worked together daily at Campbell & Campbell law firm downtown.
“I drove past this place thousands of times without ever noticing it,” says Paul. Combined with the rocky slope of the mountain, trees and undergrowth once obscured the rectangular stone house from the road below. The lot itself was a hidden gem, with giant boulders and hiking trails etching three consecutive parcels of land.
Like a true cottage, there are nooks and crannies to explore before you ever depart on one of the property’s trails. All around are boulders arranged as if in conversation, and patios ringed with native plants invite you, too, to linger. Copper rain chains catch the light, and birds perch on feeders.