For Chattanooga designer Rodney Simmons, the chance to show off his talents in a new showhouse at Cloudland Station in Chickamauga, Georgia, was cause for celebration.
“I was elated to learn that Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles editor-in-chief Elizabeth Ralls had specifically requested for Revival Home + Revival Interiors to participate in the Cloudland Station showhouse,” says Simmons, referring to the design collaborative that he co-leads.
But the opportunity granted by the magazine was never fully realized. Simmons’ participation is evident only in the choice of the deep gray paint on the living room’s shiplap walls.
“While our Chattanooga-based interior design team conjured and wholly executed a complete schematic, including to-scale floor plans, commissioned art, selected furnishings, lighting and antiquities, our living room design could not be installed due to construction delays,” he says.
The supply-chain delays ultimately forced Simmons to bow out of the project. But his departure left eight designers from Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama to lend their talents to the project, putting their unique spins on spaces inside and outside the house.