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What a way to kick off 2022!  The new Southern Home magazine features an exciting McKenzie Design interior design project.  For this Atlanta home, full of treasured antiques, Steve McKenzie revamped their dated look with a soothing, luxurious palette of fabrics, colors and furnishings and more.  We’re thrilled that now you can soak in all the details in the Jan/Feb issue of Southern Home magazine, available on newsstands.  Big thank you to photographer Emily Followill and stylist Eleanor Roper.

Updated kitchen interiors with soothing color palette for this busy family.

Breakfast eating area marries stately Windsor chairs and pedestal table with an updated rug. Serene midtown neighborhood with the High Museum of Art across Peachtree Magazines are one of my favorite indulgences. Notepads and jotters galore for 2021! This therapeutic bath soak features lavender and mint. parTEA in a box – sip at home kit from Just Add Honey Neighbors, teachers, friends alike will appreciate this tasty gift. Gift giving season is almost here. Genuine brown leather necklace with a cute vintage-style key charm Tantalizing travel mugs by Effie’s Papers Who doesn’t love a new necklace? Simple, classic style, this leather tote is a thoughtful gift. McKenzie Design duo Steve and Jill McKenzie x Schermer Pecans A delicious array of snacks and treats from Schermer PecansAll photo credit: Angie Webb Photography |Floral arrangement by Steve McKenzie The Cocktail Collection – beautifully packaged for a hostess gift Snack set up with pretty buffalo check Dot and Army cocktail napkins Elliott Natural Pecans with a robust sweet flavor in a favorite R Wood Pottery dipping bowl Mixing sculpture, framed art, and plants makes me happy.
Photo credit: Anthony Masterson Photography Lush green plants bring the outdoors in. Farrow & Ball new Duck Green paint String of turtles stays on the small side. Creative Candle lit table for two with greenery and desert vibe baskets from Dear Keaton.

Several folks have asked how we came up with our Summer Collection x Creative Candles. We’re happy to share our thought process and hope you enjoy the tour. It all starts with flowers, of course, playing off the colors we most often use in our home. You know how much Steve loves floral design (I’ll brag, he’s won a national award), hence summer floral is our launching spot for our Summer Collection.

Summer Collection floral by Steve McKenzie using Trader Joe’s flowers. This wallpaper by artist
Walter Knabe offers a timeless background for every season. Variety of heights, shapes, and colors with a consistent brass candle holder adds interest to a sideboard.
Art and floral by Steve McKenzie | all photography by Angie Webb Photographer

Our personal home colors are gray, orange, greens and golds, on the softer side. Creative Candles has such a wide variety of artisan colors, it made it easy to gather a gorgeous grouping for summer. While Paris Gray was our year-round favorite in our suburban home, this Summer Collection branched out to embrace Barely Blush, Terra Cotta, Maize, Moss Green, Wedgwood and Roman Bronze. These luxurious, hand-dipped candles come in a variety of lengths and shapes too.

McKenzie Design Summer Collection works beautifully together

Desert colors, warm summer colors and sunsets also inspired the collection. Look at how the Terra Cotta, Barely Blush and Maize candles play off each other like a summer sunset. Dear Keaton baskets gave this alfresco table some texture and a cute vessel for the kalanchoe flowers. Those extra long tapers added a fun flair to the background monstera plants.

Table for two on our 25th floor balcony McKenzie Design duo Steve and Jill McKenzie x Creative Candles

As lifelong learners, be bold and add some new colors to your table settings, coffee table and patio with candles, pillows and plants. Feel free to contact McKenzie Design with any questions and/or design needs. Be well and have fun!

Welcome to Villa Flora |Photo credit David Christensen Custom corner by Melanie Turner Interiors Look closely for design details like this exquisitely simple trim in Phoebe Howard Decorator’s primary bedroom Ethereal triptych by the late Todd Murphy defines the main hallway Robert Brown Interior Design mixes lines and curves | Photo by David Christensen Brittany Cason Interior Design mixes styles masterfully. Luxurious canopy bedroom by Pickering House Dreamy canopy and bedroom by Jared Hughes Design A quiet oasis by The Design Atelier | Photo by David Christensen Large but oddly trapezoid shaped island looks like it would be great but…it wasn’t! The flow is pretty good on this side. Opposite the island and there was a dance floor of empty space in-between! Inviting and invigorated kitchen island |photo by Christina Wedge Photography Not only updated but added storage and warming drawer. Love that furniture leg detail! |
photo by Christina Wedge Photography Eating area view of kitchen | photography by Christina Wedge Photography Celebrations still happen!

I may have mentioned that our son and his wife are expecting their first child in June, a little girl. Right away, my daughters and I started planning a ladies-only celebration baby shower for March to celebrate this blessed event. Well, we all know that life came to a screeching, shelter in place halt in early March. The invitations were mailed, personalized cups and napkins and dreamy candles ordered but off course we cancelled it, keeping everyone safe and at home.

As the baby shower date approached, we decided to go ahead and set the table, making it special for the new mama-to-be via photos. For a refresher, here’s a quick party planning breakdown of what we used and why. First Creative Candles Barely Blush votives were the building block for the color scheme and celebration.

Barely Blush votive candles from Creative Candles – hand-dipped, dripless, smokeless, unscented Celebration planning details
Sequins and Lipstick personalized cups and napkins | Creative Candles votive and ball candles |Ikea votive holder | Blabla Kids Josephine the elephant |Wedgwood Edme dishes | Target bed cover as tablecloth

This soft pink and mossy green palette paired beautifully with our Wedgwood Edme dishes. This is pretty pink quilt made a perfect table cloth backdrop for the candle lit setting of sweet nibbles and drinks. Get creative next time you set the table. Is there a vibrant scarf or shawl you can use on the table? Fresh flowers always add to the table too.

So many napkin colors available with Sequins and Lipstick! Virtual celebration with McKenzie Design and family

It’s not the same, we know. But we are making the best of these days at home, finding ways to celebrate the big, and the little, things. Let us know what you are celebrating via email, tag us on Instagram and we’ll see you soon.

All photos by McKenzie Design.