Jeanne and Peter Holliday transformed their simple Georgia cottage into an elegant antebellum home by the addition of this graceful sweeping staircase that leads into the garden and its formal geometry of the simple four-square plan. Decorative touches like the scrolled ironwork gates and the old metalwork arbor contrast the linear design of the garden with its straight brickwork paths converging on a central pool and fountain.

Photographs by Erica Dines
Text by Ethne Clarke
Produced by Lisa Mowry