I love, neh LOVE when I get to see a room featured that I was able to watch form from the ground up. Thanks to Instagram, a Birmingham home featured in the March/April 2019 issue of Veranda is a prime example of watching it happen - from concept to glossy color pages.
This is a long one, filled with lots of before, during and after pictures, even before/before pictures - you know, the kind where you wonder how they decorated before they hired the decorator! It's a good one. And there are links where you can get the look for less, too! 
The house, a beautiful ranch style house with a walk out basement in Birmingham, Alabama. The owners, Ragan and Brad Cain, a beautiful young couple with great taste, a penchant for pretty, and a nostalgia for old houses. The decorator, Mark D. Sikes, the photographer Amy Neunsinger. Together, with Amy's superior skill for styling and grabbing the right shot, they've captured some of the most beautiful rooms ever, and these certainly top the list (in my opinion). Way back in 2014, Holly Mathis did a tour of Ragan and Brad's previous home, shortly after it had been featured on the cover of Southern Living. The Southern Living featured touched solely on the exterior renovation of their cottage. Thanks to Holly's feature, it was easy to see that Ragan already had great taste in design. But when she and Brad bought their dream home they looked to Mark to refine their palette and get them access to the fabrics and papers and furniture that ar...