WE’VE FEATURED THE WORK of Suzanne Kasler before, and it’s no wonder, as her particular style of understated elegance is both arresting and calming at once, laid-back, yet intensely sophisticated. This time around, it is the 1927 Buckhead home of Clarke and Meghan Magruder. After assembling a team that included local architecture firm Spitzmiller & Norris, builder Jerry Bonner, landscape architect Graham Pittman, and of course, Atlanta-based interior designer Suzanne Kasler, what would follow was “a three-year project that would strip the main house down to the studs; increase the footprint with a three-car garage, breezeway, billiard room and loggia; and clear the sloping, overgrown forest of a backyard in favor of a pool, pool house, tennis court, bocce lawn, garden, vegetable garden, fire pit and ‘barn'” (Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles)
Kasler’s expert use of colour would feature prominently, the powdery blues, creams, champagne and cinnamon hues leading each room into the next with that understated elegance she does so well …