J. Michael Welton

1 week ago | oceanhomemag.com | J. Michael Welton

Jay Gatsby would be jealous. But this home’s probably not Gatsby’s cup of tea. This available haven on southern shores lacks that nouveau riche rascal’s love for turrets and spires, reveling instead in double-height walls of glass and steel. And it looks out not to an alluring green light across the bay but to a wide-open expanse of Atlantic Ocean.

2 months ago | period-homes.com | J. Michael Welton

Once home to a 1940s cottage, a two-acre lot on the western edge of the coveted Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, is now a secluded residential compound. As is true of neighboring homes, this one is barely visible from the street, in part because of its natural setting and in part because of a ready collaboration between the architect and landscape architect.

2 months ago | virginialiving.com | J. Michael Welton |Madeline Mayhood |Hope Cartwright |Meridith Ingram

Richard McClintock’s second career as a miniature model-maker was born of intuition and serendipity. After 40 years teaching Latin and Western Civilization at Hampden-Sydney College and a gig as director of publications, he retired in 2012. That August, he took a trip with his wife to Blacksburg, where she checked into a conference for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Virginia. That left McClintock on his own, searching for a source of entertainment.

Nov 11, 2024 | oceanhomemag.com | J. Michael Welton

On the edge of a sliver of land on Drum Point in St. Michael’s, facing Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, stands a home whose architect outsmarted every restriction imposed upon it. “The lot had major constraints,” says Jonathan Rivera, owner of the Woodbine, Maryland, architecture firm that bears his name. “It’s a couple of acres, but it has a tight footprint because of setbacks off the water.”It was also the site of a dream home for Rivera’s clients, John and Tina Galdieri.

Oct 28, 2024 | oceanhomemag.com | J. Michael Welton

Lisa Berlin is a client who knows what she wants. Raised in Connecticut by parents who owned a custom-built home business, she learned everything she could from them. Then she ventured into finance. But once she and her husband, Bob, started a family, she decided to explore interior design. With vigor. “I got my decorator’s license,” she says. “And I get great pleasure from it.”She designed two homes in Connecticut, then pivoted to a site in Naples, Florida, three lots back from the Gulf.