A 1920 bungalow gets a new lease on life.

BY MERYL SCHOENBAUM 

NEUTRAL ACCESSORIES. Jennifer kept the furniture and rug on the front porch neutral to highlight the bold colors in the haint-blue ceiling, creamy yellow brick, red/brown window trim and red paver floors.

STYLISH STORAGE. This is a piece the clients had that Jennifer decided to paint the same red as the window trim and place on the back porch to house the TV and serve drinks.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID FOSTER I STYLING BY JENNIFER EANES FOSTER

When home restorer Jim Ogletree saw the 1920-built bungalow in Griffin, Georgia, he knew it would be his next restore-to-resell project. And when Bill and Jan Cooper saw it, they knew it would be their next home. They brought in local designer Jennifer Eanes Foster, founder of Eanes Foster Design, Inc., to give the rooms a fresh and respectful redesign.

“It is so fortunate that the house fell into Jim’s care because he is a true craftsman and appreciates the home’s history and finishes, which were mostly untouched since it was built,” Jennifer says. “My clients, the Coopers, purchased the home from him a few months into his renovation, so we were able to select the lighting, paint colors, stain colors, countertops, etc. My clients loved the character of the house as well as the walkability it offered to downtown shops and restaurants. I came into the project when Jim had started repair work and demoed the wall from the kitchen and former butler’s pantry to enlarge the kitchen footprint. So I came in very early on, but after a little demo had taken place.”