Sandy Springs Interior Designer in the Spotlight at Show Homes and TV Home Show
August 24th, 2011 – Headline: Margaret Norcott’s designs have been featured in the Alliance Children’s Theater Guild Christmas Show House. This fall, her work will be featured on HGTV’s new show “Run My Makeover.”
{MDG’s Kids Craft Room – 2010 Atlanta Symphony Show House & Gardens}
About five years ago, Ann and George Mewborne were long-time Sandy Springs residents looking for an interior designer. After a referral from the American Society of Interior Design, their first and only call was to Margaret L. Norcott, who ownsMilieu Design Group.
{Girls Bedroom – Alliance Children’s Theater Christmas Show House}
The Mewbornes, both 78, had found a ranch-style home in Alpharetta to accommodate their needs.
“We were empty nesters and we wanted three downstairs bedrooms,” Ann Mewborne said. Almost a year and more than $150,000 in interior furnishings later, the house was ready to live in.
The final project featured a screened porch, great room, kitchen, dining room and two master bedrooms.
Norcott’s designs have been featured in the Alliance Children’s Theater Guild Christmas Show House and the Decorator’s Orchestra Show House and Gardens, which benefits the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Education and Community. She created “The Beverly Hillbillies Set” at the Next Cool Thing Event, a showcase for Atlanta designers, and “The Hillbillies [Take 2]” at the Atlanta Home Show, in April.
This fall, Norcott is the Designer (who created the concepts/look/selections) on HGTV’s “Run My Makeover Episodes #112 & #113. However, she will be it as a “Ghost” or “Behind The Scenes Designer” as will MasterWorks Atlanta contractor work. (She had a dear friend and assistant Designer working on this project with her, Melissa Knott.)
Every designer’s dream [is] to have two master bedrooms,” Norcott said, on the Mewborne’s Alpharetta home.
Ann Mewborne’s master bedroom has a garden feel and used soft greens with accents of cream color, including a including a cream-colored custom-made headboard.
Her husband’s room used dark woods. “George’s room just had that true Ralph Lauren feel,” Norcott said. “We used the beautiful blues with the tans and the cream accents and then in his bathroom we used a beautiful wallpaper that had a woven texture to it. It’s very handsome.”
Norcott says her Sandy Springs-based business revolves around her clients’ needs. A client may need to meet her at 8 a.m. for a coffee and then again at night to go over possible furnishings.
“It works for me because I have a just-turned 4-year-old and a just turned 7-year-old,” she said.
She met Alison Woodrow, of Dunwoody, at their children’s school. Woodward hired Norcott to renovate her master bathroom.
“The shower had rotted through and we had a leak so we were unable to use the shower for several months,” Woodward recalled. “The house is about 30-years-old so the master bath was small and kind of poorly laid out with vanities on either side of the door.”
There was also a shower on one corner, a big bathtub in the middle back wall and a linen closet on a corner. Norcott moved the shower to the other end of the bath and took out the bathtub, giving more room to extend the vanity. The bathroom got a design facelift as well, shedding its small 1970s tiles for natural stone ones.
Both Woodrow and the Mewbornes anticipate using Norcott again.
“We still have the basement to do so I might even be asking Margaret’s help at some point in the future,” Ann Mewborne said. “Like I said, we did the whole upstairs and the main floor with her help and [we’ve] got plans to finish the basement one day.”
