This Tiny Atlanta Cottage Is Home to a Family of Six

Atlanta photography gallery owner Anna Walker Skillman and landscape designer Thibaut Devillard have a blended family of six (plus dog and cats) but make their tiny bungalow in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur work for them by keeping their design clean and elegant and using white walls to highlight Anna's impressive photography collection. Though the couple do maintain separate residences in Atlanta, they are often all together in their Decatur home. Read on for her tips on bringing style and personality to a small 1,367-square-foot space.

It's clear a love of all things vintage and the luxe details that make French homes feel both elegant and lived-in are key components of husband and wife creatives Anna Walker Skillman and Thibaut Devillard's cozy Decatur home. Thibaut is a talented French-born landscape designer whose designs tend toward the restrained and monochromatic but decidedly timeless. And Anna is a regular at Paris Photo where she makes connections and represents the blue-chip photographers on view at her Buckhead gallery, Jackson Fine Art.

A lacquered white, open kitchen (the cabinets were sourced from a big box store to keep costs low) keeps things sleek and cool and provides a nice contrast to the vintage lines of this 1948 bungalow. To help with the kitchen's flow, a wall was removed between the kitchen and former dining area, which really opened up the space. The family's home on a quiet, charming street is one of the last in the area to be renovated, but Anna has held onto the home's simple lines and its prime location on a street filled with children who can walk to and from school.

There is no such thing as too many cooks in this expansive open-plan kitchen that is conducive to food prep and conversation with a round dining table built into the whole scheme.