When designers Joann Kandrac and Kelly Kole first visited the Smyrna, Georgia, home of Karee Lang and Page Porter, they saw no discernible signs of the couple’s personalities. Despite large windows and open spaces, the rooms felt dim and generic. Intense color schemes and heavy furnishings seemed as anonymous as a furniture store showroom. “The house was so impersonal,” Kelly says. “They didn’t have family pictures up, didn’t have art that meant something to them, and there was no reflection of their lives together.”
