Arch Digest has a wonderful article on Toad Hall, a great read…
A profound love of the land, mixed with a lifelong passion for home entertaining, is the driving force behind the imposing collection of five log structures that Kreis and Sandy Beall have built on a picturesque 32-acre site in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains. With southern understatement, the Bealls and their Atlanta-based interior designer, Suzanne Kasler, refer to the compound’s 12,000 square feet of buildings, including the princely main house, as “log cabins,” much in the way that southerners might self-deprecatingly refer to the majestic two-story columns of their plantation houses as “sticks.” – from ArchDigest