Text by Linda Wright | Photography by Marcy Black Simpson
Designer Ashley Gilbreath turned to her passion in a time of need and opened a boutique that offers furnishings to make your home stylish and comfortable.
As a little girl Ashley Gilbreath played designer and decorator with her sister and, over the years, her play turned into her passion. She worked in residential design in New York with Richard Keith Langham and later moved to Atlanta to work in hospitality design. It was there Ashley met a Southern gentleman she would marry.
![“I think my own personal style is a bit of French design [and] a little bit of English, but I just love that overly collected, curated, layered space that looks lived in and comfortable,” Paige says.](https://thecottagejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Photo-May-05-2022-2-46-08-PM_OTR-feat-218x150.jpg "Designer Paige Kontrafouris Layers Her 100-Year-Old Home with Collected Treasures")
