In 2003, with nothing but a dream, Tony and Denise Brown started cutting granite, launching their first business and the first Kitchen Designs Group in East Cobb. In the time since, their corporation has grown, now averaging about 80 employees to assist in executing their four different trades with locations in Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; as well as Panama City and Santa Rosa, FL. Despite their growth, they remain a family-owned business, with four of their children heavily involved. As a result, it only follows that the two would utilize their skills and experience to create the home of their dreams.
After moving to Florida in 2017, the couple added seven houses to their portfolio, renovating them in a manner only they know how. “Denise did what she does best. People would come in and buy everything,” Tony said. “But this home was a labor of love.”
The home to which he is referring was a project gone right. Abandoned for five years in a Santa Rosa neighborhood, the couple’s real estate agent begged them to undertake the challenge. It sat in unlivable conditions, and she said the couple were the only ones who could redo it and turn it into something spectacular. “We prayed about it,” Denise said. “And everything just fell into place.”
Having been in the industry for so long, the two decided to have some fun with it, doing things out of the ordinary and taking it as far as they could with their imagination. “Every home purchased and remodeled was all about the resale,” Denise confessed. “I really wanted this one to be over the top and one that I loved.” They redid every square foot of the house from the inside out. “It was very out of our wheelhouse, which is why we took it on,” they said. What they didn’t expect was to fall in love with the house and ultimately make it their dream home.
“It’s definitely a little piece of paradise,” Tony admitted. “We also have a home in East Cobb built in the ’60s. It’s like night and day when we go between each home." In regard to their Florida home, the focal point is the marble in the kitchen. Composed of a rare Calacatta marble straight from Italy, the two were able to acquire the slabs needed for the kitchen and opted to continue with that type of design throughout the rest of the home.
With her interior design background enabling her to sense what a home needs to be, Denise loves and values the differences in each style incorporated in the homes they have undertaken throughout the years. That being said, while her personal favorite is a traditional, classic design with touches of other styles, the house that became their dream home “is very Spanish, very Mediterranean, very different than anything tackled before,” Denise said.
In the same manner, Denise and Tony aim to do for their clients what they did for themselves. “We want people to fall back in love with their homes, to be happy in the space they spend so much time in with their families,” Denise said. Agreeing, Tony added, “We want it to be night and day in a remodel because you won’t appreciate the difference otherwise.”
Subsequently, twenty years after their establishment, Denise and Tony are thrilled to open their own showroom, a 30,000-square-foot facility in Marietta. “We’ve always worked in showrooms, but we couldn’t really do everything we wanted to do,” Tony confessed. “In this one, we will be showing things people have never seen. We want to make it more of an experience instead of just going to get countertops and cabinets.”
Offering free consultations, Kitchen Designs Group eagerly awaits your project, ready to turn your dream into a reality in the same way they did theirs. Visit their website today to learn more kitchendesignsgroup.com - 700 Williams Drive, Marietta, GA 30060