Alison Victoria had never considered herself an apartment kind of girl. But when she laid eyes on the Stacks lofts, a converted 1880s textile mill in Atlanta, the HGTV star immediately knew she had to buy a unit there—even if only to flip it. At the time, Victoria was living in her native Chicago (filming her hit show Windy City Rehab) and visiting Atlanta to guest star in Ty Pennington’s renovation show Ty Breaker.
By the time the show wrapped, she’d made an offer on a unit in the Stacks, never really intending to live there. But the further along the project got, the more she found herself falling in love with it.
“I started getting really into the project and decided I wanted to keep this home for the rest of my life,” Victoria admits. “I have never loved a place as much as this one.”
The two-bedroom, two-bath loft sits on the fourth floor of the landmark complex in Cabbagetown, a neighborhood downtown. Victoria enlisted a local contractor, Alistair Herriot of Hammertime Construction, and her lead designer, Kristy Yarbrough, to help revamp the space, extending the mezzanine level 133 square feet over the ground-floor kitchen to make the primary suite roomier. The sprinkler system was heightened to accomodate tall accent pieces on that level, which was no easy feat.
To give the 26-foot ceiling an infinite feel, it was painted (along with the walls and exposed pipes) Pure White by Benjamin Moore.
