This Stunning Home in Virginia’s Horse Country Is the Perfect Fall Getaway

Some fall getaways are about leaf peeping, others about pumpkin patch scouting—however this season within the foothills of Virginia, design is definitely the principle attraction. For a restricted time, the 2025 Southern Residing Concept Home in Keswick—a horse-country hamlet dotted with stylish vineyards simply exterior of Charlottesville, Virginia—is welcoming design lovers wanting to make a weekend of it.

Southern Residing’s 4,500-square-foot, four-bedroom residence, created by Rosney Co. Architects with interiors by famend designer Charlotte Moss, blends traditional particulars with fashionable touches and anchors the coveted Keswick Property neighborhood. It’s a great handle for vacationers, given its proximity to the just lately reimagined Keswick Corridor, a bucolic Historic Accommodations of America inductee that sits simply down the street. With one in all Virginia’s most notable collections of regional artwork at its core, the resort was reinvented three years in the past as a design haven by homeowners Molly and Robert Hardie, who additionally oversee Nashville’s Hermitage Resort. For guests wanting to stay—even briefly—contained in the pages of a favourite journal, central Virginia is autumn’s final ornamental arts vacation spot.

“This space actually represents the perfect of Virginia,” says Sid Evans, editor in chief of Southern Residing. “There’s a lot historical past in Charlottesville from a design perspective.”

Now marking its thirty sixth yr, the Concept Home franchise goals to showcase not simply aspirational decor, but additionally locations that individuals are wanting to expertise. “It solely takes so lengthy to tour a home, so it’s good to have plenty of different issues to do within the space,” Evans says. “Charlottesville has that in spades—vineyards, museums, buying.”

For Moss, seeking to Keswick and Charlottesville for inspiration got here naturally. “Southerners are house-proud individuals,” she says, and provides that it is a sentiment woven into the material of the area since its earliest days. “Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents, with properties that stand as necessary historic landmarks.”

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, for instance, is only a 13-minute drive from the Concept Home and Keswick Corridor. “There’s a legacy of design and structure right here that resonates on so many ranges,” she says.

In keeping with Hardie, the undertaking’s developer, the Concept Home owes its magnetism to Albemarle County’s distinctive vernacular—seen in its two grand porches, octagonal entryway, and grounds planted with native species, a alternative that echoes her personal panorama choices at Keswick Corridor. A push-pin map within the Concept Home’s storage tells the story—its floor dotted with markers from vacationers who’ve journeyed from throughout the nation to see it for themselves.

Final yr’s Concept Home at Kiawah River in South Carolina welcomed greater than 17,000 guests from all 50 states. Evans expects an identical turnout on the Keswick property this yr—particularly come November, when the Southern Residing crew turns up the allure, bedecking the house in magazine-cover-worthy vacation decor. “It’s an ideal girlfriend getaway or mother-daughter journey,” Evans says.

Tickets to the Southern Residing Concept Home can be found at keswick.com.