The Jungle Room: brass blooms, black-and-white fronds, and the mustard sofa every guest photographs first.
Greige is not for vacation.
The Big Chill is a 4-bedroom mid-century house one mile from Toomer’s Corner, named after the massive orange refrigerator that anchors its kitchen. The name fits the whole place: bold, nostalgic, and a little bit famous around Auburn.
Every room runs on color: palm-print walls behind a mustard sofa, a dining nook wallpapered in gold cats, a peacock-blue couch under floor-to-ceiling glass. A film crew has recorded documentary interviews in these rooms, and a university fashion program has used the house for its annual photo shoot. Guests’ kids treat it like a museum where you’re allowed to touch everything.
It works because underneath the whimsy it’s simply a great group house: two living rooms, five beds, a kitchen stocked beyond reason, and a private half-acre backyard with a fire pit, a grill under the orange canopy and, yes, a geo dome.
- guests, five real beds
- 10
- guests, five real bedsKing, two queens, twins, plus an optional queen air mattress
- living rooms
- 2
- living roomsOne for the game, one for the nap. Nobody fights for the couch
- acre of backyard
- ½
- acre of backyardFire pit, grill under the orange canopy, and a geo dome
- mile to Toomer’s Corner
- 1
- mile to Toomer’s CornerKroger and its 6 a.m. Starbucks are directly across the street
