VALDOSTA — Sitting at 4522 Green Island Drive is Southern Living magazine’s 2017 Showcase Home. 

Located at Stone Creek Golf Club, the custom-made home was designed and built by Wilson Design and Construction specifically for occupants Jim and Connie McNab.

For 21 years, Wilson Design has been building and creating properties, and owner Todd Wilson has been a member of Southern Living’s custom-builder program for the past 12 years.

His close ties to Southern Living brought the newly constructed dwelling to the magazine’s attention after Wilson submitted it for showcase approval, he said.

“We go through the design process where they (the clients) give me the needs and wants, and I design the home around what they need or want and what their tastes are, and in this case, we did it in the way that reflected the Southern Living brand,” Wilson said. 

“Whiteside Farm,” as it’s been dubbed, is the newest plan that Wilson has submitted to Southern Living, and it is the first to be featured as one of the showcase homes by the magazine, Wilson said.

“This showcase home not only demonstrates the qualities we look for in our CBP member … but (it) also gives back to the community through support of worthy charities,” said Kristen Bryan, marketing director for Southern Living, in a press release.

One of the charities the house benefits is Operation Finally Home, a nonprofit organization offering “custom-made, mortgage-free homes to wounded and disabled veterans, Labor of Love animal rescue and Valdosta/Lowndes County Young Life,” according to the release.

To raise funding for the nonprofit, tours of the house are available until Jan. 21. The hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays.

The tours are to show the skill of Wilson Design while also affording the company the chance to further their efforts in assisting Operation Finally Home.

“We’re just big supporters of them,” he said. “We just want to continue to support them, and this is a way to do that.”

To purchase tickets, visit wilsondesignconstruction.com, or retrieve them when you go to the home.

Amanda Usher is a reporter at The Valdosta Daily Times. She can be contacted at 229-244-3400 ext.1274.