wenty Four Doors--the home of Master Solutions, Inc.--is a rather remarkable building in appearance and history. It is a large, almost square two-story clapboard structure, nestled among and shrouded by massive oaks draped with Spanish Moss in the historic Victorian District of Savannah, GA. Built in 1904, the appearance is venerable and invariably elicits a second glance.

On the adjoining lots east, was another clapboard house of the same era, the remains of which are now an addition to Twenty Four Doors. The lots east now host an old English style courtyard garden with meandering paths of black mist flagstone and patios of Savannah Gray Brick salvaged from the site of an old Savannah home. Tree lines of water oaks, poplars, Savannah Hollys and crepe myrtles tower over the bedded grounds. A pergola draped with sprawling wisteria and kiwi canopies the north patio, bedecked with potted herbs, flowering plants, a fire pit and timeworn furniture which bids one--sit, read, converse, meditate and enjoy. The sweet, delicate aroma of Carolina Jasmine permeates the south end of the garden, hanging like a veil over the garden wall and spilling into the lily beds and onto the bricked courtyard. An adjacent rock garden with cacti, various ferns and ornamental grasses gives way to the tranquil sounds of a bubbling mountain stone waterfall spilling five feet into a 3000 gallon Japanese Koi pond.

On the north end of the garden stands the greenhouse which now serves as a multipurpose area. The interior corresponds with it's exterior, having walls of stucco; the north wall reaching twenty feet and the forward fifteen. The sloping roof is verged of cedar shakes framing glass panes laid four deep and fifteen wide. The greenhouse is now divided -- on the west end a small enclosed room serves as a garden shed; the main area opening onto the north patio is floored with flagstone and serves as an entertainment area with a raised center platform and spa; and the east end serves as an area for preparing and cooking food plein air. The courtyard abuts a raised wooden deck which spans the entire east side of the building and gives way to the studio's rear entrance and the residential stairwell.

The house was named in memory of Mary Hoover Augusta Aiken, artist and widow of the noted quintessential author Conrad Aiken. The Aiken retreat, Forty One Doors, in Brewster, MA -- was named by Mary on a boredom filled day when she counted everything which hung from a hinge, to include the cupboard and pantry doors. Unlike the naming of the Aiken retreat, twenty four is the actual count of real doors which one may pass through at Twenty Four Doors -- which was by Mary's account the argument for citation.

Welcome to our home -- please enter, enjoy and always
"may your house be safe from tigers".