How to Contact Us

France:
Porter Scott, At Home Abroad
inquiry@iloveparisapartments.com
+33 (0) 6 11 30 53 57

United States:
At Home Abroad, LLC
Suite 150, 148 River Street
Greenville, SC
29601
864-331-6306

About Us

@homeAbroad because we offer an interlocking set of services designed to create a distinctive second home for you in a foreign country. So, when you decide to come home you'll have an elegant and well equipped home waiting for you. But while you're away we'll coordinate the rental of your home. We also propose to oversee the administrative management and general maintenance of your home.

With over 20 years of experience in France, we've developed a network of craftsmen, mortgage lenders, antique dealers, architects &, property agents which is unsurpassed. We propose helping you find your dream home and working together with you to coordinate the remodeling & furnishing. We focus on creating distinctive environments with personality on the Left Bank of Paris. Based on our experience, such apartments garner the greatest demand on the rental market and fetch the highest prices on both the resale and rental markets.

We bridge the distance which makes a foreign second home a challenge by offering a single point of contact to satisfy all of your needs; from searching for, to managing the property. We work with you to set things up correctly from the start. While your home is half way around the world, its only just around the corner from us.

We look forward to welcoming you into one of our distinctive vacation apartments listed to the left, and we're sure you'll appreciate the difference between a home and a hotel while in Paris. Meanwhile, browse our services listed in the center column and perhaps we'll look forward to welcoming you home soon.

Please read more about us below.

PORTER SCOTT

Porter Scott is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia and Phillips Andover Academy who was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating from college with a double major in French and Studio Art (with a little architecture thrown in), he came to France in 1980 to pursue his art studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he obtained a diploma in Painting and the Plastic Arts in 1986. During this period of study, he also took courses in the history of French furniture at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and in so doing, his interests in antiques, artwork and antique building materials grew from a passion into a profession.

For a number of years now, Porter has been taking mostly American clients (dealers, decorators, and private individuals) on antique buying trips throughout France. His forte is being flexible and adapting to his client’s tastes and needs in order to help them find what they are looking for as quickly as possible, and within their budget. He is also adept at recognizing quality items at good value. His sources range from dust filled wholesale warehouses in the country side to the sumptuous, pedigreed Left Bank antique shops of Paris. For people building or remodeling homes, Porter helps them find antique and reproduction building materials (large limestone trumeau mantels, stone door surrounds, flooring, fountains, etc) that transform a house into a distinctive, unique dwelling.

As a parallel and complimentary activity, over the years Porter has involved himself in buying and renovating apartments in Paris and houses in the countryside. He is very much a ‘hands on’ owner, as he presently owns 3 elegantly furnished apartments in Paris’ 6th arrondissement.

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"... this time, I was going until 1 A.M., loading up my car with the following: 2 very large rectangular mirror frames, a lovely porcelain corner sink with its original faucet, an oak cabinet door, a small cheese cabinet door with its wooden grill, more carved marble mantle pieces, a large cast iron skillet, and bits and pieces of carved wood: from molding to cornices."

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