Inside TammiVille

A Glimpse
of Home

A room that stays theirs. A seat at the table. A home to return to at the end of the day.

The interior photographs and films show the private family residence as its rooms stand. For household security, the exterior is a fictionalized architectural composite rather than a photograph of the address. This is a glimpse, not a tour.

  1. IThe houseArrival, and what a front door promises
  2. IIA seat at the tableMeals, homework, the rhythm of a week
  3. IIIA room preparedRest, privacy, a door that closes
  4. IVBeginHow a placement actually starts
Privacy-protective fictionalized view of a brick Georgia family residence.
Plate I · fictionalized exterior
I

The house

Arrival
Privacy-protective fictionalized view of a brick Georgia family residence.
Plate IFictionalized exterior. The actual façade, address and approach are intentionally not published.
Fictionalized architectural detail suggesting a covered front entrance.Fictionalized detail · welcome

The first thing a student sees is a front door, not a reception desk.

The real setting is a private family residence in a quiet county outside Atlanta. Its exact façade and approach remain private; the illustration carries the feeling of arrival without exposing the address.

On recordA private family home — not a dormitory, campus or facility. The exact address is shared with a family directly, before enrolment, and never published.
II

A seat at the table

The rhythm of a week

Somebody sets a place for you before you arrive — and again the next evening.

Meals are eaten together at a table that has been in use for years. The day runs through this room: the retelling of school, homework spread past the mats, the ordinary argument about whose turn it is to clear.

On recordMeals are cooked in the household and eaten at this table. Allergies and dietary needs are recorded in writing before arrival; what a week of meals looks like is planned with each family.
A place set at the wooden dining table beside shuttered windows.
Detail: plate, folded napkin and cutlery on a woven mat.Detail · one place, set
Plate IIThe dining room, mid-afternoon. One place setting, as photographed — no food, no guests and no additional settings have been added.
Interlude

Daily life happens here

Living room · five seconds
Film I · 5s · silentloops
Film IThe living room. Five seconds of one space as it stands, cropped to the room — not a route through the house.

Between the table and the bedroom there is a room simply to sit in.

Seating, a rug, and daylight coming in at the window. This is the part of a home that a photograph flattens: not a room to be admired, a room to be in.

III

A room prepared

Rest & privacy · in motion
Film II · 7s · silentplays once
Film IIThe bedroom, prepared. Seven seconds, no sound — the camera moves once across a room nobody has arrived in yet.

A door that closes, a bed already made, and no audience for the first night.

Somewhere to keep your own things and sleep properly. Privacy here is part of the arrangement, not a privilege to be earned.

On recordOne room in the house, shown as prepared. Which room a student has is planned with each family, and the arrangement is agreed in writing before arrival.
Detail: daylight at the bedroom window above the made bed.Detail · window light, late afternoon
Plate IIIA detail of the same room, photographed prepared and empty. No furniture, bedding or personal object has been added or removed, and nothing has been brought in for the camera.

The house quiets after dinner. Homework finishes at the table, the hallway light stays on, and a door closes on a room prepared for one student — which room that is, and how it is kept, are planned with each family and set down in writing.

Between the rooms

Four things are settled in writing, before anyone travels

Between the table and the bedroom there is a week to get through: a school run in the dark, a form nobody signed, a fever on a Wednesday. This part does not photograph — so it is planned with each family instead, and the details are agreed in writing.

i

Meals

Breakfast before the school run, and a dinner cooked in this house at the end of it.

What a week of meals looks like is planned with each family. Allergies and dietary requirements are recorded in writing before arrival.

ii

Transportation

The school run, and the travel a school year asks for.

School transport and any further travel are planned with each family, and the details are agreed in writing.

iii

Supervision

An adult in this household is responsible for the student, and answerable to the family.

Responsibility, guardianship and contact arrangements are set out in writing with each family.

iv

A stable home

One house, one household, one routine — agreed at the start rather than improvised term by term.

One household, one placement. How and how often the household is in touch is planned with each family.

IV · Begin

Begin with a conversation.

No deposit and no student documents yet—the waitlist begins the conversation. We speak with one family at a time — about the student, the school year, the room, and what a week in this house actually looks like. If it isn’t the right home, we will say so.

Join the waitlistScheduling questions?
Reach the household directly WhatsApp +1 646 470 9819hello@tammiville.org

What happens after you write

  1. 1

    The household responds directly

    Not a call centre — someone in this house writes back, with the questions we need answered first.

  2. 2

    A conversation about the home

    About the rooms on this page, the school year and the household — by message or call, as arranged with you.

  3. 3

    Terms, in writing

    Room, meals, transport, supervision and school arrangements — agreed in writing before anyone travels.

Places are limited by the number of rooms in one house.