A moving company for Mountain Brook homes and the pieces inside them

If you are moving a 1930s brick Tudor in Mountain Brook Estates, a cottage near the Crestline clock tower, or a condo beside one of the villages, you are moving furniture, art, and antiques that took years to collect. Tunj Control Moving handles that kind of household from our headquarters at 1 Perimeter Park South, off US 280 and a short drive from every village. Our 25-plus movers are trained, background-checked, and uniformed, and the ones who wrap your sideboard are the ones who set it down in the new dining room. We have completed more than 10,000 moves and furniture installations, and we are licensed and insured. Homeowners, designers, and estate executors call our Mountain Brook movers for white-glove moves and full household moves.

The villages and neighborhoods, and what each means for a move

Mountain Brook was laid out in the late 1920s by Robert Jemison Jr. and landscape architect Warren H. Manning, and the roads still follow the contours of the land, favoring curves over straightaways. Our movers check the route before the truck commits.

Mountain Brook Village and Mountain Brook Estates

The original Tudor-style village sits beside the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, with Lane Park as its newer addition. Behind it, Mountain Brook Estates was planned on estate-sized lots along winding, tree-canopied roads, so the truck often stops well short of the front door.

English Village

The smallest of the three original villages, English Village sits along Cahaba Road with cottages and older brick homes close around it. Parking is tight, so we time the load for the quieter hours.

Crestline Village and Crestline

Crestline centers on the clock tower at Church Street and Oak Street, with cottages, ranches, and brick traditionals on smaller lots around it. The city’s truck routes into Crestline run along Montevallo Road, Memory Lane, Montclair Road, Euclid Avenue, and Country Club Road, and we follow them in before taking the direct street to your door.

Cherokee Bend, Brookwood Forest and Overton

Farther east toward US 280 and Overton Road, Cherokee Bend and Brookwood Forest hold more of the city’s ranch and brick-colonial homes. Overton Village on Green Valley Road and Overton Road serves that side of the city.

What Mountain Brook homes are made of

The typical Mountain Brook house was built around 1963, sits on about half an acre, and runs close to 3,500 square feet. Jemison’s early buyers built English Tudor, Italianate, French Norman farmhouse, Georgian, and Federal Revival homes on the larger estates. Later decades added brick traditionals, ranches and split-levels, then condos and townhomes around the villages.

On moving day that means:

  • Stone and brick construction with original doorways, so armoires and sofas get measured first
  • Hilly lots with steep driveways and basements, so heavy pieces often travel up or down a slope
  • Original floors, trim and stair rails, which we cover before anything moves
  • Formal rooms with art, mirrors, and antiques, which is where white glove handling starts
  • Renovations in a city that cannot add land, so furniture often leaves and comes back