Heirloom Rooms
Soulful Stories of Home
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Erin Napier, designer, host of HGTV’s Home Town, and author of Make Something Good Today, returns with a gorgeously illustrated and one-of-a-kind celebration of the homes we live in and love.
Our homes are more than an assemblage of bricks and glass, wood and nails.
They are the keepers of our childhood memories, our milestones, and heartaches. They evolve as we do. As a family grows and eventually retracts, a home can change hands and begin again. We are the chapters in the book of a house. They carry on after we are gone, setting the stage for another story, a new life, new memories.
From Erin Napier, coauthor with her husband, Ben, of their memoir Make Something Good Today, comes a collection of essays walking us through every room in her home, telling the story of a family’s life, of the days that made their home the place she longs for when she’s away.
We learn about when they became the new owners of Erin’s dream house from childhood in downtown Laurel, Mississippi, and explore the beautiful homes of family, friends, and projects past in photographs.
With essays that evoke her Southern home, photos of the beautifully imperfect, lived-in spaces of her family and friends, and prompts for us to document our own homemade memories, Heirloom Rooms feels like walking through the front door of the collected and loved-in houses Erin and Ben are known for revitalizing in HGTV’s #1 hit series, Home Town.
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"Your home does not look like a magazine article and it was never meant to," writes Napier (Make Something Good Today), cohost of HGTV's Home Town, in this unpretentious celebration of ordinary houses. She discusses how she and her husband transformed a 1925 Craftsman-style house in Laurel, Miss., noting they refurbished the kitchen by installing a cast-iron sink and custom-built refrigerator cabinet and spruced up the living room with canvas curtain panels and an antique butcher's chopping block used as an end table. Napier weaves intimate memories into descriptions of the renovations, recounting, for example, how she bathed her newborn daughter in the freestanding tub she put in the primary bathroom. Though the photos of Napier's house are carefully orchestrated, they're more candid than typical home design fare, with her daughters' mermaid dolls splayed in the bathtub and a child's costume left draped over a kitchen chair. Images from the homes of Napier's friends highlight, for instance, bed frames sourced from a WWII-era Navy cargo ship in the guest room of frequent Home Town guest star Mallorie Rasberry and the Ping-Pong table and neon sign in the basement of Linda Phan, creative director of Scott Brothers Entertainment. Napier's fans will relish the personal anecdotes, and the emphasis on everyday living offers a down-to-earth alternative to the luxurious abodes that populate most home design books. This charms.
