On the other wall is a piano and a dust-covered Tori Amos songbook that's ready to play whenever I am. We happened upon the outlet one snowy day in western Massachusetts with and I came home with my favorite Pine Cone Hill quilt for a song. In this room, the only art on the walls are the maps of all our favorite places we've ever been framed by with wood taken from my great grandparents' now-dismantled Victorian farmhouse. Every morning I brush off the dirt and sawdust from boots, because he lays on it with his legs hanging over the arm, dozing while I blog at my oak craigslist desk where I've written the bulk of 2,212 posts about the best thing that happened that day. Because it's dark and cozy at night, it's easy to get sleepy in the cushy sofa and armchair. This is the office, but for whatever reason this is the room people always gravitate to when they come over. #HGTV #iliveinlaurel (□ by post shared by Erin Napier on at 3:43pm PST I just can't thank y'all enough for following along with us here. 13 days till #HGTVHomeTown! Click the link in my profile and like the official Facebook page for updates and whatnot. Our house is very informal and it's important that all of our closest can gather around the table when they come over for dinner. The French grain sack upholstered wingback chair came from just around the corner from our shop and my mama made the table runner from a drop cloth and made two simple slate blue rows of stitches down the center that sort of mimic the chair. The original WWII Red Cross ad with its cloth backing is one of my favorite things in our house. As long as they were super sturdy and had a nice, early American shape, we bought them all for around $20 each. The 13-star centennial replica flag from the early 1900s was an estate sale find for $3, and the chairs came from flea markets from Biloxi to Virginia. The top is made from my parents' old back porch flooring that they replaced and the legs are their old front porch columns, so in that way I always have a piece of my childhood home here with me. Now he's embarrassed by how primitive it is, but to me it's a treasure. Our dinner table was the first piece of furniture ever built. (□ by #HGTVHomeTown #iliveinlaurel #HGTVĪ post shared by Erin Napier on at 9:09am PST made the screen doors to the porch and in the spring and fall, I love to hear that creeeeeeak SMACK of coming and going. Sometimes it's grey, sometimes it's green or brown. Each frame has a tiny brass label holder with that branch of the family's surname so people can say "Oh Ben! You have her eyes!" Or "Your brother stands just like that too!" The entry paint is Java by Eddie Bauer. Our people were young and silly and adventurous, they shaped who we are and what we become, and their presence everywhere we turn makes home feel the way it should-the most comfortable place where we can be ourselves. You won't find photos of and me because our walls are covered with the people we love, our grandparents and parents, holding watermelons proudly beside a lake in 1949, riding bicycles in rolled up jeans, posing with an English setter and an awkward haircut, laughing, holding up blue crabs on some distant dock. Y'all come in! Every room in our house is white with exception of the "pass through" rooms like the entryway, where I hope anyone walking in the door immediately feels cozy and welcomed. Here's a look at the gorgeous rooms inside. Mary Lyn's daughter called to ask if we would seriously like to buy it because she's tired of keeping up a yard and is thinking of moving into a condo where she won't have to worry about a thing." The Napiers jumped at the chance and landed their dream house, which they proceeded to renovate into a home. As they left, the newlyweds told her "if she ever decided to move, to please call us because we would love to buy it," Erin wrote on her blog. Naturally, because Laurel is seemingly the friendliest town in the USA, Mary Lyn invited them in for a tour, where they fell even more in love with the property. When she was all grown up and on a walk with her husband, Ben, she saw then-owner Mary Lyn on the porch and told her how much she admired her house. Erin had dreamed of living in it since she was a little girl growing up in the small southern city. The story of how the Napiers acquired their 1925 Craftsman-style house in their beloved town of Laurel, Mississippi, is like something straight out of a movie. You've seen Erin's designs and Ben's handiwork on Home Town, but now you can get a behind-the-scenes peek at the house the HGTV stars call home.
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