Home Dėcor & Design: A Natural Inclination

(the house plan for my childhood home)

Ever since I can remember I have loved beautiful spaces. It’s definitely something I get honestly from my mama and grandmothers. Their homes were lovely — collected, cozy, lived-in and beautiful. My parents built the home in which I grew up when I was six, and the plan they used (and modified for our family) was the 1990 Southern Living Show House in Atlanta. I remember visiting it before we started our build (I have photos from the trip…somewhere!). I still have the magazine it was featured in.

Maybe it was because I watched my mama during the process of building and designing our home — how she carefully picked out materials and even designed the featured stain glass window and transoms herself — that I have a natural inclination and love for home dėcor. I have always loved home dėcor magazines, rearranging furniture and “fluffing” (aka styling) my spaces, whether it was my childhood bedroom my college dorm & apartments or my home now.

Over the weekend I came across my collection of “tear sheets” — accordion folders chock full of magazine clippings collected through the years since I was a little girl. I pulled out my “kitchen” inspo folder, and it looks familiar! My new kitchen (the first one I have designed for myself) definitely proves that my inclination towards classic, timeless interiors has not changed since March 1998 when I clipped this Traditional Home kitchen. I was 13. Another kitchen clipping from Southern Living March 2007 looks familiar, too!