- 6 weeks ago
Today, AD is welcomed by country music sensation Lainey Wilson to tour her Nashville home. Best known for her breakout album Bell Bottom Country, Wilson takes us inside the first home she has fully designed. From leopard print stair carpets to sparkling gold ceilings, Wilson’s home is her imagination come to life, blending vintage Americana, personal mementos, and Southern charm. The home is filled with meaningful touches, including a portrait of her 31-year-old horse, Tex, and preserved wood flooring from the original Grand Ole Opry stage. The musician has created the perfect sanctuary full of warmth and character to kick back and relax.
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00:00Hey A.D. Welcome to my house here in Nashville. Come on in. You don't even have to kick your boots off.
00:19This is the first home that I have designed. I feel like I have my fingerprints on everything in this house.
00:26I've always been a sucker for leopard. My very first pair of bell bottoms were blue leopard print and so I had to have leopard carpet on the stairs.
00:34When I think of my music it's different colors and textures and prints and I wanted to feel creative in this space.
00:41So even the textured wallpaper on the wall on accident it kind of looks like gold records.
00:47One of my creative friends has this gold sparkly floor and I thought man I want to do that to my ceiling.
00:53It glitters. It shines. It sparkles. A lot of my songs talk about feathers.
00:58There's even a line in Rolling Stone with like a feather in the wind I'll be gone.
01:03And so I'm really drawn to the things like this. Things that I feel like tell a story.
01:08I love this bathroom so much. As soon as I saw this wallpaper I was like yep two of my favorite things.
01:13Cowboys. Sunshines. Over here on the wall is my horse who is turning 31 years old this year.
01:20He is my baby. His name is Tex. He taught me a lot about life. Yeah he's he was like a sibling to me.
01:27This stained glass right here was done by a lady here in Nashville.
01:31She does a lot of stained glass for churches and cathedrals here in town.
01:35It's one of my favorite things in this house. These colors just the way the light shines through it.
01:40I feel like different times of the day the stained glass looks different. Yeah it's just it's a piece of art.
01:52This is the living space and this is my baby Hippie Mae Wilson. This is her house and I'm just living in it.
01:58I'm so sentimental. I mean probably too sentimental to be honest with you.
02:02The very first song I wrote was called Lucky Me. I love horseshoes.
02:06And so this reminds me of that first song I wrote.
02:09I always say like you don't want the couch in the living room to be too comfortable.
02:14You know that way people like won't leave when you need them to.
02:17So it's got just enough like you know stiffness to it.
02:20Also one of my favorite things in here is this candle.
02:23It's called a big ass candle. That's the brand of it. Big ass candle.
02:27I love this little corner. I'm gone all the time.
02:29So I needed to do something where I didn't actually have to water plants.
02:33My creative friend Raina actually made this lamp.
02:36I love the western aesthetic. I love it. I love it.
02:40Everything from the way that I dress to the way that I decorate my house too.
02:44This terracotta wall. It reminds me of Arizona and New Mexico.
02:49And I think there's something really special about those places.
02:52So I kind of wanted to bring that to Nashville.
02:54These curtains were trying to make their way over here.
02:57And three different times the ship had pirates.
03:00And I'm not even playing.
03:02They stole my curtains three different times.
03:05And finally the fourth time we got the fabric over here.
03:09So these curtains were worth it.
03:11The pirates they got some good fabric.
03:13When I saw this light fixture I was like this has got to go in the living room.
03:16Even the way that it's shaped like a tree.
03:18I feel like I can kind of sit under it and be one with nature.
03:22This picture right here actually inspired one of the scenes in our Somewhere Over Laredo music video.
03:28When I'm running through the canyons.
03:30So I'm one of these dudes right here.
03:32Home. Home means it's where your feet are at.
03:35It's where your heart is. I know that's the cliché.
03:38Home is where the heart is. But it's true.
03:40It's where you go when you feel like you need to refill your cup.
03:43It's a place that you should feel comfortable.
03:45I'm so thankful for this home.
03:47This home has been that for me.
03:55This is the dining area.
03:57Clearly somebody's horny and it ain't me.
04:01This is one of my favorite places in the house.
04:03This is where a lot of great conversations are had.
04:05I've written some songs around this kitchen table.
04:09This right here is called the fight light because it causes fights when you put it together.
04:13I wanted to scream and cuss.
04:15Me and my fiancé were widening up.
04:17But speaking of fiancé, he can make a mean steak.
04:21And one of my favorite meals is jalapeno poppers and duck steak right here at this table.
04:27Are people going to think it's duck steak?
04:30Side note, my fiancé's name is duck.
04:33It's not duck steak.
04:34It's duck's steak.
04:42This is the kitchen.
04:43I love my Mackenzie Childs.
04:44I got the bowl, the teapot, and a little butter thing over here.
04:49It's the little things in life.
04:50But honestly, it's things like this that make me feel like I'm making it.
04:53You know what I'm saying?
04:54So the microwave ended up down here because I just didn't want to spend any more money on putting it anywhere else.
04:59So if you're wanting to use the microwave, you've got to get down on all fours like this.
05:03You've really got to work for it.
05:04So it makes you think about every single time you're using the microwave.
05:09I am a good host.
05:10I will tell you, I'm a good host.
05:11I had Miranda Lambert and her husband, Brendan, over the other night.
05:14And me and duck were cooking for them.
05:16And right before they got here, I was like,
05:18is Miranda Lambert really coming to our house?
05:20Like, that would have been weird if he'd have told me that about ten years ago.
05:23Now she's one of my buddies, but we love hosting.
05:26We love having people over here.
05:28Normally we've got a record on up here and duck is out back grilling.
05:32I'm taking folks down to the bar, making them a drink and just enjoying ourselves.
05:37The Emerald Hall, I love this color.
05:45And it also matches my outfit from the cover of my record, Bell Bottom Country,
05:50which was a really big life changing record for me.
05:52And every time I get to walk down this hall, I look at this and I'm reminded of how far I've come.
06:00It's pretty cool.
06:01This is my favorite spot in the house.
06:04I'll say before I started working on this space, I had got to visit Graceland and I got to see Elvis' jungle room.
06:12This entire area, the hallway and this room down here, has a little bit of that jungle room feel.
06:18We were trying to make it as funky as we possibly could.
06:20Y'all come on.
06:21This is the place we hang out.
06:36This is where I write my music.
06:38This is where we have band rehearsals.
06:40This is where we congregate right here.
06:42My favorite kind of art is velvet paintings and a lot of these were made back in the 70s.
06:48I knew that I needed a big old couch down here because I knew that I was going to have a lot of people down here hanging out.
06:54Everybody piles up when the band is over here tracking and recording and working on things for the show.
07:00But I knew that I needed enough seats for a lot of people.
07:04Speaking of hosting, I'm a dang good host.
07:06I even have a tip drawer right here.
07:08One of my co-writers dropped me a $20 bill the other day because I make a mean old fashioned.
07:14You got to make your old fashions with Barman.
07:16I'm talking about Barman 1873.
07:19We don't measure things around here.
07:20We just do how we feel in that day.
07:24A little bit of regular bitters like that.
07:26This is flavored bark.
07:29This is where it gets dangerous.
07:31It looks good.
07:35Somebody want this?
07:37I'm not sure why we did this to be honest.
07:39It's pretty funny.
07:40I'm Blue Moon and Duck is Coors Light.
07:43This Dolly Parton picture was actually a coffee table and I took the legs off of it.
07:49Hung it as a pitcher.
07:51The guitars right here are my daddy's first guitars.
07:55He got this one when he was just a little boy.
07:57He puts his name on everything.
07:58His name is Brian Wilson.
07:59I'm not the beach boy.
08:01Cowboy.
08:02He used to roll a picnic table out to the side of the highway and stand on top of his table and pretend that he was a country music singer and sang for the cars passing by.
08:11It's cool to have these hanging on my wall and also just thinking about him as a little boy doing that.
08:16It just kind of makes me feel like he's getting to live vicariously through me.
08:20This is my closet.
08:31This is where I spend a lot of my time.
08:33A lot of things come into this room and go out of this room.
08:36Every tour outfit, every press outfit.
08:39This is one of my happy places.
08:41This is where I feel creative.
08:43I've always been a sucker for bell bottoms.
08:45I remember putting them on when I was nine years old and remember how they made me feel.
08:51Made me feel sassy.
08:52Made me feel like I could do anything.
08:55And so I never grew out of it.
08:59When we were doing the Wrangler collection, my mama used to always say,
09:02we all put our breeches on the same way, one leg at a time.
09:05So on the inside of the Wrangler pocket.
09:08So we all put our Wranglers on the same way.
09:11Which to me just means we all the same.
09:14We all love.
09:15We all hurt.
09:16We all bleed red.
09:17I am a sucker for vintage blouses.
09:21A lot of my vintage clothes I get from Etsy or eBay.
09:24I'll be digging.
09:26I'll fight you over a vintage piece.
09:28Don't come for me.
09:29They're just made different.
09:30The detail.
09:31You can look at all this like embroidered back here on the back.
09:34It's just, it also tells a story.
09:37I'm proud of my hat collection.
09:38My daddy taught me a long time ago.
09:40This is how you place a hat upside down so you don't bend the brim.
09:45But also an old western wives tale is if you leave the hat like this,
09:50maybe it'll fill up with good luck.
09:52So we're flipping all these things upside down.
09:55We need all the luck we can get.
09:57I definitely have a boot problem.
09:58These are my very own line Golden West.
10:02My friend built this for me.
10:04Honor.
10:05Did a great job.
10:07This is a dream come true.
10:09I can see everything I have.
10:11I didn't even realize I had as much as I had.
10:13I should never buy another piece of jewelry ever again.
10:15We just launched our very own jewelry collection.
10:18And I'm so proud of it.
10:19I love a good charm.
10:20It's got the cowboy hat.
10:22And the wildflower.
10:24The horseshoe.
10:25The feather.
10:26The star.
10:27Number nine.
10:28Nine was the year that I got my first horse.
10:31My first pair of bell bottoms.
10:32Wrote my first song.
10:34Eeny meeny miny moe.
10:35I knew that I needed a lot of space.
10:37And I knew that this first drawer needed to be my ring collection.
10:41And actually a fan gave me this too.
10:43It's a vintage Grand Ole Opry belt buckle.
10:46Gave me this actually not long before I got inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
10:50And that was foreshadowing.
10:51My buddy Honor also designed all of this.
10:54Got my light up mirror right here.
10:56Check it out.
10:59Let me show you the bedroom now.
11:07Yep.
11:08I'm one of those.
11:09People are going to be watching this being like,
11:10I can't believe she lets the dog in the bed.
11:12I knew that when I was designing this bedroom,
11:14I wanted to feel safe.
11:16I wanted to feel like I could close these curtains
11:18and kind of shut off the world for a little bit.
11:20It feels like you can like come off the road
11:22and like snuggle down and kind of be in your own little hole in here.
11:25My friend Vanessa helped me pick out the fabric for these curtains.
11:29Which I think just kind of like broke up this space
11:32and honestly made it look a little bit bigger than it actually is.
11:35And these jade horses over here were actually gifted to my parents
11:39about 25 years ago by my granny.
11:42And I will never forget my daddy was opening up his Christmas gift.
11:46And he was like, what in the world is this?
11:48And so he's been trying to get rid of it for 25 years.
11:50But finally, a couple of years ago when I got this house,
11:52my mama said, do you want those jade horses?
11:55Because it was my favorite thing in their house.
11:58Doug had absolutely no say in the interior design.
12:02He knows when it comes to this kind of stuff, it's my way or the highway.
12:06This house is me.
12:07This house is literally the inside of my brain.
12:09It's kind of hard to like put it into words at times.
12:12I feel like it's everything from Western to hippie to eccentric to homegrown.
12:20All of the things kind of mix into one.
12:22I will tell you, I've never been the kind of person that like is into trends.
12:26You know, I think like there was a time when everybody was painting everything white.
12:29I didn't want to do that. I wanted to make it mine.
12:32I wanted to just kind of tip my hat to the things that I love.
12:35And I wanted to create a space that that felt like mine.
12:39I got to pour my heart into this and it's really special to me.
12:49My favorite thing about this bathroom is my stained glass.
12:52Different times of the day, the light shines through, makes the sun look different.
12:56It's like you get to see the light in a different kind of way, which I absolutely love.
12:59My nephew, who is now six, he was like four years old at the time.
13:03He said, Aunt Laney, why do you have naked women on your walls?
13:06I had no clue there were naked women on the walls, but turns out there they are.
13:11This is the landing where I keep a lot of my plaques and my trophies.
13:22Let me preface by saying these are not all my trophies.
13:25A lot of my trophies are at the Country Music Hall of Fame because I have my very own exhibit there.
13:30It's really cool to be able to kind of zoom out and see how far I've come.
13:34It was like a lot of tiny little steps and then all of a sudden I started taking some bigger steps.
13:39So it puts a lot into perspective.
13:40If you would ask me what's like one of my biggest accomplishments that I've had so far,
13:44I would say getting inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
13:47And so the night that I got inducted, they gave me actual pieces of wood from the Ryman Auditorium,
13:53where the first Grand Ole Opry was.
13:56Elvis to Dolly Parton to Johnny Cash to Hank Williams, they stood right there.
14:03The reason this is such a big deal is because we can barely sell a ticket and I'm not even playing.
14:09Next thing I know, I look out of my bus window, it's a New York State Fair,
14:13and I see 53,200 people that came to see us and they were singing every single word.
14:19And that was one of the first moments for me where I was like, man, okay, we really might be doing this thing.
14:24And so at that point it was just kind of like buckle up and get ready.
14:28And this was the start of a complete whirlwind.
14:32And I ain't trying to brag or nothing, but we broke the attendance record for the New York State Fair.
14:37Okay, that's my claim to fame right there.
14:49Well, that was fun. Thank you for letting me show you around.
14:54You ain't got to go home, but you can't stay here.
14:56Enjoy Nashville.
14:59Bye.
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