- Hi, Dee!

I'm Taylor Hill and welcome to my home.

Come on in.

[gentle uplifting music]

This is my house here in Nashville.

I have been living here for almost three years.

I looked and looked and looked.

I must have looked at 50 houses

and then I stumbled across this log cabin

just here in the middle of Nashville

and I was shocked that something like this existed

and I basically fell in love at first sight.

I walked in the front door and said, this is home.

This is where I'm meant to be.

This is everything I can possibly want in a house and more.

[gentle guitar jingle]

Here in my living room,

I was very inspired by Ralph Lauren

and his home and Telluride.

I drew a lot of what I wanted to do with the space,

kind of from photos I had seen from that.

And I fell into a deep dark hole on the internet

to find shearling chairs that looked Western

and had some leather detail on it,

but I finally found these chairs,

which I love so much.

And then I have all these beautiful rugs

throughout all of my house that I'm obsessed with.

That's where I started was on the floor with the rugs

and then built up from there.

And then of course,

I have my Ralph Lauren 50-year anniversary book

with a million photos,

also where I got some of my inspiration from.

Thanks, Ralph, love you. [laughs]

This is my mom's.

She's had this for longer than I've been alive,

more than 25 years.

It's been in every house she's ever had growing up.

And then, you know, she sold my childhood home

and moved to the mountains full-time,

and she was like, I have nowhere to put this.

And I was like, well, I have a house now, I'm a homeowner,

so you can give it to me.

And she just hung it on the wall.

And I was like, it's like it was made for this place.

Thanks, mom. [laughs]

So there is a church pew over there in the corner

that is from the Nashville Flea Market.

We stumbled across a booth

that had all of this old furniture from local churches

all around Tennessee.

I'm pretty sure the guy said

that that one was from Paris, Tennessee,

which I didn't know there was a Paris in Tennessee,

but apparently there is.

It came like this, it was painted white.

People use it to take off their shoes

or put on their shoes.

Tate, my dog here, loves to lay here.

It's really cool in this corner,

close to the floor cause of all the cement and stuff, so.

He likes that, right?

This I found at a local antique store called GasLamp.

I love it in there.

I pretty much go there every day.

And I was just walking around in there looking one day

and I saw this painting

and I tried to take a step back because to me,

I really felt like this was one of the most

Tennessee things I had ever seen.

It was so serene and peaceful

and the colors and the cows.

It reminded me of the first time I came here

and really why I fell in love with Nashville,

just the rolling hills.

It's so green and so lush.

I really fell in love with it.

I use this room kind of as a calm space.

I don't have a TV in here.

I have no electronics in here.

This is really where I come to unplug, read a book,

feel like I'm away from the world.

When I have my family in town,

we'll sit in this room and play the guitar,

which makes me really happy because that's Nashville

and I find this space really inspiring

and conducive to creative thinking.

So for me, this is where I come

to really think and brainstorm

and a lot of people come to think and brainstorm. [laughs]

[upbeat jingle]

This is my dining room.

I love everything in this room.

I picked out every single thing you see in this room

and it took me forever to do it.

For me, family dinners are very important

and how we all sit down at the table

means so much to me.

And I love a round table,

a big round table,

so everybody can see everyone,

everybody's conversing and can talk to one another

and you're not leaning over someone

to shout down the end of the table,

'cause I have such a big family.

So finding a ginormous round table that was not too modern,

was impossible, literally impossible.

I bought one table and then the next day,

I found the actual table.

So then I had to return the other table to get this one,

which is what you see here today.

The photos that you see on the wall

are blueprints of this house

from when it was originally built in the forties.

I did find these blueprints when I first moved in

in a cabinet and I unrolled them

and I was like, well, that's old and cool.

Put them up on the wall. [laughs]

When I first moved in,

it was painted a really beautiful color

of like a dark charcoal gray, which looked amazing,

but it gets the least amount of light,

so I decided to paint the whole room white.

Then when I found the blueprints, I was like,

I know the perfect spot for them,

where they're going to pop.

So then I got the inspiration for the mix-matched chairs

to all be blue, so they have some sense of unity

and then they go with what really is the star of the room,

is the blueprints on the walls.

Interior design is something that I've always loved

and when I bought this house,

this is the first house I ever bought.

So I had a vision and I had a feeling when I walked in here

and I really wanted to grab onto that

and express that and make it my own

and take on the challenge of really doing it myself

and seeing if I could do it.

I really learned so much about this house

and about each room

and every little piece by doing it myself.

So I feel as if I really appreciate it

to the full capacity that it should be appreciated.

These plates are my grandmothers.

My grandma passed away when I was five,

so I never really got to meet her.

And these were in my house growing up.

I never really understood what they were,

where they were from

and why my mom always kept them locked away.

So when I bought this house

and she came here and she was,

she was just in awe,

she thought that this room

would be the perfect place to keep them.

And then it was just,

everything kind of clicked 'cause the blueprints and plates

all kind of matched and came together.

So it really feels like my home

because I have pieces of my family watching over me.

Next, we will go into my other living room.

I have two, but this is the one that we use the most, so.

[funky jingle]

This is the second living room.

It is massive.

This is like the hangout room

and probably one of the most used rooms in the house.

I really thought of it as the place

where we would all gather, sit, have movie nights.

When I come down, first thing in the morning,

I love to sit in here because it's so bright.

All the windows and the greenery I can really see outside.

And it's just one of also just

another one of my favorite places to be, again.

I have this ginormous bookcase here,

which I'm still working on filling because it is massive.

You know, I've just got a bunch of stuff

that I've kind of collected

over the years from being here.

I have the sink, so I have my bar here.

I love elephants.

You'll notice that I have elephants

kind of all over the house.

They're a bit sneaky.

They're always in the background hanging out.

That could be a drinking game.

You can just be spot the elephant, take a shot. [laughs]

You would be very drunk in my house.

I didn't really know what to do

to really highlight the windows

and kind of show the space.

And I was at the flea market with my mom

and we saw this guy that had a bunch of old trunks,

hundreds of them.

And my mom said it would be really cool

to get a bunch of trunks

and kind of line them up under the windows

and it's storage, so I store a lot of my outdoor pillows

inside of the trunks when it rains.

So I have the world's biggest couch in this room.

Because it was so massive,

I needed a ginormous couch to just fill the entire space.

And I have a huge family,

also I'm very tall,

so I wanted it to be very long.

And then, another thing is I had to take into account

the fact that I had this gorgeous angel of a dog

that just rips up couches.

So I really wanted to find a couch that could take that.

I got this from Restoration Hardware.

I saw it and I was like, that's the perfect couch.

It didn't look much different than this.

There's a little more scratches on it because of,

look into the camera and look them in the eye

and say who ruined the couch.

And I was like, I'm gonna need the full sectional.

They thought I was crazy.

They were like, what, like the full thing?

So it really took up the whole room

and it's still sometimes not big enough.

People still sit on the floor

when we watch movies in here with friends and family.

This is what you like to do?

You like to stretch on the couch?

[gentle guitar jingle]

All right, welcome to the upstairs.

I love this room.

I walked in here and immediately felt at home.

The log walls, the low ceilings,

it felt really cozy and homey.

So I kind of just went with what was already here

and made it my own.

I chose the bed frame and the coloring

because I found this rug at an auction house

and because of the warm orange, yellow tones,

I thought that the room deserved some matte gold,

nothing too shiny, nothing too new or modern looking.

I also thought that, you know,

an iron bed frame is typical classic log cabin.

I just thought it was a little more,

I don't know what the word,

maybe a eclectic kind of take on that is,

it's an iron bed frame, but it's gold. [laughs]

And then here we have also one of my

favorite little corners in the house.

I went in to get my couch from Restoration Hardware

and I saw these little, teeny tiny bistro chairs.

And I was like, well, aren't those just adorable.