by Erin Napier
First published 2023
Erin Napier takes readers room by room through her beloved home in downtown Laurel, Mississippi. The HGTV Home Town host and designer reflects on how houses become repositories for childhood memories, family milestones, and everyday moments that transform spaces into sanctuaries. Napier chronicles how she and her husband Ben acquired her childhood dream house and made it their own as their family grew. Each essay focuses on a different room, revealing how spaces evolve alongside the people who inhabit them. Through personal stories and photographs of beautifully imperfect, lived-in spaces belonging to family and friends, Napier demonstrates how homes carry forward the chapters of human experience. The book includes writing prompts encouraging readers to document their own domestic memories and connections to place.
Genres: domestic-fiction, family-life, home-economics, 21st-century, design, architecture
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, personal-growth
Setting: Laurel, Mississippi
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Kindle Edition · Gallery Books