hi ag i'm taylor hill and welcome to my
home come on in
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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 could
possibly want in a house and more
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here in my living room i was very
inspired by ralph lauren and his home in
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 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
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
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 uh in this corner close to
the floor because of all the
cement and stuff so he likes it right
this i found a local antique store
called gaslamp i love it in there i
pretty much go there every day and i was
just walking around and 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 that this is where i
come to really think and brainstorm and
a lot of people come to think and
brainstorm
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 because
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 40s
i did find these blueprints when i first
moved in in a cabinet and i unrolled
them and i was like that's old and cool
put them up on the wall 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 or
they're gonna 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 should be appreciated
these plates are my grandmother's my
grandma passed away when i was five so i
never really got to meet her and these
were in my house growing up and 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 on she thought that
this room would be the perfect place to
keep them and then it was just
everything kind of clicked because 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
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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 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 be spot the
elephant take a shot it'll 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 at the camera and
looked them in the eye until you ruined
the couch and i was like i'm gonna need
the full sectional they thought i was
crazy they're 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 ah
that's what you like to do you like to
smoke on the couch
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 eclectic
kind of take on that is it's an iron bed
frame but
it's gold
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 normally it kind of just they
kind of collect clothes but i cleaned
for you guys today so there's no clothes
on them so they look very nice but it's
just a space to kind of be off the bed
and whereas if you're just sitting
chilling on your bed it feels very i
don't want to do anything now i want to
show you guys a very cool room in my
house that i love
very very much
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okay here we are
this is
my closet this whole room is dedicated
to my clothes growing up i had to share
a room with my little sister i love you
mckinley but it was very hard because
she was always stealing my clothes i was
always stealing her clothes and i didn't
really have a space that was my own when
i bought this house i really wanted to
create something that was mine and
somewhere where i could just come and
be
my weird organized self i color
coordinate my clothes and put them in
order i like to see everything i kind of
wanted it to feel like a store like i
could come in and kind of shop in my own
closet there's a lot more pink it's a
little bit more girly because the log
cabin can feel quite masculine all the
time i really wanted to create just a
couple of little spaces where i can go
that were just a little bit more girly
and fun and colorful and bright i found
this stained glass i
thought it would be a cool idea to hang
them in the windows so it kind of
blocked people from looking in but also
did something kind of beautiful and
didn't block a lot of light from coming
in because i still wanted it to feel
really bright in here i just quickly
wanted to show you guys this fun little
corner here i have my denim bar set up i
love jeans so much i collect vintage
jeans
and i just really wanted to dedicate a
space where they could all just hang so
beautifully so i can see
you know i just i like to look at it
it's very nice and it's all cohesive and
i love i love jeans now i really want to
show you guys not the main reason but
probably one of the biggest reasons why
i decided to buy this house
voila
this copper tub is everything to me i
saw this and i thought i need this in my
life it's humongous it's deep i'm very
tall and i feel like i'm swimming in it
it's fantastic it's copper it's a heat
conductive metal so
once you put the hot water in it stays
really warm for much longer and i don't
have to keep adding hot water which i
really love you know i just hang out
here for
hours on end
here we are in my backyard
come on bob i absolutely fell in love
with the outdoor space and the garden
out here which was something that was
really important to me coming from new
york i really wanted
a backyard that was big and lush and
green and had plants and this is just a
little outdoor living room set up so i
can come out here with friends and
family and we set up you know
charcuterie platters and have a glass of
wine kind of pre-dinner
hangout in this area and
it's definitely one of my favorite
places to chill in the backyard and then
another huge selling factor
for me for this house was the pool which
is a necessity here in nashville it's
just refreshing you can lay by the pool
you get really hot and you just cannot
ball into the crisp cold water and it
just makes such a difference i love it
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all right that is my house i hope you
enjoyed it was so nice to have you but
it's time for you to go but y'all come
back now
see ya bye bye bye
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