- Hey, Dee, what's up?
I'm Darius Rucker. Welcome to my house!
[upbeat guitar music]
This is my home,
Nashville. I haven't lived there very long,
I've lived there, I think, four months.
Beautiful place, it's home now,
with me and my son Jack.
We just chill out over here sometimes,
and he'll play games or something.
It's just a really cool area where, when you walk in,
the decorations that Balsam Hill did
are so wonderful, and make me feel so Christmas-y.
It's so inviting to be over here and, you know,
sitting under that artwork you feel kinda
smart I guess, you feel like you're doing something cool.
[upbeat electric guitar music]
That's a dining room table slash stage.
We'll move this table,
a lot of the virtual concerts I have to do
with everything going on,
we just set up right there,
and with the little band,
we go, we rock out.
We've been living here such a short period of time,
we haven't even eaten dinner there.
I bet one of the first dinners we'll all eat here
is during the holidays.
It's lit well,
and it's just one of those really great rooms,
like, I really can't wait to have people over
so I can have the nice holiday dinner
right over here on this table.
If you don't have sweet potato pie,
I-I can't come to your house.
I don't think I've ever been to anybody
north of the Mason-Dixon Line's house
for Christmas or Thanksgiving, [laughs]
'cause you gotta have sweet potato pie or I'm not coming!
This was given to me,
the other day when I hosted the CMAs.
I'm very proud of that, that was a great day of my life.
And it was something I'll always remember.
And, this will always help me remember!
My CMA chair!
Thank you, Robert Deaton!
[laughing]
Little kitchen area.
Believe it or not, I do cook.
Not a lot,
but I do cook for Jack and everything.
And it's just a, it's a great area.
It's wide open.
I'm that guy who really loves,
when you have a lot of family,
or a lot of people in the kitchen
cooking up different things, and in each other's way,
and I'm that guy who wants to sit here and talk to them,
and have a good time, and, you know,
maybe help if I can, because I just think that's--
that's family, that's friends,
that brings people together.
And you always know, at any party,
everybody congregates in the kitchen.
Everybody knows that!
Another space that is awesome is our breakfast nook.
The sun just flows into this house,
and gives it so much life.
We sit here, we'll do puzzles here,
we'll play games here.
It brings you together.
That's what I love about this house,
it just feels like it's a place for us to come together
and be a family, and live,
and I love that.
That's what you want from a house.
This is our wonderful living room,
where we spend 70% of our time in the house.
When I was looking for the house,
I knew it was going to be me and my son,
and the one thing that I really wanted,
was a place that him and I could, hang.
Him and I could, be together and just sit down
and watch TV, or play video games, or joke.
When I saw the living room, and how open it was,
and how the sun just came in through the window...
Yeah, I just thought, man, this is gonna be perfect for us.
And now that all the decorations are up and everything,
and I feel so festive, I love it even more.
I mean, I'm going to turn the fireplace on
when we're done here, just 'cause,
you know, it's Christmas!
You gotta have the fireplace on if you've got a fireplace.
And yes, all the guitars are mine!
I love them all.
They all have a meaning,
I bought them all for a reason.
This one is a 1951 Nashville guitar.
And it means the world to me,
because my very, very, very great friend Edwin McCain,
singer-songwriter, gave it to my for my 50th birthday.
And I just thought that was amazing,
that he would give me that '51 Nashville
out of his collection for my 50th birthday.
And I play it all the time,
I write songs on it all the time.
It's one of my prized possessions in my collection.
[strumming guitar]
Sounds like I haven't done it.
I love this guitar.
This is beautiful.
Every southern house needs a great porch.
I spend a lot of time out here,
Jack spends a lot of time out here.
When I was looking for a house,
I wanted, you know, a big living area,
and I needed a big porch.
I needed a porch, could just, go sit on.
If it's raining, you sit out here,
and you can watch the rain.
If it's sunny, you can sit out here and enjoy the weather.
And a big porch is so much a part of life for me,
that if I didn't have one,
I, you know, I don't know what I would do,
so this one's perfect.
There you go, once again, with the fireplace.
You know, Balsam Hill's got it looking all Christmas.
I love my home and they made it even better.
They made it great for the holidays.
The thing that's really big in my neighborhood, though,
and this is something that was very important to me,
moving into this neighborhood,
is that we've got a great golf course right here,
that's - I think is the best golf course in Tennessee.
And I love it, and I'm about to go play some golf,
I wanted to bring you by my house and show it to you,
but, you know, you've gotta have your priorities in order,
and golf is always pretty important to me, so,
I think I'm gonna go do that now!
[upbeat guitar music]
Thank you guys very much!
I hope you enjoyed my house.
I'm gonna change my clothes and go down
and play me some golf down at the course now.
Thank y'all very much!
Merry Christmas, happy holidays!
God bless y'all!