Inside Lainey Wilson’s Eclectic Nashville Home ｜ Open Door ｜ Architectural Digest)

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