Review By Veronica
Fans of Erin Napier’s show will want to add her book Heirloom Rooms to their collection.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Our homes are more than an assemblage of bricks and glass, wood and nails.
They are the keepers of our childhood memories, our milestones, and heartaches. They evolve as we do. As a family grows and eventually retracts, a home can change hands and begin again. We are the chapters in the book of a house. They carry on after we are gone, setting the stage for another story, a new life, new memories.
From Erin Napier, coauthor with her husband, Ben, of their memoir Make Something Good Today, comes a collection of essays walking us through every room in her home, telling the story of a family’s life, of the days that made their home the place she longs for when she’s away.
We learn about when they became the new owners of Erin’s dream house from childhood in downtown Laurel, Mississippi, and explore the beautiful homes of family, friends, and projects past in photographs.
I adore home makeover shows. I love watching a neglected space get transformed into something breathtakingly beautiful. It always amazes me at the sheer talent some of these people have to visualize a space’s true potential. I loved watching Erin Napier’s show Home Town, so I was excited to hear that she had written a book about her dream home. I like this book. The photos are gorgeous, and there are plenty of them. This is one of those books where you could spend the entire time reading the mini-essays Erin has written or just doing a picture walk (sorry, that’s the teacher coming out in me) and looking at all the spectacular photos.
My reading journey with this book was doing a picture walk, where I tried to draw some inspiration from the photos and see if I could duplicate some of the design ideas in my house. I loved the cozy and country feel of the rooms. I really enjoyed the fact that there was nothing over-the-top crazy in terms of design ideas. The rooms in these photos felt like rooms in a home that is well loved and used.
After looking at all the photos, I read Erin’s essays. Her essays are charming and filled with a lot of heart. I loved learning more about Erin’s past and the memories that she has in various rooms in her home. It was also neat to connect with her friends and family members and learn why certain rooms mean so much to them. This is one of those books that you can just take your time and enjoy reading. I read a few pages a day or brought it out when I was having a lazy few hours in my backyard and just spent time looking through it.
Heirloom Rooms is a perfect coffee table book for any bookworm’s home.
Thank you, Simon and Schuster Canada, for sending us an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
