Lainey Wilson is giving fans an intimate look inside her eclectic Nashville home in a new house tour video. The country superstar and 33-year-old Louisiana native gave Architectural Digest an exclusive tour of her first home, fully designed to her liking, as part of the outlet’s Open Door series. In the 15-minute video, Lainey Wilson walks viewers through her entryway, living room, kitchen, bedroom, and more.
“Welcome to my house here in Nashville, come on in, you don’t even have to kick your boots off,” Wilson said, welcoming the media outlet into her home. “This is the first home that I have designed. I feel like I have my fingerprints on everything in this house.”
The home is a major upgrade from the camper trailer she once lived in when she first moved to Nashville to chase her dreams.
Upon entering, guests are greeted by a bold leopard-print staircase, a gold ceiling, textured wallpaper inspired by gold records, and framed feathers. “I’m really drawn to things like this—things that I feel like tell a story,” Wilson explained as she walked through the entryway.
She then took viewers into her western-inspired living room, which features a cactus-shaped lamp (created by her friend Rena), a terracotta accent wall, a “Big Ass Candle,” statues of gold horses and cows, a tree-shaped light fixture adorned with crystals, and a photo of two cowboys riding horses, a piece that inspired a scene in her “Somewhere Over Laredo” music video.
“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,” she said. “This terracotta wall 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. Home means it’s where your feet are at. It’s where your heart is. I know that’s the cliché, ‘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 been that for me.”
One of her favorite parts of the house is the dining area. “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,” Wilson said. The table sits beneath a unique lighting fixture she jokingly calls the “fight light,” a name inspired by the frustration she and her soon-to-be husband, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, felt while assembling it, which nearly made her “scream and cuss.”
Next up is the kitchen, filled with hand-painted ceramics and dinnerware from MacKenzie-Childs, one of Wilson’s favorite brands. “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?” she admitted. The space features stainless steel appliances, oak wood floors, white countertops, a turquoise backsplash, and gold accents.
After passing through Emerald Hall, where the outfit she wore on the cover of her seminal album Bell Bottom Country is displayed, Wilson led viewers into her personal Jungle Room, inspired by Elvis Presley’s iconic space of the same name.
“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. Every time I walk down this hall, I look at this, and I’m reminded of how far I’ve come. It’s pretty cool,” Wilson shared. “Before I started working on this space, I got to visit Graceland and see Elvis’s Jungle Room. This entire area—the hallway and this room down here—has a little bit of that Jungle Room feel. We were trying to make it as funky as we possibly could.”
Wilson’s Jungle Room features a fully stocked bar (complete with Barmen 1873 Bourbon and tap handles modeled after Wilson and Hodges), a spacious sitting area with a mustard yellow couch, floral wallpaper, gold-framed velvet paintings, and leopard statues.
“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,” she said. “My favorite kind of art is velvet paintings, and a lot of these were made back in the seventies. I knew I needed a big old couch down here. I knew I was going to have a lot of people hanging out. Everybody piles up when the band is over here tracking, recording, and working on things for the show—but I knew I needed enough seats for a lot of people.”
She then gave Architectural Digest a tour of her closet, a space she says, “this is where I spend a lot of my time.” The massive walk-in features custom shelving designed by her friend Honor, showcasing dozens of cowboy hats, vintage blouses, bell bottoms, boots (including her Golden West Boots), and more. One highlight is a “dream come true” jewelry storage area, overflowing with necklaces, bolo ties, turquoise pieces, rings, and belt buckles. The closet also includes a vanity complete with a light-up mirror.
“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,” Wilson added.
Next, Wilson showcased her cozy bedroom, wrapped in curtains along the perimeter, with nightstands and lamps, a full-length gold mirror, succulents, jade horses, and a desk topped with a photo of her and Hodges. “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 come off the road and snuggle down and kind of be in your own little hole in here.”
The house was filled with sentimental and meaningful touches, including dozens of award trophies, plaques marking career milestones, a portrait of her 31-year-old horse Tex, preserved wood flooring from the original Grand Ole Opry stage, a horseshoe that reminds her of the very first song she ever wrote titled “Lucky Me,” an autographed Janie’s Fund bongo, her daddy’s first guitars, a jade horse her grandmother gifted to her father 25 years ago, and much more.
The episode wrapped up with Wilson explaining that this house is exactly what you’d find if you stepped inside her mind, the perfect fusion of western flair, hippie spirit, eccentric charm, and homegrown comfort.
“This house is me. This house is literally the inside of my brain. It’s kind of hard to 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 mixed into one. I’ll tell you, I’ve never been the kind of person that like is into trends. I think there was a time when everybody was painting everything white, and I didn’t want to do that [and] 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. And I got to pour my heart into this, and it’s really special to me.”
“Well, that was fun. Thank you for letting me show you around. You ain’t got to go home, but you can’t stay here. Enjoy Nashville,” she said as she closed the door on her Music City home.
