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Erin Napierknows a thing or two about home décor — and theHome Townstar is about to release her thirdbook,Heirloom Rooms.
So it’s safe to say Napier, 38, has thoughts on design faux pas, and she shared one that she “cannot stand” in an interview with PEOPLE.
“I cannot stand bright lights in a house. I don’t know why,” she says. “I mean, there’s a time and place for it. I am a light bulb snob. I cannot handle walking into a house and they’ve got 100-watt daylights everywhere… Save them for hospital use and operating rooms.”
So, what is her ideal bulb?
“I’m a 40 watt person,” she says. “Forty watt, soft white.”
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“[It’s] about the ways we become attached to our houses as if they are part of our family. And it doesn’t matter how beautiful or how normal, how average that house is, it’s this bubble where all these amazing milestones in a lifetime happen,” she says. “We should be documenting our houses no matter what they look like.”
“I wanted to make every chapter a room where I write down the major milestone memories,” Napier explains. “And what I found was I wasn’t really writing about a house — I was writing about life and about the challenges in life.”
For example, she says, the book has a chapter called “Guest Room,” which is about “the desire to have a second child and to not know if you’re ready for that, but going for it anyway.”
The Napiers welcomed their first child, Helen, in 2018, anddaughter number two, Mae, in 2021.
“While we are excited to have another daughter to love, we are more excited to see the bond she and Helen will have. They’re already so in love with each other!” the couple told PEOPLE at the time.
The Napier daughters, Helen and Mae.erin napier/instagram
Another chapter of the book is all about the kitchen — but it’s really an allegory for friendship, as she says that she and her friends spend most of the time chatting, eating, and bonding there.
“They’re all about themes in life more so than just rooms,” Napier says. “And I loved writing it so, so much. It was like therapy.”
source: people.com
