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0:00
- Hey, y'all, please come on in the house.
0:04
I've had so many people ask me,
0:08
"When are you gonna do the tour again?
0:11
"Y'all promised that y'all were gonna do a tour."
0:14
Well, we're still unpacking boxes, honey.
0:17
We don't know where a lot of things are gonna go.
0:20
We'll put it here, but then two weeks,
0:22
it may not look anything like that.
0:24
Who knows?
0:25
I'm the type that I have to live in a place for awhile
0:29
to see exactly how I want it to live for me.
0:34
So today I'm only showing y'all the kitchen.
0:38
And people that have known me for the past 20 years,
0:43
you know that this is where I filmed all my shows,
0:48
in this kitchen right here.
0:49
So a lot of y'all recognize it.
0:52
When I first started with cooking shows,
0:56
I actually flew to Millbrook, New York,
1:00
and I used Gordon Elliot and his wife's kitchen.
1:05
So that was not mine.
1:07
It was Gordon's.
1:10
So after doing that for a season or two, I said,
1:13
"This is very, very hard.
1:16
"I'd like to do it at home."
1:17
So, the rest of my tenure,
1:20
I shot out of this kitchen.
1:23
And so come on in y'all ,
1:26
and I want to hear what you think.
1:28
If you got some good ideas, let me know.
1:31
Eddie teases me that I decorate by committee.
1:37
It doesn't matter if I love something.
1:39
I've got to ask everybody that comes in the room,
1:42
do you like that? (laughs)
1:45
That comes from being a people pleaser y'all.
1:47
And I still hadn't learned I don't have to worry
1:49
about pleasing anybody in my home, but me, (laughs)
1:52
but I can't help it.
1:54
All right, so in the renovation,
2:00
these were shutters, the two cabinets were shutters,
2:06
and we decided to close those up,
2:09
because we actually needed the wall space
2:13
that's in the kitchen, that's in the living room.
2:17
So now that gives us a good bit more wall space
2:22
in our living room area.
2:25
And if we go way back,
2:28
there used to be a built-in cabinet right here.
2:31
It came out about this far.
2:33
My convection up and was in there,
2:36
and then cabinets and dishes and storage stuff was there.
2:43
Well, we decided to take that out,
2:46
and I'm gonna show you some of the pieces
2:48
that Eddie and I have found after we sold Riverbend
2:55
and sold it furnished.
2:57
I had to get to shopping.
2:59
So I'm gonna point out just a few of the things
3:02
that we bought.
3:04
We just found this piece bought a month ago,
3:07
wasn't it, Eddie? - Yes.
3:09
- We walked into Tapley's,
3:12
little antique market here in Savannah.
3:18
She used to have Habersham antiques, right, Eddie?
3:23
- [Eddie] You're right, a group shop, yeah.
3:26
- Where people have their own booths, individual booths.
3:30
So I found this in her store,
3:33
and I thought it was beautiful.
3:35
Is it 17th century or 18th century?
3:38
- [Eddie] It's it's early 18th century
3:42
English Welsh structure.
3:43
- Okay, 18th century.
3:45
- [Eddie] So it would be 1700s.
3:47
- Okay, 1700s, that's what I thought.
3:49
I can get that confused.
3:52
So this was built over 300 years ago,
3:57
and it could tell a lot of stories, I bet.
4:03
I just love it.
4:06
These are some pictures, Eddie, of my ex boyfriends,
4:12
You see them?
4:13
(both laugh)
4:16
The drawers are still in good shape.
4:21
And we're using that to keep...
4:23
Oh, there's our napkin rings.
4:27
I love the shiny.
4:30
So like I said, we're still trying to figure out
4:32
where everything is, but I love all the silver.
4:37
I just found this piece at Seventh Heaven,
4:41
and I just love it.
4:43
I will actually be using this.
4:45
It's great for breakfast or brunch
4:48
to put your sausage or your bacon in.
4:55
Eddie, God love him, (laughs)
4:58
he took a piece of wood, like plywood,
5:03
and he painted it the color of the walls,
5:07
and he attached the chicken wire to it,
5:11
because without that, we couldn't put his dishes on it.
5:15
They would have fallen to the floor.
5:16
- [Eddie] Well, I didn't actually.
5:20
I suggested it.
5:21
I had Mike help me stretch the... (laughs)
5:23
- Well, it was your idea.
5:26
It was your idea.
5:27
And yes, Mike, another man in our life here that I love,
5:36
yes, he helped Eddie do it.
5:38
And, of course, I finally got room for my babies' bed
5:42
to come back in my house.
5:46
This is where they'll take the afternoon naps
5:49
when their momma's in the kitchen.
5:52
- [Eddie] Lulu's been enjoying it.
5:54
- Yeah, Lulu has been sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.
6:01
We had drapes in here, but those have long gone,
6:03
'cause I'm not using the same colors.
6:06
But I was just talking with Carolyn Hultman
6:09
who has Hultman Interiors here in Savannah.
6:13
She has decorated every Paula Deen's Family Kitchen.
6:19
No matter what state it's in, Carolyn's done them all.
6:23
And she just knows my taste,
6:25
and she knows the colors I like.
6:27
So she was out here and she's gonna help Eddie and me
6:31
with some kind of drapery.
6:33
I'm not having anything made, y'all,
6:34
'cause it's so damn expensive, so expensive,
6:38
but she's got this company
6:40
that you can just buy the panels from.
6:42
And I think that's what we're gonna do.
6:45
And then we will probably just glue some tape on the edges,
6:50
and they'll look like a million bucks
6:52
for 100 bucks. (laughs)
6:55
And I can't remember how long I've had this table, y'all,
6:58
but this farmhouse table, it's old, old, old, old wood.
7:03
- Old heart pine. - Heart pine, yes.
7:07
And the chairs, I wanted ladder back chairs so badly.
7:12
I wanted a very understated chair.
7:16
And so we were in Clutter's one day.
7:19
Clutter's is a shop where if you want to sell something,
7:23
you take it to Lynn to Clutter's,
7:26
and she will sell it for you.
7:28
And Lynn really gets some pretty things in,
7:31
don't she, Eddie? - Yes.
7:33
Yeah, it's a great little treasure hunt place.
7:35
- Great little treasure hunt.
7:37
So that's where we finally found our chairs.
7:45
This is very special to me.
7:49
This was Michelle and Anthony's great-grandmother's sofa.
7:56
And Michelle called me a month or so ago, and she said,
8:00
"I'm still hauling around Nana's sofa.
8:03
"Do you think you might want it?"
8:05
And I said, "Well, send me a picture, honey,
8:07
"I don't remember what it looks like."
8:09
She sent me a picture and I said, "Heck, yes, I want it."
8:14
So she brought it right over.
8:16
And Nana passed away at 102.
8:21
And so I'm just thrilled that Michael's children
8:25
can come in this house and see something
8:28
that has history to them.
8:32
That's real important to me.
8:34
So that is Nana's sofa.
8:36
And the rest of the furniture is
8:42
- Paula Deen furniture. - Paula Deen (laughs)
8:45
Homemade Comfort.
8:47
- Wonderful Craftmaster. - Yes, Craftmaster is who does
8:51
my upholstered furniture.
8:55
I said I want every chair in this house to swivel and rock,
9:00
'cause I don't think I had the first rocking chair, Eddie,
9:04
with every grandchild.
9:05
I never had one. (Eddie chuckles)
9:07
This is another piece that I bought at Tapley's,
9:11
and it's very, very old,
9:15
very, very old, but so pretty.
9:19
So very pretty.
9:21
- [Eddie] I think this one we got it at Bull Street.
9:26
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
9:29
- [Paula] I know the one in the living room
9:30
- That one's from Tapley's. - We got from Tapley's.
9:32
- This one we got at Bull. - You know, you are right.
9:35
- [Eddie] This one's 19th century.
9:37
The other one's 18th century.
9:37
- Uh huh, that one's the oldest in there.
9:40
You're exactly right.
9:41
And one day I'll show you the one
9:43
that's older than this one.
9:45
You're right, we got that at Bull Street Antiques,
9:48
I guess is what they go by.
9:50
So this area, oh, and let me show you this,
9:55
this we found at Seventh Heaven.
9:59
This is so primitive and old.
10:03
Is this Danish, do you think?
10:05
- [Eddie] This is an American piece.
10:07
- American? - Yeah.
10:09
- [Paula] Wow.
10:12
- [Eddie] We were told that it came
10:14
out of Johnny Mercer's family
10:18
- That's right. - From a family member.
10:21
- That's right.
10:22
I wonder what family.
10:24
I wonder if it could have been as mother's and father's.
10:28
- [Eddie] I mean, to me it reminds me of something
10:29
from maybe like the Pennsylvania area
10:32
with the heart cutouts,
10:34
and these would have been probably for spoons, utensils.
10:40
- Yeah, I bet, I bet.
10:42
I bet, Eddie.
10:43
I bet you're right.
10:44
- [Eddie] And it probably probably sat
10:47
on top of a piece of furniture even maybe.
10:50
- [Paula] I think that it did,
10:53
and the drawers still work.
10:56
And what year si this, Eddie?
10:59
- He didn't say. - What is that?
11:00
There's a piece of wood from something.
11:02
It must be from the legs.
11:06
- [Eddie] But just looking at it,
11:07
it looks like it would be either late 18th century,
11:11
or early 18- - If Jim Williams had it,
11:14
he had exquisite taste.
11:16
- Yeah, well, not Jim Williams, Johnny Mercers.
11:19
- Oh, Johnny Mercer.
11:21
Oh, I thought you said...
11:22
(Eddie laughs)
11:23
Okay, I'm getting mixed up now.
11:25
It's late in the day,
11:26
and we've been working most of the day.
11:28
So Johnny Mercer, and I love Johnny Mercer's music.
11:33
In fact, when I lived next door in my condo,
11:37
my neighbor was Johnny Mercer's niece,
11:41
and she knows she's no longer with us.
11:43
Her name was Nancy.
11:45
And, oh, she could sing.
11:46
And she just had the most wonderful,
11:49
one of those people that you just love being around.
11:52
So I'm glad I got that in my mind.
11:55
Maybe that could have been from Nancy's family.
11:58
Who knows? - Possibly, yeah.
12:00
- And these plates are the plates that my grandmother Paul
12:07
and my grandfather Paul,
12:09
this is what they served their steaks on
12:12
at Riverbend Restaurant.
12:15
If you came in and ordered a steak,
12:17
it was gonna be on the ivy china.
12:22
So that's very, very special to me.
12:26
Very, very special.
12:28
And let's see what else?
12:31
- [Eddie] Do you wanna talk about your chandelier
12:33
a little bit?
12:34
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:35
All right, so if you'll remember,
12:38
I don't know if y'all will remember,
12:40
but this was all porch.
12:44
And 17 years ago when we built this house,
12:48
our family was not that big,
12:50
but now we have 11 grandchildren.
12:54
And when we get together, it's 21 or 22 of us.
12:59
So I said, "We got to have more room.
13:01
"We can't sit anybody in the space the way it was."
13:06
So I had them take this wall down and shove it
13:09
out to the porch.
13:12
So our porch is much smaller,
13:14
but that's all right by me, because it's so dang gone hot,
13:18
you don't stay out there too, too long.
13:21
I got one more thing in here I'd like to show y'all,
13:24
and this is our lighting
13:28
Eddie and I went over to Bluffton, South Carolina,
13:30
which is just across the bridge,
13:34
to a store called The Light Post.
13:37
And Becky, what Becky's last name?
13:40
- I believe it's Brackett. - Brackett.
13:43
Becky Brackett? - Yeah, I think so.
13:45
- (laughs) That's hard to say. (laughs)
13:46
- [Eddie] I hope so, right? (laughs)
13:49
- So she handmade all of our light fixtures.
13:54
And this, if you stand up underneath it,
13:58
it is incredibly beautiful,
14:01
but I'm gonna have her make some changes on it,
14:06
because it's a little too flat for me.
14:10
So I'm gonna have her come and do some twisting
14:13
on those copper leaves and brings some copper
14:16
up to the ceiling, because, like I said,
14:20
it doesn't do it justice unless you're standing
14:23
right under it,
14:25
but they make beautiful, beautiful
14:32
lightings, all kinds.
14:35
Okay, so here's what y'all really gonna remember,
14:39
and that's the kitchen.
14:41
You know I had a fireplace here at one time.
14:44
It was another color, and this was my countertop.
14:51
We put a new counter top on it,
14:54
and we actually made a ledge,
14:56
so we could sit up here and eat.
14:59
So this is where Michael and Eddie and I eat every night.
15:05
And it's just as comfortable as can be.
15:09
We got the same stove, the same stove there,
15:14
they're the same vent hood.
15:15
Everything's just been painted, y'all.
15:21
We always had these little bench seats,
15:25
but while we were doing them,
15:27
I asked them if they would make them where they lift up.
15:32
So I've got storage in there.
15:35
And Eddie has stuck family pictures up here,
15:39
which I love looking at.
15:42
Just love looking at all the babies.
15:46
And this was the only pantry that I had, y'all.
15:50
And I remember when we built this house, I said,
15:53
"I just want my pantry to have screen doors."
15:56
So it's got screen doors,
16:00
which I keep open most of the time,
16:03
but I just thought that was such a wonderful
16:06
little farmhouse look.
16:08
And we don't have this room done yet.
16:12
We are working on it,
16:15
but it's where my microwave and my big convection oven...
16:23
This is just like we use in the restaurants.
16:26
And once you get used to cooking in these,
16:30
I can't hardly cook in it like a home oven.
16:34
So, we have refrigerated drawers coming for right there.
16:40
They're not in yet,
16:42
but we've got lots of cabinet space for stuff. (laughs)
16:49
You know, that stuff that we all collect.
16:52
We've got enough liquor to make this whole town drunk.
16:55
- [Eddie] Michael likes to collect things.
16:57
(both laugh)
16:58
- He does like to collect things.
17:01
And we don't even drink.
17:04
Michael might take a drink every three months.
17:07
You know it, Eddie?
17:09
- [Eddie] I think he's trying to get into wine.
17:11
- Oh, is he? (laughs)
17:13
- [Eddie] He's trying.
17:14
- Oh he wants to be a little bit more, not so redneckish.
17:18
(both laugh)
17:19
He will never make it, Eddie.
17:21
He's a redneck. (laughs)
17:24
So I don't know if y'all remember,
17:27
I don't know how much this got in the shots,
17:29
but also one of my requests was
17:33
when we built this house 17 years ago,
17:38
I wanted an appliance pantry,
17:44
because I don't like having to get down on my hands
17:50
and knees to pull things out of the drawer
17:53
that I don't use that often.
17:55
So this is wonderful.
17:56
I actually made a cake,
17:58
and I made some cookies the other day.
18:00
I just wanted to make sure that this felt and moved
18:03
like I wanted it to, and it does.
18:06
It's just a perfect place to bake.
18:13
I love it.
18:15
Got everything I need to bake us a cake, honey, right there.
18:21
All right, let me get this shut back up.
18:28
And then we've got a lot of big space down.
18:32
I've got a real deep drawer right there
18:34
to keep my pressure cooker and my big pieces of cookware.
18:41
I mean, it's really a lot of space.
18:46
And this piece I had
18:49
when we built the house down the road, Riverbend.
18:53
I asked them, the guys that were doing some woodwork for us,
18:58
if they would build me something for the laundry room,
19:00
so I'd have some place to fold the clothes and all of that.
19:04
So they built me this,
19:06
and that was in the laundry room that Riverbend.
19:09
And Eddie pulled it in here yesterday, was it, Eddie,
19:12
or day before yesterday? - Yeah.
19:14
- And I'm still looking at it. (laughs)
19:17
Like I said, it has to grow on me.
19:20
It's so handy as far as the space,
19:24
but I don't know if we're gonna keep it or not,
19:28
but it's beautiful wood.
19:31
It came from something else they were building there
19:34
in the house for me.
19:36
And I want to show you this little lamp.
19:38
I just love this lamp.
19:41
So, the story behind this is I found this frog at HomeGoods.
19:50
So I took it to Joe at Seventh Heaven, and said,
19:53
"Joe, could you kiss my frog and turn him into a lamp?"
19:59
(laughs)
20:00
And he said, "Yes," and he did.
20:02
And I just think he's the cutest thing I've ever seen.
20:07
Kiss a frog. (laughs)
20:10
We were fortunate our same refrigerator is still working
20:14
after 17 years.
20:16
I'm waiting on freezer drawers for right here.
20:21
it's just amazing
20:27
when you've been in a kitchen
20:28
for 50 years how much stuff you can collect,
20:31
but I've decided I want to be a minimalist.
20:36
Did I say it right, Eddie? - Yep.
20:38
- Minimalist, surrounded by all this stuff.
20:42
- [Eddie] Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to refresh you
20:44
on what that word means.
20:45
(both laugh)
20:48
- Yeah, I've got our dictionary
20:50
from when I was a child in there.
20:52
You might have me look up that word, but you know what?
20:57
I couldn't spell it to look it up.
21:00
That would be my problem.
21:02
So when we lived here before, y'all,
21:05
this was Michael's office.
21:09
Michael did not need an office I realized,
21:14
'cause we built this when we first married,
21:19
and I didn't realize with him being a harbor pilot,
21:22
his office is the river.
21:26
So, I found that he just kind of cluttered up this room
21:32
with nonsense kind of stuff.
21:36
I hope Michael don't watch this video. (laughs)
21:40
But anyway, so, I told him, I said,
21:42
'This time around you don't get your office.
21:44
"You're losing your office, because I need another pantry."
21:48
So, I did have them put a knee hole here,
21:54
and he can put his computer there.
21:56
But look at my pantry, y'all.
22:00
I love this pantry.
22:03
You know why?
22:05
Is that yours, Eddie? - Yep, that's mine.
22:09
I love it, because it's not deep.
22:12
And I don't have to pull half of the drawer out
22:16
to find what I'm looking for.
22:18
I just love it love it.
22:19
And it's tucked around here where you can't see it
22:22
from the kitchen.
22:24
And we're having doors.
22:26
I don't like all these open cabinets so much.
22:29
I don't have that much pretty that I want to see.
22:32
I got,
22:37
I was gonna say a menagerie,
22:38
and there is some animals in here,
22:40
but Steve, the cabinet man,
22:43
is putting doors here, here, and here.
22:47
And we're gonna keep this open,
22:49
because these are the cows that my aunt Peggy gave me.
22:55
How long ago, a couple of months, Eddie,
22:58
when we were there to see her?
23:01
So I want to see these every time I want to see them.
23:06
That cow actually mooed.
23:12
- Is it a Mattel? - Yes.
23:14
- [Eddie] A Mattel Child's Story?
23:16
- Yeah, they owned the toy house in Albany, Columbus,
23:21
and one in Florida.
23:25
And I don't know if it was for sale
23:27
or if Mattel gave it to them as a prop for the Mattel toys.
23:34
I don't know, I'll have to ask aunt Peggy that.
23:38
But it's just so nice to have all this room.
23:43
And I so appreciated living at Bobby and Claud's,
23:47
but all his cabinets were full of his stuff. (laughs)
23:53
And so I had to put just a little bit
23:56
on top of Bobby's stuff,
23:58
but I will never be able to convey to them how much
24:01
that meant to Michael and me
24:04
to have that opportunity to stay there.
24:07
So, that's it for the kitchen, y'all.
24:11
And the next, I'll do the living room.
24:17
I'll take you a tour on the living room,
24:19
and I hope y'all enjoyed it.
24:21
And I hope you saw on the first couple of tours,
24:23
because it looked like a hurricane
24:27
had come through this house. (laughs)
24:30
So love and best dishes, y'all. (laughs)
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