Happy Friday!
If Traditional Home keeps on with the wonderful articles, I’m just going to have to break down and subscribe again. I’ve got magazines piled all over my house, but let me see a beautifully photographed house and it pulls me in every single time.
I don’t know Deborah personally, but she actually grew up in the fairly small town of Dalton, GA, just north of Atlanta, where I lived. And she went to high school with one of my friends too, so I’ve always sort of followed her career and watched her as she became a well-known journalist.
Traditional Home did a feature on her home and it is just beautiful, so I thought I’d share it with you in case you didn’t see the article. You can click here to see the entire article. 
Traditional style is still alive and well and I love to see it done well.
Deborah is a two-time Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist and television show host, a devoted wife and mother of three, an author of four books, a tireless charitable worker, and an avid seamstress, but she can also add home decorator to her list of accomplishments.
She has done a wonderful job with her home and the family heirlooms show the warmth and care that she has used to decorate this home. 
Beautiful details and colors. 
I love the fact that Deborah sewed many of the pillows, drapes and slipcovers herself. Now that is pretty impressive! 
I’m not sure where her home is, but it is a beauty, inside and out. 
Anyone with dogs this cute has to be a nice person.
Hope you enjoyed the tour of Deborah’s home. I sure did! Check out Deborah’s website, full of information about her busy life.
Have a fabulous and safe Labor Day weekend. Are you doing anything fun? We aren’t traveling anywhere for the weekend, but we are attending a hoe-down and BBQ in TN on Saturday. 🙂 Yeee-haaaw! Doesn’t that sound fun and interesting. I’m taking my camera and if I can, I’ll share pics.
A beautiful person in just beautiful surroundings! WOW!
I so enjoyed this article ~ she is lovely as is her home. I pointed out a few “ideas” to my husband that I’d like to incorporate in our home.
Your weekend sounds delightful. We have plans for a lobster bake but are waiting to see the extent of the storm here on the coast.
Jo
Traditional is my thing! It seems other things come and go. I just want to STAY! I can always look at these pics and found something I would love to incorporate. I love the colors, there are a few things that wouldn’t be compatible, (not with my guys), if you know what I mean. So glad you shared today.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing! I had the chance to hear Deborah speak and meet her at my sorority convention where she spoke about her new book. She is an alum of my sorority and always a champion of our causes. I will always be a fan!
Gee…I love her bed, you just don’t see things like that often any more
Rhoda: I was visiting my daughter in St. Louis, MO in June. Went to a local decorating shop, and chatted with the owner – who immediately knew I was from ‘the South.’ She put me onto your website/blog. Imagine – I live here in the B’ham area and a lady from Missouri told me about your page. LOVE IT. Keep up your good work.
Traditional Home is my favorite magazine. I’m not currently subscribing because my last subscription piled up for months before I could find the time to read them all, but I really love to see beautiful homes decorated in the Traditional style – MY STYLE!!
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ButterYum
Happy and safe Labor Day weekend, Rhoda!
We are at the lake, enjoying gorgeous weather…60’s-70’s, for the weekend! Family is arriving this evening. Food, fun, including golf, and other activities. Best of all lots of family time.
House, garden, dogs, I’ll take it all, Rhoda! I always like reading about her because she just seems like a nice person ~ someone you could actually be friends with even if she is famous. I remember hearing years ago that she made her own clothes and I was so impressed then. I’m not surprised she’s extended that to her home, but I wonder where she finds the time!
I don’t like it. It looks like a hotel, very impersonal. To each his own!
Rhoda, thanks for sharing that. Her home is truly LOVELY. ..and I agree with you, dog people are usually nice!
Gosh, I wish she would adopt me into her family…..her home is beautiful and looks so comfortable. She has wonderful taste….plus love, love the dogs….
The home is decorated in the taste of one who has LOTS of money. I like some of the things she chose but not very cozy in terms of space. I do think it’s interesting how the rug was angled in the “living room”. Not at all something most people would do. It is neat that she does some of the sewing herself. Kudos for that.
HI Rhoda, I just love Deborah and her home is SCRUMPTIOUS to me!!!! Love it all! Hotel???? Not any hotel I have ever been in!!!:) BTW, it WAS you who had the Macy’s gift card give away from Blogher, right???? I received my gift card yesterday and am super excited! Thanks again!!! I can’t find an e-mail address to thank Monique Maestas-Gower (who sent it). Do you have an e-mail to give me for her??? If so THANKS!!!! Xo, Pinky
Georgeous! Loved it~thanks for sharing!
Rhoda, I recently renewed my subscription to Traditional Home! I let another one expire so I could justify having more magazines around here and I’m so glad I did! I forgot how much I enjoy just looking at truly beautiful homes that really match more of my own decorating style (even though they are all WAY out of my league!). Thanks so much for showing us her lovely home!
Vanessa
http://southerninmyheart.blogspot.com
I did not see the article and thanks for sharing. Her home is beautiful and so welcoming.
Loved seeing this article again … thanks for sharing it with your readers. yes, I do sew a LOT — used to make my own clothes (when I couldn’t afford to buy what I longed for!) Now it’s more for the home. Those drapes on the porch for instance, I did in a great Ralph Lauren outdoor fabric! The dog pack has grown this year to include a black Lab, Piper — who should be called “Hyper” as she is all energy.
Please visit my website — http://www.DeborahNorville.com I just redid that living room (that sofa fabric was so old it was disintegrating in the back!) I will take some pics and put ’em on my site.
Cheers!
Deborah
Thanks so much for stopping by, Deborah! Amazing how the internet connects everyone now. Had no idea you’d ever see this post, but so glad you did. I will link over to your website now that I know it’s out there.
Rhoda, thank you for taking the time to visit my Southern Lagniappe blog … and for the gracious comment you left about my “Fall Decorating” post.
I enjoyed this post about Deborah Norville, and loved seeing her beautiful home. It is truly the epitome of what southern hospitality is all about, even though it may not actually be in the South.