Inside Kacey Musgraves’ Nashville home

Penned by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

When musician Kacey Musgraves was shifting into her new home — a sundrenched 3,500-square-foot assets in Nashville — she was in the center of composing her genre-blending fifth studio album “Star-Crossed.”

Both the album and home have been a marker of some big modifications for the 33-yr-old Grammy winner, as she navigated her existence adhering to her divorce from region singer Ruston Kelly. For the May well problem of Architectural Digest, she opened her doorways to the home, stating she was hoping to “embrace a minimalist attitude” for the 1st time.

“I wanted a spot that felt like me where by I could convey myself without having possessing to believe about a further man or woman and what they might want,” she explained to the magazine. “This felt like a new beginning.”

With the support of designer Lindsay Rhodes, Musgraves appeared to renovate the house’s primary vibrant, maximal aesthetic into a peaceful, plant-crammed refuge with classic touches. The interior typically contains creams and wooden hues — preserve for a dusky pink piano area (Farrow & Ball’s preferred “dead salmon” shade) and a powder space they remaining untouched, which was papered with charcoal sketches from the late nearby artist Hazel King (one of Musgraves’ “favorite factors” about the house, she reported).

Kacey Musgraves' home, as featured in the May isssue of Architectural Digest.

Kacey Musgraves’ dwelling, as featured in the May perhaps isssue of Architectural Digest. Credit rating: Courtesy Architectural Digest

“Kacey essential to commence from white to see where by she required to go,” Rhodes explained in the post. “The household experienced a good deal of subway tiles and Craftsman-fashion details, so we wished to make anything come to feel clean. We fundamentally blanketed the total kitchen with plaster, even the island, to make sleek traces and give it a stone-like texture. Then we used a pale mineral paint through the home. It just about feels like a watercolor alternatively of becoming flat, it gives a very little dimension.”

Kacey Musgraves’ home, as showcased in the Could isssue of Architectural Digest. Credit: Courtesy Architectural Digest

Inspite of her minimum aspirations, Musgraves is an avid antique thrifter — and a lot of of the objects in the residence were acquired secondhand, which include her poolside dialogue-starter: a gargantuan classical bust of a female created of plaster, which she noticed at a store whilst in Minneapolis on tour.

“You will find a thing truly attention-grabbing to me about using ownership about an object that intended a ton to a person else, and form of getting the new steward of whatever it is,” she reported. In just one of her guest bedrooms, she thinks of the historical past of the antique gilt French bed frames she place in the place. “I like imagining about who could possibly have slept below, what they dreamed about, the like that was designed on this bed,” she explained. “To me, it’s actually magical.”

Kacey Musgraves on the cover of Architectural Digest's May cover.

Kacey Musgraves on the deal with of Architectural Digest’s Might cover. Credit history: Courtesy Architectural Digest

When she seems to be all over her new household, there are smaller touches that remind her of exactly where she’s at on her journey, indicating the many orbs and circles in the house are a reference to the concept of “complete circle-ness,” which kept rising as she was composing the tracks on “Star-Crossed.”

“I had some spiritual activities that involved orbs — I experienced a psychedelic plant therapy session in which folks from my past saved presenting on their own to me in the form of orbs,” she recalled. “Without the need of working the threat of sounding like an complete psycho, it was truly transformative for me.”

Prime image: Kacey Musgraves sitting poolside in her Nashville residence.