Things Every Southern Living Room Should Have

Given Southerners’ penchant for family heirlooms and passed-down treasures, we’re in full support of Dallas designer Callie Windle’s declaration that every Southern living room should include something sentimental or inherited.

“My own living room is no exception,” she says. “A Murano glass pear from my grandmother sits on my fireplace mantel, next to other collected Murano fruits. Hers is a reminder of what began my interest in the glass in the first place. I would walk through her home, admiring all the small, beautiful objects that littered shelves and tabletops. Displaying one of those trinkets links me to my past and grounds me in the present, reminding me to treasure beautiful things and the people they remind me of.”