The Mississippi native has also expressed feeling at odds with the picture-perfect renovations shown in every episode.

““I’m so much more interested in what happens after that day.”

“It can inspire decor and design, and we should use it as such,” she said.

Erin Napier in a screengrab from “Home Town”

“But not use it as like, ‘This is what my house should be.'”

“Perfection is deeply boring and unrelatable to me.”

Titled"Heirloom Rooms,“the book was released in October 2023.

Ben and Erin Napier doing a renovation reveal with two clients

When announcing the book, the HGTV star shared some more insight into the inspiration behind the idea.

“‘How perfect and clever can our houses be?’

seems to be the refrain of social media.

Erin Napier posing in front a sign for her book “Heirloom Rooms”

But what about the life lived in those rooms?”

In a time when authenticity feels so fleeting, we think this is an especially powerful message from Napier.