Theresa Smith owns an antiques business in Glendale, Kentucky, where she lives in this double-wide mobile home.
It may look unassuming from the outside, but it’s no ordinary trailer!
It goes to show, as Theresa told Country Living, “It isn’t the structure you live in; it’s what you do with it that makes it a home.”
Take a look!
The rooms are filled with her favorite antiques and vintage finds:
I think this is further proof that creativity is more important than money. It’s what we do with the space we have that matters!
Read more about Theresa’s home at Country Living.
Photos by Keith Scott Morton.
What a lovely and inviting home!
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Julie M.
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Unbelievable! Her taste is so awesome!
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Holy. Crap. My mom and I are both lying in bed, and I just had to yell across the hall at her about what an awesome trailer this is. I’ve seen humongous homes with not one hint of this kind of style!
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That is absolutely incredible! I have a new appreciation for mobile homes and what you can do with a small space. I’d like to hire her.
Pam
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I have seen this one on the HGTV website and love it. I also lived in a mobile home and mine wasn’t typical, either. There are $300,000 mobile homes now, and up north in northern California, mobile homes, even old ones, can go for $700,000. I saw one mobile home done up in French country. Adorable!
how delightful – what a grand thing it is to make your house a home 🙂 le xo
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Very, very nice. She is amazing.
Wow, just wow.
Wow you would never know it from the inside. I love it too! Thanks for sharing it with us Julia!
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I can’t believe how beautiful that mobile home is…they did a wonderful job at making it look like a home.
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I agree, a mobile home doesn’t have to ‘look’ like a mobile home. There’s always potential it you look beyond what the factory has added. In this case she has done a wonderful job of making it her own instead of some prefab design.
How amazing! I love it! I love the pediment above the window in the first picture 🙂
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I LOVE it! You are so right on in your last statement…it’s what we do with the space we have.
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Love it. I think that even the outside has been given attention. And I LOVE the white-on-white scheme — gives more credence to items rather than walls (but I love the red room, as well). Serious kudos!
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My husband and I lived in a trailer in the mountains of Colorado right after we were married. He was 19 and I was 22. We had our first son. It was straight out of the 70’s shag carpet and all…nothing like this little beauty! If I knew then, what I know now! 🙂
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No Maam…indeed it is not!
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The rooms a bright and lively, any home can be beautiful its what you can make with your own personal touches. Kudos to the owner on a terrific transformation
This is by far my favorite story! This makes my heart happy even more then my eyes. If I could meet this incredible person, I would give her the biggest hug…she’s got style!
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Wowzers! I love it that she’s taken a mobile home and turned it into a showplace. Who wouldn’t love coming home to that every day?
I think I saw this home featured in Country Living Magazine before. It’s just amazing. I am in awe.
-FringeGirl
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Wow! What a place!
Yes, creativity is more important than money when it comes to decorating!!
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This is the best looking mobile home I’ve ever seen. Ms. Smith has fabulous taste and a knack with designing rooms with antiques. Very very inspiring.
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I have seen this article somewhere else online before (more focus on her kitchen-which is AH-mazing!) and it just goes to show you should really REALLY not judge a book by it’s cover! I love it!
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Amazing! I wanna live there!
I’ve been drooling over her home for quite some time now….love it all!!
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That’s fantastic!
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Wow!! This is fantastic!! Not at all what I would have pictured when someone says “mobile home”.
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I have also seen this mobile home before. What a wonderful job of transforming a typical manufactured home into a charming one. Talent and creativity are what’s needed to change any typical space into a fabulous one. Just look what designers do on movie sets. They create spaces that live in our memories for years. This place should boost sales of mobile homes. I also love the little camp trailers owned by the “Sisters on the Fly”. They are also very charming. Perhaps you should do a post on that topic. With summer coming up, what a fun way to travel that would be!
Love,
Susan and Bentley
xxoo
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I would never have thought “mobile home” when I saw those photos…I have such a preconceived notion that comes along with those words. Even the exterior looks great. 🙂
Fabulous!!!
Theresa Smith could probably decorate a mole hole & it would look great. She’s got a great eye for design!
Thank you for this, what a beautiful home. Once again, blog land has made me feel very humble in terms of what Theresa has achieved with (apparently) so little.
Hope you are well; I’ve been stopping by often but life (darn it) has required a bit of a cutback on my commenting 🙂
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I had no idea this was a double wide trailer/mobile home! It looks just like a ranch style or cottage! Love the pictures you shared in your post and I agree with her that its what you do with it.
This is really amazing and a great lesson in how you can change any home. I’m going to include the post in my Sunday roundup. It’s fantastic.
Thanks for always featuring the most fun and incredible stuff.
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Mobile or prefab homes offer great possibilities, but the Lady in KY better have a storm cellar or friends with a basement! Tornadoes love TN & KY, along with the Mid-West. You could pay me to live in a house without a basement anymore!
Beckie in Brentwood, TN
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amazing isn’t i!
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That should have been “you COULDN’T pay me to live in a house without a basement”…
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isn’t it great that you are so much more fortunate than some?
Beautiful trailer. I’d still be afraid a tornado would blow me away.
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This is great — I’d love to see more houses like this! I think it’s all about what you do with your space, to make it your own.
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This house is incredible. I love what she has done to the place.
The manufactured homes they make today, are alot nicer then the ones they made in the 90’s and older. I know because I have been inside them.
This lady has amazing taste! I loved the kitchen and serene seaside feel of the lounge. Just shows what you can do if you’re oozing with flair and creativity!
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Love this! Great post Julia:)
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My first thought was “Wow! Just WOW!” And I noticed that someone else posted that already and lots of similar sentiments.
That is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
Wow, that’s got to be the nicest mobile home I’ve seen! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Oh this is great. It’s great proof of loving where you live and what you have. Thank you for showing us, Julia!
Katie
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I love looking at how people decorate their homes. When people can get past what their idea of the perfect home is, they can create an inviting and cozy haven of their own. My own home might not be someone else’s dream home, but I am comfortable, and have even learned to look at the flaws of my 70-ish year old structure as character, until I can get them fixed! 🙂
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