Patsy Cline’s “Dream Home”

“I wish I could come back
in the neighborhood of my house,
where good people,
everyone loves you as their own “.

These were the lyrics to the 1955 song “Come On And Make Yourself At Home” by country music superstar Patsy Cline.

So when I learned that her home in Goodlettsville, Tenn. (a suburb outside of Nashville), was in the market, I did just that… I got home… the kitchen… the piano… and the living room.

Tom Courtois and his wife, Steven, have owned the home – known as “Patsy Cline’s Dream Home” – since 2011.

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“The main thing is the bathroom, it’s all original,” Courtois said.[It] it was her pride and joy. “Because of the stories I heard, that when someone came to visit her, she would take them and show them her bathroom.”

Unfortunately, Steven died last year and Tom made the difficult decision to sell the historic home. “Steven loved to decorate and bring things back to the mid-century look, and this house was the perfect style for it. I can tell you that there were four layers of wallpaper everywhere, so it took almost 3 years to restore the home to life again as it used to be “.

For Tom and Steven, restoration was a work of love.

“Some of the other things, you know, the other owners had laid carpet. I took out the carpet, you know, hardwood floors are still authentic. They have never been refinished,” he said. “The mural of the dining room, we had to replace it because it no longer existed … But we tried to save as much as possible the original decoration.”

Cline’s house was bought with rights from her top hits such as “Walking After Midnight”, “Crazy” and “I Fall To Pieces”. However, the country singer’s life at home – about 10 months – was interrupted, after her untimely death in a plane crash 90 miles outside Nashville.

“We moved here in May 1962,” her daughter Julie Fudge recalled, she told Feeser. “And then, when my mom died in March 1963, my brother and I did not live here on a regular basis.”

Her father sold the house in 1966.

“It’s not the first time I’ve been back in 50 years. But as I was walking up the sidewalk, I remembered the day my furniture got here. I think I was three, in 1962. And it was spring, and we had chosen furniture for the biggest part of the house and my bedroom was coming in. So I ran up the sidewalk and fell and skinned my knee, of course. Well, my mom and grandma were here. And what did you do? You cleaned it and put Mercurochrome on it Now, Mercurochrome did not burn like MethylAid, but it made your knee orange, so I had this little orange spot on my knee and then they set up my beautiful French country bedroom with canopy and desk with chair and “The white pillow. And of course, I went in there and climbed on it with my orange knee and left a mark on it on the first day.”

The house was recently sold for over half a million dollars.

For Courtois, the idea of ​​leaving this historic home was not an easy one. “I love living at home. It’s a testament to Patsy Cline’s longevity that it’s still here and it’s just as popular as other [stars] with such a short career. It’s hard. After 10 years, you put your heart and soul into it. “But the time has come for someone else to take the reins.”

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For more information:

• Patsy Cline Museum, Nashville
• The photos are courtesy of the Patsy Cline Museum