Omg!!! I’ve always wanted to see the inside of this house! THANKS, from all of us die hard Designing Women fans! 😊

@ltvanburen8555

3 ай бұрын

Yes! Love it! Thank you!!!

@lovepugs05

3 ай бұрын

I always love Disigning Women .

@davidwelty9763

Ай бұрын

Of course like almost all television productions, they only took exterior shots of the house one time. All of the filming was done on a sound stage in Los Angeles. I have a friend from Pennsylvania who was floored when I told him The Office was never filmed in Scranton. Like a bunch of Hollywood actors would want to live in Scranton half the year to film a tv show. 😂

SO funny! Hadn't thought of the Sugarbaker Firm for years! Just today, I did! I served for lunch a QUICKIE. (Quiche). Which got me laughing and remembering this episode. Anyone else remember?: ... She didn't twirl just A baton, that baton was ON FIRE and when she threw that baton into the air it flew higher further faster than any baton had ever flown before hitting a transformer and showering that darkened arena with sparks, and when it finally did come down, Majorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12000 people jumped to their feet for 16 and 1/2 minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation as flames illuminated her tear stained face AND THAT Majorie, just so you will know, and your children will someday know, is THE. NIGHT. THE. LIGHTS. WENT. OUT. IN. GEORG AHHHH! Thank you for the historical trip to Arkansas and wonderful tour of Villa Marre...TRULY ENJOYED IT! And forgive my taking liberty in sharing my most favored line of the series. Yes, Julia said that in ONE line. Dixie was quite skilled in the art wasn't she? 🎭

@magnit3

3 ай бұрын

This is absolutely one of my favorite scenes of DW. It was so strong

@krisbaas3670

2 ай бұрын

Gotta Love “The Terminator!”

@jeanniekartis5916

2 ай бұрын

I still watch it nightly...and still hilarious

Well alrighty then…quite the colorful character, Mr. Marre! I love the mirrors and mantles. So beautiful. Thank you for showing this lovely home along with its unique history.

I was never sure this house actually existed. Thank you!

Oh my gosh, I love the floors! I don't care that they were placed over the original, I've never seen anything like them. Unless one has deep pockets, you probably won't see them anytime soon in today's buildings.

Fascinating history of this gorgeous home. Loved watching Designing Women back in the day.

How wonderful that this house has survived and is so beautifully maintained.

I’m always excited to watch Our Restoration Nation episodes. These homes and mansions are a true “wow” factor for me every time. I appreciate the hard work put into these historic homes, the wood used, the craftsmanship, decor, the beautiful fireplaces, etc… Oh my gosh!! Thank you soooo much for letting us, your viewers, see these magnificent and very stunning homes. Great story of the owner Mr Marre, the infamous owner.

I love your production on “intimate portraits” of olden days Houses. The History, editing, drone work, presentation, personality, etc. This channel deserves far more credits it receives. Keep doing what you’re doing. Love-love-love ❤

Second Empire is my favorite of all my favorites, of which there are many. What a perfectly beautiful house!

i can not believe I spent time in Little Rock in the 90s and did not know of this house, I am mad now I would have loved that!!!

Absolutely stunning!!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! The roof is fabulous!! The round topped windows!!! Colors!!! Doors!!! And what a STORY!!! WOWWWWW!

I love learning about architecture and history, and you educate us so well! Many thanks!!

I've always loved this historic home. I remember catering an anniversary party there back in 1988. I so loved the architecture then but love it even more now. I have a better appreciation of the historical significance it has and even more so since you've shared some of the more scandalous details with us. Great presentation and thank you so much for bringing back some fun memories for me.

I keep running to watch your videos to heal my heart after watching what Cole the Cornstar did to his 100+ yo home that 6 generations had lived in.

@elainecrawford6891

2 ай бұрын

I lost it when cole tore out all of the beautiful trees that had been planted decades earlier. Haven't been able to bring myself to watch the house "restoration" series. His great, great grandpa must be turning in his grave. 😢

That was really fun. I had always assumed the house was in Atlanta! Thanks for explaining the pier mirror…at first I thought it was a “pure” mirror, then a “peer” mirror 😂

@terri348

4 ай бұрын

Always thought a peer mirror was just a mirror allowing you to peer into one room while being in another room

Awesome!! What beautiful, I love watching restoration nation!!

I wish when we were in the dining room we could have seen the wall with the two doorways so we could reference how it would have been divided when it was two. It’s beautiful home with an interesting owner/history! I wish we could have seen the upstairs too. Thank you so much for giving us what you can in each of these beautiful homes!

So happy this building is being cared for and used.

I attended a wedding there in the 90’s. Absolutely elegant. Thank you for this video. I can only imagine what you guys would have done with her?!!! ❤

It’s absolutely beauty of a house. Loved the history of it. So very interesting. ♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍

What a fascinating history! Totally remember watching Designing Women and always wondered about the history of the house.

Thank you for the tour. I could watch you and Kevin all day.

Love this tour! ❤You always make the homes come alive with your history of the owners.

@eastcoastartist

5 ай бұрын

Beautiful!!!

My mom had a restaurant on the corner of 17th and s. Main street and I drove by that beautiful home always wondered what it looked like and now I know thank you for showing it.

Homes like these stir something deep inside me

Thanks for posting this. It was great seeing into such an iconic tv home.

THANK YOU! Appreciated the nostalgia 👒 which the exterior brought, but REALLY enjoyed the history (Angelo was quite the scalawag!) and the inside tour!!! Gorgeous.

Thanks for a great history lesson and tour. I always assumed that house was in Atlanta…

Thank you for telling me about the history of the house. I live in Little Rock and have admired it very much. I did not know Charles Thompson did work on the house. I worked for his architecture firm for 38 years and did not know this. He also designed the state capitol. The firm is now called Cromwell and has been active in LR since the civil war.

What I like the most about your video's is your extensive knowledge of all different types of architecture. That and your obvious love of architecture shows in all your videos. I must admit that I was a little bit disappointed that you didn't show the wall painting you said was stored in the basement. I would have loved to have seen it. Love this house by the way. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for showing it.

@OurRestorationNation

3 ай бұрын

I went and searched for it, but apparently somewhere in the 10,000 (no kidding) plastic tubes stored down there

@jamesbass9797

3 ай бұрын

@@OurRestorationNation -- My goodness.

Gorgeous home, I do remember loving it on Designing Women, and then finding out it's in Arkansas, where I'm from!

What a beauty!! 😍 I've been watching this channel '2nd Empire Strikes Back' & he's been restoring a house for years that looks just like this!! I just thought he liked Star Wars!! Thank you for the lesson!! 😂 Also, another channel 'Cole the Cornstar' is remodeling his great grandfather's 1915 farm house. It's huge. All original hardwood, mantels, wainscoting, fixtures, wood pillars & ceiling beams. Original door mirrors & hutches. This place was spectacular & in perfect shape. I had to stop watching b/c he's removing it all. Wainscoting, doors, mirrors, walls...MANTELS!!! He's torn it all out!!! 😢

@icemancometh8679

5 ай бұрын

I know that Cole channel you mentioned-I quit watching too because he got rid of his grandfather's 1929 Ford out of the garage. And I just couldn't believe that. Then tore the back porch off of the house when upstairs his grandmother's quilt had the house with the porch embroidered on a quilt. Yep quit watching. Ha ha and for 2nd Empire strikes back channel-I know that one too, I loved when they did the 1800 portraits because. Kim I think looked spectacular!

@bigboy77dk

5 ай бұрын

Yup, I started watching Coles channel too, hoping he would restore the house, given that he spoke so passionately about the history and local importance of the house. Fx., that it had electricity, decades before anyone else, and so on. I saw all the original features, too, and I also saw, how he just ripped through the entire house, down to the studs.... The only original feature, I can spot now, is a mantel, standing in the middle of the old livingroom. I can understand, that the house needed isolation, and structural work... But I would have put back all that trim, doors and woodwork, and really tried to be sensitive to the history of the house. But it seems like he wants to create a modern, open concept home in the old shell, and wont really be saving much of the original features... Sad, really...

@OurRestorationNation

5 ай бұрын

We do not support Coles channel and the horrid decisions he’s made destroying the home. We don’t understand his following.

@zanna9857

5 ай бұрын

@@OurRestorationNation My Hope is that he's not just throwing all the wood & fixtures. Maybe, just maybe, he donated them to someplace that will sell them to the responsible people restoring these pieces of history.

@cinwells7

5 ай бұрын

Omgosh! I have followed Kaleb on 2nd Empire Strikes Back from the beginning. I only live 2 hours from him. He is the one that recommended this channel to his audience and why I started watching them. I have also followed Cole the Cornstar since his beginning, because of his farming family. I, watched his latest episode and he tried to say why he wasn’t saving anything and it was not a good explanation for me. I started venting to my husband about the complete heartbreak I had over Cole’s and his wife’s decision to just keep the shell of the house and make a modern home. I’m devastated. 😢 He did talk like he was keeping a few things… but not much, and only if it would fit into their plans.

Regarding my past comments: I never intended to disregard your channel’s guidelines….”Teardown is my nickname and Money Pit is what I call my girlfriend. I LOVE your work!!

What a crazy life he had! The home is beautiful, stunning! I loved when they would show the outside of the house on Designing Women, loved that show, didn't realize that was in Little Rock. Wish you would have been able to snag her back then.

I " ALWAYS" LOVED THOSE 2 SIDE BY SIDE HOUSES EVEN WHEN THEY WERE IN RUINS NEARLY around 1974. ALL MY FRIENDS thought I WAS NUTS BUT I was a visionary❗❗❗❗💛⭐⭐⭐💖

Thank you for the history❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍

Thank you for sharing.What fascinating history.Loved the show.

Love that house! Wish we could have seen the upstairs bedrooms. Great tour and history!

@OurRestorationNation

5 ай бұрын

And we would have loved to show you, but the upstairs is their residence and the beds weren’t made and it wasn’t “presentation “ ready. I’d already tidied up downstairs to video, and as I’m not hired for maid services, I was NOT cleaning their upstairs

@elizabethengquist4185

5 ай бұрын

@@OurRestorationNation I don't blame you, I wouldn't have either.

The home is lovely the original owner was quite the ladies man thank you for the tour

This house is beautiful! The dining room is always my favorite!

Gorgeous. And those chimneys!! ❤

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL ❤️

Really love all the features in this home. Thank you!

Beautiful home. I have never heard of the tv show but that doesn’t matter. What a story….

The stories of the Memphis Marre and beyond! He was a trip! I wonder if the Marre's were ever brought up in Designing Women?? Lovely venue for weddings with those amazing mantles for backdrop.

Whoa! That mantel is off the charts! Thank you for all the great house tours, it really is such a treat to watch your videos!!!

Those fireplaces what a gorgeous house.

I lived in Little Rock for many years & took visitors by the house. Also went to a few parties there. It’s beautiful. I miss Little Rock!

Wow , what a crazy story about Angelo and his life . Enjoyed the share

Thank you for showing us this treasure❤

Wow, what a treat to see the Sugarbaker house.🥰

Thanks for the tour! I actually have a painting of the Villa Marre hanging in my living room. So I’ve always wanted to know what it looked like inside!

I always enjoy your excellent commentary on the lovely properties you show and enjoy learning something from each video. I grew up in Arkansas--still the home of my heart.

amazing house

Just beautiful!!

It’s so wonderful to see this house intact. So many houses from this time have been destroyed.

Thanks for the definition of a pier mirror, never knew!

That's beautiful inside &out. Both properties.

My first comment ever. Love all your videos and love this home. Michigan here.

How stunning! 💚💜

So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! So interesting!

Love the history! Thank you!

Love this house so much, thank you for showing it to us!!

I loved that show and miss watching. Lovely house

I for some reason that this home was located in Georgia. It is indeed so very beautiful ❤❤❤

Thanku so much for showing us beautiful places 🙏🙏❤️

Oh, THAT house!!! Yes, I’d be a bit salty. I’d be the whole salt mine. ❤

Oh My Thank You So Much for this Lovely Critique Showing of such a Gorgeous Home Well Done I want lie i kept looking for a Plaque a Picture Anything to honour The Sugar Bakers ❤

I love this house. Always have.

One of my favorite styles of old homes. I love Empire style and Got his style. Of course and witch hat Victorian homes. Marre house stunning!

I like that you added and now you know at the end! 😂

I love this house!!

Thank you!! You always do such a nice job showing us these beautiful homes!!

The Villa Marre and the Hornibrook mansion are my two favorite houses in Little Rock! I love the original matching pier mirror and fireplace mantle, but the kitchen cabinets are a close second. I was hoping you would show that weird floor upstairs with all the inlaid patterns, like a page out of an aesthetic movement catalog.

❤ ~I LOVE it! 😮

I absolutely love the design so good

I'd say infamous! What a story! Original or not, those parquet floors are gorgeous. The autumn colors on that second fireplace just glow. And the pier mirror! I can only imagine what other decor items of this level may have existed in the house before the remodel in 1910. I'd forgotten that the home was in Little Rock, not Georgia, but this is a definite plus, since it means you have more personal knowledge of the place. I would like to respectfully submit one correction: the carved figures on the main fireplace are winged lions (the symbol of Venice and other areas of Italy). Griffins (or gryphons) have long been associated with my family and I've incorporated a number of them in my home and garden decor (okay, I also collect them because they're cool). They typically have an eagle's head, wings, and front feet, with a lion's body. On occasion they may have a snake for a tail. One of my favorites is from John Tenniel's illustration from Alice In Wonderland. :) This tour was such a treat! Thank you.

I was highly amused by the blue trampoline hiding in the corner of the office space.

What a gorgeous house! If I owned it, I’m not sure I could resist removing some of the 1910 updates. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a grand house without a single curtain in it, though. How bizarre.

This video appeared in my feed a few minutes after I began watching DW on Antenna TV.

@OurRestorationNation

3 ай бұрын

That’s crazy.

@msr1116

3 ай бұрын

Any device with a mic is listening---mine is an 11th Gen Fire 10. Just last week a radio show host spoke of getting ads almost immediately after talking about a specific product.....with her phone was nearby.

Love love love😊

Thank you!! I still watch DR and love this house!!

C'est très magnifique. J'adore

This was so good!! Made even better by knowing the story behind the title.

Love it ❤

🔹 I would love to own a home of this scale, design, and grandeur. The changes in 1910 were tastefully done. I actually liked seeing the tombstone of the scandalous Mr. Marre and it is on par with how he lived is life with great notoriety.🔹

Love seeing the inside of such a famous house!

You left out ANTHONY!!! Meshach Taylor💕

Wow! Even the basement! Is there an attic? Can NOT believe it was supposed to be in Atlanta, Georgia!

@OurRestorationNation

4 ай бұрын

I’m sure there is an attic but we know nothing about it.

Beautiful 🤩

That light fixture!

That Staircase! 😍

Loved the tour❤

Love the staircase!

Thanks for this wonderful information! 💕

Awesome video.

That wood floor is amazing

wow sublime

OMG!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Kevin and Laine, this was such an incredible home tour!!! Thank you so very much for making this home’s interior so enjoyable to see!!! Such amazing craftsmanship and history!!! As always, y’all did an excellent job!! 👏🏻 Dorothy Blum Cooper- The Barrow House & Gardens of Louisburg