Ivy and Josh Elrod, parents to Chance (age 3), Rev (8 months), Mr. Pickles (their 10-year-old Tabby cat), and Lana Cloud (a six 6-month-old spaz/puppy), relocated to Nashville from Brooklyn toward the end of last year in a hurry. The family purchased a house just two weeks before opening their design store and gallery space called Wilder, “because we are crazy,” jokes Ivy, who is an accomplished dancer, actor and writer. Josh, a talented painter and actor, actually performed onstage as a Blue Man for ten years before this latest chapter in life. The 2,000 square-foot home consists of ten rooms spread out on one floor, which inspired a Brooklyn-based friend to name “The Ranchion” (ranch-mansion). “As New Yorkers, anything bigger than a bagel is a mansion.”
With a newborn child and a newer business to run, the couple set out to buy a house that didn’t require any major overhauls. Luckily for them, they found this updated 1950s home that included a 2014 addition with modern conveniences. They especially love the big half-acre lot on which the property is situated, rare for this boomtown where developers are squishing buildings more closely together than ever before. Another nostalgic feature is the train that runs behind the house, which is visible through the trees during winter. The couple is finished with moving for a very long time, especially because Ivy and Josh inhabited 37 apartments between themselves in total during 20 years in New York City. But just because they are setting down roots in Nashville, however, that doesn’t mean the decorating process is or will ever be finished. Keeping things changing for the family’s needs is an ongoing evolution. The vast open space in the home (when compared to previous dwellings) removes former limitations on the process, and as Ivy explains, “allows for lots of unwieldy dancing.” To her, home is ultimately where the Elrod family finds itself together. And with all the moving she’s done in her life, “I know my feeling of home has less to do with things or geography, and everything to do with where my people (creatures) are.” —Annie
Photography by Skye Parrott, except where noted
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