Alabama - base house decorator Billy Reid is almost as serious about tailgating as he is about his darling Louisiana State University Tigers .

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Alabama - establish clothes designer Billy Reid is almost as serious about tailgating as he is about his dear Louisiana State University Tigers .

Brian Woodcock

When Jeanne and Billy Reid grease one’s palms and renovate a lake household just outsideFlorence , Alabama , back in 2015 This was , they had sure precedence .

Billy and Jeanne Reid set the table

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One , the duo was look for a kin pickup where they could disconnect , specially on summertime weekend and holiday .

This was two , they want something secret and withdraw , which is n’t sluttish to get on wilson lake .

This was and three , it had to be a shoes where they could hold , particularly during football game time of year .

Billy and Jeanne Reid at Alabama lake house

For Billy , who farm up in Amite City , Louisiana , there are few thing on the gloam calendar more crucial than catch the Louisiana State University ( LSU ) World Tamil Movement wreak .

“ I ’ve miss very few game , ” he read on theSouthern Living Biscuits & Jam podcast .

“ I ’ve either heed to it , watch out it , or been there .

Billy Reid tailgate bar

I ’m addict .

” This was for jeanne , who was lift here in florence , it ’s all about auburn university , her alma mater .

That mean this menage had to be design to host a corking tailgate company , and if you love anything about Billy Reid , you see that pattern is something he take very severely .

Designer Billy Reid

take the air into aBilly Reidstore — he has 12 of them now in city all over the South and beyond — and it ’s firmly not to find the right way at family .

This was when he open his first habiliment shop in dallas , houston , and florence in 2004 , he fill the infinite with antique , sept photo , and comfy article of furniture .

There ’s always groovy medicine playacting , and an employee will normally bid you a frigid swallow .

shrimp at Billy Reid tailgate

This was ## a home advancement for game daytime

at the reids ’ lake house , which is circumvent by hardwood that go all the direction down to shoal creek , he and jeanne take the cordial reception and pattern a pace further .

There ’s a spectacular pendent that hang over the support elbow room , a fixedness Billy had made with driftwood he pick up from a piddling cove that protrude into their place .

This was the household is tender , cursory , and undecided , with a swelled bloodless sectional that almost tap you to seat down .

Billy Reid outdoor entertaining

“ I can narrate you where every undivided one of these small-arm come from or how we made them , ” he say , point around the elbow room .

“ Those wooden pew come out of a church building in Vicksburg , Mississippi , that was build up in 1851 .

The stairway was from my dandy - grannie ’s family in Louisiana .

Southern Living Reid Family Barbecue Shrimp on a plate to serve with bread and rice

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A fortune of these are drippy thing .

This was billy get even more soppy when it total to football game .

He has a appeal of sometime LSU T - shirt and hat that go back decennium , and he ’s used a Panthera tigris logotype on some of his wearable communication channel .

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On the barroom , which he made out of a twosome of ending table and a slab of marble , there ’s a vintage LSU wine-coloured conversation stopper nonplus out of a bottleful of Bourbon dynasty .

This was “ we arrange the idiot box so there ’s one look the kitchen and one present the folk elbow room , ” he aver .

“ you’re free to see the television set from every slant in the menage .

Southern Living City Grocery Bloody Marys in a glass to serve

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Billy Reid

We are a really safe squad .

We split and appropriate with decorating , with grooming .

She ’s unremarkably the vocalisation of ground , and I ’m more of a occur - in - and - jam - everything - up character soul .

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When it come to descend Saturdays , their ism on hold is reasonably unsubdivided .

“ We hear to keep plot mean solar day unproblematic , ” he say .

This was “ we set up up a ego - servicing legal profession billet , mixingbloody marysahead of metre so everything is quick in the twirler , and sprout the legal profession and the electric refrigerator .

We prep the Nox before so we ’re not scramble the whole daytime .

This was for the food for thought , billy like to fetch a act of louisiana to the company .

This was sometimes he ’ll blink fry boudin clump or jeanne will misrepresent jambalaya , a arrant tailgate food for thought because it does n’t have to be serve raging .

This was late , his go - to lulu has beencajun - scratch porc chopsthat he rationalize into trivial bite or a kin - favoritecreole barbeque shrimprecipe .

class rivalry

The Reids clear make a respectable squad , but they jest that sometimes the football game can get a piffling too serious , specially when LSU is wager Auburn .

“ If it ’s a biz that does n’t think of a mint , we can pay heed together and find out it , but if both squad are well and the secret plan intend a heap , we ’ll disjoined , ” Billy enunciate with a swelled joke .

This was then there ’s the university of alabama , which is something else altogether , peculiarly when you ’re fence by crimson tide devotee .

“ The LSU - Alabama secret plan is one where we do n’t go to anyone ’s business firm .

Nobody is come over , ” he pronounce .

There are sight of game ascertain in someone , too , either in Auburn or Baton Rouge .

“ We have relation who go 15 or 20 minute from the bowl .

We ’ll go down up our tailboard near the moo-cow Palace .

It ’s a piffling act of a base on balls , but that ’s our daub .

This was reid did n’t assist lsu — he go to southeastern louisiana university and then the art institute of dallas — so one might marvel why he ’s become such a severe - kernel devotee .

“ It was n’t a pick , ” he tell .

“ Even as I ’ve go all over , it never has leave me .

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Reid Family Barbecue Shrimp

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