Renee and Bob Kitt's eclectic home is filled with memorabilia. Pictured on the right are Japanese dolls that are part of the many treasured pieces on display. Ask Renee and Bob Kitt to identify their home decoration motif, and they come up with the best word: Eclectic!

Inside the home are ceramics from Mexico, a coffee table from India, Japanese dolls, a parrot from Belize, and a bread bowl from Honduras, along with family heirloom pieces and treasured old pictures.

Their 1912- vintage home at 2827 Blossom Street will be open for visitors December 7 during the annual Shandon/Hollywood/ Rose Hill Tour of Homes. Christmas decorations will be just a bit more embellishment in a home bursting with brilliant color and one- ofa- kind artifacts.

"Pier One plays its part, too," says Renee Kitt. "When we travel, we bring back our luggage full of local items as well as shipping things home. But many of the exotic pieces in our house were bought at local shops and hobby/craft departments. Nothing here is expensive or extremely valuable. It's just what we like to have around the house."

Bob Kitt was born in Japan, and many colorful items come from there. These include masks in the living room and handmade dolls in the kitchen, along with ceramics, paintings, and photographs. Especially treasured is a photograph of Bob Kitt's Japanese mother in her traditional and highly- ornamented wedding kimono.

As for Renee's family, the parents and grandparents and even great grandparents named Hughes and Carter, all from the Columbia area.

Visitors will see a pair of antique tinted photographs, a small girl with her dog, and a young boy with his dog. These are Renee's grandparents, who discovered after they met and married that they had been photographed in similar, popular poses by the same fashionable photographer in their childhood.

The large coffee table in the living room came from India and is handcrafted of an unidentified wood. It rests on an Oriental rug bought in Columbia at Khouri's long ago.

The peripatetic Kitts cruised south of South America in glacier territory, and brought home a scat- ter rug of cowhide from Uruguay. A table in the front office/room is made from wood salvaged from an old Lutheran Church in North Carolina. Other artifacts come from Pompeii, Venice, France, and islands in the Caribbean.

As might be expected, Renee Kitt enjoys dabbling in art and decoration on her own. The original fireplace setting in a front room has its tile enlivened with her touches of bright paint. She went through a "water- color phase," too, and those pieces are on view as well.

It hasn't hurt at all to have a proficient handyman in the family. Daughter Whitney is married to a professional cabinetmaker, Nick Follmer, whose handiwork can be found upstairs and down, in kitchen and bath and dressing areas.