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Chip & Joanna Gaines: Any Couple Can Have What We Have
You cognize that idle phantasy you get erstwhile you've ticker 1 excessively many HGTV shows? Like, I could wholly flip houses. It can't beryllium that hard.
Yeah, Teen Mom 2 alum Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer are close determination with you.
"Even erstwhile we archetypal got together, we would binge Fixer Upper and each those shows and I was like, 'This is truthful fun,'" Chelsea recalled to E! News successful an exclusive interview. "And I'd ever look astatine houses, like, 'Ooh, we could hole that up.'"
Then they did transmission their interior contractors, overseeing the physique of their South Dakota imagination home: A sleek achromatic farmhouse with a plan aesthetic that embraces the content there's nary specified happening arsenic excessively overmuch statement-making wallpaper. And, marveled Cole, "a batch of radical gravitated toward it and we were like, well, possibly there's thing here. We are truly enjoying this and radical similar what we're doing, truthful let's conscionable continue."
Soon they were launching their ain plan concern helping clients freshen up their homes. And before they knew it, they were reminding fellow travelers astatine the Dallas airdrome that their HGTV bid Down Home Fab premieres Jan. 16 at 9 p.m.
Approached by fans lamenting their two-year absence from TV screens portion waiting to drawback a flight, "I'm like, 'Wait! Now we've got our ain show, you've got to ticker it!" Cole admitted. Joked Chelsea, "It's truthful comic due to the fact that he'll beryllium like, 'Our amusement airs successful 5 days, astatine this time.' We're conscionable truthful arrogant of it."
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And portion the concern owner—mom to Aubree, 13, Watson, 5, Layne, 4, and Walker, 23, months—truly has thing but emotion for her 10 seasons in the Teen Mom franchise, "if I'm being honest," she admits, "we would ne'er beryllium like, 'Watch Teen Mom connected Tuesday!'"
Of course, connected her caller bid she gets to marque feature-wall magic retired of peel-and-stick wallpaper and a fewer pieces of wood, and hand-pick antelope-print carpeting for a imagination household country space. And she ne'er erstwhile has to speech astir her old fellow from precocious school.
"It got to the constituent wherever it was like, it didn't consciousness authentic to our beingness anymore," Chelsea explained of spending country aft country connected Teen Mom 2, up of their 2020 exit, detailing her ongoing conflict to found immoderate benignant of coparenting narration with Aubree's dad, Adam Lind. "Because that wasn't truly our beingness anymore."
Agreed Cole, "We ne'er talked astir that worldly anyhow successful our home, truthful having to bash it each the clip connected camera? We were implicit it."
Now they're capable to springiness a precise existent glimpse of their day-to-day beingness connected the workplace wherever Cole spends his time, say, crafting a replica of their location for the kids to play in, building a beardown lawsuit for dada of the twelvemonth honors along the way.
"If we were going to travel backmost to TV, I wanted it to beryllium thing lighthearted, consciousness bully and beryllium capable to amusement our authentic selves," Chelsea noted, sharing wherefore this determination felt "so right." As she enactment it, "This was conscionable specified a chill accidental to bash that."
And if you're getting beardown Chip-and-Joanna vibes, you're not wrong: The DeBoers offer a Midwest mentation of the Gaines unit with a small little shiplap and a spot much achromatic cabinetry.
It's a examination that Chelsea, an avid Fixer Upper fan, is much than good with, TBH. "I mean, the Chip and Joanna compliment is astir apt the biggest compliment that we tin get," she shared. "Because it's, like, goals."
And portion they would admittedly beryllium blessed to talk store with anyone successful the HGTV universe, for now, noted her husband, "We privation to conscionable beryllium accepted."
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The brace are excited to enactment their own rom-com worthy romance connected display, 1 that began successful 2014 with the requisite meet-cute astatine a state presumption of each places. (They made oculus interaction filling up astatine adjacent pumps but didn't accidental a connection and, well, you cognize how these things go.)
"I similar that we're capable to absorption connected america and amusement our personalities more," shared Chelsea. "People evidently knew america from the show, but this is conscionable a full different side. It's lighthearted, which we thin to be. We similar to find the amusive successful virtually immoderate concern nary substance what it is."
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And, successful lawsuit you're wondering, that hasn't changed since they started moving side-by-side round-the-clock.
"We still get along," Chelsea said, adjacent admitting to missing her hubby of six years erstwhile they're not filming together. "We're inactive champion friends. Which I cognize is cheesy. But, I mean, it indispensable enactment for us."
While Cole acknowledged immoderate couples mightiness beryllium much of the absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder mindset, "We conscionable person the champion time," helium said. "She's my comfort. So it conscionable makes things easier erstwhile she's around."
Of course, juggling 4 kids, a caller TV series, a postulation of different projects and immoderate ideas that mightiness spout from Cole's ever whirring encephalon isn't without its struggles.
"We benignant of thrive disconnected chaos," noted Cole, who spent his years increasing up successful South Dakota helping his dada and grandpa with construction projects. Echoed Chelsea, "Sometimes the kids spell to furniture and we look astatine each different and we're like, 'Holy s--t. That. That was a day.' But that's conscionable however it is close present and we're conscionable trying to bask it. We'll astir apt miss these chaotic days."
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Because the onetime azygous ma is well-aware that she's the surviving embodiment of #blessed.
"I person pinch-me moments each day," she said of manifesting her imagination life. "All I ever wanted increasing up was a large family, a large hubby and conscionable a bully household life. And truthful the information that I person that and this accidental to person the amusement is thing that I'm truthful grateful for and I marque definite to talk connected my gratitude each the time. I deliberation that's truthful important to admit wherever you are successful beingness and conscionable consciousness grateful for it. So very, very, very appreciative."
Down Home Fab premieres Monday, Jan. 16, astatine 9 p.m. ET/PT connected HGTV and discovery+.
