TEEN Mom star Chelsea Houska and her husband, Cole DeBoer, have dropped $200,000 on her dad Randy’s humble Nebraska log cabin.
Chelsea, 31, revealed in September 2022 that she bought her “childhood cabin” to have “great memories” with her husband Cole, 33, and their children Aubree, 13, Watson, 6, Layne, 4, and Walker, 2.
The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal from property records that Chelsea and Cole purchased the home from her dad Randy and his wife, Rita, for $200,000.
The couple took out a loan for $159,996.
The log cabin sits on .99 acres of land and is 980 square feet.
The home was built in 1994 and features two bedrooms, one bathroom, a fireplace, a spiral staircase, a basement and a deck.
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The home is just minutes away from her dad Randy’s other Nebraska home that features a fireplace, pool and more amenities.
Chelsea wrote on Instagram after the house purchase: “10/10 recommend buying your childhood cabin. SO excited for my kids to make all the great memories here that I made. LET THE PROJECTS BEGIN.”
TIME TO RENOVATE
In October, Cole first tackled the “rotted/unsafe” deck.
He captioned a video renovating the deck: “This baby was leaning, old and rotten and it was time to go.
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“I had to strategically take this down because there is a hill behind the cabin, and I didn’t want everything to fall down the hill and I also didn’t want the whole deck to rip away from the house. But we got er done.”
He also removed the custom cast-iron railing around the deck and planned to sell it in pieces.
DESIGN EXPERIENCE
Chelsea and Cole are well suited for the renovation, as they now star on HGTV’s Down Home Fab.
The show premiered on January 16 and has been renewed for a second season.
The series premiere brought in 678,000 viewers.
The third episode of the season brought in the highest numbers with 878,000 viewers.
Though ratings were good, viewer reactions to their design choices were mixed.
The premiere episode featured the partners using their decorating expertise to remodel several rooms in the nearby home of another Sioux Falls couple, Jessica and Nate.
With a budget of $100,000, they transformed their client's kitchen, dining room, living room, seating area, and foyer, giving it a similar flare to Chelsea and Cole's South Dakota farmhouse.
Some design choices included butcher block countertops for the kitchen, painting the original off-white cabinets black, and cooper wrap for the kitchen island.
For the sitting room, Chelsea used peel-and-stick black alligator print wallpaper for the accent wall, antelope print for the carpeting, and yellow chairs.
As for the living room, they painted the fireplace stone with whitewash and painted the wood ceiling a green color.
VIEWER BACKLASH
Though the clients seemed thrilled by the remodel, viewers on social media weren’t as impressed.
One said: "It was actually embarrassing how bad this went, they have 0 sense of style the house looked awful when they were done with it."
A second agreed: "It looks horrible! Also, Chels kept saying the room was too dark, then proceeded to put down dark floors, and paint the walls AND ceilings dark green."
A third wrote: "The whole design seemed to hang together except for that horrendous fireplace. Maybe it was different in person but it seemed like a gigantic white-ish blob amidst earth tones and black. Just awful. Also, would’ve 100% left the ceiling unpainted."
Others thought the designs were "hideous," harshly calling the entire project "a huge waste of money."
LEGAL BATTLE
The couple is also involved in a nasty $4million lawsuit.
The former Teen Mom 2 stars were sued by consulting company Envy for $3million in 2020 for allegedly withholding money they made from social media promotions.
Envy filed an Amended Complaint to the same lawsuit, as Chelsea and Cole’s companies Down Home DeBoer, Aubree Says, Dakota Ln LLC, and DeBoer Holding Company were added as defendants on the case with the ex-business partner now suing for $4million.
Chelsea, Cole, and the other defendants filed a counterclaim in May 2020, alleging Envy actually withheld $150,000 from them.
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Chelsea and Cole denied the allegations and claimed they "do not owe any payments to Envy" and that the company "wrongfully withheld payments due to Chelsea."
The case remains ongoing.
