The stars of HGTV’s Old neighborhood as of late finished another home in the nation, where they can invest quality energy with their two daughters, Helen, 4, and Mae, 17 months, and take a break from the spotlight they’ve ended up in thanks to the progress of their show, its spinoffs, and presently, acting roles in one of the organization’s previously prearranged holiday motion pictures, A Christmas Open House (presently streaming on discovery+ and airing on HGTV Dec. 7).

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“This is our statement, unquote end of the week getaway,” Ben, 39, tells Individuals in this week’s main story (on newsstands Friday) of the 4,000 sq. ft. 1930 Tudor-style home they purchased in July 2021 and renovated start to finish north of nine months. After Mae was born, the pair had started to feel the crush at their home in midtown Laurel.

“Once you add a swing set, a canine, a kiddie pool and a rabbit cage, unexpectedly the yard that felt gigantic in the beginning starts feeling significantly smaller,” explains Ben. And since Old neighborhood has made Laurel a popular destination for away visitors, the family has less privacy. “We couldn’t really utilize our front yard. We were restricted to the backyard,” he adds.

The couple wanted an old house in a rural setting — a rarity in southern Mississippi, says Erin.

They even considered building something starting from the earliest stage. Yet, with Erin’s quite certain wish list — a block outside, a separated sunrise or nightfall yard, stairs into the kitchen and wide-plank oak floors, to name a couple — and Ben’s adoration for excellent materials, being a financial plan buster was going.

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At the point when the ideal house abruptly appeared on the market right external town, they could barely handle it.

“It really felt like a Divine being thing that we tracked down this house,” says Erin. “It has each and every thing that was on that list. It gives me goose pimples.”

The couple attempted what Ben calls “delicate demo,” saving as much as they threw out.

They converted one of the six rooms into a laundry room and another into a playroom for the young ladies, and tore out a ultra-’80s bath total with a corner jacuzzi tub and green ledges.

Then they carefully layered back in the nation charm with wallpaper, V-groove paneling, patterned fabrics on the furnishings and a utilitarian-stylish kitchen Erin says was inspired by the downstairs one on Downton Abbey. “At the point when I’m here, I feel like I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. I’m in England, world’s away from Mississippi,” she says.

Fortunately, they’re really only a short drive from downtown Laurel, their businesses — Laurel Mercantile, Scotsman General and the new Fragrance Library — and Helen’s school, meaning they can disappear to the country as often as they like and let their daughters experience the great outside.

Helen “has always known she wanted to be a farm girl,” says Ben. And the family’s new property is “somewhere the young ladies can go crazy and get dirty.”

She’s also “loving never wearing shoes. She simply takes them off and goes through fields and into the forest,” says Erin.

“There’s a great deal of tree climbing and soil digging and fishing; those are things that were only a normal part of our lives growing up.”

The two most youthful Napiers have already become attached to this special place: Helen has told her parents it will be hers someday. “We think of this house as a treasure,” says Erin.

Amid their always more occupied lives, Ben and Erin, who will mark their fourteenth wedding anniversary on Nov. 22, know that it is so crucial to carve out minutes together away from work when they can focus exclusively on their young ladies. “We realize this is fleeting,” says Erin of having two little ones. “I feel like we are in the center of living the best years of our life.

I’m exceptionally aware of it, and I want to keep it some way or another.”

The Napier’s holiday special, Old neighborhood: Christmas in Laurel, airs Nov. 27; A Christmas Open House is currently streaming on discovery+ and will air on HGTV Dec. 7; Old neighborhood gets back to HGTV Dec. 4; and season two of Old neighborhood Takeover will arrive in early 2023.