JESSA Duggar and her husband, Ben Seewald, are renovating and moving into a church home, as the stars have “dumped their savings” into the remodel following Counting On’s cancellation.
Jessa, 29, has shared her home remodeling journey with a series of videos, as she prepares to move into a new house with her husband, Ben Seewald, and their four children.
The Sun can exclusively reveal first photos of the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home.
The home is still in the renovation stages, as the outside has Lowe’s wall paper.
The house has new windows and French doors.
Photos show the home is located directly next to Immanuel Baptist Church, where Ben works as a pastor.
Arkansas property records reveal the house is still owned by the church located in Springdale.
The home was built in 1950 and the church purchased the abode in 1985.
Before the renovation, the home was 1,326 square-feet and had three bedrooms.
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13HOME RENOVATIONS
In Jessa’s YouTube video, she showed off the home before renovations.
She revealed they are adding a fourth bedroom to be the master suite.
This will make the abode 2,000 square feet, which is double the amount of room they have in their current home.
Jessa revealed their plans to open the walls separating the living room from the kitchen and dining room to make an open-floor plan.
She explained the bathroom and kitchen will be a “gut job,” as the hardwood floors in the other rooms are in “good condition” and will be stained.
Jessa also revealed her plans to take down the ceiling tile throughout the house and add recessed lighting.
She also showed footage of her brother Jason, who is leading the project, and his team on demo day.
The ex-reality star revealed: “We are dumping a decent amount of our savings into this, but we feel like it’ll suit our need for years to come so for that it’s worth it.”
DESIGN TIME!
In the second video, Jessa showed off a lighter color to stain the hardwood floors, and gray tile for the bathrooms and laundry room.
For the kitchen, she went with a light wood for the cabinets and a marble design for the countertops.
Jessa also showed off her fireplace, which she explained will have a “clean” design and not be too “overly complicated.”
She then showed off a home app to give fans an idea of how the finished product will look.
The kitchen will also have an island with seating that opens to the dining room and living room.
CURRENT HOME
Jessa and Ben are living in their current Arkansas house, as they wait for renovations to finish.
They are upgrading their Arkansas home before likely putting it on the market.
The Sun previously reported Jessa and Ben filed an easement on December 27 in the amount of $1 to allow the City of Fayetteville to cross over onto their property for the purpose of “construction, maintenance, repair and/or replacement, enlargement and operations of general utilities including water, and/or sanitary sewer pipe lines or lines, manholes” and more.
Jessa and Ben are allowed to “fully use and enjoy the premises” while the construction is taking place.
The couple bought the home from her late grandma Mary Duggar for $100,000 in June 2017.
The Sun previously posted photos of the abode that is right off the Interstate 49 Highway.
There is also a busy intersection outside of the house that is located on the corner of the block.
While there is a fenced backyard, there is no fence in the front yard, where Jessa often posts photo and videos of the children playing.
A source told The Sun: “Ben and Jessa usually park their car in the driveway right next to the front door and have the kids enter the home that way.”
LIFE AFTER TLC
Jessa and Ben are parents to sons Spurgeon, six, Henry, four, and daughters Ivy, two, and Fern, who was born in July.
The home upgrade before potentially selling comes at the perfect time.
The life change comes as family’s TLC reality show, Counting On, was canceled in May 2021 after her brother Josh’s arrest for child pornography in April.
The Sun previously reported the family is expected to “lose $850,000 a year” after the show’s cancellation.
A source told The Sun at the time: "The family was roughly paid $80k for each chunk of filming, and some seasons were longer than others, but they were picking up on average $850k a season.
"I think a lot of people will be shocked to learn they were earning that much, and it all went to Jim Bob who invested some of it for the family, and handed the rest out.
"But there were often arguments about payments, who deserved what and whether people were being paid correctly for their time on air, that was a major issue over the years.
"Some family members are glad TLC pulled the plug so they can go off on their own and manage their own money, but Jim Bob is undoubtedly p****d because it was a huge income.”
Reports also claim Jessa was fired from an Instagram partnership earlier this month because of her controversial views.
TROUBLED BROTHER
Josh, 33, was found guilty of possessing and receiving child pornography on December 9.
Josh was immediately handcuffed and taken into custody at Washington County Jail, where he was placed in solitary confinement away from other prisoners for his safety until his sentencing.
He faces 20 years in prison for each of the two counts.
The Sun previously reported Josh’s legal team filed a motion for an acquittal of the guilty verdict.
If both are denied by the court, his legal team is asking to dismiss count 2, which is the possession of child pornography charge.
In the alternative, the court papers also request a new trial.
The government fought back by requesting the judge to deny the appeal.
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