Stacey Solomon has shared a glimpse of her new family home after revealing that she and her family are moving out of their Essex mansion, Pickle Cottage.
Stacey, 36, shared a photo of herself alongside husband, Joe Swash and their children sitting on their new doorstep on Instagram on Friday night and captioned the post: 'Home is wherever I’m with you… Pickle Project, Here We Go.'
They are proud parents to Rex, seven, Rose, four, and Belle, three. Stacey is also the mother of sons Zachary, 18 and Leighton, 14, while Joe is the father of his son Harry, 19, from a previous relationship.
While fans are yet to see the inside of Stacey's new Victorian home, the doorway itself is impressive and features giant white double doors positioned against elegant multicoloured tiles.
In a second photo shown from inside the property, Stacey showed a beautiful fireplace which appears to be inside one of the sprawling living rooms.
Accompanying the image, Stacey wrote: "Happy Saturday. Feels so strange not to be waking up in Pickle Cottage but so excited to be taking it all in and wondering what to do with this place."
Why did Stacey and Joe leave Pickle Cottage?
The couple - who married in 2022 at their former home - bought the former Tudor-style property for £1.2 million, with highlights including an outdoor swimming pool, a utility room and traditional features like fireplaces and wooden beams inside.
Stacey revealed the pair made the decision to move because they wanted more space for their animals and somewhere they could have a vegetable patch.
Opening up about leaving Pickle Cottage, Stacey explained: "'Leaving Pickle Cottage was a massive decision for us; we had a lot of people we needed to speak to, we needed to get the kids around to the idea and speak to all our friends and neighbours in the area.
"We have just waited until someone amazing came along and fell in love with the cottage."
She continued: "Pickle Cottage is our dream house. As soon as we moved here, we fell in love with it, and I still love it so, so much. It's a really special place to us. I gave birth to both of the girls there; we got married there. It's just so special to us.
"But for a little while, we have always wanted to rescue more animals, grow more vegetables, so we have always been thinking if there was ever a chance to get a bit more land, then we would consider it.
© Instagram"We saw somewhere, and I was like, we could have a massive vegetable patch, and we could offer our land to animals who need it and stuff like that. We could bring the horses back there, the ponies, and we went to see it, and we fell in love.
"It wasn't an easy decision. We built our lives together at Pickle Cottage, but now we have found somewhere where we can see our family growing and really flourishing, and this is the place."
