Stacey Solomon says it ‘feels so strange not waking up at Pickle Cottage’ as she reveals she won’t share pictures of the outside of their new home following ‘privacy issues’

Stacey Solomon has admitted it ‘feels strange’ waking up in a new home after she revealed the family have moved out of their £1.3million Pickle Cottage this week. 

And after many much-loved years at Pickle Cottage, Stacey shared a second glimpse of their new house on Saturday, but explained she won’t be showing the outside of it for privacy reasons. 

Taking to her Instagram Story on Saturday morning, Stacey posted a snap of her daughter Rose, four, in a bare living room which featured an ornate white painted fireplace. 

She penned: ‘Happy Saturday. Feels so strange not waking up in pickle cottage but so excited taking it all in & wondering what to do with this place.’ 

The fireplace featured black and white marble while the white painted wallpaper suggested the couple’s new home is a lot grander than their previous cottage. 

Giving fans an update she wrote: ‘I can’t wait to properly have some days off work & show you all around…. I’m not going to show the outside of the house this time around. 

‘Just for security and privacy reasons… we had some issues at pickle cottage in the end & it’s safer to just not show the building itself.’  

Stacey posted a snap of her daughter Rose, four, in a bare living room which featured an ornate white painted fireplace and white painted wallpaper

She continued: ‘I am so excited though to take you into the rooms & get inspiration from you all. There’s so much to think about & so many fun things to do. I will need help with this project because it is huge. I need all your tips, tricks and ideas! 

‘I’m going to really take my tie and live here and work out what to do with each room because I don’t want to rush it!

‘But I can’t tell you how excited I am to sink my teeth into this project with you all.’ 

On Friday, the TV presenter, 36, and her husband Joe Swash, 44, took to Instagram to share a photo of the family on their new doorstep as she captioned the post: ‘Home is wherever I’m with you… Pickle Project, Here We Go.’ 

Stacey and Joe revealed they had decided to move out of their beloved home after falling in love with the new property, which is surrounded by acres of land.

Stacey told her followers her chickens, ducks and bee hive have all successfully travelled over to their new home. 

The Loose Women presenter said she has plans to build a huge vegetable garden and rescue more animals. 

It was previously revealed back in June the couple had fallen in love with the eight-bedroom Victorian mansion.

The property comes with a pool, sprawling gardens and enough bedrooms for all their children. 

They are proud parents to Rex, seven, Rose, four, and Belle, three. Stacey is also mother to sons Zachary, 18 and Leighton, 14, while Joe is father to his son Harry, 19, from a previous relationship. 

Joe said the property will be a huge renovation project for the queen of DIY.

‘We are leaving and moving out of Pickle Cottage imminently, which I never thought I’d say,’ she explained in an emotional video on Instagram.

Revealing why they kept the move under wraps, Stacey said: ‘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 wrote: ‘Just for security and privacy reasons… we had some issues at pickle cottage in the end & it’s safer to just not show the building itself’

On Friday, the presenter, 36, and her husband Joe Swash, 44, shared a photo of the family on their new doorstep as she wrote: ‘Home is wherever I’m with you… Pickle Project, Here We Go’ 

Stacey shared a montage of her favourite family moments at Pickle Cottage after moving out of their £1.3million home on Thursday 

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.

‘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.

‘So it’s time to say goodbye to Pickle Cottage which feels so weird and basically move across to our new chapter.

‘It’s a project, we’re moving somewhere really really different and it does need a lot of love and I’m excited to do that all again.’

The fondly named Pickle Cottage is where Stacey and Joe’s reality series is based. They moved back in 2021. 

Stacey and Joe first met on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2010 and had their 2022 wedding on the grounds.

Stacey opened up about her love of interior decorating in an interview with House Beautiful magazine, as she responded to a question asking which design trend she wouldn’t be on board with.

She said: ‘I don’t think there’s such a thing. It bugs me that people have an opinion on someone’s house, like if there’s not enough colour or if it’s too garish.

‘Why have you got an opinion on someone else’s house? I don’t appreciate it. Let people be free with their own homes and do whatever the hell they want.

‘It might not be your style and it might not be your taste, but it’s not your house.

‘I feel passionately about people judging other people’s spaces. You live in that space. It has to support you in so many ways, whether that’s emotionally or through comfort. Who are we to tell anyone that their space isn’t what it should be?’