Long before she sold her custom-renovated, Hamptons-inspired home in ritzy Newport Beach, Calif., for $5.35 million — much less than the initial asking price of $6 million but still a solid profit on the $4.1 million she paid just over three years ago — Christina Haack pointed her real estate sights toward Tennessee where the HGTV star is settling into a four-year-old farmhouse on close to 24 thickly wooded acres on the bucolic outskirts of Franklin, Tenn., about 25 miles southwest of downtown Nashville.
A popular HGTV staple for the last decade and newly divorced from her second husband, British gearhead TV presenter Ant Anstead, Haack still co-hosts “Flip or Flop” with her first ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa, with whom she reportedly still has a bit of a fraught relationship, as well as the long-running show’s spin off solo series “Christina on the Coast,” currently airing its third season. Along the way she wrote about book about her own journey of health and wellness (“The Wellness Remodel”), and last year launched a line of furniture (Christina @ Home) that, according to press materials, offers a “California casual vibe to active families and those who will not sacrifice style for durability.”
Presumably Haack will imbue her new home in Nashville with her signature casual coastal California style, and she certainly has a big, blank and landlocked new canvas to work on 2000 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. Built in 2017 on a sunny knoll at the end of a long private drive and clad in humble board-and-batten siding painted bright white, the roughly 5,000-square-foot home offers a charming and classically southern wrap-around front porch, an amorphous swimming pool and garaging for four cars.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com According to People magazine, the six-bedroom and 5.5 bath home will be a vacation retreat for the SoCal-based decorator and house flipper. So the story goes, Haack visited Nashville last year, loved it, and, when she returned for a visit over New Year’s, did what real estate agents often do; She went for a peep of a few properties. (Fish are gonna swim, right?) She was immediately smitten with what she described as an “insanely beautiful modern farmhouse” that had only been on the market for one day. She quickly swooped in to make an offer, and a month later she sealed the deal at $2.5 million.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Interiors mix rustic and organic materials — rough-hewn wood beams, vintage brick, bespoke wagon-wheel-like light fixtures, rough cut stone and reclaimed wood — with up-to-date creature comforts and higher end materials.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com For holidays and other important events, there’s a formal dining room that can be closed off from the center-hall foyer by a barn-style sliding wood door, while the less stuffy L-shaped great room comprises a cozy family room with brick fireplace, an informal dining space paneled in reclaimed wood planks, and a spacious kitchen with an island snack bar below a vaulted and beamed ceiling.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Surrounded by dense, unspoiled woodlands, the sylvan spread is a sprawling and spectacularly private idyll for Haack, her three children and, presumably, her new “ride or die” beau, Austin, Texas, based real estate agent Joshua Hall.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Whatever design and décor plans she has for her secluded Tennesee getaway, Haack is a consummate showbizzer who showcases the home the currently airing season of “Christina on the Coast.” As for her next real estate move in Southern California…stay tuned.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The property was listed with Kristen Reed at United Country Real Estate Leipers Fork; Haack was represented by Kelly Dougherty of Village Real Estate.