Erin Napier’s eldest daughter is already following in her footsteps!
HGTV star, 38, revealed on Instagram this week that her 6-year-old daughter Helen — who she shares with her husband and hometown co-host Ben Napier — has big plans for his dream home when he “grows up.” And, as Erin explained to her followers, she’s already designed it in detail!
In a video shared on Erin’s account — along with inspirational photos of homes that represent her daughter’s vision — the designer revealed that Helen had been thinking about a “little wooden house with a brick chimney” and plans to build it in a field next to a pond at the family’s cottage in the village, Erin said.
She explained that the pictures and details were “*as dictated to me at bedtime and illustrated with images from Pinterest that I was able to find.* Erin added, per Helen, that the house “will smell like s’mores inside and we’ll mostly be playing Christmas music but sometimes the sound music falls.”
“I’ve never wanted so badly to visit a place that doesn’t exist,” the mother of two concluded her caption. Erin and Ben also have a daughter, Mae, 3.
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In the video, Erin detailed what her daughter wants in her future home: “dark green” paint with white windows, a “screened porch by the pond,” stained glass windows, a “little white picket fence” and a “little garden” where Helen wants to grow strawberries and tomatoes.
Helen’s dream home also includes a pond where she can fish, a front door that is “dark light blue”, a “small bathroom”, a guest bedroom with a “rocking chair and a small TV” and a kitchen that looks like wooden “furniture that dad is building”.
Her bedroom would also have a fireplace and “wallpaper with lots of flowers and animals”, as her two children would have “a little room next to my toy room”.
“UPDATE: I showed Helen these pictures and she said I got everything right except ‘the ramp and fishing spot on the lake will need handrails and a small gate so the kids don’t fall in,'” concluded Erin.
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Erin and Ben celebrated a bittersweet family milestone earlier this month when Mae officially transitioned to a “big girl bed” while their family crib, hand-made by Ben, now goes into storage.
“He built it out of white oak with one tiny plug of heart pine in the top rail that came from the inside wall of our house so his daughter would have a piece of home that belonged to her,” Erin wrote in the Instagram caption. “Mae slept in it for the last time last night so we can remember it.”
Ben wrote in his own caption that he “immediately started planning the crib” when he found out his wife was pregnant for the first time. The sentimental piece of furniture will now “live in her room for a few more weeks” in case his daughter has trouble adjusting, even though he knows she’s “ready.”
“The white oak bassinet will go into storage until my babies are mums and then it will be used again,” Ben, 40, wrote. “Nothing makes you more aware of time than children.”
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Just months before the family’s cradle was retired, Erin also reflected on the passage of time in another Instagram post, in which she remembered Mae wearing her teal unicorn costume “for the last time”.
“It’s comforting to catch, for some reason. 🙂 We’re losing her baby, but we’re getting real, sweet, thoughtful conversations in return,” Erin wrote.
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