Yahoo Autos Tarek and Heather El Moussa Show Off Their Newport Beach Home and Baby Tristan's Nursery — See Inside!
The HGTV and Netflix stars dealt with two separate floods in the year-and-a-half-long renovation of their California home
When real estate power couple Heather Rae El Moussa and Tarek El Moussa buy a house, the temptation to flip it for a profit is strong. But something about their current Newport Beach, Calif. home made them realize this was one to hang on to.
The Selling Sunset star and Flipping 101 host recently showed HGTV Magazine around their 3,000-square-foot home, situated just a block away from the Pacific Ocean.
The couple's search for the perfect place was a trying one. While living in a nearby rental home, they say they set countless 5 a.m. alarms to check out hundreds of properties before finding what they were looking for. After nabbing this place, they debated whether to keep it or flip it, before finally deciding it was the perfect spot for their young family.
Properties in the coastal neighborhood are known for having white exteriors, but the HGTV stars decided their new family home should be a dramatic black.
The dark tones highlighted with crisp white continue into the interior, which took the couple a year and a half to renovate. "When we first saw this house, the interior was completely white, so we had to put our own flair on it," Heather tells the magazine.
It was a project filled with unexpected drama and they dealt with the home flooding on two separate occasions, causing major delays in the project timeline.
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The property has plenty of space for their growing family. Heather and Tarek welcomed their first child together, Tristan, in January 2023. And Tarek shares daughter Taylor, 12, and son Brayden, 7, with his ex, Christina Hall.
The nursery for baby Tristan sticks to the subdued color scheme but adds some flair with a zigzag stencil pattern. "We thought the pattern could grow with him, but we can easily paint over it if we decide to change things up," Heather says. The room also features lots of elephants, Heather's favorite animal.
