Ree Drummond’s newly renovated lounge room is really a labor of affection. 

Over the weekend, the Meals Community star shared a glimpse of the brand new primary home she’s renovating on the Drummond Ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. In an Instagram video, she confirmed off the “TV-free” room the place she and husband Ladd wish to calm down. 

“Nonetheless twiddling with cabinets (I flunked cabinets in elementary college) however wished to indicate you a bit of TV-free spot on the prime of the steps in our new home the place our previous home was once,” she stated within the caption.

The attractive room contains deep blue wall-to-wall cabinets that show significant images, together with considered one of her late canine Walter, who died in July. The artwork point of interest of the room is a big portray of ranchers on horses in an idyllic scene that hangs over the sofa. Within the caption, Ree defined the piece’s significance to her household.  

“The portray was in Ladd’s mother and father’ home eternally, and I hadn’t deliberate to place it right here. However one thing in regards to the gold couch and the golden tones of the western panorama clicked, and now this spot is a spot to learn, suppose, bear in mind previous instances, and reset amid glimpses of Nan, beloved ranch canines, and (finally) images of family and friends,” she stated.

The peaceable area has develop into a daily hangout spot for the empty nesters. 

“Ladd and I sit up right here briefly spurts and speak in regards to the children, the climate, and what the following couple of days seems like,” she stated. “I both have espresso or wine, relying on the time of day, and he has a Dr Pepper it doesn’t matter what time of day. Simply name us mom and daddy, hopefully the steps gained’t give us bother for a number of years. ????”

Drummond’s daughters are massive followers of the area, too. “Would possibly simply be my favourite spot within the new home ????,” Alex commented, whereas Paige echoed, “The most effective spot!!!”

Final Could, Drummond spoke with PEOPLE about her household’s residing preparations amid main renovations. 

Their unique home in Pawhuska, which is identical one Ladd grew up in, was practically 50 years previous.

“It wasn’t a captivating 50-year-old home. We liked elevating our children in the home, but it surely had basis issues and had developed a number of issues that had been going to be fairly overwhelming to repair,” she instructed PEOPLE.

They briefly moved out to a brand new visitor home on the household’s ranch in the identical spot they’ve lived for 20 years.

“We wound up constructing a small home proper subsequent to our common home over the previous 12 months. And we moved into it in December,” she stated in 2022. 

Drummond stated that she and her husband deliberate on constructing a “primary home” — the one by which she just lately shared new images — and the non permanent area will finally function a “smaller visitor home” the place her children can keep whereas visiting.

Over the previous a number of months, the cookbook creator has shared sneak peeks of the brand new home, however the blue-shelved room she posted this month is the primary glimpse of a completed room inside their newly renovated primary dwelling.  

For this property, they’re specializing in simplicity. “Once we construct our primary home, we’re solely doing one or two bedrooms, so it is not going to be an enormous mega home,” she teased within the Could 2022 interview. “However proper now, we’re glad within the visitor home. And this can be our ‘home, home’ in the meanwhile. It is very snug and once more, easy. We needed to be very selective about what we introduced right here.”