Stacey Solomon gives her Wendy house a spring clean at her new Essex pad

She moved into a sprawling rural pad in Essex earlier this month, which she has nicknamed ‘Pickle Cottage’.  

And Stacey Solomon has been putting her tidying skills to good use as she documented herself giving her new ‘forever’ home’s wendy house a spring clean. 

The TV presenter, 31, boasts a Tudor-style playhouse at her new pad for her son Rex, 22 months, to play in and filmed the pair cleaning the roof and windows on Tuesday.

Stacey showed before and after looks at the roof of the playhouse as she made it look brand new after a wash.

Sharing snaps of the house, she wrote: ‘Rex is helping me clean the Wendy house. Hopefully we can shine her up today and bring her back to life. 

‘I’ve washed the roof of the Wendy house and it’s come up lovely… I’m going to let it dry and then carry on tomorrow I think. 

‘I’m going to have to replace a lot of the outside wood because it’s a bit rotten. What would you do?’  

Sharing the before and after snaps of the roof, she added: ‘This is the difference between the roof before a jet wash. 

‘Lots of you asking… my jet wash is the Karcher K4 an old one not the latest model but we LOVE it. It’s brilliant and so powerful.’

The mother-of-three also took the jet wash to her garden bench and said she couldn’t believe the difference it made.  

She explained: ‘It doesn’t even look as good in the picture because the light is behind it but it’s a beautiful brown wood. I’m going to let it dry and stain and seal it tomorrow.’

Stacey had trouble getting the cleaning going to begin with, admitting it took her hours just to assemble all the hoses she needed for the job. 

Speaking to her followers, she said: ‘Nothing is happening fast here because it literally just took me two and a half hours to find all the hoses we own just so I could get the water from the house to the Wendy house, so now I can finally start it!’

It comes after Stacey Solomon gave fans another glimpse of her renovations as she revealed her new flooring.  

The Loose Women panellist took to her Instagram Stories on Sunday to show off her conservatory transformation and joked she’s ‘itching to get going’ with her new home.  

She shared a series of snaps showing before shots of her brown tiled floor which was then covered with a white base.

Stacey said the new natural colour way ‘brightened’ the room, which features lots of natural light through large windows. 

The former X Factor star even joined in with laying the wood which she said was ‘so therapeutic’ as she donned a face mask to lend a hand.    

She wrote: ‘I found it soooo therapeutic to watch then I just wanted to have a go. So I did.’ 

She gushed over the flooring which she said was ‘so much prettier up close’ and has ‘lots of different textures and colours’. 

Stacey then gave fans a further insight into her plans for the rest of the room as she said she’s going to ‘rip the ceiling off’.

She penned: ‘I just want to rip this ceiling off now. I’m going to shallow box the edges and make cosy seating and then replace the windows.’  

Showing off her eye for interiors, the TV star then added a snap of her bedroom shelves which she’d added her personal touches to. 

Stacey wrote: ‘I’m itching to get going with this house but nothing happens overnight with these things so this afternoon I decided to make it more homely and bring some of my swingers grass in to our bedroom’. (sic) 

In the following slide she had added two white vases filled with pampas grass and an adorable framed snap of her sons.    

Earlier on Sunday, Stacey revealed that she has ‘adopted’ a ‘wild’ cat at her new property, after revealing she rehomed her former cat during the recent move. 

She captured her new furry friend munching on pet food in their kitchen as Rex curiously watched. 

She said alongside the clip on social media: ‘Because the lady who lived here before said she took in a wild cat and couldn’t catch him to bring him with her, so she left some food and asked if we could take care of him if he ever came back… And here he is [starry eyed emoji].’ (sic)

Stacey then revealed why they decided to leave their old pet behind. 

She continued: ‘We wish we could have brought Mitzy here but he became too settled and at home with his new family down the road who also love him.

‘And [they] wanted to take him on so we thought it would have been cruel to bring him out to the middle of nowhere [crying face emoji]. But thing happen in mysterious ways.’ (sic)

In an additional upload on her Instagram Story, Stacey stroked the black feline who welcomed the affection. Rex also seemed delighted with the new addition to their family. 

Observant fans noticed the cat’s silky fur coat and plump shape, and questioned the TV personality as to whether it was actually ‘wild’.

‘Lots of you are like, “Stace’ that cat does not look wild, he looks very well fed,”‘ laughed Stacey as she applied skin care. 

‘He’s not wild now, she’s [former homeowner] been feeding him for years, but he ran away when she tried to catch him to take him with her, so we’ve just been waiting for him to come back. 

‘I’ve been putting food out every night and he’s definitely been eating it, unless that’s the foxes. But it was just so nice to see him at the house this morning. He’s really friendly and lovely so hopefully he likes us and he stays!’

She added that he doesn’t mind the company of her dogs ‘too much’ as she hopes he continues coming back to the property. 

Just one day prior, Stacey revealed her huge empty swimming pool as she began cleaning it, giving her social media followers a glimpse at her new household chores at the property. 

She blasted the dirt away from the outdoor pool with the help of a jet wash, as she admitted it is a ‘massive job’ which will likely take days to complete. 

As documented on her Instagram Story, her ‘pool guys’ lifted a green cover from the mucky pool as she said: ‘This is the first time I’ve seen inside [starry eyed emoji].’

Stacey subsequently sprayed the grime away, etching her name in the process and she added: ‘Can’t cope with this jet wash joy.’

Providing a third and final update, the mother-of-three smiled while standing in the empty pool and penned: ‘So the @poolguyml will need to clean this properly with chemicals, fill it and then test all the pipes. 

‘But he let me have some fun with my jet wash first…’ alongside a laughing emoji. 

The TV presenter wrapped up in a pink padded jacket and tied her chestnut tresses up in a relaxed bun.

She continued: ‘This is a massive job so it’ll take a few days but I am SO excited for the tap to tidy [crying laughing face emoji and monkey face emoji]’.

‘Genuinely having the time of my life,’ (sic) Stacey concluded with another laughing crying emoji. 

She recently moved into the Essex pad, with her partner Joe Swash, 39, and her three sons Zachary, 13, and Leighton, eight, and Rex. 

On Friday, Stacey fought back tears as she discussed moving into her ‘forever home’ on Loose Women. 

Reflecting on the decision to move house, Stacey admitted even she can’t believe how far she’s come from being a teen mum, after giving birth to her son Zachary when she was just 17.  

In her first appearance on the panel since moving she admitted it was a last-minute decision by herself and Joe to buy the house and move in with her children.

She said: ‘We always thought we’d love to move away from London and find somewhere we could afford that had more greenery. 

‘A house came up and it cost as much as it would cost the same as our house to sell and we thought should we go for it, and things happened really quickly and fell into place and actually we rushed in there because we exchanged and completed super quick.

‘We all feel like we’re in an Airbnb and someone is going to come in and say you have to check out tomorrow.’