Miranda Lambert’s 3-Home Life

A couple months ago, Miranda Lambert and husband Blake Shelton bought a home in Nashville.  Of course they also have a home in Oklahoma, and Blake rents a place in LA when he’s doing The Voice.  That makes them a 3-home couple.  Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton spoke with Miranda about that new lifestyle:

So are you a Nashvillian now?  “Partly.  I’m partly a Nashvillian.  We live in Oklahoma mainly. But we’re here a lot.  So we figured we needed a place.  We were leasing a condo for a couple years, but now bought a house.  I’ve been here a lot more than I have in the past. So it’s good to have a home place.

So you have 3 homes, has it become a lot? It’s a phase in our life.  The west coast thing definitely is.  We’re just getting used to it.  Blake’s out there more than me.  But he got a cute cozy little house that I love.  It has a garden, so he’s definitely trying to coax me out there more.

That’s different from the other place he had in LA, isn’t it?  We had this big, crazy, creepy mansion.  I told him, ‘This is creeping me out.’ There’s probably still steak knives around because I walked around with them all the time.  I’m like, ‘Someone’s gonna jump out of a corner, oh my gosh!’  I was freaked out.  It shows you don’t need that big of a house.  We didn’t use any of them.  You need a bedroom, kitchen, and a living room.

That house did have a great pool and a great view: “It DID have a great view, that’s kind of what sold it.  He got it sight unseen.  But this new place is more normal.  It has a picket fence.

So do you still have the problem with rental cars in LA? “I’ve been banned from rental cars.  They don’t like for me to drive them any more.  I wrecked two of them so far.  My business manager offers me car service.  What’s funny is I wrecked them in the driveway.  Now there’s a huge roiling gate, so you can’t wreck anything.

I thought you usually drive big trucks?  “I do, but in Oklahoma, where there aren’t any walls to hit.”

Have you been able to spend more time with Blake now?  I have.  I feel like it was time to take off from the road.  I ended the tour in October, and don’t start until July.  So it’s been weird.  I’ve not been off, I’ve done stuff, but not on the road.  I don’t even have a tour bus now.  Blake still has, so I’m like a bum, I ask, ‘Can I borrow your bus?’

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