Kacey Musgraves Recalls ‘Scraping Together Money’ to Buy Her Childhood Home After Her Grandmother Died (Exclusive)
Kacey Musgraves Recalls ‘Scraping Together Money’ to Buy Her Childhood Home After Her Grandmother Died (Exclusive)
Natalia SenanayakeSat, April 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
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Kacey Musgraves (left) and her childhood home in East Texas (right)Credit: Zillow (2) -
Kacey Musgraves purchased her family's longtime East Texas home after her grandmother died
It was her "biggest purchase ever" at the time, she tells PEOPLE, and she painted the home pink because it was her grandmother's favorite
The home inspired her upcoming album Middle of Nowhere and is featured in an immersive Zillow listing that fans can explore
Kacey Musgraves is opening up about her first big real estate purchase and the special place it holds in her heart.
While chatting with PEOPLE about her childhood home and a new partnership with Zillow, the “Dry Spell” singer, 37, got candid about purchasing her family's longtime East Texas property and how she managed to keep it in her family after her grandmother died.
Around the same time as she got the tragic news in 2014, Musgraves says the main farmhouse on her family's property also "sadly, unexpectedly burned down," but she managed to buy the smaller house next to it that has also been in her family for generations.
She later painted the small bungalow an unconventional hue in honor of her late grandmother.
“My grandmother passed away and that was her favorite color, baby pink,” Musgraves tells PEOPLE. “And so, when she passed away and the farmhouse burned down, the land and the existing childhood home of mine was going to be put up for sale.”
Kacey Musgraves' childhood home in East TexasCredit: Zillow
She recalls the impact that both unexpected events had on her family at the time, and how she was able to keep them from losing a piece of their family's history.
“We were all just super devastated,” she says of her family. “So I was able to scrape together the money at the time — it was like my biggest purchase ever — and I was able to save [the home] and keep it in the family.”
Musgraves' childhood home has been in her family for over a century, with her ancestors first arriving at the property around 1909.
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“There has been just so much human experience on those acres,” she says of the serene land, noting that every time she visits she encounters “reminders of who I really am.”
“There's something about it that feels really sacred to me,” she adds. “I think it was the intentions and the creativity and the love that was there for literal decades — over 100 years. It just feels like a really special place.”
Kacey Musgraves at her childhood home in East TexasCredit: Zillow
Fans can explore Musgraves' “special little place” in East Texas through an immersive listing on Zillow, which the Grammy winner says is a “fun and unexpected medium” to tell her family's story and “sort of honor my past.”
The 935-square-foot abode, as well as the small town it's located in, served as inspiration for her upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, out May 1.
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Musgraves tells PEOPLE she was “meandering around town” one day with her friends when she noticed a sign that read, “Somewhere in the middle of nowhere," and that exact phrase ended up “shaping the ethos of the rest of the record,” she says.
“It's just kind of this notion that I'm somewhere in the middle of nowhere and no one can reach me on my phone, and I'm totally fine with that. And even if I had service, I probably wouldn't call you back,” she says of her new album. “I'm not lonely, but I'm totally fine being on my own. It's really coming from a place of confidence and freedom.”
To view Musgraves' childhood home in East Texas, check out the new listing on Zillow.
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