Luke Combs has dominated the country music charts and netted an impressive net worth of $20 million, but he still lives in a “small” two-bedroom house with his wife and three children.
The “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” singer, his wife Nicole, and their kids Tex, three, Beau, two, and Chet, born in February, all live in a 2,000-square-foot house in Nashville, Tennessee.
“It’s two bedrooms. Me and my wife have a room, and the boys share a room. We’re always close together,” he revealed last April on The MeatEater Podcast.
However, despite his living situation, Luke recently revealed that he has finally decided to build a much larger “dream home,” although it will be a while before the family of five can take advantage of extra space.
“We’re going to be three under four in a two-bedroom house for over a year, which will be trying times,” he said on The Zach Sang Show on Monday.
Luke clarified that he wasn’t trying to come across as “humble” by living in a small house despite his millions; it is simply “the situation” he’s in.
“It’s not like it’s not a braggadocious thing of like, well, ‘Look at me. I’m humble.’ The illusion that like I’m not in the position I’m in is not something I’m trying to lay out on the masses. That’s just the situation we’re in,” he explained.
While inside their current home may be small, Luke is grateful they live on a “large piece of acreage” which offers “plenty of space” for everyone.
“It’s not like we live in an apartment in a high-rise and we’re stuck in there. I don’t want to give the illusion that I’m trying to be this overly humble guy,” he added. “That’s not the idea. But that’s just a statement of fact that we live in the small house.”
The upside to their cramped living space, however, is the “bonding and unity” it has created among his family.
© Instagram“It will teach them a lot of lessons that I don’t know that they could learn living in a big house, and the house we’ll ultimately live in,” he stated.
Luke’s latest comments echo those he made last year when he explained how he hoped living in a fairly ordinary home would help ground his kids and give them as normal an upbringing as possible.
© Instagram“The living room is the playroom. All the kids’ toys are in there,” he said on The MeatEater Podcast. “We let them destroy it. But every night, ‘Alright, we’re all cleaning up now.’
“Mom and dad are cleaning up, but to the extent that a one-and-a-half-year-old [can], he’ll get a block and bring it over. He might only pick up two things, but my two-and-a-half-year-old now, he can actually make a five percent dent in the cleanup. But he understands.”
© InstagramDespite playing sold-out shows and having a hectic work schedule, Luke still considers himself a “stay-at-home parent” and admitted his constant presence is another way to give his children “normal” childhoods.
He added: “I want my kids’ childhoods to feel as normal as they can given the very strange circumstances that it will ultimately become.”
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