The Dorchester, Mass. couple Stephen and David St. Russell — aka the Renovation Husbands — recently competed in HGTV’s popular reality competition “Battle on the Mountain” … and won!
The series’ last episode aired on Feb. 19, but you can still catch the show streaming on Discovery+ and Max.
Reports the Boston Globe:
Last week, Stephen and David St. Russell became the first winners ever of HGTV’s new series “Battle on the Mountain.”
“We proved to ourselves that we could do things in that timespan. It’s unrealistic in real-life, but we proved we could do it,” said Stephen, 33, in a recent phone interview from Dorchester.
The challenge? Three couples were assigned homes to renovate in Breckenridge, Colo. Each had a $100,000 budget, a network star as a coach (the St. Russells were coached by Rico León of “Rico to the Rescue”), and six weeks to renovate an entire house.
The goal? Raising the property value of the home the highest.
The St. Russells brought their $826,800 start-value home up 41.19 percent to win the $50K grand prize. Because they won two room mini-challenges along the way — $3,000 each for best kitchen/dining room and main suite — they left Colorado with a cool $56,000.
As self-taught renovators, they found the experience “validating,” David said.”We’ve never had that experience of [being critiqued] — I mean, we’re critiqued in the comment sections [of social media] sometimes — but not like this,” David said, making Stephen laugh.
Read the complete Boston Globe story here.
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