American Idol winner Hannah Harper is giving fans a glimpse of her home life.
“Hello, everybody. I’m home in my house, Willow Springs, [Missouri]. In front of this table is my very first Zoom audition with the producers of American Idol,” Harper, 25, shared in a Saturday, May 16, Instagram video while standing beside a wood table. “From this spot right here, singing this song, I actually wrote this song right here, on this couch.”
Harper proceeded to walk over to a living room area, where her children played with toys beside a couch. As she moved across the room, Harper kicked some of the toys out of the way.
“Right here on this couch, I wrote that song during a very hard season of my life,” she explained.
The tour progressed to her bedroom, which she shared she hasn’t slept in in two months while being on American Idol. She then moved on to her closet, full of clothes that she didn’t “remember” she owned, before segwaying into the kitchen.
“Over here is the kitchen that I haven’t cooked in in like six months. Not because I’ve been at Idol. Because my husband has been Mr. Mom and he’s been amazing. So I haven’t had to cook anything,” she said. “And if you cook one bad meal and act like you don’t have to cook anything, all of a sudden it’s not your job anymore. So highly recommended.”
Harper’s husband, Devon Mendenhall, proceeded to walk behind her in the video as she said, “He did not hear that. I did not know he was in the room.”
Moving onto the children’s bedrooms, Harper pointed out a wooden box from her family that is filled with toys.
“This is my boys’ bedroom that they have already made themselves at home in. And we’ve already been here for less than one hour,” Harper said. “This is my childhood dollhouse that I repainted for my children. Now it’s full of their crap. This is a quilt that my grandmother made for both of my children.”
Harper noted that her house is “full of very sentimental things.”
“If you haven’t realized, I’m a very sentimental person,” she concluded. “But once I’m here, I don’t want to leave. And now I have to go.”
“HOME!!” she wrote via Instagram. “After living out of a hotel for the last 2 months, home has never felt sweeter. I also decided to repaint every single room in the house the week before we left for LA 😂 so honestly … I’d kinda forgotten what the place even looked like. Never been more thankful to be home with my people.”
She continued, “I could turn this home tour into an entire series just talking about all the thrift finds throughout the house 😂 The majority of our furniture and decor is either secondhand or homemade, and those are the pieces I love the most 🤍.”
Harper was crowned the winner of American Idol season 24 during the live finale on May 12. Jordan McCullough was named runner-up, while Keyla Richardson placed third.
“What a wild, beautiful journey this has been. And somehow we’re just getting started. Thank you to every single person who believed in me, prayed over me, voted, and helped carry this dream farther than I ever could’ve imagined. Y’all changed my life,” Harper wrote via Instagram at the time.
She continued, “I’m beyond thankful for the doors the Lord has opened and for the opportunity to walk this path. I’ll see y’all on the road soon … tour dates coming your way. 🤍.”
Harper concluded her post with a Bible quote that read, “‘For I know the plans I have for you’— this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’ — Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB).”
