What Happened to the Maine Cabin Masters Cast?

Maine Cabin Masters has gotten complicated with all the rumor and speculation flying around. The gossip sites have been utterly useless on this — recycling press releases, chasing drama that isn’t there, and generally missing the entire point of what makes this show worth watching in the first place. As someone who spent the better part of fifteen years renovating cabins across the Northeast — including two properties in central Maine — I learned everything there is to know about what it actually takes to pull a forgotten camp back from the edge. I watched this show differently than most people. I was taking notes. So when fans started buzzing with real questions about Chase, Ashley, Dixie, Jedi, and the rest of the crew, I figured someone with actual context should answer them.

Short version: the cast is alive, busy, and in some cases taking on work that makes their Maine rescues look like warm-up exercises. Here’s what’s actually happening with everyone.

Where Is Chase Morrill Now?

Chase Morrill is still the guy with the perpetual flannel and the vision to see what a crumbling structure could become rather than what it currently is. But what is he doing now? In essence, he’s transplanted the Maine-cabin philosophy somewhere completely unexpected: Italy. But it’s much more than a simple relocation.

The Building Italy spinoff — streaming on Discovery+ — follows Chase as he tackles a centuries-old stone farmhouse in Molise, one of Italy’s least-touristed regions. Tucked between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic coast, Molise has a lot in common with forgotten Maine camps: structural neglect, incredible bones, and owners who poured decades of emotional meaning into walls that time nearly swallowed whole.

Chase has talked in interviews about a ten-year plan for the property — not a two-year flip, not a quick cosmetic refresh. Anyone who’s worked seriously on old structures recognizes that thinking immediately. You don’t rush a 400-year-old farmhouse. You don’t rush a 1940s camp on Sebago Lake either. Same philosophy, completely different materials — Maine pine versus Italian limestone. That’s what makes Chase endearing to us cabin people. The craftsmanship ethic doesn’t change with the zip code.

Production budgets around Building Italy have reportedly landed around $30,000 per episode — a number that signals Discovery is genuinely invested, not just burning off content. Chase also brought his wife and kids into the Italian adventure, which tracks with the family-first ethos that always separated Maine Cabin Masters from slicker HGTV productions. For renovation enthusiasts specifically, the spinoff is worth watching just to see how stone construction differs from timber framing. The problem-solving instincts are nearly identical. The materials are a completely different world.

Ashley Morrill and Ryan Eldridge — Still Building Together

Probably should have opened with this section, honestly, because Ashley is arguably the most underappreciated person in the entire cast.

Ashley Morrill and Ryan Eldridge — Chase’s sister and her husband — are one of those on-screen couples where the chemistry is real because, well, it actually is real. Ashley has been the interior design engine of Maine Cabin Masters from day one. Ryan has been the guy who figures out how to make the structural chaos Chase enthusiastically creates actually habitable before the owners get the keys back.

The design work on those camps is harder than it looks. Working with a $15,000 to $40,000 total renovation budget — which is roughly what many Maine Cabin Masters projects ran — and producing spaces that feel intentional, warm, and genuinely functional requires a completely different skill set than the segments on shows where the budget is effectively unlimited. Ashley does it consistently. Episode after episode.

As of 2026, Ashley and Ryan are still actively working together on projects. Ryan has stayed connected to the Maine renovation world. Ashley has expanded her design presence beyond the show’s specific format, working on properties and interiors outside the Maine Cabin Masters umbrella. No dramatic splits. No tabloid chaos. Just two people who met doing actual work and kept doing actual work together — which, in the renovation television space, is genuinely rare.

I’ve shown their finished interiors to skeptical clients who assumed “rustic cabin” meant rough and unfinished. Ashley’s rooms shut that conversation down fast.

The EPA Lead Paint Lawsuit — What Actually Happened

Here’s where the gossip sites really fumble it. Don’t make my mistake of reading those takes before getting the actual context — I wasted twenty minutes on three different sites before finding anything resembling real information.

In 2022, Maine Cabin Masters — specifically the production company behind the show — reached a settlement with the EPA over lead paint renovation violations tied to five projects completed in 2020. The fine: $16,500.

The violations were related to the EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule — federal regulations governing how contractors must handle lead paint in homes built before 1978. Maine camps, as a category, are disproportionately old. A significant percentage of the cabins the crew worked on were built in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Lead paint is everywhere in that housing stock — not metaphorically, literally everywhere in the walls, trim, and window casings.

The RRP Rule requires specific documentation: pre-renovation disclosure forms, certified renovator involvement, record-keeping demonstrating compliant work practices. What was cited in the settlement were primarily paperwork and procedural failures — the kind that happen when a fast-moving production is simultaneously juggling actual renovation work, camera crews, client timelines, and scheduling across multiple remote Maine locations. That’s not an excuse. It’s context.

The production company became RRP certified following the settlement. That’s exactly the outcome the EPA’s enforcement process is designed to produce — compliance going forward, not punishment for its own sake. A $16,500 fine on a nationally televised production is a documentation issue that got taken seriously.

Early in my own renovation career, I had a permit issue on a deck rebuild in 2011 — assumed a previous contractor had pulled the right permits, never verified. Cost me time, a modest fine, and a hard lesson about documentation I’ve never forgotten. The Maine Cabin Masters situation reads exactly like that kind of error — a genuine miss, handled correctly once it was flagged. Anyone framing this as evidence the crew doesn’t care about safety is working backward from a conclusion the actual record doesn’t support.

Dixie and Jedi — The Crew Behind the Builds

Matthew “Dixie” Dix is the master carpenter on the team — and if you watch the show carefully, he’s often the person quietly solving the problem the camera isn’t fully focused on. His woodworking is the kind that takes twenty years to develop. The joinery, the custom millwork, the ability to look at a piece of reclaimed timber and see what it can become — that’s not something you acquire in a few television seasons. Dixie has been doing this work his entire professional life.

His involvement in Building Italy gives that spinoff a credibility it might otherwise lack. Italian farmhouse renovation involves carpentry challenges that don’t conform to any modern standard sizing — doors, windows, cabinetry, structural elements that were built by craftsmen who never consulted a catalog. Bringing Dixie into that environment was a smart call. He might be the best option for those kinds of constraints, as that work requires someone who adapts to material reality rather than fighting it. That is because real craftsmanship has always been about problem-solving with what’s actually in front of you, not what you wish was there.

Jared “Jedi” Baker has had a somewhat lower profile in the most recent cycle of coverage, which has generated fan speculation about his current status. Jedi was a reliable presence through the middle seasons — part of what made the crew dynamic feel like an actual team rather than a host-and-supporting-cast structure. His current involvement with ongoing projects hasn’t been as extensively documented as Chase’s or Dixie’s. Crews evolve, apparently. Productions shift focus. Sometimes the camera follows different people in different seasons, and that doesn’t necessarily mean anything dramatic happened.

What matters about both of them is that they represent the part of renovation television that most shows get completely wrong — the actual skilled tradespeople doing irreplaceable work. Chase is the vision. Ashley is the finish. Dixie and Jedi are the reason the buildings stand up.

Is Maine Cabin Masters Coming Back for Season 10?

Season 9 aired. The numbers around the production tell a story worth paying attention to.

The Maine Cabin Masters operation has grown to over 50 employees — not cast members, not production crew, but actual workers associated with the business Chase Morrill built around the show’s success. The Woodshed, their headquarters in Portland, Maine, functions as retail space, design hub, production home base, and logistics center all at once. It’s physical proof that this was never just a TV project.

While you won’t need to understand the full economics of a production company to grasp this, you will need a handful of basic facts to see where things are headed. When you have 50-plus employees, a flagship retail and HQ space, an active international spinoff, and a fan base that has stayed genuinely engaged through nine seasons — you don’t quietly let the show die. The infrastructure around Maine Cabin Masters is not built for a production that’s winding down. It’s built for one that’s expanding.

The verdict on Season 10: it’s coming. Nothing has been officially announced as of this writing — but the Building Italy spinoff actually helps the mothership. It gives Chase an international profile, keeps the brand visible between Maine seasons, and demonstrates to Discovery that the Morrill family can carry a camera across continents without losing what made the original show work.

First, you should stop worrying that the EPA story or the Italy spinoff signals an ending — at least if you’ve been following what the business has actually built. The Maine camps that need rescuing aren’t going anywhere. There are thousands of them, sitting on frozen lakes and pine-covered hillsides, waiting for someone with enough vision and enough stubbornness to bring them back. That’s been the whole point from the beginning. That part hasn’t changed at all.

A Final Note for Fellow Cabin People

If you found this because you’re a fan and you were worried something had gone badly wrong — relax. The cast is fine. Better than fine. If you found this because you’re renovating your own old camp and you were hoping the Maine Cabin Masters crew had some secret technique worth stealing, I’ll tell you exactly what I tell every client who asks me what the trick is: there is no trick. There’s just showing up, respecting the structure, doing the documentation correctly — seriously, do the documentation — and caring more about the finished product than the timeline. Chase Morrill figured that out in Maine. Apparently it works in Italy too.