The Gaines family has a new “favorite room” intheir Waco, Texas, farmhouse!
“The renovation is done. We finally made it,” Joanna says in the sneak peek above of Friday’s new episode ofFixer Upper: Welcome Home, streaming on Discovery+.
Joanna, 42, offers a glimpse of her newly dark green kitchen cabinets before showing off the new living room, which features a brick fireplace and vaulted ceilings, in a self-shot home video. Panning around she shows Chip, 46, lounging on one of a pair of sofas and three of their kids working on a puzzle in the corner. (The couple share sons Drake, 16, Duke, 12, and Crew, 2, and daughters Ella, 14, and Emmie, 10.)
“Here’s the new old bookcase that we built in,” she continues showing a massive antique storage piece. “The laundry room is now over there. We’ve got our fire going. I would say this is our new favorite room in the house with the fire. Everyone loves to be in here.”
“This is our happy place,” adds Chip.
Crew seems less thrilled than the rest of the family with the addition. When Joanna asks him “Do you like the new room, Crew?” the toddler gives a fussy reply that could be a “no” . . . or maybe just a request for “Mom.”
The Gainesesfirst revealed they’d be making a significant addition to their famous farmhousein the premiere of their new seriesFixer Upper: Welcome Home, the first four episodes of which have been dropping each Friday on the Discovery+ streaming service as a special preview of the couples' forthcoming Magnolia Network.
“When we first startedFixerour house was completely under construction, all of this was a field,” Joanna explained in the premiere, standing in the front yard of the 40-acre property that now holds achicken coop,flower gardenand an ever-growing number offarm animalsandpets.
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“Just a little white farmhouse that needed a little TLC,” Chip reminisced before adding that now, “We’re adding on a little space because we’ve added an addition to the family. We used to have four kids. Now we’ve got a toddler on our hip.”
As with any major renovation — particularly one on the house of a family of 7 — things got a little chaotic. Joanna gave an update on the reno in another episode, jokingly describing the scene of plastic-draped cabinets and construction materials as “an actual nightmare situation.”
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“A couple months back, Jojo wanted to ‘add on’ to the farmhouse — and of course I, like an idiot, agreed, but nowlook what she’s gotten us into,” Chip joked in a home video before turning the camera on his wife.
Joanna admitted that she “decided a little late in the game I wanted to go ahead and repaint our cabinets,” showing off the new forest-green shade that replaced the previous white color in her fan-favorite kitchen.
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“I just wanted the space toreally evolve with the new additionand I just thought it was time for a change,” she explained, going on to tell viewers that they opened a wall and her family “basically live(s) upstairs now” as the renovation continued. Chip helpfully panned around what was their living room, but had become more of a storage area for all the items the work has displaced.
The finished product, it seems, has made all the trouble worthwhile for the experienced renovators.
“I’d say it was worth it. We love it,” Joanna says.
“Our original plan was to launch in cable and follow in a streaming environment, but the most unconventional of years dealt us challenges and opportunities we never could have foreseen,” said Magnolia Network President Allison Page.
Chip and Joanna also shared a statement on the decision, noting, “Our plan has evolved along the way, but our original vision for this network has remained the same.”
In the interim, they’re launching a Magnolia app on July 15, 2021 that will offer the complete first seasons ofFixer Upper: Welcome HomeandMagnolia Table withJoanna Gaines,the completeFixer Upperlibrary and complete seasons of several of its new shows, includingGrowing Floret, The Lost Kitchen, Homegrown, Family DinnerandRestoration Road with Clint Harp.
The third preview episode ofFixer Upper: Welcome Homewill be available to stream Friday, February 12, on Discovery+.
source: people.com
