Chip and Joanna Gaines made their long-awaited return to HGTV on Sunday, premiering their new series Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse.
The episode celebrated Chip, 49, and Joanna, 46, as they celebrated the 10th anniversary of their beloved series.
The show debuted in 2014, although the Gaineses left HGTV in 2018 to start their own Magnolia Network.
Now they’re back with a six-episode series, and Chip reveals at the beginning of the episode that he bought this house to celebrate their 10th anniversary.
As they drove to the house, they reminisced about their early years and Chip joked, “I remember literally not knowing where to put my hands.”
Fixer Upper returns to celebrate its 10th anniversary as Chip and Joanna Gaines renovate a lake house in their first appearance on HGTV since 2018.
Now they’re back with a six-episode series, with Chip revealing at the beginning of the episode that he bought this house to celebrate his 10th anniversary.
Joanna added: “And now, I think with this lake house, there’s something about it that seems significant: This project landed on our 10th anniversary of ‘repair.’
The couple revealed that they had always wanted a lake house, but there weren’t too many in Waco, but they found it at the right time and at the right price.
Chip adds, “It was built in 1965 and is over 5,100 square feet. But the last remodeling was in the 80s, so it definitely has some interesting features.”
“But hey, it’s got five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a sweet pool, sits on an acre and a half, and has a million-dollar view,” he added.
They walk in and marvel at the view, although they apparently disagree with Joanna’s plans to put terrazzo floors in two areas.
They head to the living room where Joanna thinks the windows are “too short,” although she acknowledges how expensive they will be.
Chip thinks it will be “a lot of money for a foot of windows,” although Joanna says it’s just her “wish list.”
Chip insists that they’ve never “lost their tail” on things before and continues that it will cost too much.
She details plans for a new kitchen, swapping the old laundry room for the new kitchen that will be much larger.
Joanna added: “And now, I think with this lake house, there’s something about it that seems significant: This project landed on our 10th anniversary of ‘repair.’
The couple revealed that they had always wanted a lake house, but there weren’t too many in Waco, but they found it at the right time and at the right price.
They go upstairs to the bedrooms and then to the backyard, where they find a pretty disgusting pool.
“We’ve been on Fixer Upperuniverse for ten years and this lake house looks like a cherry on top,” says Chip.
They begin the demolition process, which Joanna admits “probably brings out some anxiety,” before going to check on the pool.
“I’m afraid there’s something in there,” Joanna says, before screaming when she discovers a frog.
He asks her to see how deep it is, but she refuses, saying she doesn’t want to “die” down there.
Joanna begins to go over aspects of the design, using computer-generated 3D models to imagine what the house would look like.
He admits that the bigger windows weren’t as expensive as they thought, so their ‘wish’ will come true.
She explains that the old kitchen will now be a “mud room” leading to the new laundry room.
They go upstairs to the bedrooms and then to the backyard, where they find a pretty disgusting pool.
“I’m afraid there’s something in there,” Joanna says, before screaming when she discovers a frog.
“I can’t wait to see all of this in the house, but I think just seeing it here makes me really excited to start,” Joanna said.
Chip adds: ‘Over the last few weeks we’ve really started to transform this house. Upstairs, the master bathroom has a completely new design. Below, we frame the new kitchen. We also covered that wall to create that little corner in the dining room. We got all new electrical systems throughout the house and in the back it turned out that the pool needed to be completely resurfaced, which cost us a little more than a cleanup, but not a huge expense. It’s like day and night compared to the water in that swamp. Today, Jo and I have a design problem to solve.
They begin arguing about design elements, as Chip jokes, “It may seem like an argument to some people.” But for Jo and I, it’s really us, against each other, you know, supporting each other. He is sharpening our ideas.”
Joanna learns that the original color of the house was green and says, “So we can finally see what the painting looks like on a larger scale, and we love it.” And even knowing that it was originally green in the ’60s, I feel like we’re getting back to what it used to look like.”
They start jokingly arguing again about the skylights because the dining room and red room are “too dark.”
Chip says, “It’s like when I see those suits of armor: my heart… My spirit wants to jump up and see how many pull-ups I can do,” and he actually does one.
Joanna says: ‘You’ve been so hard on your body for the last 30 years doing the impossible. I mean, let him rest.’
They also marvel that their team was able to fix the terrible pool, which Chip says is “the biggest payoff of this entire project.”
They start jokingly arguing again about the skylights because the dining room and red room are “too dark.”
The episode also shows Joanna making honey, Chip clearing brush, and cutting down trees that allow them to see the lake.
They start talking about trees they have to get rid of to improve the view, when they realize that it’s actually mistletoe.
The episode also shows Joanna making honey, Chip clearing brush, and cutting down trees that allow them to see the lake.
The episode ends with the couple heading out to see the “million dollar view” of the lake, as Chip quips, “In this particular case I don’t want to brag, but I told you so.”
Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse continues its six-episode season on Sunday, June 9 on HGTV.
