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fixer upper fans will tell you how much theylove the show's house-flipping stars, chip and joanna gaines. how did they manage to go from just your everydaymarried couple to the power pair of hgtv's most-watched program of all time? here some things you didn't know about chipand joanna gaines. flipping the script though the couple seem like they were bornto flip houses, both of them originally had very different dreams in life. growing up, chip wanted to play professionalbaseball.
"when i was in college, i was really hopefulthat one day i'd be a pro baseball player. i wanted to be the best baseball player icould be. so this new path opened up and i really appliedthat same drive and determination and really the discipline that i had learned from baseball. i focused all that attention on flipping houses" and while joanna wanted to be on television,she hoped to do it as a broadcast journalist. she told popsugar, "i always dreamed of the idea of televisionbut never thought it would have to do with design or renovations."
but she was actually selling tires at herdad's car shop when she met chip, who helped her feel confident enough to live out herdreams. "if i didn't have chip gaines in my life,i'd still be dreaming in my head and not acting out on any of that—not living it out. you pushed me. you pushed me out of my comfort zone." the two of them soon made an unbeatable team,according to joanna. "when i met chip, he was renting and flippingproperties left and right to college students. once i caught on to the concept of buyingsomething that is undervalued to then put
value into it and sell it for a profit, iwas hooked, too." they used to be broke in an interview with people magazine, joannaopened up about the tough financial times they faced when they were starting out assmall business owners. "i remember when we were first married theonly money that we had was what was in chip's pocket. he had this wad of cash. and so if i needed to go grocery shopping,if i needed to just go find a new shirt, it was whatever was in his pocket.
we pretended like we were rich so my dad wouldbe real proud, but we were broke." the pressure to impress joanna's dad affectedchip as well. "her dad spent the first two years of ourmarriage asking me if i was going to get a job. i was like, 'i've got a job. i really like my job. i flip houses, i've got some rental properties,i do some construction—that's a job. it's a full-time deal.'" we're guessing the tv show finally convincedhim.
"that looks a lot farther than it is. but it's not. it's really two or three feet. it's an optical illusion. watch this…" "...oww!" the newlywed game the first property chip and joanna flippedtogether? the house they bought when they got married.
joanna recalled, "we started renovations on it immediatelyafter we came home from our honeymoon. all i could remember is the smell. the house was bad. chip did all the construction, and i remembermany nights he was on his hands and knees staining floors or laying tile." she also confessed it took time for her tofind her style aesthetic. "i was experimenting with my design styleat the time and every room had a different theme.
the living room was nautical themed with cheapsailboats and prints as decor. the kitchen was french themed with horriblemustard-colored walls. the den was cowboy themed for chip, of course…horns,leather, and lots of cedar. it was all very interesting, to say the least." lessons learned chip and joanna may be known for their incrediblestyle and craftsmanship on fixer upper, but that only came after years of learning valuablelessons—aka making mistakes. joanna told hgtv, "for our first high-end flip, i chose a tanstucco color.
after it was painted, i pulled up to the houseand it looked like a big yellow school bus." as for chip, well, he wasn't so perfect, either. "i wanted to surprise jojo with a bold backsplashat a flip property. it took me all day to install this beautifultumbled-stone backsplash, but when i went to grout it… it soaked up the color andturned maroon. it was horrible, and jojo was surprised tosay the least." "man down! man down! epipen to the heart!"
accidental stardom even though fixer upper has millions of fansand chip and joanna run a number of profitable businesses, they're still flabbergasted byhow famous and successful they've become over the last few years. chip told people, "all of this sort of fell into our laps. we were just living our life out here in littlebitty waco. we had dreams and aspirations like most folks,but this has really been something else." "why can't anybody ever pick the easy one?
you know the one that's like yeah we gottapaint the bathroom. "well it's your fault. you're the one who showed him the house." thanks for watching! click the nicki swift icon to subscribe toour youtube channel. plus check out all this cool stuff we knowyou'll love, too!