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    PEOPLE The Best of HGTV
    PEOPLE The Best of HGTV
    PEOPLE The Best of HGTV
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    PEOPLE The Best of HGTV

    By The Editors of PEOPLE

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    Your Favorite Renovation and Real-Estate Stars!

    Home is a place to live a life of your own design. A place that nourishes dreams and the people you love. It is somewhere to celebrate life's successes and a safe haven, promising rest and solace from the outside world, which speaks to why HGTV is the No. 3 network in the country. Providing equal parts inspiration, practical advice, and a pleasurably voyeuristic glimpse into the lives and homes of others, the network has turned everyday designers, real-estate agents, and contractors into celebrities. There is an inarguable allure of watching renovations, negotiations, and the magical before-and-after transformations of house to home, snagging the best deal to flip a house, or finding your dream apartment in Paris.

    Now, in this new Special Edition from People, The Best of HGTV, you go behind-the-scenes with your favorite stars of Home and Garden Television, including: Fixer Upper's Chip and Joanna Gaines, Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, the original Flip or Flop trailblazers Tarek and Christina El Moussa, and many more-you'll even find out what it's like to be on House Hunters International! Find out how the stars got their starts, some of the secrets to their success, their favorite renovations, remodels, and get practical tips-and-tricks to help improve your living space today. Filled with gorgeous photography (including tons of before-and-after pics!), People's The Best of HGTV proves that there's no place like home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeople
    Release dateMar 23, 2018
    ISBN9781547842292
    PEOPLE The Best of HGTV

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      PEOPLE The Best of HGTV - The Editors of PEOPLE

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      CHIP & JOANNA GAINES

      Fixer Upper

      The king and queen of TV renovations are laying down their tools to start life with a new baby—their fifth!

      AMERICAN DREAM We got the TV show and sort of jumped in with both feet, says Chip. It started rocking and rolling pretty quickly.

      It’s a success story as American as red, white and blue. Before they became household names, Chip and Joanna Gaines were a contractor and a decorator, respectively, hustling in tiny Waco, Texas, to grow his house-flipping business while she closed her housewares shop to stay home with their four young children. She was the shy one, while Chip’s puckish exuberance was as expansive as the pastures surrounding their 40-acre farm. When we mixed our personalities together, says Joanna, 39, the straight woman to her husband’s class clown, it created a spark.

      That spark ignited their HGTV home-renovation series Fixer Upper in 2013, an instant hit that now draws more than 14.5 million viewers weekly into the Gaineses’ world, filled with cute barnyard animals and even more adorable children. The show has led to a real estate and retail empire that extends well beyond their beloved Waco, where both grew up and which they swear they will never leave. All of this sort of fell into our laps, Chip, 43, told People in 2016. We were just living our life out here in little-bitty Waco. We had dreams and aspirations like most folks, but this has really been something else.

      So the couple’s announcement in September, two months before the fifth season of Fixer Upper began airing, was shocking: It would be their last. (Fear not, fans: In April HGTV debuts a spinoff series, Fixer Upper: Behind the Design, which examines Joanna’s process in focused half-hour episodes.)

      After four years of filming for 11 months of the year, growing their brand and raising four kids, I realized the show was demanding time from me, and I needed to be giving it to our business, to our relationship and to my family, Chip explained. Our goal wasn’t to be on TV and ride this pony until it died of sheer exhaustion. Said the pair on their blog: Our plan is to take this time to shore up and strengthen the spots that are weak, rest the places that are tired and give lots of love and attention to both our family and our businesses. With things going at full tilt for so long, this just felt like the right time to catch our breath for a bit.

      On Jan. 2 the couple revealed their newest project: In July or so Drake, 12, Ella, 11, Duke, 9, and Emmie, 8, would be getting a new sibling. Gaines party of 7, Chip wrote on Instagram. If you’re still confused . . . WE ARE PREGNANT. He added on Twitter that their happy news was the result of attending a little too romantic of a concert in Waco in October. One thing led to another, he wrote. I could not be more excited! Joanna, meanwhile, said her husband swears he can already tell it’s a boy.

      Family has always come first for Chip and Jojo, as he calls the woman he first encountered working at her father’s tire dealership when he stopped in to get his brakes fixed. Within two years they were married. Despite the traditional trappings, from day one, when we were dating, I realized he is not going to be put in a box, says Joanna of her fellow Baylor grad, who had begun buying properties while still in college. And if there’s a rule, he’s going to break it. Or, in Chip’s words, I’ve got Peter Pan syndrome. I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don’t want to be boring. I don’t want to be normal.

      No worries, Chip. Yet behind the on-air antics, the frequent hair checks and the childlike excitement he displays on demolition day is an astute mind for building a brand that goes well beyond TV. While their real estate business was growing to include a mini neighborhood of 38 custom-built villas (all sold) and completely booked luxury B&B vacation rentals, the Gaineses have made shiplap (see glossary) the hottest trend in home decor and have single-handedly transformed Waco into a tourist destination. Forty thousand a week visit their retail compound the Magnolia Market at the Silos, which includes a home store, bakery and garden center. They’re also planning to open a restaurant. There are bestselling books; rug, paint and wallpaper lines; and products for Target. Fixer Upper, Chip explained, has "been a dream. But for us, being on

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