Chip and Joanna Gaines ‘ beloved home renovation series “ Fixer Upper ” is turning 10 and the couple is celebrating with the launch of a new special edition season, “ Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse .” Premiering Sunday on the Gaines’ Magnolia Network (part owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) and HGTV, the original home of the “Fixer Upper” franchise, and streaming same day on Max and Discovery+, the six-episode “Lakehouse” follows Chip and Jo as they take on a unique mid-century modern lakehouse flip near Lake Waco, a new neighborhood for the home reno couple based in Waco, Texas.
“Chip found a set of plans in this lakehouse that showed the house was built in 1965 and the husband loved mid-century modern style and the wife loved that Spanish revival style,” Joanna Gaines tells Variety . “And you see this blend of them trying to work it out. There was something about that, me thinking about going back to the ’60s, that this husband and wife were really trying to go out with different opinions and create this interesting little baby.
And then there had been a renovation in the ’90s where you see a lot of the mid-century elements were removed and it got more contemporary. So for me, the challenge was getting it back to that ’65 look and that couple’s look. That was my favorite thing about this project.
” The original “Fixer Upper” debuted on HGTV in 2014 and ran for five seasons, becoming the top unscripted show on cable. It aired its final episod.
