Joanna Gaines Gives Fans A Sneak Peek At Hotel 1928 Project

Published: November 2, 2023

Joanna Gaines Gives Fans A Sneak Peek At Hotel 1928 Project

By Movieguide® Contributor

Chip and Joanna Gaines are giving fans a sneak peek at their latest venture, Hotel 1928.

“I just kept thinking of 1920s glam,” Joanna told Architectural Digest of the building’s renovations and redecoration. “That Art Deco, more saturated feel.”

The hotel was built in 1928, and Joanna and her design team referenced that time period with “the glam, the glitz, and the gold,” she explained.

Hotel 1928 boasts 33 rooms, three restaurants and a ballroom that can hold 500 people.

“It wasn’t like our typical jobs, where it’s an office or it’s a restaurant or it’s a home,” Joanna explained. “This was a bunch of different things happening in one building. And so I felt like on every floor or in every room I stepped into, it was a different hat we had to put on.”

While the hotel’s common areas were decorated to reflect its history, Joanna shared that the rest of the rooms had a more typical “Gaines” feel.

“I wanted them to feel a little more restful and easy on the eyes,” she explained.

Chip called it “the largest, most complicated size project we’ve ever done in our whole career,” adding, “If anybody can turn this place into the masterpiece that it deserves, it’s Joanna Gaines.”

Joanna elaborated on the project in a post on her blog, writing, “Home is a feeling, created by and for the people you love and share your life with; it’s a state of being known and loved just as you are. That is our dream for this hotel—that it would serve as an extension of the way we feel about our own home and all it represents to us, and that every guest who comes to stay would experience that same sense of belonging and community.”

The process of renovating Hotel 1928 will be shown in the upcoming series FIXER UPPER: THE HOTEL. It will premiere on Magnolia Network on Nov. 8.

Movieguide® previously reported on the project:

Since Chip and Joanna Gaines announced their historic hotel restoration, news on the project has been almost radio-silent. Last Sunday, Joanna Gaines gave her Instagram followers a huge peek into the renovations.

“Known as Hotel 1928, the renovated building has the style of an early 20th-century Moorish Revival lodge and includes 33 guest rooms, a dining room, event spaces, and a rooftop terrace in the approximately 50,000-square-foot space,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

“When you think about a 50,000-square-foot hotel remodel, I mean, this is the big leagues,” Chip said. “This is what you dream about.”