Why Yes, You Do Influence Joanna Gaines
By Movieguide® Contributor
FIXER UPPER star Joanna Gaines says her design philosophy is all about helping others.
“For me, it’s always about, ‘How can I help someone?’” Gaines told GOOD MORNING AMERICA. “Though I might not physically be in your home with you, being able to take inspiration from this beautiful palette feels like the most natural way to be inspired.”
She continued, “With every project that we work on, I want people and clients to be able to understand the story that is being told in the space.”
Joanna also spoke about celebrating 10 years of FIXER UPPER.
“I feel old,” she laughed. “It has been so fun to look back over the past 10 years, but we also are looking forward to taking everything we learned along the way. No matter what comes next, we want to stay true to the basic principles that we started our business on, the things that ground us: home and family.”
She and husband Chip talked to Variety about what they’ve learned from 10 years of working in television.
“We’ve gotten a lot better,” Chip said. “What I didn’t know about television and construction is they’re not terribly compatible.”
Joanna added, “When you think about the original FIXER and the template of around 17 episodes a season and they were hour long episodes and you’d get this reno within that hour, that’s TV gold. And we did that for five seasons and we worked our butts off for it and when we look back, we don’t know how we did it.”
Movieguide® previously reported on the tenth anniversary of FIXER UPPER:
Chip and Joanna Gaines are reflecting on their FIXER UPPER journey as they celebrate 10 years of their hit show with a special lakehouse project.
“There are easy things to put together, like when Jo goes and does a cooking show, it’s been beautiful to watch,” Chip added. “That’s a compatible source; you can take this thought and you can take this industry, which is the TV side of the business, and you can put those together fairly seamlessly. With construction and real customers and real timelines, these are complicated oil-and-water realities to mix together. We were the tail and there was a dog wagging us, years and years ago, and it was fine. And it worked out and by the grace of God, we learned a lot and we all made it out alive.”
With loads of success behind them and more on the horizon, the couple is considering what they want to “focus on in this season of our life.”
“The reason why FIXER looks different now and how these seasons have evolved is these seasons truly are this one house where we take it a little slower,” Jo said. “I’ve found that when you do these episodes where it’s one show, I can actually think as the designer and the contractor and the production side, take it in and enjoy the process.”
“Before, you didn’t get to stop and enjoy anything, you just kept moving. It’s FIXER, it’s just FIXER evolved. And who knows, maybe one day we’ll be back doing it that way.”
Joanna is currently celebrating the premiere of the eighth season of MAGNOLIA TABLE, her popular cooking show.
“During the upcoming six-episode installment of MAGNOLIA TABLE WITH JOANNA GAINES, fans can expect the design expert to whip up new Mexican, Italian, and seafood recipes along with her favorite Texas dishes,” House Beautiful reported. “Filmed in the cozy kitchen of an 1800s gristmill (which the Gaineses renovated, of course), the series will continue to highlight Gaines’s favorite recipes as she shares the stories behind them and why she makes them often.”
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