Design duo Chip and Joanna Gaines are taking up their largest fixer but: an over 100-year-old historic fort in Waco, Texas. Approaching Friday, October 14 to the Magnolia Community, Fixer Higher: Welcome Dwelling – The Fort will characteristic six half-hour lengthy episodes documenting the couple’s whole overhaul of a once-abandoned Central Texas property.
Recognized to Waco locals as Cottonland Fort, the stone construction dates again to 1913. “Chip and I’ve an extended historical past of taking up uncommon tasks,” Joanna writes in The Magnolia Journal, reminiscing on the primary time her and her husband drove by the dilapidated construction of their hometown.“But, regardless of their varied states of disrepair, to us these locations are likely to radiate a sure sudden allure.”
“The plan is to convey this lovely property again to its authentic state,” says Chip, who admits he’d been eying the acquisition for 20 years. However from efforts to protect authentic components like plaster and stonework to sudden water leaks, the fort’s overhaul turned out to be a a lot bigger undertaking than the couple anticipated. “Getting the identical precise stone from 100 years in the past has been a problem,” says Jo.
Tune in to see how the couple rose to the design problem and unveil their largest transformation but. And, if you end up within the Waco space this fall, tickets are on sale for strolling excursions via the fort now via October 26.