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Major Gaines! Another Home Featured on ‘Fixer Upper’ Is for Sale

No shiplap?! Brace yourself, “Fixer Upper” fans. It turns out Chip and Joanna Gaines do have a range that extends beyond farmhouse chic.

And this four-bedroom, three-bath, 2,768-square-foot home now on the market for $565,000 is proof their aesthetic acumen remains oh-so-keen.

Located in China Spring, TX, this remodeled beauty has nary a sliding barn door—although there are some industrial sliding glass doors that separate the dining room and the office from the rest of the house. In fact, with its cement countertops and gray plaster walls, this home offers more industrial chic than anything else the popular duo have ever done.

The home was memorably featured in Season 4, with Chip dubbing it the “Pick a Door” house, because there were not one, not two, but three front doors.

But if it seems they’re tacking on a hefty Chip and Joanna premium for the home, you’d be mistaken. Sure, the median home price in China Spring is $262,000, but this place comes with abundant acreage.

“One of the features that may not be known by watching the show is that the home sits on 5 acres at the end of a dead-end road,” says Jake Russell of Magnolia Real Estate. “It makes for an amazing retreat on the edge of town. I have not seen another home, on this much land, with such amazing attention to design detail.”

Chip and Joanna completely renovated the house, originally built in 1980, for Dean and Brittany Wixsom, a couple of Baylor grads who moved back to Waco from Colorado, where they developed a taste for the industrial look.

“The first place we called home as a married couple was an industrial loft in downtown Denver,” said Brittany. “It utilized a lot of raw elements like concrete. Ever since, we’ve dreamed of incorporating industrial features into a home for our family.”

The Wixsoms purchased the house for $230,000, and then paid an additional $227,000 for the Chip and Joanna remodel.

The remodel included large expanses of black metal–framed windows that added to the industrial loft feel. The kitchen, which is separated from the great room by the central fireplace wall, offers the same vibe with black, hardware-free cabinets.

The fireplace wall, with its geometric wood storage area, was designed to “convert the existing fireplace into a focal point that gives the entire room something unique to center around,” said Joanna Gaines. And it certainly fits the bill.

They topped the home’s exterior with an extended pitch, black metal roof that not only looks industrial, it also sounds industrial when the rain falls on it.

But for all the industrial loft feel, we must confess we fibbed. Joanna did manage to slip a little shiplap—of course—on a single accent wall in the master bedroom. But painted shiny black, it has a distinctive look that melds right into the rest of the house.

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