Chip Gaines is feeling emotional about their new family vacation home. Chip and wife Joanna Gaines tackle the property’s renovation for their new HGTV series “Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House” and he’s already looking forward to all of the memories they’ll make there.
Chip Gaines Gets Teary Eyed Talking About Their Colorado Mountain House
Chip and Joanna are turning a 1960s home in the Colorado Rockies into a vacation home for the whole family.
On December 9, Joanna took to Instagram to share a clip from their series “Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House,” that showed their five kids (Drake, 20, Ella, 19, Duke, 17, Emmie, 15, and Crew, 7) arriving at the home.
“Pack your bags, we’re taking this show on the road,” she wrote in the caption. “Colorado, here we come!”
In the video, Joanna explained, “The kids are here with us, so we wanted to come straight to the house. They were seeing it for the first time. The kids love the river. And then the kids did some skiing.”
Chip started to get choked up as he envisioned creating more family memories at the mountain home.
“I can see this being a really special addition to our family,” he explained. “I mean, when you think about memories and time spent with your family, it feels like there’s going to be some special Gaines moments that occur on this property.”
He continued, “And for Jo and I, we hope to facilitate a situation like that. You know?”
Joanna added, “Amen. Sweet Chip.”
Her husband cleared his throat and addressed the emotional moment with a joke. “I was just … it must have been the ragweed,” Chip said.
Joanna Explains How They Landed on Colorado for Their Home
In an article from the Winter 2025 issue of Magnolia Journal, Joanna revealed why Colorado won them over.
“You’ve likely heard me say that Chip and I are homebodies,” she wrote. “It’s as true today as it’s ever been, and our kids are no different. There are very few places any of us would rather be than home. But as long as the kids have been school-aged, we’ve made spring break our annual family getaway.”
She explained that they tried different ski towns until they discovered Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, noting, “going back year after year has somehow come to define who we are and what we value.”
“Now, we’ve made this annual trek to the mountains for more than a decade, and somewhere along the way Chip and I started to wonder if Colorado was meant to be a bigger part of our family’s future,” she shared. “With the kids getting older and going off to colleges in different directions, we kind of loved the idea of having a central place where we could all gather together, a place with all the same comfort and intention and care as the farmhouse in Waco.”
They started to casually explore real estate in their favorite towns and eventually found a winner
“From the moment we pulled in, I saw even more than what we’d been looking for,” she noted.
“The right opportunity presented itself at the right time, so we took the leap,” Joanna shared.
