Ok, so when is Chip running for Mayor? I mean don’t they already own like 3/4 of this town?

#3! They have an old plantation style mansion in addition to the house they renovated during Fixer Upper.

You say that, but all I can think is of that asshole in SF who bought a house on the historical registry and was explicitly told he could expand it but had to retain the original structure as a first floor. He knocked the whole thing down.

Great. We’re going to get a new TV show where they ruin history. Sign me up to hate watch.

I work in landmarks preservation. Unless the building is a designated interior landmark, the Gaineses can likely make whatever changes they want to the interior that don’t impact the exterior.

Usually historical guidelines and limitations are only for the exterior.( In Chicago they are limited to the exterior visible from the street.) So you can pretty much do whatever you want elsewhere.

Yeah, because governments and municipalities never bend over backwards for rich people or to fill their own pockets.

Why yes it does. I’m dreading shag carpet’s return.

Yes - look at colored bathrooms (matching pink sink, toilets, and tubs), kitchen appliances, shag carpets, wooden wall panelling, etc.

I want to edit to add: we dealt with lovely, and even progressive, people in Waco.

Guys! My husband just turned down a job in Waco yesterday, and we were actually looking at houses in that neighborhood (it is a lovely, historic neighborhood). I am so relieved, but my whole Fixer Upper loving family is going to be crushed that we won’t be neighbors with the Gainses. (I want to edit to add: we dealt…

I have watched 4 full episodes of Fixer Upper and therefore consider myself an expert. Here’s exactly how this will go down:

Do I love and want to live in this weird freaky castle?  Yes, yes I do.  I would fill that solarium with such plants, I tell you!!

I wonder, does house fashion cycle in the same way that clothes fashion does?

We just bought a 1920's farm house, it was completely renovated when we moved in but I found an entire 55 gallon trash can full of those broken tiles in one of the barns.

I have mentally moved into so many houses on that feed...

It was listed for fairly “cheap” only because the restoration will be so expensive. It’s a registered historic landmark in Texas and any renovation has to be approved by the Historical Commission. The estimate to carry out the renovation as proposed by the previous owner (and approved by the Historical Commission) was…

You won’t regret it. Or you may because you want to buy all the houses, like I do. 

There goes castle down

Being the biggest real estate mogul in Waco must be like being the fastest halfback in Idaho.