Joanna Gaines has pulled back the curtain on a major kitchen overhaul inside the Texas farmhouse she shares with Chip Gaines, showing the room almost entirely gutted in a recent Instagram video. The clip, filmed while she ate breakfast, captured construction workers stripping out cabinets and fixtures as the family’s longtime kitchen was reduced to a bare shell.
“Breakfast with a side of sawdust. #FarmReno,” Gaines wrote with the video. The kitchen is now left almost entirely bare of appliances, marking one of the most extensive changes yet to the home the Gaineses have lived in since 2019. The Crawford property, just outside Waco, serves as the family’s primary residence and sits on 40 acres.
The renovation adds another chapter to a house that has already become part of the couple’s public story. Gaines has described the farmhouse as her forever home, and the property has appeared often on her social media and home renovation projects. She and Chip Gaines also host “Magnolia Table: At the Farm” inside the dwelling, turning their private space into a familiar backdrop for fans.
The scale of the work fits a pattern for the family, which includes daughters Ella, 19, and Emmie, 16, and sons Drake, 21, Duke, 17, and Crew, 7. Gaines previously said she was transforming one of her son’s nursery spaces into a walk-in pantry and expansive baking room, a sign that the farmhouse keeps changing to match the way the family uses it.
That history is part of what makes the latest kitchen demolition stand out. On the island, Gaines once kept a cake plate stand that she said was a wedding gift from 2003, but she later started filling it with treats after so many friends and family kept coming through the house. It is the kind of small domestic detail that made the farmhouse feel lived in long before the current renovation began.
The tension now is simple: the home that has been presented as finished, cherished and lived in is still being reshaped around the family that owns it. Gaines has not said when the kitchen work will be done, but the video makes clear the update is well underway and that the farmhouse she once called permanent is still evolving in real time.
