Fixer Upper: Behind the Design

Joanna Gaines learns that the biggest challenge in designing a dream home for Michael and Jessie will be combining the couple's industrial and farmhouse styles.

Joanna turns a little bungalow into a cozy cottage retreat for a woman after the passing of her husband. Jo gets to work creating a dream home with light neutral colors, natural wood elements and spaces to hang photos and memorabilia. Chip and Jo also surprise her with a charming and efficient powder bathroom.

World-travelers Matt and Samantha call on Joanna Gaines to infuse Parisian style elements into their home's design. Jo works with her design assistant and local artisans to customize every detail of this home and even incorporates a fun surprise not featured in the original Fixer Upper episode. In the end, Joanna and her talented design team turn this couple's small, dated Tudor home into their Parisian-eclectic dream home.

Joanna Gaines and her design team transform an antiquated house into a Tudor-style dream home for Joey and Courtney Scrivano. In addition to restoring the home's original 1920s charm, the Scrivanos want to see a blend of their personal styles, which are both traditional and modern. With a sharp eye for balance and detail, Joanna incorporates both styles and blends them with the historic characteristics of the Tudor-style home. Plus, she reveals the illustrious guest bathroom, a wallpaper-covered beauty that was not featured in the original

Joanna Gaines and her design team transform the outdated Ivy House into a one-of-a-kind forever home for the Jackson family. The homeowners have not one but two design styles they'd like incorporated in the house: rustic and coastal. Joanna and her design assistant, Gretchen, work with local artisans to create a rustic coastal retreat for the Jacksons, and Jo reveals a truly unique master bathroom not featured in the original episode of Fixer Upper.

Chip and Jo turn a worn-down house into a sleek, modern bachelor retreat. This was done for the son of their friend Jimmy Johns

Jo brings traditional charm and classic elements to an outdated home.

Joanna helps a family turn their outdated ranch home into a French country retreat. She uses soft neutral colors, lots of texture, natural wood tones and floor-to-ceiling windows to blend the existing traditional elements with the new.

Joanna Gaines and her design team take on The Mountain House, a 1980s-era home in Woodway that's lacking character and charm. With a mutual love for traditional style, Joanna takes in the wants and needs of the Sandvall family and gets to work balancing clean, traditional style with necessary spaciousness for the family of five. During the reveal, Chip and Joanna surprise the Sandvalls with a beautiful master bathroom that wasn't seen on the original episode.

Joanna designs a house for her sister and brother-in-law, Mikey and David, and their five children. Jo blends elements of vintage, modern and retro styles in a cohesive way for her sister. Then, she designs three unique rooms for the kids, which was not featured in the original episode.

Jo infuses Scandinavian design and Moroccan style into an 1890s farmhouse.

Joanna Gaines and her design team turn a 1970s brick ranch house into a one-of-a-kind retreat for the Aguilar family. While talking through design plans with the Aguilars, Jo learns that they want to inject modern and Mediterranean style into the house, so she formulates a plan to transform every inch of the brick ranch house into the family's dream home. She also reveals a surprise room that was not featured in the original Fixer Upper episode.

Joanna infuses a new home with European cottage-style charm.

Joanna restores and repairs a 100-year-old home for the Herrera family. In addition to preserving the charm of the original house, they ask Jo to create a modern farmhouse-style design and implement a library wall and the number nine into the decor. Jo also surprises the family with a large bathroom for the kids and a finished attic space.

The client wants her bland loft in downtown Waco converted into an industrial modern dream home.

Joanna Gaines is tasked with creating a modern farmhouse design inside an old barn for a wounded veteran, TJ, and his girlfriend, Stephanie. Jo transforms the barn with modern elements, including concrete countertops, sleek black metal, and stainless steel.