Joanna Gaines Guts Texas Farmhouse Kitchen in 40-Acre Renovation

joanna gaines is gutting the kitchen in her Texas farmhouse, and the room is now almost entirely stripped to the bones. The Crawford home just outside Waco has been her and Chip Gaines’s primary residence since 2019, so this is not a casual update.

Crawford kitchen overhaul

Joanna Gaines shared the renovation on Instagram with a video of workers removing the existing cabinets and fixtures, leaving the kitchen almost entirely bare of appliances. She captioned it, "Breakfast with a side of sawdust. #FarmReno".

That kitchen sits inside a 40-acre property where the Gaines family lives with daughters Ella and Emmie and sons Drake, Duke and Crew. The house has already been updated repeatedly, but this round reaches deeper than a cosmetic refresh.

From cake stand to pantry

Joanna Gaines has already described another change inside the home: she said she was transforming her son's nursery into a walk-in pantry and expansive baking room. She has also called the farmhouse her forever home, which makes the latest demolition feel less like a staging exercise and more like a long-term redesign of how the family uses the house.

She has said a cake plate stand she received as a wedding gift in 2003 has sat on the island since the first year she got married, and that it was once empty. That detail fits the larger picture here: this kitchen has been a lived-in centerpiece, not just a showcase, and the renovation is now rewriting that space around the way the Gaines family actually uses it.

What changes for visitors

For readers who follow the house through the family’s social posts, the practical shift is simple: the kitchen is no longer functioning as the familiar finished room shown in earlier appearances. The new work reaches the core of the home, and the next look at it will likely come through Joanna’s own feeds, where she has already been documenting the teardown in real time.