Be intentional with your space. Don't be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it. Joanna Gaines More Quotes by Joanna Gaines More Quotes From Joanna Gaines Since Chip and I try to go on a date night once a week, we don't feel the need to keep holidays like Valentine's Day all to ourselves. We set the table fancy, we all get dressed up, and we serve a big, beautiful candlelight dinner. It's our kids' favorite, too. Joanna Gaines day dinner beautiful night In our house, dinner is synonymous with family time. Recently, it has felt like the best chance for all of us to really connect - something that I find myself wanting more of as my kids are getting older. Joanna Gaines best myself family time Texans know how to make people feel welcome. Joanna Gaines feel know welcome people For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home. Joanna Gaines feel me design home If I didn't have Chip Gaines in my life, I'd still be dreaming in my head - but not acting out on any of that, not living it out. Joanna Gaines my-life living acting life Waco is such a resilient town... this city has seen its fair share of hardships, but it always bounces back better and stronger. Joanna Gaines hardships city better back When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts - when you're married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big. Joanna Gaines day great you business I was actually a communications major and had never done design. Joanna Gaines had never design done I had always had a dream to open up a boutique of some sort. Joanna Gaines open some always dream People might think Chip is just this goofy guy, and he is a goofy guy. But he's also the bravest person I know. Joanna Gaines person think know people I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don't have a special technique other than I can't focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes. Joanna Gaines best me you focus With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet. Joanna Gaines i-am get job creative If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it. Joanna Gaines follow go tell you Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it. Joanna Gaines you effort marriage time Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere. Joanna Gaines milk mom trying breakfast Once I tune in to the fact that my family receives my cooking for them as an act of love - that it's actually something that makes them feel cared for - it shifts my entire perspective. Joanna Gaines perspective family cooking love Then there's me, the one who wants to right the wrong. Who wants to call foul because I thought we all knew to play fair. Joanna Gaines Fast forward to today and my Korean heritage is one of the things I'm most proud of, i'm trying to make up for that lost time – the culture is just so beautiful. I think discovering who you are and what you were made to do is a lifelong journey. Joanna Gaines The one thing I remember most about Joanna Gaines stories, Joanna Gaines would always tell us when we were little, ‘ When I moved here when I was 19, I would cry myself to sleep every night because I missed my mother’s food, ’ and so Joanna Gaines, somehow, found some Korean women in the community that would cook for Joanna Gaines and then that would kind of just soothe Joanna Gaines. Joanna Gaines
