Meet Ella Rose Gaines, Chip & Joanna’s Designer-in-the-Making
The couple's oldest daughter is designing a cottage on the new Colorado show—and we're so here for it!
Anyone who has been keeping up with Chip and Joanna Gaines over the past 11 years knows family is the most important thing to them. And now it seems that love is moving over to the small screen as well! In the newly released trailer for their new home-renovation show Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House, viewers caught a glimpse of Chip and Joanna’s daughter, Ella, helping design the home’s cottage, making her the first Gaines child to join the family business. But who is Ella Rose Gaines? And where are her siblings? We look into all of that and more below!
What to know about Ella Rose Gaines
Ella is Chip and Joanna’s second child and oldest daughter, born in October 2006. According to Joanna, they are a lot alike.
“I think she’ll follow in my footsteps and have her hand in a lot of things. Right now she wants to cook, be a lead designer and have a donut truck,” the home renovation star told People magazine in March of 2019.
And it seems as though Joanna was right, because Ella is working with her parents to renovate a 1960s Colorado Rockies home—the Gaines’ first big project outside of Texas. As seen in the trailer, Ella’s job will be to design the show’s cottage, and Ella says she’s “accepting the challenge.”
Ella is currently in college at the Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City, per Hello!. She began in the fall of 2025, and yes her mother did help move her in, but Ella designed her dorm room all by herself.
“She is very into design and she has her own, unique style, so I stepped back and I was like, ‘You show me what…’ and I let her do the whole thing,” Joanna said on the Today show in August of this year. “So, it was really what she wanted.”
A look at Chip and Joanna Gaines’ other children
Along with Ella, Chip and Joanna have four other children, all of whom have been featured in some way on the couple’s home-renovation shows.
Get to know Drake Gaines
Drake is Chip and Joanna’s oldest child. Born in February 2005, the 20-year-old was named after the Drake Hotel in New York City—where Chip and Joanna had their honeymoon—and is currently a baseball player at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
“My first child is moving away, and our family dynamic will change because of it, and that can feel like a loss of its own,” Joanna wrote in an essay before Drake left for school in 2022. “I catch glimpses now of what that life will look like and wonder if—or how many times—that might bring me to the floor.”
Get to know Duke Gaines
Duke was born in May of 2008, and as anyone who has seen any of the Gaines family shows knows, he’s the prankster of the family. He went viral back in 2018, after he told his dad Chip that he was “kind of impossible” to shop with during an episode of Fixer Upper.
Chip responded to this, asking, “Why is it impossible to shop with me?” and in true Duke fashion, he replied “Because you look at everything and you’re like ‘Ooh we should buy this.’”
Get to know Emmie Kay Gaines
Emmie Kay is Chip and Joanna’s second daughter, and according to her mother the 15-year-old loves to bake.
“She was determined to make up her own cookie recipe and I left the kitchen so she could surprise me (and so I wouldn’t micromanage her work in the kitchen),” Joanna wrote on Instagram back in November of 2019. “Let’s just say this was one of my favorite cookies I’ve ever tasted! It was like a perfect blend of a shortbread cookie and chocolate chip cookie topped with a yummy icing. I also love what she named them in her little cookbook, ‘Emmie Kay’s chocolate chip kisses cookie.’”
Get to know Crew Gaines
The youngest member of the Gaines family is 7-year-old Crew, born in 2018.
“I think it’s sweet because they’re [the other kids] older now, and I can see them wanting to be a part of this,” Joanna told People in 2018. “We’re all rallying around this baby, which I feel is a sweet gift to our family.”
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