The Washington Post
By Andrea Sachs
Chip and Joanna Gaines, the royal couple of renovations, expanded their Waco kingdom on Friday with the opening of Hotel 1928. With the HGTV stars’ first hotel, visitors can add luxury boutique accommodations to their “Fixer Upper” experience in the Central Texas city. However, a warning to fans of their modern farmhouse-style: They won’t find any shiplap or inspirational wall art in the downtown property.
To pull off Hotel 1928, they teamed up with Adventurous Journeys “AJ” Capital Partners, a real estate investment manager that owns Graduate Hotels, a locally themed chain based in college towns in the United States and United Kingdom.