Candis and Andy Meredith were thrilled to first connect with Chip and Joanna Gaines. "I can tell you that I vividly remember when Joanna Gaines followed us. I thought, 'Maybe she did it by accident. I'm not sure. Did she do it?'" Candis recalled. "And Andy's like, 'No, no, no. We're doing a thing. We're doing this home thing. I think she did it on purpose.' We were doing a show in Hawaii, we were renovating a kitchen for one of our digital shows, and she commented or she DM'd us."
"From then on, we kept reaching out. They would do something and we'd be like, 'Guys, that's really neat.' And we'd do something, they'd be like, 'Guys, that's really cool,'" Andy added. "We have this schoolhouse project and this show and this idea to do this, and when Magnolia Network was announced with Chip and Jo, we all thought, 'Oh my gosh, what if we could do this together?' We ended up working together."
