Entertainment Tonight notes the Gaines family lives in a 113-year-old farmhouse on 40 acres along with several goats, chickens, horses, and cattle. They don't have a TV and their children won't be getting iPhones any time soon, as Joanna explained, "We want to teach our kids that life happens outside of these devices. It's just a simple thing to go outside and connect with nature, play with your friends and get dirty."

What Chip and Joanna Gaines were like before the fame is fairly similar to how they are now: what you see is what you get. With family life as idyllic as it appears, the question of whether Chip and Joanna actually homeschool their children keeps cropping up. The ex-Fixer Upper hosts are known for keeping their family mostly under wraps, and their low-tech, "get outside and play" attitude is well known. Likewise, their strong Christian faith would also lend itself well to a homeschool environment.