Joanna Gaines Reveals She and Chip ‘Slept on the Carpet’ of Their First Home Together: ‘I Cried Myself to Sleep’

The Magnolia Network founders described what their first abode was like while appearing on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ on June 17

Chip and Joanna Gaines are opening up about the first home they shared together after they got married.

The Magnolia Network founders described what their abode was like while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday, June 17. In a clip shared jointly by Joanna and the talk show’s official Instagram account, The Stories We Tell author explains that the state of their Texas home made her want “to cry” after the couple returned from their New York City honeymoon.

“We get back from our honeymoon. We stayed at the Drake Hotel. We used our entire honeymoon money for the Drake Hotel,” she tells host Kelly Clarkson.

“We get back. He had bought this house that I did cry about,” she continues, gesturing towards her husband. “The electricity was shut off. College athletes had lived in the house that semester before.”

Chip then jumps in, “I can still smell this house.”

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The mom of five — who shares Drake, 19, Ella, 17, Duke, 16, Emmie, 14, and Crew, 5, with Chip  — continues to set the scene.

“It was June in Texas heat if you can imagine, and they had all these indoor pets. So we step in and he carries me across the threshold. And we get hit,” she says, referring to the stench of the home.

“We slept on the carpet — and I was very kind and sweet. I did cry myself to sleep. Maybe I am emotional… but who wouldn’t? I still remember what that carpet looks like.”

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Nearly 21 years later, Chip and Joanna returned to New York City to celebrate their anniversary with their kids in May. They tied the knot on May 31, 2003, in their hometown of Waco, Texas, where they also built their Magnolia empire.

During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in June, Joanna reflected on more than two decades of marriage and home renovations with Chip.

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“21 years ago when Chip and I got married and we were doing renovations together,” she tells PEOPLE, “is still the same thing that we go by today, which is all about home.”

She continued, “That's the thing we're most passionate about. Home is the best place on Earth. And so the fact that we're still doing the very thing that we started with — that never gets old.”

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