Inflation likely helped to knock that price up a couple of notches, but let’s not forget that Magnolia Network is Chip and Joanna Gaines’ brainchild, so there probably isn’t as much free-flowing money as there was on an already established channel like HGTV.
Plus, they want to make these projects pop as much as possible for the first new episodes in over two years.
For the Season 5 production that took place in 2017, Fixer Upper was only asking applicants to have a $30,000 budgetary baseline for renovations.
That uptick in the budget should help make any and all new household additions that much more impressive in comparison with past seasons.