I love Chip Gaines and I really enjoyed both of his other books, but honestly this one should have just been an essay or an inspirational Instagram post. It feels like a long rambling of one idea that feels a bit flimsy and stretched thin. It is missing a lot of the character and charm you come to expect (and ironically he uses this book to address this feeling without realizing he’s imposing it on every page). The hashtags and gimmicky blurbs and imposed highlights on sections his editor deemed important were really a degradation of an otherwise mediocre text. I don’t mean to take him to task but in trying to talk about things that make life more wholesome and worthwhile, he only managed to make them feel like a veneer over a money grab and self-congratulatory-pat-yourself-on-the-back opportunity. It didn’t feel substantive and was therefore really hard to get through. It chipped away (pardon the pun) at my impression of someone I deemed really genuine and wonderful.