Karen E. Laine is embracing her new North Carolina house — with a well-known face from Good Bones.
In an unique preview clip from Good Bones’ new spinoff shared with PEOPLE, the house renovation skilled learns an area dance in Wilmington, the place she’s remodeling a seaside bungalow.
She invitations Austin Aynes, a longtime member of her group from the unique Good Bones, for a lesson in shag dancing, which she explains is quite a lot of swing that’s common on the North Carolina coast.
“If I’m going to reside in Wilmington, I must do the Wilmington dance, in order that’s why we’re right here,” Laine tells Aynes, noting that the dance has a “dig your ft within the sand” transfer, as a result of it’s meant to be performed on the seaside.
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Laine and Aynes apply their steps with a pair of instructors, and afterward they nail the strikes with one another, which leaves Laine smiling and clapping.
“Once I come, I work till it’s darkish,” she explains of her time spent touring to Wilmington from her fundamental residence in Indianapolis. “I haven’t actually gotten to have a lot enjoyable but. This shag dancing is the primary enjoyable I’ve had.”
Laine enjoys the dance a lot that she says it might grow to be a weekly interest.
“I really feel like that may very well be certainly one of my Wilmington actions, is on a Friday evening, present up and simply discover individuals who will tolerate dancing with me,” she says.
Within the present’s earlier episode, Laine mirrored on her household life and the liberty of retirement.
“I’m not working for a paycheck anymore,” she stated. “I retired in 2019, and I can do something I would like.”
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Laine began the enterprise Two Chicks and a Hammer along with her daughter and Good Bones costar, Mina Starsiak Hawk, in 2007. Laine stepped again from the corporate 5 years in the past, however continued to look on Good Bones till it wrapped its preliminary eight-season run in October 2023.
“I’ve been doing every little thing I wish to do,” Laine went on. “I’ve been doing a little landscaping tasks. I’ve been doing a little lawyering.”
Throughout a dialog with Aynes and two different solid members from the unique Good Bones, MJ Coyle and Cory Miller, Laine shared what impressed her buy of the 120-year-old bungalow.
“I’m uninterested in Indiana winter,” she informed the trio. “And I had this concept: Wouldn’t or not it’s good to retire in Wilmington?”
“I went there as soon as and I cherished it,” she continued. “So I went again in January. It was 80 levels throughout the day. So I received on the interwebs and I discovered a home on the market and I purchased it.”
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Nevertheless, she famous that she had her work minimize out for her with the fixer-upper, which was held up by a jack on a “pile of rickety bricks.”
“This home is like certainly one of our unique Good Bones homes — simply wretched,” she added.
“There’s a part of this basis that’s sitting on air,” Laine stated. “It wants a whole lot of love, however we are able to repair something.”
The brand new collection focuses on “new beginnings” as Laine and Starsiak Hawk’s lives’ “evolve previous their time renovating houses in Indianapolis” they usually embark on tasks in separate states, in keeping with HGTV.
Starsiak Hawk beforehand revealed on her podcast, Mina AF, that there have been tensions between her and her household whereas the ultimate season of the unique present was airing in 2023. She stated she wasn’t “in an ideal place” with both Laine or her brother Tad.
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Whereas Laine’s seaside getaway is the main target of the second and third episodes of the brand new season, its 90-minute premiere targeted on Mina’s renovation of a lake home to take pleasure in along with her husband, Steve Hawk, and their two kids: 5-year-old Jack and 3-year-old Charlie.
Within the episode, Mina stated the lakeside retreat would “really feel very therapeutic for Steve as a result of he’s misplaced a lot.”
Steve’s mom died from abdomen most cancers in 2018, and 6 months later, his father died unexpectedly after falling down the steps. In 2020, his youthful sister, Stefanie, died from ethanol poisoning.
“He’s going via life one of the simplest ways he can after just a few actually, actually epic loss in a really, very brief period of time,” Mina defined. “And since his time together with his household was minimize brief, that’s actually why we needed this lake home for Jack and Charlie — actually, for the long run, for the reminiscences, for the experiences. In order that’s, I feel, why it’s actually vital to each of us.”
The third and last episode of Good Bones‘ ninth season, “Karen Will get Colourful,” will air Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV.
