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Here are some fascinating facts you may not know about the series and the women behind its success.
Starsiak Hawk revealed toIndy Starjust how gross things can get.
“It’s always shocking,” she said.
“The houses we go in, there’s so much poop.
It always amazes me.
Human and animal poop.”
Fire burns up some of the poop, making their jobs a little easier.
“We had to empty it to take the weight out to carry it upstairs.
It was full of slabs of meat.
I 100 percent thought there’d be at least one frozen cat.”
Instead of branding themselves as house flippers, they see themselves asneighborhood rehabilitators.
“We truly are rehabbing neighborhoods,” Laine toldIndy Star.
These houses need a good 12-step program."
They are also excited about the opportunities that they are able to bring to people in Indianapolis.
The lawyer-turned-house rehabber also knows how to throw a good party.
Her rules for get-togethers are simple: “Fun people.
Wrap parties for “Good Bones” must be a blast if Laine has a hand in planning them.
That doesn’t mean it’s easy, though.
Laine and Starsiak Hawk have very different personalities, which sometimes leads to friction.
Starsiak Hawk said that working with a relative is what makes a successful partnership.
Neither of their jobs did much to prepare the mother and daughter team for rehabbing homes.
When they decided to rehab their first house, they taught themselves how to do it.
“Most of it we learned along the way,” Starsiak Hawk toldIndianapolis Monthly.
“I read the directions for flooring and putting up light fixtures.
I watched YouTube to figure out how to tile.”
According to her, the easiest thing to learn how to do was the demolition.
“It’s important to me to stay in the neighborhood where we live,” Laine toldIndianapolis Monthly.
They hope that they can help revitalize the neighborhood by staying laser-focused and only rehabbing local homes.
“People seem to really love how the city is being showcased,” she told Visit Indy.
Their efforts have also apparently had a positive effect on Indy tourism.
These two don’t let anything get in their way.
Laine toldIndianapolis Monthlythat “early on, for the talent, there is very little money in TV.”
“We’re not rich yet,” Laine said with a laugh.
“I’m still deeply in debt.”
An even bigger challenge came when Laine’s husband was diagnosed with cancer.
While filming the show, she also supported her husband through his treatments which included a surgery.
“Once we got the show, we didn’t have a choice,” Starsiak Hawk said.
“There was no more talking about the hurdles.
It was, ‘Just do it.'”
“There have been a few occasions where the boys sass me,” Laine toldIndy Star.
“We’re dealing with guys in their 50s who have been doing this a long time.
If I’m your boss, you don’t get to be disrespectful.”
Starsiak Hawk’s advice to getting through it?
“Don’t give a shot to be a lady,” she said.
“You’ve got to be real, not afraid.
You’ve got to get your hands dirty along with everyone else.”
Karen Laine, on the other hand, had secret dreams of being in the spotlight.
“Everything is harder,” Karen Laine told No Mean City.
The show has complicated their lives in more ways than one.
“So if we do 10 houses, that’s $1.5 million to $1.8 million.
And we didn’t have that in our pockets, so that growth spurt was up.”
“I strongly believe we can all live more with less,” the low-maintenance TV star toldMarketplace Events.
No doubt Laine’s space-saving solutions would come in handy living in a small home.
Her daughter, on the other hand, hasn’t inherited her mother’s love for minimalism.
Mina Starsiak Hawk said that she wouldn’t fare too well living insuch a confining environment.
“I’m far too unorganized, and my husband would kill me,” she said.
“He’s just the nicest human alive and super-talented and funny,” Starsiak Hawk toldMarketplace Events.
The announcement was made ina poston the Two Chicks and a Hammer Instagram account.
“She will still be part of the HGTV show Good Bones!”
While stepping back from the business was a big change, Mina Starsiak Hawk took it in stride.
“It’s like law school,” Laine toldHouse Beautiful.
So I would say everything.
I wish I knew everything.”
The book, titled “Built Together,” was inspired by both her career and young family.
It’s about not only building a home but building a family in the modern age.
“That’s what the kids’ book is about, but in a fun play on construction.
So, how did we build our family?
Because it’s not mom, dad, two-and-a-half kids anymore.
There’s divorces, there’s same-sex couples, there’s binary couples, there’s adoption.
And then there’s friends and there’s pets.”
The book was released on February 2, 2021, and was met with overwhelmingly positivereviews.
Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), the show had hired contractors who were not lead-safe certified.
The show reached a settlement of a $40,000 fine with theEPAin April 2022.
The company was also required to post a reminder on social media about safe lead paint practices.
In 2022, she was given her own spinoff series entitled “Good Bones: Risky Business.”
As the title suggests, this project is very, very risky.
The home is huge and in need of alotof work.
Even though the project is risky, Starsiak Hawk couldn’t resist.
“Probably two months ago I would’ve said no,” she toldHouse Beautiful.
I’m ready to have another baby now."
