Mina Starsiak Hawk and Mom Karen E. Laine to Return to HGTV for Spinoff Filmed In Different States After Rift

A new limited season of ‘Good Bones’ focuses on the duo’s “new beginnings” as they tackle separate renovation projects

Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine
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Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine are back for a Good Bones spin-off, despite their falling out on the original show.

HGTV announced on Wednesday, July 15, that the mother-daughter duo will star in a special limited season of the long-running series, which wrapped an eight-season run in 2023.

The new series will focus on their “new beginnings" and feature the two women working on separate projects in different states.

The upcoming episodes will follow Starsiak Hawk and Laine “as their lives evolve past their time renovating homes in Indianapolis,” according to a press release shared with PEOPLE.

Starsiak Hawk has purchased an Indiana lake house in need of some serious work and transform it into a retreat for her young family. While Laine will “set off on a new adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she'll risk her retirement nest egg" turning a run-down bungalow into her dream beach getaway.

Mina Starsiak Hawk posing on the new kitchen island, as seen on Good Bones, Season 9.
Mina Starsiak Hawk on an upcoming ninth season of 'Good Bones'.

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Starsiak Hawk navigates a “rocky” home buying process, renovates her lakeside retreat and confronts a “tough decision about her future” in the 90-minute premiere, according to HGTV.

The next two episodes, which are each an hour long, will see Laine face “challenges at every turn” while purchasing her 120-year-old beach house.

Starsiak Hawk previously discussed filming a spinoff about the renovation of her family's new lake house on her podcast, Mina AF, but hadn’t mentioned Laine’s involvement in the show. 

In October, Starsiak Hawk, who shares two children — son Jack, 5, and daughter Charlie, 3 — with husband Steve Hawk, shared that the lake house was located in a “great community” about 35 minutes from her Indianapolis home.

“It’s this place that I can see in my mind that’s going to be for my family, but also for my extended family to make these new, amazing memories,” she explained. “I have so many friends that I hear tell great stories about growing up at their grandparents’ lake house and running around in the woods and building forts and just being kids, and I want that for my kids.”

Karen E. Laine smiling on her brand new front porch, donning sea blue clothing, as seen on Good Bones, Season 9.
Karen E. Laine on an upcoming ninth season of 'Good Bones'.

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Starsiak Hawk previously revealed on the podcast that there tensions between herself and her family behind the scenes, saying she wasn’t “in a great place” with either her mom or her brother Tad Starsiak during the final season of Good Bones, which aired last fall.

In October, she shared of her relationship with her mom, “We do not talk. We haven’t in a long time."

Starsiak Hawk said that since she's spoken out on their mother-daughter relationship on the podcast, some people want to judge her for “not forgiving and forgetting because it’s family and blood is thicker than water." She added, "Those people can think what they want, but it’s so complicated."

Last month, the designer said that if she were to agree to do another HGTV show, it would require a “healthier” balance.

She revealed someone had suggested a show idea to her that “leans back into the older Good Bones model, maybe working with some of those people again.”

“I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kinda get back in that place,” she said.

When the person mentioned money, Starsiak says she wasn’t swayed.

“I said, ‘There's not enough money in the world that would put me in the place I was a year ago, Because it was that bad,” she said, before adding, “That's probably a lie. If someone was like, ‘I'll give you a million dollars an episode,' and I had to go back to that place for a year, but I'd be set for the rest of my life, maybe that would be worth it.” 

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