Karen E. Laineis embracing her new North Carolina home — with a familiar face fromGood Bones.
In an exclusive preview clip fromGood Bones’ new spinoff shared with PEOPLE, the home renovation expert learns a local dance in Wilmington, where she’s transforming a beach bungalow.
She invites Austin Aynes, a longtime member of her team from the originalGood Bones, for a lesson in shag dancing, which she explains is a variety of swing that’s popular on the North Carolina coast.
“If I’m going to live in Wilmington, I need to do the Wilmington dance, so that’s why we’re here,” Laine tells Aynes, noting that the dance has a “dig your feet in the sand” move, because it’s meant to be done on the beach.
Laine and Aynes practice their steps with a pair of instructors, and afterward they nail the moves with each other, which leaves Laine smiling and clapping.
“When I come, I work until it’s dark,” she explains of her time spent traveling to Wilmington from her main residence in Indianapolis. “I haven’t really gotten to have much fun yet. This shag dancing is the first fun I’ve had.”
“I feel like that could be one of my Wilmington activities, is on a Friday night, show up and just find people who will tolerate dancing with me,” she says.
In the show’sprevious episode,Laine reflected on her family life and the freedom of retirement.
“I’m not working for a paycheck anymore,” she said. “I retired in 2019, and I can do anything I want."
Laine started the business Two Chicks and a Hammer with her daughter andGood Bonescostar,Mina Starsiak Hawk, in 2007. Lainestepped backfrom the company five years ago, but continued to appear onGood Bonesuntil it wrapped its initial eight-season run in October 2023.
“I’ve been doing everything I want to do,” Laine went on. “I’ve been doing some landscaping projects. I’ve been doing some lawyering.”
During a conversation with Aynes and two other cast members from the originalGood Bones, MJ Coyle and Cory Miller, Laine shared what inspired her purchase of the 120-year-old bungalow.
“I am tired of Indiana winter,” she told the trio. “And I had this idea: Wouldn’t it be nice to retire in Wilmington?”
“I went there once and I loved it,” she continued. “So I went back in January. It was 80 degrees during the day. So I got on the interwebs and I found a house for sale and I bought it.”
Tad Starsiak, Cort Miller, Austin Aynes and Mina Starsiak Hawk on the original ‘Good Bones’.Austin Aynes/Instagram
Austin Aynes/Instagram
“This house is like one of our originalGood Boneshouses — just wretched,” she added.
“There’s part of this foundation that’s sitting on air,” Laine said. “It needs a lot of love, but we can fix anything.”
Starsiak Hawk previously revealed on her podcast,Mina AF,that there were tensions between her and her family while the final season of the original show was airing in 2023. She said she wasn’t“in a great place”with either Laine or her brother Tad.
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While Laine’s beach getaway is the focus of the second and third episodes of the new season, its90-minute premierefocused on Mina’s renovation of a lake house to enjoy with her husband, Steve Hawk, and their two children: 5-year-old Jack and 3-year-old Charlie.
In the episode, Mina said the lakeside retreat would “feel very healing for Steve because he’s lost so much.”
Steve’s mother died from stomach cancer in 2018, and six months later, his father died unexpectedly after falling down the stairs. In 2020,his younger sister, Stefanie, diedfrom ethanol poisoning.
“He’s going through life the best way he can after just some really, really epic loss in a very, very short amount of time,” Mina explained. “And because his time with his family was cut short, that’s really why we wanted this lake house for Jack and Charlie — really, for the long term, for the memories, for the experiences. So that’s, I think, why it’s really important to both of us.”
source: people.com