Good Bones Recap: Risky Business, Episode 1

Carriage home as seen on Good Bones: Dangerous Enterprise, Episode 1.Photograph by Excessive Midday/Discovery+, courtesy Two Chicks and a Hammer

Comfortable premiere day! Good Bones is heading right into a six-week break as Mina Hawk’s new present, Good Bones: Dangerous Enterprise, takes over the time slot within the meantime. Your recappers, contributing editor Megan Fernandez and artwork director Kristin Sims, chatted with Mina earlier than the premiere aired. Right here’s what occurred within the first episode.

Dangerous Enterprise is all about getting actual. It’s grittier and extra dramatic than Good Bones, a operate of spending six weeks on one home as a substitute of modifying one challenge right down to a single episode. This home additionally occurs to be the most important renovation that Two Chicks and a Hammer has ever tackled—it’s a 23-room Victorian that can want round $600,000 of labor, on high of the $190,000 buy value. 

For Mina, this can be a ardour challenge. The home has been sitting empty for a few years in her personal neighborhood, Fountain Sq., and he or she desires to create a particular venue each for the town and her household’s legacy. Additionally, she will be able to unleash design expertise that we don’t get to see when she is renovating homes to place in the marketplace.

All of this brings out Mina’s alter ego: “Mina Dangerous Enterprise Starsiak Hawk—no hyphens!” 

Megan: So, we’re taking a look at 23 rooms throughout 5,500 sq. toes in a three-story most important home and a pair of,500 sq. toes in a carriage home with shed addition. The imaginative and prescient is for this to turn out to be an occasion area with 5 suites in the primary home and three extra within the carriage home.

Kristin: She walks by with Rod Collier of Rottmann Collier Architects, their common consultants, explaining that this once-grand household residence has been destroyed by squatters and a hearth. However you possibly can nonetheless see enchanting particulars, together with a turret and dental molding. Mina calls it her citadel.

Megan: The home additionally had a parlor and a library. Mina envisions a speakeasy within the basement. By some means, Mina appears at charred, toppling partitions and sees “a lot attraction.” Do you?

Kristin: I believe the entire thing is charming. If I had $600,000, I’d strive it. You realize I’ve all the time wished a bed-and-breakfast.

Megan: And I’ve been an Airbnb host. This can really operate as an Airbnb, not a standard bed-and-breakfast. In actual fact, it’s already totally booked in October. Should you don’t thoughts a spoiler, you possibly can see the home itemizing right here. It rents for $1,200 per night time for the entire home and carriage home, or $800 for the carriage home alone.

Kristin: However don’t look! Until you need to e book it, then you definately higher. In any other case, the present will reveal the home to us area by area. This week, they begin with the carriage home. Mina desires to get this open as an occasion area in eight weeks so the property can begin producing earnings.

Megan: Sure, it appears like she has emptied the corporate coffers to fund this challenge. She is utilizing a common contractor relatively than the common Good Bones Demo Boys on her payroll as a result of they’re too busy. If the home doesn’t begin bringing in income, Mina might be paying salaries out of her personal pocket. Is the cash the scary half?

Kristin: I believe it’s all scary—scary to embark on a challenge that Rod says is “simply $600K,” and with the appears of it, something might go incorrect. In actual fact, earlier than we all know it, work on the carriage home is halted for weeks due to permits. The eight-week aim is trying unlikely. 

Megan: I’m pondering we’re going to say goodbye to the speakeasy. It’s so secret it doesn’t even exist!

Kristin: Ooh, intelligent! 

Megan: MJ and Mina go on a scouting mission to the Biltwell Occasion Heart on the southwest fringe of downtown. It’s an enormous industrial reuse, and the proprietor provides them a tour and a few commerce secrets and techniques. The Biltwell has a big parking zone, whereas the Victorian is in a neighborhood. The place will marriage ceremony events park?

Kristin: One other good query. The place will the Airbnb friends park, not to mention occasion friends? I’m wondering in the event that they personal an adjoining lot. Perhaps we have to do a drive-by!

Megan: I’ve really been there. I interviewed Mina on the set for a narrative within the spring of 2021, which tells you the way lengthy this challenge has been in progress. I don’t bear in mind an empty lot, however I’m certain they’ll work it out. In the meantime, they’re discovering cool concepts on the Biltwell, like a rolling wine-glass wall that makes handing out drinks simpler.  What would you name it?

Kristin: It appears like a moveable wall stuffed with picket wine glass holders, backed by fake greenery. Good concept, and it in all probability is useful until somebody hokey-pokeys into it.

Megan: That’s one for the Farmers Insurance coverage Corridor of Fame. Mina and MJ love that Biltwell put a sofa in its big service elevator for photographs. What they don’t love is that one other week goes by with out progress on the carriage home development. However Mina is completed ready. She decides to start out demo’ing the entrance yard of the home together with her web site superintendent, Thomas (new man alert). 

Kristin: She will get in an excavator and begins tearing up the concrete and the sidewalk. However, oops, Thomas factors out that she doesn’t have a contract for this. It’s not on the demo plan. Mina is in large bother. 

MJ watching Mina take away the concrete in entrance of the home.Photograph by Excessive Midday/Discovery+, courtesy Two Chicks and a Hammer

Megan: It appears like there was a communication breakdown between her, the overall contractor, and Thomas about what precisely to interrupt up and transfer. This will get testy, with Thomas speaking smack about Mina on the telephone together with his boss. Finley, the Two Chicks chief of workers, runs interference and tells Mina that this might price $15,000 in fines. Mina’s level is that each one the concrete must be changed a technique or one other, they usually have the excavator now, so they could as effectively get it completed. 

Kristin: Why would you lease an excavator when you realize you’re ready on permits? My first thought was, “Would Mina get such grief if she had been male?” However then I sided with Thomas, as he’s simply doing his job. Total, I didn’t like the way in which Mina and new man Thomas spoke to one another. 

Megan: Actual fights aren’t part of Good Bones, however I guess butting heads occurs loads in residence renovation. It makes me admire how a lot Mina has achieved working in a male-dominated trade. On the very least, Thomas isn’t getting a charitable edit.

Kristin: It felt like one thing will need to have occurred earlier than the entire concrete dispute as a result of that was an enormous escalation, quick.

Megan: Whereas Mina and her husband Steve take a tattoo break at The Rue Morgue studio to have their daughter’s identify inked, Finley kinds the concrete debacle and obtained it added to the plan with out paying $15,000. The crew is again at work. 

Kristin: She stated they didn’t pay $15,000, however perhaps they needed to pay $14,999.

Megan: You sound like a lawyer. Did you simply cross the bar? Extra bother: The cool overhead storage doorways that Mina desires on the carriage home occasion area are backordered for 18 weeks. She simply retains saying, “No. No. NO.” 

Kristin: Mockingly, her son, Jack, is together with her on this scene—often it’s the toddlers repeating “no.” 

Megan: I’m wondering how a lot Mina has to place her foot down and drive issues to occur when the contractors aren’t practically as invested as she is within the outcomes. Counting on different folks, particularly older males, must be one of many hardest features of this enterprise. Why aren’t there any feminine contractors?

Kristin: There are. They’re simply all on HGTV. Alternate reply: As a result of nobody will hearken to them.

Megan: Iron Timbers all the time acts respectfully. Can’t they whip up these storage doorways?

Kristin: I assume not, however within the preview for the season, it appears like they create some cool stair rails.

Megan: Steve, Mr. Dangerous Enterprise Starsiak Hawk, additionally provides males a great identify on Good Bones. He and Mina take a walk-through of the carriage home whereas she explains the imaginative and prescient—and that she desires to call the entire venue Charlotte Corridor, after their daughter. Steve is tearing up! He has misplaced his mother, dad, and sister in the previous few years, placing into perspective how essential Mina, Jack, and Charlotte are to him. He’s so touched by having a legacy to cross alongside to the youngsters.

Kristin: These children have some large sneakers to fill.

Megan: Mina explains to Steve that the window openings on the second ground will likely be romantic Juliet balconies with French doorways, however within the subsequent scene, she finds Thomas putting in home windows there as a substitute. When Mina says they don’t go there, Thomas form of blows her off and says, “Yeah, they do. They’re in your drawings.” Minimize to the footage of the overall contractor agreeing that the balconies are entering into that spot. Busted. Perhaps.

After shot of carriage home with the second ground eliminated.Photograph by Excessive Midday/Discovery+, courtesy Two Chicks and a Hammer

Kristin: Or perhaps simply dangerous communication. Thomas can solely do what he has the plans for. I’m attempting for you, Thomas, however the condescending tone isn’t serving to. 

Megan: That tone. Mina will need to have to tune it out.

Kristin: However once more, and hearkening again to episodes a couple of weeks in the past, how can issues get this far off plan? Home windows take time to order, to reach, to put in—and nobody had even reduce the bricks down for the Juliet balcony by this level. How does the miscommunication span that period of time?

Megan: Can’t blame Cory this time. He’s not round. 

Kristin: That’s the place the premiere ends. The preview reveals Thomas saying, “Right here’s what’s going to occur. We’re going to cease work.” And he walks off. He’s sporting the identical shirt, by the way in which. Do you assume he owns one other shirt?

Megan: Effectively, now I’ve to defend Thomas. The forged usually has to put on the identical garments day after day so the editors have continuity. After a tough day’s work, all of them should go residence and do laundry.

Kristin: In one other preview clip for this season, an outdated man tells Mina, “I’ve been doing this earlier than you had been even born.” Good. I guess she will get loads of mansplaining. However the outdated man hasn’t been doing it Mina’s means!

Megan: Nope. And we all know her means works. Even when it’s dangerous. See you subsequent week!