Karen E. Laine Goes Dancing with a Longtime ‘Good Bones’ Costar to Have fun New House (Unique)

Karen E. Laine is embracing her new North Carolina residence — with a well-recognized face from Good Bones.

In an unique preview clip from Good Bones’ new spinoff shared with PEOPLE, the house renovation knowledgeable learns a neighborhood dance in Wilmington, the place she’s reworking a seashore 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 a wide range of swing that’s standard on the North Carolina coast.

“If I’m going to stay 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 toes within the sand” transfer, as a result of it’s meant to be achieved on the seashore.

Laine and Aynes follow their steps with a pair of instructors, and afterward they nail the strikes with one another, which leaves Laine smiling and clapping.

“After I come, I work till it’s darkish,” she explains of her time spent touring to Wilmington from her principal 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 may grow to be a weekly passion.

“I really feel like that could possibly be certainly one of my Wilmington actions, is on a Friday night time, 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 need.” 

Laine began the enterprise Two Chicks and a Hammer together 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 seem on Good Bones till it wrapped its preliminary eight-season run in October 2023.

“I’ve been doing every thing I wish to do,” Laine went on. “I’ve been doing a little landscaping initiatives. 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 advised the trio. “And I had this concept: Wouldn’t 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 through the day. So I obtained on the interwebs and I discovered a home on the market and I purchased it.”

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 plenty of love, however we are able to repair something.”

The 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 initiatives in separate states, in response to 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 incredible place” with both Laine or her brother Tad.

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Whereas Laine’s seashore getaway is the main focus of the second and third episodes of the brand new season, its 90-minute premiere centered on Mina’s renovation of a lake home to get pleasure from together 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 by life one of the simplest ways he can after just a few actually, actually epic loss in a really, very quick period of time,” Mina defined. “And since his time together with his household was minimize quick, 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 believe, why it’s actually essential 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.