Dangerous Business, Part 1 – Indianapolis Monthly

Happy first day! Good bones Mina Hawke’s new show is heading into a six-week hiatus. Good Bones: Dangerous Business, takes the time interval until then. Your reporters, contributing editor Megan Fernandez and art director Christine Sims; Discussed with Mina. Before the premiere. Here’s what happened in the first episode.

Dangerous business It’s all about being real. It’s weirder and weirder than that. Good bones, the act of spending six weeks in one house instead of refining a project down to one room. This house is the biggest renovation two chicks and a hammer have ever done — it’s a 23-room Victorian that needs about $600,000 in work for a $190,000 purchase price.

This is a passion project for Mina. The house has been vacant for many years and sits in her own neighborhood, Fountain Square, and she wants to create a special place for the city and her family’s legacy. She can also unleash a design skill that we don’t see when remodeling homes to market.

All this brings up Mina’s alternate path: “Mina Risky Business Starsiak Hawk—no dash!”

Megan: So, we’re looking at 23 rooms in a three-story main house on 5,500 square feet and 2,500 square feet in a carriage house with a shed addition. The vision is for this to be five suites in the main house and three more for event space in the carriage house.

Christine: She walks with her regular consultant Rod Collier of Rothman Collier Architects, a once-grand family home that has been destroyed by squatters and fire. But you can still see amazing details, including tourism and tooth carving. Mina calls it her palace.

Megan: The house also had a parlor and a library. Mina shows a simple dialogue in the lower part. Somehow, Meena looks at the burning, crumbling walls and finds it “so beautiful.” Hey you?

Christine: I think the whole thing is fascinating. If I had $600,000 I would try. You know I’ve always wanted a bed and breakfast.

Megan: And I’ve been an Airbnb host. This is actually run like an Airbnb, not like a traditional bed and breakfast. In fact, it was fully booked in October. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can watch it List of the house over here. It rents for $1,200 or $800 a night for the entire house and carriage house. carriage house Alone.

Christine: But don’t look! Unless you want to make a reservation, you’d better. Otherwise, the show will reveal the house to us from place to place. This week they start at the carriage house. Mina wants to open it as an event space in eight weeks so the property can start generating revenue.

Megan: Yes, it looks like she emptied the company’s coffers to fund this project. She uses a general contractor instead of a regular one. Good bones Demo Boys on her payroll because they are too busy. If the house doesn’t start bringing in income, Mina may be paying wages out of her own pocket. Is the money the scary part?

Christine: I think it’s a scary thing for Rod to start such a project.easily $600K”, and from the looks of it, anything could go wrong. In fact, before we know it, work on the wagon will be halted for weeks due to permits. An eight-week goal seems unlikely.

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

Christine: Oh, good!

Megan: MJ and Mina went on a scouting mission to the Biltwell Event Center on the southwest edge of downtown. It’s a big industrial recycler, and the owner gives them a tour and some trade secrets. Biltwell has a large car park, the Victorian is in the neighbourhood. Where do the wedding parties stand?

Christine: Another good question. Where do Airbnb guests stay, let alone event guests? I wonder if they have a neighboring place. Maybe we should make a driveway!

Megan: I was actually there. I interviewed Meena on the set History Spring 2021 will tell you how long this project has been in progress. I don’t remember the draw, but I’m sure they do. Meanwhile, you’ve got great ideas at Biltwell, like a rolling wine-glass wall that makes serving drinks easy. What do you call it?

Christine: It looks like a movable wall, filled with wooden wine glass containers, supported by faux greenery. Good idea, and probably not useful unless one is into hokey-pokey.

Megan: That’s fame for the Farmers Insurance Hall of Fame. Mina and MJ love that Biltwell has reserved seats for photos in the giant service elevator. What they don’t like is another week goes by without progress on the carriage house construction. But Mina’s role is over. She decides to start showing the front yard of the house with her station superintendent, Thomas (newbie alert).

Christine: She gets in the excavator and starts tearing up the concrete and sidewalk. But, oops, Thomas points out that she doesn’t have a contract for this. Not on the demo plan. Meena is in big trouble.

Megan: There appears to have been a communication breakdown between her, the general contractor, and Thomas as to exactly what should be separated and moved. When Thomas talks to his boss on the phone about Mina, this is amazing. Finley, the chief executive of Two Chicks, intervenes and tells Mina that this could cost her a $15,000 fine. The point is that all the concrete must be replaced in one way or another, and now they have the excavator, so they can finish.

Christine: Why rent an excavator when you know you’re waiting on a permit? My first thought was, “Would Mina get this kind of grief if she were a boy?” It was. But then I sided with Thomas because he was doing his job. Overall, I didn’t like the way Mina and the new guy Thomas talked to each other.

Megan: They are not part of real battles Good bonesBut I bet headbutting happens a lot in home renovations. The role made me appreciate how much she has accomplished working in a male-dominated industry. At least, Thomas isn’t getting a welfare fix.

Christine: He felt something had to happen before the whole concrete debate because that big expansion, fast.

Megan: When Mina and her husband, Steve, take a tattoo break at The Rue Morgue Studio to get their son’s name inked, Finley spots concrete deterioration and adds $15,000 to the plan without paying for it. The workers are back to work.

Christine: She said they didn’t pay $15,000, but they probably should have paid $14,999.

Megan: You look like a lawyer. Have you passed the bar? An added problem: the cool overhead garage doors Mina wanted at the carriage house event space were ordered for 18 weeks. She just keeps going. not at all.

Christine: Ironically, her son, Jack, is with her in this scene—often saying “no” to the teenagers.

Megan: I wonder how much Mina has to put her foot down and make things happen when the contractors are as invested in the results as she is. Relying on other people, especially older people, must be one of the hardest aspects of this business. Why are there no female contractors?

Christine: they said. All are exclusive to HGTV. Alternative answer: Because no one listens.

Megan: Steel beams are always treated with respect. Can’t beat these garage doors?

Christine: I don’t think so, but for the preview of the season, it looks like they will create some cool levels.

Megan: Steve, Mr. Risky Business Starsiac Hawk, also gives a good name to men Good bones. He and Mina take a walk through the carriage house as she explains the vision – and she wants to name the whole place Charlotte Hall after their daughter. Steve is tearing up! He has lost his mother, father and sister in the past few years, seeing how important Mina, Jack and Charlotte are to him. He was touched by the fact that he had an inheritance to pass along with the children.

Christine: Those kids have big shoes to fill.

Megan: Mina explains to Steve that the window openings on the second floor will be romantic Juliet balconies with French doors, but in the next scene, she finds Thomas installing windows instead. When Mina says we’re not going there, Thomas kind of blows her off and says, “Yeah, they do. They are in your pictures.” Cut out a picture of the general contractor as the porches go into place. Corrupted. Maybe.

Christine: Or maybe it’s just a bad relationship. Thomas can only do what he sets out to do. I’m trying for you Thomas, but a condescending tone won’t help.

Megan: That voice. Minna has to correct it.

Christine: But again, and going back to episodes from a few weeks ago, how can things get this far off plan? Windows takes time to order, access, install – and no one has even cut a brick for Juliet’s attic at this point. How does the dispute take so long?

Megan: Can’t blame Corey at this point. He’s not around.

Christine: This is where the former ends. The preview shows Thomas, “Here’s what’s going to happen. We will stop the work. And it goes. By the way, he’s wearing the same shirt. Do you think he has another shirt?

Megan: Well, now I have to defend Thomas. Actors often have to wear the same clothes day in and day out to maintain continuity. After a hard day’s work, everyone should go home and do laundry.

Christine: In a preview clip from this season, an elderly man tells Mina, “I’ve been doing this before you were even born.” nice. I bet she gets to kill a lot of people. But the old man did not do it in a proper way!

Megan: not at all. And we know her way works. Even when it’s dangerous. See you next week!