Mina Starsiak Hawk Reveals Her New Lake House, Which She Calls a ‘Healing’ Place After Losing Three Family Members (Exclusive)

Mina Starsiak Hawk and her husband Steve Hawk are transforming a lake house in Indiana into a family retreat in their new home. Good bones Spin-off – and the house has a special meaning for the couple.

The property will be a retreat for the couple and their two children, 5-year-old Jack and 3-year-old Charlie. Their primary residence is in Indianapolis, where Mina has spent eight seasons renovating homes with her mother, Karen E. Laine. Good bones‘ was originally scheduled to run until its termination in 2023.

In an exclusive preview clip shared with PEOPLE, Mina reflects on why the new home is especially important to her husband.

“The lake house will be a great healing for Steve because he has lost so much,” she says.

In 2018, Steve’s mother died of stomach cancer. Six months later, his father died unexpectedly after falling down the stairs. And in 2020, his younger sister Stefanie died of ethanol poisoning.

“He’s going through life as best he can after suffering a really, really tremendous loss in a very, very short period of time,” Mina explains. “And because his time with his family was so short, we wanted this lake house for Jack and Charlie – really, for the long term, for the memories, for the experiences. That’s why I think it’s so important to both of us.”

While Mina and Steve reminisce about the special limited season of Good bones, Her mother will embark on her own home renovation journey several states away.

Laine will “embark on a new adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she will risk her retirement nest egg” by transforming a 120-year-old bungalow into a dream beach house, according to a press release from HGTV obtained by PEOPLE.

The new series focuses on “new beginnings” as the couple’s lives “evolve beyond the time they spent renovating their Indianapolis homes.”

Mina previously revealed in her podcast: Mina AF, that there was tension between her and her family behind the scenes on the original series and that she was not “on good terms” with either Laine or her brother Tad Starsiak during the final season of “Keep a Girl.” Good bones, which aired last fall.

In October 2023, she said of her relationship with her mother: “We don’t talk to each other. We haven’t in a long time.”

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The spin-off will include a 90-minute premiere that follows Mina navigating a “rocky” home-buying process, renovating the lakefront retreat and facing a “tough decision about her future.”

In the next two episodes, each one hour long, Laine will face “challenges at every turn” as she purchases her beach house, which is in need of renovation.

Mina had previously spoken on her podcast about filming a spin-off about her family’s new lake house, but did not mention Laine’s involvement in the show.

In October, she said the lake house was in a “great community” about 35 minutes from her home in Indianapolis.

“I see this place in my mind that will be for my family, but also for my extended family, to create these new, incredible memories,” she added. “I hear so many friends telling great stories about growing up at their grandparents’ house by the lake, running around in the woods, building forts and just being kids, and that’s what I want for my kids.”

Good bonesThe Season 9 premiere, “Mina Takes the Lake,” airs Wednesday, August 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV.