Mina Starsiak and Karen E. Laine attends the launch of World Market’s Fall Small Space Collection on August 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Michael Kovac/Getty
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Mina Starsiak Hawk and her mom Karen E. Laine have very different working styles, if you askGood Bonesinterior designer Michael “MJ” Coyle.
After reading a question for Coyle from a fan about what it was like working with the mother-daughter duo, Starsiak Hawk amended the query for Coyle, saying, “You can separate us out, if you want; we’re obviously very different.”
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Coyle responded that he had “totally different relationships” with Starsiak Hawk and Laine, adding, “I hope this comes off as a compliment, but you are a little bit more predictable on a day-to-day basis.”
Starsiak Hawk started her Indianapolis-based company, Two Chicks and a Hammer, with Laine in 2007. Laine stepped back from the company in 2019, but continued to appear onGood Bonesalongside her daughter and their team.
Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine.Mina Starsiak Hawk Instagram
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Coyle noted that he’s the “exact same” way.
“So, it was easier for me to understand your wants, your needs, your general immediacy and policy and how you like things done, because I was like, ‘She likes things done the same way I do,’” he said. “We’re both very impatient people and we need to know what’s happening at all times and we like to have our hands everywhere and nowhere all at the same time.”
Coyle added that when it comes to Laine, “It’s like she really wants people to understand things that are completely un-understandable. As creative and incredible as she is, getting on the same page as her can be very difficult.”
Starsiak Hawk, who’s beenopen about her falling out with her mom, agreed with Coyle, observing, “If you get on the same page, it can be kind of wackadoo.”
“Once you’re on that page, the pages just start flipping and flying,” Coyle said.
Starsiak Hawk announced in August that the series was coming to an end after its eighth season, the finale of which aired on Oct. 17.
When filming the final season, shetold PEOPLE in an exclusive interview,“There were definitely some challenging [moments] because my mom and I were in some of the most challenging places I felt we’ve been.” In the season premiere, for example, she says, she and her mother had just had “a knockdown drag-out [fight] during demo.”
“I was like, ‘I wonder if anyone’s going to be able to tell,’” she says. “And of course, you can’t because that’s the idea. People . . . that’s not why they’re tuning in to watchGood Bones.That’s not what they want.”
On the Aug. 28 episode ofMina AF,Starsiak Hawkopened upabout a dilemma she faced over whether to address conflicts with her mom and brothers, Tad and William, ahead of her 5-year-old son Jack’s birthday party. (She and husband Steve Hawk are also parents to 3-year-old daughter Charlie.)
“My mom and I aren’t in a great place. My brother Tad and I aren’t in a great place,” she said at the time. “My brother William and I are in a kind of like a nonexistent place. It’s complicated without even being complicated. We don’t really engage much and the last engagement wasn’t super positive, and that was maybe a year ago.”
“We do not talk,” she continued. “We haven’t in a long time. It was early this morning, and I just didn’t really know what to do with it.”
source: people.com
