Hgtv Small Kitchen Designs That Make A Big

Hgtv Small Kitchen Designs That Make A Big Impact

Joseph S. Pete The Times of Northwest Indiana

A Schererville brace who run a chichi appliance and adornment abundance in Chicago will anon be administration their affection for architecture and advance with a civic audience.

Joe and Meg Piercy, who own the acknowledged MegMade appliance and autogenous architecture boutique in Chicago’s contemporary Logan Square neighborhood, will anon be starring in the new “Renovation Goldmine” alternation on HGTV, one of the most-watched cable networks in the country with an boilerplate viewership of 9.7 actor bodies per ages and a ability into 80 actor U.S. households. It will aboriginal air at 7 p.m. April 30.

The Piercys are a affiliated brace and business ally who confused from the burghal to Briar Ridge in Schererville afterwards their ancestors grew to three boys.

“Chicago is and continues to be a admired abode of ours,” Joe Piercy said. “It’s breadth we met, had three of our kids and breadth our affection is. But we had three boisterous little boys and bare space. Neither of us was from actuality and had ancestors adjacent to help. Some of our best accompany are in Valparaiso and assertive us to appear out actuality instead of to Winnetka or Naperville.”

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After authoritative a Schererville abode a dream home, they plan to anon accessible their additional abundance in Northwest Indiana.

“There’s so abundant advance in Northwest Indiana,” he said. “So abounding bodies are building, renovating and affective here. We capital to be allotment of all the excitement.”

They will be evangelizing for an “old is gold” mantra on their accessible eight-episode alternation on HGTV, in which they upcycle appliance to save money for autogenous architecture clients. In anniversary episode, they seek to acquisition a “goldmine of treasures” in clients’ homes, animate old appliance pieces and use the money adored to armamentarium dream home renovations.

“You may not anticipate a advance is affordable, but we apperceive how to accomplish it happen,” Meg Piercy said. “We use pieces that our audience already own to save them thousands.”

In anniversary episode, they advice two families from about beyond Chicagoland, with the A artifice absorption on the added difficult and arduous activity and the B artifice ambidextrous with one added bashful in scope, about with one or two apartment and a added bound budget. In the premiere episode, they advice a brace brace their capital bedchamber and accession ancestors complete a abounding kitchen renovation.

They transform a best desk, aged chairs and ancillary tables into account pieces they absorb into the renovations.

“That’s money in the coffer to accord them the home they’ve consistently imagined,” he said. “There’s gold in every house, and we apperceive breadth to acquisition it.”

The Piercys, who met at Park Community Church in Lincoln Park afterwards Meg noticed a guy she anticipation was beautiful while alive as a Sunday greeter, got into the business by chance.

“I grew up actual handy. My mom was a activating on the home projects,” she said. “I was into appearance in academy and did some styling, autogenous design, patterns and things like that. But we started MegMade by accident.”

They aboriginal got into DIY aback they were too bankrupt to buy a alteration table for their bairn aboriginal son. Meg Piercy begin a best chiffonier abutting to a dumpster in an alleyway and repurposed it afterwards acquirements how by blockage up all night watching YouTube “sparking a affection that never went away.”

“We had been beggared dark by a architect flipping a house,” she said. “Joe had to accomplishment the abode himself, which is how we abstruse construction. We weren’t activity to accept the nursery of our dreams but painting the chiffonier became a ameliorative affair at a actual adamantine time in our life.”

She awash the allotment online afterwards backbreaking of it and got accession to redo. They started painting added appliance while watching television in their active allowance and affairs it online on Craigslist beneath posts advantaged MegMade.

“The name of our aggregation came from me cogent bodies advancing through our abode every night that, ‘Meg fabricated this, Meg fabricated that,'” Joe Piercy said. “Everything was a Meg conception whether a chandelier fabricated from cobweb baskets, a credenza or corrective furniture.”

They eventually opened the 10,000-square-foot MegMade abundance at 2728 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago. They do autogenous architecture throughout the Chicago breadth and advertise unique, one-of-a-kind appliance pieces about the country. MegMade specializes in customizable furniture, home adornment and aged pieces they’ve adequate at two assembly sites breadth they do reupholstery of best furniture.

The appearance will focus on the brace advancing into a family’s home in chase of “gold” or best pieces they can accompany aback to activity by authoritative them attending new and applicable them in with the active design. They seek to restore the agreeableness and appearance of old appliance instead of aloof disturbing bottomward anachronous spaces, allowance aggregate out and starting over.

“We can accompany out aspects of the appliance to accentuate the new,” he said. “Not aggregate has to be cast new. It can be adequate and accomplished to save you money. It’s a fun talking point that makes it one of a kind.”

“Renovation Goldmine’s” ambassador Frank Content aboriginal approached the Piercys about accomplishing a appearance bristles years ago while they were alive to body their cast on amusing media. The home advance affairs would advertise “Meg’s air-conditioned designs and Joe’s huge personality.”

They filmed a broil reel but again HGTV was awash to Discovery and wasn’t demography any new shows.

A year and a bisected afterwards the merger, the cable approach got aback to them, asked them to resubmit and ultimately best up an eight-episode season. They attempt the pilot appropriate afterwards the coronavirus communicable started and had to blur the abutting seven episodes while grappling with communicable challenges such as accumulation shortages.

It was filmed over the advance of nine months.

“We adulation HGTV. It has abounding hosts that are admirable to watch,” she said. “But we approved not to watch it while we were filming. We didn’t appetite to be afflicted by anyone. We aloof capital to be ourselves.”

They got about 1,300 submissions from a casting alarm on their website and narrowed it bottomward to the ones that concluded up on the show. About bristles or six of the houses are in Chicago and the blow in the suburbs.

“Meg did the designing and she ashamed it, accepting to the appearance of anniversary home,” he said. “We had the best amazing aggregation abaft us. Every distinct activity is different. No two projects attending alike.”

They acquainted adequate on camera while filming the show. Having formed calm for years, it came naturally.

“Joe’s personality is so contagious, you can ask any of his friends,” she said. “A assistant in alum academy said if you looked up ‘joy’ in the concordance there was a account of Joe abutting to it. He can allocution to a bank for hours. We don’t charge to be apparent by the apple or be in the accent but absolutely enjoyed the action and the befalling to absorb added time together. But we bound accomplished we were fabricated to do this and it was added fun than we anticipated. We achievement the bodies who watch it accept as abundant fun as we did. We try to accompany absurdity and beatitude to bodies for a 45-minute to an hour break.”

They said their appearance is unique.

“There are a lot of shows about home advance but not about demography appliance and authoritative it new,” she said. “With the pandemic, we’re seeing added absorption in refinishing furniture. Bodies amount what they already accept and how important it is to accept pieces from their parents or grandparents in their home. It makes a abode into a home. There’s been a huge uptick in interest.”

The appearance is abounding with affecting moments aback they see ancestors heirlooms revived.

“It hits the heartstrings but additionally had funny moments on anniversary appearance whether it’s Joe assuming up on set in scuba accessory or breadth I about cement anniversary beard to my head,” she said. “It’s got moments that accomplish you beam and impactful moments we never dreamed of breadth bodies are crying, adage they never dreamed their homes could attending like this.”

They achievement to affect added bodies to booty an absorption in upcycling furniture.

“We’d like bodies to bolt the DIY bug,” she said. “Home advance can be actual big-ticket and crave a lot of work. We affectionate of affection aural the appearance how you can booty a paintbrush, acrylic a chiffonier and transform the space. You can alpha baby and go bigger. You could buy a anatomy and lamp from Salvation Army to get into home architecture afore affective on to bigger projects like wallpapering. You can get aplomb afore demography too big of a bite. We appetite to body your confidence. You don’t accept to do added people’s designs. You can do what you adulation aural your amplitude and accomplish your amplitude your own.”

The Piercys accept been alive on added projects, including a YouTube alternation to go forth with the show, a new appliance line, added wallpaper designs and a YouMade alternation of paints for apology projects. A MegMade University will action a alternation of video tutorials for homeowners attractive to accouterment their own home and appliance apology projects.

“We’re alive on a lot of agitative new things in accession to the new store,” she said.

They achievement the appearance will be renewed afterwards the aboriginal season.

“Obviously, we achievement it’s a huge hit and that our action and activity for anniversary added shines through,” she said. “We aloof appetite to be absolute role models and accept a acceptable access on bodies in our burghal and neighborhood. We appetite to accept a absolute impact.”

For added information, appointment HGTV.com or megmade.com.

Joe and Meg Piercy brilliant in “Renovation Goldmine.”

As MegMade owners Joe and Meg Piercy adapt for the ablution of their HGTV alternation Advance Goldmine, the brace has additionally remained adamantine at assignment with added ventures. In the advancing months, the Chicago-based appliance and architecture boutique will be accretion into Munster, aperture a amplitude in Centennial Village.

MegMade co-owner Joe Piercy, left, films Meg Piercy for an accessible DIY tutorial alternation central the business’ newest retail amplitude in Munster.

From left, MegMade owners Meg and Joe Piercy allotment a beam while abating a chiffonier central their newest Munster storefront.

On Friday, Joe and Meg Piercy assignment calm to aftermath a DIY tutorial video central the newest MegMade abundance area in Munster’s Centennial Village.

It has been absolutely the year for bounded business owners Joe and Meg Piercy. Ahead of the ablution of their HGTV alternation alleged “Renovation Goldmine,” the duo is additionally advancing to accessible their additional MegMade storefront in Munster’s Centennial Village abutting month.

From left, Meg and Joe Piercy get to assignment on abating appliance as allotment of their online tutorial series. On April 30, the MegMade duo will be ablution their newest alternation on HGTV alleged Advance Goldmine.