Chicago furniture shop takes center stage on HGTV ‘Renovation Goldmine’

CHICAGO — Ten several years back, Meg and Joe Piercy have been generally broke. They ended up caught in the center of a home renovation and the contractor had walked absent from the job. With a child on the way, they couldn’t manage a changing table.  

“We had no revenue for a altering desk,” Meg Piercy stated. “We had been also very pleased to inquire for income from our dad and mom and we had gotten ourselves into this mess and our neighbor had just gotten rid of a dresser.” 

They grabbed the dresser in advance of the rubbish collectors could. For the subsequent number of nights, they sanded and painted it. It turned out nicely. So, perfectly, in point that their pals encouraged them to provide it. The place an advertisement on Craigslist.   

“So, we bought it for $85 and it was like, ‘Huh, that was sort of enjoyment. I can do this,” Meg Piercy claimed.  

It turned into a hobby for her.  

Meantime, Joe Piercy learned the development trades to full the unfinished get the job done at their dwelling himself.

The new abilities led to a small business – property furnishings and décor.  They now have a 10,000-square foot shop in Logan Square in which thy work jointly to refurbish and re-finish items, then sell them. 

“Not a great deal of partners get the job done collectively, but we truly function jointly. And we elevate our family members with each other. And we’re really collectively in all probability 22 to 23 hrs a day,” Joe Piercy stated. 

They enhance each and every other with their strengths.

“I come to feel like our romantic relationship is a very little bit like a mullet – like Meg is company in the entrance and I’m get together in the back again,” he explained.  

The couple’s chemistry attracted the awareness of HGTV ,the well-liked cable channel centered on household enhancement. They just introduced a new exhibit termed “Renovation Goldmine.”  The clearly show follows the Piercys as they help Chicago-region families discover the so-named “goldmine” of valuable furniture currently within of their clients’ homes. 

“Renovation: to make factors new,” Meg Piercy claimed. “That’s what we desired to do with persons. We wished to deliver daily life and light-weight to the interior town, that is what I was undertaking. He was performing it through the church.  Then the goldmine. The cause it’s termed goldmine, is simply because we are constantly reminding our staff members, our little ones ourselves, to discover the gold in men and women sites and points.” 

The demonstrate airs on HGTV at 7 p.m. CST on Saturdays.