“[Renovating] was always something I did,” she told The List.

“It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I should do this in addition.

Design should be my day job.’

Melissa McCarthy and Jenna Perusich smiling

I never had that thought.”

It all started when Melissa McCarthy began redesigning rooms in her own homes.

“I would take over and project manage those and work with her,” Perusich said.

Jenna Perusich and Melissa McCarthy smiling

But these small projects quickly began turning into much bigger ones over the long term.

Then, the Property Brothers' series “Celebrity IOU” came calling.

“Some call it a passion, some call it an obsession,” Perusich joked.

“I don’t think it was anything we ever aspired to do,” Perusich said.

“But it just felt completely right.”