In conjunction with the new season, Dave and Jenny Marrs sat down for a chat with The List.
They also shared details on their new HGTV series,"‘Fixer to Fabulous: Welcome Inn."
Jenny, she’d been designing all of our projects, designing other things, and combined forces.
Since 2010, we’ve been working together.
Dave:Not at all.
And yeah, here we are, getting ready to start Season 4.
So it’s been very humbling.
Was there any particular reason at first why you were hesitant to start it?
Jenny:Yeah, so many.
What was that like?
Oh, it was
Dave:It was hard.
Jenny:It was hard.
We actually brought our kids with us, and they did virtual school.
We brought our sitter with us as well, because they’re comfortable with her.
She was there with them for our super long days of filming.
They really had a lot of fun.
We were pretty much working at the house all the time, but we did have some days off.
We really had a really fun time together there, and we loved it.
We loved the area.
We loved getting a chance to live somewhere else for a little bit of time.
Dave:Everything was so different.
Number one, you’re out of your comfort zone.
In Charleston, it was just us.
Jenny:Where to even get furniture, everything.
You didn’t have your workshop.
Also, we weren’t designing the house for a specific homeowner like we normally do at home.
That’s what we do in real life.
We don’t care about appraisal value as much because these are forever homes that we’re creating.
The appraisal value is square footage.
To us, we were like, “Oh, let’s not really worry as much.”
We really went into it not worried as much about the appraisal value.
That was our top goal the whole time.
Jenny:Yeah, it was hard.
Dave:I’m a really competitive person.
I feel like we’re both, we want to win.
And-
Jenny:You more so.
Dave:Me more so.
It was tough, and it’s hard.
This was our baby.
This was something that we worked on day and night.
To have someone come and say, “Eh, I don’t really like the color.
It was very different.
Jenny:It was hard.
You said that there were some teams that were just as competitive as you.
Did you feel like there were specific ones who were really going for it?
Dave:Oh my gosh, yes.
Egypt and Mike are super competitive.
Jenny:But in a friendly way.
Dave:Then Egypt surpassed all of us.
She was like, “I want to win this.
I’ve got this.”
It also became hard because we wanted to win, but we also wanted everyone else to win.
Even though we all individually wanted to win, we were also very happy for one another.
Dave:It was really good.
Jenny:It wasn’t very smart.
Dave:We’re not very smart.
Jenny:We actually found the house.
We were like, “We’ve got to renovate this house.”
We didn’t know when we would do it.
She was like, “Oh gosh, we have to film it.
Let’s do it.”
We were like, “Well, no, no, no.
We were going to do it quietly on the side, but okay.”
It happened naturally and organically.
Dave:We’ve only seen the first episode.
We don’t get to see any of these episodes before they air.
We’ve been doing this for a long time, and we still make mistakes all the time.
We misjudge how much work something’s actually going to be.
This is not something that is like a weekend warrior thing.
It takes a long time.
This gives a more in-depth look at what really goes into these remodels.
Jenny:Not all the time.
Typically, it’s in an older home, usually you’re going to have something go wrong.
You know that it’s part of it.
We knew there would be issues.
We had an inspection, but you don’t know.
You don’t do that during an inspection.
That’s a double whammy.
We were so close to losing the entire roof of that house and everything collapsing.
I’m so thankful that we didn’t and that we got everything fixed and taken care of.
It was more than I ever thought it would’ve been.
