Karen E. Laine enjoys her new home in North Carolina – with a familiar face from Good bones.

In an exclusive preview clip from Good bonesIn the new spinoff, featured in PEOPLE, the home renovation expert learns a local dance in Wilmington, where she is remodeling a beach bungalow.

She invites Austin Aynes, a long-time member of her team from the original Good bonesfor a lesson in shag dancing, which, as she explains, is a variation of swing popular on the North Carolina coast.

“If I want to live in Wilmington, I have to dance the Wilmington dance, that’s why we’re here,” says Laine Aynes, pointing out that the dance includes the “dig your feet in the sand” move because it’s actually intended for the beach.

Laine and Aynes practice their steps with two teachers and then perfect the moves together, which makes Laine smile and clap.

“When I come, I work until it’s dark,” she explains of her time driving from her primary residence in Indianapolis to Wilmington. “I haven’t really had much fun yet. This shag dance is the first fun I’ve had.”

Laine enjoys dancing so much that she says it might become a weekly hobby.

“I feel like that could be one of my activities in Wilmington: showing up on Friday nights and just finding people who will put up with dancing with me,” she says.

In the previous episode of the show, Laine reflected on her family life and the freedom of retirement.

“I don’t work for a paycheck anymore,” she said. “I retired in 2019 and can do whatever I want.”

Laine founded the company Two Chicks and a Hammer with her daughter and Good bones Co-star Mina Starsiak Hawk in 2007. Laine retired from the company five years ago, but continued to appear Good bones until the first season with eight seasons ended in October 2023.

“I did everything I wanted to do,” Laine continued. “I worked on some landscaping projects. I worked as a lawyer.”

During a conversation with Aynes and two other actors from the original Good bonesMJ Coyle and Cory Miller, told Laine what inspired them to purchase the 120-year-old bungalow.

“I’m tired of winters in Indiana,” she told the trio. “And I had this idea: Wouldn’t it be nice to retire in Wilmington?”

“I went there once and loved it,” she continued. “So I went back in January. It was 27 degrees during the day. So I looked online for a house for sale and bought it.”

However, she admitted that it was no easy task with the house, which was in need of renovation and was propped up on a “pile of wobbly bricks” using a car jack.

“This house is like one of our original Good bones Houses – just pathetic,” she added.

“Part of this foundation is hanging in the air,” Laine said. “It takes a lot of love, but we can fix anything.”

The new series focuses on “new beginnings” as Laine and Starsiak Hawk’s lives “evolve beyond renovating their Indianapolis homes” and they tackle projects in different states, according to HGTV.

Starsiak Hawk previously revealed in her podcast: Mina AF, that there was tension between her and her family during the airing of the final season of the original series in 2023. She said that she was not “okay” with either Laine or her brother Tad.

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While Laine’s beach vacation is the focus of the second and third episodes of the new season, the 90-minute premiere focused on Mina’s renovation of a lake house that she plans to enjoy with her husband Steve Hawk and their two children, five-year-old Jack and three-year-old Charlie.

Mina subsequently said the lakeside retreat was “very healing for Steve because he’s lost so much.”

Steve’s mother died of stomach cancer in 2018 and six months later his father died unexpectedly after falling down the stairs. In 2020, his younger sister Stefanie died of ethanol poisoning.

“He’s going through life as best he can after suffering a really, really tremendous loss in a very, very short period of time,” Mina explained. “And because his time with his family was so short, we wanted this lake house for Jack and Charlie – really, for the long term, for the memories, for the experiences. That’s why I think it’s so important to both of us.”

The third and final episode of Good bonesThe ninth season, “Karen Gets Colorful,” airs Wednesday, August 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV.