On Good Bones, Karen E Laine teams up with her daughter, Mina Starsiak, to breathe new life into dilapidated properties in their hometown of Indianapolis. Any regular (or first-time) viewer will soon discover that Karen doesn’t let things go to waste. If it can be salvaged, she will find a way to reinvent, renew or restore. Ahead, we compiled her coolest ideas.

Mina and the boys of Good Bones typically handle demolition day, while Karen scours the nooks and crannies for great finds. However, on this particular day, she decided to tackle some reno and removed the old stone front from the fireplace. The problem? The homeowner had actually wanted to leave it. Oops! Karen convinced the homeowner she could make the fireplace even better — and, of course, she did. Channeling the modern American vibe of the home, Karen brought in a 140-year-old pediment she'd saved from another house to use as the mantel. Then, she refaced the fireplace with classic neutral stone.

Longtime viewers may remember tears shed over a lath wall that didn’t make the cut in an earlier season. So, when a lath wall was discovered during demolition in season six, Karen was overjoyed and vowed to use it in this bedroom design. After cleaning off the plaster, she sanded it down and coated it with polyurethane to bring out the wood's warm colors. Original to the home, it makes a cozy, earthy backdrop.

Sometimes great finds don’t need a complete reworking. They simply need a good cleaning and a new home. Here, Karen brought an architectural element from the front porch inside to hang over the new bookshelves, adding character and a piece of the original house into the design.