“What are we risking?
Read on to discover the untold truth of HGTV’sRenovation Island.
The show proved to be a massive hit for the Canadian iteration of HGTV.
“Everyone said we were crazy,” said Sarah inHGTV’s announcement.
“But our hearts said ‘yes’ this is the right thing to do.”
In fact, the resulting resort, theCaerula Mar Club, opened for business eventually in early 2020.
To be fair, thatwillaccommodate up to a total of 64 guests.
Maybe they can be convinced to chip in?
Meanwhile, renting out the whole resort comes with some serious perks.
While most people would see a decaying dump, Bryan saw a life-altering opportunity.
As Sarah pointed out, though, raising the money is only the first step in the recovery process.
“It’s more like, what does it look like six months from now?
What does the island look like a year from now?”
Key among them was ensuring the renovation has enough flexibility to handle whatever’s thrown at them.
We’ll work on something else, or we can go fishing and work the next day instead.”
“you could’t sweat the small stuff,” he toldGlobal News.
Here in Andros, you get what you get and you don’t get upset."
However, this aspect of island living also gave the Baeumlers a fresh perspective.
“Their biggest concern in the morning is what are we going to eat today?”
In fact, as HGTV’sRenovation Islanddocuments, a variety of factors pushed back the planned opening.
On theCaerula Mar Club website, the Baeumlers describe the philosophy underlying the resort.
As a result, they had to become comfortable with doing things differently.
As Bryan pointed out in an interview withGlobal News,“everything here is opposite of Canada.”
There’s a finite budget, there’s a finite amount of time."
The project at the core ofRenovation Island, he admitted, has “been a learning curve.”
“I think we learned a lot about ourselves,” he toldGlobal News.
He ultimately came to realize that “it’s all finite.”
“The people here are very resourceful at limiting the amount of garbage because they’ll reuse it.”
However, the stars of HGTV’sRenovation Islandadmitted they weren’t entirely prepared for everything they encountered during the process.
He continued, saying, “…The stresses that it brought upon us were monumental.
We did not anticipate all of this.”
There is all that," Bryan admitted.
As he said, “living so closely together with the kids and family has been amazing.”
Unfortunately, the opening quickly turned into a shutdown when the the world changed.
As Sarah explained toTRNTO, they wound up reconnecting when they were both copied on a group email.
“First we went and sawThe Lion Kingtheatre production, which was fantastic.
According to Sarah, Dorian wasn’t the first time thata hurricane caused the couple to change plans.
