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Waco’s Clint and Kelly Harp are no strangers to television’s limelight, accepting been featured in HGTV’s hit alternation “Fixer Upper,” but on Tuesday for the aboriginal time the brace will be the camera’s capital focus.
The DIY Arrangement actualization “Against the Grain” debuts Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. featuring Clint Harp, who launched Harp Architecture Co. in Waco with his wife, Kelly, afterwards abrogation his accumulated job in Houston in 2011.
“I haven’t alike apparent it,” Clint Harp said Monday while demography a breach from allocation through copse piles. “I’m nervous. I’m agreeable everybody and their brother all beyond everywhere to appear and watch this thing. I accept ancestors that are accepting watch parties aback in Georgia area I’m from and I’m like, I absolutely achievement this doesn’t suck.”
Kelly Harp said she admired she could acquisition the words to call her excitement, but the focus Monday was work, as she and her mother catholic to Austin for supplies.
“Business goes on alike aback you accept a premiere coming,” she said with a laugh.
The premiere actualization the aggregation architecture a two-story comedy acropolis for a family’s children, axis an old fence into a bar top island for another, and architecture custom appliance pieces. Joanna Gaines, of “Fixer Upper,” additionally makes an actualization to adjustment a 12-seat table for a customer.
Clint Harp said they put their best bottom advanced in hopes it goes able-bodied and the adventure gets best up for a series. Plans to leave the accumulated apple in Houston and move to Waco to alpha their own business never included additionally actuality TV stars, Clint Harp said.
It will, of course, be black if the actualization isn’t best up, he said. However, not actuality best up can’t abate the adventure from Houston to area Harp Architecture is now, he said.
“How crazy for Waco, right? Alike now, aloof the actuality Waco has acutely the No. 1 actualization in the acreage with ‘Fixer Upper’ and the actuality this has a pilot on addition network, it’s crazy. It’s absolutely acceptable for Waco,” he said.
The brace and their accouchement awash their home in 2011 and confused to Waco to acquiesce Kelly Harp to accompany a master’s bulk at Baylor University. Two years later, they launched Harp Architecture Co. at 808 N. 15th St., authoritative high-end appliance out of reclaimed copse and affairs added home items. Clint Harp said he generally thinks about the canicule aback he was aloof authoritative things with copse in his barn in Houston.
“My wife and I took a bound to try and go for this dream with no abstraction area it was activity to booty us,” he said.
Clint Harp said he had one agent in 2013 and now has added than 20.
“We absolutely accept bulk now and all that fun stuff,” he said. “It’s absolutely angry into a absolute business.”
Since opening, he said, Harp Design’s appearance has matured.
“Our ambition has consistently been and charcoal we appetite to accomplish abiding we accomplish actuality that will fit in somebody’s agronomical abode actuality in Texas, but it will additionally fit in somebody’s attic accommodation in New York City,” he said. “That’s aloof our style. We accept this attending that, we achievement at least, speaks to a lot of people. That’s advancing out added and more, abnormally now that we accept bodies alive for us. We’re able to agreement added and try added things.”
Clint Harp said his wife brings a artistic architecture aspect to the project.
“With her touch, it took it from being, ‘We do furniture’ to, ‘We action aggregate to adorn your home,’ ” he said. “She’s been able to aggrandize our offering.”
Joe Nesbitt, admiral of Central National Bank’s area on Bosque Boulevard, said he has accepted the Harp brace aback they confused aback to Waco, and they accept consistently been humble. Nesbitt said it’s not attenuate to run into Clint Harp with copse balance falling out of his clothes.
“It’s been a lot of fun. Aback he aboriginal affectionate of started award some fame, I assumption you could say through the actualization ‘Fixer Upper,’ bodies would appear appointment his shop. He said once, ‘Joe, I had a adult ask me to assurance her T-shirt. I looked at her and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m activity to ruin your clothes.’ ’ Acclaim is not article Clint or Kelly sought. It’s article that begin them through the affection of artefact they make.”
Clint Harp said they accomplished filming the premiere in October. Accepting been included in “Fixer Upper” helped with the transition, he said.
“Of course, aback the camera is now accomplished on you the absolute time, you’re accepted to host the thing, it changes,” he said.
The ambassador and aggregation associates helped accomplish filming easy, he said.
“It absolutely was absolutely aloof a fun environment, actual laid-back. It never acquainted unnatural. It actually acquainted like we were accomplishing our things and cameras were communicable it,” Clint Harp said.
Kelly Harp said she didn’t apperceive what to apprehend during the filming process, but it was a lot of fun. She said aback bodies watch the adventure they will alone see a glimpse of the bulk of bodies it took to put the premiere together.
“In some ways, it feels like everyone’s alive to accomplish you attending great,” she said.
