Turns out this Friday the 13th will be one lucky day for a Purcell couple when their refurbished home will be showcased on the Magnolia Network.

Clinton and Lauren Tharp fixed up the home at 318 S. Canadian, the house that Lauren grew up in.

Lauren’s Dad, Tom Deger, kept the house even after he and wife, Brenda moved to a different house.

“He always told her, ‘this will always be yours, Lauren,’ so we moved in and fixed it up”, Tharp said.

Tharp said they were chosen for the TV show and streaming event , “basically because of my presence on social media.”

They moved in June of 2022.

The Magnolia Network sent a filming crew of six to seven people to their home 10 different times to film for the show entitled, “In with the Old”.

Magnolia Network sent crews out on weekends for about four months, Tharp recalled.

Since it will be streaming, you can catch the show all through the day, Tharp said.

The filming sessions would be from sunrise to sunset each time.

“We told our immediate neighbors but when random people would drive by and see a pretty wild scene with all the lights and us out in the front yard, they would drive by real slow and wonder what was going on,” Tharp said with a chuckle.

“They started filming in the fall of last year and finished in the spring,” Tharp said. “Sometimes they would leave equipment in our house so we would be doing the work and filming. That can be stressful because we are not TV producers.”

Clinton and Lauren, who own Main Street Vintage in downtown Purcell, have been in business for the past two years.

Their house once was an old boarding house for railroad,” Tharp said. “That’s why we wanted to pay homage to the railroad.”

With that in mind they got creative inside the house using flooring from railroad cars to make counter tops.

“The flooring of box cars is grooved so it makes a really good butcher block counter top,” he said.

In the show, Deger, a notable local musician, gets to play and sing a song he wrote for and about Lauren.

“It brings a tear to your eye,” Tharp said wiping under his eye.

The whole thing is pretty amazing and one locals will want to view when it comes on this Friday.

Tune in.