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"So I try to custom tailor each one. They moved to Detroit, sight unseen, in April 2017.
"Neither of us had ever been to Michigan before we moved here,"says Bynum. "Never one time has so much as an eyebrow been raised, which was sort of shocking and not our experience in other parts of the country. The two share a daughter, Giannae, but eventually divorced in 2006.
maybe even learn. “I kind of personify the houses,” he said. "We joke about being worried we have become co-dependent being around each other so much, but overall it's a great relationship and we are very fortunate."
As far as the homes they flip go, Bynum designs each house with a theme, furnishes them with funky second-hand furniture and adds touches of his personal art — from custom wood headboards to paintings and sometimes even murals — to finish them off.
"Initially," he adds, "we resisted. The houses are the same. “The house that no one wants or believes in, that’s our jam.”
While talking to Pride Source, Bynum shared how he was disowned by his family when he came out, and how the broken-down homes he brings back to life remind him of himself.
"I hate the idea of duplicating designs because each house has so much personality and charm and each has a very unique energy,"he says.
It's the newest show on the HGTV network and it's filmed right here in Detroit. Monday nights on HGTV.
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Reality TV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines are continuing to face backlash from conservative Christians over their decision to feature a gay couple on their new show, “Back to the Frontier,” and the couple, both longtime professing Christians, have responded by calling the criticism “hate and vitriol.”
For background, Chip and Joanna Gaines launched their latest show, “Back to the Frontier,” in the summer of 2025, and they quickly were met with criticism from conservative Christians over the casting of a gay couple, Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs.
Not only are they featuring a gay couple, but one that has robbed two boys of their natural right to a mother and father.”
However, Dr. Kevin M. Young, a prominent progressive and “post-Evangelical” personality, summed up the controversy with a satirical headline: “BREAKING: Christians furious over Chip and Joanna Gaines famously forget they pray to a man with two dads.” Dr.
Young also faced criticism, including from one commenter who wrote, “Mocking God is always a bad bet.” Dr. Young responded, “BREAKING: God is one of the dads.”
Additionally, Chip Gaines himself responded to the criticism by saying on X, “Talk, ask qustns, listen.. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin.” However, Graham also faced backlash in the comments section, with one X user asking, “Why haven’t you called out Trump’s sins?”
Likewise, noted conservative commentator Megan Basham spoke out as well, describing herself as a “very early booster” of Chip and Joanna Gaines and explaining that she “wrote multiple articles in Christian magazines recommending their first show.” However, Basham said that the decision “disappoints me in a way I can hardly express.”
In addition, Basham said, “Recall that LGBTQ activists criticized them for not featuring gay couples on Fixer Upper and they stood strong.
Its [sic] Pride month and being a gay dad means many things to me." He added a sweet anecdote about his daughter, saying, "I came home the other day and Gianna said, 'dad, I got my report card, all A's!' This kid amazes me every day. In the post, Sabatella wrote, "People often ask me how it is to be a gay dad? The network liked the pilot enough to order a season of 'Bargain Block.' We started filming about six months later."
Working in such close quarters, said Bynum, has actually been good for their eight-year-long relationship: "This has been on one of the best experiences, because you really get to know somebody in this type of environment.
They buy boarded up and abandoned houses in neglected Detroit neighborhoods for as little as $1,000 and live in them while they invest their own money fixing them up and bringing them back to life.
"We love taking on the absolute worst of the worst,"Bynum tells Pride Source.