{"id":40820,"date":"2022-05-03T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-hgtv-series-follows-pagosa-springs-root-design-co\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:57:50","slug":"new-hgtv-series-follows-pagosa-springs-root-design-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-hgtv-series-follows-pagosa-springs-root-design-co\/","title":{"rendered":"New HGTV series follows Pagosa Springs\u2019 Root Design Co."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Ben and Cristi Dozier are the stars of the new HGTV series \u201cBuilding Roots.\u201d The show follows the duo as they remodel homes throughout Southwest Colorado. The show is currently halfway through its first season and new episodes will air on Sundays during May. (Courtesy of Ben and Cristi Dozier via Brandon Soder)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Ben and Cristi Dozier, co-owners of Pagosa Springs-based Root Design Co., never meant to bring home renovation television to Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n

But after moving to Pagosa Springs from Austin, Texas, the couple\u2019s creations caught the eye of a New York producer, kick-starting their journey to their new HGTV series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe show was never the end-all for us. It was just an opportunity. It was a platform to serve others well,\u201d Ben said.<\/p>\n

The Doziers star in the series \u201cBuilding Roots,\u201d which follows the duo as they remodel homes throughout Southwest Colorado. More than three years in the making, the show is currently halfway through Season 1. But after about a decade working and living in Pagosa Springs, the two and their family are doing what the headline of their show suggests: building roots.<\/p>\n

Ben\u2019s connection to Southwest Colorado and the Western Slope dates back decades. His family would spend summers around South Fork and Creede before he went to school at Western Colorado University in Gunnison where he played football.<\/p>\n

After returning to Texas, the Doziers, who were both born and raised in Austin, started Root Design Co. in the city in 2004.<\/p>\n

The couple, who are in their 40s and have four children, first moved to the Pagosa Springs area in 2012 to complete the remodel of a lakeside cabin for a client whose husband had recently died.<\/p>\n

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Ben and Cristi Dozier, stars of the new HGTV series \u201cBuilding Roots, moved to Pagosa Springs permanently in 2017 after opening an office there five years earlier after a lakeside cabin project. Though life is slower than in their native Austin, Texas, the duo and their four children have enjoyed the move. (Courtesy of Brandon Soder\/via HGTV)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

\u201cThat was really our first time to Pagosa and (we) fell in love with it,\u201d Ben said.<\/p>\n

They set up an office in Pagosa Springs in 2012, but they went back and forth between Texas and Colorado before taking a risk and moving to the area full time in 2017.<\/p>\n

Within a year of moving and reworking their business, a producer from So Much Film, a production company based in New York City, reached out through the business\u2019 Instagram page about starting a television show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conversation started late 2018 and it kind of trickled into emails and then into Skype calls and then recorded Skype calls,\u201d Cristi said. \u201cWe could tell she really had read through our story and we connected in that. It was something we just felt comfortable with along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The producer pitched a home renovation series to several networks before it was ultimately picked up by HGTV, who helped the couple create a \u201csizzle,\u201d or demo, reel.<\/p>\n

The sizzle reel turned into a pilot in fall 2020, and the pilot turned into the \u201cBuilding Roots\u201d series, which premiered April 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a three-plus year process from the first DM through Instagram to where we are today,\u201d Cristi said.<\/p>\n

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