Any HGTV fans hoping Galey Alix will soon return with a second season of her show might be waiting a while. On January 13, 2026, the “Home in a Heartbeat” star revealed in her Instagram Stories that she’s swamped with requests for design help, sometimes receiving more than 10,000 requests a week.
Alix, who went from working as a Wall Street executive to turning her passion for interior design into her full-time job, hasn’t appeared on HGTV since 2024, but her designs are more popular than ever.
Galey Alix Says She Only Sees 1% of the Messages She Receives
HGTVAlix, 32, became known for transforming people’s spaces in three to four days, with her results revealed on social media. The popularity of her posts led HGTV to her door, offering her a show. But replicating her process for a TV show proved too stressful for Alix, who announced in 2024 that she was taking a step back from filming after appearing on shows like HGTV’s “100 Day Hotel Challenge” and “House Hunters: All-Stars.”
But Alix’s star kept rising, and she has since launched her own product lines — including pre-cut wood ceiling planks, her own flooring line, and her new peel-and-stick wallpaper — and designing for celebrities like San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk and his designer/influencer wife, Kristin Juszczyk.
All of that has led Alix’s design services to be in extremely high demand. That was evident as she answered a few of her Instagram followers’ questions in her Stories on January 13. One asked, “Would you ever do a house makeover for a fan?”
Alix answered, “95% of the projects I select are from really kind strangers reaching out on Instagram. The other 5% are hotels and celebrities. Surprising strangers is how this all started & I’m a ‘never forget your roots’ kinda girl. Y’all know where my heart is, and my projects are indicative of that.”
But Alix then added, “**PLEASE NOTE I sometimes get over 10k design requests a week & I deeply apologize if I’ve never seen your message. I can only read about 1% & be a functioning human 🫠”
Becoming an Entrepreneur Was a ‘Terrifying’ Learning Curve for Galey Alix
Deciding to leave her job as a VP at Goldman Sachs was big for Alix, who needed to figure out how to make a living as a designer without a steady income. During her Instagram Q&A on January 13, she told another follower, “After ten years on Wall Street, I have definitely parlayed my financial literacy into how I run my design business & structure my NIL (name-image-likeness) contracts.”
“A new skill I had to LEARN after leaving finance was HOW TO GET PAID because I always had a company paying my salary,” Alix continued. “But as an entrepreneur I had to figure out how to make $$ and pay myself. It was #TERRIFYING bc I struggle with knowing my worth.”
Alix, who will release her first book in the fall of 2026, also noted, “I have an entire chapter in my new design book on how to financially structure a design business to better protect the designer while ALSO benefiting the client far better than traditional structures. It’s a win win, truly. I’d be in breach of the book launch to reveal it here but it has a lot to do with how items are paid for.”
HGTV’s first season of “Home in a Heartbeat With Galey Alix” is still available to stream via Discovery+.
