EXCLUSIVE: ‘Help! I Wrecked My House’ Star Jasmine Roth Reveals Why She’s Had To Ditch Her ‘California Casual’ Style After Moving to Utah

HGTV star Jasmine Roth has become renowned for her signature "California casual" aesthetic that has delighted "Help! I Wrecked My House" viewers for four seasons.

So fans may well be in for a shock when the new episodes of her hit reality series debut on Wednesday night. They will show Roth, 41, grappling with a style evolution as a result of her relocation from California to Utah, where, she admits to Realtor.com®, her traditional decor choices "just don't work."

Opening up about the major life change ahead of the Season 5 premiere of her HGTV series, Roth—who moved both her business and her family from Huntington Beach, CA, to Park City, UT, in 2024—explained how she has worked to adapt to her new surroundings and clients.

“My style that I'm known for is this California casual style, and quite honestly, it just doesn't work here,” the mother of two admitted. “It doesn't. The bright colors and the white whites, it just feels a little, like, electric."

Luckily for Roth, she had the perfect canvas on which to experiment with a new look: her own Utah property, where she is now living with her husband, Brett, and their two daughters, Hazel, 5, and Darla, 1.

“I’ve had to definitely acclimate a bit to what works and what doesn't, and a lot of that has been by trial and error—thankfully, on my own house mostly or projects I've done prior to taking on clients," she added.

Understanding that the design wants and needs of clients in Utah differ from those in California has helped Roth evolve as she’s experimented with new designs and color palettes.

“I would just use my go-to color, and then all of a sudden, I'm, like, ‘This doesn't feel right.’ So I’m kind of starting this new style here,” she said. "I'm just learning what feels good in a mountain community versus the beach. It's different.

“Here in the mountains, more neutral tones and earthier tones resonate. They just feel a lot more comfortable.”

Having moved “exactly a year ago” this October, Roth and her family are finally feeling more comfortable in their new ZIP code.

“I feel like we are as settled as we've been, like, more and more every day, we're a little bit more settled,” said Roth. “So far, so good. 

“My [youngest] daughter turning a year old was a huge milestone, and this show, as soon as it airs, that's kind of the final straw as far as, 'OK, we've actually really moved,'” Roth went on. “Because at this point, we've moved, but I haven't been able to share it as much, and so I'm really excited to share the experience, to share our new location, and what it's all about and why we did it.”

While the Roth family’s roots were planted in Southern California over the past decade and a half, they also had strong ties to Utah, which motivated their big move to the mountains.

“We love Southern California,” said Roth. “My husband is from there. We lived there for 15 years. But we also love Utah, and we’ve always spent time here.

“My husband grew up vacationing here with his family. We actually got married here in 2013, which was fun. We got married on Park City Mountain, and then in 2015, we bought this little place that was just, like, a weekend getaway. 

“We love snowboarding, so we would spend a lot of time snowboarding, and every year we just spent more and more time here. It got to the point where we were like, ‘Should we just move? Should we just go?’ 

“I also feel like there was just that little bit of 'We were ready for a reset. We were ready to do something new and different.' And it seemed like the spot for it.

“The reception that we've gotten here in Utah, everybody's excited, and I think that's so cool.”

While the Roths received a warm welcome from their new community, they’ve since encountered some issues when it comes to the construction of their new family home.

“It's still not done,” admitted Roth. “We’ve lived here for a year now [and] literally, you might overhear jackhammers because we're trying to finish the yard at this point. We don't even really have a yard, but what we do have is taking forever. 

“We're trying to finish the exterior before the snow comes, but it has been challenging.

“We are right here in Old Town Park City, and we're on a very steep part of the mountain, so our house is actually cut into the mountain, which is very cool, but very different than what I'm used to in Southern California and Huntington Beach—everything's flat. 

“There's been a lot for me to learn from that standpoint, and also just trying to navigate living day-to-day life, taking on clients, being a mom, and then also finish our house at the same time.”

The “Help! I Wrecked My House” star documented a lot of her personal design journey for the show, even though much remains unfinished. 

“On this season, you'll see me tackle my daughter's nursery, which I hadn't even started. And then also take on my other daughter—she was four and a half at the time—her bedroom, which was a really fun project.

“But the rest of the house is not quite done yet. It's livable, but it's not fully finished.”

Adding to that home-related headache, a commercial space Roth recently purchased in the area to outfit as her business office is “also not done.”

“We have a slab, we have framed the walls,” revealed Roth. “It has been frustrating, quite honestly, the amount of time it's taken me to get somewhere to hang my hat. To put down roots here from a commercial standpoint has been challenging."

Buying commercial property was a real estate dream Roth didn’t think would come true so soon, but it's one she's happy she pursued.

“I’d never expected to buy a commercial space, so that was a surprise—a good surprise,” she added. “It was something that maybe was on the docket for the future, but I'm excited about it. It just has to keep moving forward.”

As Roth has worked on her own personal design “wrecks,” she’s been presented with plenty of new ones in Utah that weren’t so common in California.

“Interestingly enough, here in Utah, [it’s] the fireplaces,” revealed Roth. 

“In Southern California, I would occasionally have somebody who [had] done their own fireplace and I was like, ‘That's not great.’ 

“Here, because we actually use our fireplaces because it gets cold, it's important, and so people either want a fireplace or they want to revamp their fireplace,” she added.

“I ran into this quite a bit this season, folks who were trying to do their own fireplaces, and it's not a good idea. It's just not. Like, it's not safe. There's a lot that goes into a properly constructed fireplace. There were a few that I ran into this season where I was like, ‘Let's not do that anymore.’” 

Of course, Roth specializes in rescuing homeowners who have gotten in over their heads with major DIY renovations on her show. Yet the HGTV star doesn’t hesitate to note that the overconfidence of many DIYers can be traced to TV series and social media posts that oversimplify the process.

“It’s to the point where it's borderline toxic,” said Roth. “I try not to contribute to it. But inherently, even my show, you're seeing six to 12 weeks of work—which we say, I say, that real timeline and I say the real budget, which I think is really important. 

“I’m very transparent, but it's condensed into one hour, so no matter what, the hard stuff, the boring stuff, the permits through the city, the time that that takes, the inspections—there's so many things that happen behind the scenes that we can’t show and you don't want to sit and watch it.

“But at the same time, I hope I'm not contributing to that [oversimplification] because it is really hard when you see something on social media to not think, ‘I can do that!’ It happens to me all the time with recipes: I'll see somebody cook something and I'm like, ‘I can do that,’ and when it actually comes down to it, I'm like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is so much more work than I ever thought it was and it's probably burnt on the stove.’ 

“We have to be really cautious of what we see out there and also just really be aware of the fact that it's a highlight reel.”

Season 5 of “Help! I Wrecked My House” premieres on Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. on HGTV.