Good Bones (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - A Neighborhood Eyesore That's a Horrible Before Becomes an Amazing After - full transcript

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I'm Mina,
and this is my mom, Karen.

And we're renovating Indianapolis,

one house at a time.

Every rotten, nasty house
that we see...

- Oh!
- Holy moly.

...we try and buy.

Then with a little vision... And a lot of hard work...

...we create beautiful homes
for our neighbors.

- Oh, my gosh.
- Wow.

I don't want to build
crappy houses for my neighbors.

I just don't.



- Are you crying already?
- It looks amazing.

Every tragic house...

There's the bath tub!

...deserves a second chance.

Holy God.
This smells awful.

Because underneath
all that mess,

we might find
some really good bones.

Getting going,
in general, with Mom--

It's like herding cats
or snakes

or whatever's very difficult
to herd.

Come in! Hello.

Hey.
What are you doing?

So there's a lot of flowers here
that are gonna bloom today,

and they really need to be
in a vase.



I mean...

Like this morning.

I'm at her house at 7:45.
We have an 8:00 meeting.

We got to go see Elm.

Are you sure
we don't have time for this?

Life is
one giant craft project.

Give me a glue gun
and I'm a happy camper.

Part of her charm,
but it drives me crazy.

Can we go now?

Holy moly. I keep finding
more things on the ground.

Yes, we can go now.

Okay. Let's go.

Okay, I'll clean up the rest later.

Today, on this lovely rainy day
in Indiana,

we're doing our walk-through
in Elm street.

Yes. To figure out exactly
what she got us into.

Yeah.

We bought this house
for $50,000,

and it's probably
950 square feet.

Right.

But it's in North Square,
which is--

The best part
of Fountain Square.

Well,
it's not the best part,

but it's currently
the most desirable. Yes.

We live in North Square,

so this house is in our
little chunk of Fountain Square.

So it's one more renovation
in our area, which is awesome.

This one, I got a call from the
sweetest old lady in the world

because her neighbors
were like,

"Hey, call Two Chicks
and a Hammer.

See if they want to buy
our house."

So she did.
She called me.

Good girl.

And when I looked through it,
- a family was living there.
- Mm-hmm.

So I didn't even get a great
look at it, but it is tiny.

So this is gonna be
a floor-plan challenge for me.

'Cause I think we need
to get two bedrooms in there.

I know you're up to it.
I know you are.

- It's charming.
- It is kind of charming.

- It's adorable.
- With the roses and everything.

Even in the gross, sad rain,
it's still cute and charming.

It just needs to be
prettied up.

There's the rose bushes
and the cute little fence.

That'd be awesome,
if we could keep the fence.

Come on. It's cold.

Okay, okay, okay.
Don't be so cranky.

$50,000 is the most we've
ever spent on a house,

and this is the smallest house
we've ever bought.

And I'm not gonna try to hustle
a sweet old lady.

Ta-da!

This is it.

Mina says, "Ta-da!"
like it's awesome.

It wasn't
an awesome "ta-da".

It was like a question mark--
"Ta-da?"

This is what I bought us.

When we're completely done
with the renovation,

she can walk in and say "ta-da"
and I'll go

But it will be
with confidence then.

I'll be like, "Ta-da!!"

This is it.
It's tiny, lots of paneling.

- Yeah.
- But I think the bones are okay.

Do you feel this floor?

I feel like
there's a little give.

Yeah.
I can see the floor bouncing.

- And there's a hump.
- And there's a hump.

So whatever's structurally
in the middle,

everything else around it
is kind of sagged.

Usually what a bow means
is our sill plate is gone.

Yeah, so the sill plate's
degraded and it's kind of shrunk

while the support under
the middle has stayed solid,

which isn't the end
of the world,

but it's more money,
it's more time.

So there's probably some
surprises under that.

In the living room,
we'll pull up the carpet,

pull all the paneling off,

and once we see
the rest of the house,

maybe we can shift
a few of these doors

and open it up a bit.

The one thing that we
absolutely have to keep, though,

is this bay window,

'cause I promised the seller
that we would.

This was super important
to her.

Aww.

She replaced it, I don't know,
two years ago,

and spent, like, a lot of money
and a lot of time and effort,

so...

- That's sweet!
- Which I think we can do.

Yeah.
I think it's fine.

And it gives you
such a good view

to what's going to be
a really charming front yard.

True.

This flooring isn't bad.

It's not like
we'll reuse it,

but they just put the flooring
right over this old vinyl.

Look at this.

This kitchen is too small
and closed off,

so we're gonna have to blow out
the wall to the living room

and create one big
open space.

I'm sure they didn't leave us
anything, like, good.

There's a cockroach in there.

Do you want it?

You didn't even flinch.

It just hit you in the face,
and you didn't even flinch.

No. Okay, let's play
the flinch game.

No. I'm done with
the cockroach now.

This was not--
I don't want to do that.

- Oh, you can throw it at me.
- That was in my mouth!

Not cool, Karen.

Teach you
to keep your mouth shut.

- All right. We're moving on.
- All right. Move on.

So this space is kind of like
funky, ugly, choppy, piecemeal.

This is where they had
the laundry room.

Someone was living here, too.

The utility area off the kitchen
is way too chopped up.

It makes sense to move the door
to the outside wall,

next to the window,

so we can have a big laundry
and storage area.

So we're back
in the living room.

We went to some back funny room, kitchen,

back in the living room,
and now we're going...

Bedroom, bedroom.
It's like two.

And this is about it.

- What's in there?
- That's all you.

Check for people.

If I have Mom with me,

I would rather send her into
a room, a door, a closet first.

If she's not with me, I mean,
I'll do it, or not.

I'll just wait.

You ready?

I was born ready.

'Cause I'm just gonna
open this door and back up.

- Okay.
- You ready?

You ready?

I was born ready.

'Cause I'm just gonna
open this door and back up.

- Okay.
- You ready?

Oh, my God.
That was way too easy.

- You're such a jerk.
- Go ahead. Try again.

- All right, don't do that again.
- Hands off.

Oh. It's the bathroom.

Do you know how much pee
is probably on that rug?

- Ohh!
- So...

Oh.

This wall
really, really, sinks.

There's a lot of surprises
could be hiding

that we won't find
until demo day.

And this is it.
This is the end of the house.

So on the bedroom side
of the house,

you had to walk in to
the first bedroom,

and then if you walked
all the way through the bedroom,

you'd get to
the back bedroom.

It was not accessible
any other way.

We're gonna create
two separate bedrooms

that each have
their own entrance,

but they're gonna share
one Jack-and-Jill bathroom

that we're definitely gonna
have to make a little bit larger

to make it functional.

We're not doing much
to the front.

We'll keep that front window.

New siding, new trim,
keep the fence.

I'm not too worried about
up here.

Okay.

I think the back
is more of an issue.

Overall,
I feel good about this.

New back door will be somewhere
over there.

Do a nice, big,
new wraparound deck.

Bless you!

That's the cutest
little sneeze.

I think I peed
my pants a little bit.

- Hold that.
- What are you doing?

- Look at this little guy.
- Do you have something for me?

Oh, look what you found
for me.

You know all those, like,
big gazing-ball things we have?

Yeah, that's perfect.

That's exactly
what goes on there.

One of my favorite things about
rehabbing these houses

is there's always something
that I find

that I can re-purpose
and put back in the house

to bring some of the old house
into the new house

and start telling
a new chapter in the story.

You spent a lot of money
on this house.

- We!
- We spent a lot of money
on this house.

Yeah.
$50,000 for the house.

We need to stay probably under
$100,000 on the renovation.

So $100,000 all-in
on the renovation,

so we're at $150,000.

I'm hoping we can sell it
around $185,000.

That would give us a profit
of around $35,000.

This one's gonna be tricky.

All right.
We got some work to do.

Okay.

- Hey!
- Good morning!

Yeah, yeah.

I love it
when the boys show up.

This makes me really happy.

Tad is Mina's younger
half-brother,

and he is all stupid demo.

- We make everything better.
- Sun's out, guns out.

Yeah, sun's out, guns out.

It's demo day.
We've got all of the guys here.

We just got to give them their
marching orders

so they know what to do
and what not to do,

and then we're ready
to roll.

I cannot instill enough
the importance

of do not touch
that bay window.

Don't break it.

And if you break the
bay window, you buy a new one.

Just so we're clear.
- That was a $3,500 window.

Ooh.
That's extreme.

It's gonna be completely done.
Inside and out-- sticks.

Nothing left.

- Sounds good.
- Okay?

- All right.
- Go.

All right,
let's do it.

- Oh!
- Oh, boom!

I don't need any help.

Whoo!
- You're a wild card, lady.

This is not good.

Mom!

What?

I pulled the cabinet out
and this is just--

Oh, my!

It's all rotted.

And I think it's just from
the water damage,

like, they had a leak
under the sink.

Yeah, 'cause I remember seeing
the bottom of this was a mess.

It's soft all the way.
- It's soft all the way through.

Oh, my God. That's just stabbing
into that joist.

- Yeah.
- And this is-- oh, my God.

That's like butter.

Yeah. So we are going to need
to put in some new joists,

which is not a surprise.

- No.
- It's not a catastrophe.

I'm glad we found it.

And why do we love demo day?

Because we get to break stuff.

And because we get to take off
all the layers

that have been put on
all the years

and we get to see what's
what's underneath.

We get a little excited!

We get to see the bones
of the house

and we get to find
all the problems,

and then we get to figure out
how to solve them.

Get out of there, booger!

They're everywhere.

There are so many roaches
in the house,

and when we did
our walk-through,

I saw one dead one.

They were all hiding.
They're just so gross.

They're, like, see-through
clearish re-- ugh!

So gross.

You guys are doing awesome.
It looks really good so far.

Tell me something
that I don't know!

I'm not gonna compliment you anymore.

So Tad thinks
he's real fancy now

because he's been doing demo
for us for years now.

You see this?
See how beautiful that is?

Ready? No!
Don't you touch it!

And over the years, we've taught
him a few helpful techniques,

like when you take
the sledge sideways

and you tap all the plaster,
then it'll just fall off.

I would say the student
is surpassing the teacher.

- He's learned a lot.
- He has.

Tad!

That window's gonna break
if you keep that up!

Tad!

Down in one!
I mean, down in two!

Tad!

That window's gonna break
if you keep that up!

Oh, the window.
It's a good thing I was there.

- I know it's shaking.
- From where I'm standing,

that window looks like
it's gonna break.

'Cause Tad's, like,
banging on the wall

and the window's going
boom-boom, boom-boom.

You got $3,500
in your pocket?

Do you want to buy
a new window?

No, I don't want to buy
a new window.

All right, I'm saying
you might want to use
a little more finesse.

You're right.
All right.

Try prying.
- I will. I'll try prying it.

All right.

So today we've got
almost all the inside down.

Tomorrow, first thing, we'll
probably get the outside off

and then pull the floors up,

because we need to see what
that bow in the floor is,

but I think we're gonna be able
to wrap demo in two full days.

Things are coming along
over at Elm.

The boys are back today to
hopefully finish up the demo,

and they're working on taking
down the exterior siding

and knocking out the ceiling.

Soon after that, we can start
digging into these floors.

What up?
- What's up?

Hey, you got the ceiling down.
Nice!

- Whoo!
- Aw, Tad.

Piff!

Yay, Leonard!

So Lenny is
our general contractor,

and he was my dad's third wife's
first husband.

And third husband,
so he's Tad's stepdad,

and he's family.
- So he's family.

During our initial
walk-through of the house,

we noticed that the flooring
was bowing

pretty significantly
in one area.

This is, like,
the high point.

We called Lenny over today
to come look at

the bulge in the floor
to see how costly it would be

to replace all these joists
and sill plates.

Worst case scenario, we have to
replace all the floor joists,

which we've done before.

It doesn't matter if
we put the prettiest
flooring in the world down

if the floor's not level.
- Right.

There's a bow in the floor,

because right here,
they supported the floor.

- Just in the middle.
- Right here.

So there's just one support
- in the middle of the floor?
- Yeah.

So it's supported
right there,

and then everything else
- around it has settled.
- Right.

It's possible that,
at some point,

it started to sag,
and that's how they fixed it.

But you won't really know
until we get the floors up

and we see the joists.
- Yeah.

All right, well, now that
we've got it all opened up,

we'll get our floor plan
nailed down

and get that over to you, so...

- You got termites.
- You get us some numbers.

Yeah, yeah.
Of course we have termites.

Standard operating procedure.

The only things left to demo

are the floors
and the exterior walls.

We left Tad
in charge of that

while we go and try and get our
heads around this new floor plan

so we can get this house
back into shape.

We're heading over to my
real-estate office

in downtown Indy.

Today, we're gonna go over
our Elm blueprints

because we need to be
on the same page

before we give these documents
over to Lenny,

'cause he uses these
to build the house.

Right. And we like to do that
at Mina's office,

'cause there's a big table
and nobody interrupts us.

- Yeah.
- It's nice.

This one's easy.
It's tiny.

It's tiny. There aren't a lot
of decisions to make.

So when we bought Elm street, it
was an interesting floor plan.

From the living room, you could
walk through another bedroom

into another bedroom.

And there was
a little, tiny bathroom.

It was just
completely unworkable.

So now we've opened up
the kitchen

and the living-room area.

We pulled this wall back and
did a hallway all the way down

with a half-bath off of it,
washer and dryer.

And now you access
the master bedroom

towards the back of the house.

And in between the master
bedroom and the second,

we've got this modestly-sized
Jack-and-Jill bathroom.

It's way better than
what was there before.

- Oh, yeah. Way better.
- Way better.

And you managed to squeeze in
a half-bath

where no other human being could
have squeezed in a half-bath.

- Thank you.
- I mean, good job.

I think the tougher challenge
with Elm

is going to be some
of the smaller design elements,

not the floor plan.

It's 950 square feet.
It's one story.

So there's not a lot
to disagree about.

There just isn't room
- for a lot of options.
- Yeah.

This morning, we're heading
back to the house

to see how the boys did
with the rest of the demo.

Curtis is like,
"I know the way."

We live
right in Fountain Square,

so most of our properties are
within a really close proximity,

so we're walking the dog,

we'll walk the dog by
the property and check in.

Good morning Leonard.

- Good morning, Lenny.
- Good morning.

Oh, my God.
What did you do to the house?

So, you want to see more
behind-the-scenes footage

of our renovations
and floor plans?

You know,
where Mom harasses me

about the toilet placement
and pocket doors.

Good morning, Lenny.

Good morning.

Oh, my God.
What did you do to the house?

I leave for a day...

- First of all--
- ...and it's just hanging?

You took
all our floor joists.

I didn't do anything.
This is your brother.

My genius brother,
who heads our demo crew,

tore out all the joists before
anyone even looked at them.

He said it was all rotted--
that all the floor was rotted.

I mean, the good thing is--

We could always go out
to the dumpster and look,

'cause it's still here.

We could, 'cause I'm tempted to.
I really am tempted to.

Just ask one of the boys
on the crew.

Did you guys take them out
because Lenny said,

"Clear out the crawl"
and you misunderstood that?

Oh, no. No, no, no, no.
There's that bro code.

They ain't giving that up.

- They will.
- No, they won't.

I don't know how
we're gonna solve this problem,

but they took out structural
elements of the house.

So now the walls that should be
sitting on a sill plate

are just-- the sill plate's
gone and they're like...

Just hanging.

Yeah, and what happens
is then your house twists.

Like, if we get
another big storm

like we've had
the last few weeks,

I would be seriously concerned
- this house would come down.
- Yeah.

So can we get this supported
real quick?

We're gonna get it supported.

Lonnie's coming over
to deal with that.

At least we know what we're
doing with the floor now.

We spent that time yesterday

trying to bang
that little hole in the floor,

and the whole floor's just gone
now and the joists are gone,

so whether they were salvageable
or not, doesn't matter,

'cause they're gone.
- They're gone.

Our carpenter has to come in
and put some bracing

so when they do the framing,
they can get it back to square.

So the next,
probably, week here

will be beefing back up
the structure of the house.

Today we removed
that beautiful bay window

just to keep it safe.

Good job!

And now it's time
to fix those floors

and get the new joists in.

Everything was removed
on Elm--

the floor joists,
the sill plates,

and currently,

a not-even-strong breeze
could probably knock it over,

so it's really important
that we get the sill plates

and the floor joists
put back in

and kind of put all
the pieces back together.

I'll go get the air gun ready

so we can start nailing
- some of them in.
- Okay.

You got the arrow up?

Arrow's up.

I want a turn.
Stop hogging the gun, Lonnie.

All righty.

Is that the last nail?

- Yes, beautiful fit, too.
- Sweet!

- It went pretty quickly.
- Yeah.

And now when Lenny complains
about, like,

"Oh, it took so long
to put those joists in,"

I'll be like, "No it didn't.
We did that."

Took like a couple hours.

It was fine.

The next step will be putting
the OSB, which is the subfloor,

down on top so you can
actually walk on them,

which is gonna
stabilize those.

And we have to do
some re-framing.

And then we'll also throw
the OSB up

on the outside of the house.

It's gonna help stabilize
the whole house.

Yes for stability.

Yes.
- Yeah.

That's what we like--
stability.

We don't want our little house
falling over.

While our crew focuses
on the structure of the house,

we have some really important
design decisions to make

to figure out what kind of style
we want this house to go with.

Hi.

So Mom and I
are gonna meet up

at a cool little bar
in Fountain Square

and look at some samples
I pulled.

- Hi, how are you?
- I'm good.

Do you want to see
my pretty things?

Ooh, thank you.

This house is gonna kind of have
a bohemian-bungalow feel to it

when we're done.

So this is my inspiration piece...

- Ooh.
- ...for really the whole house.

And I want this to be
the backsplash tile.

- This is beautiful.
- I think it's incredible.

If we're on the same page,

like, this is where we can make
some bolder choices.

The outside of the house
is the first thing you see.

But I want it to be,
like, bright and bold

and something a bit fun.
- Fun.

- Yes.
- Fun.

I think we do stripes.

- Stripes?
- Stripes.

Horizontal stripes?

Like in the orange or yellow,
but a tone-on-tone stripe.

This light yellow
and this yellow.

And then accent color
on the door.

Ooh. Here's some good stuff
right there.

Right there.
- We do the pop of color-- that.

That's you're door and that's
your little accent color.

So then the next question
is trim with it.

Do we want to, like,
go fun in this area?

And I know it's different.

It's, like,
out of our comfort zone.

I'm not gonna lie to you.
I think we're taking a risk.

All right. Excellent.

I really want to do
something fun

with the wallpaper
in the half-bath,

'cause we haven't done it
in any of our houses yet.

So these are some options.
- Okay.

I love this one.
- I like the color.

I love this one.

I think this might be
a little too much.

- Too busy?
- It's a little too busy.

I love this
arabesque pattern,

and I think we can find a nice,
like, fresh nickel mirror

to mimic it in the bathroom.

So you know what
we've created here?

What?

A beautiful little
bohemian bungalow.

That is right.

We definitely have a buyer
in mind,

and I think that person
is a young, fun, charming...

Well-traveled, professional, intelligent.

Yes-- cool chick.

I don't think it's gonna be
a challenge to sell,

because I think
all the amazing design elements

are gonna come together
so perfectly.

I think
it's just gonna be awesome.

Today we're checking in at Elm
to see the progress.

The guys got
all the subflooring down

and all the OSBs up
on the exterior of the house,

so everything's nice
and stable now.

They were able to get
all the interior framing done.

We've got the windows in now,
which is awesome,

and that means
that our trades have started.

So the electricians are here.

Electricians are here,
plumbers should show up,

HV/AC can start to frame,
trim on the outside can go up.

Siding can go up. Boom.

And we like to switch things up
all the time on our trades,

so we want to walk-through
with the electrician

to make sure that we're all
on the same page.

If there were any changes,
they know, we know,

so there's no mistakes later.

There's a few small changes
since the original plan.

Do you have a copy of that
on you?

No, I don't.

You don't have a paper copy?

I thought you had a paper copy.

We can't do this now.

So we got to redo it
with a piece of paper later.

Go print it and bring it back.
That'd be the easiest thing.

We're a minute away.

All right.

I live a block and a half away...

I'll be back!

...which doesn't seem like
very far,

but when you scamper it...

...it's a doozy.

Record time!

We have a paper copy.

I got it, Chris!
I got it.

I'm not gonna stop sweating
all day now.

It's started.
My body's in that gear.

It's just gonna
keep happening.

She has this amazing
sweat gene.

Once I came back with
the floor plan for the house,

we were able to make
some decisions.

Things are starting
to happen.

So far, at Elm,
we have the outside all done,

siding, windows.

Inside, the mechanicals
have been completed--

plumbing, electrical,
HV/AC,

and now it's time to get
the spray foam in

so we can get
the drywall up.

I feel like I could do that.

I always watch them
and, like,

internally I'm lusting
after what they're doing.

It looks so fun.

'Cause in my mind, it's like
they're playing with icing,

which I know is not
what they're doing.

It's ridiculous,
but it looks fun.

Hiyah!

My butt look big?

Clearly, those suits
are one-size-fits-all

for Santa Claus.

I don't know.
They're massive.

There you go.
Keep going.

All at once.

That looks pretty good.

Good job.

It's really hot! No wonder
you're naked under that.

- Yeah, it gets hot.
- Whew!

I think I didn't do
a catastrophically awful job.

What would you rate me
out of a 1 through 10?

I'll give you an eight.
Be honest.

You give me an eight?
- Yeah.

I'll take an eight.
I'm good with an eight.

Drywall's next.

Drywall is like
the beginning of the end.

Drywall being next at Elm
is very exciting.

No, because then all the pretty
things start to happen.

The cabinets, the countertops,
the flooring,

the tiles, the trim.
- The fixtures. Ah, yeah.

- Pretty stuff.
- It starts to look like a house.

All right.
Come here. We' re gonna--

Is he rubbing his belly
and patting his head?

I think he is. Come here. We're
gonna take a picture with him.

That sun is bright.

Smile!

We're literally four,
five minutes from our house

in Fountain Square.
- Well, the way she drives, yeah.

We're right downtown Indy.

It's super awesome
that we can come here,

see all these local vendors,

find cool stuff
to put in our houses,

and have fun doing it
with cool, local people.

These are cute
little chairs.

The Elm street in my head is
very, like, charming, eclectic,

chic, and that's the definition
of a flea market.

Pretty little things.

I love that table.
- I know, right?

'Cause it's got these
little guys that pop up.

So...

It's a great
small-space table.

My experience as a Realtor--
the staging of a house...

Sells the house.

...is more than half
the battle.

Well, you know,
the nice thing is

if you have
a really small space,

it comes up for, you know,
when you have the meal

and people over,
and it's down--

The meal and the people.

Yeah. And it's down

when it's just you having
your morning coffee. Right?

It's really cute.

It is,
and it's been an upcycle,

so it's an old table that has
a new coat of paint on it.

- Yeah.
- And it's been done really well.

And we'll sell that table
to the new owner.

I'd be fine with that.

Yeah, absolutely.

- Done.
- Done.

Successful day. Come on!

- I can't reach!
- Mom, stand on your tippy toes!

- I'm too short!
- We're the same height.

- Okay.
- Let's go.

I'm actually feeling really good
about where we are at Elm.

The outside is done and the
yellow stripes look so cool.

And to add a little bit
more character,

we decided to add a copper roof
to the bay window.

It looks awesome.

What do you think?

It looks amazing.

Fence is done.
The deck is done.

Inside, we've got the cabinets
in, the tile in.

Home stretch.

Elm has been
such a good little house.

Everything's been going
so smoothly.

- Well, until now.
- Well, until now.

So I know Lenny wants us
to pick a gutter color, but...

See, I don't think
any of these--

Like we thought,

none of these are gonna work
with our trim color.

The Elm paint colors, on paper,
I think looked really cute,

until Lenny said, "Hey, I need
you to pick out gutter colors.

And then that threw a whole
nother wrench in the problem.

There's only a couple colored
options, and this one...

- Nope.
- ...is too blue.

And this one's
entirely too green.

Yep.
Yeah, that's hideous.

What about the red?

That's...
- No.

Not even close to our bright pop
of color.

I was never sold
on the green.

Now one of the options
we can consider

is changing the trim color to go
with one of the gutter colors.

What if we paint the trim
that extra white?

No?
- That one's not bad, though.

This one. This one.
There we go.

- Yeah. Eggshell.
- Eggshell.

So what we decided to do is
re-paint all that green trim

a cream color,

and we'll put cream-colored
gutters on top of it

and it'll look perfect.
- Yep.

- All right.
- Let's go solve another problem.

Create some more, solve some--
depends who you're asking.

All the finishing touches are
happening right now over at Elm.

We got all the trim repainted,
that nice fresh white.

Our dark hardwood flooring
throughout the house

is going in.

Walls are getting painted.

Our teal backsplash
is being installed.

We're definitely
in the final stretch.

So, today, while all this
is going on,

I'm gonna work on the resin vase
we found in the shed.

Behind Elm, I found this resin
vase for a gazing ball.

No gazing ball with it,
so what are we gonna do with it?

Never mind the million
that she has at her house

that she could just
set on it.

No, no.
They can't have my gazing balls.

Those are mine.

We don't give away
our gazing balls!

You notice how it was plural,
"my gazing balls"?

Yeah, we don't give don't
give away our gazing balls.

Why you need 30 gazing
balls... I'm not sure, but--

It's-- it's a problem.

I didn't know
what I was gonna do with it,

so I lined this all up
in the backyard,

and I got some silver
spray paint, which is the bomb.

This is the best--

"It's the bomb."

The best spray paint ever.

I spray it on
and, boom, it's dry.

I told her to paint it pink.
She ignored me.

Yeah. I did. I ignored her,
because that wasn't right.

It wasn't right.
The silver--

Why'd you ask
for my opinion, then?

Because I like
to tell you you're wrong?

Okay.

I glued the glass bowl
to the gazing base stand,

with an epoxy that's made
to glue glass, wood, or metal.

You can put any kind of treat
you want in it--

dog treats, sweet treats.

Ta-da!

- Ta-da!
- It looks awesome!

Some kind of container
on a stand!

Today is furniture
delivery day,

and it's one of the most
exciting days, I think,

'cause it all, finally,
is coming together.

It means we're so close
to being done.

Yay! The truck is here!
The truck is here!

One hand.

Everything about Elm

is really, like, fun
and a little bit playful.

Like a little flirty,
just lots of color,

lots of texture,
amazing light fixtures.

This little house
has so much panache.

We've always said
that a sophisticated,

well traveled person
was gonna buy it,

so that's who
we're going stage it for.

Someone with panache.

Of course.

Everywhere you look,
there's something eye-catching,

and it's all just beautiful, and
it's coming together perfectly.

Blue slipper chair?

Living room.

- This the living room?
- That is a gray chair, Karen.

We see color differently.

What color is this chair
to you, sir.

Is it blue or gray?

- Bluish gray.
- That's a good answer!

- Here's some feet.
- Bluish gray.

It is a really small space,

but the more things
you put in it,

I think,
made it actually feel bigger.

That's part of the charm
of this house-- is it's small.

Oh, it'll be so easy to clean,
not that I clean.

But if I did, it would be
really easy to clean.

I've been waiting and waiting
and waiting

to see how this looks
in the house.

If it doesn't work,
I'm gonna be really sad.

I'm gonna go--

- So, like, right here-ish.
- Yeah.

Found this great little table
at a flea market,

and we both thought,
"That'll be perfect in Elm."

This just feels like to me

like it belongs
in the kitchen at Elm.

It does.

You know what?

I don't feel like it's quite
right with the cabinets.

It's a little too
shabby chic.

It was way too small, but it
has leaves that fold down,

and it just becomes this
kind of skinny console table.

We put it by the front door.

Yeah.
- That goes better together.
- Yep.

And it worked perfectly
as a little, like,

catch all key place,
some books, some tchotchke.

So it worked well,
just not in the dining area.

That back wall right there,
by the thermostat.

Pretty, right?

Like any
traditional bungalow,

when you walk in
the front door,

you're in the main room
of the house.

And what this house says to you
is, "I'm luxurious.

I'm well-traveled.
I'm sparkly.

And I'm 100% approachable
and fun.

I know what I like."

If I didn't have a really
handsome boyfriend

that I would like to marry
and procreate with,

I would peace out
on my house

and buy this adorable
little house.

This house has a limited buyer
pool due to it's quaint size.

So what we're gonna do is have
my sister-in-law Alexa

come walk through it, because
she's really our ideal buyer--

a young professional
who wants a home with some charm

and character.

So we're really hoping we can
get it done today,

get her in tomorrow,
and get some feedback,

and get it on the market
as soon as possible.

- Keep your eyes shut!
- They are shut.

So, before we put the house
on the market,

we're gonna give a sneak peek
to my sister-in-law Alexa,

who's really
the ideal buyer pool,

just to get a little bit
of feedback.

Ta-da!

I'm gonna go out
on a limb here

and say this is my favorite
we've ever done.

For real.

It's my favorite.

But I think it's gonna be a
challenge to sell,

because it's a limited buyer pool

that can function in
a 2-bedroom 1.5-bath.

So more than likely,
the buyer for this space

is gonna be someone who doesn't
mind that it's small

and wants a space
with lots of character.

So what we're gonna do
before we put in on the market

is bring in
my sister-in-law Alexa

who's really
the ideal buyer pool.

So we're gonna give her
a sneak peak,

just to get a little bit
of feedback.

Come-- bring your leg--

- Okay. Are you ready?
- Yeah.

Yay! So pretty!

I love it.
- Good.

And love the awning.

Do you love the copper?

I love the copper.

Anything blingy
I know you love.

Oh, my God. I love shiny.

And then that star on the porch
is so cute,

'cause it's subtle
but so pretty.

Mm-hmm.

So you love the outside?
- I do.

Well, the inside
is incredible.

- Let's go see it!
- Okay!

Ta-da!

It's so pretty.

I love it.

And it did not
used to be this pretty.

The biggest transformation here
was the bay window.

That lovely lady
who sold us the house--

at closing,
that was her one request,

to please keep
the bay window.

So we kept it
and updated it,

because it was, you know,
the dark wood,

and we lowered it a little bit,
so now you can sit on in it.

And it feels so roomy now.

I think because
it was dark before--

Right. There was not
this window up here,

and we put in
a full light door.

It's beautiful.

The amount of natural light
you've let in here,

like, with the window you were
telling me about, this door--

it's just incredible.

It feels just so open.

And, over towards the kitchen,
this wasn't opened.

So this was all closed off.

There was just a little
doorway right here.

- So super sectioned off.
- Yeah.

Just by opening it up, it makes
the space feel so much bigger.

So before,
there was the front window.

The sink was here,
and I think the stove--

I'm trying to remember what it
looked like on this side.

Dirty, nicotine stained,
full of cockroaches--

it was disgusting.

I love how open it is.

I love how open
you've made it feel.

You can just spin around...

How do you feel about this?

I love this.
The color is perfect.

Isn't it?

It's perfect with the white
and the stainless steel.

I'm blown away.

The main difference
is over here.

We created a hallway
that wasn't here.

So originally, this is where--
like, that was a wall,

and you walked down right here
and the wash--

the wall sat here and there was
a washer and dryer,

and it was closed off.

You couldn't get back
to the back.

So we created a hallway
down the middle

so we had space on the right
to put in a half-bath,

a washer and dryer...

So now you can check out down
your little half-bath.

Yay!

Ah! This is so good!

- Do you love it?
- I love the vanity!

Mirrored surfaces make it look
bigger than it actually is.

You see, you have, like,

the little Arabesque pattern
on the wall,

kind of plays off the mirror.

Yes!

It's like the house
is made of jewelry.

It's so pretty.

And if then if we go this way,
you've got your washer and dryer

and then the master back here.

Ah! It's so good!

- I love it!
- Do you love it?

You guys did such a good job
with everything.

Perfect!

And it's even more perfect now
that it has its own entrance.

- Yes.
- 'Cause it didn't exist before.

You couldn't get
to the room

without going through this
middle bedroom...

- Yeah, that would not be good.
- ...which is super awkward.

No.
Not interested in that, no.

And the closet, perfect.

There's tons of closet space.

Closet space--
a wall of closet.

- Yeah.
- That's what I love.

Who doesn't love
a wall of closets?

It's amazing.
Enough of that.

Let's check out
this bathroom.

Oh, my goodness.

I love it!

I love the countertops
and the shape of the mirrors.

You have a little
bath bum station.

That was all her.

This is an object
that we found in the house,

so I cleaned it
and I made it silver,

and then I found that sort of
fishbowl tin...

Yeah.

...glued it on,
and then that finial I found

in an old barn sale.

Things only Karen would know
and repurchase.

When she finds this stuff,
I'm like,

"What are you
gonna do with it?"

- Exactly!
-"What are you gonna do?"

I love, just, the white tile
in the bathroom.

That's my favorite thing.

- It's nice and clean and crisp.
- Yes. It's perfect.

We took maybe, like,
I don't know,

10 inches from this room and
pushed the wall out a smidge.

But when you walked into
the bathroom,

there was the vanity and your
toilet right next to each other,

and then a tub long ways,
and to get to the shower,

you literally had to sidestep
like this

and then step into the shower.

That's-- that's not comfortable.

- It's so awkward.
- No one wants to do that

And so it's still, like,
an efficient little bathroom,

but so much more functional.

We got two amazing vanities
into it.

Oh, it feels opened up.

I don't feel like I have
to shuffle anywhere in here.

- No.
- Mm-hmm.

You guys literally thought
of every detail in here.

And so our last little room
in the house is your guest room.

So cute.

I love everything in here.

So, you could use it
as a guest room.

- Yeah.
- You could use it as a study.

No, this is awesome.
I love this little wardrobe.

It's so cool.

And the chandeliers, obviously.

You know I'm obsessed
with anything that sparkles.

And so, this room

isn't dramatically different
layout-wise,

just had a door right here that
went into the other bedroom.

Every single door in this house
is a pocket door except one.

Because it's so tiny,

you don't want to waste
any wall space with a swing.

I like that.

So you got pocket doors
out the wazoo.

- Mm-hmm.
- That's perfect.

'Cause when Mina said
this is the last room,

she's not really telling
the truth,

'cause you have
a whole outdoor room.

I love that.
Let's go look at the outdoors.

So pretty back here!

And it's so much more room.

Oh, my goodness.

- So big!
- Yeah.

And before it had, like, the
weird boat dock deck floating,

and now you have this fabulous
entertaining space

that hugely increases, like,
your usable square footage.

Look at that chandelier.

- I know, right?
- So pretty!

And it's, like-- perfect
entertaining spot.

You have a nice green
low-maintenance backyard.

That's real.
This is as real thing.

- So, what do you think?
- I love it.

I mean, you guys did
just such an amazing job.

All of your details
have blown me away.

I could not be happier.

Alexa loves the house.

She had amazing things
to say about it.

So now we just need to get it on
the market and find a buyer.

Aren't you gonna be sad when
you have to let this one go?

I'm gonna be sad,
but I just got to move on.

Someone else will love it
as much as I do.

We bought this house
for $50,000,

and were able to stay around
$115,000 on renovations.

So all in, we've got about
$165,000 in this place,

and it didn't take long
for a buyer

to put in a full-price offer
of $190,000.

So it looks like
we're gonna make

a nice little profit
on this one,

which we can put towards
restoring our next home

in the neighborhood.

This is our home,

and we want to see our home
be the best it can be.

So we want to love
this neighborhood

until every single house
in this neighborhood

is occupied by people
who love this neighborhood

as much as we love it.