Big Texas Fix (2019) - full transcript

- Hey.
- What's up?

Check this out.

That's the cutest thing ever.

Baby's first photo shoot.

We are having a baby.

- One for you...
- Yeah?

...one for me and one
for baby I.

I love this.

We've been trying to have
a baby for 5 years,

and it's been a long
and bumpy road.

But here we are, and we
couldn't be more excited.



I'm going to show you a house.

The thought of starting
a large project

right now seems clinical.

It's 100 years old, historic
district, right down the street.

You're going to love it.
Bring your hat.

- I need it?
- Yeah, you're going

to need that. - Is it that bad?

No, it's that good.

I hate surprises.

So here's what's unique
about Galveston, Texas.

Look at this.

This has gotta be
at least 11-foot ceilings?

Like a giant's house.

It's an island



that's literally
trapped in time.

Aah!

Look at all the rat poop!

All right.
Let's not stir that up.

Found a hole.

All of these homes,
they have character.

They have the nice trimwork.

They have the gingerbread detail

on the outsides, you know.

They all had their own story.

But they are tearing down
houses all over town,

and it's sad.

We're completely obsessed

with finding these
diamonds in the rough.

I'm taking Ashley
to look at a beautiful home

in one of Galveston's
sought-after historic districts.

Houses in this neighborhood
were built in the late 1800s

and are some of the most
unique properties on the island,

which attract high-end buyers.

So if Ashley is willing
to take on this project,

we could turn
a substantial profit.

This beauty.

Please tell me we are going
to see this house.

Right?

Like, you couldn't
have guessed it.

Boom. How about that?

- So neat!
- I know.

I've always loved this house.

We've been looking at this house

since 2011
when we started dating.

This is, like, the first house
we were ever going to come to,

the first house
we ever wanted to buy.

Which is pretty cool that we're
here now and it's on the market.

I mean, it's been vacant longer
than I can remember.

How big is this house?

Two bed, two bath,
2,050 square feet.

This would be one of the
biggest houses we've ever done.

Like, are you prepared
for this right now?

Yeah.

In two months,
we're going to have a baby.

That's a really quick time
frame to finish this thing.

I agree, but I think
we can do it.

And I think we should.

The biggest drawback
for this house is the size.

It's big.
It's a lot going on right now.

We're planning for a baby,
finishing our house.

It's a lot.

You know, I could not imagine
doing this house right now.

It's got two doors.

It was at some point
an old duplex.

We don't want to renovate
a duplex.

I agree.

So that would definitely
be something

we would need to get rid of.

I mean, this was a traditional
Victorian home, but right now,

I mean, I don't know what it is.

I mean, it has no detail really,

and the brick columns
that we have here,

they're not original.
Look at the porch.

I mean, there's like a line
across it

where it looks like the whole
thing is about to fall down.

And the upper porch, I mean,
we're not even going

to be able to go out on that.

The outside is not
selling this house.

So to make this Victorian
really feel like itself again,

I think the biggest thing
we need to do

is get this aluminum siding off

to reveal
the original wood siding.

You know, fingers crossed
it's in good shape.

But it is in
the historic district,

and there are so many
beautiful houses around here.

This is like one of
the last ones

that really needs some love
on this block.

- How much is this thing?
- 154,000.

That is a lot of money
for a house that needs a lot of work.

So no doorknob.

Door number two?

There's a hole.
- Is there a back...

What are the chances you think
you could fit through that?

I think you just go through
like a little baby.

You go through head first.

Figure it out.

I got it.

Yeah.

How about that?

M'lady.

You may enter. - Wow.

None of this would be original
to, like, an 1890s home.

At some point along the way,
this house had a remodel.

It's definitely newer, like,
craftsman-ish maybe.

I mean, these are good.

- They're awesome.
- And look.

There's actually a pocket door
track, and the floors are nice.

- I know.
- And I mean, look it.

They're oak.

Let's continue the tour.

Look at this built-in.

How awesome is this?

I like the little glass handles.

I mean, it's got
all the drawers.

Look, they work too,
but these are working.

So you could keep this.

Look, you can see, like,
the stairs through the wall.

So you'd have to open
this back up to expose the staircase,

which would also make this feel
like a much bigger open space.

I mean, just go for it, right?

That's my philosophy. Are we in?

We're not in yet.
I need to see a kitchen.

I need to see some bedrooms,
bathrooms, like...

There's got to be
all those things here.

Come on, let's check it out.

Look at this, full bath.

A full bath downstairs is never
a positive thing.

Needs to be a half bath but...
- But it's a perfect layout.

- ...it's a good space.
- Right?

And look at
this. Here's your kitchen.

Is this a kitchen?

Yeah, it's a kitchen.
We've got cabinets.

You got a sink.

I mean, the main problem
is here,

we're not connected
to the dining room.

So people need to walk in
and be wowed.

They need to forget about the
fact that it's not open concept,

which is such a big deal
to buyers these days.

- But that's okay.
- This does not have

a lot of space.
- But that's okay.

I guess one positive thing,
if you want

to give any positives
about this kitchen

is it does bump
into that bathroom,

and the tub was on the left.

So you could maybe get some
of this space for the kitchen.

How about that front door?

I mean, they always...
- It's not a front door.

It is currently a back door.

It was a single-family home
originally,

and we still have the door.

Absolutely.

Well, that's really cool.

You know, we've worked
on houses from the 1880s, early 1890s,

and they all had this arch door.

I mean, it was just, you know,
a common style.

- This space has potential.
- Newel post.

Wow, that's really nice.

Right? And you're going
to see it

from the entrance,
just right down the hallway.

I mean, this is what
you're going to see.

It's awesome.

We're missing a lot of spindles,
like, the whole way.

Well, you know.

- All right.
- There's ways to fix that.

So here's the upstairs kitchen
for the duplex.

Completely unnecessary.

This being a kitchen,
if we turned it into a bedroom,

that means we've
just gained a bedroom...

Which is good.

...because they're calling it
two bedrooms.

So third right here,
and that's good for sale value.

Let's go keep looking.

Look at how beautiful
this master is.

Wow.

Imagine if we could, like, leave
the beams exposed in the ceiling

just for some extra design
in the room.

So I'm thinking we could throw
some plywood up there,

expose them
and still have a ceiling.

Look at this closet.

It's like a different time

when they needed to hold
like one fancy dress,

and it was just all about
status, you know? Right.

- Now it's like...
- I got a closet.

- ...my home has closets.
- I know.

Which would've meant that
they had some money

because, you know, back then you
would've paid taxes on the doors

so it was like a luxury
to have a closet.

So taxing in the late 1800s was
based off the number of doors

you had in your house,
so one way around that

is people would install
these large walk-through windows

leading out onto porches.

And that's what we've got
two of here.

You've got this balcony but
really no way to get out there

other than
the walk-through windows.

Well, that's what we're going
to be left with

in the historic district,

and that's what we'd be left
with anywhere.

Yeah.

We're not ever putting
a door out here.

All right.
See what else we can see.

This is a big place.

It really is.

One thing everybody wants
in their home

is an attached master bath,

which is what we need
to figure out.

But you know, this is
the third bedroom.

This room is huge.

You could put a wall here.

It would give us the perfect
space for a master bathroom.

Oh. It feels
so much better outside.

So, what do you think?

You on the "Save It" train yet?

I'm on the "Save It" train
always,

but this feels absolutely crazy.

I mean, $154,000 seems like
a lot of money for this house.

It's the area, probably
needs, what,

about $150,000 worth of work?
- At least.

So at the end of the day,

maybe we get 400,
just below for it.

For the selling price
that we need for this home,

we're going to have
to make sure it's great.

So you're in?

The thing that worries me is

we're going to be having
a baby in 2 months.

I just need some sort of idea

that we can get this done
before then.

We got to shoot for it.

We have to get it done
before the baby.

- I'm all in.
- We're doing this.

We're doing this. Come on.

Let's go.
- Get it done in 2 months.

Let's go. I'm making
the offer right now.

Yeah!

We were finally able
to purchase this house,

and I got for 154,000.

It's one of the biggest houses
we've ever done,

and I promised Ashley
I'd get it done

in 8 weeks before I gets here.

This house is in a really
sought-after historic district,

so we're going to restore it
to how it looked a century ago.

So I want to lose
the second door,

repair the porch while
maintaining the brick columns,

and remove
all the aluminum siding,

which I'm really hoping is
protecting the original siding.

In the living room,
I want to return

these French doors back
to being pocket doors,

and then we can widen
the opening into the hallway.

In the dining room, we're going
to case out part of this wall

between the hall,
creating an opening

that would showcase
our Victorian staircase.

This kitchen is tiny.

In an old house,
you're sometimes stuck

with these small rooms,

so being able to steal
some space from the bathroom

for a pantry and a refrigerator

is really going to make
this space feel larger.

That will give us plenty of
room on the other side of the kitchen

to put in new cabinets,
countertops and appliances.

Upstairs, if we take
about a third of the second bedroom

and put up a wall,

it will give us the perfect
space for a master bathroom.

We'll tear down the old closet,

and then we'll have room
for a walk-in shower.

We'll complete the room
by adding a toilet

over by the window
with a double vanity sink.

After we transform this home,

I don't think we're going
to have any problem

finding a high-end buyer.

If the rain
stays just like it is now,

we might actually
stay on schedule.

Right.

I don't think we're doing
any exterior demo today,

but there's a lot to do
so we'll be all right.

All right. Let's go do this.

Y'all ready?
- Ready or not, here we come.

Today, we've got a lot to cover.

We're going to demo
a couple of kitchens.

You know, in this downstairs
kitchen, we've got take out

the kitchen cabinet,
singular cabinet, singular.

So we should try to keep it.

What we would keep this for?

I don't know.

That's the usual answer,
"I don't know but keep it."

Yeah.

Just pull it.

Whoo!

We've got to get rid
of this sink.

Definitely going to let these
three guys do the heavy lifting.

Keep going. There we go.

She's free. Adios, baby.

One kitchen down,
one more to go.

This isn't a duplex anymore.

We don't need
this upstairs kitchen.

It's going to be a great space
for an additional bedroom.

Holy... Ash!

Trying to get me out here
in the rain.

You cannot imagine how much
concrete is under this house.

Look at this. - Oh, my God.

What is that?

You cannot imagine how
much concrete is under this house.

- Look at this.
- Oh, my God.

What is that?

So they just poured
a concrete porch on top

of a concrete porch.

This is worse than
I've ever seen.

Yeah, I'm not messing with...

So this is a lot more demo
than we expected. Yeah.

It's a lot of extra time,
the weight going to the dump.

At the end of the
day, this porch really needs

to be rebuilt correctly,

and it looks like it's needed
to be rebuilt correctly...

- For a long time.
- ...for a long time.

Hopefully be able
to support the columns

so that we can keep them.

These brick columns
give it a nice feel to this house,

so ideally, we'll be able
to remove all this concrete

without disturbing these brick
columns and build our new porch.

If they come smashing down,

that's more money
onto the budget.

Not a good discovery

but I mean, we're going
to have to deal with it.

It needed to be found.

Well on our way.

So we'll remove this tub,
all the tile around it

and that's the area
that we'll be able

to bump our fridge
in from the kitchen

and then maybe get some
sort of pantry in there as well.

All right.

You know we're very early
on in the demo.

There's a lot to do, feels
a little stressful right now.

This house has to, like, open
and close its book

before we can start
our new chapter in our life.

Baby steps here before we have
baby steps over here.

Yeah, I'm dizzy.

You know, the tub looks like
it's in pretty good shape.

Why send it to the dump when
it's like a perfectly good tub?

They don't make them
like this anymore.

Save it.

I'll be here if anybody
needs me.

Hey! I got to get
you back to work.

With the tub out, it's going
to give us the space

we need in the kitchen to bump
in the fridge and pantry.

It's going to be
prime real estate

and exactly what we need to kind
of expand this kitchen

a little bit.

It stopped raining.

This seems like the perfect
opportunity

to look underneath
this aluminum siding

and see what kind of condition
the original siding is in.

I know. We need it to be good

because we got
to save some money somewhere.

I don't even know the cost
if we had to re-side this house.

More than we want to spend.

I'm just going right in,
picking the middle.

Coming in.

I don't even know the cost
if we had to re-side this house.

More than we want to spend.

I'm just going right in,
picking the middle.

Coming in. Whoo!

Look at that. It's perfect.

It does look perfect.

That looks really good.

The metal has actually
protected it all these years

because, you know, under
the porch it was semi protected

but it still looks bad.

But this looks amazing. - Yeah.

It's really pretty cypress.

- Bugs don't like the cypress.
- I know.

Ideally, the rest of the house
looks like this,

and we can just roll,
get the outside done in no time.

It's going to look great,
and it looks like

it's not going to be
a hit to the budget.

So that's a big win for the day.

Absolutely.

Let's go back inside, dry off.

This is one of those moments

where my hoarding tendencies
is going to pay off.

We are going to storage
to look for something

we can turn into a vanity
for the new master suite.

Let's see what we got.

It's going to
be some cool stuff in there.

Lots and lots of stuff.

I've got this old
sewing cabinet.

This one doesn't work
because it's small.

I want a double vanity.

We have this old dry sink here.

It's definitely over
100 years old.

You know, before indoor
plumbing,

this would've just,
like, held a bowl.

I think this is our best option.

It doesn't stick out
as far either,

so we're still going to
get two sinks in here.

I mean, if we go buy a vanity,

it's going to be like
everybody else's.

So this is going to give us
a little extra character

in this new bathroom.

Not going to ask you
to help me carry it.

My goodness, it's heavy.

At least we picked a piece out.

You can come back
and get help with it later.

All right.

Our typical demo on
these houses takes just about a day,

but the size and state
of this old house,

I'm thinking this one is going
to take 2 maybe even 3 days.

What do you think about taking
some of this beadboard off,

taking some of the paneling
off on the other side,

really quick,
just so we can see through?

I mean, if you attack that side

and I get the beadboard
on this side,

I mean, 5 minutes, we'll be able
to look through here.

Game on.

Do you think you could do
your side faster

than I could do my side?

Absolutely.

Any time you can make it
a competition,

I mean, it's a win-win because
you actually want to do it

and you do it quicker
because you want to win.

And I'm a winner.

I'm a winner.

- How far we going to go?
- As far as it takes me to win.

So there's always
these contests that go on.

Trying to get through quicker.
Does this mean I won?

I'll concede.

Good. I and I need a break.

- Wow.
- Oh, that's so good.

The transition French to pocket,
I'm fluent in French.

This house had a remodel,

and they originally
would've had pocket doors.

And then with that remodel,
they put in these French doors.

It must have been the "it"
thing to do,

but now we have this small
living room

and furniture
needs to go in here.

And with the swinging
of these large doors, see this?

I mean, there's no room
for anything, anybody.

They got to go.

So we'll remove the French doors
and then remove all the casing.

It looks like there's an
old pocket door track in there,

and I think we're just
going to, like,

add our new track on top of it.

Coming at you. - Whoo!

Let's go to Mama.

Oh, yeah. Got it.

We're going to be reusing
all of these pieces,

so we're going to be really
gentle in taking them off.

All these pieces are, like,
coming off perfect.

Did you have any doubt?

- Whoa, be careful.
- That's it.

Whoo! She's free.

Look at that little pocket
door hole.

Get the track put up.

- Four wheels.
- All right.

So as long as we have
this center line here drawn,

well be able to put
our wheels right in the middle.

Now this is actually
the strongest part

of the door as well.

You know, if you mounted
your wheels right here

in the middle,
that section is already cut.

So you want to mount
it on a long side... Yeah.

...because that holds
the most weight.

All right. Let's get this up.

This house hasn't had pocket
doors in, like, 100 years.

Whoa.

Dang it.

The door has way more of a gap
on one side than the other side.

Like, look. Come look at it.

You see?

Yeah. It's not square.

It's not square at all.

Maybe just because
they had to swing,

they put an awkward little cut
on the bottom of it

so it didn't gouge the floor.

So you need to make
an angled cut.

These doors have always just
swung, and they weren't square.

We have to take a little
cut off the top,

take a little cut off
the bottom, square them up

so they slide nice and neat.

Let's not mess these up.

They're the only doors we have,
and if you get it wrong,

we're not putting new doors
back in there.

We're not buying more,
so we'd just be doorless.

My cut will be steady.

Whoo!

Let's get this thing up.

All right. You're clamped.

Whoo!

Pocket doors in the house.

Now that we've got
these pocket doors

versus the swinging,
we've saved a lot of, like,

valuable square footage
in that living room.

- These are smooth.
- Butter.

Let's get the other one up,
and then we are good to go.

No problem.

Are we on track to finish
before the baby gets here?

We're still on track.

It's always tight.

Zeke, we getting ready
for some headers.

- Yes.
- Downstairs feels tight here.

So one of the most important
things we can do

is kind of give the illusion
of some more space.

You know, we can't change
the square footage,

but we can open up
some doorways.

All right, man.
Let's get cutting.

We're going to cut all the old
studs, pull them out,

and we'll set our header.
- Perfect.

An entirely new look
in this dining room.

Oh, wow.

Look at y'all.

She's open.

This looks good.

I mean, it makes the room
look so much bigger.

All the difference in the world.

After we threw up
this header in the dining room,

we went into the living room
and widened up

this cased
opening from the hallway.

So we're missing
all the lower spindles,

but we still have
a bunch of them up here.

You know, they don't
make them anymore.

So we need to, like,
get one of these out

so we can get it
to a woodturner.

You know, I want to make sure
that we don't, like,

break any of this because that's
just more money to the budget.

So hopefully we can just lightly
tap this over

and then get that last one out.

The concern in getting one
of these spindles is out

is doing it gently.

Let's just barely take
this up so we don't loosen all these.

You've got to basically
remove the handrail

in order to loosen it
enough to pop one out.

They're all going
to come off. Careful.

Careful.

So you want to
pop one of these spindles out,

but you don't want
to pop them all out.

They're all going to come off.

And you don't want it to just...

All of a sudden,
they're all going everywhere.

- Wiggle it gently.
- Got it.

Whoo! Look at that.

They don't make them
like this anymore,

you know,
with the little wooden peg,

and the craftsmanship
in all this is just amazing.

I think we need, like,
30 of these.

Yeah, we do need 30 for sure.

I'm happy we have
a pattern to go off of

so we know what to match.

All right, let's get
these off to Willy.

Today, the one thing
we had planned

was to really get this aluminum
siding off the house.

It looks really good.

I am building the frames
for our hutch here.

We got to rebuild some doors
to kind of match

the old ones for the uppers.

We're going to inset them
with glass.

This thing has been here
for 100 years,

buying doors are not an option.

- Hey.
- What's up?

Your frame is coming along.

Yeah.

These doors look exactly
like the ones on the lower,

except they're going
to have glass in them

which is going to give us
a little bit of, you know,

a place to put some pretty stuff
like the decorative stuff.

You put all your, like,
Christmas bows,

all your, like, leftover ribbons
like when you like get a gift

but you can't throw
the ribbon away.

Are you my grandma?

What are you talking about,
not throwing a ribbon away?

Goes on the bottom.

Don't open the hutch
in our house.

That's some pretty glass.

Dug it out of storage
so we could use it

for the glass doors
of the hutch.

I think it'll be cool,
like some old, wavy glass

to give the hutch just
a little bit more character,

like the doors
have always been there.

And with a little cutting,
it'll be perfect.

Let's confirm our measurement.

Good.

Wavy glass is actually
a little more difficult to cut

because it's got all these
natural little grooves

and stuff in the glass.

The imperfections,
that's what we're going for.

I know we're going for
the imperfections,

but the cuts like to travel
along those imperfections.

And then we're going to hang it
over the edge a little bit.

Give it a little tap-aroo.

That'll work.

The moment of truth,
I'll get your frame, sir.

- It fits.
- It fits.

- Looks good.
- It's going to look great.

There's our doors. - I love it.

That looks really good.

You ready to get all this
concrete out of here?

It is time.

It's looking good, Phillipe.

The main goal on this porch

is to keep these brick columns
whenever we do the demo.

So the guys have, like,
built some supports in here,

and hopefully,
that's going to be

all we need to hold
everything together.

Fingers crossed.

I just want to get all this out,

and see if we can actually
save these columns.

Well, I'm going to sit back
and let y'all do it.

- You ready?
- It's hammer time.

- You better keep that baby safe.
- I am.

Oh, my gosh. Whoa.

I'm a little nervous
about Michael actually

demoing the porch
that he's standing on top of.

Got to get right in there.

Do you hear yourself,
like how crazy that seems?

I feel like I'm on
like thin ice.

Be careful.

I love getting my
hands dirty, so it's hard for me

to just sit back and watch
Michael have all the fun.

But right now, they're hitting
really close to the columns.

This is starting to get
a little unstable.

Whoa!

Whoa! So I'm sitting back.

Michael looks like he's getting
way too close to these columns.

I'm thinking this sledge
is probably the way to go.

Man, that was a good splash.
It's a lot of concrete.

A lot of it gone, wow.
Columns look great.

I mean, they're still here.

That was definitely the goal.

We got to get all
this rubble out of here

so we can get
the new deck built.

Okay. I'm ready
to get the new porch in here.

It's going to make
a big difference.

I'm ready to get rid
of this secondary door.

I'm going to try to get
those pins out of the door

while you're working on that.

Got one.

It was as easy as I thought
it'd be.

I hate it when they're tough
to get off.

Old house stuff, babe. - I know.

She's free.

So much easier, out of the way.

And you can just tell... Whoa!

Gross. Look at all that.

It's like rat poop.

It's nature's confetti.

Now we just need to get
the back off,

and this thing is out of there.

All right.
Pull it out, moment of truth.

- All right.
- Oh, lovely.

Whoo!

Hopefully that
original door fits.

Yeah. I just want to,
like, try it out.

Look at that.

Want to come outside and look?

Yes, I do.

We got this.

It's perfect.

I'm ready to get
the siding patched in this area.

Just like it originally looked.

Yeah. It's been
a duplex too long.

We've got a lot of paint
prep going on today.

We're scraping
the exterior siding.

They're priming all these nails
so they don't rust through,

and we'll be ready
for a new paint job any day now.

So it's exciting that this house
is going to finally get

that curb appeal that it needs.

We've got a lot going on
right now.

We've got drywall going on.

All the walls are primed
and prepped.

We've got floors being sanded.
So it's kind of cool.

I mean, it's still just
a work zone,

but you can kind of see it.

I got the vision.

Hey!

I feel like this has been
the most rain we could've had.

All right.

Well, if we can get
kitchen cabinets in today

and if we can get
the banister up,

it'd be a good day
for a rain day.

That'd be a great day.

And this baby is coming
rain or no rain.

You've got to get
this thing finished.

- We'll get it done.
- All right.

Let's go check inside.
- All right.

It's like a week and
a half before the open house,

and this is a really
big project.

I've got too much stress
going on right now.

There's a van.

Is it the cabinets?
- Yeah, it's them.

I mean, it's literally a lake.

But the cabinets have arrived.

What do you think?

You want to come in
through the back,

down the alley,
see what that looks like?

The alley is no better,
Michael. The alley is worse.

Cabinet guys can't
get cabinets inside.

What did the cabinet people say?

They went back to assemble
at their shop

and bring them back here.

All right. - This is nuts.

Our week gets really bad
if cabinets don't go in today.

We've got countertops
in the next 2 days.

There's a lot of work to do.

They have to go in today.

The cabinet guys are here,
but it has rained so much,

so quickly that we've got
a lake outside.

They can't even make it in.

Our week gets really bad
if cabinets don't go in today.

We've got countertops
in the next 2 days.

There's a lot of work to do.

They have to go in today.

This is nuts.
I think they can make it in.

They just don't want to get
their ankles wet.

I don't want the cabinets
wet either.

We might have to wait
this one out.

We're going to start inside.

Hopefully some of
this rain will pass.

We have spindles.

Today, we get to install
these spindles.

We got them custom turned
to match the old ones.

This project, I think we're
just going to pop them in,

boom, boom, boom.

Going to be done,
set our handrail on top,

put some nails in,
it's going to be great.

I hope it's that easy too.

Let's do this.

- This goes here?
- Yeah.

Well, this is going to be
such an awesome stairwell.

- They're all done.
- They look good.

All right.

I just worked on...
This was not easy.

It's a lot of futzing.

- What do you think, Ash?
- I'm ready.

This is the whole reason
we cased this opening out.

Oh, wow.

Everything was to see the
stairwell, and it's back now.

That looks awesome.

This is what this would've
looked like

when the house was built.

It's kind of cool
to have that back.

It stopped raining.

Thank gosh.

The sun came out so we can
get the cabinets installed.

It's late in the day though.
I hope they can get it all done.

- You matched it today.
- I did.

What do you think of the colors?
- I love it.

I actually, I think these greens

really complement
the brick well.

The brick columns aren't
something you see

a lot of times on these houses,

so the fact that we were able
to save them is pretty cool.

I hear a lot of work
going on inside.

Let's go check it out.
- All right. Let's do it.

The open house
is just a few days away,

and we are nowhere
near being ready.

I mean, Michael has promised me
he's going to get this house

done before the baby comes.
- That's accurate.

It's a tight timeline.

Still feeling accurate.

We've had a lot of rain.

Rain is never good
for a construction schedule.

It's held up a lot, but I'm
hoping we can get back on track.

The master bath is really
going make

a huge transformation today.

Marble is on the way in.

Come on, back up, incoming.

So the countertop guy
is actually going to bring

just solid marble walls
for the shower,

so it's going to go
together really quick.

It's just going to give
a really classy look

that you don't see a lot.

No grout lines.

We got solid walls.

I kind of liked the idea
of being able to keep the brick.

It's going to be a feature
inside the shower

that's already a feature.

Oh, my gosh.

Looks good, huh?

Looks pretty, really,
really pretty.

All right.

Dry sink, all we need to do
is get this prepped and ready

for our last
little piece of marble.

We're going to pop this
top piece off.

There you go.

I'm going to put kind of
a ledger board

across the back here,
just a little strip of wood.

And then we'll put a piece
of plywood on top of it.

And then all of this is going
to help support the marble.

Now we'll just cut the holes.

Is it heavy?

Everything in this bathroom
seems like it's really heavy.

I mean, it's a solid slab
of stone, right?

This is the moment.

Whoo!

Look at that.

There it is.

All right.
Let me go grab the sinks.

Want one? - I do.

It's about, like, right there.

Ash, these are awesome.

This is such a cool look.

This is going to be
a focal point

when you look in through
the door of the bathroom.

So we've come a long way
with these stairs, you know,

the new spindles, just
getting everything cleaned up.

This is, like, the final,
like, finishing touch.

So we got this from the printer,
and it's, like,

a painting
that's going to up the stairs.

So the staircase in this home
is, like, the focal point

when you come in the door.

I like the idea that we're
actually going to be able to,

like, look up the risers
and just see a cool painting.

The staircase is going look
like it looked originally

with just
a little extra pizzazz.

This is like a marine gray vinyl

that's already been laminated
on the outside.

I feel like if you can wrap
a boat with this,

you should be able
to do this with it.

Only like 10 more to go.

It'll never finish.

Today is the day.

Open house day.

What about the transformation
this house has had?

This place looks so good.

We've been working on
this house for a while now.

It's finally done.

In 2011, we saw the house,
and it was abandoned.

Now it's a beautiful
stunning home.

Back in 2011, we were dating,

and now we're about
to have a baby.

This house was once
the worst house on the block.

Now it's a beautiful example
of a historic home

that really fits in
with this neighborhood.

The exterior of this house
was really rough.

This front porch
was literally crumbling.

Now it's completely rebuilt.

It looks fantastic.

The guests are going
to be here any minute.

Let's do it.

Oh, I could totally, like,
drink iced tea out here.

This was a gutted duplex
when we first bought it.

Now, it's a single-family home,

ready for a new family
to come in.

Wow.
Oh, the stairs are beautiful.

The first thing you see when
you walk into the side hall

Victorian is the staircase,

so we made sure we made it a
real focal point for this house.

- Hi.
- Wow, look at the stairs.

That's pretty cool.
- Staircase was scary before.

Now, everything looks as it
should, and it looks fantastic.

Love the colors. It's beautiful.

There wasn't a lot of changes

that needed to be made
in the living room.

We just cased out the opening
from the front door,

and then reinstated the
French doors into pocket doors.

I think this living room is
my favorite room in the house.

These were French doors...
- Oh, wow.

...and that's kind of
that kind of craftsman feel.

We were able to save the
flooring throughout the house

and added some new paint
onto the wainscoting.

It really came together, though,

to give this
a nice inviting space

when you first enter the house.

This dining room, nobody
would want to eat here.

Now it actually feels
like a room

where you'd want to do that.

We just cased out an opening,

kind of restored the hutch,
new paint,

and she was ready to go.

I like the hutch.

- Oh, wow.
- Great kitchen.

There wasn't much
of a kitchen to speak

of when we first
bought this house.

Now it's beautiful.

It's, like, ready for,
like a holiday dinner,

like a full spread.

Plenty of room for activities
in this kitchen.

- The woodwork is amazing.
- It all came together.

Oh, wow, beautiful.

There's a lot of, like,
features in this master bedroom.

- Wow!
- Look at this.

I've never seen anything
like that.

We've got the original
wood floors.

We've got the exposed
brick chimney.

A private porch.

This is the first time I've
seen a walk-through window up close.

This is awesome.

Oh, wow. That's beautiful.

More marble, looks great.

Nobody wants to share their
bathroom with their guests,

so the fact that this house
has a master bathroom

is pretty cool.

And this wasn't here before.

This is a difference maker.

- I love the sinks.
- It's the perfect space.

We were actually
able to get double vanity sink

in this bathroom
by making this dry sink

into, like, a modern day vanity.

It all came together.

We spent
$154,000 to purchase this house

and renovated it
for just under 140,000.

We are all
in at just under 300,000,

and we plan to list
this house for $399,000.

After interest and realtor fees,

we stand to make a profit
of about $65,000.

You want to live here?

- Yes.
- Okay.

Michael got lucky,
and he finished this thing

before the baby arrived.

She's still inside.

The sale of this home
is going to be

a nice little
savings account for I.

- Yeah, it is.
- I'm pretty proud.

It's beautiful.