Good Bones (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Duplex Remodel Is Double the Trouble - full transcript

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 bathtub!

...deserves a second chance.

Holy God.
This smells awful.

Because underneath
all that mess,

we might find
some really good bones.

Come on, Ted.

I need caffeine.

All right.
Well, we can do that for you.

What a good way
to start the day.

'Cause it is just gonna get
real nasty from here.

You don't think
we'll have an appetite

after we go in the house?



I don't think so.

I can do this.

Thank you so much.

No worries, enjoy.

We're going to Terrace,

which is one of the many
we bought from the city.

It was around $4,500
and some change.

Right. Well, one of the things
I like about this house,

that I think
bodes well for it,

is it's in the Bates-Hendricks
neighborhood.

It's right next to
Fountain Square,

and you can buy so much house
for very little money.

It's the best kept secret
in Indy.

Yeah.

And this house is huge.

I know you haven't
been in it yet.

I was in it once,

I don't know, like,
eight months ago,

and I didn't do
a good inspection of it

because I was scared.

'Cause I was by myself.

You didn't have me with you
to call out for the vagrants

that might be in there?

I didn't.
I think it's this one.

It's missing some gutters.

This boarded-up one.

Yeah, this is ours.

My first impression
of this house

is that it's really charming.

It's got some really interesting
gabled roof lines,

and I think we can really
work with that.

Got the drill?

Got the drill.

Why are there trash cans
in our yard?

There's always trash
in our yards.

I know, but not usually
trash cans.

Eh.

I like it when the key
is a drill.

There.

I'll get this
out of your way.

There's another layer
of security there.

Uh, brought
the bolt cutters.

Perfect.

This is gonna be a really tough
angle to get enough strength.

Now, you take this one
and I take this one.

Okay.

You ready?

Oh, God.

I mean, it smells awful.

I know.

You can smell--
just the little hole.

That's bad.

What are you trying
to do, lady?

It's screwed in,
but it's coming out.

You want to give it a--
you look like you want to.

- You can do it.
- I think it's gonna open.

Oh, wow.
It is coming off.

All right.

Boom!
Nice work.

Yeah. Hyah!

I learned that
in kickboxing.

We don't do that in yoga.

No.

That worked.

All right.

Oh, my God.
It smells bad.

Oh, my gosh.

We got a Christmas tree.

Look at the fireplace.

What the heck is that?

I'm pretty sure the fireplace
is sinking into the house.

Yeah.

Which means
the entire structure under it

doesn't exist.

It just fell out
at one point.

Oh, my gosh.
That's just crumbling apart.

Yep.

Like, this is all...

Some of it's termite.

Lookit.
Do you see my key go in?

Yeah. Yeah.
That's definitely termite.

That's insane.

It's like butter.

I can do something
with the tile.

That tile's pretty.
I like it.

How are you gonna get the tile
off that without breaking it?

I have tools.

- Yeah.
- I have tools.

When you chisel it off,
it's gonna break the tile.

No, it won't.

I can get that tile off.

All right.

Hang on.

We were standing
by the fireplace,

and I'm looking across
at the wall.

See, like, a little shimmer
from afar.

And I like
shiny, sparkly things,

so I'm a little bit
drawn to it.

What is going on?

They textured
over a mirror.

I want
to investigate more.

People do
the strangest things.

It is interesting,
and it gives me ideas for...

I don't know what idea
you're getting from that....the future of that room.

It's not having
mirrored walls.

It could happen.
Mirrors could happen.

Mirrors make rooms
look bigger.

Mirrors are elegant
and dramatic.

They're also... weird.

Mirrors could happen.

Huh!
You know what?

That'll be fun
during demo.

We're gonna get an extra
three inches of floor space.

On to this room.

It does not smell good.

Ew.

Oh, wow.

Like, as soon as you walk in,
right here...

Yeah, you can see it.

...right here you can tell
there's structural support

under here, and the house
has settled down this way.

And the ceiling's drop.

Kitchen.

Oh. You can feel the floor
come right back up, too,

when you walk up over here.

I feel lots of wobbly
on the floor.

- Yeah.
- Lots.

Terrace doesn't have really much
definition to its first floor.

The only thing that would
make you think that some space

was a kitchen was because
there's two cabinets

hanging on the wall.

There's nothing else that says,
"I'm a kitchen."

With the kitchen pretty much
being nonexistent,

we really have the freedom
to move the bottom-floor rooms

around a bit
and open it up.

And I would love to move
the kitchen towards the front

so you could see it as soon
as you come in the front door.

Let's go check out upstairs.

Okay.

No insulation anywhere.

Oh.

These stairs aren't bad, Mina.

It looks like there's
spider webs.

Holy moly.

Why is there a creepy chair
just in the middle of the room?

So we've got one bathroom
up here.

Size-wise, it works.

Yeah.

You know,
you reconfigure it a bit,

but I think it makes sense
to leave it...

Sure, I think-- ooh.

...about where it is.

It's a little tight
back there.

And then we've got...

Yeah, this is a perfectly
acceptable second bedroom.

And, look, here's the key
to the lock.

Here's to the lock.

I don't want those.

I'm trying to avoid touching
as many things as possible.

And then this leaves us with
this maybe being our master.

It's so small.

Well, we definitely need
more windows,

but this closet looks--
I mean, this is huge.

I think-- Mom, will you
stay off the ground?

Look, so the roof lines
back here kind of come out.

So maybe we can remove
the chimney and build out

an angled closet to utilize
the space a little better.

Then install a few windows
and add a full bath.

And then it's
an okay-sized bedroom.

So...

There's absolutely no need
to go down in the basement.

There's always a need
to go down in the basement.

Look at the brick.
It's not bad.

Come on. Let's go.
Let's go.

Let's see what's
down there.

Oh! Ooh,
that first step's a doozy.

"Let's see what's down there."
We know what's down there.

Problems.

Holy moly.

Whoa.

Oh.

Oh, man.

That's a problem.

Oh, shoot.

Whoa.

Oh.

Oh, man.

Holy moly.

That's a problem.

Oh, shoot.

The houses we buy
from the city,

a lot of them we don't look at
ahead of time

because they're $4,500,
so we're buying a location.

So when we walk in to
one of them,

the fact that everything
sucks...?

Yeah.
We expected that.

That's not good.

It looks like the wall just
opened up for the flood gates...

...of mud.

Yep.

That means our foundation
is washed out,

and the house has to be supported

and new foundation
needs to be built.

There's a lot
of hand motions

that go along with
this explanation.

Thank you very much.

Look at those spiders.
That is so creepy.

You know, wonder
if they're alive.

Oh, my gosh.

There's so many of them.
They're everywhere you look.

That's a crazy kind of mold
that kills spiders.

Wow.

I'm more shocked
by the mummified spiders

than by the mudslide.

Yeah.
'Cause that's totally new.

That's new.

Mudslides...?

We've seen foundations
washed away.

I've never seen moldy,
mummified spiders.

Mom, this can't be good
for us.

Can we just--
can we just go?

It's a basement.

I know.

It's a basement.

We've seen what's probably
the worst.

Come on.

Yeah, we can go on up.

I'm done.

I'll come back
and explore more later.

Okay.

Terrace is not underwhelming.

It's not overwhelming.

It's just pretty, yeah,
what we thought might happen.

We can work with it.

Yeah.
That's rough in there.

Yeah.

So the house was $4,500.

Right.

I think we're probably
gonna end up being able

to stay under $150,000.

With that foundation?

I think.

Okay.
All right.

So if we can stay under
$150,000, altogether...

I think we should be okay.

...I think we'll be okay.

Yeah.

And sell it for $200,000?

$200,000 would be good.

Yeah.

Feel good about that?

Yeah, I feel good.

It's a very early demo day.

Mina hasn't had
her green tea yet.

She's not ready.

It's a very early demo day.
The sun has just risen.

And we're excited!

And the boys are here.

And they're ready to
break some stuff.

So you guys know how sometimes
we have houses

that might fall down
when you demo them?

Yeah.

Okay, so this one might fall
down when you demo it.

Yes!
I love that.

Every house we demo,

there's the possibility
that it's gonna fall down.

Right.

Every house.
But this one,

where the chimney is,
is like, extra iffy.

And understand,

what's holding up the west side
of the house is the house.

There's no foundation
over there.

Ooh.

So don't take off
the structure on that side.

You can take off the plaster
and lathe,

you can get all the masonry
out of the floor.

Don't pull down that chimney.

I want us to be braced before
we take that chimney down,

because that chimney is helping
the house hold up right now.

I agree.

If the guys take out too much
of the structure

on the west wall
of the house...

our house could probably
fall onto the neighbors.

Yeah, it could tip over.

This side of the house,
no finesse needed.

That side of the house--
what do we need?

- Finesse!
- Yes! Yes!

- Lots of it.
- Some awareness, some finesse.

All right.
Let's go.

All right.
Let's do it.

Let's break some stuff.

Push. Push.

Whoop!

Ooh! Sorry!

Dang, bro!

Whoo!

My little brother, Tad,

runs our demo team along with
all those giant humans--

Bobcat and Dylan and Thomas--
I don't know all their names.

But they're all big and they're
all strong, and they come in,

and they like to break stuff,
so makes for a good team.

Until they do, like,
dumb stuff.

Sometimes that's not good.

Whoa!
Don't hit the boards.

Hey!
Stop hitting the studs.

Hey!
Stop hitting the studs!

There we go.

Hit it this way.

Watch out, Mina.

Oh!

You okay?

Watch out, Mina.

Oh!

You okay?

I said watch out.
And, you know?

Just like me, I just--
I always give 150%.

And that 150%
landed on Mina.

You know, so at first,
I was concerned.

I was concerned,
and then I was like,

"Get out of the way
next time."

God.

But yeah, I would say
we're very competitive

on what we can do--
me, brawn-wise,

and her, brain-wise.

And so far,
the guns are 1-0.

I can hear you
talking about me.

Oh, hi there.

I can hear you
over here.

Oh, why were you
just standing--

Saying I broke your leg.

You did break my leg!

Do we have some, like, tape

and one of those break-up
ice packs in the truck?

Yeah, what happened?

I got in the way.

OH, I see a mark.

My shoulder took the brunt
of it,

but the framing around
that whole doorway

hit my shoulder and then
straight across the face.

He dropped a door frame on me
today and it hit me in the face.

She said the brunt of it
happened on her shoulder,

so, you know.

- Look.
- Oh! Oh, my gosh!

- Oh. Ow.
- Oh, my gosh!

Don't touch it!
It hurts!

Rub a little dirt on it!
Rub a little dirt on it!

You guys are jerks.

So far, we've got almost
the entire first floor

demo'd on the inside.

We still have the staircase,
the entire second floor,

the entire outside,
the roof,

the two chimneys--
we got a lot left.

Today we're heading over
to my office,

which is right
in downtown Indy.

We're gonna go over
the Terrace floor plans

to make any finalized changes

so we can get final copies
to all our workers.

And we're gonna give it
nice, clean walls

and a good, solid roof,
and it's gonna be really happy.

And, look, I brought
all kinds of colors.

Lovely.

But this one's mine.

You can pick any color
you want.

I don't like
any of the other ones.

Do you want this one?

Yeah.

It's the best one.

All right.

So, what are your initial
thoughts?

And this is just, like,
first take, so...

Right. Let's start with
the front of the house.

This is just a feel
of the structure?

Yes.

I feel like this little front
porch should just be open.

I feel like it should
just be open.

It should be a little cleaner,
a little more modern.

Okay.

So before,
when you walked in,

there was kind of two spaces
in the front of the house

that were nondescript.

The kitchen,
you couldn't see at all,

because it was behind
the staircase.

So now we're switching it
so we've got

an actual defined dining room,
we have a living room,

we have a kitchen that you
can see immediately

when you walk in the front door,
that pulls you into the house.

The space that was the kitchen
is now a bedroom/office,

and it makes more sense for that
to be private space

because it's on the other side
of the staircase.

Right. And it's surprising,

the thing that made this
all possible, really,

is just flipping
a staircase.

Yeah.

All right.
Second floor.

Yes!

So, before,
when you walked up the stairs,

there was a bedroom
to the right,

a bedroom in front of you,
a bedroom to the left,

and then a bathroom
to the left.

Correct.

What we're going to do is,
you go up the stairs,

bedroom to the right
is the master bedroom,

and we're gonna add a bathroom
to that weird closet space.

Okay.

bedroom in front of you,

we're gonna chop in half
and give the right half of it

to the master bedroom
for closet.

The left half of it, we're
gonna turn into a full bath

that's gonna service
the bedroom on the left,

which is staying
a bedroom.

And then the old bathroom

becomes a closet
for the left bedroom.

So what we're doing is we're
cannibalizing a bedroom

to create closet
and bathroom space.

Yes. Exactly.

I think, yeah,
this is probably

the most successful
floor plan meeting to date.

Yeah! Yeah!

- Success!
- Yay!

So far at Terrace, all that has
happened is a lot of demo.

Yes.

And today we are jacking
the house up

to start working on
the big foundation issue.

Whew!

- Oh, look at that.
- All right.

He's already got a nice little
support beam up there.

I hope you guys lose sleep
over it, 'cause I do.

This is very, very serious.

Lenny is our point guy
putting out all of our fires

on all of our projects.

The foundation at Terrace is,
by far,

the worst foundation
we've ever seen.

It's pretty bad.

And that's saying a lot,

'cause we've seen
some bad foundations.

- Plan is just to jack it up?
- Got a jack each end?

We're gonna jack and we're
gonna wait for an okay.

All right, well,
let's get jacking.

So you want to get
that jack?

- Yeah.
- All right.

And somebody upstairs is gonna
keep an eyeball on things?

- Yep.
- And yell.

The entire structure
is tied together,

and when we move one part,
we move other parts.

All right, well,
let's get jacking.

Go.
Stay together.

Ready?

What we're doing in one part
of the house

affects the entire structure,

so we have someone watching
on all the corners

to make sure nothing weird
is happening.

And I don't expect it
to come crashing down--

that's
a worst-case scenario--

but we need to be careful
and not have that happen.

Ready, set, down.

Ooh!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hang tight. Hang tight.

Talk to me!

What's the outside look like,
Lonnie?

Look up. Look up on
to the second-story wall,

tell me what you got.

Cracking.

Oh! What was that?

This house has been nothing but
demo and foundation problems.

But maybe, today, when we've got
it all jacked up and supported,

we can finally start
rebuilding it.

Maybe.

Ready, set, down.

Ooh!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hang tight. Hang tight.

Look up on to
the second-story wall,

tell me what you got.

Cracking.

Hang tight. Hang tight.

I hear it cracking.

Oh!
What was that?

I don't know.

Maybe we...

No, you ain't going nowhere.
If we die, we're dying together.

Hey, Lonnie. Give me an update
on this outside corner here.

You're getting it up,
that's for sure.

Talk to me, Danny.

Good?

Hey! We're there.

Solid?

Looking good.

- All right.
- Sweet!

All right.
You guys did it.

So, despite some creaking
and cracking,

we got this house
jacked up and secured.

Now that we've got
temporary jacks

and we've got this jacked up,

we're gonna take out
all of the old brick

and all the old concrete,

and we're gonna put in
a new foundation.

And solve that problem.

Excellent.
Excellent.

Awesome.

- All right. Let's go.
- Okay.

So today we're hanging out

and working on our design plan
for Terrace.

So this is my muse
for this house.

All right.

Look at how we have metal
and wood,

and it's got just a little bit
of bling-- just a little bit.

So also a little bit
of stone.

That's your thing?

This is my thing.

Mom has artfully coined
the house "elegant industrial"?

Right?

I think so.

Elegant industrial,
which really is just,

like, a fancied up version
of "wood and metal".

Right?

Sounds better than
"the wood and metal house".

It's our
elegant industrial house.

So, to go along with the whole,
like, wood and metal theme,

I wanted to do something
that had a lot of, like,

pattern in it, but also
to be able to pick up

some of the other colors
in the wall,

and this stuff
is really good.

This is very affordable.

What's a good word for that?

Financially savvy.
That's what that is.

It's financially responsible.

Savvy.

So you like this flooring?
You're good with it?

Yes, I like that flooring.

All right.

And in this bathroom--

I actually thought about this
when you pulled the wood out.

Yes.

We're gonna make

bathroom vanities
out of these things.

A metal base with--

The old floorboards
we still have?

Those old floor joists
that we've been saving,

and that beautiful, clean,
white top.

We had this wall-mounted vanity
that was very modern,

it had an integral top and sink,
and the vanity broke,

but the top we still had.

We also have really cool,
old floor joists leftover,

so with all these leftovers
put together in my mind

creates this really cool
bathroom vanity.

And I think it would be
really great if there was

a lot of counter space
in this kitchen.

What I'm thinking is, instead
of all granite countertops,

if we carried
the wood theme through

and we do that dark,
rich butcher block.

And then just do granite
on the breakfast bar.

We can find a piece of granite
that's a little more luxurious

than we would normally
be able to afford.

Because it's gonna be
a small piece,

we can probably find
a remnant. Yeah.

Get some, like, coppery colors
and some brown colors in there.

Our kitchen's just
gonna be gorgeous.

This house is gonna feel like
a really comfortable pair

of khaki pants, right?

Think about it.

I guess.

Like, your favorite
khaki pants.

I don't own any khaki pants.

We're gonna get you
some nice khaki pants.

There's no reason for that,
like, ever.

So now you're job
is to sell this house.

I will do that.

Mama needs a new what?

Pair of khaki pants?

Pair of khaki pants.

Okay.

Today we are coming
to see Ryan

to talk to him about making us
some really cool vanities

out of some scrap lumber
we have,

some vanity tops,
and some steel.

Good morning!

We brought you a present!

I thought I locked
the doors.

You should've.

So this is...

Wait! Wait!

So this is some reclaimed
lumber from some floor joists

in one of our demos.

But they're pretty.

Yeah.

What I would like
is an apron like this.

And it will cover
all the plumbing.

What do you want
the legs out of?

Yes.

Ryan is an amazing artist.

I have complete trust
in what he'll make for us.

I can give him some ideas,

tell him to make
what he wants out of them,

and I know whatever he makes for
this bathroom will be perfect.

So as far as, like,
the metal, though.

All the finishes in the bathroom
are brushed nickel,

so I don't know if there's
a metal you can work with

that's gonna get us
a comparable finish

without needing
a powder coat?

You can do--
I have a linear grinder,

so you can grind stainless
or you can,

in your case,
go with aluminum.

Yeah.

It looks just like nickel.

I can kind of just
grind it down.

So let's go get all the rest
of the wood out of the truck

and we'll get out
of your hair.

Come with!

Geez!

You guys want these
tomorrow, right?

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, I figured.

So Lenny says he's done
with all the foundation,

floor-joist work
over at Terrace.

So the past few days,

we've been framing out
the inside of the house...

installing insulation...

...putting in the new deck,

and even got
the front porch built.

So we're gonna go over
and check it out

and make sure it all looks good,
starting with the foundation.

Look at this.
That's nice.

Nice.

Got the nice,
new support here.

I know.
Look how pretty.

It's all greenboard.

Sturdy.

Look at that header.
That's beautiful.

All right.
Let's go on in here.

We've got all
of our nice...

Yep, we got sisters everywhere.

...sisters.

We put a new floor joist

right next to
the old floor joist.

It's called a sister.

We attach them
all along the length

of the joist with nails,

and then the weight gets
evenly distributed

between the two joists.

Um, hold on.

Sister, sister, sister, beautiful.

Are you kidding me?!

What is wrong?

All right.
Let's go on in here.

We've got all of our nice...

Yep, we got sisters everywhere.

...sisters.

Um, hold on.

Sister, sister, sister, beautiful.

Are you kidding me?!

What is wrong?

See the sister?

It doesn't even go
to the sill plate.

I have no idea what they
think they were doing.

What the heck
did they do here?

Like, this cannot be right.

Yeah, it doesn't--

This isn't attached
to anything.

Don't push on it,
it might fall.

There are random screws,

and the board that they sistered
to this other one

isn't even coming
all the way to the edge.

There's some work that looks,
to me,

like someone just quit
in the middle.

We're gonna check with Lenny

and see if he's satisfied
with how the job looks.

Mom and I just wanted
to touch base with you.

We wanted to double/triple check
all the floor joist situation

down in the basement
at Terrace.

So there's one piece of wood

that a double joist hanger
is supposed to be nailed to,

but the wood is broken in half

and the joist hanger's
not nailed to it.

I feel like that probably
needs to be fixed.

Do you feel that way?

Yep. It does.
It's on my radar.

So we check with Lenny,

and he said
that one funky little board

that we thought was funky
was actually funky.

I think that was
our main concern,

so as long as you're
on top of that,

I feel all warm
and fuzzy inside.

At the end of the day,
although Lenny's our contractor,

it's a Two Chicks and a Hammer house,

and it's our name
and our reputation,

so we just want to be
100% sure

that what we've got going on
down there as a solution

is the right thing.

All right,
drywall starts today.

And we're really good time.
Like, this is good.

We're on schedule.
We're good.

Psht! What?
Is there a schedule?

'Cause I haven't seen one,
'cause I'm not in charge!

- There is no schedule!
- It's all up here.

While we lost some time
with all the foundation issues,

we've been flying
ever since.

We got the foundation
squared away,

we got all our electrical, plumbing,

and HVAC finished up, and now
we're ready to roll for drywall.

Pretty soon, the house
is gonna be unrecognizable,

and it's about time.

This house has been a problem
child from jump street.

I mean, we had it up on jacks
for almost three weeks,

working on
the whole foundation issue,

so to be at this point
in the process is just, like...

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Today, we're going shopping
to try to find

some cool stuff
for Terrace.

We can just take it all, right?

Buy everything?

I love this place.

One of the things that we
definitely need for this space

is a dining room table.

Like, we've got
a lot of wood--

the whole, like,
wood and steel theme.

Maybe something
a little less...

Yeah, that's not right.

...feminine.

Yeah, these ones are a little--
like, they're gorgeous,

but a little more flowery...

Yeah.

...than we want.

I think that's...

Over here.
Let's see this one.

That's perfect.

Yeah, that's good, right?

Yeah.

It's interesting how sometimes
when you add one more element,

you're like, "Yes!
There we are! That's perfect."

So, we need a couch.

Like, I like how soft
this one is.

This is really comfy.

I like the nod to tradition
with a little bit of tufting--

just a little bit.

Under the high,
skinny window, though,

I think this will fit perfectly.

Mm-hmm.

Look at this wall of wood.

It would be fun to do
an accent wall

with faux wood.

I actually have been wanting
to do a project

with this wood product
for a long time,

'cause it's not actually wood,
and you just peel and stick.

It's right in
my skill set.

I can use a box cutter,
I can peel, and I can stick.

Where do you want
to do it?

Well, I'm thinking-- we have
an open ironwork headboard,

and this would be
a nice backdrop.

So in the master bedroom?

Yeah.

Like, a focal wall?

Yeah.

You know what would be nice?

What?

This chair is wood,
and it has the black.

It's a cool chair.

Yeah, it is cool.

It's like a piece of art.

Mom found just this
really fun chair.

It's carved wood.

Another chair.

A carved wood

with a black leather seat.

It's not gonna be comfortable
with two people in it.

Come here. Come on.
Come on.

It is.

Snuggle up.

It's a good
snuggling chair.

Snuggle up, baby.

We've got
a super-busy day today

and super-busy couple days
ahead of us.

I'm attempting to help Bill do
some of the herringbone tile.

So there's the one for
the shower head there.

All right.

She's done a really cruel thing
to him with this herringbone.

He suggested herringbone.

It's a tricky tile job.

It really is a huge amount of
tile for Bill to be putting up.

The lip on the edge
all the way around.

Oh, nice.
So up and down,
left and right.

It's gonna...

He'd usually be able to tile
a tub/shower

in a day and a half-ish.

And he said it's gonna take him
a solid three days

to do each tub/shower.

Right now, the house
is primed inside and out,

and we got painters doing
the finish coat on the outside.

We've got painters inside.

We've got trim being
installed inside.

Caulked-- all that stuff--
and we're almost done with

the trim in this house, which is
a huge task because it's giant.

And the last bit we have
are these two closets

that flank the front door,

which seems like the perfect
opportunity for competition.

So, dueling closets.

It only seems right

that we have a little bit
of our own duel.

We got dueling closets,
we got two nail guns,

we got two chicks--
let's have a race.

All right. Ready...

Set...

This is not going well.

...Go!

You're getting
more nails than me.

Hurry up, lady.

Uh-oh.

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Walls...

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Paint...

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We are almost done with
the trim in this house,

and we got dueling closets,

we got two nail guns,

we got two chicks--

let's have a race.

Go!

Done!

Whoo!

That was really close, though.

Maybe I let her win.

Maybe I'm that smart.

We've met Mina, she doesn't
let anybody win, ever.

Well played, sir.

We've got a super-busy
couple days ahead of us.

What we have left to do
is install all the cabinets.

Once the cabinets are up,

we can get the herringbone tile finished.

With the tile done
in the bathroom,

the new bathroom shower head and
hardware are getting installed.

The paint
has to be finished outside,

- all the paint inside...
- All the vanities.

...all of the electrical fixtures.

There's a lot left to do.

What's going on, Bill?

You like it?

I could not be happier
with that.

I'm glad you guys like it.

You like it?

It's been something else.

This wall--
what's our situation?

Do we have enough herringbone
to do this whole...

We do not have enough
to go all the way up.

I think we have enough to
possibly go all the way

towards the end at the height
we going, with the 13 inches,

but we do not have enough tile
to go all the way up the wall.

And this stuff
is special order.

So we're not gonna be able
to get more in.

There's no way we would be able
to get any of it in time.

Okay. So we're doing
the open shelving there,

like,
the old floor-joist stuff.

Like, the way it looks now,

- I like it painted.
- Yeah.

So it sounds like the decision
we're leaning towards

is the easiest one, right?

Yeah.

Okay.
You guys get back to work.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you guys.

So I have a bunch
of things in my backyard

that came from Terrace.

There's some big hunks
of masonry

that have tile adhered
to the front of them,

and these particular tiles
are sort of a reddish brown,

and I also have
some scrap lumber.

So what I'm doing is
take beveled glass,

make it into a mirror,

put a piece of tile at the top

and a piece of tile
at the bottom,

cut up some of that scrap wood,
make a frame-- boom.

And then when it's all dry,
I will flip it over and say...

- Voilà!
- Voilà!

She knew.

Today is, like, the last
big push in construction.

It's all the finishing touches.

So we're getting
cabinet pulls put on,

a few trim pieces still
going in, paint touch ups.

Granite countertop's
finally getting installed.

And, finally, Ryan is delivering
the custom vanity.

The very last thing we have
to do in the house

before staging
is our wood accent wall

in the master bedroom.

They're so pretty.

This is gonna look
really cool.

Let's see what we
can do here.

First one.

Got to get low...

so I can see the level line.

I think that's pretty good.

Okay.

There you go.

Wow!

Now we're cooking with gas!

Now, with the wall done,

I can't wait to get
the furniture moved in

so we can put the bed in front
of it and see how cool it looks.

The amount of sweat I'm sweating
is not reflective

of the difficulty level
of the project.

Crushed it.

This was easy.

Okay, if the furniture truck
is pulling up,

that means we've done
our job.

There is a house that is clean
enough to put furniture in.

Yay!

Winning.

That's gonna go right under

our bomb light fixture
in the dining room.

Careful.

It probably doesn't help
to say careful.

No.

So we have a pretty
open-concept living/dining room,

and then it's fairly open
to the kitchen.

You don't even have to
turn your head.

Just look with your eyes
and there's the dining room,

and look with your eyes
and there's the kitchen

and there's
the living room.

So it's really important that
these three rooms are cohesive

without being matching,

and that they tell the story
of wood and metal--

elegant industrial.

Would it be funny if you tripped
and all those just went flying

across the floor?

Why would that be funny?

I said would it be funny.

No.

The furniture in the office
is so cool.

The desk is made out of,
like giant, old luggage,

is kind of what it looks like.

And the chairs are, like,
an aviator style, but leather.

Is that what you would
call them?

And they look very, like,
old-school pilot to me.

Thank you, sir.

Now that the house
is all done

and we have it dressed beautifully,

the next step is to get it
onto the market,

get it sold so we can move on
to the next project.

It's all coming together.
I'm very happy.

What, our nap?
Is our nap coming together?

Mm-hmm. Soon.
Not yet.

I'm super excited to
show this house to Nathan.

Yeah, 'cause he saw it
when it was...

I mean, he lives
right across the street,

so he has to look at it
all the time,

and it was so bad before.

The project is great
for Terrace Avenue.

No one wants to see a house
on their street

that's dilapidated
and run down.

Hey, Nathan!

Hi.

What do you think?

Looks great.

Love the outside,

the way you guys were able
to maintain

the original look of the house.

The lap siding and trim
looks great.

A lot of curb appeal.

Definitely far more curb appeal
than the boarded up front door.

Yes, it is.
That is for sure.

Your landscape's a pretty big
improvement over before.

I could even see the front
of the house anymore.

We had some seriously
overgrown junk trees

that we had to manage.

My favorite part, though,
is this porch.

I don't remember there being
a porch on the house before.

It's my favorite, too.
No, it was just flat,

which was not terribly
aesthetically pleasing.

Right, well, I mean, that really
defines the entry of the house.

It's really nice.

Let's go check out
the inside.

All right. Great.

Ta-da!

Wow!
This is amazing.

Compared to what it
used to look like,

this is a completely different house.

Before, as soon as you
walked into the house,

the first thing you looked at
was that fireplace in the corner

that was falling into
the abyss.

I remember that.

It had a hole in the roof
and it was really a mess.

It was bad.

Now you have
a much better view

when you first walk in
to the house.

The openness of the room
opens up this space.

The two rooms together is
gonna be very marketable.

Before, the kitchen
would have been someplace

far away and closed off,

and now we want it to be
part of the living space.

Wow. It definitely looks
a lot different

than last time I saw it.

This house seemed to say
something simple,

but not boring,

and I think it helps showcase

the herringbone pattern
in the tile,

and the nice, rich, deep
wood color of the butcher block,

and then that granite.

It's real pretty.
That's all.

Lots and lots of details
that not every house has in it.

It's nice.

We can go check out
the old kitchen,

which is now the office.

Ta-da!

- Are those pocket doors?
- They are.

So you can close it off
for privacy

or have it nice and open
if you have a tidy office.

I don't.

So I would close these, but...

So this was the old kitchen,

which really only means
that there was, like,

a couple base cabinets
and a couple upper cabinets.

That was all that
was in here.

But the old staircase
went up right through here,

so by switching it, now this
is private space in the back.

So you got the closet in here,
got the windows for egress.

So it makes the house
a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath,

or a two bedroom
with an office.

But I feel like
we should go upstairs.

Okay.

All right.
Let's go.

So this is
the new bathroom.

This used to be
a bedroom?

This and on the other side of
this wall was all one bedroom.

Sometimes you have to
take away a bedroom

to make the house
really workable.

This right here is a vanity top
that we had left over.

So Mina and I had this idea,

and we have Ryan make us
a custom vanity.

And the nice thing about
doing custom vanities

is a lot of the stock ones are,
like, 20 inches off the ground,

and this is even higher
than counter height.

I'm 5'2", so I'm about
as short as it gets,

and it's, like,
perfect face-washing height.

Not too high.

So you want to go see
the guest bedroom?

I'd love to.

Head on in.

Wow.

So this is where
the bathroom was.

We moved the door over here,

and now there's this huge
walk-in closet.

Then we also have a little bit
of additional closet space.

Even in a house this size,

we try really hard not to
waste any space,

because space is crucial.

So I'm gonna help you
with our theme.

Okay.

What is the light
made out of?

Metal.

Yes. And what is the headboard
made out of?

Wood.

Okay.

Ta-da!

I found it?

Wood and metal!

Wood and metal, huh?

All right.

It's pretty obvious.

- You ready?
- Ready.

And now that you know
the theme, can you see it?

So the wood and metal
theme kind of turned into

what you've been calling
"elegant industrial".

So we've got the curves on
the metal bed

alongside the wood,
and so it's just a little--

it's like a softened industrial.

Yeah.

I really like that
accent wall, though.

It's the easiest thing to do
in the world.

You want to go see
the bathroom?

Yeah, I think that was a nasty,
old closet back in the day.

Yeah.

It was a closet.

This was a closet.

And now it's a bathroom.

Every day of the week
I will pick white tile

over anything else.

It's timeless and clean.

I think it's really nice.

Although, I'm sure we could
all spend all day

in this lovely bathroom,
let's go back downstairs.

All right.

Check out the back deck.

Wow!

Before, it was kind of
just a gravel pit

for people to dump their trash.

Now there's actually
a nice, cozy backyard.

That's nice.
The privacy fence is huge.

Everybody likes to have
their privacy fence down here.

- Definitely.
- It looks great.

So we've kind of got two nooks
on the side for, like,

a grill
or your cushion storage.

That kind of stuff.

I would say hot tub.

Hot tub.

Hot tub over there?

A nice, private corner
for a hot tub.

We bought this house for $4,500
and put $190,000 into it.

That puts us all in
at around $194,500.

The house sold for $226,000,

so after all is said and done,

that nets us a profit
close to $31,500.

And now we can turn that around
into our next project

to help bring another one of
these old houses back to life.

Thank you both very much
for showing me the house.

It's a beautiful house,

and it's just really nice
to have a house

on the street fixed up
like this.

It looks great.
Thank you.

I'm glad we could
show it to you,

and we're gonna find you
some really awesome neighbors.

I promise.

Great. Thank you.