Good Bones (2016–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - An Office Becomes a Home - 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...

Yeah, we got
some water down here.

...we try and buy.

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

...we create beautiful homes
for our neighbors.

- Wow.
- Wow.

This is our neighborhood,

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



Oh! This is so good!

Every tragic house...

Ugh! Tad!
It's still on!

...deserves a second chance.

No!
Watch it!

Good hustle.

Because underneath
all that mess,

we might find
some really good bones.

- One of those cabbage trees?
- Oh, a big cabbage tree.

We're going to get
- this cabbage tree.
- Like a flower.

We're going to get
this cabbage tree.

Get those flowers.

I don't want to touch them.
I'm cold.

Although I'm not excited
about the yucky day,



it's nice to get away
from, like,

the construction site
on occasion, so...

And spend time
with your mom.

Even it if is
yucky wet plant day.

It's 'cause
she loves me.

Whatever.
Whatever.

Look how pretty this is.

Your hands are full.
That means we're done.

We got to go over
to East Street anyways

and check it out.

My hands are full.

So, this house is
tricky, tricky because...

Why do you say
it's tricky, tricky?

It's just, the house
used to be used as an office

for this countertop-fabrication
company,

but it's not really functional
as-is for a house.

We bought the East Street house
for $50,000,

and it's right around
1,400 square feet.

We have two bedrooms,
one bathroom.

It's just broken up where

there's, like,
five different rooms.

And then there's a kitchen
on the back.

So it needs work
- is what you're saying.
- Yes, it does.

And it's the furthest south
we've gone in Bates-Hendricks,

and Bates-Hendricks
is the discomfort zone still.

So South Bates-Hendricks

definitely makes it
a little more iffy.

Okay.

And we spent
$50,000 on it.

All right.
Here we are.

All right.
Hood up.

- Dodge the raindrops.
- Run for it.

We need some gutters.

We definitely
need some gutters.

Oh.
Look at this.

- That fish scale's cute.
- That's adorable.

It looks very layery.

It's hard to get out
of here.

We get the gist of it.
It's not demo day yet.

I like these doors.

Ooh.

That's exciting.
We don't usually have lights.

No. We don't usually.

You know what?

I'd be tempted to not do
anything to this floor at all.

Where's a light switch?

Oh.
Oh.

So, this might have been
the front parlor years ago.

What's that?

Oh!

Why would you do that?

I got it. Don't worry.
I got it. I got it.

This...
Great. I got it.

...fireplace is very cool.

But I think we need--You're not loving it?

Well, no.
It's all messed up.

It's in bad shape.

Yeah.

How do you open this?

Ohh.

I believe that is
a couch cushion.

This is just going to be
- purely aesthetic purposes.
- Yeah.

That was just bizarre.

The tub,
we will not be keeping.

This must have been
a bedroom at some point.

All the switches for the rooms,
it looks like,

are on the outside
of the spaces.

That's unusual. So we need to do
a little electrical work.

- Pull all that out.
- Uh-huh.

That wall is just
incredibly thick.

That's, like, a solid
10 inches, right?

Makes me think there must be
a pocket door behind there.

Half-bath.

Although it's, like,
a little dated-looking.

Okay.
Hmm.

So, I'm guessing this
was the dining room

before this house
was turned into an office.

This is ugly.

Maybe this big island
was part of the display

when it was
a countertop sales office,

but where it is in
the room right now
just doesn't make sense.

It's got to go.

This looks like
it was the bathroom.

It's plumbed
for a bathroom.

Toilet, sink...

Shower, tub, whatever.

I like that we have
appliances, too.

When do we ever
get appliances?

You consider a vacuum
an appliance?

Yeah!
Huh.

- That's an appliance.
- An appliance, to me,
is, like, a refrigerator,

a stove, or microwave,

a dishwasher,
a washing machine.

An appliance is anything
that does work for me.

Oh.

So is Roger
an appliance?

That's good.
Yeah?

Roger is Mom's husband.

Best appliance ever.

So, we need
to reorganize.

The space isn't
necessarily bad,

but it definitely
needs to be reorganized.

Yeah.
Okay.

Huh.

Kitchen.

Look-- more appliances!

None of this is awful,

but it's awful enough
that we can't keep it.

This whole thing
is probably old porch.

The way the configuration
of the house,

this looks like an add-on.

We can walk around the side
and see,

but I bet this'll
have a shed roof.

I think we need to come back and
measure and do all that stuff,

but my guess is, this needs to
go to the front of the house.

I would move the kitchen
to the front.

And I know this might
seem a little bit weird,

but since we have
two front doors,

I would actually
leave them both,

but I'd move the kitchen
up to here.

So we've got living room,
dining room, kitchen.

Okay.

All right,
let's check out the basement.

All right.

Ohh!

Geez!

Geez, I wasn't
ready for that.

The only door
in the house,

and it doesn't even
have pins in it.

Looks like there's
a light right here.

Oh, wait.
There's a switch up here, Mina.

What?

Yeah, we've got
some water down here.

Looks like it's coming in
from that window, maybe.

I mean, for how much
it's raining, this isn't tragic.

At least the water's
all running to this drain.

That's good.

And the drain's
actually draining.

- That's excellent.
- That never happens.

I'm super excited.

Let's get out of here.

Oy!

- First step's a doozy?
- First step's a doozy.

All right.

It's not bad.

We're just definitely
going to have to be careful

on our inside
and outside budget.

My preference would be
to make it inviting

and simple
and make it beautiful again

without losing
any of the history or charm.

Yeah.

So, we've got a bunch of
crappy siding on the outside

that we need to
pull off and replace.

Inside has a really weird
layout, so we need to redo that.

And then
the really ugly kitchen

in the back needs
to be demolished

and resituated closer
to the front of the house.

We've got to
get Lenny in here

to kind of narrow down
renovation cost

'cause I think this one's
going to be a little bit tricky

'cause it doesn't feel like
we're doing a ton,

but these projects always
end up costing way more

than we anticipate.

So, buying it for $50,000,
I think we're going to be,

like, $80,000
to $100,000 in--

absolutely at the highest,
$150,000.

And then, hopefully,
we can sell it for...

$220,000?...$175,000 to $200,000.

What?!
I don't know.

I mean, this is further out
than we've gone.

I just don't know
what's going to be feasible.

It is small.
It does make
a big difference.

The house next door
just sold for $80,000,

- and it's huge.
- Oh.

So we got to
get Lenny in here,

got to get the demo boys in
to open up some of the walls,

see what's going on.

All right.
All right.

Let's go.
We got work to do.

Demo day!

Today is demo day
at East Street!

It's hot!
It's hot!

We're ready
to demo some stuff.

Break it!
Heh heh heh!

So, that's
what's happening.

She has her mother's laugh.
Did you just hear that?

"Heh heh heh!"

That just
happened to you.
Oh, crap.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

Are you guys ready
to do some demo?

Yeah, we're ready
to do some demo.

This house--
a little bit different.

The outside-- pull all
the aluminum off.

We're going to scrap it.

Inside, the whole kitchen's
getting gutted,

but the rest of it is
a little bit more detail work,

opening some walls.

Power, water--
anything like that?

There is power,
there is water,

so don't just go, like,
ripping through stuff,

or you could hit a water line
or electrocute yourself.

Any questions?
No.

All right. Come on.

Look at this.

I'm trying to figure out...

This piece doesn't
look structural.

No. It's not.

But then it's going to do
something weird next to--

I don't know. I don't know
if we can get rid of it.

Where these three walls intersect

that we want opened up,
it was a little funky.

What's the question? It's not.
It's not holding anything up.

Just call Lenny and say,
"You need to come now.

We don't want to take
a wall down, and we're scared."

I was pretty confident
of what was load-bearing

and what wasn't,

but that's such
an important call.

I don't want to make it
willy-nilly.

I want other eyes on it.

Look over here, Lenny.

There's this big honker beam
across the track.

But then everything up there,

nothing's actually
resting on it.

What's the track from?

Old pocket door.

Yeah, but these are nailed
to the face of it.

Something's got to be
load-bearing here.

No, they're not.
They're cut off underneath it.

See? They stop.

So, this right here,
this 2x4 right here,

because you got a floor joist
that runs here and here,

so this is
holding the floor.

Okay.

Here. Mark it.

Maybe, like,
with a checkmark.

Which 2x4
can't come out, though?

This one. Okay.

Leave this.

This here,
you can take out.

Okay. All right.

The whole kitchen
can be gutted.

Oh, but we're saving
the cabinets to take to reclaim?

You need to unhook
the water line

for the dishwasher,
for the sink.

Is the water turned off?

No. Remember, I said
you need to turn the water off

before you unhook
the dishwasher or the sink?

Oh!

There we go.

Open concept!

Whoo-hoo!

Dining room,
living room, kitchen.

- It looks so good.
- It did.
It looked great.

Mina, Karen,
get over here!

- Come on!
- Oh, Tad!

I know! I know!

Hey, Mina!
Mina, Karen, get over here!

- Come on!
- Oh, Tad!

I know! I know!

Why didn't we turn
the water off

before we started
pulling the plumbing?

Despite my very...

Specific....specific direction

to turn the water off
before he demo'd the kitchen--

I don't know.
Maybe he just didn't?

It's what you call
a water feature.

Yes. We created a water feature
in the kitchen.

You know
where the shutoff is?

I'm looking for it.

Boy, that didn't
smell good at all.

The pressure's building up.

When I let go of this thing,
it's going to spray everywhere.

Copper, copper.

Is it shut off?

Uh...

No! Definitely
not shut off!

Do we have a second one
to swap--Could do a trash can.

Huh? Do we have more--

It's off!

Just in time.

There are a couple morals
to this story.

The first moral
of the story is,

know where your water shutoff
valves are-- first moral.

That's the broad moral.

Second moral is,
don't trust Tad.

I feel like we took
a perfectly good house

and we ripped it to pieces.

Yeah. Yeah.

But when we're done,

it's going to be awesome,
magical, magnificent,

- gorgeous, beautiful.
- All those things.
Yep. Yep.

Now that demo's done,

we can hammer out all
the details of our floor plan.

So, this house...

East Street! Yay!

...is pretty simple.

It's a pretty
manageable project.

Yeah, 2 bedrooms,
2 1/2 bathrooms,

and we don't have to move
that many walls.

Now, when you walk
into the house,

the living/kitchen/dining room
is one big open space.

We're going to keep
that fireplace there.

Even though it's not
going to function,

it's still really pretty.

This wall is going to be
a bit of a doozy to remove.

It's important that we put
a new structural support in

because the floor joist
rests on that wall.

If we don't put anything in,
the ceiling will just fall.

On the left side of the house,
we'll leave the half-bath.

We're going to leave
the bedroom,

and we're going to leave
that full bath.

We're just going to
rearrange it

to make it
a more functional full bath.

I'm really uncomfortable

with the half-bath
off of a dining room.

I'm comfortable
with your discomfort.

Budget-wise, it makes no sense
to move it.

And then,
where the kitchen was,

we're going to make
that the master bedroom

and the master bath.

You good with this?
Yes.

Okay.
Let's go.

This is simple--
one story, boom.

Boom.

So, luckily, just in time
to beat the rain,

we're getting
the house wrapped.

Chimney's coming down inside
that we didn't want.

And Mom and Tad
are working on

removing the walkway
to the house.

It's not going to be
an easy break.

It's really thick concrete.

It's about probably 7... 6 inches?

...6 inches.

It's just really hard
to take Tad seriously.

He was kind of like
a circus bear.

Like, he just wants to do tricks
and make you happy.

Have you got some sort of idea
about how to get rid of these?

- These guys?
- Yeah.

Um--

Oh, you got me
good that time.

Seriously,
did you have an idea?

Lenny, when I--

I'm done.
I'm done.

I'm going to
put this down...

and I'm going to
walk away.

And now you can tell me
what your idea is.

- I'm not touching it.
- Okay.

What's your idea?

Um...
do you have an idea?

This is the problem.
If we--

Sorry.
I couldn't hear you.

Get it?
Yeah.

It's fun.
I like this a lot.

Nice!

Teamwork makes
the dream work, baby.

Beautiful.
Let's go hydrate.

Let's go do it.

All right, I'm super excited
to talk about

all the design stuff
for the East Street house.

Well, there's gold on the table.
Why wouldn't you be excited?

I mean, I know
I always give you the

"We can't spend a lot of money.
It's a big risk" lecture.

But this house--

I know.
I give it all the time.

- What's happening over here?
- I give it all the time.

And this house
on East Street is,

to date, the farthest south
we've gone in Bates-Hendricks.

See? You got to
manifest your reality.

Okay,
that's what I'm doing

with all the gold
and the shiny things.

I'm going to make this house
like a gem on the block,

and then all the good things
are going to happen around it.

So, I love this vanity,

and I want to use this
in the master.

But I like this as kind of
our pull-through color.

This color, I think
we could use on the outside.

- I like that color, yes.
- Awesome!

And then the walls
on the inside-- barely pink.

- Yeah. I like this.
- But I like it.

This is the backsplash
I like.

I know.
I like it, too.

Okay, so we're good
on those colors.

We're good on the teal.

We're good
on the backsplash.

So, I found this.

And I think our fireplace
we have,

I think doing the surround is
the perfect application for this

'cause it's not too much.

- I like that a lot.
- That makes me so happy.

So, I keep seeing this pop up
in bathrooms, and I love it.

It's, like,
a little berry tree.

So, I think this going on
the back wall of the half-bath,

so when you
open the door...
You see it.

...you see, like, a little,
like, "Ooh, what's that?"

This is my dream floor that
I'm hoping we can use there.

This is so dramatic
and elegant.

This is our pretty, pretty,
super-high-risk...

Pretty, pretty
princess house?...pretty princess
dream home.

- I love this.
- I can order stuff?

Yes.
All right.

Onward.

- Have a good day, lady.
- Thank you.

Let's take
this one out first.

We're over at
the East Street house today,

and we are taking down
the rest of the wall.

Where the header
is going to go.

Yeah, this wall is
what's standing between us

and our open-concept
floor plan.

- Take which one out?
- This one.

We've put two temp walls
on either side

to carry the weight
of the second floor

while we take out
the original wall

and replace it
with the header.

So, the only thing that's
kind of tricky at this point

is we can't see
the ceiling joists.

We haven't completely
gutted the ceiling,

so as we're taking out each post
from the load-bearing wall,

it's just a little tense.

There is some weight
on that.

- Whoa, whoa! Watch it!
- Ho! Ho!

Good hustle.

Holding it, when I'm cutting,
you don't want it to come out

from underneath the weight, okay?

Eyes.

Game on.
This is it.

- You ready?
- Ready.

Our worst-case scenario is,

the floor joists above us--
they fall.

Do this.
They do this.

Look out!

Here we go.

Game on. This is it.

- You ready?
- Ready.

All right.

Our worst-case scenario is

the floor joists above us--
they fall.

Do this.

- Look out!
- God!

Lenny, I hate you!

He's a jerk.

I don't know
what he did, exactly.

He just, like, grabbed me.
He went

Like, it scared you
a little bit then, too.

Did you see how high
her knees went?

You're a jerk.

Nothing looked like
- it moved, Lenny.
- Nope. It didn't.

I think your support walls
worked great.

Next step is, we just have to
get this giant header

lifted up into position
and installed,

and then we'll have
our beautiful open floor plan.

One of you pick it up, the
other one slide the ladder down.

- I'll get it in the pocket.
- Roll it.

What this is going to
allow is,

when we walk in
the front door,

we're going to be able to
see the living room,

the dining room,
and the kitchen,

and there's gonna be a free flow
through all the spaces.

It's going
to be awesome.

"Awesome"?
What's happened to me?!

I used to have better words
than "awesome."

Now I just
use her word.

It's going to be
amaze-balls.

All right.
We're done, kids.

- Done!
- We survived!

House is still up.

I need some fresh air.

Things are coming along
really well

at our East Street house.

We've got guys
framing walls inside,

and outside, they're
installing all the trim

so siding can go up.

Ooh!
Oh, look!
We have a new door!

So, Lenny lures us over
to East Street today

under the guise
of an electrical plan check-in.

Can lights--
how many do you want?

I told them I wanted
two in this hallway.

- Just two?
- If you want three,
say you want three.

Can we have three
in that hallway?

- Absolutely.
- Thank you.

Then we go through
the whole house.

We're like, "Yeah, yeah.
Bing, bang, boom.

This is where all
the can lights go. Easy-peasy."

And he's like,
"Well, and now,

you know when you almost died
installing that header?"

Here's the deal.

So, after research
on the header...

- Not okay.
- Not okay.

Because the live load/dead load upstairs.

With the shear of the posts, the
post has got to be 10 inches.

I know that's going to take away
from the space,

but that's all
that we can do with it.

We have to install a column
where the two headers intersect.

So between the three rooms,
we're gonna have a 10x10 column.

It's not
the end of the world,

but it's just so pretty
all open.

I know.

But to meet code

and to support the rest of
the weight of the house,

we have to put in
a column, 10x10.

If we have to have one, we have
to have one. That's life.

Today, we are going to,
hopefully, find our dream stone.

Our dream stone.

It sounds cool when
- you say that, right?
- It does.

- It sounds magical.
- It does sound magical.

It's like
a sorcerer's stone.

Not right.
But I love it.

Wait. What are
we looking for?

Probably Carrara?

We're not looking
for Carrara.

This is... Super white.

...really pretty.

I have, like,
a comfort zone.

I'm very comfy
with Carrara marble

because it goes
with everything.

- Oh, look.
- And then, of course...

Look what we have!

...is my comfy best friend,
the Carrara.

But we want something
that's more wow than that.

- This is our fallback.
- Yeah.

What I want is a stone

that looks like
it has diamonds in it.

Yes.

Let me
show you this.

Needs to be more glammy
and a little more girly.

We only need
a single slab, right?

Yeah. It's just--
it's the island.

And then the hearth
of the fireplace,

we want to do the same granite
that we do the island.

I think I may have something
in our shop that would work.

That's so pretty.

I love it.

- You crushed it.
- Teamwork.

Oh. A hug?
Okay.

There's something
about this house

where we're giving ourselves
a little bit more freedom

than we normally
give ourselves.

And when you get
unreasonably excited, like,

if I find
my perfect slab of granite,

I will ask what it costs,

but then I'll pay it
and not care.

So, we just need to go
to the office, sign things,

give you money?

Definitely give me money. Yes.

All right. Let's go.

- Thank you, guys!
- Thank you!

So, today,
we are back at East Street,

and our new front doors
have arrived.

All right.
Do you have a box cutter?

I'll cut these
bad boys open.

Ta-da!

Nice!

- How pretty are those?
- They're really pretty.

We've seen this
two-front-door thing before

in houses
with similar footprints.

Yes.
So this is my belief.

One front door went into
a formal front parlor,

and that was the door
the guests went through.

And the other door went into the
main living room of the house,

and that's where
all the people went through.

But we're not going to
use it that way.

We just like the look.

It's so pretty!

Hang on a second.
We got to get some shim for--

Hello!
I'm holding it.

- You got that door?
- I got it.

You sure?
I got it.

All right, lunch!

I can lean--

Shut up, Leonard!

Just hang out here
all day, guys.

I mean, how crazy
was that demo?

That could be the craziest demo
I've ever seen.

Hello!

- You got that door?
- I got it.

You sure?
I got it.

All right, lunch!

I can lean--

Shut up, Leonard!

Just hang out here
all day, guys.

How long you think
we can leave her there?

All right.
We ready?

You done? I can be done
with my wall sits?

Push it over.

Is it level?
Pulling it way over to the left.

Needs to be shimmed up
on Lenny's left.

I just want to see how much
I can beat in with my hand.

All right.

Wow.
It's still not level.

Bottom corner
needs to go up.

This one?
Yep.

If the reveal
all the way around the door

isn't even
all the way around,

the door doesn't
open and shut well.

It'll stick at the bottom.
It'll stick at the top.

- It'll be a pain in the butt.
- It'll be annoying.

South side
needs to go up.

There you go.

- More?
- No. That's fine.

Nice.

Nice!

- We're good?
- Got it.

Second one just went in,
like, lickety-split.

There.
Right there.

- That it?
- That's it.

That's all.
See ya.

We're not buying none.

They're gonna be perfect.
They're gonna go
with the fish scale.

Little curve
with the fish scale

with the corbels,
it's all gonna--

And we're gonna paint them pink.
It's gonna be awesome.

All right.
Let's do this.

Let's bust it.

We're putting the new
fish-scale siding back on.

We're trying to re-create
the original look

'cause the stuff that was there
wasn't really salvageable.

We try to remain true
to the character of the house

without being wed
to an old design

that doesn't work anymore
for the way people live now.

Got one of your pieces?

So, now we're going to
still have some of the integrity

of the original look
of the house

but in a newer,
prettier way.

Boom!

I have a surprise
for you.

Okay.

I think, first,
we should just go in,

and you should just, like,
just be in your happy place.

I know we were bummed about
having to put a column

in the middle of our beautiful
open floor plan. Yeah.

But there's something
I want to show you

that I think's going to
make you really happy,

and it's going to be the
perfect thing for this space.

All right. I'm psyched
to see what it is.

So, what if it were
that fancy?

- I love that.
- Right?

Will it fit?

Well,
we can make it fit.

- That's really cool.
- It is cool.

It doesn't
look like something

that you could or would want
to chop down to make fit.

No.

So you can't.

The middle section
is actually one tree carved.

Oh!

They're out of northern India--
used to hold up a building.

- It's really old.
- So, like,
from this whole chunk?

Yeah. So, you can
see the seam up there.

So from there
- all the way down to the base.
- I love it.

If this is teak and concrete,
- we should be okay.
- Yeah.

Well, why don't we do
a little bit of measuring

- and then come back?
- Yeah.

And really strong people.

And really strong--
How much do they weigh?

Good question. A lot.

All right.

Let's go
get a measuring tape.

- Figure it out.
- Yeah. I'm with you.

- Thank you, guys.
- You're welcome.

It's a good surprise.

Over at East Street,
things are moving right along.

We've got our drywallers
hanging drywall.

Outside,
the painters are painting,

and Tad and I are going to
put in the deck.

Now that the house
is coming together,

I think I have the perfect idea
for the backyard.

Well, today, we're going to
build a rain garden.

So, a rain garden
is a shallow hole

that you dig in the ground and
fill with water-loving plants.

It's a way to redirect runoff
from storm sewers

and allow it instead
to percolate through the soil.

So, Mom's digging
a long ditch

with the excavator
along the fence.

And then we'll also take
our gutters and attach them

so all that water runs
into the hole we've dug.

So, it's very
environmentally friendly.

Yes.

Go a smidgen
that way.

There.

I think you scooped up
some dookie.

Pardon me?
You think I got some dookie?

What's wrong?
You didn't
scoop up dookie!

You scooped up
a dead animal!

Aww.

I'll get it.

Can you put that
right in the Dumpster?
Yeah.

When you start digging,

you just never know
what you're going to uncover.

And I think
it might have been,

like, a buried raccoon
or something.

Who knows?

Too bad it wasn't
buried treasure. That's all.

So, which one's going
in the center?

The ones
in the stinky water.

These buttonbush are nice
'cause they love wet feet.

Love it.

And let's put some irises
along the sides.

Man.
That was a lot of rocks.

It's almost a ton.

I'm going to give it
a little test.

Oh, yeah?
A little testy-test.

A little testy-test?

Sorry.

It appears
to be working!

Yay!

So, this garden is going to
collect most of the rainwater

that would normally shed
from the roof

into the
storm-water-collection system.

Once the plants fill in,

it's going to be full of lush,
water-tolerant plants.

It's going to be
environmentally conscious

and easy
to take care of.

It's doing a good job.

It's percolating down
really well.

I want some rain.

You just want to keep saying
"percolating."

You just like saying the word
"percolating."

It's a good word.

I am so in love
with this house on East Street.

We're kind of going all-out
on this one,

and there's tons of stuff
going on.

We've got the hardwood floors
going in.

Tad's got the crew outside.

They're getting the sidewalk in.
Inside cabinets are going in.

And in the master bathroom,

we're putting up
some really beautiful tile

that's going to add just a touch
of elegance to the shower.

Today, we're putting in
that really cool antique column,

and it turns out
it was just the right size,

so we snatched it up.

Today, we're installing it,
and should be easy-peasy.

Come on, big girl.

Told you-- she does not swing
like a girl.

Boom!

This way a little bit.

That's the way to do it.

Get a level on it.

Square it up.
There we go.

Well, it looks like
you're crooked now.

We need to go...

that way at the top.

At the top?
Yeah.

No, I was wrong.
- This way at the top.
- That's what I thought.

How are you now?

Top needs to go...

that way.

Now, that looks
a lot better.

Wait.
But it's not plumb yet.

Needs to come that way
a hair.

You're pulling it that way
while you're doing it.

Now it's got to come back
this way and go that way.

- Dial it in, Leonard.
- I just don't know.

Now it's got to go towards
the front door a hair.

Uh... kidding.
That way a hair.

Are you kidding?!

I was going the right way
to begin with.

Uh, yes.
- Yes, you were.
- Yes, I was.

So, turns out, the hardest part
of installing this column

is getting it, like,
plumb and level and square,

'cause it's going
every which way.

But we got it in--
bing, bang, boom, done--

and it's beautiful.

All right,
here's a test for your pillar.

Oh, we're going to take this
down, put some weight on it?

Just kind of
hang on to that,

just hope it stays
and it don't buckle.

I'm scared.

I got it.

You see
the fear on my face?
No.

Phew!

Lot of pressure.

All right.
Take it out.

I think we're good.

This is just stupid cool.

- Nice work.
- All right. Lunchtime.

We're down to
a pretty short to-do list

to wrap up this renovation.

We're putting up really cool
sliding doors

on the bedrooms
and bathrooms.

We're putting this
really, really pretty wallpaper

in the powder room.

We're gonna give the fireplace
a really cool, new facade

by using this antique mirrored
tile on the front of it.

And the painters are getting
a coat of the nice pale pink

we picked on the walls.

So, today, we are at
our most favorite little house

on East Street,
and it's an exciting day...

Truck's here!

...because our baby girl
is all grown up,

and she's getting
her furniture

and she's getting all
her decorations.

I feel like
a very successful miner.

I don't care if the other kids
hear it. She's our favorite.

She's the prettiest,
and she's the smartest.

And today, she's just
getting blinged out.

As excited as I am
about this house

and as pretty as she's
turning out to be,

I'm still concerned about
possibly having overspent a bit.

This is the farthest south

we've ever worked
in Bates-Hendricks,

and it's definitely not
the most hot area.

Well, not yet.

No, not yet.
But I do know where to price it.

I'm going to have some
of my Realtor friends

come by
and check it out.

I just have no clue what we
could potentially sell it for.

We can sell it
for lots.

I hope.

Let there be fire.

Ooh! Nice!

We took a little bit
of a risk with this house.

I think it's definitely
a transitional,

but I think it has
a lot of potential.

Here she is. Wow.

- Wow.
- Just nailed it.

So, we're finally finished

with our adorable little
East Street renovation,

but I'm a little concerned
about how to price it.

We've put a lot of money
into this house,

and this portion
of Bates-Hendricks,

because it is kind of
on the fringes,

is still very transitional.

So the problem is,
even if we find a buyer

to pay a reasonable amount,

there aren't any comps close
to support the value

for a buyer to be able
to get a mortgage.

It's just going to take
one cute little cafe to pop in,

and then everybody's
perceptions change.

Tad and Jenny are both Realtors
in my office,

and they're very familiar
with this area,

so they're going to come
by the house, check it out,

and give us their honest opinion
of kind of where they think

we're falling in the market
with this renovation.

- Here she is.
- Wow.

Wow.
Just nailed it.

That is awesome.

Colors are really subtle.

I love that you kept
both front doors.

And you, obviously,
will probably only use one.

No, but it keeps
the look.

I think it adds
a little bit of charm

and keeps it
a little bit accurate

The curved glass
in the door is excellent.

I think
that's the perfect segue

to checking out
the inside of the house.

All right.
I can't wait.

Ta-da!
Whoa!

Man.

What?!

The mirrored tile makes me happy
every time I see it.

I love it.

The pillar-- such a focal piece
in this space.

And it opened
everything up, yep.

Come on in here.

Also a great entrance
to the room.

Before, like, the doors were
in the same spot,

but this was
all walled off.

So now we've got this
nice open-concept living space.

Being able to put the column
there let us open everything up.

And now we've got these floors
running diagonal

throughout over here.

We were able
to keep the fireplace.

Yeah, what did you do
to restore that?

We took off the old tile face
and we put new tile on.

You'll notice the hearth is
the same as the kitchen island.

All right, let's check out
the dining room.

Just works really well.
It's really, really pretty.

The person that owned it before
us was using it as an office,

so now
we have this dining room.

Wait.
Wait for the "Ta-da."

Ta-da!

The cutest little
powder bathroom in the world.

So smart.
Oh, my gosh.

So, it's just little, tiny,
but the half-bath was there,

and from a real estate
perspective, I was like,

"If you have a half-bath,
we should keep it."

It just works
really well.

Let's go to the kitchen.

Which now brings us to the
beautiful, giant slab of granite

that we hunted for
far and wide.

And this is
where you live.

Like, this is, like,
the center

of your whole
family and everything.

When you have an island
like this, they're so inviting.

They're featuring every
last cool aspect of the house.

Your eyes keep on moving.
They don't stop anywhere.

Very well laid out,
very well composed.

I love it.

And this space,
I could just live in forever,

but there are two bedrooms
and two bathrooms,

so we're going to go check out
the guest bedroom first.

- There's more?
- There's more.

There's more!

And this
is our guest room.

What a great use
of space.

It's a 2 bedroom,
2 1/2 bath,

so this is the smaller
non-master bedroom.

All right,
well, this bedroom's cool,

and the master bedroom's
even cooler,

and it's
just across the hall.

So, here's your master.

Oh, wow. So bright.

Man. Wow,
that's a lot of light.

You get so much light,

but because
all the houses downtown

are so close to each other,

there's no view, necessarily,
out that window.

There's nasty aluminum siding
next door.

So we frosted them
so you still get tons of light.

But you get privacy
and you don't have a bad view.

Everybody, they say
the number-one priority

right now of a buyer
is light.

Every window of that house,

you have transoms,
you have doors,

and the fact that those
are huge windows in that space,

but then they don't have
to be covered for privacy,

I think, was just
complete brilliance.

So, let's check out
the master bathroom. Okay.

Wow.

This didn't exist.

This was actually
where the kitchen was

on the very back
of the house.

And where the vanity is is about
where the kitchen sink was.

Wow.

But it was all the way
at the back of the house,

didn't really work.

And the toilet's hidden
'cause--

I totally agree,
but this is Mom's thing.

She will pound it
into my brain every time.

Do not see the toilet
when you walk into the bathroom.

We still have
the whole backyard,

so why don't you
take them around,

go out the hall
- to the back?
- There's more?

Oh, man.
Geez. Come on.

He says,
"Geez. Come on."

What a great theme
you've got going on.

It's so great.

Come over here.

Is this
a functioning rain garden?

It is.
Yes! Yes!
You knew!

Tad for the win!

Not a lot of people know.

Let's talk some brass tacks,
'cause I need feedback.

Brass tacks time.

There's no question that they
think we did a good job

and they think
it's a beautiful house,

and they know
the quality of our work.

Right now, it's just
getting some feedback about

what we could actually
sell it for right now.

I mean, frankly, it's worth
$180,000 or $200,000.

I think you're
in that range, frankly.

I don't think you're going
to get above $200,000.

Ever or right now?

Regardless,
wherever you land,

whoever would buy
this house today

is going to be in a really
sweet spot in two more years.

This is the first house
on the block.

That's part of the reason
why it's only worth $200,000.

You put this house around four
or five more houses like it,

you inject another $1 million
in the immediate area... So we do need to buy
more houses.

...that brings the tide up.

The $200,000 portion
of that range

would be okay
for what we invested.

The $180,000
- wouldn't.
- Right.

We didn't have great news
as far as, like,

"Hey, what you spent here

is a little bit too much
right now."

And how stupid we were
for spending so much money.

"Stupid's" not the word.
It's bold.

It's courageous,
and frankly... Ahead of the curve.

I like all those words.
Keep talking.

That sounds better
than "stupid." I'll take it.

Visionary.
Yeah.

Visionaries!
We're visionaries!

So, we bought this house
for $50,000,

and we ended up spending more
on it than we planned--

about $130,000.

We could probably
sell it now

for anywhere between
$180,000 and $200,000,

but that means we would only
break even at worse

and, at best,
only make maybe $20,000.

So I think we're going to
hold on to it for a year or two,

rent it,
and give it a little time

for the neighborhood
to develop a bit more

and then, eventually,
make a nice profit on it.

So, maybe we're visionaries.
Maybe we're ahead of the curve.

I don't know.
Maybe we're just dummies.