Good Bones (2016–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - Little White House on a Hill - full transcript

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

And we're renovating Indianapolis

one house at a time.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

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. I love it.

This is our neighborhood,



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

- Ugh.
- Ew.

- Ohh!
- Oh, shoot!

Every tragic house...

Oh, whoa, whoa, get out.
Get out!

...deserves
a second chance.

Oh, my gosh.

Because underneath
all that mess,

we might find
some really good bones.

- Oh, look, Julie!
- Do you see the tomatoes?

What's that?

Whoo!
Do you want to eat it?

Chew.
You got to chew good.

Julie's my niece, and she's
always into everything,



so mom's garden
that has everything

is perfect for her.

Look!
Beegee got the fish food.

BEEGEE stands for
best grandma ever.

- Okay.
- Now you got to wait
for them to come.

All right.
Now throw it really far.

Good job.

You ready to go to school?
Okay.

Beegee and Mina have
to go look at a house.

We got stuff to do.

Let's roll.

So the house we're going
to check out now

is on Sanders Street.

It's this cute little white
house, kind of up on a hill,

which is
a little tricky.

So the purchase price
of this house was $30,000,

and it's small.

It's just
1,245 square feet.

And it is a two-story.

It has three bedrooms,
one bath.

Two of the bedrooms
and a bath are downstairs.

Then it has this weird
loft space upstairs.

The biggest problem
that the house has is

that it's just
one bathroom.

And the good thing
about this house is

it's in Bates-Hendricks,

so it's close to all of
the hip, happening places.

All the amenities of downtown
and Fountain Square,

but it's just way
more affordable.

Yes. And there is some
beautiful streets

with
well-maintained homes.

There's just a few eyesores
that need to be cleared up.

- And we're on that.
- Yeah! We got that.

- We're on top of that.
- We got that.

So it'll be great.

So in love?

It's pretty charming.
- It is.

Got the rose bush
and the shutters.

It just needs a facelift.

Are you going to try
to save the rose bush?

Oh, I'm going to save
the rose bush.

It's a cute little house.
- Pretty manageable.

Keep the front porch.

There's no windows
on this side of the house.

I think we need to add
some windows right there.

It's so closed up.
- Yep.

I mean, it just
needs a little love.

All right.
- All right.

Let's take a look.
- Okay.

Probably repour the sidewalks,
deck over the front porch.

Maybe a different
front door.

This is a little stinky,

but spacewise...

- It's not bad.
- ...it's not bad.

I'm guessing this was
the living room.

This carpet is horrendous.

Well, of course it is.

But decent-height ceilings.

It's not cave-like.

We got
a little slopey floor.

Yeah.

You can tell just
looking this way

that we're going to have
some foundation issues.

I like
"Simple pleasures are..."

and it's left to
the imagination.

It says, "Family."

That's a different
wall conversation.

They've got lots
of interesting decor.

All right.
Bedroom on the left.

I'm hoping
this isn't structural

because I feel like that
probably needs to come down

because these front
two spaces immediately, to me,

feel like they need
to be opened up.

But let's come on.

This is so weird.

This is such a mess!

There's this long,
weird bathroom

that's, like, 15 feet long
and 4 feet wide.

Like, hold on.

I'm going
to take a shower.

Anyone much bigger than me
would not be able

to get into the shower.

Like Bobcat?

Bobcat would just be
a dirty bird all the time.

Austin is
on our demo crew.

Because he's so large...

We call him Bobcat
because he is an excavator.

He can come in and take
a whole house down

with just pushing it.

I'm going to make you
a bet right here.

Bobcat could take
a shower in there.

20 bucks he can fit.

- All right.
- I got 20 bucks on it.

- We'll see.
- Let's shake.

Step down here.

Step up here.
- Yeah.

Then step back down.

Four heights of flooring
within 15 feet.

This is a bedroom.
All right.

It'll probably stay
a bedroom,

maybe not in
the exact same form.

We need to get some more
natural light in there

because it makes
the room feel bigger.

- Yep.
- All right.

Let's check out
the kitchen.

It's in the back
of the house.

My natural inclination is
to move it up to the front.

Yeah.

This doesn't really
work back here,

and it's taking up
more of the house

than I think our kitchen
has room to take up.

Yeah.

- Ugh, look in the disposal.
- Ew.

It's a little moldy
and funky.

Lots of mouse poop.

Yeah.

This is for sure
an addition, right?

I would say yes.

This is clearly
an old porch...

Yeah.

...that they put
a shed roof on.

And I'm guessing we're probably
going to throw a bedroom

in the back of the house,

but maybe since
it's a shed roof,

we can at least
angle the roof line.

We can keep this house
because I found some pennies.

- That's a dime.
- That's a dime.

That is
the dirtiest dime!

It's so dirty it looks
like a penny.

One of these days
I'm going to find

a 1943 Lincoln penny,
and you're going to be...

Those are worth,
like, $1 million.

And you're going to be, like,
"Oh, good thing

you picked up
all those pennies."

I'm your POD on all
of your accounts,

so it's totally cool.

Let's go upstairs.

Aah!
What the heck?

You're a little jumpy.

I did not expect that.

- Going on up.
- Going on up.

Wait, Mina.

Look to your right,
high-risk area.

So, well, see,
you should've been warned.

These are
super-steep stairs.

Yep.

There's hardly
any space up here.

Yeah. It could be a cute
little bonus space.

I mean, you could put one
twin bed in here.

Maybe some windows
in the roof.

Yes, some roof windows.

Someone definitely went
through a lot of work

for the paint
up here, though.

- Yeah.
- I'll give them that.

- All right.
- Interesting.

Let's get out of here.

This is tricky.

Oh, look.
- Crawl access.

Basement access.
Creepy access.

That doesn't
look pleasant.

Ew. It doesn't
smell pleasant.

Got water dripping from...

From the water line.

But we have water
to the house!

Woo-hoo!
Water!

- Yay.
- Yay.

It's leaking,
but that's fine.

That's okay.

You hear water dripping,

which most people would be
really concerned about.

But it makes me
happy in my heart

because it means we have
water to the house.

In a lot of our properties,
we don't,

and to do
a new water line,

it's around $12,000.

So the fact that there's water
dripping in the basement

from the water line...
- ♪ Ahh ♪

...is angels singing
because it's not $12,000.

So that's good.
- Okay.

We'll just need to turn
the water off

and make sure
it doesn't leak.

Ooh, and that's
kind of dippy.

What the heck?

Ooh, and that's
kind of dippy.

What the heck?

This is kind of
concerning me right here.

See how much higher
it is right there?

We're going to have to
replace some floor joists.

That's not even toenailed
into the joist.

Are you sure
there's no nails?

I don't see any nails.

There are no nails.

Okay.
Really?

Again, this house
is being held up by magic.

I love that
that happens to us.

Nothing is magical
about this.

What I call a problem

that's going to cost
more money,

mom calls magic.

So those are the two
sides of the coin here.

We need to do some
significant support work.

All right.
New basement, got it.

All right.

Let's do a loop around.
- Okay.

The roof is just shot.

- Yeah.
- It's real wavy.

So we have to do
a complete tear-off.

Let's do a bet about
how many layers of shingles.

I think six.
- I'll go with seven.

- You'll go with seven?
- I'll go with seven.

All right.
We'll see.

So this house
is pretty small.

I think it's going
to manageable.

It has this weird,
skinny bathroom.

It's got janky floor joists
that have created

this magical
floating structure,

and then
the roof is super wavy

because it has too many layers
of shingles on it.

So cost-wise, the purchase
price of the house

was around $30,000.

I think if we can stay

around $120,000
on the renovation,

so our all-in cost
is under $150,000,

we should be okay.

And I think we'll be able
to sell it

for at least $175,000,
maybe $200,000.

So I just need to mess
with the floor plan now...

All right.

...and see where
that leaves us.

It's small.
- It's going to be cute.

It's going to be cozy.

And it's going to be
our adorable

little
magic fairy cottage.

You're just going to be

like, "Oh, I love
this little house.

I want to take it home
with me."

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

- How are you guys doing?
- Doing pretty well.

Just, you know,
just waiting on you.

Just a dime waiting
on a dollar.

- You ready to break some stuff?
- Oh, yeah.

So plan is, this one is
coming down to the studs,

hopefully in one day.

So you guys have any questions?

I think that's it.

Don't kill the rose bush
before mom gets here.

She's going to come dig it out.

Let's get started.
- Let's do it.

It's demo day!

We are ready to tear some stuff
up, fill these Dumpsters.

Hello, sunlight!

Lovely.

There's tons of work to do.

Got the crew here.
- Yeah!

They're hyped.
It's go time.

- Hi, Tad!
- Good morning.

It looks like someone
waited for me to get here

to tear this siding
off the front.

- Yeah!
- The rose bush thanks you.

I thank you.
- Yeah.

The deal is you've got
to give me a few of these.

I've got some ladies
to give these to, you know.

- Ladies?
- Yeah.

Here.

Oh, flower in my hair.

That's not...
The roses are kind of gone.

This is the absolute worst
time to move a rose,

but it's going to die
if I don't move it.

Why is that?

Because it's the middle
of its growing season.

It's blooming, so I'm going
to prune it back real hard,

and then I'm going
to dig up the roots.

It'll get root pruned,
and I'll put it in a bucket,

and I'll take it home.

- Sweet.
- Whoa!

Today is demo day at our
little house on Sanders Street.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Tad, Tad.

- Yeah.
- Right here.

- Be a little more careful?
- Right here.

Yeah, I got it.
No problem.

What are you doing?
There's no bush left.

Right.

So if what I do is prune it
back hard, transplant it...

How's it going to add
to our curb appeal, then?

We're going to, like, tape
little flowers on it.

Tape flowers to it.

Maybe kind of like
these flowers I found earlier?

Yeah, Tad found...

- Oh, look how pretty!
- Look at those.

Yeah, we're just going to tape
these on here like this,

and nobody
is going to know.

- Cool.
- Sounds like a plan.

I'll let you get back to work.
- Thank you.

Come on.

We're wrapping up demo,
but first, we need to get

Bobcat in here
to settle our bet.

You go ahead
in first, sir.

Okay. It's a little
welcoming tunnel.

Can you get in the tub?
I believe you can.

Let me see.

I say
he can fit in the tub.

I say he can't without
kicking the wall down first.

And I say
there's 20 bucks on it.

Boom!
Yes!

- All right.
- You're in!

So I would never want to do this
every day to take a shower.

- No. No.
- No.

This is terrible.

Well, this is a hallway.
This is not a bathroom.

I can't believe
you won the bet.

Yeah.

I had 100%
confidence in you.

All right.
Well, it's your job

to tear this thing down, then.
This is your bathroom.

- I get the pleasure?
- Yeah.

- Oh, thank you so much.
- Here you go.

Let's get some sunshine
in here.

Ooh.

Oh.

- He's got it.
- It's way roomier now.

- Yeah.
- That's not right.

What's holding up
the side of the house?

- That's not doing anything.
- Uh, magic?

Magic, we get a lot of magic
in these houses.

- Well wishes.
- Oh, the bees!

They sting, they sting.

Yeah, get it out of your hair.

It's chasing you!
Aah!

I hate bees.

Mom pretends they're
all nice and sweet,

and she tries to, like,
grow them in her backyard.

And they're not nice.

I ran away, which is
the appropriate thing to do

when bees
are dive-bombing you.

- Well, okay.
- You tried to be all Zen,

like, "Well, if I'm friendly
to them, they'll love me."

She got stung.

Aah!
- I'm out.

The bee finally buzzed off,

and we were able to finish demo.

Now we can get all
the details worked out.

Since we're still holding
onto the property

we renovated on East Street,

we decided to use the house
as an office space

for the time being.

All right.
This little guy is probably

one of the smaller
projects we've done.

Pretty much we're going
to wipe out

the whole floor plan.

The only things that are going
to stay in about the same place

are the front door
and the staircase.

Now when you walk in,

instead of being in this
closed-off living room,

the front two rooms,
knocked all the walls down,

and we've got this
open-concept living,

dining room,
kitchen space.

Down the hallway, we've got
master bedroom on the left

where the little girl's room
used to be.

- Yeah.
- And we've taken all the space

from the kitchen
back to the staircase,

and we made
a master suite.

And then
our gauntlet bathroom

becomes actually
really usable space.

We have a huge pantry closet,

a big room for the washer
and dryer and a half bath.

And then the back
of the house

that was the sun-room,
laundry room...

Whatever weird room.

...gray-carpet
no-man's land,

is our second
en suite bedroom.

And on the second floor,

we're not really doing
anything different.

Just going
to clean it up a bit

and add a skylight
to get some more light,

and then we'll have
a 3-bedroom,

2 1/2-bath
in 1,245 square feet.

Nice work.

So to make this floor plan
feel warm and livable,

we're going to have
to really think hard

about how we furnish it.

Okay. So we're pretty good
- on this.
- Yeah.

- I can get this stuff to Lenny?
- Yep.

All right.

Easy peasy.
We'll get to work.

Once we did all
the demo on this house,

we always knew
the foundation was bad,

but it was, like, really bad
in a couple spots.

By that, we mean...

- Like, gone.
- ...non-existent.

So rather than repairing
the old foundation,

we brought out the heavy lifters
to dig a new channel

so that we can pour
a new foundation.

- Morning, Lenny.
- Good morning.

What's the plan, Stan?

So these areas
where the foundation

where there wasn't nothing,

we're going to have
to pour foundation.

So we got to get it
deeper and wider.

We got to go 30 inches
below freeze line

and 8 inches past that.

So he have to dig these holes
at least 38 inches deep

so they're below the frost line...
Correct.

...so it won't expand
and contract when...

- It freezes and thaws.
- ...it freezes and thaws.

And, of course,
it rained last night.

Are we happy about digging
with all the water?

Well,
it's got to be done.

Here you go.

So our job now is to bail
out all the water,

reshape the channels
so they can pour the concrete

for the new foundation.

Dig! Dig!
Dig!

That's a straight line
right there.

Right where the end
of your shovel is

all the way back needs
to be shaved off.

Okay.

Mina's getting really
good at this, Lenny.

Yeah.

I think you could
just make this her job.

Absolutely.

I think you and I
just go to the coffee shop.

I can dig
a mean straight line.

It's, like, shaving, like,
Parmesan cheese...

Yeah.

...but much more difficult
on a much larger scale,

and you can't eat it afterwards.

It's nothing like
Parmesan cheese.

No, you can't.
It's nothing.

Come on, suck it up.

- This is a workout, man.
- All right.

Now that I showed you
how to do it,

you got another one over there.

- I think he's teasing.
- He better be.

Oh, he's not teasing. Nah.

So now that we've finished
pouring the foundation

of our house on Sanders,
it's time to adjust the roof.

As it turns out,
I was right.

There were seven layers
of shingles on the house,

so we're going to need
a whole new roof.

When we inspected further,
the really exciting thing

that we found is our ceilings
were already high.

They're at least
2 feet higher.

Having this level
of ceiling height

and having the beams
open lets you

see the entire vault
of the ceiling.

- We probably got...
- Super cool.

...at least 15- if not
18-foot ceilings.

That would look awesome.

People are going to walk in
and love this house.

Yeah.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Did the gray day
make you a little...

That was a little subdued.
Hey!

- Hey.
-"Hey, you're here!"

Hey.

Today I am working on some
of the design aspects

for our little house
on Sanders,

which is a little bit tricky
because it's tiny.

So we need
to design it in a way

where it feels
really big and light

and bright but still
has character.

So I think white cabinets,
white tile.

So the cabinets,
the plan is...

I want to do all white.

Yeah, we can't go
to the ceiling, though.

We can go to the ceiling.

So if we're going to do
those exposed beams,

the cabinets
will just float, like,

right under the beam.
- Right.

So even though it's a small
floor space, it feels spacious

because you have
all this room

for your eye to move.

And then in the bathrooms,
I think just a subway.

Mm-hmm.

And flooring, I like
the color of both.

I think this one might be
too busy.

Yeah.
I'm with you.

I like that simpler,
cleaner grain.

If this is our flooring,

our wall colors kind of live
in this creamy...

- Yeah.
- ...with white trim.

Yeah.

I want to do
an ombre somewhere.

On a small scale...
- Yes.

...it would pull in some
of this teal and the blue.

Yeah.

Ombre is where you
pick one color family,

we'll go with blue,

and you start from
there's almost no blue

till it's almost all blue.

And it graduates.

So white to baby blue
to indigo

to whatever to navy.

You know, a bathroom is
always a good place

to do a fun wall.

- That's true.
- It really is.

But you're on board
for the idea?

- Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
- Okay.

And then lighting wise,

I like this line
because it's clean.

It's chrome, but it's got
these glass balls.

I love
your lighting options.

I think that's all
I have to show you.

Okay.

- But I love that one.
- I'm solid.

Go shopping, baby.
- All right.

- Go shopping.
- Thank you.

Mom and I are over
at our little house

on Sanders Street,

and we've got
our footers poured.

The block is down,
and now it's time

to install the sill plates

so we can start putting
the house back together.

Good morning, sir.
- Good morning.

Morning, Dave.
What you got for us?

Time to put it
all back together?

Yeah, putting
the sill plates in.

Got to jack it up a little bit
so we can get the sill plates

over top of the bolts.

A sill plate is the plate
upon which the weight

of the house rests.

Got a foundation,
got a sill plate, got a house.

All of the weight
of the house sits on it.

For this house, we have repaired
the foundation in places,

but we don't have
our sill plates on yet.

So what we need to do is lift
the house up enough

where you can slide the sill
plate in onto the bolts,

and then the house
can sit back down.

It's a lot
of weight maneuvering

on very tiny jacks,

and to jack it up,

you have to be
under the house.

It's just always
a little scary.

All right.

- Ready?
- Yep.

So first, we jack up
the east side of the house.

We get
that sill plate in.

There we go.
Whoo!

Then we move
to the front.

There we go.

Front sill plate on.

Now we just need this side.

This side of the house
is way closer to the bolt,

so it has to go up
a solid 4 inches,

which, when you're lifting up
a house, is a lot.

- Ready?
- Yeah.

- Boom!
- Boom.

Yay!
No one died.

Now we just got to put it
back down, right?

Yeah, but we got
to go down easy.

Little on this side...
- Little, little, little, little.

...little on that side, yeah.

So it's
a complicated operation.

We have to lower
the jack slowly

and equally
so nobody slips

and the house
doesn't slip

and doesn't come
crashing down on us.

Other side?
- Yep.

All right.
That's good now.

- Yeah, you guys can back off.
- I did.

Okay.
Let's go to the other side.

- All right.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Get out of there.
Get out. Get out.

- Other side?
- Yeah.

All right.
That's good now.

Yeah, you guys can back off.

- I did.
- Okay.

Let's go to the other side.
- Okay.

We've got
our footers poured.

The block is down,

and now it's time
to install the sill plates

so we can start putting
the house back together.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Get out of there.

Get out. Get out.

You're fine.
It set.

- What happened?
- The jack fell out.

- A jack fell out.
- Yeah.

One of the jacks...

- Just doop.
- ...just tipped over.

- Just kicked.
- Just kicked out.

Luckily, we had started
lowering the house back down,

so when the jack slid out,
it just went boom.

All right.
We're safe.

You should've seen me over here
trying to hold this house up.

Get out!
Run!

Geez O'Petes.

So I feel like that's
a good ending point

for the day, guys.
- Yes, ma'am.

You're going to get some nice,
pretty floors joists in.

And let the heartbeat...

Let the heartbeat slow
down a little bit.

All right.
- Thanks, guys.

- We'll see you guys in a bit.
- All right. Thank you.

We had a pretty
significant delay

with the foundation
just taking forever.

But we're back,
and we're framing!

We're getting
the siding in.

We're getting the stairs
and the railing in,

and then we're getting
everything closed up

with all the windows.

It's right
where it needs to be.

Now that all
the windows are in,

we're ready for the mechanicals
to all go in tomorrow.

The words are all
upside down, Mina.

- Hi.
- Well, hello.

I used to live here!

What?

I did.

Do you want to live here again?

Not right now, thank you.

No, no, this is not
really ready for you.

- Hi. Mina.
- I'm Karen.

My name is Linda.

I live on the south side
of Indianapolis.

I lived here from 1975 to 1986.

So what was the house
like when you lived here?

It's all changed.

I remember my children
growing up here.

Oh.

I found out that this house
was going to be redone,

so I've been driving
by periodically

to check on the progress.

So this is now the master,

and it's got
the bathroom attached

and then a big dressing
room over there.

My children
stayed in here

until they got
a little older,

and then they took
turns living upstairs.

Do you want to see the upstairs?

Of course.

Although Linda
loves this house,

she's not a potential
buyer per se,

but she definitely appreciates
the renovation for the home.

When it snowed real deep,
my son came up

and jumped out the window

and landed in the snow.

And, of course, I didn't find
out until after he was grown...

- Of course not.
- ...that stuff happened.

Mm-hmm.

Even though the paint
is not on the wall,

the drywall is not on the wall,
the space itself,

the physical space
holds the memories.

This is why we save
what we can.

So we're going to have
to bug you to come back

and check it out
once it's all pretty.

Oh, thank you so much.

- No, I'm glad you stopped by.
- Yeah, we would love it.

I'm extremely excited
about coming back

and seeing the final results.

We are over at Sanders.

The mechanicals
have started,

and today I'm going
to meet with Cory,

one of our
project managers,

to go over some fixes

that we need
to make sure are addressed.

So there's a couple
of things in here,

like, good progress.

I know
the electrical started.

But this light is not
supposed to be right there.

So these beams
are all exposed,

and they're getting wrapped.
- Got you.

So making a punch list
of things we have to fix

is just part
of construction.

Mistakes are
bound to happen.

It's just our hope that
we catch them sooner

rather than later.

That's where that box goes.

Gotcha.

So then the light hangs
down between the rafters.

Okay.

We're supposed to have
a 60-inch here.

Our vanity goes
to right there.

That doesn't work.

That's not good.

This section needs
to bump out that way,

or we're not going to be able
to fit our vanity.

How far?

We need 61 inches
after drywall.

Oh, you're making
Cory sweat, Mina.

- Nah, it's all right.
- Missing a can light here.

We don't have doors cut
for our laundry room

or our washer and dryer.

That's funny stuff
right there.

Since this isn't
framed in yet,

what I would do
is make this pantry

a little bit smaller

and make the washer
and dryer 6 feet...

- You can do a side-by-side.
- ...so you can do a side-by-side

because with
the angled ceilings,

we probably can't stack.
- Gotcha.

There's so much
in this house.

Three bedroom,
two and a half bath...

- Yeah.
- ...and 1,245 square feet.

- That's awesome.
- Call me the magic man.

Let's go. Come on before we
find more problems.

So when we were
demolishing this house,

there was a giant rose bush
out front

that I wanted to save.

Turns out,
it's four rose bushes.

Keeping this rose bush
is the same thing

as keeping what
we can in the house.

It's a part of the history
of the house.

It's a part of the history
of the neighborhood.

So I have an idea.

Ooh, look at that, Mina.

- Hello.
- Hey.

- I'm busy looking at things.
- How are you?

- How are you, Chris?
- Chris is our neighbor.

He owns the Fountain Square
Clay Center,

which is just right down
the street from us.

What have you got
going on?

Well, I heard you guys were
interested in some planters,

so I was trying
to get my chops back,

throwing some big pots.

Your planter chops back?

Oh, the little owl
is so cute.

I know.
That's adorable.

That's beautiful.

Chris' studio, there's just
pretty things everywhere.

- Yeah.
- I like the teal one.

Ooh, yeah.

Big pots and platters.

I really like that.

- It's pretty.
- Yeah.

Okay, we actually
came here for a reason.

We need a pot for a bush.

So, like,
a little taller...

- Yeah.
- ...and then a little wider.

Do you guys want to learn
some of the process?

I was hoping
you'd say that!

Okay.

You just got real squeaky.

Well, I have aprons
if you want an apron.

Look.
You sit down.

And they're washed, too.

Like, you could ride
a horse in this apron.

- You could.
- All right.

So this is what
I know about clay.

When you get it
out of the bag,

to get the air out of it,
you have to throw it.

Oh, wow.

He let us throw
some clay on the wheel.

He does classes there,

so we got to mess around
a little bit.

It was super fun.
- Yeah.

So level it out
nice and firm.

Just push it down
real hard, yeah.

Oh, you're making
a ring holder now.

See that?

Push that thing down in there.

It's so cute, though.

We need to sign up
for a class now.

Yeah.

I feel like we need to do
some fun-time bonding stuff.

With all the extra time
in the day.

Obviously neither of these
are going

to be big enough
for mom's rose bush,

so we're going to leave
that one up to you.

All right.
I'll work on that.

So we'll let you
get to work on that.

And we will get
out of your hair.

Thanks for letting us play.
Don't hug him.

- Thanks for stopping in.
- Bye, Chris!

See you guys.

Over the last few weeks,

our cute little house on Sanders
has gotten even cuter,

so we added those chic
shingles to the front.

Our mechanicals are done,
so next up is spray foam.

Now drywall is
going in, which ♪ Ahh ♪

We're singing
Hallelujah, praise.

Angels are
tentatively singing

because once we get
through drywall,

that's when it's,
like, starts

snowballing downhill

instead of pushing
a giant snowball uphill.

Then we can start
our ombre wall.

The beams are in.
Next they'll get wrapped.

We can prime, start
installing trim, doors,

flooring, cabinets,
tile, all that stuff.

All the pretty
finished stuff.

So it's very exciting.

We're trying to get everything
in the house done,

and we've got about 10 days
before it goes onto the market.

So there's definitely
a little bit of pressure.

Do you want me
to hold that for you?

No, I got it.

I'm doing maitre d'
and construction work here.

All right.

The kitchen is going to be
super important in here

because it's the first thing
you see when you walk in.

We're vaulting the ceiling
and leaving the beams exposed,

so we got to get it right.

Dave, I heard you were
doing cabinets,

and I saw this one
in the hallway,

so I figured I'd just carry
this in for you...

- Awesome.
- Figured I'd just follow her.

- ...because I'm a helper.
- The beams look nice.

Yeah, the ones that are done,
but I'm confused by this.

This is what they ordered,
so this is what I'm doing.

There was a bit
of a mix-up.

We don't have
corner cabinets.

We have two
that don't touch.

So he didn't order
a Lazy Susan either?
No.

So instead of corner cabinets
on the uppers

or a corner Lazy Susan
on the base,

we've got
these dead spaces.

I know what we can do.

We'll just build
custom cabinets.

Too late
in the game for that.

- No, it's not.
- Oh, yeah.

You're talking a long time
to do that.

No.
No, no, no, no, no.

We got 10 days to have
this whole house done.

It's too late
in the game for that.

The kitchen is going to be
super important in here

because it's the first thing
you see when you walk in.

So we got to get it right.

We've got 10 days to have
this whole house done.

We'll just build
custom cabinets.

It's too late
in the game for that.

How is this going to look nice
up here and not have a gap?

I'm going to put fillers in
on both sides, line them up.

I'll screw them in
from the back.

- Okay.
- Then once I get them fillers

all the way set,
I'll come underneath,

and I'll put another
piece of white wood

that matches this exactly right...

Under the bottom hole. Okay.

I'm not happy about the gap,
but I think once

you get the filler strip in...

- It'll make all the difference.
- Yeah.

I think they look cool
floating under the beams.

They do.
They look real cool.

It's all just going to look
very dramatic and large.

Jack it up,
cabinet jack.

It looks like the cabinet
is eating you.

I'm a really good cabinet
jack, really good.

Let's stop at the top.

These cabinets are a little
taller than any other cabinets

we've ever put in.

New heights
for Two Chicks.

So the point is that
they go to the ceiling.

Right. And they look great
because they really do

pull your eye
all the way up.

And then you see those beams,
and you see, like,

I can go even further
with my eyes.

And it looks really good.

Yay, cabinet team!

Don't get excited.

Now that the upper cabinets
are hung,

we can just leave David
to put in the lower cabinets

and then fix the gap.

We are rolling right along
at the little Sanders house.

We've got our deck built.

The inside
is all wired up.

We're painting
the outside.

Our kind of pop of color
is the shake peak outside

of the front door in soft,
blue teal kind of color.

I'm thinking it's more
of a green,

but we have different words
for the same color.

And now she can get
to spinning her wheels

on whatever garden project
she has in mind for us.

Hey.
- Are you ready to dig?

I'm ready to dig.

So what do you
need me to do?

What are you doing?
You got a lot going on here.

I do.
This is a cottage garden.

Every cottage garden
has roses.

This is the rose I dug up.

It looks pretty fresh.

Yeah.
There's four.

The one old rose bush in the
front turned out to be four,

so I'm replanting
three in the front,

and then one in the back
in a custom pot.

Every cottage garden
has spires, hollyhocks.

- Ow!
- What?

It got me.

Yeah, the roses
like to sneak up on you.

Every cottage garden
has billowy,

pillowy chrysanthemums, asters.

The last thing they have is
there's always some thing,

a bench.
- I like the bench.

- You see the bench?
- Yeah.

It takes a garden
like this about 18 months

to look like
it's supposed to look.

So next summer,
we will see its full glory.

You know what's
going to happen?

What?

Fairies are going to take up
residence in this garden.

All the fairies
in the neighborhood.

Look, Mina, the fairies
are coming already!

They're already landing.

Let's get out of here.

Over the last few days,
it's been all hands on deck

at our
little Sanders house.

The roof is finished.

We've got the sod in.

The retaining wall has been
fortified, and inside,

we are killing it
on the wood floors.

How much gap can we have?

No more than 3/4.

Yep.
We're good.

Once we got
all the floors done,

our tile guy swooped in,
got all that installed.

We got the appliances in.

And now
it is my favorite day.

It's furniture
move-in day.

So we're trying to make
the house look perfect

before we put it
on the market.

Careful, careful.

Once we get all
the furniture in,

we're going to have
Linda come back by,

who actually used
to own the house

and see what she thinks
of it all fixed up.

Linda is going
to love these.

Flippity flippity
flippity flip.

We've kept it really light
and bright and airy.

We've got pastel colors.

That's nice.
I like that.

Nice.

There's some really visually
light furniture

because it's a small space.

That's good.

We don't want it
to feel cluttered.

I kind of want
the flowery one

more in front
of the tweedy one.

This is nice.

Balance without symmetry.
Good job.

We can't wait
to show Linda

how her old house
has been reborn.

To have someone else
who knows the house

when it was at its worst

and then sees what you've done
and can validate, yeah.

Because they know.

They know where this house
came from, and that's huge.

Cool.

So when did you move

into the Bates-Hendricks
neighborhood, Linda?

1975, my first husband
and I bought the house

there on Sanders
for $25,000.

Really?

So when did you sell it?

I have been out
of there 30 years.

I'm trying to think back,
and when you came through,

it was still in
the framing stage.

- Yes, ma'am.
- Oh.

So it's changed a lot
since you saw it last.

I'm sure it has.

I'm sure you worked
your wonderful magic on it.

Keep looking down.

We're going to stand
next to Mina.

Do you see her
little feet over there?

- I do!
- Okay.

All right.
Now go ahead and look up.

Oh, my gosh.

Today, we're going
to show our newly

renovated little house
on Sanders to Linda,

who actually owned and lived
in it several years ago.

And she's not interested
in buying it,

but I think her
more than anyone else

will appreciate
the renovation.

Keep looking down.

We're going to stand
next to Mina.

Do you see her
little feet over there?

- I do!
- Okay.

All right.
Now go ahead and look up.

Oh, my gosh.
It is beautiful.

Such a transformation.

So the rose bushes

that are in the front up there...

- Are the original?
- ...the original rose bush

that was there
that mom saved.

I planted
that red rose bush.

- You planted that?
- Yes.

You are kidding me.

It was right in between the two
windows at that point in time.

The yard looks beautiful.

I would love to go inside.

All right.
Let's go.

I was in awe
when I looked at it.

It looks so magical.
It looks happy.

Ta-da!

Oh, my gosh.

Do you have words?

No. I don't.

I wasn't real fond
of the bedroom

being at the front of the house.
- Uh-huh.

And this was kind of
the living room space, right?

This was the living room.

So we opened it all up.

Such a transformation.

So we put some
touches of things

to make the house feel
a little more lived in,

a little friendlier.

It makes it feel
like a home.

Yes.

We've got
a nice-sized kitchen.

Everything feels so open
because we were able

to cathedral the ceiling.

Super high ceiling,
which allowed us

to get
the double-stacked cabinets

because if all you had
really was these ones,

then it might feel
like a small kitchen.

I think we've been able
to pack a lot in.

It's natural
with your milk glass.

So we got the milk glass,

and then Carrara marble, backsplash,

and kind of, like,
a little bit more fun,

whimsical pattern...
- Mm-hmm.

...to keep it different.

And you can still fit
six people

at a little table in here.

This is now the space where
everyone can get together.

Everyone can come together.

The only bathroom
in the house

was that shotgun bathroom, right?

Yes, ma'am.

And that's no longer
a full bath.

In here, side-by-side
washer and dryer.

That is nice.

And then we were also
still able to get

a half-bath down here.

I did a nice little ombre
on the wall

to make it fun
and a little unique.

Oh, my.
How did you work this?

- Mina is magical.
- Yes, she is.

So come on.
Take a peek in.

So this is
the master bedroom.

- Oh, my gosh.
- Right this way.

It's beautiful.

This was the pink
bedroom, right?

Mm-hmm.

That was my son's bedroom
when he was little.

So we gave it a nice
kind of neutral feel,

added some
really pretty art.

So you don't have to go
into the shotgun bathroom.

- Oh, my.
- An en suite bathroom!

Look at this.

Double vanity,
full-sized tub.

Who would've thought?

There's still more.

- More?
- Are you ready?

So this is your second
bedroom option...

- Oh, my.
- ...on the first floor.

And this was
the shed addition.

It had, like, green carpet,
but it was not a bedroom.

I don't think it even
had a foundation.

This one also has
its own en suite.

So you kind of have
two masters.

So what do you think?

Beyond words.

It surprised me that they did
so much with the same footprint.

So the staircase is
in the same location,

but we widened it up.

Lot of memories.

We didn't change
a ton up here.

We added the skylight.

And you've opened it up.

This is technically
a third bedroom.

I like it up here
because it feels

like your cozy little nest.

Mm-hmm.

I just want to take
a nap on that daybed.

- I know.
- It looks so comfortable.

You guys got
the right spot.

Don't fall asleep yet.

We still have to go
check out the backyard.

- Sure.
- Come on.

Just one surprise
after another.

So we had this
parking pad out here

that we now turned
into a little patio.

So we've got a nice
little area big enough

for outdoor seating
and for dining.

We went to the clay center
and had the proprietor, Chris,

make that pot so that
we could put a rose in it

to carry the color
all the way through

to match
the roses up front.

It is beautiful.

So what do you think?
Did we do okay?

You did a wonderful job.

And I'm sure whoever moves
in will love the house.

When we moved in in 1975,

everyone took care
of their property,

and now I know that this
is going to happen again.

The house has been
brought back to life.

New people will move in,

and hopefully
they'll feel the same

as we did when we moved in.

So this is kind of
what it shakes down to.

We bought this house
for $30,000,

ended up investing
about $115,000 into it.

We put it on the market
and sold it really quickly

to a really nice couple
for $200,000,

so once closing costs and all
that stuff is pulled out,

that leaves the profit
at about $40,000.

And now a new family
will get to make memories here.

Yeah.

You've taken a diamond
in the rough

and turned it
into a beautiful jewel.

Aw.

Well, thank you so much
for coming back through.

It has been wonderful.

It's been wonderful
having you.

- Let's get out of here, ladies.
- All right.