Good Bones (2016–…): Season 2, Episode 9 - Eyesore Overhaul - 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...

Ah! That toilet is so nasty.

- We try and buy.
- Then, with a little vision--

And a lot of hard work--

We create beautiful homes
for our neighbors.

- Oh, wow.
- This is our neighborhood,

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

Oh, my gosh.
Look at the wall.



- So good.
- Every tragic house...

Aw, Tad!
Still on.

Deserves a second chance...
- Oh, wait, wait, wait.

You're coming off the board.
- Don't do it.

Because
underneath all that mess,

we might find some
really good bones.

I need to do, like,
a tourist for a day

and see all the cool indie stuff

I don't think
I've actually done.

It's kind of nice
that we had a little stroll.

Our Sailors
and Soldiers Monument

is the center of downtown.

333 steps to the top.

Wow. It's a lovely
morning stroll.



Let's get some coffee.

Let's get to the house.

Can I have a green tea?

Yeah, absolutely.
And for you, ma'am?

Black coffee.

We have to go see one
of our properties today,

and it's a whole lot
of property,

so caffeine is a must.

Namaste.
Thank you very much.

Thank you. Have a great day.

You too.

Definitely need some caffeine

before we tackle
this big one.

So we're heading over
to Sanders Street

to look
at the big brown house.

It's in Bates-Hendricks,
which is...

- Great neighborhood.
- Super cool right now.

It's immediately adjacent
to Fountain Square.

You can walk under the highway,

- and you're in Fountain Square.
- Mm-hmm.

And so it's close to all of the,

like, hip, happening places.

All the amenities in downtown
and Fountain Square.

And I went by yesterday
to walk through,

and... Were you...

Threw my hands up in the air
and was like, "Ay-yi-yi."

So the house on Sanders
cost $45,000,

and it has a little over
3,300 square feet.

And it has four bedrooms
and two baths.

I think the house
was once three apartments.

It's got about 10 rooms
on the first floor,

including two kitchens,
and four rooms

and another kitchen
on the second floor.

And it's just
a total hodge-podgey mess.

I usually can walk into a house,

and I'm like,
"This is the floor plan."

Like, this needs
to stripped down.

I need to be able to see
a little bit more.

Because right now,

it's just a whole heck
of a lot of house.

What do you think?

The turd on a hill.

How'd they get
three different colors

of turd on one house?

Like, I actually see four... Four colors of poo.

Different bad
colors of brown.

So we definitely need
to open up the front porch

Add a ton of windows.

The roof is not bad.

Definitely need
a new retaining wall.

Yeah. Let's go take a look.

All right.

Yeah, this one's
in bad shape.

Yeah.

Whoa.

That was elegant.

We know we're in my happy
place right now, right?

- All the wood paneling?
- Yeah.

It's just woodland
paneling for days,

which is Mom's heaven.

A lot of people put up
that wood paneling

because they like
the way it looks.

And someone told them,

"This will add value
to your home."

Someone lied to them.

So this was obviously
the front porch

because we have extra
windows on the inside,

and they just closed it in
for more square footage.

Oh, and look.
It's rolling downhill.

I'm just verifying
this was a porch.

And I'm playing
with the ball that I found here,

which
I'm pretty excited about.

Let's go inside.

There's more treasures
yet to come.

So, this was the original
front door,

I'm assuming,
and main room in the house.

And this room has... Five.

Five doorways.

Over here, it looks like
this was one big room

that they split up
into a hallway and two--

- Little rooms.
- Little rooms.

This one's even
smaller than that one,

but good thing is,

these should be easy
to open back up.

So we've got hallway
and two weird front bedrooms,

bathroom.

Gick. It's just the...

Argh!
That toilet is so nasty!

I can't go back past it now.

I'm going to step out there.
I can't look at it.

It's so nasty.

Got this weird room back here

that has some plumbing in it,

I'm not sure what this is.

Oh, what's in there?

- I don't know.
- Here.

It's an old cabinet.

- Kitchen cabinet.
- You know what?

Why would they close
in the cabinets

with woodland paneling?

Why wouldn't you
just take them out?

- Or leave them as storage?
- Yeah.

Like, why do you
have to cover them?

People do very strange things.

Kitchen number one, got it.

Look at this.

This is awesome.

We have a solid

30 more inches above
this dropped ceiling.

- We have high ceilings.
- We have high ceilings.

- We like high ceilings.
- Two more rooms.

So, so far, we've got
the entry porch,

the entry room, hallway,

two bedrooms, a bathroom,

a kitchen, this room,
these two...

We've got 10 rooms so far--
and a second kitchen!

Yay. Kitchen number two.

No one designed
this floor plan.

This floor plan
happened to this house.

It's cobbled together because
it's probably three apartments.

- Yes.
- So we're going to take out

all the extra dividers

and just make it one
big single-family home.

- Let's head upstairs.
- Okay.

No one should walk
on these stairs anymore.

- Oh, jeepers.
- It's a little treacherous.

- Yup.
- That's not pleasant.

Can we move it?

I don't really want
to touch it.

I'm just... Ooh!

- What, "ooh"?
- Oh, sweet! Look at this.

Did you know there's
a claw-foot tub in here?

It actually, like,
has the cute claw feet too.

- Mm-hmm.
- I wouldn't be mad

about resurfacing, like,

reglazing that
and using it somewhere.

No, I would like to use that.
That'd be nice.

It's actually
pretty big...

- Yeah.
- For a claw-foot tub.

All right. Mental note.

Keep the claw-foot tub.

All right.

So we have some bad roofing.

- Yeah.
- Oh, yeah.

There's definitely some water
damage in spots.

But this is our
original ceiling height

because that looks like plaster
and lath up there.

Why do you--
like, I'm going this way,

and you go that way?

Because I like
to look at things.

You're always in a rush.
You go too fast for me.

And a third kitchen.
Ew!

- What?
- Ew!

And a third kitchen.

Ew!

What?

Ew!
That's just a lot of bugs.

That is a lot of bugs.

This is a cute little room.

Uh-huh.

I would love to have
this as a bedroom

with a floor
that wasn't sloping...

- Yeah.
- And the bugs gone.

Yeah.

Okay.

Turn on my flashlight.

- So I wonder how sturdy this is.
- What happened here?

I think, like, people were
living and sleeping in here.

This would be
good bonus space, though.

- Yeah.
- I'm done in here. It's hot.

- Go check out outside?
- Yeah.

After walking through
the whole house,

my biggest thought is,

"It's a huge project."

This is
a little questionable.

Yeah, it is.

Right here, you can just see
straight into the crawl.

- Ay-yi-yi.
- It's perfect.

So, lots of foundation work.

Yeah.

- Smells better than the house.
- Yeah.

I think we can easily
fit four-bedroom,

3-1/2-bath
in there.

So besides being really big,

we have a lot of work
ahead of us.

The foundation needs fixing,

and we're going to open up
that weird closed-in porch.

We've got to knock down
a ton of walls,

so we can turn
this wacko maze of a house

into one grand
single-family home.

Price-wise on this,
I'm having a hard time,

like, working around
in my brain.

I know it cost
around 45,000.

I think we're probably going
to have at least 160 in it,

so just over 200,000.

But I think we can hopefully
sell it for the high 200s.

- All right.
- Demo day is going to be rough.

No, we're just going
to smell honeysuckle all day.

Doesn't sound like
a very effective demo day.

Holy cow.
That's a lot of dudes.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

You brought the whole
neighborhood. Man!

- I did.
- I'm so happy this morning

to see the demo guys roll up.

There's, like,
20 of them, maybe.

All right. This is a maze.

This one's coming all the way
down to the studs.

- Okay.
- Are you guys excited?

I'm excited.
Let's do it guys.

- Get on in there.
- Let's get on in.

They had the whole posse.

I just want to see them
swarm this house.

All right, guys.
Let's mess some stuff up.

Beautiful!

You guys see trash
and a lot of it,

start grabbing it.

There you go.

Get out of here.

We got a tub in here?

- Yes.
- All righty.

I'm a little worried
about this on the staircase

because it's
a lot of weight.

There's this claw-foot tub
upstairs that's in good shape.

It's worth something.

so we definitely
want to keep it.

So what do you think,
300 pounds?

- It was probably 300 pounds.
- This is really heavy.

You want me to send
another couple guys?

No, I'm just more worried
about these stairs.

Let's just be
really careful, okay?

Let it down easy?

Yeah, oh, yup,
I got it.

I'm not sure if the steps
can support the weight.

- Oh, goodness.
- We'll let it down this way.

So pull up on the top.
Don't drop it though, okay?

Okay.

That's kind of nice.

The foot's dragging
through the wall.

Woo! Nice.
Let's stand her up.

Get it right through here.

One, two, three.

You guys survived.

Tub is down. Back to work.

Tad, don't throw up.

Someone else has got to cut it.
I can't do it.

This toilet, it was awful.

So bad. That's it.
I can smell it.

Even through my, like,
heavy-duty respirator,

the poo smell was overpowering.

Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

Oh, Dylan!

Poor Dylan ended up having to
pull out the poo toilet.

Oh, God. Oh!

He gets it out and just
bolted to the Dumpster.

It was gross.

Oh, nice!

It was, like,
extra dangerous

because there was
just more dudes

swinging more hammers wildly.

And there was plenty of times
where I just was like,

"Eh, I'm just going
to stand here."

One, two, three. Not happening.

I'd be perfectly fine
just slam-dunking this.

Don't do it!

I want you to not be under it.

Where's the pickax at?

And the boys want to pull down

the dropped ceiling structure.

And they think it's going
to be like a cartoon.

Yeah! And that all these boards
are going to fall straight down.

And not going
to touch them.

I don't think they have
the right leverage.

Do you have those
carrying straps so,

- like, a tie-down?
- I have a bunch of straps.

Get some straps,
so we can get more guys

because that
rope's probably not...

- Yeah. Tad! Tad!
- No, no, no!

No, no, no!

No! This seems like a bad idea!

One, two, three.

Don't do it!

Where's the pickax at?

- Tad! No, no, no! No!
- We're in the middle.

We're in the middle!

- No! No!
- Put the nix on that.

Totally vetoing this idea.

We're just going
to pull it down.

You're going to pull it
down with rope.

I actually think
the rope idea is good

because you're out of the room,
and everything falls.

I get that you think
you're in a hole.

I am in a hole!

But it's not going
to fall straight down!

I'm demoed a few houses, okay?

Like, "No, no, no.
You're going to get hurt."

Yeah.
It's going to hurt a lot.

You did exactly the right thing.

- Here we go.
- All right.

- Ready?
- One, two, three.

Woo!

You owe me $20, sucker!

Yeah, we would have
been fine, right there.

No, you would be concussed.

The boards fell, like, here.
So someone, for sure,

would have got chopped
in half by a board.

But they're still maintaining
that they would have been fine.

Shenanigans.

Now that we have completely
demolished the house

and can actually see
what we're dealing with,

it's time to create
our final floor plans.

All right.

This guy's a beast.

Starting from the outside,
open the front porch.

- Absolutely.
- For sure.

Porches make
neighborhoods livable.

Yes. And right now,
it wraps around in an L,

so we're going to steal
some of the front porch

and make an interior space,
so we have a little entryway.

- I know you like entryways.
- You know I love those.

Now, when we walk in,

the living room and kitchen

and dining will be
one huge space.

We'll set the dining
just right in the middle

- of the L of the kitchen.
- Nice.

The front room that was split up
into two bedrooms, we gut that.

That's silly. We're going
to have a master bedroom

on the front attached
to the master bath.

And the back
half of the house

will have a second master
that's a little bit smaller.

And then the staircase
stays about where it was,

but we'll add a half bath

over to the side over here,
by the side door.

So it's still private but close
to the kitchen and living room.

And then when you come up
on the second floor,

right now,
there's three spaces that are,

you know, 10-by-12-ish

and then a giant bonus space.

We're going to keep
two of them bedrooms,

and then the third, we're going
to make into a bathroom.

Then we have
all of this bonus space.

Well, and this bonus space
is a little deceiving

because of the pitch
of the ceiling.

Not all of that's usable.

It's really only
this middle third

and this little triangle
that's usable.

And I think
we throw a closet in there,

so it could technically
be a fifth bedroom.

- I agree with you.
- So we've got three bedrooms,

a bathroom
and a laundry room upstairs

and then two masters
with en suites

and a half bath downstairs.

- Nice.
- If you're good,

the sooner
we can get started, the better.

- Let's roll.
- All right.

I feel good about
these floor plans,

and I feel even better
about getting them over

to the general contractor,

so we can get
this project started.

Hey, Brian.

- Hi, Mina.
- Holy moly!

Today, we're at Sanders Street,
and we're checking in

because it would appear to be,
like, a bottomless pit.

Yeah. Big boy termites.

Some termites?

Not only that,
they discovered fire over here.

Yeah, I see the fire.

It looks like it's
from the inside...

It looks like it went
right up here.

Because the outside isn't.

- You're right.
- Yeah.

Yeah, that's wobbly.
You could take the hammer

and just probably knock it
through right there.

The house has fire damage.
The house has termite damage.

The foundation is bad.
the framing is bad.

Yeah, that's our standard
operating procedure.

And then we fix it,
and there's just not

another alternative with that.

We'll get our center support in.

We're going to brace right now.

In fact, if y'all wanna help me
get these braces in?

All right.
We can help with that.

- Okay.
- Before we can remove

the termite damage
and the fire damage,

we're going to need to add
another load-bearing post,

so that side of the house
doesn't collapse.

Oh, wait, wait, wait.
You're coming off the board.

We actually need to get clear
over-under to catch that weight.

- This?
- Yes.

I don't think we're going to be
able to get it under there.

If I could get in there... You want to get up here?

- Yeah.
- I was hitting that beam

as hard as I possibly could,

but we're going to need
a big sledge

to get it in the right place.

- You're getting right under it.
- Are we liking it?

You're under...
Maybe another hit,

and you'll get
under both of them?

- Like it?
- Yeah, you're pretty good.

Now, we can get
some of this rotted

termite damage out of here,

fire damage out of here,
take this section out.

So you think 2 days on this,

and then we'll be
able to move on?

- Yes, 2 days.
- Okay.

We'll check back in then.
Thanks, Brian.

All right. Thank you.
See you, ladies.

Morning.

- Good morning, ladies.
- Good morning, Dave.

- What are we doing?
- Framing in some windows.

Nice. We've gotten
through some tough stuff

over at this house
on Sanders.

We've got the foundation fixed,

the fire and the termite
damage repaired.

Today, we're going to frame
the two windows

at the front of the house
where the porch will soon be.

The opening is
a bit big on this one,

- so we've got to frame it in.
- Why can't we keep it that big?

That's, like,
an $800 window.

The lady who drew the floor plan
put a 30-by-60.

I put 30-by-60 windows.

Couldn't we just
put a door in it?

I'm trying to come up
with a solution

where we could still
put giant windows in

and be careful
with the budget.

Just do a full-light door
instead of a window.

No. I'm, like,
the dream ruiner.

That's my job title.

If Mom would just,
like, zip it,

I wouldn't have to ruin
the unreasonable dreams,

but that's my job, dream ruiner.
It sucks.

No one likes me.

What if we put glass block
around the windows?

I'm not even going to react
to that because I know

you're just messing with me.

- All right.
- Look at you.

Boom, boom.

Ha-ha, speed framing! Yeah.

Dave's pneumatic nail gun
has a special trigger on it.

You don't actually
pull the trigger.

It just stays down,
and you bounce it.

She looks so tough
when she does that.

I feel like a-- a--
a boss.

I feel like a boss.

And she has that look on her
face when she does it too.

She's so proud of herself.

Like, "Hey. Hey, watch this."
Boom! I'm done.

- Ta-da.
- Ta-da?

Two framed windows.

Now that we've got
all the windows framed in,

next up is we need to take out
some of the wonky walls,

open up the floor plan
to make it more functional.

And today, we're putting in
the big support beam

that's going to hold up
the second floor.

Now, we lift.

All right.

Wow.
Rah!

Be so careful.

Are your wrists bent?

Don't drop it.

Are you sure you got it?

We're going to have
to get the jack.

We get the jack
put underneath.

Dave is our job foreman,

and I swear, he's trying
to hold up this, like,

10,000-pound beam
all by himself.

We got one of the ends slid
in really easy,

but the other
one won't fit in.

So we're going to have
to jack it up

and hammer it into place.

Rah!

Mucho, mucho.

Got an inch
and a half to go up.

Yes. Little more,
little more.

It's going to push
through the ground.

Oh, my gosh.
It's splitting.

All right!
Stop, stop!

Be so careful.

- Rah!
- Mucho.

We got an inch
and a half to go up.

Yes. Little more.
Little more.

It's going to push
through the ground.

Stop. It's splitting.

Loosen, loosen.

We don't want it
to push through.

Be careful, Stevie,
it's going to...

It's literally doing it
as we speak.

So as we were jacking up
the support beam,

the floor underneath
it began to buckle

because there wasn't anything
to support the weight under it.

So we had to take
the jack out, move it,

so it was directly on top
of a beam under the floor,

so it would support
the jacking up

of the second floor
of the house.

It was a little tricky.

- Right there?
- Yeah.

There's a beam
right there, underneath.

The last thing we want is
a hole in the floor, now.

There we go.

Keep going.

Yes, mucho.

Stevie, give me a hammer.

There we go.

Good teamwork, guys.

We've got the support beam installed.

It was a little nerve-racking,
but we got it.

And now we can safely
take down the temp wall

and finish the last bit
of framing.

No one got hurt.
It's always a good day.

- No one got hurt.
- No houses dropping.

- No houses fell.
- See you later.

Thank you, ladies.

So today, Mom and I are going
to hash out all the details

for our design plan

for the house on Sanders Street.

Hi, Sophie.
How are you?

- Hey.
- Hi, Mina.

Sophie greeted me first,
so she got the first hello.

You win, Sophie.

All right.
So we've got all the goods.

We've got a couple directions.

So these are exterior colors.

This is our door.
This is our siding.

- This is our trim.
- Yeah.

And we need to soften it
but not too much

because it has to be this, like,

walk the line between industrial
without being cold.

But I don't want it
to be too cottagey kitschy

because I think
the market here is...

We're a bit on the fringe
of Bates-Hendricks.

Yeah. And thinking about

the other houses in
the neighborhood too.

I don't want to match
another house.

This is a beautiful
color for siding.

Okay, so I thought
we were going to be

on the right page with that.

The two directions, really,
are kind of this direction,

a little bit more modern,
geometric, or this direction.

This is a little bit softer.

You know what this feels
like to me is beach house.

- Yeah?
- I feel like I want to just

push that away and say,
"No," to the beach house.

Our ceilings
are so high.

We really need something
to ground that space.

So I think
the dark wood is much better.

Okay. So the idea was,

this one for the tub showers

and this one for the backsplash.

So there's a theme,
but it's not...

- Yeah, it's not exactly the same.
- Super matchy.

- This is gorgeous.
- It's really cool.

Cabinets, I think doing
a clean shaker...

- Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Style-wise.

And then I brought a couple
samples for interior colors.

The majority of the house,
the lighter blue and then

do maybe a bedroom, bathroom,

- in a little bit darker.
- Right. In a little bit darker.

I want to bring
some elements in to

keep it feel warm and homey.

There is an organization

that takes people
who used to be homeless

and trains them to be craftsmen.

And they make furniture.

And I've been wanting
to work with them.

So you want to have them
make something?

Yeah. And I bet they could
make us a giant table.

- Like a big farm table?
- Big farm table.

- Okay.
- I think that would be great.

Maybe get, like,
a fabric captain's chair

- to soften it just a bit?
- Yeah, to soften it.

Yeah, I don't want it
to be all wood.

That'd be way too much.

- So this is...
- This is my happy place.

This is your little world,
right here?

Yeah. Yeah. Nice work. Okay.

Tomorrow we will start
buying things.

Okay. Yay.
Start buying things.

You can go home.

Over here,
at our house on Sanders,

things are coming along.

We finally got all
the new floor joists in.

The guys framed out
the second floor

and are rebuilding
that rickety staircase.

And in the meantime,
Mom and I have

a special field trip planned.

How much do you like those gold
and black velvet chairs?

Really dramatic and--I don't.

- You don't?
- I don't.

I think because
the house is all gray,

we need something with,
like, with a lot of color.

- Oh! Oh!
- Stop. Use words.

Look at that couch
with the tufting

and the kind of rolled arms.

There was this perfect couch
in the distance.

I mean, anything velvet,
Mom thinks is perfect.

Anything velvet is perfect.

Yeah, I like this.

Oh, yeah. This will be perfect.

- It's comfy.
- Is it?

Sit on your own side!

Gosh. Would you use
the chairs also?

- Absolutely.
- I like the pattern on the chair.

I don't like these though.

That makes it too matchy.

So maybe do some
other pop of color.

I want to show you something.

What are you... Does your phone flip?

When you walk
in the front door,

what do you think of this?

What? Ew.
What is that?

I want to show you something.

What do you think of this?

What? Ew.

- What is that?
- It's wallpaper.

It's very,
very organic and flowy,

and it gets darker
towards the bottom,

so it's kind of, like,
rising up out of the couch

so that when you come in,

we have this amazing
wallpaper wall.

It's sort of like algae,
seaweed-y looking.

Yeah. I think it's darker
in random places,

- but I like it.
- Yeah.

It's like if you were
to take a piece of paper

and dip in, like,
a tray of food coloring,

and the food coloring just
soaked up through the paper.

- I'm down.
- All right. Cool.

Back at the Sanders house,

the crew is rocking
and rolling.

On the inside, we have
spray foam and drywall.

Windows and exterior doors
are installed.

And all the siding
and trim went up

and started to get painted.

I'm loving the purple
you picked out.

And that pale blue
color is perfect.

Hey, guys. You guys
got started without me.

- Hi.
- I'm late.

We got the top ones done.

Nice. Well, I can't
reach up there anyways.

Today, I'm working with Dave
and his brother, Timmy.

We're putting up
the kitchen cabinets,

which is awesome because
that's, like, the first step

in making it
actually look like a house.

- Pull that out. Flush it up.
- That's perfect.

I think the three of us
are a really good

cabinet-install
kind of dream team.

There we go. That's pretty good.

What are the chances
you got it right

on the very first
try, likely?

- Awesome.
- All right.

Dang. Crushed it.

Slid right on.

Could not have been
more perfect of a cut.

And you see Dave.
He's all happy.

He's like, "Yeah, I did that."

All right. Last one.

Some people might think
it's overkill,

but I love them
all the way to the ceiling.

And you'll have tons of storage.

It looks good.

Now that the cabinets are in,

our gorgeous
Carrara marble countertops

can be set in place,
and we can do the final fittings

for the big
stainless-steel farm sink.

And then when that's done,
we can set the tile

for the backsplash,
which is really cool.

It's this geometric
chevron pattern.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

Are these all tabletops?

Today, we're at a furniture
manufacturing facility.

Welcome.
We're so glad you came.

- Thank you for having us.
- We're so glad you invited us.

I love that table.

It's awesome, isn't it?

And the goal of the place

is to give homeless
men job skills,

employ them and move them
out of homelessness.

This is a beautiful cabinet
that we made for a client.

So that's a coffee table
right there.

- I like the coffee table.
- Isn't that neat?

And these are
some beautiful tables

made out of walnut and hickory.

That's pretty.

Most of our items
are custom-made.

And then we've got
a table in here

that I want you to see,
made out of barnwood.

Oh, look at that.

You always need
to balance a look.

You can't just put
everything shiny and bright.

So haven't something
a little more rustic,

something that will
ground the room

is going to be really important.

And a really big
reclaimed-wood table

is going to fit
the bill exactly.

This is our workshop.

Oh, Mina, can I have
a workshop like this?

And this is Justin.

He's our head of production.
- Nice to meet you.

When I walk into that workshop,

I have total workshop envy.

I want a workshop like that.

So what exactly
are your thoughts?

So this is our kitchen layout.

And from the front
of the cabinets,

we've got about 14-by-14.

And, Justin, they like
the barnwood table.

- Oh, cool.
- Oh, it's awesome.

- It's so beautiful.
- Thank you.

We probably need to make it
a little bigger.

Yeah, it's a big house.

It has really,
really high ceilings.

So I think if we had a base
any smaller than that,

it wouldn't look
substantial enough.

Do you want to do
a bench on both sides

or a bench on one side
and chairs on the other?

I kind of want to do benches
on both sides.

And then just captain's
chairs on the ends.

- Yeah. I like that idea.
- We can do something like that.

It's going to be
a nice, big space,

and it opens up directly
to the living room,

so it's just going to feel
like one giant communal area.

- Thanks for coming.
- Thank you.

I'm super excited.

Hey, guys.

So I get over to the house
to help Dave with the doors.

And he's got everything ready.

Oh, did you already
attach the trim to it?

Yeah, we've preattached it.
Makes it easier to set.

Then we ain't got to fight,
trying to hold it in there.

Look at you being creative.

We've got a boatload of doors.
There's prehungs.

There's sliders.
We've got some pocket doors.

And we're going to knock
these doors out.

All right.

We are on a tight schedule

because the trim carpenters
are coming in a few days.

So the doors
have to be finished.

- That looks pretty good.
- Good and level?

I think, as a team,
we're feeling really good.

All right.

Does this door
swing out or in?

Why is it
a right-hand?

Should be left.
- It should be a left.

- Should be a left.
- I grabbed the wrong door.

A right-hand door is if
you're standing at the door,

you would use your right hand
to swing the door open.

These are all rights.

We don't have a left?

Ay-yi-yi.

Oh, man.

Does this door
swing out or in?

- In.
- Why is it a right-hand?

- Should be left.
- It is a right.

- It should be a left.
- Should be a left.

I grabbed the wrong door.

We don't have a left?

You know what?

If we put the right
on right here,

the door would swing
and hit here.

There's no light sockets.
We could still do that.

But it's going to be an out
swing into the bedroom,

which know means you can't use
that wall space for anything.

I know. I could have
sworn we had it here.

You got some panels.

Two. Those are
my pocket doors.

I can't install pocket doors
until I get the rollers.

So we don't have any doors
we can install,

except this one.

- Oh, man.
- It looks beautiful.

So our door-install day
is a complete failure as of now.

Well, that's a bummer.

But we'll get it ordered today,

and we should be able
to finish the install tomorrow.

- Oh, hey, girl.
- Hey.

I have your craft station
all set up for you.

- Magic goin' on here.
- Yup, I do.

You know, Sanders is so huge,

I felt like we needed
something big and organic

to make it feel warmer
and friendlier.

So the goal here
is to create texture and color

that will accent
our home space.

So to make this
preserved plant wall,

you need a backing.

You need plant material.

- And glue.
- And you need glue.

A lot of glue.

A lot of glue.
I got you started.

- Is this for me?
- Yeah. There's a glue gun.

Are there any
boundaries or rules?

- No.
- Okay.

So I want this
right here, like so.

This is fascinating.

All right. I like
what's happening there.

A-ha. That will help.

Oh, I'm super happy with this.

Wonder how much bend I'm going
to get in that bad boy.

So you clearly have

a totally different approach
to this than I do.

I wanted more of
a "Starry Night" flowy vibe.

So, like, swirls
and some of this.

I don't know
what's happening now.

Don't worry about it.

Oh, I'm not worried.

Oh, wow. We're going
real three-dimensional.

- Yeah.
- Interesting.

I like what she's doing.
I'm not complaining.

It just... I was surprised at
how three-dimensional she got.

She told me there
were no rules.

Or you can put more
and build it up around it

- if you want to.
- What?

Almost verging on uptight,
which is strange

because she gives
an air of non-uptightness.

- But she really is, actually.
- Actually, I'm very...

She's like,
"This is how things go.

Oh, but I'm free love and hip.

But do it this way."

Which is up on yours, Mina?
Which is up?

"Do it all the time.
There's a right best way.

But I'll do it
with pretty green things

and be all Mother Earth."

Like, that's what's
happening, I think.

I think that's cool.

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

It's almost time
for the finishing touches.

The right doors finally came in.
We got those installed.

Carpenters got to work
on the trim.

Bathroom tile went up,

and it ties perfectly in
with our kitchen chevron theme.

And Mom's awesome kind
of mossy-looking wallpaper

is getting put up
in the living room,

and it is so cool.

It looks like a mural.
This wallpaper is super cool.

It's going to be
like the wallpaper

just rises out of the couch.

Ooh, here they come
with the table.

It's raining.

Lovely day for a delivery.

Hey. Yeah. You couldn't have
picked a better day.

I can't wait to see this.

It's gorgeous.
Oh, look how pretty.

Ooh, I like the benches.

- Stick my landing.
- Good job, Mom.

The table is really kind of

like the beginning
of the design style inside

because we wanted to bring
a large enough table in

because it's a huge space,
you can fit 12 around it.

And it's very organic and warm
feeling because it's wood.

- Oh!
- Got some heft to it.

- That looks good.
- It's real nice.

- This is beautiful.
- Thank you, guys.

Oh, this is amazing.

- No problem at all.
- This makes the whole house.

It really does.
It makes the house.

And it's friendly because

it's kind of like
a picnic table.

But it's a picnic table
on steroids.

I mean,
it's gorgeous.

I mean,
I feel really important,

sitting at the heads
of this table.

- It's so big.
- Yeah.

- I feel like the queen.
- We can't keep sitting here.

Okay.

The truck is here.
There's pretty things on it.

Here we go. Perfect.

There are a lot
of really modern elements

to this house.

We're putting all this
amazing furniture

in to balance

what is a very clean,
modern house with things

that make it feel approachable
and cozy and livable.

- Mm-hmm.
- So we have a really dark

saturated green couch.

And it just says,
"Sit here.

Relax. You're home."

- Perfect.
- They're going to love it.

The bones of the house
are very subtle:

nice light gray cabinets,
Carrara marble counters,

medium-brown flooring.

So we wanted to bring
in a lot of color and punch--

I like the blue
and the pink.

To make the rest of the house
warm up a little bit

because it could be
really cold-feeling.

- Oh, nice.
- This house is huge,

and just its sheer size presents

a big design challenge.

But I think we've
done a good job.

I think the potential buyers
are going to totally dig it,

so I'm excited to get them
in here and show it off.

Ta-da!

So people contact us
all the time

looking for homes
in the Bates-Hendricks area.

And today, we're showing
the house on Sanders

to some of those
potential buyers.

According to the
"Indianapolis Business Journal,"

Bates-Hendricks is Indianapolis'
best-kept secret

and the next up-and-coming
neighborhood.

I don't think it's really
a secret anymore,

but it's definitely
up-and-coming,

and the property values
are still really reasonable.

So you get a lot of house
for the money.

So today, we're going
to walk Ashley and Josh,

who are potential buyers,

through our big house
on Sanders.

So we love what Mina and Karen

are doing
with this neighborhood.

Definitely getting revitalized.

I think it would be
a really great place

for us to buy our first house.

Oh, my goodness.

- Oh, wow.
- What do you guys think?

It's so pretty.

It's awesome.

- I like the purple on the top.
- The purple up top, yeah.

- Love that.
- The whole house was brown.

So we tried to open it up,

get some, like, lighter,
brighter colors,

make it feel a little bit
more approachable.

- Yeah, I love the color.
- That front porch,

actually,
was completely closed-in,

and there was a front door
under this really peak here.

So we tore all that out.

Now, you actually have a porch
you could sit on and see.

- It's very nice.
- Porch is beautiful.

I like the plants
on the porch.

The way the front porch
wraps around

sort of invites
you to go in.

So do you want
to go in it?

Yes.

- All right.
- Oh, my goodness.

Oh, wow.

What do you guys think?

- It's so pretty.
- It's awesome.

- It's very nice.
- Porch is beautiful.

I like the plants
on the porch.

The way the front porch
wraps around

sort of invites
you to go in.

So do you want
to go in it?

Yes.

- All right.
- Oh, my goodness.

Oh, wow.

- That's what we like to hear.
- That's a good reaction.

- I'll take that.
- Come in. Come on in.

- Oh, my gosh. I love this.
- This is so cool.

I love it.

- Oh, and just look at the wall.
- Isn't that amazing?

Oh, I love this wall.
This is so cool.

Might be our favorite wallpaper
that we've ever used.

- That's wallpaper?
- Yeah.

- Really?
- Yeah.

It was different.
It was intriguing.

It really kind of went
with the whole rest of the room.

So when we got this space,

there was a wall kind of
where that bump down is.

So we opened it all up in here

to make it one nice,
big functional space.

This is great.
It's very cozy.

- I love it.
- Yeah, very cozy.

All right. Let's take
a closer look at the kitchen.

Okay.

This is amazing.

Yeah, you obviously have
plenty of space for a table.

The table is amazing.

You can fit so many people
around that table.

We've got some
pretty marble countertops,

big double stainless-steel sink,

one of my favorite backsplashes.

I really love
the gray cabinets.

And then I like
the ones up top.

You don't need a step stool.

Helps bring the eye up more

and to give the illusion
of more space.

I love it.

So you want to go see your
first downstairs master suite?

- Yes.
- Yes.

- Oh, wow.
- First?

One of two masters.

Ceilings are so high.

Yeah.
Yeah.

Your window above the bed
is one of the high, skinny ones,

so you still get light in.

We have that now.
I really like that.

Yeah.

If you guys want to go around
the corner, you can check out

your en suite bathroom.

- Okay.
- All right.

Oh, my goodness.

- Oh, wow.
- This is huge!

I like that.

I love this.

That's very nice.

It's an oversized tub.

You got a window
in the bathroom,

so you still get
some natural light.

We've got plenty of storage.

- Very nice.
- It's beautiful.

So, your second
master suite.

Tons of natural light.

You get the high skinny
window again,

so you can get the light
but still have the privacy

in the bedroom.

- That's really neat.
- That's a little special thing

that since it's a little cold
at this time of year,

I like to do something
garden-wise.

And we couldn't
really garden outside

because the ground was frozen.

So I made you
an indoor garden,

and I roped Mina
into doing one.

- It's beautiful.
- Yeah.

I really like this room.

All right.
Let's go upstairs.

So we definitely
gave the staircase a face-lift.

It was being held up
by a fence post

and had a mattress over top.

But we created this little
nook space with open

shelving to hold all your books
and your pretty stuff.

- I love that.
- Oh, yeah, that's really cool.

And this is your first
of two guest rooms upstairs.

I think the angle
in the ceiling

gives it a little coziness.

- Yeah, I like that.
- You want to lead them in there?

Sure.

And this is your second
second-floor bedroom.

It's a little bit bigger.

Tons of closet space.

Lots of closet, wall of closet.

I really like this bedroom.

This is nice.

And if you didn't have
enough space already,

we have a bonus room.

- This is my favorite.
- A bonus room?

This is my favorite.
I can't wait for you to see it.

- Oh, this is cool.
- This is so cool.

You got this nice
little bonus space.

I mean, at first glance,
you might think,

"Ooh, this headroom is going
to be a little tricky."

But most of the time

when you're entertaining,
people aren't standing.

We kind of set up
the two wings as, like,

his-and-her workspaces.

Oh, I love that.

And then you have all this
nice casual space

with the comfy floor pillows

and a big sectional and, again,
just more storage.

This is such a neat room.

It is so cool.

I love the whole layout.

It was really nice.

I think that we could
definitely host all the holidays

with both our families
with how big this house is.

Everybody could stay.

- So what do you guys think?
- I love this house.

We love it.
It's awesome.

I love how open it is,

but for how big it is,
it feels so cozy inside.

Yeah, the extra room
up there is awesome.

So the purchase price
was 45,000,

and with a few constructions
issues along the way,

the renovations costs
were a bit higher

than anticipated,
upwards of 200,000.

So that brought
the total investment

to around $245,000.

But on the plus side,
with all the updates,

we're hoping to be able
to list the house

at a higher price,
around 315,000,

which will hopefully
make a net profit

of around $70,000.

I think they 100 percent
loved the house,

but it's a lot of house,
and it's a lot to think about.

It's a big purchase.

So they've got
some mulling to do.

So it's another house
down and, hopefully,

another awesome couple to join
the neighborhood.