[Cory] What do we do
-when you buy a house? -It's a lot. It's a baby lot.
This is a driveway!
Mina!
Frank barely fits in the house.
[Mina] You have a lot of projects.
I have one really big one
that I'm about to spring on you.
What?
[exclaiming, laughing]
[Mina] She's got a mean lean
Why is our brand-new tree falling over?
[Cory] This is a mess, Mina.
If buyers come and they see this tree crooked,
they're gonna wanna know what else is wrong with the house,
and maybe done poorly.
Okay, heave! [yells]
[imitates trumpets]
-Holy cow! -Oh, it's amazing in here!
Yeah!
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses you've ever seen.
[Karen] Our team isn't afraid to tackle the worst of the worst.
[Mina] That is so gross!
[Karen] Holy cow.
[Mina] Then we turn those run-down houses
into some of the nicest homes in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow! -[woman] I love it!
Taking a little off the top?
Oh, fancy seeing you here!
Just in time to help me blow off all the shavings
and put the equipment away.
[Mina] Are you about ready?
About ready for what?
Go over to the Valley.
-Over the Valley, huh? -Over the Valley!
What's happening over there?
I wanna walk this tiny lot.
-Um... Hi! -Hi!
How's it going?
-You okay? -You guys haven't met, right?
She bought Charles.
-Oh, okay. -Yes.
And I heard lots about you.
-This is Zack. -Hi!
-This is my boyfriend. -Hello!
Hannah bought our house on Charles St.
which is just down the street from Cory's house.
[Cory] Always love meeting a new neighbor.
So, it was nice that we ran into her and her boyfriend,
it was a little surprise.
Sounds like we're gonna have, like, a little community around here.
-This is great. -That's adorable.
Well, he's actually in the market right now.
He doesn't live with me at Charles,
I've got roommates.
And he's going to be getting in the homebuying process here soon...
All right, well, we're going to check this one out.
It's in the Valley, which is a really cool new neighborhood.
And the timing might work out perfect for you.
Yeah, definitely!
And I grew up on the west side, so that'd be awesome.
All right, well, enjoy your walk.
I definitely will hit you guys up when we get a little further along.
And I'm gonna make him go work now.
-Bye! -Bye!
-Yeah! -See you, guys!
All right, come here. I'll show you how to put this away.
[Mina laughs]
Come here!
This is exciting, though!
We're going to the Valley!
Oh, boy!
Yeah.
This is our second project we've done in the Valley.
The first was the Warren house,
which turned out super cute and sold really quick
because I think people are really starting to migra
to this west side of Indy.
And the lot of Birch St.
is gonna be coming into the zoo, the ball park
and I really think it could a really good neighborhood
for us to keep investing in
Tell me about it, what are we doing? Did you buy a house?
It's a lot. It's a baby lot.
Oh, so it's not a lot of lot.
It's not a lot of lot.
-No... -Okay, that's intense.
[Mina] But I did get it for only 10 grand.
You got the lot for 10 grand?
-Yeah. -Okay!
[Mina] It's only 20 feet wid
but it goes back pretty far
So it's a really skinny lot
but I think we could squeeze
about a 1,500 sqft house on it.
And I kinda wanna figure out today
what footprint we can realistically get.
-Yep. -I wanna, like, you know.
Visualize it.
I know it's always nerve-wracking
to be a pioneer in a neighborhood
but, I mean, we've done this dance numerous times before,
I think we'll be all right.
Yeah...
I think we got this now!
And if we don't, we should, like, go find new jobs.
Are you just gonna leave me hanging again, bro?
Oh. [laughs]
I was doing some more sightseeing.
It probably doesn't even look like a lot.
Okay.
It probably looks like a side-yard.
-[Cody laughs] -But it is a lot.
This is a driveway!
-Mina! -Well, the reason it looks like a driveway
is 'cause we have 10 feet of tree.
[Cory] Okay.
If someone were to say,
"Hey, Cory, I've got this plot of land and here it is,"
I'd be like, "Show me a site map
that this is a separate property away from this house."
Who told you this was another lot?
It's a 21 foot wide lot.
-Go ahead and walk it off. -Walk with me, Frank.
One, two, three...
[Cory] Any time Mina says "I'm gonna walk it out,"
it's kinda like a guesstimat
And you can see her start her stride
and you know she's about to walk something out,
and you're like...
And what's crazy is this, like...
she's got good over the time.
My strides are two feet!
Ten, and a foot.
-This is a-- -So, we literally...
are right on the house.
And we have a variant.
So we can do a 16-foot-wide house.
So I think it's like...
a foot and a half off this
and like three and a half off this or something.
Off of this side of the property,
we can have windows.
-At three feet. -'Cause we're 3.5 feet.
-Okay. -Three and a little something.
And then nothing on the north--
-No windows on this side. -Okay.
How far forward are we coming with the house?
I mean, the set back that the rest of the houses have is what they've approved.
-So... -Okay.
Get in that tree.
Frank, come here.
Is there poison ivy back here?
I don't know.
[Cory] And we're how far off over here?
-Um, I think we're 1.5 feet. -I think I might tape it.
Linear 16-wide.
16 off that.
Which my guess is... right here.
Oh, you think so, huh?
Yeah, am I way off?
I don't know yet.
[exclaims]
[funny screaming]
I really want her to start using a tape measure.
She celebrates it!
Is the crazy part.
Positive reinforcement has a lot of power, Cory.
Yeah, so she gives herself a lot of positive reinforcement
because I sure don't.
-[Cory laughing] -Great!
The middle of my foot!
I almost shot your foot.
-You got excited. -[Cory] Yeah!
All right, stand by. Okay.
And then we're gonna go all the way back, right?
Hold on, I'm gonna find what our approved length is
that we can drop in.
Come on with me, Mina.
We're approved for 46 feet.
-So. One, two, three. -Stand by.
That's 46.
Super long!
Like, one of the longest lots downtown.
But about half the width.
We're gonna do a 16-foot-wide house.
And it looks a little small.
It's about here.
This is how big our house is.
Frank barely fits in the house.
This is so tiny!
I don't like it.
What's happening right now?
[Mina] This is how big our house is.
-Okay. -So that's it?
Frank barely fits in the house.
Frank was standing
in the middle of our little space,
and he's almost the size of a human,
so we almost were three people wide
within the back of our 16-foot-wide house.
And it looks a little small.
It looks quaint and perfect.
-[Cory] How many square feet? -16 times 49...
784 is our footprint.
Times two, for two stories
-is 1,568 square feet. -All right.
1,568 square feet.
Which is generous!
Wow.
-That's it. -And then the rest of this is backyard?
[Mina] We'll put a porch back here.
-[Cory] Uh-huh? -Yeah!
I think, 'cause we'll have, like, a good-sized drive.
-[Cory] Yeah, and we can-- -I mean, this is...
really nice!
[Cory] This is really cool.
I think it'll work.
[Mina] Building a house from the ground up
means starting with the basics.
So, the first thing we need to do
is install water, sewer, and electric lines.
Then we can dig in for the foundation.
Once that's dry,
we can start framing
and building our house.
Being in a new neighborhood's risky,
especially with a new build
The size and the design of the house has to fit with the area ones,
and you can't be sure you get it right until it sells.
We got this lot for 10,000.
The build is gonna be about 195,000,
putting us all in at 205,000
Based on our last house in the Valley,
which was a four-bedroom, three-bath,
and sold for 315,000,
I think we can list this on
for around 285,000
since it's a good bit smaller
and a three-bed, two-bath.
Bring him.
Bring him!
You want your big stick?
No, hold on.
I'm wrapped. No, no, no, no...
[Corry laughs] Where are you going?
[Mina] What are we doing?
[Cory] Let go!
-[Mina] Get out, Cory! -I'm trying!
Frank got in tangles.
Get your... Oh! Get it.
Look at that! You got it.
Go get your... [laughs]
Come on, bring your stick.
-[Frank barks] -[Cory laughs]
[Mina] With no demo to do at the Birch avenue lot,
the team's been able to move fast.
The utilities were installe and the foundation has been poured.
The lot may be small,
but I feel like the floorpla we came up with
will give a homeowner everything they need
without feeling cramped.
[Cory] Good morning!
Oh, good morning, Frank!
-Come to..., come here! -You go say hi.
You go say hi.
Come here, baba!
Oh, my goodness!
It's your own funeral.
[in a baby voice] What are you so sleepy for this morning?
-Birch. -Birch.
You know, with how small this lot is,
it's gonna be amazing to see what this ends up looking like.
Seemingly, a teeny tiny little house,
-but I think it's a-- -It's a shotgun.
I think we've got 1,600 square feet.
But when we come in,
and you obviously can't see it on the floor plan,
but we've got super, super high ceilings going in here,
which I'm very excited about
So, we've got living, kitchen, dining,
powder room.
[Cory] I love this whole open concept
and how you can see all the way to the back.
-That jazzes me up. -Mmm-hmm. Yeah.
Really cute covered patio.
-I'm excited about it. Yeah. -That is so cute!
And then when you go upstairs,
you got the main en-suite,
the den, bedroom two, it's on the smaller size,
but we've got pocket doors
so it could be used as, like a loft, a bedroom.
Then we have another bedroo and then our bathroom.
Just gonna be a nice, tight little house.
-Yeah. -1,600 square feet on the dot.
It's totally packing a punch.
-We're only 16 feet wide... -Mmm-hmm.
And we're packing in three bedrooms
and two and a half baths.
Yeah. I don't think it's gonna feel that tiny.
All right.
[Mina] Our first framing has started
and our team is flying.
We're just days away from window and doors going in.
-[Cory] Oh, hello. -Hi!
But I wanna make sure everything is framed and according to plan first
How's it looking?
We need to talk.
Um... dude.
This one's tough.
How's it looking?
We need to talk.
Um...
I admit it, I was wrong.
This is large.
She's not really that small.
This house is so freaking cute!
And we have some major tall ceilings in here,
we've got some 10-footers on our side.
[Mina] Makes what could fee like a very small space
feel much larger.
Doesn't it smell like breakfast over here?
[Mina] Are you just hungry?
Is that why you think everything smells like breakfast?
It smells like French toast and some breakfast.
[Mina] Okay.
This is the main bedroom over here.
-Yeah, so this is the laundry closet. -This is pretty spacious!
And then this is the bathroom.
Yeah, so it's shower pan here,
throne room, vanity over there.
Bedroom, bathroom, with a bedroom in between.
You know what I love about this?
Is that all of the bedrooms are on the second floor.
I don't know why I love that.
-Um, but I think... -It's the ninja position.
-What? -Everyone's in the ninja position.
-What's that? -Like, you're right.
Like, if someone breaks in,
there's no one that you have to sacrifice on the first floor.
That's so... [laughs]
It's like the ninja position if you go out to eat.
You wanna be facing the space,
you know, I don't wanna be facing a wall...
-Yeah. -Because...
Yeah!
...you got got, you'll get got first.
This works.
It's a cute little, what?
Three-two? And a half.
It packs all the essentials of what you need.
[both make ninja noises]
[Mina] Our little house on Birch is all closed up
with new windows and doors.
And our team has started on the exterior siding.
Inside, drywall's going up fast,
so MJ and I need to dial in our design details
to keep things moving.
-This is a modernized shotgu -[MJ] Okay.
The point is, we have 16 feet.
Okay.
So...
very high ceilings,
those are gonna be super cool.
But still, you know, it's long and skinny.
But I want it to feel super chic and luxe,
even though it's tiny.
Okay.
So I have this idea in my head
for a super, super dark house
with, like, a rose-esque door.
Mmm-hmm.
[Mina] So, the main body
and then just a little pop of pink.
-Yep -Just on the door.
And we can still do, like, a white trim.
If we're gonna do a pink door, I wanna do gold hardware.
Well, yeah.
-'Cause look how pretty that is. -Yeah.
To go with the gold hardware,
I'm thinking, like, a luxe gold lighting fixture
in the dining room,
and then some chic gold pendants in the kitchen.
100%. Okay.
Fancy in the Valley.
That's gonna be so cute.
If we're gonna go with this...
I like these ones that are light, but still warm.
[MJ] Okay. These are really pretty.
And they'll allow all the luxe gold accents to pop.
So, while I love
all the pink and gold,
we do have a potential buyer.
So, Hannah, who bought our Charles St. house,
her boyfriend Zack is in the market
to potentially buy this house.
I mean, who's to say.
Maybe Zack likes pink and gold.
Maybe he does, but he's not a 100% thing,
so I wanna make sure we're appealing to,
you know, a broad range of buyers...
I just want it to be very chic and luxe.
I think, because it is smaller,
to keep it a little less busy,
and we don't have a ton of backsplash space,
we take the countertop and wrap up.
Yes. Waterfall the edges?
[gasps excitedly]
Well, that's not what I just said.
-But we can also do that. -Okay!
I'm talking about backsplash.
Oh, yeah!
-You're talking about island waterfall. -Yes.
This is the island, this is the backsplash.
So it's gonna be a big island,
countertop, and then go up the wall. So...
-Yeah. -Okay.
[MJ] Let's go for a really elegant marble look.
Like, this tile, but let's do it in a quartz
so it's durable.
This neighborhood doesn't necessarily merit
the stove that I have in mind,
but we had a snafu at another property,
so we have that 36-inch wide,
-like, Italian unit... -[gasps] With the legs?
Yeah.
-Yes! -But it has little golds on it like this.
Little tiny gold accents?
So, if we wanna use that here...
We have to.
-It's saving money 'cause we don't have to buy a stove! -Yeah!
-But that stove is very fancy. -Okay, yeah.
Because our powder room
is literally right off the kitchen,
right behind the island,
I wanna do something cool
and something a little bit more antique
for the door.
It's a barn, right?
Well... it could be a barn door.
Okay, yeah.
-And then we'll just use-- -You have some in the warehouse?
-I have so many doors. -Okay.
I'm just trying to get rid of them at this point.
-I'm good with that. -Yes!
I would say, doing a wallpaper on the powder room,
'cause again, we don't usually do powder rooms.
-Yeah. -Because it is small.
Give as much pop as we can.
-I'm down. -Okay.
I freaking love these two.
-And... -[MJ laughs]
It's a lot.
Tell me you don't like these.
-I don't like those. -You don't?
[MJ] I love the colors,
but that is a lot of peacock.
I kinda like this thistle pattern.
It's still a flower, but it's muted.
It could be masculine, it could be feminine.
Okay. I love that.
And I wanna do some kind of either pedestal sink or--
We've got a pedestal downst...
Well, it's not like a traditional pedestal,
but it's the metal base.
We are saving so much money.
Yeah, I can't remember where it was supposed to go,
but it's really pretty.
Okay, so we already have our stove,
we already have our sink,
where are we gonna spend money?
Oh, I am sure you will find a way.
Maybe we do some super luxe tile in the main bath.
Uh-huh...
[MJ] I really like this marble petal design.
Cool! This one's gonna be really cute.
It's gonna be super cute.
I'm excited.
[Mina exclaims excitedly]
-Hello! -I like it!
[MJ] Today, at Birch, I have to show Mina
all of the money that we're getting ready to spend
to make this place the coolest place it could ever be.
I love that we're gonna get so much viewing...
of the wallpaper with the sky.
So, I really love a powder room
with some detailed grass cloth wallpaper.
And with our little pedestal sink,
it's gonna be so cute,
because you'll be able to see underneath it...
And it's gonna allow the wallpaper
to really be the star of the show.
And the grass cloth really makes it look higher end,
um, because it gives it some texture
along with, like, the pattern and the colors.
[MJ] A little 'wow' factor.
So, when I was over here the other day,
I was thinking about this.
-[MJ] Okay. -I don't wanna close it in.
I like the angle.
-Yeah. -I think it looks really cool,
looks really clean.
I don't wanna do any permanent build out,
because we've got, obviously plenty of cabinet storage,
so we don't need any cabinet storage there.
It could be as simple as a cute little bench
and a couple pillows,
maybe a hanging plant, like...
There's a way to make this work
and look really, really cute.
Yeah!
I really like the space under the stairs.
I like that it's clean and open.
-I like the angle, too. A lot. -Yeah.
It really could be as simple as using the space
as a little bar area.
Just something useful that's cute.
-Yeah... -We've a lot of projects in the house.
We do have a lot of projects going on.
And I have one really big one
that I'm about to spring on you.
[Mina] You've lost your mind
[Mina] We've a lot of projec
-...in the house. -We do have a lot of projects going on.
And I have one really big one
that I'm about to spring on you.
-What? -The beams.
There aren't any beams.
Yet.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Have you looked to see how much a full beam costs?
Not yet.
Do you think it's under $300?
Yes.
No, you do not.
What would make sense would be to do poplar
which is the same as the stairs,
so they would stain the same
It really just comes down to what the linear footage of poplar's gonna cost.
There's a way to make cheap beams.
All right, we'll get back to that.
I mean, we are bringing a lot of wow factors to the Valley,
and I think if we just continue
to knock it out of the park,
this'll be the next really cool neighborhood.
This is gonna be a really cute house.
So cute. So, so, so cute.
Okay.
[Mina] While they finish installing flooring
and kitchen cabinets
at our Birch St. house...
it's a good thing we have Adele to help us.
-[Cory] These are so cute! -Aren't these cool?
[Mina] Mom and Cory are working on a project
to give the backyard a little bit of luxury.
[Karen] So, I went by the Birch house the other day
to check on the progress,
and I found these on the back patio.
Covered in construction dust and debris.
And I thought, "You know what?
These'd make a super cute little coffee table situation
on the back porch at Birch, right?"
Mina and MJ are talking about putting
a lot of luxury inside the house.
So we're gonna put a little luxury
on the outside,
with a custom coffee table.
This is an electrical spool.
I'll be honest,
the electrical spool doesn't really scream luxury to me.
Well, you have to imagine the entire vignette, okay?
So, you've got this custom table with some seating around it,
lovely beverages and food, some flowy curtains,
some big flowerpots with beautiful flowers.
It'll be like you're in a resort somewhere.
-If you say so. -[snickers] Thanks.
-I got boxes full of legs, so we've got legs. -Hairpin legs.
Yeah, so we're just gonna put four hairpin legs on,
and then we're gonna stain the top.
But here we have another option.
So, this tree got cut down on Hosbrook Street
-seven, eight years ago -Okay.
and I got it milled into rounds.
We could also use this as the table back there.
Obviously, Karen's known for saving things from her construction sites,
but I'm pretty sure this one takes the cake
-for the item she's had the longest. -[laughs]
I mean, I knew when I saved this eight years ago
-that eventually I would find the perfect place for it, -Yeah.
and this is it.
The front porch needs something, too.
This would be so cute out front.
-We could do this. -[gasps]
-And we could-- -Shut the front door.
Right?
[Karen] So, originally we were just gonna make one table for MJ,
but since we have this other slab
I feel like we should make it into two.
And it's a pretty simple project.
All we have to do is sand it down,
add the legs...
This is real nice like.
[Cory] Stain.
Okay, so, let's just drop this in here
-and see how we feel about it. -Yeah.
And boom, we have something that looks like a million bucks.
That is so fuego.
[Karen] Oh, that is cute.
And we're gonna take these over,
and we're gonna put 'em in place,
and MJ is gonna be so pleased
that his little elves have come and helped him and made it really amazing.
-We killed it, Karen. Let's get out of here. -We're so good at this.
-Get out of here. Go, go. -Tables.
[Mina] Our kitchen at Birch is gonna have a big dose of luxe
with their stone backsplash going all the way up the wal
[Mina laughs]
[Mina] And MJ was able to pull off his spalt wood beam idea
for a few hundred bucks
which is gonna draw your eye up
and highlight the ten foot ceilings
which is one of the best parts of this house
[MJ] Hopefully, the stair tread will be a very similar color
so that everything will loo light, bright, and cohesive
Bring that piece of flooring in.
-Okay. -Let's see how close we are.
[MJ] I mean, that's pretty darn close.
[Mina] Outside, the front door has gotten a fresh coat of rose paint,
but the front yard could use a bit more pizazz
-Oh, Karen. -[Karen shouting] Cory!
-I hear you -Cory!
but I don't see you.
-[giggles] Ah, you found me! You found me. -[laughs]
When I look at the front of this house what I see is this imbalance,
and I want to use the landscaping
to create what, to me, feels like a better balance
so I need a big tree but it can't get too big.
-This is fantastic. -[dog yelps]
-Shh. -Look at all the varieties here.
-I know. -All the cultivars.
-All, what, nice work. All the cultivars. -Huh? Yes.
-So, I learned a way to remember the difference -Wow.
between pine, fur, spruce, and juniper
-which can look similar. -Okay.
Yeah. So this is a spruce and you can tell.
Touch it. It's spiky.
-Spruce spiky. -Spiky.
And so for this house because, you know, it's a family house
I don't really want a spiky tree up front.
-Okay, so what are our other options here? -So we're gonna look around.
-Yeah. -Let's go look around.
This, to me, looks like a pine,
and you can tell a pine because the leaves come in packets.
But I feel like it's too big because they get girthy, too.
So, somewhere here there is a vanderwolf's pine.
It stays only, like, 30, 40 feet,
and he doesn't get girthy.
He's, like, 12 foot diameter and I want to see if we can find it.
Let's see.
-[Cory] Where is this tree you speak of? -I don't know.
I'm still looking. Here it is.
This little guy? I shouldn't say little. He's pretty big.
-I like the way it's a little bit more open. -Ah, yeah, vanderwolf pine.
-But I don't think he's big enough. -He's not?
I want 10, 11 foot tree, 12 feet would be okay,
so this will be the biggest tree we've ever installed.
I'm gonna go find someone and see if we can get the size we want.
[both] Yeah.
There's got to be a bigger one here somewhere,
so let's see if we can get help loading it up.
-Karen, I got to go get equipment -[laughs]
because that's what we're gonna need in this world.
I got to get Austin on standby.
Absolutely. So, we need some digging, we need some lifting.
Some major manpower.
-Meet you at the house. [chuckles] -We'll see.
[Mina] Upstairs at Birch,
our super luxe marble petal design tile is going up in the main bath
And the guys are installing a large barn door over the laundry closet.
-It's on? -Yeah, on it.
Ooh.
Look what I brought for you.
[Mina] And Mom was able to get the bigger tree she was looking for
to really pull the front yard together.
[Karen] Look at him just zipping down the road.
-Oh. -[laughs heartily]
-Ready? -[Karen] Yeah.
[Karen] Nice.
This isn't bad at all. We've got four shovels here.
Okay, so, the rule of thumb for planting a tree
is the hole should be twice the diameter of the ball,
and the depth of the hole should be such
that the top of the root is just above grade.
-Where's the excavator when you need one? -I know.
It would have made it so much easier.
This has some strapping in it.
It's got strapping and it's got some metal I saw when you picked it up.
-[man] It got a little... -[MJ] Oh, one of those basket things I love?
-Combination teeth. -[MJ gasps]
-[MJ] Can we save it? -Yeah, why don't you lift it up real quick
-and I'll cut it? -Yes, okay.
Now your basket's about to be intact.
Around the root ball of the pine tree
is a metal wire basket that we need to remove before we plant it.
[MJ] Okay, here we go.
-[Austin] Hold on. -[MJ] I love my basket.
[Karen] All right.
-[Cory] MJ! Use your basket! That's your wall art. -You are the best.
[MJ] I'm obsessed with this.
[MJ] I love this wire baske so much
that I'm gonna turn it into wall art.
Look at you turning trash into art.
The student has become the master.
This is going to be amazing.
[Karen] Yep, that's it. You're there.
Should be just about right. All right.
Oh, that's perfect. Yeah.
I love this tree.
Ohh, look how pretty that looks.
[Karen] In addition to our magnificent pine,
we're adding some inkberry and roses off the sidewalk
to really welcome people to the house.
I mean, this looks fabulous.
-[MJ] Welcome. -[Karen] Welcome to your new home.
[Mina] We've got lots of luxurious gold light fixtures
going up all over the house
and the addition of the beam really takes this place to the next level
and actually gives the illusion to the house being wider than it really i
[Mina] You know, from the front she doesn't look bad,
but she's got a mean lean.
Why is our brand new tree falling over?
It's a mess, Mina.
[Mina] Why is our brand new tree falling over?
She's got a mean lean.
[Cory] This is a mess, Mina.
This very crooked tree
is not the first impression I want buyers to see.
I know, and if buyers come and they see this tree crooked
they're gonna want to know what else is wrong with the house
and may be done poorly.
[Karen] Hello?
Yo, your tree bulb is up out of the ground.
[Karen] What?
She's got a mean lean.
[Cory] Because we put the hose on it
after we got done planting it.
So much water that I think it floated out of its spot.
[Karen] Staking it probably makes sense. [chuckles]
-Yeah, we can give it hell. -Yeah, he said we can give it hell.
I'm even wearing boots that I didn't want to get dirty today.
[Mina] He's even wearing boots
-he didn't want to get dirty today he said. -Having a real moment.
[Karen laughs]
I was not prepared to go to war with this tree today,
but I think I'm gonna take one for the team.
So, we're gonna stake the tree
and then over time it will develop enough of a root system
to hold itself upright.
-No, that's not bad at all. -[Austin] Oh.
[Tad] That's not bad at all.
We're gonna have to hold it for a very long time
while they run the wires is the problem.
-I ain't scared. -All right.
-You and I? -I'm not scared, it's just not easy.
[Tad] We'll get it straight.
When they need muscle do you know who they call?
They call Tad and Austin.
I had suggested using a truck to pull the tree,
but Tad had other ideas and suggested us instead.
Today is gonna be a workout, buddy, and the yard is our gym.
Okay, okay, heave.
-That's the heave. Keep going. -Keep going.
[Tad] Which way does it need to go to?
-Towards me. -Okay.
[Mina] More, more.
-There we go. -Okay?
[Tad] It's heavier than I anticipated.
[Karen] Okay. All right, let's see what she does.
-Oh, my hands. -[cheers]
-Woo! -[claps hands]
Not too bad.
-Good job. -All right.
[Mina] With the front yard landscaping complete,
Mom's taking some inspiratio from our front door color
and giving the back patio a splash of rose
with pink planters and curtains.
So, this has to go like this to make it work.
Wow, this is a very little thing that's doing a lot.
This is super light.
[Mina] Inside, the guys installed
a lightwood barn door on the powder room,
and MJ has just one last tou
that'll really help complete our luxury look in the powder room.
-Hello, hello. -What's happening, high speed?
Fancy meeting you here. It is loud and crazy in there.
-What's happening? -I'll tell you what.
What am I here doing?
So, we're making our own little custom backsplash.
So, my dream for a cute little pedestal sink
has been completely crushed
and we're gonna have to go with another vanity.
It's dark wood and it's still super cute
but its backsplash doesn't fit.
So now we're gonna have to come up with some custom moment
to create a little backsplas on the back of the vanity,
so it can protect the grass cloth wallpaper.
-Okay, so, I got three boards like this. -Okay.
-And one will go in the front, behind the faucet -The faucet.
-as the backsplash. -Okay.
And then I have two that'll go on either side of the vanity,
and it'll kind of do this stance.
-Are you ready? I'm about to wash my hands. -Uh-huh.
Go like this.
Whoa.
It's gonna have that much curvature to it?
Yeah. I can call Tad.
-I'd love to see that. -[both laugh]
I love Tad so much,
-So much. -so I wasn't gonna say
that I'm better at carpentry than he is
but I think I'm going to say now
that I'm better at carpentry than he is.
And I think for today and all future projects
I'm going to remain Switzerland.
-We're gonna jigsaw out the shape first, -Yeah.
and then what we can do
is take my new high speed router that I grabbed.
So we're gonna use that
-to create our little decorative edge. -Okay.
Wow.
And then what I was thinking, MJ...
Do you want another detail like this?
[MJ Coyle] Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Take it inside, see what it does.
Yeah!
Let's see this dog hunt.
Oh, it's going to hunt.
[MJ] Oh, we'll see.
[Cory Miller] I mean, stand back and look at it,
it's really sick!
[MJ] That is pretty hot!
[Cory] It looks so expensive, too!
Yaa!
-Yaa! -[laughing]
[MJ] It's gonna look amazin when we get it stained.
I'm gonna take this to color match.
The best powder room we've ever done.
This is sick.
-And no one died. -And I didn't have to do the wallpaper.
[MJ] 'Kay, this guy's done.
[Karen Laine] It looks really good!
Great.
Let's see how this goes.
[Karen] Let's see.
[MJ] I'm a little bit nervous!
[Karen] Look at how good that looks!
I really stuck my foot in this powder room, I must say.
You stuck your foot in it?
Is that how you say that?
Like, really went for it. Really...
Is that how you say it?
I don't know, I've never heard that expression before,
which doesn't mean it's not a real expression.
-You kids these days. -Might not be.
[Karen] Well, this is fabulous.
-And the stairs are in! -Yep!
No handrail, I can live with that.
We'll need to get one before we sell,
but it look so cool, let's just show it like this this weekend.
-It's fine. -No couch yet?
-No couch yet. -Okay.
-It'll be here. -But we have steps...
-Yep. -...so we can take some of this stuff upstairs, right?
All up to the main bedroom.
[Mina Starsiak] This goes upstairs? Okay.
I'm gonna start taking stuff up.
What else goes up?
-Um, this guy. Yep. -Okay.
We're bringing in a lot of elegant pieces
that are going to play into our small,
but luxurious theme.
-Kitchen? -Yep.
The plan is to finish all the staging this week
so we can show the house next week.
And I already have one showing lined up
with a buyer on Friday,
so, Hannah, who bought one our houses on Charles,
her boyfriend is also interested in buying a house
and maybe it will be one
they can live together in eventually.
So, we're staging the house with him in mind,
and making some of the rooms a little more masculine.
The beams just really make the room come together, MJ.
[MJ] You know, it was feeling a little thin,
but these kinda make it look...
-They make it look a little girthy. -Yeah.
-[Mina] Right? -[MJ] Super girthy.
[Mina] Okay...
There we go. Okay.
Between the beams, the gold fixtures, the gold pendants
the chandeliers, like, all the elegant decor,
we've really kicked this tiny house up a couple notches.
[MJ] Even though it's small
it's very sophisticated and elegant.
[Mina] I'm not gonna lie, this thing turned out cool.
Wow, thank you! Tree trash!
There was a wire root cage around the tree
that we planted out front, so I took it home,
spray painted it, and we're gonna make it into an art piece for the wall.
[Mina] It's gonna add a little bit of edginess,
I think it's gonna make the room feel a little more masculine.
Hopefully, it's gonna be Zack's vibe, uh,
'cause, uh, we were a little self-indulgent with the pink and gold.
Don't make assumptions about how guys feel about pink and gold,
they could love it.
Let's hope so.
I haven't done, like, a more masculine-leaning bedroom in a long time.
It's good!
It's very exciting!
[Karen] Good morning, guys!
-[Hannah] Good morning! -[Zack] Hey, good morning.
-[Mina] Good to see you again. -Hello, hello!
We're in The Valley, which is really close to you.
Um, so, welcome to The Valley.
-Oh, wow! -Oh, wow!
-Oh, my goodness! -Wow.
This is stunning!
So, this was an empty lot,
and, honestly, didn't even look like a lot existed
'cause there was a fence here that was so overgrown.
But once we were able to cut that all back,
you've got a good size lot, and you've got parking in the back.
It's a good time to get in.
This house in Fountain Square would probably be about
$480,000 would be my guess.
Oh, wow!
-And it's the bargain price of $289,000! -[laughing]
[Mina] Outside, we went with board and batten sidin
to make it feel a little bit more modern.
Um, went with that darker color to kind of ground it,
but white trim.
Um, the front door color, we wanted a pop of color.
She's pretty for sure.
It looks good, right?
-Yeah. -And it matches the flowers in the front.
-[Zack] Beautiful. -[Karen] And I leaned into the pink
with the landscaping.
[Hannah] Stunning.
[Zack] I love all those windows right out front.
It's super open, I can just imagine
all the life that's gonna be in there.
Pretty soon, you won't have to imagine,
we should go inside.
-Yeah, yeah let's do that. -Let's do it.
[Karen laughing]
Ta-da!
-Oh, wow! -Oh, awesome!
[Hannah] Holy cow!
[Zack] Oh, it's amazing in here.
Ta-da!
-Oh, wow! -Oh, awesome!
-[Mina] What do you think? -[Hannah] Holy cow!
-Oh, it's amazing in here. -This is stunning.
Because it's all-new construction,
um, went a little crazy,
and decided to do very high ceilings.
And then we added some beams
These aren't actually structural, there just prett
And it's a really nice big open floorplan.
I feel like this is the perfect entertaining space
with the layout with the kitchen right in between
'cause everyone just hangs out there, that's where you land.
Absolutely.
But you can see everything,
we've got the floors all the way throughout,
these are EVP.
They're super, super durable
[Zack] Beautifu
And I love the stairs as-is so much,
there is no handrail right now,
which is not to code, but I didn't wanna put one u
'cause I wanted you to see it fully open.
It looks beautiful, I like living life on the edge,
-no handrail, I'll risk it. -[laughing]
[Zack] This isn't like your typical starter home.
Yeah, the finishes do not scream, "Starter home,"
but the price point does.
So, just keep that in the back of your noodle.
Let's go take in the kitchen,
and you can throw your coats on the bench if you want.
Oh, wow!
This is amazing!
[Mina] Just a big island!
Love a big island.
[Mina] This is quartzite, it's so beautiful.
Has really, really cool veining.
There's, like, some spots that have,
like, a little bit of a hunter green,
and there's gold and brown, lots of movement,
and this is just huge.
And we have a little surpris for you under the stairs.
-Oh, wow! -Oh my goodness.
It already has a cart ready to go,
you could literally put it all in there.
-Oh, you have a bar cart already? -[Hannah] He has a bar cart.
-[Zack] I do. -You're ready, bro! You're so ready.
-[Hannah] So, yeah. -But take a little spin around.
Look at your really fancy stove.
- That is not... -[Zack] Oh, wow!
-[Mina] ...a first-time homebuyer's stove. -[Hannah] Amazing.
We've got the backsplash going all the way up,
and other than it just being pretty,
it makes it so easy to clean.
'Cause you don't have any grout lines.
[Hannah] Very nice.
[Mina] Which one's the cleaner?
I like to clean.
-I like a nice tidy space. -[Mina] Yeah, no!
[Hannah] Very, extremely clean.
You know, there's always gonna be one person
who is more of a cleaner than the other person.
So, it's okay.
He's enjoying himself, just let him.
[laughing]
We don't usually show off the powder rooms,
but this one is really, really cute.
-[Hannah] Oh, wow! -Wow!
Oh, my gosh, this is super neat.
-Very nice. -[Hannah] Mmm-hmm.
The wallpaper's incredible.
[Mina] And you've got a nice vanity
with marble top out here.
MJ made that curved edge,
and it is a really good example
of how a really small additi
can change a whole space.
[Mina] I feel like we're having a really lovely time
just hanging out in your powder room,
I think we can go check out the dining room a little closer.
[Zack] Let's do it.
-Oh, wow. -Oh, man, it looks awesome out here.
[Hannah] I love it!
[Mina] We have five seats around this round,
and these are large armchair
If you had a table going longways with an extender,
you could fit a lot more people in here if you wanted to.
-Um... -Awesome for hosting for sure.
[Mina] Yeah!
-We're gonna go around back and check out the back yard. -[Hannah] Okay!
[Mina] You've got a nice little covered patio back here.
[Hannah] Oh, wow!
Oh, and all the pink, it matches the front door.
-[Hannah chuckling] -[Zack] Beautiful.
[Karen] I leaned hard into the pink.
You can put any color curtain you want up here.
You can close them when it's not windy for more privacy.
But, you know, here you go.
[Hannah] Oh, I love this,
[Karen] Yeah, just enjoy yourselves, sit in the sunshine.
But also, there were two of these
under a bunch of construction debris,
and Cory and I turned it into a table.
[Hannah] Very nice.
We still have some awesome spaces upstairs,
so, let's go back up there.
[Zack] Let's do it.
Oh, wow.
[Zack] Oh, it's beautiful in here.
I love the light fixture so much.
[Mina] You've got a decent size main bedroom,
and there's great natural light coming through the windows.
And this is a queen, but yo could easily fit a king.
-I love it. -[Karen] Yeah.
Behind another super cute barn door,
we've got your full bath ensuite
with double vanity.
[Hannah] Oh, wow!
Oh!
It's awesome in here.
[Hannah] The double sink with the vanity!
[gasps] Oh, my goodness!
[Zack] I love the tile work back here.
[Hannah] This is very pretty
[Zack] I mean, the shower's massive!
-[Hannah] That is a really big shower. -[Zack] Love it.
[Mina] Let's go back downstairs
and we can go through the numbers.
So, he is in a rental situation
for, what, four or five more months?
Yes.
And whether or not you end up buying right now
or in, you know, three, four, five months,
I think looking at a couple houses, that'll help you make the decision.
Yeah, definitely have a lot to think about,
but, I mean, the house is beautiful.
I have no complaints on it, I absolutely love it,
and would be very lucky to end up in here.
-So, it's a lot to think on. -[Karen] Yeah.
[Mina] Bought this property for around $10,000,
and was hoping to stay, you know,
ideally, under $200,000 or so.
But because it's a newer neighborhood,
we really wanted to put som wow factor into this house.
So, we added some more high-end finishes
that we would normally not do for a starter home
to really draw in buyers.
So, we went a bit over budge
knowing it's gonna be a loss-leader for us.
Our profit margin's gonna be pretty, pretty slim on this one.
And while Zack decided the timing isn't gonna work out
for him on this house,
I'm hoping someone will grab it up soon
because this is our second house in The Valley.
We have half a dozen or so more that we're rolling into.
[Karen] And I always love to see neighborhoods grow.
That's why we do what we do
[Mina] There's a lot of exciting things to come for this area,
and we can't wait to be a part of it.