Hup, two, three, four.
To the waterfall.
Come on, Banana.
All right, Luke. Here, let's go down here.
Go. Jump in.
Look at the water, Luke.
Oh, it's so pretty.
Careful, it's slippery.
We're just playing in the creek, enjoying summer.
Just having some fun together as a family
before we get started on my good friend Shea's renovation.
We got waterfalls, we got great weather.
We've got wet kids.
Quintessential Arkansas.
Okay.
All right.
Shea and Nick's house.
I know. I'm so excited.
Shea is my hairstylist and friend.
Shea and her husband, Nick, have been searching for a house
with land for a long time, so I know that
this is very exciting for them.
So the picture she sent, it looks like a Cape Cod house.
Did you see the pictures on the inside?
- No. - It looks like a 1980s sitcom.
It reminds me 100% of my house growing up.
Kind of want to just keep it all as is.
But I know they don't want to.
I know it's here somewhere.
- That's right there. - Oh, wow. Look at this. Yeah.
- This is pretty. Look at the trees. - Really pretty.
The lot is gorgeous.
Wow. This is so pretty.
Look at the little cedar shake up on the dormers.
- Hey. - Hi, guys.
Hey, guys. How are you?
- Oh, good. How are you? - So excited to see you.
- How's it going? - How are you?
How are you? We're excited.
Good to see you.
I'm Shea. This is my husband, Nick,
and we've been married for 21 years.
I started out doing Jenny's sister-in-law's hair
and met Jenny through her.
I have seen everything that Jenny does,
and I don't know that there's anything
I've seen her do that I didn't love.
We have two kids, Hannah,
who actually just graduated hair school.
And we have a son, Ty.
He's going off to college soon.
So empty nesters.
Recently, we sold our house
and we're currently in a rent house.
But this house needs a lot of work.
Siding, paint, flooring.
There's no bathroom door.
That could be a problem.
But it's a nice-sized lot
in the perfect location.
This is the first house for us
that we don't have to think about what do we need for the kids.
Hopefully they'll still come visit, right?
But we get to do things our way this time.
Yeah.
- We are so excited. - Yeah.
For Jenny and Dave to come in and take this project,
just a total game changer.
Okay, let's start.
First things first, what do you guys
have set aside for this project?
- Two-twenty. - Okay.
Hopefully that'll get us close to
what we'd like in a finished product.
Okay, perfect.
- Shall we go on to porch? - Okay.
Ha! Look at this.
- Look at this view. - Yes.
What are you hoping to see change out here?
I don't love wood.
- I don't love maintenance, you know? - Okay.
I want, like, maybe a concrete patio,
something that's not as high a maintenance.
Okay.
I noticed that the front door is offset
to the porch stairs.
- Okay. - Can you center that up and maybe do a new front door?
- Yeah. - Oh, of course.
- Yeah. - Yeah, absolutely.
What about color and siding?
We love the white house with black.
- Yes. - Okay. But what's next?
- What's the next... - Gray.
Well, I think grays are on their way out
and more of a neutral palette...
I like that.
...is really what we're going towards.
- Is that right? - Yes.
That was good.
- Yeah. - No, but true.
I do... yeah.
I think warmer and again charming.
- Yeah. Okay. - Perfect.
So I can see the landscaping obviously
needs to be cleaned up.
There's messes all the way around,
I think, that need to be removed.
Okay, so the plan out here, replace the siding.
Do warm paint, give you a new deck, new front door,
new landscaping.
That's it.
Okay.
Anything else for outside?
I would really, really love a couple of those
swinging chairs by the front porch.
Okay.
So maybe, like, one there and one there.
I think you thought about this.
- I thought about it. - No pressure, Dave.
- Okay. All right. - We can do that.
No pressure. Okay.
All right, well, let's go in.
Okay.
This is cool.
Oh, I love it. Look at the blue carpet.
Please tell me you want to keep this.
I might jump on this.
No, no, we're not keeping this.
We want some type of laminate flooring,
something low maintenance.
Yeah, and you guys have a big dog, too, right?
- Yes. - Yeah.
She does get excited and scratch the floor.
- Yeah. - So you need durable, durable floor.
- Okay. - Yep.
What about the fireplace?
I love wood-burning fireplaces,
but we had one in our last house, and I'm kind of tired of.
And I'm tired of the maintenance. I'm tired of the wood, so...
Right.
Yeah, we'll just turn it into a gas log fireplace.
Perfect.
What do you want to see for the mantel and...
Maybe kind of warm and rustic, homey,
- if possible. - Yeah.
It's a good size room, though.
- It is. - We could do a lot with this room.
We're gonna make it bigger.
- Okay. - All right.
So this wall right here,
she would love to see that wall gone.
- Yeah. - Anything you can open up, open up.
Just do it.
- Okay. - Okay.
So the plan for the living room is,
first of all, new flooring.
We're gonna replace your fireplace
with a gas fireplace.
I think opening up the firebox and adding a stone facade
will make things really cozy.
We're gonna open up this wall that goes into the kitchen.
Some new trim, new lighting.
- Perfect. - Okay.
- Let's go to the kitchen. - All right.
Let's go check out the kitchen so we can figure this out.
- Wow. - This is a big space.
Do we want to keep the wallpaper?
I don't know, the apples.
I'm just kidding.
- So this is the wall? - Yeah.
I mean, I don't see an issue
where we wouldn't be able to open it up.
I like that because look at the light
coming through this window.
So, I mean, you would get that all to your living room.
- Yeah. - Okay.
So what are you thinking in this--
Kitchen, this drop soffit.
You know what we used to do up there?
Put the fake plants.
That was all your plastic plants.
Plastic plants, remember?
- And then the roosters. - Roosters?
- Everybody has a rooster. - And my mom has a rooster.
I know. My mom does, too. My grandmother does, too.
Plastic fruit could have gone up there as well.
Oh, yeah.
So, what do you want in the kitchen?
Well, I was kind of wondering if we could open up the space
so we could see maybe all the way to the front door.
- Okay. - Oh. So you lose this?
Okay, yeah.
But we lose that space now, where your fridge was.
- Okay. - Okay.
You know, maybe it's an advantage
that these walls are gone.
Because if we just have the cabinets on one side,
then we could have room for an island
that maybe looks out into the living room.
- Yeah. - Okay.
Okay, cool.
What about color? Do you like dark
or light color cabinets? - Or stain?
I like dark.
- Okay. - More neutrals.
I do like more neutral tile, anyway,
especially in a kitchen. - Right.
Let's get this planned, Miss Marrs.
Okay, so we're gonna have the plan for the kitchen
and the dining room and the new flooring.
We're gonna match the rest of the house,
get you new lighting and give you new French doors.
Then we'll reconfigure the kitchen by removing a wall
to see through to the front door.
We'll give you a new island, new countertops,
new backsplash, new sink, new appliances.
- New, new, new, everything new. - Wow, I like new.
- We like, we like a lot of new. - Okay, perfect.
- Yeah. - Okay. What else?
What's down here?
Just a little laundry room.
Okay.
Here's the laundry room.
Wow. Okay, nice.
Kind of a wasted space over here.
Yes.
Should do something there.
So next is to the main.
Okay, let's go.
This is...
Time capsule.
So what else would you like to see in here?
Maybe some wood ceiling or just something to homey it up.
- Okay. - Okay. All right.
So the plan for the bedroom, replace the carpet
with same wood flooring throughout the house.
Mm-hmm.
Get you guys some new lighting, little paint.
Do something in here just to really elevate it,
whether it's trim or some sort of wood feature.
Make this warm and cozy and just a beautiful,
serene retreat.
- Perfect. - Here's the main bathroom.
- Okay. - Okay.
And there is no door.
Oh, in the whole bathroom.
So, if you could do a door.
This is a closet. There's a door.
This is teeny. Look at this, babe.
You can't even... Okay.
This is a tight squeeze in here.
Very tight squeeze.
And you got a big tub.
Which we don't need.
What do you guys need in here?
- More closet space. - Okay.
- And then you just need a shower. - A shower.
- No tub. - Correct.
And then new vanity, of course.
- Two, it's two sinks. - Single or double?
- You want double? - I don't care.
- Okay. - Huh?
We don't...
Like, we're not really ever getting ready at the same time.
I think I gotta step in here and let's do two.
- Okay, okay. - All right. Wow.
Wow.
When I... when I'm in a hurry and I need to get ready,
I want to make sure I can and she's, you know...
I do like to sit in the sink.
Yeah, exactly. What?
She sits in the sink when she gets ready.
- The sinks under the mirror. - Yeah.
Yeah.
Do they make sink with, like, butt impressions for you to sit in?
I don't know. We'll look into that.
Okay.
The plan for the bathroom/closet is,
first of all, make the closet a priority.
Get it a little bit bigger.
New shower, double sinks in your vanity and new lighting,
new flooring, new tile.
We'll reconfigure everything in here.
- I love it. - Okay.
All right, guys, we have our work cut out for us.
- We do. - But this is gonna be a great project.
- I'm excited. - Yes, I know that you can do it.
- Thanks. - I love you.
- Oh, love you. - Appreciate you, Dave.
- Thank you, sir. - I mean, Shea does my hair.
She does my sister's hair. She does my mom's hair.
She does my sister-in-law's hair.
- She does probably 20 of my friends' hair. - It's a lot of hair.
So I feel like the pressure is on.
- Bye, guys. - See you.
Thank you.
She takes care of us, so we've got to take care of her.
It's a house of cards right here.
And if we mess up her house...
- Literally. - Gone.
I mean, this affects everyone in the community.
So Jenny's not here yet.
She'll be here in a minute. Where's Joe?
He had to go to the doctor today.
It turns out he's turning old.
I mean, I knew he was old 20 years ago.
- News flash, you get old. - Well, wait a minute.
Who are we gonna designate as Joe in Joe's stead?
I'm the oldest, so it's probably me.
All right. And so then you would start by saying...
"Okay."
While Joe is at his doctor's appointment,
I feel like we need someone that follows you around and says,
"Okay" and "I like that Miss Jenny."
All right, here's what we got.
Outside of the house, all this handrail is all going goodbye.
This deck, goodbye.
We are also gonna remove all the siding on the whole house.
We can start cutting this stuff away,
and then we'll go inside.
It already looks better.
Things are cruising along.
We're making progress.
All right, guys. We've got a good start here.
Yeah.
Let's get the rest of the guys on this
and let's go inside.
All right, so here, all the flooring is going.
Once we get the flooring up, Shea really wants an opening
where you can see and capture some of that light
from the dining room, which is on the other side of this.
All right, let's get to work.
Here's what I don't want to happen, Joe.
When Jenny gets here, you stop working
and just start talking to her.
That is exactly why I assigned--
- Speak of the devil. - Oh, and look who's here.
We're moving through. It's going well.
- Do you need a snack? - I never realized what he got.
- I better try some. - Wait, are your hands clean?
Go ahead, dump it in there.
Then Jenny Marrs comes out. Everything slows down.
All that work you guys did really...
I'm really famished.
So before you guys start hanging out and talking more.
Do you need any more snacks?
There's a few more sunflower seeds at the bottom.
Gotta get stuff done. It's demo day.
Piece by little piece.
Dave Marrs, we got an issue, sir.
What's going on?
Uh...
look at this chunk.
Oh.
And we got, we got some wire mesh in here, too.
Oh, my gosh.
Inch of mortar there.
Usually with concrete, you can break it up
in big sections unless it's got rebar or wire mesh.
And then it has to come out in tiny little pieces,
which means time and budget.
Look how much work that's gonna be to pull that up.
Oh, my gosh.
Look how much work that's gonna be to pull that up.
What's going on?
This floor is a serious issue.
Um, Jenny, that's the tile.
And then there's an inch of mortar under it.
- Oh. - And it's got...
- That wire mesh. - ...wire under is what scares me more.
Let's just see if Carl can break through
some of it to see what we're looking at.
I like how you say, like, Carl
just does all the work.
Holy cow.
You're gonna need a jackhammer, man.
All right, hold on.
Guys, this is crazy.
Look at that mesh.
I don't know that we're gonna be able to get it
all out really clean and smooth and get those floors level.
How long did that take to lay?
- It's gonna take twice as long to get it out. - Mm-hmm.
We may have to have a transition
from living into dining.
Like a little one.
I'll get, like, one of those nice transition strips.
Real nice and clean.
I want it to be real nice and clean.
No transition.
Think about my hair.
Think about what could happen if you don't figure it out.
My hair is on the line.
She'll screw up my hair if we screw up this house, you guys.
There could be a price increase
coming your way in the haircuts.
Your wife goes to the same... so do your girls.
They're all on the line.
I guess we just start bashing it out of here.
Tear it up. It's all we can do.
All right, well, it's gonna take about a week.
All right. Let's get to it.
Since the rest of the demo is gonna take a little while
at the Frakes house, I feel like this is a good time
to check in with Shea.
Hey, how are you?
- Good. How are you? - Good.
Good morning.
I really want to wow Shea
with something special in her new house.
So I'm at her salon, and I'm hoping to get
some inspiration and, you know, may as well get a few highlights
while I'm here, too.
You got a busy day?
Always, but that's okay.
Working on your house.
Okay, and...
Well, I can't tell you anything, but it's going well.
So how's the place where you guys are staying?
We really appreciate the people letting us rent for...
- Yeah. - ...a short amount of time.
I know. Yeah.
And they let us bring my dog, Honey, so.
Mmm.
She'll love the land when you guys move out there, don't you think?
Yes.
She loves to dig in the mud, and so she's gonna have a lot of land to run around.
Yes.
We'll have to somehow get her contained
with a little fence or something so that
she's just not a mud ball all the time.
I know, because she's inside.
- She's not out. - She is inside.
Yeah, she's gonna be a muddy mess.
She goes to doggy daycare during the week.
- Ridiculous. I know. - Oh, my gosh. I love it.
You're an empty nester, but you still have daycare bills.
Exactly.
- Now she's our kid, so. - Yeah.
Shea and Nick's kids are out of the house now.
So as I'm sitting here listening
to Shea talk about her dog, Honey, I'm thinking, this is it.
We have to do something for her dog.
So I really think that we can use that extra space
in the laundry room to do something that Shea, Nick, and Honey
will all love.
Okay, so I'm gonna get you styled up.
- Okay. - So you can get back to my project.
- Get back to work. - Yes.
I love it. Okay.
Progress is moving along.
We had a really good start at the Frakes house
and then got really bogged down by the kitchen floor.
That took about three weeks to get out of there.
But it's gone.
Demo is just about done in the main bathroom,
and the new opening between
the living room and the kitchen is all framed out.
Jenny Marrs, come here, I want to ask you this one here.
Okay.
So this hallway, what are we doing here?
Well, I mean, I think we need to take advantage of all this space,
'cause once you put something back there,
it's there forever and you'll forget about it
'cause you're never actually gonna access that.
- It's like crammed back there. - I know.
So what if we open this wall
and create little drawers of storage that you can actually access...
- Okay, that's cool. - ...and you can keep it organized?
I love it.
So are we losing that door? Or should we just leave the door?
Well, I guess... I guess, you could--
Because I think you could almost run a wall in here.
- I guess that's true. Right. - Right there.
And then this becomes just a regular coat closet.
A regular and then these are just drawers.
That's a good idea.
So I gotta frame the wall across here
and make this a coat closet.
- Yeah. - Love it.
Great.
- Oh, look who it is. - Yeah.
- Joe. - Are you okay?
- Yeah. - I was gonna give you a hand.
I can get my old crippled butt up.
So it turns out Joe was dealing
with a sore back last week.
Unfortunately, I mean, it just happens in this line of work.
It does.
Um, but the doctors cleared him to come back to work
so he can just continue and resume hanging out with Jenny.
It feels so good right here, the breeze.
I think we could supervise from here.
Or sit here and look out.
Okay.
Joe is the little engine that could.
Maybe just two.
Chase and I are talking about what we're gonna do
on this staircase.
And Joe's done.
Is this the same Joe?
Did he just get the door out while we were sitting here?
In mere moments, that man has got the door off,
one side light off, and he's taken the other side light off.
And that door is demoed.
Joe Looney!
Somebody's gotta work around here.
All right, guys.
Stone fireplace but this has gotta be replaced.
And we're going up like 12 inches with the hearth.
- This fireplace, it's gotta go. - Gotta go.
But we're gonna replace it with a new fireplace.
Shea and Nick want a gas fireplace.
And I know Shea also really loves stone.
And so we are going to replace the brick with stone.
But we need to actually move the insert up a little bit
so that we can create a hearth.
Because right now the fireplace is just sitting on the ground
and we want to give it a little, little height.
- Lift. - A little lift.
Can we just cut out our hole and knock that part out?
- Yeah. - Why is it called a hot saw?
- Just it gets this hot? - Because it's hot.
- Is that what it is? - Yeah, I think so.
In a matter of moments, you can cut through the brick.
You can make really clean lines.
Whoo!
That thing is solid.
There's a bunch of block and brick back there.
That's cinderblock there, isn't it?
Yeah.
Back in the day, they built a cinderblock chimney
all the way up, and then they wrapped it all in brick.
It's not a firebox like we would typically use today.
I got a bad feeling this is gonna be a whole lot more demo
than we thought.
To move this fireplace up, no bueno for budget or time.
This is a big problem.
That's cinderblock there, isn't it?
Yeah.
Any chances of us talking Jenny into
leaving the fireplace low.
Maybe it'll work.
Jenny!
Does the bottom pop up easy?
Oh!
You guys look like you've been defeated by the fireplace.
So this is not like an insert.
- It was built. - Mmm.
And then the house was built.
It's not good. How do you get that out?
Well, you take everything out because all of it's built on
top of each other.
See all these cinderblocks?
Sure they go up and it's brick all the way up.
So how much do you want to raise this fireplace?
I guess we don't.
I don't think they'd want to spend the money to rebuild the entire fireplace.
Yeah, I agree.
If we had to rebuild this thing, it's a budget-buster.
It would literally be $10,000 minimum.
I think we stop right here.
We still take this row out, I think.
And then if we get stone, we can just stone over.
Okay.
That's what we'll do then.
All right, let's get this one row of brick out.
Would you want to talk on the front porch with me real quick?
Yeah.
Okay, so Shea really wants a front porch swing,
but this porch is so narrow.
I could maybe do a four-foot wide porch swing,
which is not really even two chairs.
Could you put a porch swing on each side?
That goes, you know, like, swings this way?
Is that weird? It's so small.
- Snuggle up. - Snuggle up.
I kind of wish ours was smaller sometimes.
When you're sitting all the way on the other side.
Mm-hmm.
You just ignore me and look at your phone?
Sorry, I got a phone call.
Any style you want or you want me to just do it?
Hmm.
Why don't you try something with an X pattern?
I think it's gonna be cute.
Got it. Forty-eight-inch porch swings.
Yeah.
- Dueling porch swings. - Dueling porch swings.
Love it.
I gotta go up a little bit.
- Pull it out a hair. - Okay.
All right, there you go.
Good?
Good.
Today, we've got to put some windows in.
Looks good, man.
All the framing is taking shape.
We're getting a clear direction
on what we have to do.
Hey, what you doing?
I am finishing up framing the closet.
Nice.
You're standing in a giant closet now.
- I love it. - You like it?
Mm-hmm.
It's good to check in and just see
how things are going.
Every time we come here, I feel
like we come up with a new plan.
What do you think?
Oh, the windows, looks good.
Soon all of our windows and doors will be installed.
Yeah. We'll have the range here.
- We'll have lights, island. - What do you want for a hood?
Love it. I don't know, I gotta figure that out.
Because now we have the range coming and it has brass knobs,
I was originally thinking of doing a brass hood.
Might be too much.
I'll figure this out. Put a hold on that.
- Hold on that? - Don't look at it.
Don't look at the hood. It's in my head.
- I'll give it to you when it's ready. - Okay.
Brass is very expensive, so we really
need to figure out a way to make this work
within our budget.
All right, so this is laundry room.
Yes.
Washer and dryer.
We're actually gonna change up this window
because here right where you're standing
is gonna be a little dog wash.
So you got this idea at the salon?
You're welcome, Dave.
Shea and Nick love their dog, Honey.
Honey is now out on all this land.
She's gonna be out running, chasing things, getting dirty.
She's gonna need a bath.
You know, when you go to the salon,
they have these basins and you sit back...
Yep. I actually don't know.
...and you go like this and they wash your hair
and they spray it down.
Then you sit up.
But a bigger version for their dog.
You're gonna get a dog to lean its head back and...
No, think a mini tub.
Okay.
She shakes off in here, doesn't get
anything else wet 'cause it's all tile.
And then she'll jump, she'll get out
and then carry on with her day.
Okay.
Shea is a hairstylist, but she's gonna be a pet
groomer at home.
I know Shea will love it.
So win, win, win.
All right, saved a little budget here.
Got some really cool old beams.
That's good.
Then you got these pretty inexpensively?
Yeah, they were out in the field.
We've been taking the oxidation
off with this mega brush.
- It's so cool. - It's so pretty.
The beams, those will be great.
Breaking up that entry from the living
to the kitchen dining.
- I'm really excited to work on those. - Shea will love those.
What I'm gonna have to do, though, Derek's gonna help me.
We're gonna trim the sides down to fit.
And cut a notch out of them so they fit together.
And then we cap them with the overhead beam.
Awesome.
It's gonna be pretty.
- Hello. - Hey.
- How are you? - Good.
Today we are going down to the powder coater.
We brought the hood down that we called about.
- Okay. Yeah. - Yes.
I really want this hood to look like natural brass.
I know Shea, I know she likes bling.
Turns out sheets of brass are very hard
to come by and very expensive.
So we're doing plan B.
Take an existing hood that you can buy
at an appliance store and transform
it into something else.
If this works, we're gonna save
the Frakes about $1,500.
I got the samples that you think will match, so.
Okay, I kind of...
- I like that. - It changes in each light, too.
This is what I'm thinking, too.
Awesome.
I think this is good.
Highland bronze.
It's something that you don't have to, like braze
and weld up like this new hood.
And I think it'll be really cool.
You don't share my excitement. I don't know why.
I'm not super excited about it.
I really want it to look like real brass.
This makes me nervous because we've powder-coated
handrail and that sort of thing in black.
Totally comfortable with that.
That is no problem.
But powder coating something to make it look like natural
brass, that's a risk.
Can you grab the door? Thanks.
We can show you kind of how the process works.
Wow.
Oh, is this the table?
Yeah, we're doing some... some tables now.
Okay.
And so the paint is actually a powder then, right?
It is, yeah.
Almost a consistency of, like, baby powder.
Wow.
It's a really fine ground polyester plastic.
It gets a positive charge as it comes out of the gun.
And then the parts have a negative ground.
So just like static sticks to your computer screen
or your car radio,
it's the same kind of a theory.
And that's what holds the powder there.
And then we'll roll the cart out
and roll it over into an oven.
And there it goes about 400 degrees
and it'll liquefy it, gel it out and bake it on.
Now once they come out and they've cooled off to room
temperature, then they're essentially
fully cured down.
Yeah and it's like...
But you're not waiting on paint to dry.
...indestructible. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.
It's a cool process.
The powder coating is very durable.
Hopefully it turns out like I have in my head,
but it could be bad.
I think it's gonna turn out incredible.
It'll look great in Shea and Nick's house.
I really hope so.
Things are starting to move quickly over at Nick
and Shea's place.
Outside, we're rebuilding the porch with new lumber and brick.
While inside, the remaining drywall is going
up all over the house.
And over at the barn, Derek and I are getting those rustic
beams ready to case out the new opening
between the Frakes living room and the dining room.
All right.
These should be good to go.
We want to keep the integrity of the beams.
They are solid, substantial beams.
I don't want some hollow three pieces of wood here.
So that means Derek and I have to custom carve
this header beam to fit flush against the existing walls.
We're gonna just cut that notch where it goes
around the wall.
The notches that we want to put on the header beam
require six to eight inches of cutting depth.
So we've got to do it with chainsaws and we've got to do
it with the 16-inch saw.
Oh, man.
It's got a little torque, doesn't it?
Uh-huh.
Isn't that nice?
That's nice.
Let's do it again.
Take it in.
Smell it.
Freshly cut wood, chips of sawdust flying.
It's a dream.
Chicka chicka what?
We'll bring the sheetrock right up to 'em.
It'll be a really nice, seamless look.
I am feeling really good about
where we're at with these beams.
The Frakes are gonna love it.
I think once we get this cleaned out,
it's gonna turn out amazing.
We're finally getting to the detail work at Nick
and Shea's house.
The new giant shower in the main bathroom
is getting fitted with plastic marble tiles and happily,
the beams fit just as we had hoped.
The dog wash room is getting floor tile today.
A fun black and white pattern that's perfect for this space.
And the new front porch was poured
and is setting up nicely.
So today is Jenny's favorite day.
Cabinets are coming in.
That is the best part of the renovation
because it feels like a house again.
Damon and I, we got the sink in.
Finished putting some drawers on.
We got that main bedroom door installed.
I feel like how everything has been reorganized
is really, really cool.
You can really start to feel how the space
is going to come together.
The main bathroom has a huge shower, double vanity,
and a ginormous walk-in closet.
I'm thinking we do super classic black front door.
- Okay. - And we have those swings.
We are almost there.
When's the hood going to come in?
We're actually having it painted like a car.
With some racing stripes, though, on the sides?
Right up here, right across the sink,
and then it could go right up the hood.
I could design a cool kitchen.
All right.
- How cute does this floor look in the dog wash area? - Isn't it awesome?
It looks amazing. Did a great job.
So your dog creation, we're gonna do a little
modification because it doesn't fit.
I forgot, huge news.
- What? - Big.
You know how Shea has her dog, Honey?
She got another dog, she has a puppy.
So now she really needs a dog station.
Oh, man. We should have made this a tub.
The dog wash area is a great idea.
Now it's doubly good.
Oh, yeah.
We are almost ready to give them back their home.
Perfect.
It's gonna be nice.
Oh, my goodness.
So amazing.
Oh, my gosh. It's beautiful.
Yay! Love it!
At Shea and Nick's place, we're rounding third base.
We are getting close.
I'm getting excited because it's starting
to take shape.
The staircase storage is installed and looking great.
The cabinets are all getting a coat of soft gray paint.
The stone face is being installed
on the modernized fireplace.
The siding's going up.
I actually really like this shake siding.
Going along with, you know, the Cape Cod look.
It's a synthetic shake, which is great, because I know
Shea and Nick do not want to be painting real
cedar every two or three years.
Perfect!
How's it going?
Good. You?
I'm good.
I appreciate your help.
I'm here for you.
Today Jenny has Joe and I working
on a porch swing, actually dueling porch swings
for the Frakes family.
Shea, she probably told me six times that she would love
a porch swing.
So a Dave Marrs and Joe Looney porch swing
is coming your way, Shea.
The porch is really narrow.
So we can only make a 48-inch wide swing.
We're gonna have to do these uprights at a little bit
of an angle.
I want them to have a little swale in them.
What do you think?
I like it.
I really love having Joe join me in the barn.
He's one step ahead of me.
As soon as I'm there with the screw,
he's holding the corners.
We're putting it together.
I've never done a porch swing this small, four feet wide.
I mean, it's really just a big oversized chair.
I think that's gonna look awesome.
Let's start doing the other one.
Sounds good.
It's a huge day at Nick and Shea's house.
White subway tile is going in on the walls of the dog
bath that match the tile that we put up in the kitchen.
The quartz counters are here and are gonna look
great on that new island for Shea.
A new fan and modern light fixtures
are being hung inside as well as out.
And new plants will replace all those old bushes
in the front yard.
Finally, we're installing the powder-coated range hood.
I really am so happy with how it all turned
out and I know the Frakes are gonna love it.
Plums, Jenny Marrs.
Plums, plums, plums.
Right here.
It's a good-looking bowl of plums.
This house, I mean, such a great house.
I love how it turned out.
Look at how good this looks.
All the wood, I love how this beam ties in
with the beams and the opening.
- Yeah, it looks sharp. - Looks so good.
It's really, really good.
Nick and Shea, with their son in college
and their daughter out on her own career, like it's them and their dogs.
And they've got their own space that just fits them
and fits their needs.
It's amazing how much extra storage these give.
I know. Gardening section.
Pretty impressed.
I mean, there were a lot of challenges with this one. A lot.
And it was all worth it because they're good friends of ours,
people that we love.
And we wanted to give them back a house
that they trusted us with that is beautiful, functional and well done.
And I think we did that.
I mean, you look at the outside,
centering up that door made such a huge difference.
Yeah. Opening that--
Redoing that front porch and the swings,
like it transforms this house.
- Go ahead, sit down. - Okay.
- Stay a while. - I love this.
She's gonna love it. I know, but I'm just nervous.
Looks good.
I think the haircuts are safe.
Your hair is gonna be okay.
You can still go back to Shea.
Okay. They'll be here any minute.
- Are you nervous? - A little bit nervous.
- Sure you want to go? - Are you ready?
Tell me, you haven't driven by here and cheated, and looked.
No, I haven't.
Look, I've driven by here, but I looked the other way so.
- There it is. - This is it.
- There they are. - Okay, okay.
Hang on, let me fix it.
That's fine. That's fine.
Look at it!
Oh, my God.
Perfect.
Oh, my gosh.
There it is.
- Oh, oh. - Oh, my gosh.
- Amazing. - Wow.
Sod in the yard.
Landscaping.
The trees are gone.
There's Dave and Jenny.
Oh!
Oh, this is it.
Hello!
I didn't think that was gonna be the one to cry.
- Hello. - Oh, look at it.
- Oh, my gosh. - What's up, man?
- How are you doing? - Thank you.
- How are you doing? - Doing real good.
Oh, my gosh, it's beautiful.
I love it.
Amazing. I got a swing.
You got two swings.
Oh, my gosh. I got two swings.
Dave made those for you.
Oh, I love it.
- The landscaping looks so nice. - Beautiful.
- Remember all those old busses that were... - Oh.
Oh, you couldn't even see the front porch.
Yes. Gosh, what a difference.
- Look at that porch. - Yes.
Perfect.
I think that keeping it open just makes the porch feel bigger
because it's kind of a tight porch.
And it showcases those swings.
Yes.
Everything's perfect.
- Not two-toned anymore. - No, it's not.
This is a Cape Cod-style house, and I wanted to
just lean into that, so we did just a little slight color
on the shake and the brick, but really just the gray,
the black and the white.
- Yeah. - So perfect.
- All right, let's go inside. - Yes. There's so much to see.
Okay.
- Oh, boy. - Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, amazing.
Oh, look at the floor.
Yes, you got new floor.
- Holy cow. Look at the fireplace. - So pretty.
It doesn't even look like the same fireplace.
- Yes. - That's because it's not.
- Yes. - It was brick, right?
- Yes, it was brick. - But now it's...
Oh, that is amazing.
- Oh, my gosh. - I love that.
- Do you like it? - Oh, so pretty.
That's actually a solid beam.
- Oh. - All of them are.
Solid beam and those are solid beams as well.
And framing out that entryway to tie in.
I know you love wood, I know you love stone
and like rustic beams.
Yes, perfect.
Adding the beams makes this still feel really cozy which I love.
- And... - I love more light in here.
- It feels... yeah. - Light, yes.
- It's high-end lights, yes. - Yes, lights.
That looks so good. Love it.
Oh, you nailed it, guys. So beautiful.
We're not done. You saw the dining room, but go see your kitchen.
- Okay. - Okay.
Wow.
Oh, this is so great.
- So much light. - It's bright.
So much better. Yeah. Look at the back door.
Flows right to the outside.
- Yeah. - No more wallpaper either.
- No more wallpaper. - Yeah.
Oh, my gosh. Yes.
I love that light, too.
- Yay! - Perfect.
All right.
It's time to see the most important spot in the house,
the kitchen.
- Go for it. - Oh, wow.
Oh, my gosh. This is amazing.
Oh, my gosh.
- Wow. - Look at the stove.
- So pretty. - We got gold knobs.
We haven't had a nice oven in a long time.
It's really nice. It's really nice.
Look at the sink.
Oh, so pretty.
Yes. And we have seating.
You have seating and you can see
straight to the front door.
This is perfect.
Just eliminating this wall of cabinetry gave us some room
for the island, and there's still tons of storage.
Love it.
- Did you put windows in? - Yes.
The windows, the light.
- There was one off center. - Yes.
We took and split those around your range.
The hood, you know, we wanted a brass-style hood.
- Okay. - Oh.
So we went and actually had this powder-coated.
Oh.
For you guys, just so it's something totally unique.
Love it. I love it.
I just feel like this whole moment feels very diva.
- She's a diva. She's a diva. - I'm a diva.
Wow, what a difference.
It's so perfect.
There's still more to see.
- Okay. - Okay.
So just a quick peek in your laundry room.
- Oh, my gosh. Wow. - What in the world?
Look at that.
Is this what I think it is?
- It's a dog wash! - Oh, that is so good.
- Yes. - Oh, my...
- The dogs are gonna be outside... - Yes.
- ...and they're gonna need rinsing off. - Yeah.
I didn't get a shower last night for ten minutes
because somebody had a dog.
We had dogs in there. We were getting... we were showering the dogs.
Yes. And there you go.
I didn't even know these existed.
I love it.
Okay, so we have your bedroom.
- Yes. - Go check that out.
Here we'll let you guys go in front.
- Head down the hallway. - Mm-hmm.
Oh.
If you remember down here, you had a closet here.
- Yes. - That we had to take away.
Yes.
You still have a bunch of closets, so you got,
I mean, nice closets here.
And then we actually... we gave like stuff for...
- Oh. - Oh.
So we've got, like, all the get up here.
Gosh, that looks awesome.
You got a lot of closet space.
And it just goes away and clean.
Still, it's not like, too much, so.
This is so great.
Go check out your bedroom.
Okay.
Oh, my gosh.
Wow.
What a difference.
Oh, my gosh.
It's so pretty and soft.
- Clean. - Light.
A door, which is in a different spot.
- That's great. - Shifted.
We got a fan. We got five lights.
Yes. This is so much better.
- I love the color. - Wow. Unbelievable.
Not a lot changed here, but...
- No, a lot changed here. - Yeah, a lot of change.
I know, I was like...
But, like, structurally, all the changes happened in here.
- I'll let you go first. - Okay.
I'll go first this time.
Oh, my gosh.
- What in the world. - Wow.
I was totally not expecting this.
So pretty.
And you have your own sink.
- Yep.
- Yes. - Love it.
Unbelievable.
I cannot believe you did this.
I mean, it's weird now.
I can't even really remember what it...
- I remember the pink tub. - Oh, I remember.
It doesn't even feel this...
There was a shower you couldn't even get in.
- Yeah, right over here. - That shower.
- So great. - One sink.
Now you have a lot of closet here.
So you have a door on your toilet.
That's amazing. I love the floor.
And the floor just kind of runs throughout.
So it's really clean again and classic.
And then we shifted some things around,
and now you have a nice big closet.
Oh, wow.
Man, I don't know how you guys did this.
So much bigger than that closet.
- Plenty big. - Perfect for my stuff.
Yeah.
She's looking at that and going, "Where's Nick's closet?"
Yeah, that's right.
I'm shocked. It's clean, beautiful.
Everything feels so much bigger.
The colors that they chose, the whole thing's inviting.
Okay, guys.
I know that Jenny was super nervous
about taking this project on just because we are friends,
but she did an amazing job.
More than I could have asked for.
Well, thank you, guys. We love it.
- Unbelievable... - Ahh!
- Appreciate it, man. - Thank you so much.
Feel good.
There's a lot on the line for this one,
but I'm so glad that they just...
You can tell, they just love it.
Hannah and Honey.
Hi.
I'm gonna show you around.
Jenny paid some real attention to detail.
The dog washing station was amazing.
Knowing that our dogs are showering somewhere else
from where I shower, you know, that's kind of a big deal.
Oh, my gosh. Wow.
- Isn't it nice? - That's so pretty.
- Those are real beams. Isn't that cool?
- Yeah. - A new fireplace.
Super cozy. Cute.
I'm just speechless.
We really love it.
They couldn't have done better.
Yeah, for sure.
What do you think, Honey?
Honey matches the furniture?
Yeah.
Definitely an upgrade, huh?