-[Luke grunting] -[Jenny] Whoa.
-[Luke grunts] -[groans] Oh, man, that hurts.
Okay, okay. No more. Let's stop, let's stop,
-[Dave] I need those. -[Jenny] He needs those.
[Dave] We got to load up the bourbon cabinet.
-[Luke grunting] -[Jenny] All right, let's go.
Okay. Watch out, watch out, watch out.
I took it upon myself to offer up my services
to build a bourbon cabinet for an auction,
uh, that we are having at The Berry Farm,
for charity.
We're raising money for pancreatic cancer research,
as well as Wounded Warrior Foundation.
We're gonna roll this thing right on.
[Jenny] Oh, it looks so pretty. Wow.
[Dave] Turned out nice, didn't it?
My barn is full of treasures.
I had an old door
from the welcome in that we did not use
that was perfect.
It's got the glass in all the right spots.
[Jenny] Such a pretty door.
[Dave] Roll her up in.
[Jenny] Watch your hands. Watch your hands.
Good job, Luke.
-I noticed... -[Dave] That's how you roll a piece of furniture in.
I noticed this.
-You put LED lighting inside of it. -[in sing-song voice] LED.
[in normal voice] Now it has built-in LEDs
running around the backside.
It is backlit in
white, gold, blue, or red.
All right, I got your snacks. Let's go.
[Dave] Babe, I've been thinking about making you a cabinet with LEDs in it.
[Jenny] It's a dream.
[Luke] Mom, I was thinking
to put LED lights in you.
[Jenny] Huh, Luke. That's an idea.
-[Jenny] Look how cute. -[Dave] Yeah, it is nice.
We need to update something. That brick.
The gray I like. I just don't like the gray brick.
What do you think?
Yeah, it does look a little gray.
Oh, my Lord. All right, let's go meet 'em.
-Hi. -[woman] Hey, there.
-[Jenny] Good to see you. -[Dave] Hello.
-[man] Good to see you. -[Dave] Also you.
-[Jenny] Hello. Good to see you. -[Dave] How are you?
[Jenny] All right, so you guys just moved here recently, right?
-[woman] We did. We did. -[Jenny] Yeah?
-How are you liking it? -[both] Love it.
-[Jenny] Yes. -Love it. Great neighbors.
Uh, great outdoors.
And your son just graduated from the U of A, right?
-Yes, he did. Yes, he did. -[Jenny] Yeah.
[Lisa] Cal is 23 years old.
He lives in Fayetteville, so,
he's only 30 minutes down the road.
-So, that's really nice. Yeah. -[Jenny] That's awesome.
[Lisa] We used to live in Denton, Texas,
but we really love the outdoors.
And my folks have lived here
for about 30 years.
And we've been coming up here for years,
and kind of, you know,
fell in love with what this area had to offer.
And that's what the draw was to here.
[Rick] The real reason she wanted this house
is because we do have one son.
And he is gonna marry somebody.
And we want to draw those kids to this house.
Uh, so that was the real reason we wanted to
maybe get this place.
-That's probably true. -[both laugh]
Let's talk about your house.
-Let's go check this out. All right. -[Lisa] Okey-dokey.
-So, this... -[Dave] What do you love about it?
-[Jenny] Yes. -[Rick] What you can't see,
the view out the back.
[Lisa] The lake is amazing.
When we first walked in,
when you walk in through the front door, you see the lake.
I looked at Rick, I said, "I want this house."
It's amazing. But it's just dated.
When we first drove up to the house,
we see a lot of just
-the garage. -Just the garage. Right.
[Rick] We don't see
-much of the house. So I don't know... -[Jenny] Right.
[Rick] We're hoping, you know, just freshen up
with color or something to make it look a little...
Add more depth and maybe dimension.
Something that'll make it look not quite so traditional.
-We're a little bit more modern. -[Jenny] Right.
[Dave] It looks like a...
I don't know. Like a Siberian camo or something.
There you go. There you go.
It is like desert camo.
So in the winter, it's awesome, right?
-[Dave laughing] Yeah. -[Jenny] Yeah.
Do you like this color?
[Lisa] We like the blues, grays.
-[Jenny] Yeah. -[Lisa] That works.
-Yeah. I love that. -So if we went dark
on the trim and those brick,
it makes it feel like it's all consistent
and more modern.
-[Dave] Love that idea. -[Jenny] And lighting. More modern lighting.
A new front door.
And that could all help.
And the landscaping's not bad, otherwise,
I mean, really.
-[Dave] It's nice. -[Jenny] Yep.
So, the plan out here then
is to really just modernize the space.
So we will paint the trim, paint the brick,
get you new lighting, update the landscaping a bit,
get a new front door,
-and that'll do it. -[Dave] Yeah.
-It'll be pretty. -[Rick] Sounds amazing.
-[Jenny] Okay. Should we go check out the inside? -[Lisa] Yeah.
[Jenny] All right. Let's go.
[Lisa] Welcome in.
-[Jenny] Oh, wow. The view. -[Rick] Thanks. Thanks very much.
[Jenny] Oh, my gosh. It's beautiful.
-[Dave] Wow. -[Jenny] Look at this.
[Lisa] This place really just
tugged at our hearts,
'cause it reminded us of our parents.
Unfortunately, we lost three parents,
and Calvin lost three grandparents
fairly recently.
And so, we've been looking in this area,
and when we came to this house and walked in,
I felt my dad here.
And I just felt like
he'd really love this place, along with my mom.
And then when my son came, he felt the same thing.
It kind of feels like grandpa and grandma's place.
And while we love that feeling,
now we want to make it our own.
[Rick] It's kind of a strange layout.
The ceilings are really low,
so you kind of feel kind of squashed.
And the first floor is extremely dated,
so we just wanted to make some upgrades there.
[Jenny] Hey, look at this counter. You just keep going...
-[Lisa chuckles] -...and going and going,
and then I can get into the kitchen.
Yeah. This is challenging.
This, like, blocks you in.
-[Rick] It does. -[Jenny] You can't get out of here.
And you have this beautiful view.
You want everybody looking out that way,
but you're kind of just crammed in here.
It's nice and big.
-You have a lot of counter space. -[Lisa] Yeah.
But it really does block your ability to,
like, I can't now
-come over to you. -[Lisa] Yeah. Yes.
Rick said it reminds him of a spaceship.
This is the control panel.
Yes!
You're kind of, like, driving, right?
Oh, my gosh.
Also, the drop-down ceiling,
I feel like that makes it tight in here.
It just feels a little cramped. It should...
-This is a big space. -[Lisa] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. So, look and feel of the kitchen.
What would you like to see?
Colors?
I do see a lot of purple here.
All over.
Is that a color you really like?
-[Rick] Blame her for this. -[Jenny] Like eggplant?
[Lisa] Yeah. I do like eggplant. Yeah.
-But I-- -Do you want purple cabinets?
-[both] No. -[Jenny] No. Okay. Okay.
We tend to fall more on the,
-like, the cool side of natural colors. -Okay.
[Lisa] The blues, grays.
[Jenny] So, what about flooring?
[Rick] We do like a uniform floor.
I think one that flows from one space to another.
That doesn't really change, right?
And also, we're getting rid of this so you'll have an island.
So you do want the flooring, I feel like,
-to be consistent. -That's a good point.
[Jenny] So, the plan in the kitchen, then,
is to take out this peninsula,
remove the drop ceiling,
replace the flooring.
We'll have consistent wood flooring
throughout the house, starting here.
Rework the kitchen and give you an island.
Get you new lighting.
[Lisa] I like it. Very fun.
[Jenny] This is interesting that you have
a slider in here.
You have a sliding glass door there.
-There's too many sliders. -[Jenny] Yeah.
So, I assume this used to be a porch, right?
[Lisa] That's what we understand. Yeah.
[Jenny] Yeah. I would assume.
So, I'm also going to assume
that we want to get rid of this.
Yeah. And that'll stop him from
bringing his bikes through my kitchen.
-So that would be awesome if there's a wall here. -[Jenny] I'm on it.
And if you turn around, you can
see we have a window that looks through a window.
[Jenny] Oh, wow. Yeah, you do.
That's challenging, because you really just want
this to be the view. But I think if we get rid of this window,
-you still have a nice view here. -[Lisa] Yeah.
We're just trying to capture as many people we can
-to sit in this space too. To be all together. -[Jenny] Yeah. Okay.
Okay. So the dining room plan
would be new flooring,
close in this extra window that looks into a window,
close in the slider,
and create a beautiful dining room.
[Lisa] There you go. Sounds awesome.
Okay. So let's talk about these bikes.
You've got a lot of bikes.
[Rick] It's a problem.
-It's a problem. [laughs] -[Lisa laughing]
[Jenny] So we have a bike storage room here.
-[Lisa] Yeah. -[Dave] This is the definition
-of a multi-purpose room. -[Jenny laughs]
[Dave] All right. So, office...
-Yes, you have a little office here. -...and bike room.
-But we don't want the bikes over here. -Yeah, the bikes...
Right. Right. Yeah.
Where are we gonna put these bikes?
We're hoping they can go towards the front of the house
because if I ride from there,
I would love to have access from the garage.
-Where are you thinking? Is there space? -[Rick] Well, I'm hoping...
-Yes. We think. -We think so.
[Dave] Let's go into your bedroom.
[Rick] Now, there might not be space for all of them.
-[Jenny] Okay. -[Rick] But maybe some of them.
Okay. So this is y'all's bedroom.
-And then... -[Lisa] Yeah. This is the main bedroom.
-[Jenny] Okay. -[Dave] Bathroom, closet.
-[Lisa] Mm-hmm. -[Jenny] Okay.
So, in the bedroom, we're really just refreshing this?
[Lisa] I think we just leave that to you.
[Jenny] Perfect. Okay. So we'll update that.
So you're thinking taking that closet
and put your bike storage?
We're thinking that the laundry and the bike... Like a mudroom.
Take off your muddy clothes, put them in the wash.
-Exactly. -And store your bike.
-Okay. I like it. -[Lisa] Exactly. Exactly.
[Jenny] So you have closet and then,
this is the laundry now.
So, I mean, this will be
a very big space once we open this up and create a big room.
-[Dave] Yeah. -[Jenny] For laundry, mudroom,
bike storage. This will be awesome.
-All right. -So how many bikes
do you want to put in this area?
Just so I have--
-As many as we can get in here. -[Jenny] Okay.
-And still make it look decent. -[Dave] That could be fun.
-Okay. That'd be cool. -It's a challenge?
-Yeah. -I always like challenges.
[Jenny] Okay. But then,
you're now thinking making the sunroom
as your closet.
Oh, I'd love that. 'Cause if he gets his bikes
-get to have their own little space... -Yes.
...I would like my clothes and shoes
-to have a little space. -Yes.
That would be awesome.
-Now the clothes and shoes get the view. -This is where...
This is it right now.
Okay. So the only thing now I'm thinking,
if we do an office and a closet,
there's a lot of windows, which really limits
your storage.
So, I think we need to lose some of the windows.
-Are you okay with that? -We agree. I think there's 12. So yeah.
[Jenny] Okay. So basically, in the sunroom,
we'll get rid of some windows,
but we'll make sure to preserve the views of the lake.
We'll create a large closet
and then a small office for you.
-[Lisa] Love that. Thank you. -[Jenny] Okay.
And really just make this
-a much more functional space for you. -Yeah.
And then we'll move the bikes out of here
-to another spot. -[Lisa] Awesome.
[Jenny] The plan for your main bedroom
is just to refresh the space,
paint, and then create
a space out of your current laundry
and current closet
and make one big room.
So it'll be a mudroom, a laundry room,
and bike storage all in one.
-[Lisa] Yeah. -[Jenny] Perfect. Okay.
So, what else do we have?
-We haven't talked about the living room. -[Lisa] No.
[Jenny] All right. We have another slider, I see.
We need to figure this out 'cause these
two windows aren't consistent.
Like, you have the slider, then you have the window.
They're not the same height. It feels weird.
So we need to clean that up.
I totally agree.
-We would agree. -We'd like that gone.
Okay. Good. The other big question mark
is the fireplace.
So you want to keep the fireplace
-or you don't? -[Lisa] We do.
-We do want to keep the fireplace. -[Lisa] Yeah.
Okay. What about the look and feel of the fireplace?
Well, it's the same beautiful brick that's on the outside.
I know. Yeah.
-I know. -So we're thinking to maybe
-change that. -Change it up.
-Do you want-- -And the mantle too, maybe.
Yeah. I think so too.
Easy enough. So the plan for the living room
is cohesive flooring,
get rid of this window and door,
put in a new slider,
and then update and refresh
this whole fireplace and mantle.
So is this part of the living room then?
I'm looking behind. What is this?
[Lisa] So this is an interesting space. But...
[Jenny] Oh, okay.
[Lisa] So, it may not look like it,
but I can lay in here.
-[Jenny] Okay. -[Lisa] I'm thinking it could be a bunk room.
-[Dave] That could be fun. -Or even does this need to be here?
-Like, I-- -Yeah.
I don't know if this even needs to be here.
[Rick] It could be one room.
-It could be like an en suite. -[Lisa] You just walk into
-this whole space. -[Rick] It has the bathroom and the bunk room.
So more sleeping space, 'cause you want people
to come to the lake and stay. I love that.
-[Lisa] Exactly. -So potentially
maybe we could reorient these two spaces.
You want this to be a full bath, though?
[Lisa] That'd be a preference. Yeah.
[Rick] Yeah, get people staying here.
-[Jenny] Yeah. Okay. -[Lisa] Yeah.
Very fun. Okay. This is gonna be a nice little challenge.
I like it. All right.
So now let's talk about
what you're wanting to spend on all of this.
I think about 225.
[Jenny] All right. Do you have any timeline?
Yeah. 'Cause we're living with our son
-in the interim. -Oh.
-Wow. Okay. -Yeah.
-That's fun. -[Dave] Roles are reversed, huh?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Oh. Is this him?
-[Rick] Oh. -That would be him.
-[Jenny] Wow. Hi. -[Rick] Hey, buddy.
-[Lisa] Hey, babe. -[Jenny] Good timing.
We were just talking about you.
So, Cal, they're staying with you, huh?
They've blessed me my whole life,
so I guess I got to return the favor.
Oh, I love that.
-That's so sweet. -That's sweet. Yeah.
So this will take us, you know,
three months or so. I'm gonna ask you in three months.
Yeah. We'll see if my mind's changed by then.
[all laughing]
All right. So are you here to help pack up?
I guess so.
So we'll leave you guys to it then,
and then we'll be back in a couple days to get started.
-Awesome. Awesome. -[Jenny] Okay.
[Lisa] We're a small family, and after we lost
those three grandparents right in a row,
we became smaller.
And so we want to give
us and him that larger feeling of family.
So we want the home where our family can come
and what we call our framily, our best friends can come.
And not just a home that people come to,
but able to gather and be together.
[Jenny] Rick and Lisa really want this to be a home
where everyone feels welcome,
everyone comes to visit,
but they also need it to function for them.
They have a very specific lifestyle of
biking and being out on the lake.
I mean, right now, Rick's driving his bikes
through her kitchen to get into
where they're being stored.
-Right. -It doesn't make any sense.
It's going to be a challenge.
While we're renovating their home,
Rick and Lisa are gonna move in with their son
and their son's roommate
in a two-bedroom condo.
[exclaims]
Like, I would move in with my kids.
You couldn't go stay in our boy's bedroom now,
in our house right now.
Well, no, that's gross.
We've got to hurry up, get this house done
so they can get back home.
[Dave] Yes.
-[Jenny] Hey, guys. -[man 1] Morning.
-[Matt] How you doing? -[Jenny] Oh, good.
-[Dave] What's up, guys? -Another day,
-another demo. -[man 2] Good morning. Good morning.
[Jenny] Joe!
Did you get new overalls?
[Dave] You're always looking sharp in the morning. You know that?
[Dave] All right, guys. I want your honest impression.
Just, like, first thoughts when you see the brick.
Camo.
-[Dave] Yes! -Camo.
That's what I said.
It's like a winter camo.
-[Rob] It is. -Yeah.
[Dave] So we're not doing a whole lot out here.
[Jenny] No... No demo out here.
It's mostly paint and
accessories, new lights.
[Dave] In here, you guys,
it is a 1990s time capsule.
Octagon island and all.
[Rob laughing] It is.
Look at the island.
Coordinates with the ceiling,
which coordinates with the windows.
We've got a lot of work to do.
So basically, we're gonna get rid of this, right?
Getting rid of all of the cabinetry.
We're closing this wall.
Oh.
-Oh, okay. -[Dave] I'm sorry, Joe.
-It's all right. -Okay.
But my biggest question
right now is the ceiling
-in the living room. -[Dave] Okay.
I don't like this tray.
I'm wondering, can we open it up and vault it?
I wonder what's up there.
If it was trusses,
it probably would have been vaulted from the start.
Would it? Because they made some interesting choices.
Like, I don't know that they would have.
[Dave] But we can look and see.
Let's get to work.
Okay. We'll start with these cabinets.
So, first order of business,
we get the guys going on cabinetry,
on the kitchen, clearing out what they can.
In order to find out what we can do
to the living room ceiling,
I have to get up in the attic.
[exhales]
[Jenny] Ugh.
Ugh.
[Dave] I can't see the rest of the house,
so, I'm gonna have to go in there.
There's, like, a little opening
all the way over there.
Go for it. Whatever you think.
[Dave] All right. Let me see here.
Oh, man.
[Jenny] Wow. He's really in there.
[Dave] Jen!
-[Jenny] How's it looking? -[Dave] I'm not there yet.
Jenny?
[Jenny] Yeah?
[Dave] No good.
I can't hear you!
[Dave] Sorry, babe, you're not gonna love it.
The tray in the living room is part of the truss.
I can't hear you, but it didn't sound good.
So I'm gonna not listen.
[Dave] The tray in the living room is part of the truss.
I can't hear you, but it didn't sound good.
-[Dave] Yeah, it's not. -So I'm gonna not listen.
[Dave] That is
a big old fat no.
I heard big old fat. That's all I heard.
[Dave] See all these trusses?
[Jenny] Yeah.
[Dave] It's really good, because,
I mean, the roof looks great.
These supports right here,
they come down.
That supports my whole roof system.
See? And it's only 2x4s.
So I have to have this center support,
which is right in the middle of the living room.
So you'd have to take off this entire roof
to vault this thing.
Because if I pull this out,
then this roof no longer has support.
And it starts to sag.
So, the ceiling in the living room
is going to have to stay
at the height that it is at,
unfortunately.
It's a good-looking roof, though.
It's definitely a bummer for the living room.
We need to figure out a way
to do something on the ceiling.
So I think we just skim the top of the tray
with some sort of wood treatment
that makes it look
intentional and not dated.
Yeah, just embrace it.
So I think we need to rip this guy out here.
Rip that out and maybe try to get this out?
Yeah.
[Dave] Like, just opening up a wine barrel.
[Matt laughing] Yeah.
[Dave] We can't change the living room ceiling.
But I think that we can take that kitchen ceiling out.
And it should just be something
that was framed after the fact.
[Matt] I was hoping there would be drywall up there.
[laughing] There's not.
-It's gonna be a mess. -Hey, let's get all this
cleaned out before we take this down.
It's all insulated.
You're gonna drop all that insulation
-in that section down. -[Rob] Yeah.
Yeah.
[Dave] There's a lot of insulation above the kitchen.
So, to avoid taking a dusty insulation shower,
we need to open up the ceiling from above and not below.
Dave?
I hear him.
Ooh. That's...
[Dave] Is that the right spot to start?
Yeah. That's good.
Just keep going.
[Dave] Gonna get a little buck wild here.
Whoa.
[Matt] Oh. Whoa. There he is.
-[Dave whooping] -[Matt] You feel better up there now?
[Dave] That's the way to
do the ceiling.
[Matt] It's gonna look good, though.
[Dave] With the kitchen ceiling gutted,
now we can finish up the demo on the rest of the house.
Clear out the extra windows and glass, frame and drywall,
so that we can start to make some headway
on the Phillips house,
and get them back in here
so they're not staying too long
with their son and his roommate.
All right, babe.
Demo is complete.
-[Jenny] Yes, the door's here. -[Dave] Got the door.
-Yep. -[Jenny] That's good.
[Dave] Got the floors in.
[Jenny] I know, the floors look really good.
The framing looks great too.
This being squared off
makes a big difference. Look at this.
Now we need to go through and kind of figure out
all that we're doing,
just do a walkthrough of the house, just to
kind of get the lay of the land.
[Dave] Yep.
[Jenny] Okay, so, kitchen,
I'm gonna meet with Chris
to go through the plan for the kitchen.
-[Dave] Okay. -[Jenny] Dining room,
this really does help, having this
space, having this wall flat.
We got that.
Putting the slider in.
[Dave] I didn't realize it until we framed it,
how much space that was.
[Jenny] It's huge.
So I mean, it will give them good wall space,
but it's something that they can really look out
-at the lake. -Yeah.
Okay, and then I have stone coming for the fireplace.
That will be done.
The fireplace is always a big impact area
that needs to be changed.
And I just feel like the brick doesn't feel lake-y to me.
So I'm gonna get some stone.
We can just do a sticky stone that basically goes
-right on top of the brick. -[Dave] Yep.
Um, we'll just freshen that whole thing up
and make it look a little more cozy
and a little more appropriate for the lake.
Okay. Well, this is where the bunks are gonna be.
Look how big this is.
[Dave] Yeah, it turned out a lot bigger than I thought.
So my bunks are only 80 inches.
-[Jenny] Uh-huh. -[Dave] So I've got about 96,
but that's okay. I'll do some kind of
a little shelf or something.
What are you thinking for the bunk beds?
We've got to do something cool.
I was trying to figure out a way
to incorporate the lake, like,
boat bunk beds. Is that weird?
Like, take a boat and then make it into bunk beds?
Like a little boat.
I'm thinking we need to find a boat
and incorporate a boat into this room somehow.
I don't know how, but I'm gonna look for a boat.
It's such a fun little space.
I think we really need to get creative with this.
So, a boat, it's fun.
We'll cut it in half.
You really want to blow it out of the water.
[chuckles]
No, I just want to cruise.
No. Mm-mm, that was bad.
Oh, laundry room.
-Oh, yeah. -You've got to check that space out. So...
-This is the biggest laundry room ever. -[Jenny] It's big,
it's awesome. No, but we also have a lot going in here.
We took over a closet to create the new mudroom.
We need to figure out
bike storage.
-I know, he's got so many bicycles. -It's a big deal.
I know.
They need a lot in this room.
-It's gonna be the little room that could. It has to be. -Yeah.
All right, so I think that the sunroom,
now that this is all framed out,
is a nice space.
We'll have a desk somewhere.
I almost think you have to go back to that corner,
where you fill the whole corner out.
[Jenny] Corner?
You know, the corner desks that go like...
-A corner? -So if this is the wall,
the desk goes like this.
[Jenny] Oh. No.
-We just need a little bit. -Why is that a bad thing?
It's absurd. It's so much desk.
You're gonna fill this whole thing with a desk?
I mean, she just said she needed a little space for a computer.
But it'd also kind of be a sitting room.
Like, we can have some chairs. She can enjoy this space.
It would be nice for her to be able to look out there.
So, I mean, you could just have a desk in the middle.
[Dave] When she's done working,
she rolls out, puts her feet on a window bench right here,
and gazes out at the lake.
Oh, that's a good idea. Do a little window bench here.
[softly] Dang it.
-I just walked myself right into that one. -Yeah, that is a good idea.
[Jenny] Oh, look, there's Miss Christy.
Hi. How are you? All right.
I brought reinforcements.
Oh, my goodness. Thank gosh.
[Jenny] One of the things on our to-do list is
updating our landscaping.
We just haven't had time to really do
a full landscape.
Daddy is gonna be so surprised, isn't he?
He's gonna love this.
Absolutely.
[Jenny] My friend, Christy, who is
really one of my
favorite landscapers,
she's just really good at what she does.
She's gonna just help us
surprise Dave
while he's renovating Lisa and Rick's house.
So instead of berry picking, we're gonna rock pick.
-Okay? -All right.
So we pick 'em up and we put 'em in the bucket.
[Jenny] Go!
Nobody break any rocks.
Thank you, guys.
Good job.
While we're renovating Rick and Lisa's house,
they have moved in with their son, Cal, and his roommate.
So it is cramped over there.
We need to get them back home as soon as possible.
[Dave] My brother, Matt, and I are
about to install the giant slider at the Phillips house.
All right, Matt.
It's not as heavy as I thought it would be.
I think we could slide it, kind of, if we...
-leave this on there. -[Dave] Yeah. [grunts]
[Matt] I think I got the heavy end.
[Dave] Yeah? I don't know that you did.
Is it gonna fit in the door?
No. No, it's not. [laughs]
[Matt] It'll be close.
[Dave] We go... We got to do it.
[Matt grunting]
[Dave] I guess it's a good thing we're changing the front door.
[Dave grunting]
Man, this is gonna be game-changing here.
[Matt grunts softly]
I see why you had me come over now.
-This is huge. -[Dave exhales]
It's such a great change from
the windows that were there before, the door.
It was all kind of mismatched.
Now that it's just a big wall of glass, it really,
it sets the mood for the living room,
that you're in this, you know, amazing lake house.
Well, howdy, howdy.
Hey!
[Matt] You showed up at the perfect time.
Is that why you called me out right here?
You're like, "Oh, come measure some cabinets
and get this big door in."
-[Dave] It's not that bad. -[Matt laughing]
[Dave] Man, I feel like I'm doing all the work here.
Yeah, you picked the middle with nothing.
Let me talk about Chris for a second.
He is willing to jump right in
and set a giant door.
I don't know if I would say the same about myself
-if I showed up. -Yes, you would.
-You wouldn't? You would just stand there and watch? -If I was the cabinet guy,
I'd be like, "Guys, I got to take a call real quick.
-I'll be right back." -[chuckles]
-Mine's in. -[Dave] Look at that.
All right. Let me throw some screws in this.
[Jenny] Hello!
[Dave] All right.
-Look at this, Jenny. -[Jenny] It looks so good!
Are you guys done with Chris?
Can we go through the kitchen layout?
-[Dave] Yeah, thanks, Chris. -Yeah, we can do the doors.
All right. The kitchen.
All right. So, this kitchen,
it's obviously just gonna be an L.
On this wall, we'll do the cooktop.
And then a full pantry here
to kind of balance out
-with the fridge on the other side. -Awesome.
You know, the kitchen used to be really wonky.
It was a weird layout, kind of like a spaceship.
It's gonna be an L-shaped kitchen now.
And it's gonna have a nice island with storage.
Rick and Lisa are going to love it.
This is a big deal for them with this renovation
in the kitchen. And I think it's gonna be awesome.
-Easy enough? -Easy enough.
-We'll do it. -All right. Thanks.
-Thanks. -Okay.
[Jenny] This lake house for Rick and Lisa is really starting to take shape.
We've got another month and a half of work,
and we need to stay on track
to get them in here and out of their son Cal's condo.
[Dave] All right.
So Jenny needs a bench seat.
Jenny Mars loves bench seats.
Here at the Phillips house, in their new office.
It's pretty simple. But,
you know, it's unused space.
And if you've got that view,
you might as well take advantage of it.
Jen, are you here?
[Jenny] Hey.
[whooping]
Look at this bench seat.
[Jenny] Holy moly.
This is 16 inches out.
-[Jenny] Okay. -Is that enough or you want more?
I'll hold it steady.
Yeah. I think that's fine.
Yeah. It fits butt.
The previous sunroom is now going to be
a closet and an office.
Dave is building a window seat underneath the windows.
It's going to be the perfect spot
to look out on the lake,
and read a book, and start the day.
Looks good.
All right. Thank you.
Perfect.
All right. There's the face.
Get some blocking in there so it doesn't do this.
And start on the top.
-Hey. -[woman] Hey, girl.
We're renovating Lisa and Rick's house.
It's on the lake.
I want to incorporate something with the lake,
because right now it does not at all feel like a lake house.
Okay, I've come for a boat.
-You want to come see it? -Yes. Let's see this.
-Are you excited? -I am.
Our friend Kim's parents
used to own the local marina,
and they kept a few of their old boats
for, kind of, yard art.
I love that we're just taking a golf cart.
-[Kim] I know. It's the easiest way around. -[Jenny] This is fun.
I love this.
And they have a couple in their yard,
but they also have one that is extra
that they've offered to sell to me.
Ooh, I like it.
Oh, that might be the perfect size.
Oh, it's so cute. That could be so fun.
Imagine that as, like, the exterior part of the bunk beds.
[Kim] Oh, that'd be cool.
This is a good character piece too.
-Yeah. -It's... I love it.
Yeah, I do too.
So the wood on this boat
is aged. It's been sitting out in the sun
and the elements. It's perfect.
Something different, unique.
And when Lisa and Rick's friends come,
they're gonna climb up in their boat bunks.
I mean, that's fun. It's great.
Okay, bye, guys.
[Kim] Bon voyage.
[Jenny] All right, babe.
-[Dave] Yeah. -[Jenny] So,
-fireplace. -[Dave] Stone is here.
[Jenny] But this particular stone...
Is wet.
It's wet. Well...
And it's also just a little bit darker than I wanted.
-[Dave] Here, let me hold it up. Hold up. -[Jenny] This is the thing,
is that when I opened this, the stone was wet,
but it definitely is darker than I--
Yeah, I know, but it's going to be like that.
That's not what I thought.
I wanted to do a stone fireplace here
at Rick and Lisa's house,
and I really want something to brighten the space up.
So I want a lighter stone,
but the stone has arrived and it's not light.
-This is so dark. -Right.
This is not working,
but...
it's okay,
-because the stone's here. -Heck yeah.
[Jenny] So we're using it. So I think what we could do is a thicker mortar.
-Okay. -So that lightens it up,
and then also just do a mortar wash on the stone.
So you still have all the stone texture,
but it just lightens it up.
So, you want a white masonry?
[Jenny] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
-It has to be white. -[Dave] And then,
what about the mantle?
Oh, it has to go.
-[Dave] Well... -[Jenny] I want, like, a nice, just, beam up there.
This is obviously
just a veneer manufactured.
It needs to look natural, have some texture.
I have a beam
that is, I think, like, four inches thick.
I may have one.
If not, I'll just build something and wrap this,
-make it look like a beam. -Okay.
Okay, cool.
My friend, Christy,
put in some really beautiful landscaping.
And we're gonna surprise Dave with
one thing off of his to-do list.
[Luke] This way.
[Jenny] Oh, here we go.
[Luke] You're not running into anything.
Okay, you can open your eyes.
[Dave] Open? Are you sure?
[Luke] Yup.
[gasps]
-Surprise! -Oh, my gosh.
Did you help with this?
-[Luke] Yeah, I did. -Yeah.
[Dave] Oh, my gosh, Christy.
This is amazing.
It was a surprise well-received. It was awesome.
Ooh, I love it.
Pretty.
And kitchen cabinets are here.
Let's go unload.
I got some cabinets for you.
Yay!
It's a big day. I love when the kitchen cabinets come,
because it starts to feel like a home again,
and start putting things back together.
[Dave] Yep.
[Jenny] The new plank ceiling has been installed.
The fireplace stone is looking great.
Countertops are going in
and we're almost ready to get the Phillips back home.
We are in week eight of the 12-week renovation,
and Lisa and Rick
are living with their son Cal
and his roommate while we're renovating their house.
It is cramped there.
We need to hurry up
-and get this project done... -And get this thing done.
...so we can get them back home.
I'm Paul, the roommate.
This is the little living situation we got going on right now in the kitchen,
which is also
where we stay.
Here, as you can see, it's pretty tight quarters,
so we're super excited about
checking out our new place and moving on from here.
Yes, we're ready to go.
The moment where you have to move in
with your, you know, college son
and his roommate
for your renovation, that's...
You want to get back in your house right now.
Okay, so I need this and this.
So Jenny found...
a boat, which in that cedar line closet,
we're gonna actually make a bunk room.
So,
Jenny wants to take this boat
and use it as the face
of the bunk beds.
The problem is it's not square. So,
I think what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna flip it over,
cut it in half,
so you'll see this boat right when you walk in.
You'll see this side
and then we'll have to flip it,
so it'll be two boats going two ways.
And this side on the top and bottom bunks of the bed.
It'll just be two ships passing in the night.
Let's get down on this thing.
-The majority of the work happened inside. -Inside.
I know that was the big focus.
-Should we go check it out? -Let's go
Oh my gosh. Oh, look at the closet.
-The closet got a hug. -[Dave] The closet got a hug.
[Dave] All right, so,
this is what Jenny got me.
This boat cut in half here?
I'm here at the Phillips House today
to start building the bunk beds.
I'm guessing that someone left
and said, "I don't want this thing, it won't float."
What makes you think it won't float? [laughs]
[Dave] Look at it.
This is kind of a strange build,
so I'm having Matt
come help me. He's kind of strange.
Here's how I was originally thinking.
We put it in there like so,
we lift it up,
cut it to fit,
and then we have one boat going this way
and one boat going that way.
[Jenny] Got the boat.
You cut it in half, good.
[Dave] With it cutting in half,
one boat's going one way and one's going the other.
Yeah, I don't like that either.
And you're gonna sleep on the ground,
so maybe we flip it upside down
on the bottom, so it's this high.
[Jenny] Mm-hmm.
Let's just try it and see what it looks like.
Matt has the idea of flipping the boat over...
-[Jenny] Mm-hmm. -...so we can have the boats facing the same way.
So if we did it like this,
cut the bow and then the back end
-off of it. -[Jenny] I actually think that's cute, yeah.
[Dave] Then we would have the upper one
that faces the exact same way.
I have to say, Matt, he has some good ideas.
[Matt] I think we can put it right in here, Dave.
[Jenny] Oh. There you go.
-Cute. -[Matt] Okay.
So we know this is gonna work.
Let's take this out,
get the frame and all that built.
-[gasps] I just got an idea. -[Dave] Let's build the whole thing.
Should we bring back a waterbed
-in the boat? -That would be awesome.
Right? Right?
Waterbed in a boat.
What if you spring a leak?
No, I'm joking.
-There we go, there's a bed. -[Dave] Huh?
-[Jenny] Great. -I'll bring the plywood out tomorrow
and then we'll build the next level up on top.
Then the other bed's gonna face the same way.
That's really cute.
[Dave] Love it.
So out at the Phillips house...
Jenny wants me to make,
uh, basically some bike rack holders.
They're kind of shaped like an L,
but they have a little divot in them
where they actually hold the frame of the bike.
And then,
gloves, helmet, that kind of stuff.
So, I'm gonna make it a little over 16 inches wide
so I can catch...
two studs
when I'm screwing this thing to the wall
so it'll hold everything that I need.
This will screw to the wall. The bike will hang here.
He's got a little storage there.
Something unique.
So there's one. I'm gonna grab a bike and try it.
We are close to the end,
close to getting Rick and Lisa back in this home.
I know, you know, they're living with their son
and I'm sure that was great at first,
but I'm sure they're ready to get back home.
[Jenny] Okay.
-[Dave] Right on this side, babe? -[Jenny] Yep.
[Dave] All righty.
[Jenny] We're here at Lisa and Rick's house.
We are mere moments away
from them coming home
and us giving their home back to them.
Fireplace looks nice.
-[Dave] Yeah, it does. -I like it.
[Dave] Love the stone.
The way that it's turned out, I think it looks really cool.
Last chair.
Look at this view.
Holy cow.
[Jenny] Rick and Lisa wanted a home where friends and family
and their future grandkids could gather.
And we really feel like we've been able to give them that.
The big change really happened in the office
-and the closet. -[Jenny] Mm-hmm. Yes.
[Dave] Baskets incoming.
-Wow, that's very impressive. -[Dave grunts softly]
-[Dave sighing] -[Jenny whooping]
[Dave] All right, here's the ladder.
[Jenny] All right.
I love it. This room is so cute.
And that bell is Rick and Lisa's.
This bell belonged to Rick's father. It was
on a Navy ship, and so, it's very special to them.
[Dave] All the little touches in here,
I think they're really gonna love 'em.
[bell rings]
-Let's go. -Let's give 'em back their house.
The flag.
[Rick] Here we go, hon.
Excited to see it?
-[Lisa] Of course, I'm excited to see it. -[Lisa and Rick laughing]
There's so much that we've thought about with this house
and how we're gonna make our lives here.
And this is obviously just a great start.
[Lisa] Just around the corner.
-Wow. -I like that.
[Rick] It looks gorgeous.
-Hello. -[Jenny] Hello.
-[Lisa] Hi. -[Rick] Wow.
-[Jenny] Welcome home. -[Dave] Hello.
-[Rick] Oh, my gosh. -[Jenny] Here we go.
-All right, come on in. -All right. Come on.
[Lisa] I love the plants.
-[Jenny] Yes. -[Lisa] Oh, the door.
Love the door.
I love the dark colors.
[Jenny] So, everything outside
is refreshed,
updated, modernized.
We got, you know, the new lighting.
We painted the brick that I know you did not like.
And it just carried through.
So now you have these two colors.
And you have the warmth of the front door.
And of course, the updated landscaping.
But the majority of the work happened inside.
-Inside. -I know that was the big focus.
So, should we go check it out?
-[Lisa] Let's go. -[Jenny] All right, after you.
-[Lisa] I love the door. -[Rick] I do too.
-[Lisa] Oh, my goodness. -[Rick gasps]
-[Rick] It's gorgeous. -[Lisa] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
-This is awesome. -[Rick] Unreal.
-[Lisa] Oh, my goodness. -[Rick gasps]
-[Rick] It's gorgeous. -[Lisa] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[Jenny] Okay, good.
-[Lisa laughing] This is awesome. - [Rick] Unreal.
-[Lisa] I love it. I love it. -[Rick] The cabinets are gorgeous.
-The color is beautiful. -[Lisa] I love this. This is great.
[Jenny] Okay. So you remember this was an opening.
-[Rick] Yes. -[Jenny] This was a doorway. And then you had that
-weird peninsula. -[Lisa] Very weird.
-[Jenny] Yeah. -[Rick] Very strange.
[Jenny] We L'ed it off. So you've got your
stove top, double wall ovens.
You've got those.
Really, this space is modern,
but still really cozy and classy as well.
It's the perfect blend
-of both that, you know? -[Rick] I absolutely love those lights.
Okay, so you remembered, in the dining room,
this used to be...
[Lisa] That used to be the slider.
-[Jenny] Yeah. -[Rick] With a weird angle.
-[Jenny] We closed that off. -[Lisa] Which is awesome.
[Jenny] And these two spaces really flow nicely,
and really, it's all about the lake.
-Look at the lake view. -[Lisa] I know, it's so pretty.
-[Rick] It's beautiful. -[Lisa] Absolutely gorgeous.
And we're not looking through those two windows anymore.
[Jenny] Yes. Exactly.
-[Lisa] Yeah, yeah, yeah. -[Jenny] Exactly.
[Lisa] Oh, and the fireplace looks entirely different.
[Rick] It sure does.
-Look at the ceiling. Look at the ceiling. -She's like, "Oh, my God."
Oh, wow.
[Lisa] That's great.
[Jenny] So you have the lighter floor, the lighter walls.
And then, of course, you had this tray here already,
so we just embraced it rather than flattening it off,
'cause you don't want to go lower.
And you had the brick fireplace
with the brick that you didn't like,
so, we've added stone
and then mortar-washed it.
-[Lisa] Yeah. -[Jenny] And you have the natural beam for it.
[Rick] I love that. Love that.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
The attention to detail is unbelievable.
-[Dave] Oh, thank you. -[Rick] Unreal.
-Unreal. -[Jenny] Yay.
Okay, so you want to check out this little closet?
Would love to.
[Lisa] Look at this.
-Wow. -[Rick] It's a boat.
-[all laughing] -[Lisa] No, it's a bed.
-[Rick] It's a boat, but this is insane. -[Lisa] It's a boat bed.
-[Lisa] Isn't that fun? -[Rick] Absolutely perfect.
-[Lisa] Very cool. -[Jenny] And that's your bell
-on the wall. -[Rick] Yeah, I see that,
-my dad sent from the ship. -[Jenny] Yes.
-Yes. -[Lisa] We got your dad's bell.
[Jenny] And there was a hallway, essentially.
[Lisa] And that just...
-You just made use of the space. -[Rick] It went away.
-[Jenny] Exactly. -[Rick] Yeah, we left you guys an open book,
and you nailed it.
[Jenny] Aw.
-There's more to see. -[Rick] Oh, great.
-[Jenny] Right down the hall, let's go. -[Dave] Going down the hall.
Okay, this is not what I expected at all,
-and it's awesome. -[Rick] Absolutely.
This isn't the same house through there.
[Jenny] So, in here, we did all new flooring,
of course, new trim and paint, new ceiling fan,
and just reoriented the space.
[Rick] What a great space.
[Lisa] Oh, my.
Like a real, a proper office.
[Rick] The sunroom is gone.
[Lisa] And there, my kitchen's on that side.
-[Jenny] Yes. -[Lisa] That just seems bizarre.
I had no idea how you guys would do this.
-They killed this. -Oh, yeah.
You'd never be able to believe what it was before.
[Dave] Closing off a space
in that doorway for the dining room,
and then also for this office,
it really does give you
-distinct rooms that are good size. -Yeah.
-Okay. So you want to look in the closet? -I definitely want to look...
We'll be... You go over there. Yep.
And maybe the most important room in the house
-right here. -Yeah.
[Lisa] Oh, look at this closet. Is it real...
Oh, my gosh.
This is a real closet,
which I've never really had.
This is awesome.
A true walk-in.
-A live-in. -[all laughing]
[Lisa] I really appreciate that you did this,
'cause I've never had it,
and I really, really like this.
-I really like this. -[Jenny] Good.
-[Rick] This is perfect. -[Lisa] Thank you.
-I'm sure this was your doing. -I know.
The closet got a hug.
-The closet got a hug. -[all laughing]
Well, what part of the closet am I gonna get, hon?
Well, I don't know, honey. We'll talk about that later.
[all laughing]
[Jenny] But, speaking of a space for you,
-we have another... -My, my...
[Lisa] I think you need to go there.
My main closet.
You better lead here.
All right. Let's go.
Oh, wow.
Those are spectacular ways to store bikes.
-Look at this. -[Lisa] Oh, that's great.
-You can't lose anything. -No.
It's all right there.
Everything you need for a ride is right there.
[Rick] I won't be looking for my helmet, my gloves,
-my shoes. -[Jenny] Yes.
-It's got lots of storage. -[Rick] How great is this?
Dave actually built these bike holders for you,
so it has a spot just for your helmet and your water,
everything right there with your bike.
[Dave] And then, yeah, you can
store multiple bikes on the wall. Yeah.
This is where I'm speechless.
I feel like I'm in the... I'm in your closet.
You've got... There you go.
-You've got a little work station. -This is my closet.
-Yeah, this is great. -[Jenny] He doesn't have to drive his bikes
-through your kitchen. -No.
They come right... They'll come right through.
Well, now I really care about him not going through my kitchen.
-Yeah. -[all laughing]
You know, we don't want that happening.
It's beautiful.
[Jenny] We just wanted to
leverage all the space that you guys had.
So, yeah.
[Dave] And not many people have custom bike storage products.
-[Lisa] I know. -[all laughing]
Now, let's walk out here. We'll say bye and let you call your family.
You've got to get your family over here.
We just wanted to say thank you guys
for trusting us with your home,
and this was a really fun project.
And we hope you love it here.
Oh, we do. We do.
[Jenny] I love that you guys want this
to be the place where everybody comes
to visit and stay.
And you can have kids filling up the bunk beds
and people in all of these little spaces,
and then, you guys just make lots of wonderful memories here
on the lake.
-It's a beautiful place. -I mean, what you guys did is...
We see the past. We know what's gonna happen now
and what's gonna happen in the future,
-and what a great place to spend with people. -[Lisa] Yeah.
-And I'm just glad I didn't cry. -Thank you. Thank you.
[all laughing]
-I appreciate that. -Yeah, this is awesome.
[Jenny] Lisa and Rick,
they bought this home because of the location...
-[Dave] Mm-hmm. -[Jenny] ...but it didn't feel like them.
And now it feels very much like them.
It feels like it caters to what they wanted,
and it does.
And they can see themselves here for a long time,
-and that's what's important to us. -[Dave] Yes.
It was good. We did it.
Yeah. It's their home now.
Okay. Bye, guys.
-And we'll see you on the lake this summer. -All right. Yes, indeed.
-Bye-bye. -Thank you so much.
[Lisa] We just noticed, so many of the details
are absolutely gorgeous,
and the work that it would have taken to have done that.
Everything was just done so intentional.
You can say it was such purpose, you know,
and the design element was so great.
Welcome home, Cal.
Welcome.
[Lisa] Hey, sweet girl.
For me, it's like we're home.
And we have a new puppy.
[Rick] Come on in.
-[woman] Hey, y'all. -[man] Hey.
-[Lisa] Calvin and Paul... -[Rick] One of the biggest surprises.
[Lisa] This is where y'all are sleeping.
[Rick] Yeah, one of the biggest surprises.
[Lisa] This is where y'all are sleeping.
-Oh, that's awesome. -I think you could fit up there, babe.
It's amazing what they did with that space.
All the little things that
make this place just feel like a great home.
[Lisa] Come test our new home, y'all.
This is really just about having a place where everybody can come to
and want to be.
Cheers, everybody. Thanks for coming.
-[all] Cheers. -Thanks for being here, y'all.
[speaking indistinctly]