I'm going to get behind you, babe.
Oh!
Oh, my hip.
OK, I should have eaten some bananas.
OK.
Wait, I'm getting a cramp.
Dog gummit.
Oh crap.
Today's gonna be fun.
John gave me his nutcracker.
JOANNA: There's something in the air that makes him want
to do something really stupid.
Me and the boys are going to have fun today.
JOANNA: I need another $5,500 from you.
OK, bye.
CHIP: Bulls don't want to stop impressing the ladies.
Get on now, hyah!
And if anybody can talk somebody into doing what they
don't want to do, it's you.
You got this.
JOANNA: Are you ready to see your fixer-upper?
JOHN: Oh my!
[music playing]
[SINGING] Love me some home.
Love me some home!
Oh, I love me some home.
A couple months back, JoJo wanted
to add on to the farmhouse, and of course, I, like an idiot,
agreed.
But now look what she's gotten us into.
So this has turned into an actual nightmare situation.
Crew's room is right here.
So Crew no longer sleeps in this room,
but we have taped up everything.
I decided a little late in the game
I wanted to go ahead and repaint our cabinets.
And I just wanted the space to really evolve
with the new addition, and I just thought
it was time for a change.
But I want to walk you through here so you can
see we just opened the wall.
Don't trip, Chip.
Watch your foot.
Watch your whatever.
Just opened this wall up, and as you can see,
we basically live upstairs now.
Chip, come over here.
So if you stand here, you can see--
don't [inaudible] you can see we've scabbed in all
the old shiplap so that it looks really nice,
and now this is open.
This used to be a window, and now you can see into the room.
And then they're putting the floors in today.
And then-- Chip, show them the space.
So we left all the beams Floors, plaster, and then lighting,
and we're done, babe.
It is-- CHIP: Game time.
JOANNA: --almost finished.
So there you go.
And that's it.
CHIP: Gonna be enjoying that fireplace here in not too long.
JOANNA: OK, we got to go.
[fart noise]
Right?
Stop.
CHIP: I am gassy.
[fart noise]
[laughing]
Give me that.
You try one.
[fart noise]
Oh.
I can't.
That really is you.
JOANNA: Chip, John!
Today's gonna be fun.
I love John.
CHIP: John, an employee of ours, tell
me the first word that comes to your mind when I say "John."
First word, babe.
Nervous.
JOANNA: But I love him.
I love John.
Because he is so thoughtful.
I'll tell one of the first words that come to mind--
hard worker.
Well, I should have said that.
JOHN: My name is John, and I just bought
my first home in Waco, Texas.
I was born and raised on Long Island, New York,
and I moved to Waco to work for Chip and Jo.
I've lived in Waco for about three years,
and at two and a half years or so into living here,
I realized that I developed a pretty
strong sense of community here.
And so I was like, oh, I think I'm probably
going to be here for a while, I thought it
was time to look for a house.
I'm from New York, so naturally I think my personality
is just a little bit different.
I'm a typical intense person from up North, who's
just moving a mile a minute.
I'm always neurotic.
I'm always just like obsessing over things.
Chip and Joanna find it funny, but too late to change.
My work is always something that's
been really important to me.
It's the thing I'm most passionate about in life.
And I think I have the best job in the world.
But if I'm not at work, I'm at home with Dylan, my dog.
He's definitely a homebody, just like me,
and so I'm really looking forward to
just having a place where I can go and put on a record
and relax.
CHIP: Look at this neighborhood, babe!
This is a very pretty neighborhood.
Think if this were your first house, and that were it.
JOANNA: Oh, look at John.
CHIP: John!
JOANNA: Oh, he looks--
CHIP: He looks great!
JOANNA: --so happy.
I'm going to grab my tape measure.
Just in case. - OK.
Hey, John!
JOANNA: The house suits you.
CHIP: You've been here for three years
and you've just now decided to buy a house.
What took so long?
I just feel like I'm confident now that you're
probably not firing me--
[laughs]
- So-- - So I was like--
- --you're gonna-- - Yeah.
In all seriousness, I just couldn't find the house.
I was like, oh, maybe I'm looking for something
that doesn't exist.
Yeah.
And then I was able to walk this house,
and the minute I walked in, I was like, oh,
this is the house I want.
So love at first sight.
- It was love at first sight. - Great.
John, that's fun.
Yeah, it has everything I would want, which is great.
CHIP: So John, I know that you had mentioned this
was a three bedroom, two bath.
It was a little over 2,100 square foot,
and it sits on a quarter acre lot.
You told me that it was built in 1964.
But besides the price, and the square footage and the lot,
was there anything else specific that drew you to this house?
The thing for me that was kind of a love at first sight thing
was this, this window.
JOANNA: OK.
JOHN: I think it adds some character
to the outside of the house.
JOANNA: OK.
JOHN: But if I could design a house,
I don't think the exterior would look like this.
I am modern in style, but I like certain aspects
to be a little bit more bold.
So I have always been fond of painted brick.
CHIP: And when you paint brick, it's
a bit of a controversial thing.
So if you're comfortable with it--
JOANNA: You want to love what you live in.
JOHN: Yeah, it's my house. - Amen.
--without thinking about resell.
Yeah.
I just, I think if you're going to make decisions
with the mindset of, oh, will a potential buyer like this,
then I shouldn't have bought the house in the first place.
JOANNA: I like that.
That's a good word, John.
It's very mature for a first time home buyer.
All right, well, listen, let's get in this house.
Give us a quick tour.
All right, let's go inside.
CHIP: I like this little peephole in the front door.
That's cool, John.
I like that door.
CHIP: Door color's cool.
Oh, this is for the outside lights.
OK, never saw it before.
Obviously, the--
Baby blue.
Yes.
JOANNA: OK, this is, I'm assuming, their formal dining?
I am not a dining room kind of guy.
I don't need to have a ton of people over,
and they would have to leave by 7:00 anyway, so.
The first thing that stuck out to me in this room
was the carpet.
Let's see what's underneath here, just out of curiosity.
Concrete.
Is it-- Oh, yeah, looky there.
Isn't she smart?
Whoa.
What if I was like, this is the carpet of my dreams?
CHIP: We'll put this back then.
Oh jeez, I didn't know that.
Sorry about that, John.
JOANNA: So John, while he's fixing that--
JOHN: Yes.
JOANNA: --would this be your office?
JOHN: I definitely need a home office.
JOANNA: OK.
What do you think about a big desk,
and him being able to look out that front window
and, and kind of almost people watch in a sense.
Yeah.
I love this window.
JOANNA: This window.
JOHN: But if-- say this wall wasn't here,
I don't know how I would feel about people being
able to look into my house.
JOANNA: Well, you can just do some shades or something.
Just put, like, mirrors on the outside,
like you're one of those questioning rooms.
CHIP: Yeah.
JOANNA: OK, let's step over here.
I want to get a full picture of what's on the other side.
When you're in this space, do you
want to be able to see the window of your dreams
and the kitchen of your dreams, or do you want
little, closed off sections?
JOHN: When I'm in this room, I would love
to see the TV of my dreams.
[laughs]
Like, no, I don't like it as is.
It's weird for me not to be able to see the kitchen
from the living area.
JOANNA: Yeah.
So for sure that wall, I would say, goes away.
JOHN: That's sounds awesome.
JOANNA: I'd keep the fireplace, it's cute.
JOHN: I definitely want to, I definitely want to keep it.
Just redesignate it?
JOHN: Yeah.
Maybe square off the lines and add a new hearth,
and then create an accent wall to where it's
all kind of the same, so it's just not this,
like, little fireplace in the corner.
JOHN: I love that.
JOANNA: For your office, I would want
to do something architectural here, where it is a wall,
but it's a see-through wall.
You can see into his office in a really cool way, where
it's like metal and glass.
CHIP: Sure.
JOANNA: I just feel like that's kind of your vibe.
JOHN: Yes, I love that.
JOANNA: And it'll take this traditional kind of feel
out of here and make this feel more
modern right when you walk in.
JOHN: I'm open to that.
Even though people can see you from the street?
- Yes. - OK.
I want to see the kitchen.
The kitchen, all right.
I would imagine it was probably redone in the '90s-ish.
JOANNA: Yeah.
JOHN: But when I envision a kitchen--
JOANNA: Well where is their dining?
JOHN: I know.
Like where's their little eating nook?
Well, I was-- that's why I was thinking
when you walk into this room--
JOANNA: What is that?
JOHN: --which had been used as an office,
I wonder if there was a way to combine this with the kitchen?
JOANNA: Here, move in there. Let me see.
JOHN: I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
JOANNA: Ooh, feels like a large pantry.
Like a pantry, slash, home office.
I know I mentioned that I'm not, like, a dining room person--
JOANNA: Yeah, but you need a table.
--but I need a place to eat. CHIP: Yeah.
And so do you think this wall can be taken down?
JOANNA: Oh, all this seems like it's added.
Added on.
Yeah, well--
What?
There's a pretty awesome pencil sharpener.
I cannot believe this, babe.
I have been looking for one of these.
JOANNA: This is ironic.
JOHN: You don't want, like, an electric one?
JOANNA: No.
He's bought two now that are, like,
really new and dorky looking--
And they don't work.
JOANNA: --and I said the only one
we can have in the main space is one that's, like, a vintage--
JOHN: Well then, yeah.
--so there you go.
OK, so I would say these walls can come down.
JOHN: That's great.
JOANNA: And then I'd really open up the space,
and then we can add new flooring,
the built-in shelving, and then all new paint.
Are you OK if all this is open, and then I lose the window?
Uh-huh.
- Let me tell you why. - Yes.
Because if I'm taking this wall out,
look how many cabinets are going away.
So I'm going to need that back wall for cabinetry.
But I can kind of see it, and I feel
like this is a great kitchen for you where you're
going to love to entertain.
You're going to let your guests stay til,
like, 9:30 after I'm done with this house.
That's my goal.
OK, let's take a look at your bedroom.
OK.
All right, so this would be my bedroom.
JOANNA: OK.
And I wonder if--
Sweet John gave me his nutcracker.
JOANNA: What are you doing here?
This is amazing!
None of that stuff fits in your pocket.
OK, are you thinking beds go under here with the spotlights?
JOHN: I need my bed to be facing the direction of my doorway.
So if someone comes in and tries to murder me,
I get to see them first.
OK.
JOANNA: So your bed would go here.
I think so.
JOANNA: OK.
I would love to do, like, nightstands,
some type of texture on the walls,
and add new flooring and paint.
JOHN: So the one thing that did stick
out to me when I first looked at this room is my bathroom.
JOANNA: Your bathroom is tiny.
CHIP: Dang, this thing is tiny.
This is like a Beverly Hills-size closet.
It's enormous.
JOANNA: What if we just switcheroo?
JOHN: If you could figure out how to switch these,
you'd be my hero.
Now, here's where the decision making, really the rubber
meets the road.
When you move plumbing and you move electrical--
JOANNA: Because this is concrete.
CHIP: --and all these bits and pieces,
even though it's not a long distance,
it's still going to cost real money to move that plumbing
from point A to point B. So I just want you to take
into consideration, that movement from point
A to point B could be $10,000.
I would be hard pressed to find, in my opinion, a better
use of--
OK, good.
--that money.
Then I say let's plug that into the budget
and let's make it happen.
JOANNA: We can definitely swap out
the bathroom with your closet, and this will give you
a lot more space for a full sized shower,
all the storage that you need, and then
I would put a window in here.
I feel like you need some light.
So take us to the backyard, because I want to see what
you're going to be looking at.
OK.
CHIP: John, this is a great house.
And then it just keeps getting better.
This is the backyard?
JOANNA: Look how cute.
Wait, go that way.
John, this is perfect.
CHIP: This yard is gorgeous.
JOHN: And not a ton of space that I have to mow,
because that's--
I'm not that. I mean--
JOANNA: I love to watch you mowing.
I know I was--
Can you hold your pencil sharpener?
I stole this.
I stole this when John wasn't looking.
It's the pencil sharpener.
And I-- and this thing.
Gross.
It's broken.
JOANNA: OK, this is where things get real, John.
OK.
JOANNA: I want to know, like, what's
priority, what's your budget?
Do you have a budget?
I have a range.
JOANNA: I like that.
Give me a range.
JOHN: I would say anywhere between
$50,000 and $75,000-ish.
JOANNA: OK, what are the top three?
The bathroom closet switch.
Yeah.
The kitchen, and those unique kind
of architectural things to modernize it a little bit.
I think that would be really good.
So kind of the office to the living room.
He's going to get this thing measured for me.
We're going to start sketching some stuff.
And then me and you need to get together--
CHIP: We're going to give you some options.
--and just figure out budget and design.
CHIP: You picked a winner, dude.
JOANNA: Way to go, homeowner.
Thank you.
CHIP: John, the first time home buyer,
literally showed the rest of the world how it's done.
Proud of you, John.
CHIP: All right, well, get back to work.
Quit screwing around.
My phone's ringing so much.
JOANNA: Thanks, John.
Thank you.
JOANNA: I'm excited about John's house.
I feel like this house seems solid.
And so, for the most part--
- Roof is great, foundation's-- - --is design.
--great.
A little bit of flooring, a little bit of paint.
I mean, this is one of these first time home buyer's cream.
JOANNA: Yeah.
CHIP: You'll do your part.
My part will be easy.
If you'll hurry up and--
Jo?
JOANNA: What?
We're done.
Oh.
John, can I use your bathroom?
CHIP: We're at John's house.
We're ready to get after it.
This is going to be like a cakewalk.
Demo day is like second nature to me.
Me and the boys are going to have fun today.
Head's up.
I work harder, not smarter.
That's true.
I have nothing to say after that.
Demo and taking down walls are very subjective.
I've demoed walls in California, they do it like this.
They do it completely backwards, everything is backwards.
You just constantly run into the wall backwards.
That's how they do it in California.
On the East Coast, you go to New York,
here's how they demo walls.
It's totally different.
This is how we do it in Texas, OK?
I just take the two-point stance.
Ah!
Step back, recuperate from any injuries that may have occurred
through the process, and let me see if we can
go back the other direction.
Everybody, C4, coming through.
Ooh!
Sometimes you want to sit here, and catch your breath,
think about what you could have done differently.
But I will say it's subjective.
Everybody, everybody does it different.
It's a smaller house, but the demo is great.
We're taking out wall number one.
We're taking out half-wall number two.
We're taking out wall number three,
wall number four, the entire kitchen.
The bathrooms are gutted.
So it seems like a small project,
but there's a lot on to-do list.
CHIP: I've never exerted so much energy
and accomplished so little in my entire life.
All right, boys, I'm gonna take a water break,
but I expect each of you to continue to work.
OK.
CHIP: I'm just kidding.
[MUSIC - SCOTT HIRSCH, "NOTHING BUT TIME"]
[SINGING] Ricky's down on 10th Street, back on the East Coast.
She moves real slow now.
Don't want to stir up those ghosts.
Ooh, nothing but time.
Hi, John.
Hey.
I like your colors today.
Oh, thank you.
How are you feeling?
I feel good.
I'm very excited.
First question.
OK.
Are you a sneaky kind of person?
Like, do you drive by the house?
Like implying like have I seen my house?
JOANNA: Yes. - No, I haven't.
And I'll tell you, this is one of the only times in my life
where I actually have absolutely no idea.
Is that freaking you out because you have no control?
Yes.
OK.
So you know.
I'm going to start here.
This is the plan, so you can understand how we are shaping
your house, and so that when I show you some renderings,
you'll get the placement.
So we're going to replace these windows, and then-- go ahead.
Where is the front door.
Right there.
OK, this is so embarrassing.
JOANNA: It's not embarrassing!
JOHN: All right, OK, I can see it.
OK.
Let me get the renderings.
And John, help me, because if there's anything in here
that you're like, I don't want this,
this is where it gets interactive.
But I wanted to show you-- you kind of just said Jo, design
it, so do, do, start here.
OK.
JOANNA: This is your office.
JOHN: That's so cool.
JOANNA: This is dark walnut, so that top layer,
that's this gorgeous wood, and this
is all dark walnut paneling.
This is a really sweet metal structure that I'm going
to have my friend Lonnie build.
That is my favorite thing about your house.
I love it.
The floors will be a little lighter,
so it'll be kind of like a play on-- you
see there's, that's the walnut color.
We're messing with the stain right now.
But as you see, there's a little honey in there.
All your cabinetry will be walnut.
OK.
JOANNA: Your seating, in my opinion,
would be like your big sofa, two chairs, coffee table.
JOHN: OK.
JOANNA: So now you can see into the kitchen.
Remember there's a half-wall.
JOHN: Right.
JOANNA: Black windows, and then that is what I'm
going to put on your windows--
Oh, cool.
--so that you--
Oh, I get the direction we're moving here.
Do you feel it?
Yes, I do.
I literally would not change anything.
OK.
I really wouldn't.
You kitchen.
Oh, my goodness.
JOANNA: I wanted to do an asymmetrical island so it
didn't feel too traditional.
It's just a beautiful contrast when
you see this walnut wood, light marble, this black steel
vent hood.
You've got your pot-filler.
JOHN: Wait, what is it?
JOANNA: That's a pot-filler.
You really don't know what that is?
Wait, I don't even want to tell
you what I thought that was.
I thought that it was for steam.
Well, it's a close.
Like when you go to, like, a coffee shop, and they have to,
like--
And you steam it?
Oh, that's very nice and high end.
That is so embarrassing.
This is because--
Oh, so I don't have to carry the pot all the way over--
Look how far you'd have to go--
- Oh, that's amazing. - --from the kitchen.
JOHN: I for sure want to keep that.
JOANNA: This is going to be a great kitchen.
I'm so--
I mean, it looks amazing.
JOANNA: So, this is your bedroom.
JOHN: OK.
JOANNA: Closet, bathroom.
JOHN: OK.
JOANNA: This is, to me, the best place
to put your bed, because you've got a window right
here leading into the bathroom.
I'm so excited.
That's a nice bathroom.
Last but not least, walking in here.
This is walnut.
This flooring is this marble.
The wall is black tile.
JOHN: I love the accent with, like, the walnut and the black.
I know you've mentioned before that there's,
like, storage in the bathroom.
Is this the bathroom storage, or is there--
JOANNA: So, by storage, it's like layers of towels,
any of your product, whatever.
When I walk into the bathroom every morning--
JOANNA: Yeah.
JOHN: --instead of taking 10 minutes for me
to be in a bad mood, it will take five, because I'll
see things that are messy.
JOANNA: So this is going to stress you out,
I could do this nice linen closet in there, where
it's two doors, two doors.
Yeah, I like that.
JOANNA: So I feel like I got a 90 because I'm
taking this part off.
You took 10 points off for a shelf in a bathroom?
Well, I would--
Well, what would you, what would you give?
What's the score?
A 98.
OK, fine.
I'll give myself a 95%.
OK.
I cannot wait. JOANNA: OK.
Thank you, John.
That you.
Get your phone.
The first sketch that she showed me was the office,
and it kind of just blew my mind.
One of the benefits of working for Chip and Jo
is that we spend so much time together that they really
get a sense of my style, my taste, what I like,
what I don't like, and it's really reflected in this house.
If I can move in today, I would move in today.
I cannot wait to see the house when it's finished.
CHIP: Now that demo's done over here at John's project,
we're making some headway relocating the bathroom.
We've rerouted the plumbing, we're adding some siding
to the gable, and we're installing the land beam which
is going to really support the ceiling
over there by the pony wall.
But we have run into an issue that's going to require
a little more design muscle.
How high off the ground is it over there would you say?
I would say seven inches.
CHIP: Oh, is it that much? JOANNA: Yeah.
Watch this.
JOANNA: Babe.
Is it seven inches?
JOANNA: Yes.
Golly.
JOANNA: Huh.
CHIP: Woo.
You're strong.
CHIP: I told you!
That was impressive, but you don't
have to impress me like that.
I know you're pretty freak-- you're
kind of freakishly strong.
Baby, bulls don't want to stop impressing the ladies.
But why am I here, to show me that you can lift the lam beam?
CHIP: Babe, I could do that all day long.
OK, I believe it.
Now show me why I'm really here.
I don't, I don't really want to talk about it.
Just take me in there.
CHIP: Go over by the fireplace.
We took this wall out.
This is a load-bearing wall.
This is a temporary wall to hold the support of this ceiling.
So we've got to put a beam to support all these joists.
JOANNA: Wow.
CHIP: And my question here was, this could either drop down
and be decorative, or it can go up and be
invisible above the drywall.
Ooh, that's fun that you're letting me make this decision.
I wanted to include you in this very complicated decision.
OK, hold on.
Let me think about this.
So I think it's a no brainer, but I--
What do you think?
I think it should go above the drywall and be invisible.
OK.
I think it needs to go in the ceiling.
These ceilings-- CHIP: Right?
--are so low, I don't need anything else--
CHIP: Well, babe, I'm gonna start making these decisions
on my own a lot.
Well no, I appreciate the call--
Oh.
--but I'm just saying, good call.
So we happen to be on the same page in this case.
We're on the same page.
OK, I got to go. CHIP: Listen--
Put that in the ceiling-- CHIP: --you go--
I got to go.
--but I'm gonna go pick this up one more time, just for fun.
JOANNA: You don't need to do that.
You want to watch?
JOANNA: No, Chip.
I was just a little curious, especially
on the kitchen beam, did you potentially want to drop that
below the drywall so that it can be decorative,
which is why I wanted to bring you over here.
But really it was just to see you.
I appreciate that.
We don't get to see each other as much as we used to--
That's not true.
--so I have to call you and to be like, oh, it's an emergency.
There's a design question.
Come over here to John's house.
Sometimes I just need to see you and to be together with you.
You know what I'm saying?
I hear you!
Because five babies isn't that many.
Oh, gosh.
Let's prank John.
[cellphone ringing]
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Hello?
Hey, John, this is Joanna.
Bad news.
JOHN [ON PHONE]: OK, what's up?
So you know in your kitchen where that stove and--
Bad news.
--and microwave was, that wall that was like the half-wall?
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Yes.
So because it was a half-wall, we assumed--
Did you ever see Superman?
For real, stop it.
This is Eric.
This is really Jo.
So we took out that wall, John.
I really swore that was not a load-bearing wall.
It is, in fact, load bearing, so I need another $5,500 from you.
OK, bye.
See you later, John.
He will just sweat it out.
We love John.
We love to chat with John.
New Yorkers are, are-- JOANNA: They're tough.
--unique, you know? [ding]
Oh, that was him texting.
[laughing]
Oh, you?
"Are you joking?"
Ah, he's so dumb.
You know?
JOANNA: No.
We got him.
So there's a lot of progress happening at John's.
We've got the pony wall built. We are laying the brick
for the exterior and window.
We've got all the drywall complete.
And today I'm going to meet with Lonnie and Marvin.
They're going to help me with John's office.
And then Chip is finishing up the hearth,
taking off all the moldings and then laying
the brick on the fireplace.
And this thing is really going to start shaping up.
Dang, with that wind machine, you look like a fox.
Jo, this place, once it's started coming together,
it's sharp, right?
- It feels-- - Wassup?
--a lot bigger.
CHIP: Oh, perfect timing.
She was over here--
JOANNA: He is being a brat.
CHIP: --looking over my shoulder, micromanaging me.
JOANNA: So we've worked with Marvin and Lonnie
for a long time.
Basically, Marvin's done all of our cabinet work at the silos,
and all of our houses.
And then Lonnie, he goes way back, too--
all of our metal work, welding.
And any time I can do a project with both of them together,
it means it's going to be that much more amazing.
OK, so this is John's office, and this is the showstopper.
OK.
JOANNA: Marvin, you're already doing the walnut cabinets.
Correct.
I want the same wood to wrap around this.
And then on this side I want it to just be open shelves
for, like, records.
I want to make sure that a record can sit.
- Oh, an album. - An album.
OK.
A vinyl.
And then this top part will be where I need you
both to kind of join forces--
like a metal, steel gridded window.
So Marvin, what are you thinking?
Is this something you just wrap this with with that walnut?
MARVIN: Yeah, like 3/4 panel, a walnut top.
JOANNA: OK.
MARVIN: And then Lonnie would sit, like, on me.
JOANNA: Yep, and then the glass is in the middle.
MARVIN: In the middle, yes.
OK, I think that's it.
All right.
It's just so easy.
MARVIN: All right.
Y'all let me know if there's any questions.
I'm going to sneak around.
LONNIE: OK.
CHIP: Any of you boys good at these stilts?
- No. - No.
LONNIE: Heck no.
This looks--
MARVIN: Are you?
It's, I don't, don't think so, no.
I'm trying to figure out which is the right
and which is the left.
I bet you can't.
JOANNA: Don't!
I can't catch you if you fall.
CHIP: Hey, believe in yourself.
I don't want to believe in myself.
Any project that Chip is in, it's
like there's something in the air that makes him want
to do something really stupid.
CHIP: Babe, look at me.
Will you just spot him.
JOANNA: Hook this one up.
CHIP: These guys make it look extremely easy,
but I do not recommend stilt walking at all.
JOANNA: How do they do it?
I mean, these sheet rock guys are freaking lunatics.
Oh, shoot.
Baby, if I would have fallen in one of those truss
falls, would you have caught me?
Never.
I would have just crumbled.
I'm just saying, I can't catch you like that.
But would you have tried to catch me?
I would have gone like--
I'd have blocked it, and we would
have just fallen together.
Oh, man.
Yeah, that would have been sad.
You've got to catch me like this.
I can't do that.
CHIP: Oh hey, look!
Baby, look.
JOANNA: Hey, just slow-- no one's in a hurry, slow down.
I'll tell you this.
The fact that I got such bad ankles
isn't, it isn't doing me any favors.
OK.
I'm going to get behind you, babe.
OK.
Oh!
JOANNA: Don't!
Babe, don't!
Oh, crap.
[laughing]
Oh my god.
OK, oh, oh.
Hold on a second, let me--
I got to go, babe.
I got stuff to do. - I'm not helping you.
I don't know how to help you!
I do need one favor.
I need you to hold on to the end of this stick,
and I need you to pull, and I mean like a donkey.
OK, giddy up now!
Get on now!
Hyah!
Git now!
Babe, I'm serious.
JOANNA: Oh, my gosh.
Leave him here.
Oh, this is so fun.
OK.
So today I'm with my sister, Mikey.
We are looking for records for John's office so the second
he walks in it really feels like home to John.
So these are all 20% off and they're vintage?
Yep.
Oh, Mikey.
Ooh, that's fun.
So we're going to have two lists.
Well, three lists-- your list, my list and John's list.
Does he like Billy Joel?
He likes-- let me look.
Yes, Billy Joel.
I did ask John for a list.
Dave Matthews is his all-time favorite.
He's been to every Dave Matthew's concert.
That's funny.
Pearl Jam, my personal favorite.
Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, and then Frank Sinatra.
Elton John for you.
Oh, Simon and Garfunkel.
This is turning into the Jo shopping bee.
Isn't it funny?
I wonder if you can tell someone's personality
by their musical selection.
That's funny.
I found some-- look at this one.
Who is it?
Miles Davis.
Scored.
Ah, Chip would love it in here.
This is like being in an antique store where you're,
like, finding antiques for someone,
but you also find antiques for yourself,
so it's like a win-win.
Coldplay, U2, Dave Matthews--
Paul Simon?
Paul Simon, yes, thank you.
OK, I think we're good.
Ooh, we got a lot of good ones.
This is so good.
JOANNA: John's going to be feeling good in that office.
It's going to make him more productive.
That's how I justify this entire--
it's like, if this is going to help you
be more productive at work, big mama's
gonna buy you some records. - Thank you.
- Bye.
- See ya.
JOANNA: So John's house is moving right along.
I mean, right when I stepped in, it's like you can start
seeing-- what are you doing?
I'm sorry.
I had a little spit. - OK.
And, uh--
What's in your mouth?
Nothing.
Spit it out.
No.
Spit it out.
OK, go ahead.
OK.
It's a tile spacer.
You can choke on those.
So John's house is really moving along.
Chip is finishing up the tile in John's bathroom.
We've got another crew working on the hallway baths.
There's a lot of tile work going on.
But I also just got the flooring in,
so I wanted to bring that in for Chip for what's
happening in his bathroom.
Hey Chip?
Yo!
What you doing, girl?
What are you-- ooh!
That is so pretty.
Tile and flooring are your thing.
And when we first were dating, I would come in
and you were laying floors all by yourself.
Back in those days, my back didn't hurt so badly.
What are you doing?
I wanted to show you the flooring for this bathroom
is this.
Just a thought, I doubt you're interested in this.
I was going to go sleek all the way through it,
but are you interested in this?
All black, and then these little white accents.
JOANNA: I think sometimes I actually love that,
but I don't want to see that high contrast
in these smaller--
All right, so all black, you're good?
Yeah.
Stick to the original plan?
OK, where is this going?
This is all the floor.
Ooh, look at this.
I think it's gonna be so pretty.
It's gonna be sharp.
John's gonna love it.
JOANNA: I think he's really gonna love it.
Wait, I do want to show, I do want to--
this is fascinating to me.
Black terracotta, isn't that crazy now that you can get
tile in every single material?
Every shape and size, babe.
This could be ceramic or porcelain, but it's--
But it's terracotta.
Because only us just buy material randomly for three
time what they need to be.
But doesn't it feel more special that it's [WHISPERING]
terracotta black tile.
CHIP: No, there's no additional specialness at all.
I don't want to go into a lot of details--
He's so frustrated.
--but there's no logical explanation
behind buying tile that's terracotta that's been
painted matte black.
It makes it so special to me.
This in subway tile at a fraction of the price,
do all the same things.
What you see in terracotta that you don't see in subway
is a subtle movement.
There's a little bit of an irregularity
that I love that you can't get when you get the porcelain.
I don't want to talk about it.
There is a texture difference.
There is a finish difference.
CHIP: I'm actually trying to make a--
JOANNA: This is John's house.
CHIP: --few bucks on John's project.
JOANNA: I get it, but I really like John
and I know what John wants, and John
is going to appreciate the matte black terracotta tile.
You watch.
Agree to disagree.
Babe, I need to not be here, because it's
bad for my cholesterol.
Knowing the price of these materials--
This isn't bad.
Is it not?
Not compared to this!
Babe--
JOANNA: John's project is 50% complete, moving into the 75%
range, because tomorrow--
50% moving--
--all of the cabinets are coming in.
--magically into the 75% range.
Once cabinets go in, it is home free.
And tomorrow all the cabinets are coming in in the bathrooms,
so he's got to hustle on this tile.
CHIP: Come on!
JOANNA: In the kitchen, the hallway bath,
and the wall in his office.
And when I give a budget, I work all the materials within
that budget so this tile work--
OK, you're done.
Go.
Go tile.
And don't choke on those spacers.
So the terracotta tile is a little bit more.
It does fit within the budget that I have allotted for John,
and John will notice a difference
between black subway tile and black terracotta tile--
100%.
CHIP: And by 100%, she means 0% chance.
Well, hello, sweet Joey.
JOANNA: Hey.
Somebody called and said there was a suspicious person.
I look suspicious today for sure.
--in the neighborhood, and I wouldn't have
expected it to be you.
JOANNA: It looks good.
You power washed it.
CHIP: I made it look like a million bucks.
JOANNA: But there's a few buts.
CHIP: Oh no.
JOANNA: John really wanted painted brick,
but the brick is even prettier now--
CHIP: It's killer.
--with this dark trim.
Babe, I mean, think about it-- this antique brick,
like, people pay a lot of money to get this cool, old brick.
JOANNA: Yeah, this is pretty.
It would be a disservice to this brick to paint
it when it's this cool looking.
JOANNA: So I'm just wondering, is this one of those things
that we just surprise John, and--
his mind is that it will be painted.
CHIP: John doesn't seem to be the type that likes surprises.
He doesn't make it fun.
CHIP: He's like you.
Yes.
The biggest issue is, you can't undo it.
So if we hate it, cream with a charcoal
cut in half, which is what it feels like to me,
we can't, like, power wash it and get the brick back.
Yeah, that's true.
And so--
Where, if you leave it, you can always paint it later.
Let's try to make the authentic brick work.
That's always the best option.
And it's a pretty brick.
And if anybody can talk somebody into doing what they
don't want to do, it's you.
You got this.
[cellphone ringing]
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Hello?
JOANNA: When you see me call you, do you get nervous?
So you remember the plan was to paint your brick?
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Yes, I do remember.
JOANNA: So now that we've done the trim,
I love what the trim color did to the brick
as far as, like, the way it highlighted it and made
it felt a little more modern.
Basically it's like, if we don't paint your brick,
it's saving you $4,500, and then worst case scenario,
we'll paint it later.
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Right.
I, I think yes, let's-- yeah, let's go
ahead and not paint it.
Perfect.
See, that was an easy call, John.
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Yes.
And you just saved almost $5,000.
JOHN [ON PHONE]: And an ulcer.
And an ulcer.
OK, thanks, John.
JOHN [ON PHONE]: Thanks Jo, bye.
OK, that was easy.
You need to get ready, babe.
But I'm gonna get ready.
And as soon as I get the floor in, countertops, a little bit
of paint, the shutters, some finish out
with the plumbing fixtures and electrical fixtures,
and this baby is yours.
I'll get ready.
I'm ready.
Hey, Chip.
CHIP: What in the world?
JOANNA: It looks so good.
CHIP: Crew, what do you say?
Can I have a hug?
Oh. thanks, buddy.
JOANNA: Chip, this looks amazing.
Stand back with mama and let me show
you something real quick, OK? - OK.
Hold my hand.
Let's l look at what daddy's telling us.
- Looky here. - Yes.
This brick, not easy to match.
I know.
And so unfortunately, we got a brick that we thought
was perfect, but it's not.
The original plan was to paint.
CHIP: But watch this, babe.
JOANNA: Crew, look.
Wow!
Crew, look.
You can't see it.
We were gonna paint the brick, which allowed us
the opportunity to remove those two windows
and there'd be no real issue there.
Well once we decided and John approved that we didn't
have to paint the house, the plan B
was this great lattice work.
Obviously the ivy will take a little time
to grow up and mature, but I mean, when you see this,
it literally looks like a million bucks.
Crew, hurry baby, come here.
OK, hold your drill.
CHIP: Come right over here, Bubba.
JOANNA: Here, see where dad's got it?
CHIP: Can you see it, right there.
JOANNA: Now you drill that one. - Yeah.
CHIP: Get it.
Can you get it?
Right here, baby.
Can you get it, Bubba?
Ready?
Help him. CHIP: Right there.
Go for it, baby.
Ah! CHIP: Go, baby.
Crew!
CHIP: Crew!
You did it!
Blow it up.
Pow!
Are you gonna help-- he just drilled this in the wall.
I was this close to being able to say that I did
this project unassisted, but at the 11th hour,
little man showed up and I could not be more proud.
Crew, you did it.
JOANNA: High five.
Can you say high five?
John is not going to believe it.
You made a problem turn into a really pretty statement.
We got a little bit more work to do
with this landscape, babe, and we are off to the races.
OK, the movers are here, babe.
- All right, go to work. - Proud of you.
Let's go, Crew.
Hey, hey, it's your turn to shine.
It's my turn.
CHIP: Go do your thing. - OK.
Say bye, dad.
Bye, Crew.
You did good, buddy.
JOANNA: Chip just had to put in the final trellis.
But the construction, landscape, everything's done,
and the movers are here and we've got to put
together an entire house.
OK, so Chip, you're going to be dance mom today.
You got to get Drake at 1:45.
Emmy has dance at 4:30.
Duke has to be dropped off at football at 5:30.
Emmy gets picked up at 6:30, and then
Ella goes to dance at 6:30.
CHIP: Yikes.
See mama, you better text me a lot of specific instructions--
JOANNA: It's hard.
--and the addresses.
Just don't forget the kids.
All right, bye.
I love you, Chip.
CHIP: There's some people that shine in these moments,
not like Joanna Gaines.
I mean, it's like a different level.
If you had a ticket, stay and watch what's about to go down.
Stay and watch crazy.
OK, the headboard we're going to just center where the light
is on the edge of the wall.
For me, design is just going with my gut
and until my gut says it's right,
and then I walk into the next space.
John's house, it's a smaller project,
but there's so many details I really care about.
So my prediction is I'm going to be here a little late.
Go a little higher.
Go higher, higher.
Right there.
Really the main goal is getting everything in place
so that I'm not doing this late at night by myself.
I don't know how to find a stud.
I'll show you where this one goes,
and then I'll start working on other things.
So John loves a good gallery wall.
This goes like this.
I think the trick to starting a wall like this
is like telling a story.
For John, the story I really want to tell
is one of his home, growing up in New York,
and so I'm going to pull together some of the found
pieces that I have with John's and hopefully tell his story
right here on this wall.
I always try to get myself back into that moment when all of us
walked in the house and we were listening to John,
and what he was wanting, what he didn't want.
And seeing it now like it is, I feel like, OK, this is John.
This is his style.
And hopefully tomorrow when he steps in he'll, he'll feel
like it feels just like home.
Look at this, John.
Looks good.
It's not going to look like this, right?
CHIP: It's going to look a tad different.
A little bit, I will say.
But John, I will say, it's not a dramatic exterior reveal,
because the house was great.
CHIP: This house was like Jo, and then
she puts on a little lipstick.
You know, it's like, yeah, she's amazing.
Oh yeah, the lipstick, I see it.
It does some stuff. - That's funny.
You make me sick.
CHIP: But I'll tell you this, when
you go down the inside, where the heart is, it's amazing.
Well, thank you.
CHIP: It's even better.
OK, are you ready?
- I'm ready. - Come on, let's do this.
I want to see it.
JOANNA: OK, John, are you ready to see your fixer upper?
Yes.
CHIP: Let's do it!
Oh my!
Wait that-- it doesn't look like the same house at all.
What?
I love it.
Oh my gosh, I love it.
What do you think?
It is amazing.
That door is amazing.
JOANNA: Are you-- CHIP: The sconces.
JOANNA: --glad we didn't paint the brick--
CHIP: The landscape.
--or are we, are you gonna call us next week
and say "paint it?"
No.
No, so glad we stopped it. JOANNA: Good.
Oh my goodness.
JOANNA: So you've got a new window
that's, like, energy efficient.
Replaced the shutters to match that front door,
updated the light fixtures, and then
did a charcoal gray so it would feel a little
different than what you had. And then--
JOHN: I love it.
JOANNA: --obviously all new landscape,
just to keep it still really minimal,
but hopefully give it a little bit of a modern edge.
JOHN: I love it.
Let's check out the inside, dude.
Yes, let's go.
If you think this is pretty, wait till you see the inside.
I know, I can't wait.
Oh, my goodness.
JOANNA: It's your office, John.
Oh. JOANNA: Push.
Push.
JOHN: Oh, my goodness, this is, like, incredible.
I think you're going to be very productive in here.
JOHN: You're literally never going to see me again.
JOANNA: Oh man.
CHIP: And you know, I stole your pencil sharpener,
so we replaced it with this even cooler option.
JOHN: This is amazing.
CHIP: Records, bro.
You can sit in here, you can chill.
Hey, and notice that we faced the desk away from the window
so you don't have to notice your neighbors.
Look at this.
Oh, those will be bolted shut.
JOANNA: Yeah.
That is amazing.
So you got that.
And I just, like, am obsessed with these.
CHIP: All right, babe, where are we going now?
JOANNA: We're going to go in the living room.
CHIP: Come on. JOANNA: OK.
Coat closet was here, remember?
JOHN: This is crazy, yes.
And now your--
Oh my gosh.
--new living room.
Oh my gosh, that fireplace.
JOANNA: Chip did this little hearth situation.
JOHN: That's so cool.
JOANNA: He extended it for when you decide to make new friends,
you can clear the books, and there's
a lot of people that can sit there
and just hang out until the wee hours of the night.
JOHN: I literally can't even believe what
this house used to look like.
JOANNA: You had this wall here, if you remember,
and then this huge built-in.
JOHN: Love me a gallery wall.
JOANNA: You do love a gallery wall.
JOHN: Oh my goodness, it's so cool.
JOANNA: So first time in fixer history, John,
we've done what--
CHIP: Oh, oh!
Don't tell him.
See if he can guess it.
Oh, I already know what it is.
I already know what it is.
What is it?
First time ever that we've featured a television
in a "Fixer Upper" house.
JOANNA: And I did it for you.
JOHN: I know, I know, there it is.
I can't believe I get to live here.
CHIP: Let's go see the kitchen.
JOANNA: Come on, John.
CHIP: 3, 2, 1.
Oh my god.
JOANNA: John, this is too big of a kitchen.
CHIP: Look at this island.
This kitchen.
JOANNA: Look at the kitchen.
JOHN: Oh my gosh.
JOANNA: Your island is massive.
CHIP: Come on, John, what are you going to do?
Are you going to entertain here?
Are you going to be all by yourself in your boxers?
Do you like to cook? Like, will you--
JOHN: I do. I do like to cook, yeah.
OK, good, so this will be a great space then.
JOHN: I'm, like, going to be afraid to cook in this kitchen.
JOANNA: No, don't be afraid.
CHIP: Show him the coffee frother
on the back of the stove.
JOANNA: Oh, the frother. CHIP: Yeah.
Yeah.
You can hang your jewelry on this.
You just put your mug right up to that.
That's what I thought it was.
I cannot get over this.
Like, I mean, it's perfect.
JOANNA: OK, let's look in your dining room,
because this was that closet where
Chip got the pencil sharpener.
JOHN: Right.
CHIP: I stole some stuff from you, John,
but we gave you a few things back.
JOANNA: And the only thing we did in here, obviously, is
take out the walls, but added this feature to tie into what's
happening in the kitchen with the pretty walnut,
and then have this shelf custom made, and then--
JOHN: I love this.
JOANNA: --a new light fixture.
JOHN: It is impossible for me to even, like,
think about what the house looked like.
I love--
- How open it is? - --this.
Yes.
JOANNA: Your house looks huge, John.
JOHN: It does. JOANNA: It looks--
JOHN: It does. JOANNA: --so big.
JOHN: It does.
CHIP: We still got one more part of the puzzle,
man, your bedroom. JOHN: The bedroom.
Where you will lay your head.
And you tiny little bathroom.
And your teeny, tiny, little bathroom that we had to keep.
JOANNA: John's room.
JOHN: Oh--
CHIP: Viola!
JOHN: Wow.
This looks so much bigger than I--
JOANNA: You think it looks bigger?
I think it looks bigger than it was, for sure.
JOANNA: Yeah.
And we put your bed there.
CHIP: Was the debate--
I thought I was--
You wanted him to put his bed here.
CHIP: OK, got it.
Now that you see it, did we make the right decision?
JOHN: Yes.
CHIP: By "we," I mean you and Joanna.
I still vote that the bed should be turned the other direction.
JOHN: I think we probably made the right call here.
JOANNA: Yeah, this is the focal point.
CHIP: Well, come on.
Let's show you the bathroom.
All right, John, come on.
JOHN: OK.
CHIP: Let's see it.
What happened?
JOHN: Oh my goodness.
JOANNA: Whoa.
I mean, this is amazing.
Oh my goodness.
JOANNA: We added this window because it was so dark in here.
But a big shower, the marble floors.
JOHN: This is so amazing.
CHIP: I will say, I love that finish on those fixtures.
JOHN: This is amazing.
JOANNA: I'm glad you like it.
JOHN: Like, I, I don't even know what to say.
Is this, like, black terracotta?
JOANNA: John.
CHIP: Stop.
JOANNA: Who told you to say that?
CHIP: Shut your mouth.
Why are you asking then?
Wait, well--
Did someone tell you to say "is this black terracotta?"
No, because I thought we talked about subway tile.
Oh, right.
Yeah, which would have been a lot cheaper.
But this looks like terracotta,
and I just assumed that I couldn't afford terracotta,
but obviously I could have.
JOANNA: OK, so this is the actual debate.
He didn't know why I didn't just do
subway tile that was matte black,
and I said you would appreciate--
Jo has lost her everloving mind.
--that it was terracotta.
CHIP: Jo spent our entire budget on this bathroom.
No, I didn't.
I honestly, like, was not ambitious enough
to ask for black terracotta, but I
know that that's what that is.
This is amazing.
I can't get over this entire house.
CHIP: All right, John, let's wrap this up in the outside,
just so you can take in the entire house.
JOHN: Yeah.
CHIP: All right, let's go.
JOHN: My goodness.
CHIP: What do you say, John?
This is your house, dude!
I know.
I cannot believe it.
You own this!
I know, that's crazy.
You've got the nicest house on the whole block,
and there's some nice houses on this block.
I cannot believe I get to live here.
Thank you guys so much.
Well, you pour your heart and soul
into our business every single day, and we feel that.
And honestly, we hope you live here happily ever after.
JOHN: Whatever I had in mind, this is like a million
times more than that.
This is amazing.
Thank you guys so much for doing this.
CHIP: Thank you, John. JOHN: It's amazing.
CHIP: Welcome home, bud.
JOHN: Thank you.
Thank you.
JOANNA: John, we love you.
JOHN: Love you guys.
Not going anywhere.