[Mina] I'm really excited about this one.
[Cory] This limestone exterior?
-[Mina] It is. -[Cory] That's a horse of a different color
that we haven't dealt with before.
What's this piece of plywood doing?
-[Mina] Oh! -This is a secret room.
-[glass breaking] -[man] Aah, that's expensive.
[man] This pays homage to what once was.
[woman] That is not Hill Street.
I don't know why we call them.
When you fall off, what do you do, Cory?
Pull up your pamper straps and you get back up.
[woman] Look at that.
[woman] All of the material that came out of this quarry
went to the Empire State Building.
Welcome to your new neighborhood, you guys.
-It's beautiful. -So--
-Wow! -Cool.
Yeah, right?
[upbeat music playing]
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses
you've ever seen.
Our team isn't afraid to tackle
the worst of the worst.
That is so gross.
[woman] Holy cow.
[Mina] Then we turn those rundown houses
into some of the nicest homes in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow! -[woman] I love it!
[upbeat music playing]
All right. So these little guys spit water too?
[Karen] Yeah, they do. They sit right there.
-Hello, hello. -Hi, there.
What up, guys?
You're about to fish some tube through a frog?
Yeah. Listen, Karen was nice enough
to donate this to me.
-Oh! -Whoa! That's pretty awesome.
So after doing this whole rehab dance
for over six years now,
of course I'm using those skillsets
that I've learned and applying them to,
uh, my own house now.
Shall we see inside the house.
-Yeah, let's go inside. -I wanna see the inside.
It's chilly out here.
I bought it a couple months ago.
Wanted to size up and get out of the city
and I've been cranking away at the reno,
so I've invited the team to come check it out today.
That was the living room.
Living room stays living room.
And then this is kitchen/dining?
Yup. Kitchen over there, dining here,
and then converted to an en suite.
The house is looking awesome, Cory's doing a great job
with the reframing of it.
I mean, this dude, he knows what he's doing
and it looks awesome in there.
[Cory] Well, I gotta head out to meet Mina
so we can see a house in Irvington.
-Okay. -But you guys are free
-to hang out. -[Karen] Oh, we're gonna...
-[Tad] [indistinct] -We're gonna wander around though.
You get out of here and we're gonna look upstairs.
[Cory] Have at it.
[upbeat music playing]
We are going to... Back out to Irvington.
-It's been a hot minute. -Oh.
So this house is on Hill Street,
which is right in the middle of Irvington.
It's about five miles from downtown Indy.
And it's just an area that's loaded with charm.
And it's a house and it's an empty lot.
I don't know what the inside looks like.
The outside's super dang cute.
The floor plans I've seen are living, dining,
and kitchen on the first floor
with two bedrooms and one bathroom.
And then upstairs, there's apparently
a loft space and then a laundry,
one bedroom, an office den, and another bathroom.
I paid $160,000 for it.
But that was for the house
and the massive lot next door,
so not a bad deal for all of that
and a lot of house.
But I'm excited to be back in Irvington.
I love the little area.
People that love Irvington, like, love Irvington.
-Yeah. -And they're...
Got, like, their big Halloween festival,
like, they do everything big in the neighborhood.
It's just a very active, involved neighborhood.
And the people that are in it, I think are, like, I mean,
they're really proud of it.
They have the cutest little shops, like,
along that strip that's, um, the...
I call it the main drag of Irvington, if you will.
I worked at the pizza place there.
-It's fantastic. -Uh-huh.
[upbeat music playing]
[singer] ♪ Hey, hey, hey Don't play, let's go ♪
♪ Babe, babe, babe Gotta check down low ♪
♪ Step into my world ♪
[Mina] I'm really excited about this one.
[Cory] This is a great little cute house.
Is this limestone exterior?
[Mina] It is. It's limestone.
That's a horse of a different color
that we haven't dealt with before.
So cute.
My first impressions are, "Oh my God, how cute is this?"
We're sitting real pretty on the hill
right now, aren't we?
[Mina] Yeah, we are kinda on a hill.
-[Cory] I know. -[Mina] And we're on Hill Street.
This house could be called Pretty on the Hill.
Or, A House on the Hill.
-Or is that a movie already? -No, no.
No, that's a creepy... That's a scary movie.
I think, House on the Hill.
Or is that... Or is that Hills Have Eyes?
[Mina] I think those are all movies.
I think like a solid pressure wash.
Yeah. Really cool front door, full light.
[Mina] The front door that's on it
looks pretty cool.
[Cory] Is it? All right. I'm here.
[Mina] I bought it about a year ago.
That's a second parcel.
[Cory] Oh, that comes with it?
[Mina] Yes.
So I can actually build on it someday,
but this will be our first time in the house
because someone's been living in it
since I bought it.
Okay.
And so we're gonna discover this together
for the first time.
-Let's go in. -This is great.
[upbeat music playing]
-So... -[Cory] Okay.
Yeah. That door is really cool.
This is great.
Fireplace with that limestone.
Make sure Karen is aware not to demo that out.
This is a little much,
but this is super cool.
I love the limestone fireplace.
I love the base of the fireplace.
I wouldn't change any of that.
The mirror needs to come down
'cause that's a little retro, but it's super cute.
The only thing that's not super cute
-is the textured ceiling. -[Cory] My God!
[Mina] We need to skim the ceiling.
[Cory] This is a light rehab.
Well, we're just in the first room.
Oh, okay.
[laughs]
[Mina] Oh, my goodness.
Look at this.
[Cory] This is so cool.
This is, like, one of your better sight unseen purchases, Mina.
[Mina] This is my best.
I want this open though, right?
Obviously put a header there. But we're...
We can keep this little separation
from the dining room.
I actually kind of like the little bit of separation.
It would be so cool if we did an arched doorway,
but with the actual arched doors that swing.
I know it sounds expensive.
No. Why would we spend our money?
And then we do a gridded, arched half-light door.
Just like this, picture these doors,
but arched.
[Mina] No.
[Cory] This is really freaking cool.
-Where you going? -Sunroom.
This is...
We got a lot of water damage out here.
[Cory] Yup. We know that that's bad.
You know what I love about this little outdoor space?
Look at this little cute sink for your gardening.
You can also, uh, filet your fish out here
when you get done off the river.
That way your wife isn't yelling at you
in the kitchen
while you're gutting your fish.
Whoever invented that, genius.
It is pretty genius.
I literally just sound like Karen there for a second.
This roof structure looks like
it was original part of the house.
They probably just closed in the side porch.
[Cory] Where are you looking?
Look, 'cause it goes all the way in.
I think its highest and best use for us
would be to make it like an all-seasons porch.
It needs to go down to the studs
because it's got a lot of water damage.
It's not put together well.
So we'll put it back together with some good insulation.
Make it heated and cooled,
so it's a more functional space.
Let's go check out
the downstairs bedroom and bathroom.
[upbeat music playing]
[Cory] I mean, I've lost weight,
but I gotta go in through these sideways.
[Mina] So this could stay a bedroom or an office space.
If we don't need that added, like,
bedroom/office space, we could make this,
like, a sick mudroom, laundry room, utility room.
[Cory] Or if this doesn't stay a bedroom,
I think we're gonna be kicking ourselves in here.
[Mina] I don't know what the rest of it is.
Let's look at the rest of it.
We got a full bath and a bedroom.
This is great.
Ooh, there's some water damage
just from where that was leaking.
[Cory] And where's the main going?
I think we need to go upstairs.
I think that--
My guess is there's no main en suite here.
-We're gonna have to make one. -[Cory] I think it's this.
That door is going to be now your main bedroom door.
-Two-- -So you're saying take down
this middle and kind of reconfigure stuff?
Yeah. Get a closet out of here in some fashion.
This would be so cool to have off the kitchen.
-Your entertainment-- -Why would it be cool
to have off the kitchen?
I don't know because I just like,
whenever I'm, like, going to bed, I just,
the kitchen's the last place I'm going from.
[Mina] I wanna go upstairs.
[upbeat music playing]
[Mina] Ooh, let's shine your light in here.
[Mina] Let's see what's going on.
-Oh! It's a little chunk... -[Cory] It's a dormer.
-[Mina] where the dormer is. -[Cory] Yeah.
Someone cut a door in that blue wall.
-What is that? -[Mina] Wiggle it off.
It's got screw, like, screws on it.
Like, someone's been accessing.
Oh!
[Cory] This is fantastic.
[Cory] What's this piece of plywood doing?
Oh!
This is fantastic.
This is a secret room that I've always wanted.
That's fun.
[Cory] We can't do much with it, but--
[Mina] No, but we could, like, box this out
and spray insulate it
and it could just be like a chill nook.
[Cory] This is so cool. For no reason.
[Mina] I like it. Yeah.
I wanna go in this other room.
Okay.
What is this little workshop?
But it's very cool.
There's so much room for activities.
[Cory laughs] Yes!
There is off one of the bedrooms
a similar under eave situation
just way, way, way longer.
And again, I just feel like it's not being utilized.
It's underutilized.
Even, like, even though
you can't walk really far under it,
if it were opened up,
it would give the illusion of so much more space.
Um, and that hallway up there is very skinny.
It just...
It needs to be opened up somehow.
Okay, let's look at more.
This room doesn't have a closet.
So what we would need to do
is cut off two feet of this bathroom.
[Cory] Mmm-hmm.
Give it to this room for the closet.
So then it'd be two bedrooms up here
if this wall got pushed out.
Yeah. Take away all that closet.
If we could push this out to the angle,
so this was more, like, the lofty space
and we closed off some of that as another room.
[Cory] I agree.
If we wanna make money on this one,
we have to get rid of some of the wasted space.
So I think I need to get three bedrooms
and a full bath upstairs.
Then I can get the main en suite downstairs,
a fifth bedroom downstairs and a half bath.
And then it's a three bedroom, two and a half bath property.
Boom!
I'm gonna mull on this. Let's look at the garage.
This has all the fun stuff in it.
[Mina] Whoa!
The whole squirrel is decomposed except the tail.
Did I step on it?
[Mina] I don't know. That's gross.
Pretty sure that tail brushed up
against my boot and, like,
they're just gonna have to go off with the front door
because the good lord knows they're not coming inside.
That was a lovely room of death.
Oh, my God, you're gonna be so upset
with what your hood looks like right now.
I'm not okay.
[Mina] You're covered in webs.
-They're, like, everywhere. -Can you just do something?
-I don't know what to do. -Mina?
I would do it for you. Okay.
Next time you're in a tough pickle...
-Look, I'm helping. -Don't ask me.
[Mina] Hold on. There's more.
-Why is there so much? -[Mina] I don't know.
-What did you touch? -I'm glad I had my hood up.
I even let you go through that opening first.
-[Mina] Okay. -Is it better?
That's the bulk of it.
You're good.
[Cory] All right. What are we doing now?
[Mina] Uh, okay.
On the exterior, we don't need to do much.
Just pressure wash the limestone
and maybe some fresh paint on the front peaks.
Inside, I think we should open up that wall
between the kitchen and living room.
Add a main en suite downstairs
and then rearrange all the space upstairs,
which I think if I'm smart about,
I can get a total of four bedrooms
and three bath out of the house.
I feel like we could be under $200,000 here.
Our mechanicals are good.
We have water and sewer. We have gas.
The house and the adjoining lot
cost $160,000.
So just to make it simple,
if we say each lot is $80,000.
We have $80,000 in this place.
So if I stay under $200,000 on the construction,
that has me all in at $280,000.
And I think I could list it for $365,000
which would yield a decent profit.
But I like it. I'm happy.
[Cory] That's cute. I'm shocked.
[upbeat music playing]
[singer] ♪ It takes one To be more than a dreamer ♪
♪ Just a believer ♪
[Tad groaning]
-I think she wins. -I don't know.
I think I stopped it. I think I did that.
Oh, okay.
-[Mina] I brought my tool. -[man] Nice.
[Mina] My tool is better than your tool.
You haven't seen this house yet.
What do you think you're doing?
I just wanna see
what this side feels like today.
-It feels good, doesn't it? -It does. All right.
Tell 'em what we're doing, Mina.
Today, we're doing some demo.
-I felt the authority... -Yeah.
on that side.
Like, it felt, like, unbridled power.
Did you like it?
Oh, it was coursing through me. Yeah.
What are we keeping? What's going?
There are some walls
that are coming down to the studs.
They say DTS.
-Down to the studs. -Down to the studs.
Don't touch the fireplace.
It's limestone and it is beautiful.
I'll have you boys demoing inside
and then I'm gonna demo the concrete pad
in the back with the excavator.
Karen's not here so I'll fulfill the role.
There's some stuff in the house
that I wanna save.
Austin, you just keep doing what you do.
-Thank you. -MJ, you keep increasing
your demo skills.
Cory, I just wanna see you get a little bit dirty today.
-Right, not gonna happen. -[Cory] Okay.
-All right, guys. Let's go. -Inside. I'll go here.
We're gone. We're demoing.
DTS. Down to the studs.
And I'm gonna go find some cool stuff to save.
One, two, three.
Yes.
I need this medallion.
[Tad] Okay. Saved.
These are nice bi-folds, they work real well.
All right. Let's take these down for Karen.
We destroyed that kitchen,
like, it didn't stand a chance.
Yeah.
And before that, I even delegated some tasks,
the chandelier and the medallion.
So I got things getting saved
while demoing the kitchen, I'm getting better at this.
Whoo!
Send it through.
There it is.
You remind me of a younger me, MJ.
I'm older than you.
[laughter]
[upbeat music playing]
Get the corner of it right here.
[Mina] I'm gonna. I need to get straighter on.
There's another layer of concrete.
What?
There's two layers of concrete.
That's super annoying.
[Cory] Yeah, there's two layers.
Really glad I was able to borrow
my contractor's excavator and break this up
because the concrete was actually two layers.
So if I had to pay someone else to do it,
it would've gotten very expensive.
[upbeat music playing]
[gasps]
-[Cory] Oh, no. -[Mina] No.
Son of a [bleep]
[Cory] Oh, that's expensive.
[upbeat music playing]
[gasps]
-[Cory] Oh, no. -[Mina] No.
Son of a [bleep]
[Cory] Oh, that's expensive.
I poked a metal fence post
through the front window of the excavator
and shattered it
which probably is going to cost me more than I saved
doing the work myself.
I owe you a new window, Lawrence.
Oh, Mina, that thing is brand new.
So you just send me the bill.
[Lawrence speaking]
Thanks so much. Um...
[Lawrence speaking]
[Mina] Everything's fine.
I'll get back to work.
When you fall off, what do you do, Cory?
You put... You pull up your pamper straps
and you get back up.
You get back on that horse.
[Cory] Damn, it's okay.
Accidents happen.
[Tad] There we go.
Woo!
There's still a decent amount of demo inside
and then we have to take out all the walls of the sunroom
because of all the water damage,
and then a lot of cleanup, but it was a good first day.
[Cory] Easy. Easy.
That was kind of anticlimactic.
[laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
[Karen] This is a great garage.
[Cory] Mmm-hmm. Watch out
for all the dead animals in here, okay?
[Karen] Are there dead animals?
[Cory] Oh, a hundred P.
I don't wanna be in the back of this garage,
it's disgusting
but before it gets cleared out,
I wanted to bring Karen in to treasure hunt, of course,
because why wouldn't I?
Uh, she wasn't here on demo day so she missed out.
He knows me oh-so well.
I can't miss a treasure.
There's a little creepy suitcase
that I'm not brave enough to open.
[Karen] Oh, it's heavy.
I think it's a typewriter, Cory.
Inside the case, it's perfectly clean.
-That's pretty wild. -[Karen] Yeah.
So we just get a new ribbon on it
-and spruce it up, and call it good? -[Karen] Yeah.
So we... That's coming with us.
The typewriter looks like it's in mint condition
inside of that janky case.
It really is in mint condition.
It's so weird.
Are you just gonna say all the things I say
-after I say them? -Uh, yeah. Because I was like,
"I'm in... I'm in agreement with you today."
Yeah, we got a lot of car parts.
[Cory] This would make a great assemblage.
[Karen] I don't know what this is
but that's interesting-looking.
-What I'm seeing is... -[Cory] Crankshaft.
[Karen] not so much an assemblage,
-it's more like a collage. -[Cory] Yeah.
You know how you did your deconstructed motorcycle?
[Karen] Yeah.
We definitely need MJ for this though.
[Cory] A few years back, Karen made this deconstructed
motorcycle art piece/side table for a house,
and it might be cool to do something like that here
with all these old car parts.
So we're gonna talk to MJ
and see if we can do something fun with those,
make a little story on the wall.
Yeah.
Put the typewriter underneath of it.
-Are you liking that? -[giggles]
[singer] ♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ She got a real good vibe Got style ♪
♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ She do it all She's versatile ♪
-[Austin] All right. -So this is our plan, is that right?
Yeah. We did not go with our, uh, usual architects,
we decided to do me.
You wanna see my beautiful drawings?
Oh, no.
-It's super official. -We're going back into the day
when I used to do stuff on graph paper.
Listen, this takes us back to the day
when, uh, the framers
were taking literally a napkin sketch.
Yeah.
There's so much to unpack here.
This is the only structural thing
-we have to do. So... -Yeah. So, in the front room...
-That's pretty good, Austin. -right here,
-we are deleting this wall and this wall. -[Cory] Wow.
[Austin] This one's not structural, this one is.
Throw in that beam...
-Oh, my goodness. -right there,
and opening up this whole little area.
[Cory] I bet you are.
So now that we have this wall down.
-Yes. -You come in,
now you'll walk into the living room
which is now opened up to the kitchen,
we'll have to remove the door out of the sunroom
and relocate it so that we'll have the space
to do a L-shaped kitchen.
MJ really wants to do a massive island here
so we'll add a breakfast nook off the living room
because the current dining room's
gonna become our main en suite.
And in the back, we'll keep the office back there
and add a half bath, and then upstairs,
we'll reconfigure the space to have three bedrooms,
a shared bathroom, and a loft space.
It's, like, what, like, 1,900 square feet?
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
For how small it looks,
it's got a lot of... It's got a lot going on.
-[Cory] There is. -That's the general floor plan
for the remodeling section of it.
Part of the issue was where we move that door
where I came into the kitchen,
we now have a missing, uh,
chunk of old limestone. So...
-So you found that? -I think... Yeah.
I think I found a couple here and there.
-Okay. -But I'm color blind
so I'm not sure until that gets here,
-how close of a match... -Actually.
-it's actually gonna be. -You're the right guy for this.
I am telling you.
Austin, this is some high speed information you gave us.
I don't think we could've done it without you.
-We can move forward. -Yup.
-Lovely. -Good to go.
Let's get going then.
-Right. -All right.
[singer] ♪ Watch out I'm coming ♪
♪ Watch out Make your head spin ♪
♪ Feel it In the air tonight ♪
♪ I can feel it In the air tonight ♪
[Mina] To freshen up the exterior,
I'm pouring new concrete in the driveway,
and on the front steps and porch.
[singer] ♪ Feel it In the air tonight ♪
♪ I can feel it In the air tonight ♪
[Mina] Inside, framing is in progress
and I'm rearranging the stairs
to really optimize the space.
Upstairs, I've opened everything up
and now all that under eave nook area
is usable space and we're framing up
our three bedrooms and a shared bath.
I am fuming about the windows,
we can't replace any of the windows
because IHPC won't let us.
[Cory] Did they tell you that already?
-[Mina] Yeah. -They said we cannot replace
them with a wood sashed individually
-mullioned window like this? -[Mina] Yeah.
[Cory] IHPC is the Indianapolis Historical Preservation Commission.
Apparently, energy efficiency
is not a reason to replace historic windows.
What about the ones that don't open?
[Mina] They don't care.
[Cory] Have you told them that some of them are painted shut?
Uh-huh.
[Cory] This is not gonna work.
I am fuming about the windows,
we can't replace any of the windows
because IHPC won't let us.
[Cory] IHPC is
the Indianapolis Historical Preservation Commission.
[Mina] I support the purpose.
[Cory] Yeah, I support the purpose.
The purpose is to respect
the historic integrity of the neighborhood.
But the thing is--
And if I wanting to come back in
with crank out black metal windows,
totally get it,
but I'm wanting to do like-for-like,
high quality wood windows
but they're saying that energy efficiency
is not a reason
to overthrow historic preservation.
Six hundred dollars a month gas bill minimum here.
I guarantee it.
We need to get some answers
from the IHPC
about how we're gonna proceed
and then she just leaves me.
I was still talking.
[singer] ♪ I get what I want, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, you, you You, you, you ♪
[Cory] This is actually kind of satisfying.
-Oh, oh. -Oh, it's like a big scab.
Oh. That's...
-Whoa. -Woo.
That sounded like an--
Getting a lashing with a wet noodle.
[Austin] Oh, boy.
We could not replace the windows
but instead, we had to
-remove all the windows and restore them. -Restore them.
Perfect.
So yup, it's gonna look good.
[Mina] In the meantime, we're adding extra insulation
which should help counter the drafty old windows
and then popcorn ceilings are getting scraped
so that the house can have a more modern feel
to match the more modern style.
Good morning.
Yeah, this is a lot.
Outside, the limestone,
for the most part, is in good shape.
Limestone, not painting it,
if the stone hasn't been painted,
we're not allowed to paint it.
Historic situation?
-Yes. Um... -Okay.
That's kind of cool though.
So that's all outside,
-that's pretty simple. -Amazing.
And then inside, I think
we jump to floor and wall colors.
Lovely.
[Mina] Yeah, I mean, I would lean towards this pattern
but I do like this one more.
I kind of had this vision
for really, really warm floors,
and everything else to be super cool.
So what wall color are you thinking?
-Like... -Like a blue cool?
-Like blue, like-- -This kind of blue?
-Yes. -Like off-white blue?
-[MJ] Mmm-hmm. -[Mina] Okay.
And then I wanna go real bold in the bedrooms.
Then I think we do go with like this, uh, very eclectic
-mid-mod kind of vibe. -[MJ] Yeah.
Here, like, the lower half of here.
[Mina] I'm down with that.
Irvington's a really eclectic neighborhood
with a lot of older, very unique homes
so we definitely want our design to stand out a bit.
I wanna add a lot of color, a lot of mid-mod,
mid-century eclectic touches
that really make this house stand out.
Backsplash options, safe, safe,
this one is a little bit of a stretch.
So if you're wanting to lean blue,
I would go with this one.
-[MJ] Handmade. -[Mina] Yeah.
[MJ] Hand-glazed, handmade.
[Mina] So maybe if we do
more color in that backsplash,
we keep it, like, simple and classic here.
-[gasps] -[Mina] That'd be pretty.
So the fireplace is gonna be open to the kitchen?
Yeah, everything will be open.
Yeah, everything's gonna be open
and I wanna do a breakfast nook
but I want it to be, like, the ultimate breakfast nook.
-Like a built-in? -[MJ] Mmm-hmm.
-Right. -How about you draw your vision
and then I'll draw my vision.
-Don't look at my vision then. -Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
I'm doing it.
Okay. Yeah.
-[Mina] We're good drawers. -Drawers.
We decided to have our breakfast nook off the living room
and now it's the first thing you see when you walk in,
so we really need it to stand out
and make a statement.
So custom cabinetry,
gold hardware, bold color,
right when you walk in, buyer's gonna notice it.
I feel like what would look really pretty is the green,
I think makes it a little more eclectic,
-a little more whimsical. -[MJ] Yeah.
-So it's quirky. -[MJ] Yeah.
I actually do already have some interest,
it's a family that is blended
and they've got kids from, I think, like,
seven to there's like a fifteen-year-old.
And they wanted Irvington,
so this might be perfect for them.
So I'm gonna reach out to Lindsey
and, like, get some info on the kids.
So if we can do a little bit of, you know, the room design.
-[MJ] Yeah. Totally. -[Mina] Kind of cater towards each one.
I love that.
So I will start
getting some of this stuff ordered
and we'll rock and roll.
Love it.
[upbeat music playing]
[singer] ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
[Mina] The sunroom had a lot of water damage.
So all the walls had to come out,
so we're rebuilding all of that
according to the Historical Society specs.
So I think what I wanna do
is set them all in place to make sure
because I know we had our old template.
So let's take the corner cabinet
that goes above it.
In order to give us this L-shaped kitchen,
we need to move the door to the sunroom.
So now we need to patch the hole using limestone
that will match this 90-year-old house.
-Oh, I see it. -Yeah.
[Karen] Look at that.
[Mina] Which Austin and mom are tracking down.
So now what we do
is we walk all the way around,
we strip naked and we go swimming, right?
-Right, no. -Of course.
It's a little chilly.
-Today, we are in Lydick... -Mmm-hmm.
Indiana.
Basically named after the stone
that you can find here, limestone.
This one hasn't been worked in a while.
[woman] So this is the Empire State Building court hall.
[Karen] Is it made out of Indiana limestone?
-[woman] Mmm-hmm. Yup. -I did not know.
[woman] All of the material that came out of this quarry
went to the Empire State Building.
Because the Empire State Building
was built in the '30s,
and this has not been backfilled?
We've preserved the hole, um, specifically
for the historical importance of it.
[Karen] Nice.
So they would get the stone out of this quarry,
put it on a railcar,
send it to be shaped?
Yeah, just so you... Yeah.
-Fabricated. -Fabricated, milled...
-Fabricated? -Yeah.
At the facility
on the other end of the property.
[woman] Let's go take a look at the manufacturing plant
and we can see how it's all made.
[upbeat music playing]
So this is our, uh, production area.
This is where we take those raw blocks
that we just quarried,
and we cut them into smaller slabs.
So we take big rocks
and we make them into smaller rocks.
You're watching this band saw descend down
from like the rafters
and just cut into the stone like it's nothing.
[Karen] Yeah.
It's been a good day.
So this right here, these are some examples
of full bed and thin veneer.
So this is gonna be...
what we've got for you.
Is this what we need for Hill Street?
Yup. This is what you're gonna be taking home with you.
[Austin] It looks exactly like it.
-Does it? -I think it'll look very good.
-[Karen] Okay. -Yes.
So we've got you guys set up to take that home today.
Marijuana is not legal in Indiana,
but I had so much fun getting stoned today.
-Yes. -I did.
I had so much fun.
'Cause I did it the legal way
with, you know, the--
Come down to Marion County and get stoned.
[laughs]
Limestoned.
[laughs]
[singer] ♪ Oh, I'm the action ♪
♪ You've been waiting on ♪
♪ I'mma walk out here To shake things up ♪
[saw whirring]
[upbeat music playing]
[Mina] Our limestone's going in today
and it's matching up perfectly.
We've also closed up the sunroom
and reinstalled all of the restored
original windows.
In the main en suite downstairs,
our marble shower tile is going in
and in the kitchen, our gray stone countertops
are getting installed.
And to give this kitchen
a touch of eclectic mid-mod look we're after,
we're adding these funky pendants over the island.
I get the best greeting from her.
Yeah.
-Do you remember-- -She's all jazzed up.
-I know. -And so am I.
What is happening in here?
I laid all my parts out. You see what I did?
Yeah, I'm picking up what you're laying down, girlfriend.
In the Hill Street garage,
there were a ton of car parts
and we collected some of the lighter weight ones.
And I think maybe we could do a little
assemblage to hang on a wall.
-What do you think? -[Cory] Yes, yes.
We also found a typewriter, but it's kind of boring.
Mmm-hmm. I think... I think we can do
better than that with the car parts.
-We're gonna set that one aside for now. -Yeah.
Is MJ with you?
Yeah.
[Karen] Okay. We need the brain trust.
Okay.
These are the rest of the items that we have,
those are part of the assemblage yet,
but we're just kind of mocking some stuff up, if you will.
He really likes the typewriter,
sitting on a desk as decoration.
[tense music playing]
[Cory] This pays homage to what once was.
[Mina] That is not Hill Street.
I don't know why we call them.
[tense music playing]
This pays homage to what once was.
[Mina] That is not Hill Street.
I don't know why we call them.
What is the design flare of Hill Street then?
[MJ] Eclectic.
It's like eclectic mid-mod cottage.
-[spray can rattling] -We're gonna give you guys
some time to think about it.
I think that's the best practice
'cause it took a long...
A little bit for me to soak this into.
[Mina] All right. Get back to me.
All right.
[laughs] You're just going for it.
[upbeat music playing]
We can give them the typewriter.
-Mmm-hmm. -It'll be super boring,
I can paint it, whatever, you can paint it.
But this assemblage, this car assemblage,
I'm invested now because I want it and--
-So this is happening. -Yeah.
-They don't have to use it. -They don't have to.
-But it's happening. -It's happening.
And then, you got all that white space there.
Sure.
And I have a collection of keys
and I thought maybe the fan
would be blowing a key breeze,
-I don't know. -[Cory] Uh-huh.
-But now, I feel like... -[Cory] And then we get little headlights up here.
-Oh. -Okay?
We get little square headlights--
-Oh, headlights. Yeah. -Yeah.
[drill whirring]
[Cory] Okay.
Now, we give it some power.
[Karen] There we go.
[Cory] That's fantastic.
[Karen] We created a little story.
-Oh, I like that. -Yeah. [laughs]
-Yes. -I like that a lot.
I don't know why I just fist bumped you,
-that was weird. -I know, that was good.
And we're gonna add that to the repertoire.
-Yeah. -And now, we need to blow it up.
-[imitates explosion] -[laughs]
-[Karen] Yeah. Yeah. -Yes.
[rock music playing]
So I feel like lining our guys up kind of in the middle...
-[Tad] Yeah. -[Karen] is a good way to go.
[Mina] Mom and the boys are landscaping the front,
which come springtime, she says will blossom
and add a ton of charming curb appeal.
And inside, the main bedroom downstairs is getting
a fun teal paint color from floor to ceiling,
which really envelops the whole room
with that mid-mod eclectic vibe that we're after.
Yeah. Go ahead and lay your end down.
I'll just go up.
[Mina] On top of that, we have our built-in
breakfast nook going in.
So that needs to slip in behind that.
-Yeah. Yeah. And this-- -[Mina] Okay.
[MJ] This will go right here.
-Moment of truth. -All righty.
Snug as a bug in a rug.
So then, you will have two of these.
Aah.
[MJ] I'm so happy.
[Mina] And now that our breakfast nook is in,
we just need to get it painted
and then, it's time to stage this home.
[MJ] This house is gonna be a colorful one.
Uh-huh.
[upbeat music playing]
This turned out
-super freaking cute. -Hello.
And way more spacious than I thought it was gonna be.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[MJ] Very cute. Very cute.
[Mina] We wanted this house to have an eclectic
mid-century modern cottage vibe.
It's the perfect pop of color.
So cute.
[Mina] So a lot of fun patterns
and colors that make each room feel
really unique, but still cohesive
with modern elements
that tie all the rooms together.
[upbeat music playing]
Are you happy with the color?
I'm obsessed with this color
and I'm glad we got out of our comfort zone
for this blue because I can't imagine it
-any other color, honestly. -No, it's very cute.
I have a family that's actually under contract
for this house.
The couple is a blended family
and they need more space.
So they're gonna come check it out
and I asked them what the kids are into
so we could kind of, you know, cater the rooms
to their interests a little bit,
just make it a little more fun
because no one's signed on the dotted line yet,
no one's transferred any money,
so let's see what we can do.
But all the upstairs rooms are gonna have their own
little personalities for the kids.
And Karen came through and made this really cool
mid-century painted typewriter situation
that we're gonna put in the little girl's room.
[Mina] Mmm-hmm.
[MJ] So cute and colorful.
-Cute. -She's gonna love it.
[Mina] Perfectly whimsical.
[singer] ♪ Na-na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na-na ♪
[Mina] Welcome to your new neighborhood, you guys.
-Hi. -You guys, are you already
in Irvington or are you moving from...
Live closer to downtown.
I've lived in Irvington before. I love it.
-[Mina] It's a super cute area. -Yeah.
[Mina] This is your super cute
-limestone house. -Wow.
It's beautiful.
[dramatic music playing]
So the outside,
we have to have all the original limestone,
which this is the first limestone house
I've had to work with, and I... It's just so charming.
-I love it. -Yeah.
[Mina] There was a large evergreen here
and it was blocking about a third of the house,
so we took that out,
reconfigured the front sidewalk, the driveway.
We just kind of freshened the color palette
on what was painted
and gave it this nice unicorn,
just, like, soft white unicorn...
Uniform, not a unicorn. We gave--
-I wish it was a unicorn. -I do, too.
Did you think you were getting a unicorn for a second?
-I did. -I mean, it's pretty incredible.
We kept the black shutters,
we redid all of the windows
so they are the original wood windows.
And then, you have this, you know, nice big yard,
-you got the whole side yard. -[man] Uh-huh.
[Mina] Beautiful fresh sod.
It's... Yeah. It's a great lot.
-Yeah. -The yard is a huge selling point.
We're really excited about this much space.
Yeah. And when we get there, you'll be able to see better,
but it is the original front door
'cause I think it has oodles of charm,
so let's go inside.
-All right. -[laughs]
[acoustic music playing]
Here we go.
-So... -Wow.
-Whoa. -Yeah, right?
-[man] Oh, my. -[woman] Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
[upbeat music playing]
[singer vocalizing]
-[Mina] Here we go. -[Karen] We're excited.
-So... -Wow.
-Whoa. -Yeah, right?
[upbeat music playing]
Nice big living room,
you've got the original limestone fireplace,
just so charming.
And just tons of natural light.
[upbeat music playing]
So how do we feel about a fireplace?
-I love a fireplace. -I'd love one.
All right. All right. Good. The other thing to notice
is the floor.
So this is a thinner strip,
so it looks more like that
older original hardwood,
but it's a vinyl product so it's very durable
and it's the throughout the entire house.
How does this compare to current living rooms?
-Way better. -Okay? All right.
-Yeah. -Thank you. Thank you.
What do you guys think about the little built-in?
-I think it's-- -This is very cute.
Absolutely adorable.
[Mina] The guys that we work with custom-built this
and I love the little, like, rail detail that they added,
whether it's, like, your guys' art
or a cute, you know, glasses,
whatever you wanna put up there,
and that thing just kind of pops in and out,
so you can get stuff behind it
-easier if you want to. -[man] Oh, cool. Oh.
All right. Let's go check out the kitchen.
-All right. -Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
And your giant island.
Oh, my.
Whoa.
[upbeat music playing]
There was a big wall
-right here. -Okay.
[Mina] The biggest thing that I wanted to do
was open this up 'cause that's just how people
wanna live right now.
And it gave us the opportunity
to have this massive island
when we reconfigured everything,
obviously, keeping the sink under the window.
[woman] Yeah, this is gorgeous.
We went a little different,
like usually I'm an all, like, white kind of gal
with, you know, the current look counters.
MJ and I picked the tile first
and then, found this countertop,
and it just kind of pulled the gray cabinets
and the blue tile all together perfectly
without being too blue.
-[man] Sure. -Where there was the double doors here,
it kind of went into what was a big formal dining room,
which again, doesn't really typically get used anymore.
So we're able to put a main en suite
down on the first floor. So we can pop in there
-if you guys wanna-- -Lovely.
-I love this table. -I know. I know.
-And the chairs. -I don't wanna leave.
-[Karen] Everybody in.
Wow.
[upbeat music playing]
Oh, my gosh. I love the shower.
[woman] This shower is impressive.
[Mina] I mean, what do you guys think about the color?
-It's, like, very cozy. -I like it.
[Mina] This used to be a little hall
with an old outdated bathroom,
so we stole some space from the room next to this
and gave you a proper main bath.
So do we wanna go into the main en suite?
-[man] Oh, sure. -Are we ready?
All right. Are you ready?
[acoustic music playing]
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
[dramatic music playing]
[girl] It's literally so--
This is not your room.
-It is now. Okay. -[Karen] No.
This room was kind of...
I mean, not kind of, it...
I think it was the dining room.
There wasn't a table in here, but I think that's what it was.
Do you like the idea of the first floor en suite
and all of the kids are upstairs?
-Kids upstairs. -It sounds amazing.
[Karen] Maybe put a gate at the top of the stairs
that they don't know the code to.
Now, before we go upstairs and see your spaces,
we've got one more space down here.
[singer vocalizing]
Originally, this was an exterior door
and this was outside space, it was not heated,
it was not air-conditioned,
and now, it is your dining patio.
-It's awesome. -This is adorable.
-It's beautiful. -I love it.
[dramatic music playing]
[Karen] Part of this limestone is not original to the house.
-[man] Oh. -We took a field trip
to a limestone quarry in Southern Indiana.
It's where the Empire State Building
limestone was quarried.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[man] Fantastic.
Well, now that we've seen this,
now we can go upstairs and see your guys' rooms.
-Yes. -All right.
Just follow her.
Got all my ducks in a row? All right.
Oh, my word.
[upbeat music playing]
[girl] Oh, my word.
This is, like...
fluffy.
I don't know
-how to describe it. -Oh, I love it.
I love, like, the vibe.
So I asked Mom over here for everyone's vibe
and yours was white, soft colors.
I'm impressed you could fit
-this whole bed in here. -Yeah.
And you've got your cute little closet
that was just really unused attic space.
Whose room do you think is next?
-Mine. Ezra's? -No.
-Ezra's. -[Karen] Ezra.
-[man] Oh. -[Mina] Come on.
All right. Here's your room, ma'am.
[man] Oh, very nice.
[singer] ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
-[man] Look at that. -[woman] Oh, is this
-a typewriter? -[girl] Oh, wow.
[Ezra] Does this actually work?
It does.
So this was found here
along with some other things that Mom found.
Very cute.
So you have lots of natural light.
You got a good-sized closet.
And actually right behind you,
there was an access
to the, like, under attic area.
And so what we did was we took the half wall
and just butted it back.
I feel like we should leave you here
and we should go see the last room.
Last but not least.
-[man] All right. -Yeah.
-Jude's. -The best one.
-Are you ready? -Take it away, Jude.
Jude, you can go first.
For our space-tronaut.
Space-tronaut?
[Karen] Yeah, I just made that word up.
[upbeat music playing]
[man] Very cool.
[laughs] Did you wanna get on the bed?
He's, like, I picked it...
I picked that bedding out myself.
[Karen laughs] What do you think, bud?
I was trying to go classy solar system
'cause they have some real cheesy stuff.
So whose room are you guys gonna end up
hanging out in when you wanna hang out together?
-Ew. Not this one. -[Karen] Okay.
I'm joking.
I think it would be my room.
All right. I feel like everyone
can agree that they really liked the kitchen, right?
-Yes. Yes. -Mmm-hmm.
[Karen] Let's go back to the kitchen
-and hang out as a group. -Let's go back down there.
[upbeat music playing]
Have a seat.
That one's mine.
Are you guys gonna end up, like,
"This is my barstool," and then, you sit
-at the same place every day? -Oh, yeah.
-Mmm-hmm. -I think this one is mine.
This one's always gonna be mine.
Now that you guys have all worked through
and seen everything, does this check all the boxes?
Are you guys feeling good about it?
-Yes. -Yes.
-It's so wonderful.
-Yeah. -Oh, my gosh.
[Mina] I got this house and the lot next to it
for $160,000,
so if we take the lot off,
just split down the middle,
I have $80,000 in this place to start.
And after sticking to our $200,000
renovation budget, I'm all in at $280,000.
And after getting the house
under contract with this amazing family
for $365,000,
after closing costs and all that jazz,
I should actually make
a profit of around $85,000,
which is not too shabby.
-They're all very excited. -Well, I'm super excited.
I think the house turned out really cute,
-so I'm glad that you guys... -It's beautiful.
walked it and loved it.
You guys are already under contract
but I think we have, like, three weeks
till we technically close.
So when are we gonna move?
[laughter]
[singer] ♪ Whoa, oh ♪
[Mina] It was really nice getting out
of our, like, usual neighborhoods.
We don't get to Irvington very often
and I love the area, it's got so much charm.
And I really think we knocked it out the park
with this house. It's one of my favorites.
And it's also really exciting to be able to
hand the home off to this
amazing blended family
and start this new exciting next chapter
under one roof.
[singer] ♪ Whoa, oh, whoa, oh ♪