We're going to the Near Eastside today.
-Nice. -Over at Keystone.
[Karen] This is a cute house,
-it looks like it's a rough one. -[Mina] It's rough.
Do you see these trees over here?
[Karen] Yeah, that's what's making the foundation crack.
[Cory] This was somewhat hidden.
-[Mina] What's this? -[Cory] This is our water meter pit.
We're looking at ten grand for that.
-Do you hear that thunder that came out behind me now? -I know.
-That was her anger rushing forward. -It's perfect timing.
[laughter]
[Tad] Looks like we found another hole.
[Mina] Why are there so many holes?
[Tad] Yeah, this is a new one.
I feel like this house is...
A money pit?
Come on in.
-[Mina] Yeah? -[Kyle] Wow.
-[Mina laughs] -[Kyle] Yeah.
[music playing]
Yeah.
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses
you've ever seen.
[music playing]
[Karen] Our team isn't afrai to tackle the worst of the worst.
[Mina] That is so gross.
Holy cow!
Then we turn those rundown houses
into some of the nicest home in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow! -[woman] I love it.
[music playing]
-Good morning. -Howdy.
-[Mina] Howdy. -What's going on?
You have made a mess.
I'm just attempting to wrap my head around
-what's going on here. -Okay.
Finley's newer to the team,
she's my chief of staff,
and she focuses a lot on the finances.
She kind of has an understanding of
every different element of the business.
And she's pretty much... a better version of me.
You look a little...
A little overwhelmed.
We have so much,
I've just kind of made this my office,
-for the time-being. -Okay, we'll be open soon,
-so, um, you know... -Uh-huh.
...just as long as it's not forever.
-It can't be forever. -No.
I really do think that
once we can get to a permanent home,
have headquarters...
-that is going to be... -I really want to
-break ground on that. -Yeah.
Part of the reason Finley was hired
was to help me run the company more efficiently.
And right now our offices
are a storage for construction,
and decor, and e-comm,
and really one of the priorities needs to be
getting the ball rolling
on building our own headquarters.
Where are we budget wise?
-We need some money. -Mmm-hmm.
Do you have any houses coming up
that we can start?
I'm going to look at one with Mom now.
It's Near Eastside, so obviously we have to get through construction,
but it should be an easy sell.
Oh.
Well, that's not bad.
I'm gonna go change,
because it's supposed to rain a little bit, I think,
and pick up Mom, but,
we'll like, actually, put a meeting on the books
to allocate the funds we do have
to see how quickly we can actually,
-maybe break ground. -I love that.
-Okay. -We'll be in touch.
-Bye. -Bye.
♪ Whoa, this is your moment Whoa, prove it to me ♪
Why is Bella gracing us with her presence today?
Because why wouldn't she?
Uh, the real reason
is when I agree to dog sit, I actually have to dog sit.
So Bella's my partner in crime today.
We're going to the Near Eastside today...
-[Karen] Nice. -...over at Keystone.
The Near Eastside neighborho
is just out of downtown,
and a lot of people and businesses are coming in
so it's a good time to inves
We actually did a house in the near Eastside a couple of years ago,
but didn't make much.
Now I'm hoping since this ar has grown since then,
we can make a higher profit on this hous
So, have you seen this house yet?
Not inside.
I did a drive by to check out the location.
[Mina] But I've taken a loo over the plans,
and as far as the inside goe
you'll walk into the living room,
and then on your left there's a bedroom,
and then you reach the dining room.
And then at the back of the house you have the kitchen,
with a single bathroom attached.
-And what did you pay for this one? -Seventeen.
-Oh, nice... -Yeah.
-Good job. -Not bad.
[Mina] The house is 1300 square feet,
and currently, it's a two-bedroom, single bath house,
so I'm thinking this is a situation
where an addition off the ba makes a lot of sense.
We're more than likely
gonna have to do the pop and chop
-to get-- -You mean chop and pop?
-Pop and chop... -Because the other order...
Yeah, chop and pop...
-Chop and pop... -Mmm-hmm.
...because you pop it first and then chop it,
-you have something you can't sell. -Yeah...
-So, but I knew what you meant. -...this is very true.
-Okay. -Um, and I think,
we need to get minimin...
-three bedroom, but... -Minimin?
Minimin.
Minimum, three bedroom, I would like to get four,
and I think we can do that there.
♪ Show up got something To say ♪
[Karen] This is a cute house.
I love wrap around porches.
-I love wrap around porches. -Love, love, love.
[Mina] I bought this one sight unseen.
[music playing]
[Karen] It looks like it's a rough one.
[Mina] It's rough, uh...
[Karen] Oh, no, the porch is sinking.
[Mina] The porch is sinking.
Do you see these trees over here?
[Karen] Yeah, there are right up next to the foundation?
-[Mina] They're like, in the foundation. -[Karen] Yeah.
[Mina] I think the porch is okay.
We'll just probably put new like, posts and railings. We'll see.
Who knows? Once you take the support of the tree out,
-who knows? -I know.
[Karen] So I'm not normally a fan of taking out trees,
but I would take this one ou
-Yeah. -Because that's what's making the foundation crack.
Other than that, cute shape...
-Oh, adorable. -...once it's done it'll be cute.
-Yeah, adorable. -Wrap around porch is lovely.
[Mina] I want to get rid of this weird cinder block on the front porch,
and it needs new siding and some fresh paint.
But overall, it's pretty cut
and I cannot imagine the inside as well.
-Let's go. -Okay.
[music playing]
I did not anticipate it so chilly.
It's cold.
-[groans] -You want to? Oh, okay.
[groans] This goes that way.
-Ta-da! -[Mina] Oh...
[Mina] All right, so needs a little bit of a clean.
[Karen] Oh! Might get another piano.
-It's not even like that much out of tune, right? -No.
I'm picking up my fifth piano on Saturday.
Is this the sixth, or is this now part of the four?
This is the sixth.
I promised to never get another piano.
Apparently, that was a lie.
So, living room...
So, living room, dining room...
But I think you could make this the main floor en suite,
and do this, kitchen, living, dining.
[Mina] Yeah, I think that's the plan.
Combine this room with that little teal bedroom
to make one big main suite.
Originally, when I bought it,
the idea was not to add an addition,
I think to get anything close to a reasonable comp...
You gotta do your chop and pop?
We gotta... Yeah, we got to add some on.
With the current space,
we definitely, it's not enough square footage
-to make it worth it. -[Karen] It's all potential
[Mina] Renovating it as is.
-[Karen] It's all potential. -We need to add
a lot of square footage and bedrooms
to get to, uh,
a price point that makes sense
to even put any money into it.
So coming through to the kitchen over here,
And then they have the cutest, little like, appliances and stuff.
The fridge?
[Karen] Oh, my gosh.
I am not even interested in fixing that.
But I think this portion is gonna need to come off,
-and then go up two stories. -Why?
Well, I mean, you can look at it from...
-We've got foundation issues? -...from the outside.
-[Karen] Yeah. -[Mina] And we just got a bathroom here...
-[Karen] Oh! -...another closet around the corner.
-[Karen] I love this pink. -[Mina] Yeah.
And it used to be even pinker.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[Karen] Like they started with really pink,
and they said, "That's too pink.
Let's make it a little less."
[Mina] Yeah.
We can take a quick trip to the basement.
-I'll show you. -Okay, do you have a flashlight somewhere?
-I don't know. -I have my...
-I brought a dog instead of a flashlight. -I have my cell phone.
Okay. [laughs]
[Karen] Can you see what you doing there?
[Mina] Yeah, there are little angled,
so just be careful of those first couple steps.
[Karen] Ooh, they are.
[Karen] Not the worst I've seen.
-[Mina] No. -[Karen laughs]
[Mina] If you come up here though,
you can see the corner where the tree roots are all in,
where you can see daylight, right there.
[Karen] Oh-ho, yeah.
[Mina] This is really my biggest concern.
[Mina] So if you come up here,
you can see the corner where the tree roots are all in.
This is really my biggest concern.
-Oh-ho, yeah. -And like all the bricks pushing in.
-[Karen] Mother Nature's amazing, isn't she? -[Mina] Yeah.
It's gonna take some significant work
because the tree roots,
we gotta get out of the way enough
-to fix the foundation. -Yeah.
-[Karen] That's gonna be har -[Mina] Yeah.
Grinding out those tree roots
without caving in that south side foundation
-is gonna be tricky. -[Mina] Yeah.
I, I just, this stuff is fascinating to me.
-Okay, let me see where I'm walking. -It's stinky.
[Mina] And then we got the backyard.
[Mina groans]
[Karen] Come on, you've got more oomph than that.
[Mina groans] It's probably stuck on.
-[Karen] Here we go. -[Mina] Oh, we were stuck on that.
-[Karen] There we go. -Oh, that sun feels good.
-[Mina] So... -[Karen] Oh, this is adorable backyard.
-Yeah. -So basically, this kitchen area that we see,
where there's a change in the roofline?
That's what you would go up.
[Mina] Yeah, and two bedrooms in the back upstairs.
[Karen] Two bedrooms upstairs.
-Uh-huh. -So four bedrooms,
two and a half bath.
[Mina] But if we wanna make a profit on this house,
it's gonna need a lot of wor
We're gonna have to remove some trees
and lay a new foundation
that doesn't have tree roots coming through it
We'll knock off the back portion of the hous
and build a new two-story addition
that will have two bedrooms and a bath upstairs.
Downstairs, we'll combine the front bedroom
and dining room to make a main suite,
and open everything up
for a big kitchen, living, dining area.
So, 17 grand was the purchase price.
I'd optimistically like to keep our reno budge
around $200,000,
so we can keep our all-in costs
below 220.
The market is hot right now
so I'm hoping I can turn this one around
for about 320,
which would give us a nice profit
for our second house in this Near Eastside area.
I know we're gonna be okay,
-comp-wise... -Okay.
...because there is nothing on the market right now.
Buyers are struggling.
-Really? -Yeah.
-That's crazy. -Way more demand than there is supply.
Well, then, that's good.
-Yeah. -That's good.
This is gonna be fun.
And I get another piano, and it's not my fault.
[Karen laughs]
♪ Got it locked Yeah, I'm ready Got my hand on the go ♪
♪ I'm a king, don't forget i Yeah, I overthrow ♪
This one's tiny, right?
Yes, this one's very tiny.
Mornin', mornin'.
-It's demo day. -[Cory] Light demo.
-[Tad] DND. -I like how you're marching two by two.
Austin, and today,
we are at Keystone doing some demo day.
[Cory] I hadn't gone fully inside this one,
but from the looks of it on the outside,
It looks like it's gonna be treacherous.
We have our full permits for this bad boy.
We are locked and loaded, inside, outside,
small, super-small,
so we should be able to do some pretty serious damage.
[Karen] I'm gonna need a little help with the piano.
-[Mina] Any questions? -No.
All right, get her done.
[Tad] Okay, let's do it.
[Karen] There may be some doors that are worth saving.
-[Mina] Just rid the poop off of them first. -[Tad] Yeah.
Okay.
-[bangs] Ah! -Ooh, that's gross.
-Crunchy mattress. -No.
Like, we're doing some damage today.
[music playing]
One, two, three.
I think right here.
I am enjoying my demo day,
because it involves unscrewi
the million screws in the piano,
so I can get it in as many pieces as possible
because then they're easier to lift.
[Karen] We're making some very interesting music.
I know. It's kind of cool.
This is your sixth piano, Mom.
What are you gonna do with it?
Um, I feel like maybe put it back
in this house somehow, somewhere,
because I can't take it home.
[crashing]
We got a live one!
Yeah!
Whoo!
-Thanks for catching me. -You're welcome.
Heads up.
[Tad] All right, I got a bad feeling about this toilet, bro.
[Austin] The tank's huge.
[Tad] How much poop we think is in there?
I'm hoping little, but I'm thinking a lot.
[Tad] I'm thinking a lot, too.
All right, you ready? One...
[Tad] Oh, my God!
Holy crap!
We're talking top three nastiest toilets.
[Mina] That's impressive.
This toilet was unlike
almost any other toilet before.
This was a bad toilet.
And when I say bad, potentially, the worst toilet.
Out of all the houses.
-This toilet is too nasty... -[Cory] That seems like a good deal.
...for a roshambo.
I think we need to spray paint,
we need to do the wall target.
You cannot leave this toilet up to chance,
we could not do roshambo for this.
This needed to be more than luck.
We needed to put our skills on the line.
And so we played a game.
All right, right here.
-[Cory] Okay. -Twenty points.
Whoever has the lowest score has to grab the toilet.
-Yeah, these are one... -Twenty, ten, five,
We need one more circle for one.
Yeah, one more circle for one.
Get it closer to the wall.
Who wants to go first?
-[Cory] I do. -You do?
-Five. -[Tad] That's a five, boy.
Yeah.
-What does that mean? -His game is lost.
That means nothing,
It means we lost our bull's-eye.
It means you just screwed up the whole game.
Holy [bleep]!
[Tad] Whoever has the lowest score
has to grab the toilet.
Holy [bleep]!
[Tad] Oh, my God.
Austin, hit a bull's-eye on his first throw.
That's the 20.
Oh, my gosh!
It was literally directly in the bull's-eye,
Stuck it.
[music playing]
-Oh. -You've got a zero there.
-All right, this is for all marbles. -All right.
So I need a ten, poop toilet.
Mind, body connection.
If it's a five, we go to the next round.
[Cory] Tad's got the poop toilet!
-Argh! -Tad's got the poop toilet!
I'm angry.
-[laughs] -No.
Well, the first thing I think is,
-we try to catch Mina unawares, real quick. -[Cory] Yes.
And we need to get her arms, and grab her.
-[Cory] Hey, you're gonna take her to the toilet, right? -Yeah.
[Cory] Tad has this great id to grab Mina,
and really, just like get her involved in this process.
[Mina screams]
[Mina] Tad came behind me,
and the boys initially tried to pull me to the toilet.
[laughter]
[Tad] Cory, you're supposed to get her legs.
She's too strong!
-I'm strong like bull. -[laughter]
I backed into a corner,
and then just, go into, like, defensive stance.
I'm like, "Come near me. I dare you.
I will stab you or hit you with this."
I'm such a good mom.
I raised her so well.
Oh, gosh.
Okay.
-It's dripping on your foot. -No, it's not.
-Ugh. -[grunts]
Ugh, you can smell it.
-Austin. -[laughs]
Go, go, go.
Oh, God.
I'm gonna say today felt...
borderline got out of hand.
Ugh, you can smell it.
-It was... -Ah, you did.
[music playing]
[Mina] Despite the shenanigans,
we did demo this place down to the studs,
and now at this point, the only thing left to tackl
is some trees that are damaging the foundation.
So once we get this all cleared up,
then we'll get to taking down the trees.
[music playing]
Good morning.
-Good morning. -What are you drinking?
Kombucha. Have you ever had it?
Ah, I've had kombucha and I'm not the biggest fan.
And I bet you it's just like...
Well, your gut health is so bad, Cory.
Hmm, I don't... My gut health is totally fine, actually.
[Mina] Cory's coming by to make sure
we're on the same page with our floorplans
before we go on to the next step of construction.
We're always on the same page in the beginning,
uh, but as we progress...
It seems sometimes we're not on the same page at the beginning.
We're never on the same page in the beginning.
-♪ Keystone ♪ -♪ Keystone ♪
All right.
So once we get the tree out of the foundation,
-right? -Trees.
Yeah, we pretty much have a whole forest
coming out of the side of the house.
[Mina] I think the biggest budget hit,
is going to be getting the trees cut down
out of this foundation, and then the foundation fixed.
The whole elevation's changing,
because right now it's a one-story
and we're making it a two-story,
so it's going to look like a much more substantial home.
I like our first floor floor plan.
Yeah, the first floor is gonna be amazing.
[Mina] We have to take the back section off,
the kitchen was in the back
so we're gonna pull that forward,
and we're gonna have our ope living room, dining room, then kitchen,
and then, I guess bedroom.
And then this bathroom will be your public bathroom
And then we have a first floor en suite,
very functional.
This front bedroom isn't super tiny,
but I think that we can enhance it.
And this was originally a bedroom anyways...
-Yeah. -...a super-small one,
with the framing that we have in the front,
I know I like to spend your money,
but we could possibly do a vaulted ceiling here.
-We'll figure something out. -You don't wanna get
-too much in the weeds there. -No.
[Mina] Okay, then upstairs we have two more bedrooms,
a full bathroom, and a loft
[Mina] Maybe put, like, a desk in there, I don't kno
[Cory] Yeah, this is a great little layout.
This place has three bathrooms.
-Three full bathrooms? -Mmm-hmm.
Four bedroom, three full bath, and a loft.
If you can go ahead
and get permits pulled with those.
Yeah, we need to sell this like a hot tamale,
so that we have something to pay
for our new headquarters.
-Mmm-hmm. You get a closet. -Yeah, I know.
Look, you don't need an office, you're in the field.
-It's called riding around and getting it. -Bye.
See you.
♪ I'm gonna turn up It's a new day ♪
♪ Let's just show 'em Just kick it off And time to celebrate ♪
[beeping]
-[man] All right, coming down. -Yeah.
-[man] Heads up. -Watch out.
[Mina] Over at our Keystone house,
some trees have grown so big
their roots are running into the foundation
and causing major issues.
So we are working hard to get them down today.
[Karen] Park it right there. I'm fine there.
Me doing nothing. Me being retired.
[Mina] Well, except for Mom
who enjoys just watching the action these days.
-[machine whirs] -Keep up the good work.
[cheering]
[Mina] After the trees were cleared away,
we could see they had pushe into the porch so much,
that the porch's roof was cracking
and pulling away from the house.
So that's coming off so we can rebuild it soundly
The damage doesn't stop here,
there's more damage on that wall.
[Mina] And now today we're taking a closer look
at even more havoc that these trees have wreake
So, if you wanna cull that and come up here,
you can see where the mortar joints are gone.
And it goes from here,
all the way back...
-[Cory] To this wall. -...to this wall right here.
This whole north elevation wall is bad, too.
It's bowing out that way though
if you look outside.
It's falling out.
We're gonna have to take it all the way down,
this needs a whole new footer,
because in order to get two stories
we have to do a new foundation.
Okay.
[Tad] The number we have so far...
it's ten grand. It's ten grand.
The last house we did in this neighborhood
barely made a profit,
so coming right out of the gates
with a $10,000 foundation fi
doesn't really give me a lot of confidence
in this project turning a profit,
but it has to be spent,
so I think the only way to try to make up for that
is with this addition,
adding the bedrooms and bathrooms,
and doing the best we can.
So, yeah, that's what we got back here...
But wait, there's more.
-This way. -All right, let's go.
-We're gonna go out front. -Yeah.
So,
this was somewhat hidden.
-when we were doing demo. -[Mina] What's this?
[Cory] This is our water meter pit.
The water meter comes into the property,
the meter pit is what kind of holds the dirt back,
so you can access the meter,
and this meter pit is really weird looking,
and I think it's probably just really old.
The meter pit liner itself
is something they've never seen before,
so it's not up to code.
Uh, we're looking at ten grand for that.
-For the pit? -Yeah, that...
-Do you hear that thunder that came out behind me now? -I know.
-That was her anger rushing forward. -It's perfect timing.
[Mina] I'm gonna shove you both down in the hole
and put that back.
[music playing]
The meter pit liner itself is not up to code.
Uh, we're looking at ten grand for that.
-For the pit? -Yeah, that...
-Do you hear that thunder that came out behind me now? -I know.
-That was her anger rushing forward. -It's perfect timing.
I'm gonna shove you both down in the hole and put that back.
We're gonna shop that number,
because that seems a little high to Tad and I.
[Mina] Yeah, I feel like this house is...
A money pit?
[Tad] We'll do better.
Give me a number, Monday.
-All right. -All right.
We'll see you.
[music playing]
[Mina] We're fixing all the foundation issues,
and Cory and Tad earned their paychecks
by negotiating our water pit cost
down to $5,000.
[Cory] Looks like we found another hole.
Why?
[Mina] But then, as if the water meter hole
in the front wasn't odd enough,
we discovered more holes in the backyard.
Why are there so many holes?
[Cory] Yeah, this is a new one.
[Tad] Whoa, don't fall down there.
-What's this? -It's pretty deep.
[Cory] You thought the one hole
was the only one we had to worry about,
until...
-[laughs] -Oh, until...
-we found two more. -[Cory] Yes.
Very structurally sound...
-cisterns. -Thick boys.
[Tad] There's a chair down there.
Oh, my God.
[Mina] The cistern,
it's kind of like a giant old school milk jug under the ground,
and it is to attract and retain water
with which you can then live your life with.
Springwater.
[Tad] This is so cool.
How'd they even get a chair down there?
The hole's not that big.
I have absolutely no explanation
for why there would be three cisterns
on this small lot, period.
Let alone,
within half a spitting distance of each other.
You know what I think?
You think they put the chair in and then...
Built around it.
I think members of special organizations
had meetings down there.
Oh, like, um...
-No, you can't say it. Shh, shh... -Uh, Illuminati?
How far back is our addition?
Uh, right here.
[Mina] So we're coming straight through this...
-so this has to be... -[Jordan] Yep.
-down to virgin soil? -Yep.
It really needs to get evacuated in its entirety.
[Mina] So we need to get to compacted dirt
so we can build our new footer and foundatio
[Cory] Mmm-hmm, it's very strange.
Some weird stuff went on back there.
This house is way more of a lemon
than I thought when I bought it.
It's like the gift that keeps on giving.
[music playing]
[Mina] It took some muscle,
but we got all the cisterns excavated and backfilled,
so we can finally get starte with the foundation
for our new addition.
-All right, so main bedroom. -Yeah.
-Closet. -Main bedroom, walk in closet.
[Mina] And today we're making sure
all the new framing is on track.
And we're gonna vault this ceiling.
That's a true story.
[Mina] If you wanna vault the ceilings, you can.
[Cory] And we're gonna have a pretty decent sized basement.
That's a lot of water.
[Mina] That is a lot of water.
-We're in the process of pumping it out. -[Cory] Yeah.
We never do anything with the basements,
what if you, like, found something cool,
and made just like a little wine cellar?
[Cory] I know what we could do.
-Oh. Oh, God. -Like did a little...
-...bistro table down there? -Listen.
-That would be super cute. -[Cory] Listen.
What do you want, Cory?
I wanna get clay sewer pipe
stack 'em like a honeycomb,
and then you put your bottle in the pipe.
Well, it sounds like
you just signed yourself up for a nice little project.
-You find a cute bistro table. -Yeah.
We don't really have that much experience with basements,
but,
I think we're gonna do something special with this one.
♪ Got no competition 'Cause I do it best ♪
♪ That's my life so blessed ♪
[Mina] Framing is finished, we're closing up the house,
and decided to install
these adorable cottage styl grided windows
because they fit the charm of this house so well.
And the boys got the vaulted ceiling framed out,
which will make the main sui a huge selling point.
Thanks for getting this set up before open.
Oh, you're welcome.
We got about
-35 minutes. -Uh-huh.
[Mina] Now to help make up f some of our surprise costs,
MJ and I need to figure out how to finish this house on budget,
while still making it fabulous.
MJ and I are meeting at District Co.
because we are bursting at the seams
in our current space,
and this is, it's a good space to meet.
And it's super cute and very inspiring.
Yeah, so as long as we're just out before the doors open,
uh, we're good to go.
-All right, Keystone? -Keystone.
So the outside, I think we already picked, right?
-We got like a rich blue color? -Yes.
Dark, rich blue,
the... like cross hatch kinda cottage-style windows,
I love it.
And again, I think because everything else
is gonna stay pretty simple, if that's gonna stand out.
So we've got this really rich,
kind of like, jewel tone blue, um, vinyl siding picked out,
we'll do white trim,
so it's going to have this,
kinda like Americana vibe, almost,
with the color palette outside.
And with the quaint cross hatched windows we've installed,
it's like our little Americana cottage.
[Mina] And then interior, I love oyster white...
-Okay. -...and then just white trim?
[MJ] Amazing.
Flooring wise, we should go grey
-because we've done a lot of blonde lately. -Okay.
I like these four.
Let's go grey. Let's get this.
I like the texture.
-And it's the EVP, right? -Yep.
All right, in our kitchen,
what do we wanna do, counter wise?
-I think that's a little too busy. -Just a little bit.
But probably something, just like a nice white quartz,
so like a white, off-white cabinet,
to backsplash wise, nothing crazy...
-Yeah. Buyer conscious... -...maybe even more safe.
-...for the neighborhood? -Yes.
[Mina] Keystone is in the east side neighborhood
which is still new to us.
So most of our design is going to be
buyer-friendly, like, the biggest pool possible,
so lots of neutrals.
So because the kitchen is so white,
let's do something a little bit different with the sink,
and do, maybe like,
either a black or a grey.
'Cause we'll have other black metal,
I think as long as we just kind of pull it through somewhere,
even if it's in like, in the curtain rods
or what not.
-There's also an upstairs loft area. -Yes.
What do we wanna do with that?
I mean, if we end up having a buyer,
by the time we're finished,
then we can gain some direction there.
-So you have free reign with that one. -I love it.
[MJ] Blue exterior, cottage-style windows,
oyster white walls,
grey textured flooring...
-Simple inside. -...all white kitchen.
Our furniture is never, like basic,
but just a little bit even more...
-...layery. -Oomph, color-wise.
-Yeah, because... -Yeah.
[Mina] ...a little blue and rusty reds
will give it some Americana style
that isn't permanent.
That's a nice thing, though.
Like, they can dress it, and it'll look however they want.
-Totally, it sells itself. -Yeah.
♪ I look good ♪
♪ Throw myself To whatever I need ♪
[Mina] Our cool greyish brown floors are in
and our clean, white cabinets have arrived
[Mina] Good morning.
-Oh, this is looking good. -I know.
[Mina] Unfortunately, the bo asked me to meet them over at the house
to talk about a slight kitchen issue.
So we can go explore this kitchen,
it's a little bit more than meets the eye.
[Cory] Now this sink needs to move over a grib.
We're off, like, ten inches.
And then also,
we need to get a filler,
or like a little cutting board cabinet for here,
because this one needs to scooch over a scotch.
These all need to come,
-this and this needs to come this way. -Yes. Yeah.
And then we need a filler on that end.
Well, I think you need more than a filler,
you almost need a whole another cabinet.
-Yeah. -You can get a little eight...
Yeah, an eight or a nine.
The cabinets are here and they're pretty,
but they're all janky,
like the layout is so weird.
Some of them are installed in the wrong places,
and nothing's fitting, it's just not right.
I think what we need to do,
-is center the sink... -Yeah.
...move this one over here,
so we've got 24 inches for the dishwasher here,
and put this one immediately next to sink.
So sink, dishwasher, and then that little 15?
-Down there. -Down there.
And then this one here and comes down here.
Mmm. Ooh, I like that.
So that sucks but,
-center the center the sink... -Oh, no.
What?
[Cory] All the supplies and drain need to move over, too.
What in the Sam hell?
[music playing]
-Oh, no. -Center the center the sink... What?
All the supplies and drain need to move over, too.
What in the Sam hell?
The plumbing is messed up,
which is why the cabinets are messed up,
which is why the refrigerator is not going to fit.
-[MJ] Basically, we've lost control of this situation.. -[Cory laughs]
Everything in this kitchen over at Keystone
is all jacked up.
[Jordan speaking]
The sink is under the window on the plans,
and he just didn't put it there.
Can you call them to get them back over here?
[Mina] Just let me know.
So, it's either the plumber installed the water lines in the wrong spot,
they're about a foot to the left,
they're not directly under the window where they go,
so the sink base got install in the wrong spot,
which isn't our fault,
so we don't have to pay for it,
but it's still time that's gonna hold us up.
So what needs to happen is,
the pipe's moved over,
then the sink base can be installed in the right spot.
And then we can wrap this puppy up.
Give me kiss.
-Give me a kiss. -[Cory] Let me see your little teeth.
-Okay. -Let me see those teethers.
You already see.
[music playing]
-[Karen] Good morning. -Hello.
-Hi.
You are really going to town on that thing over there.
Steam takes off finish.
I've been steaming this since 6:00.
And how many pianos are there in Karen's corner?
Three.
You're close.
-Three and a half. -[laughs]
-Four. -[laughs]
There are five in the corner,
and we're working on the sixth...
-that we found at Keystone. -Mmm-hmm.
Mmm-hmm.
[Karen] So we found this pia at the house on demo day,
we did some disassembly ther
We're making some very interesting music.
I know. It's kind of cool.
[Karen] I moved to my shop where i did more disassembly
How much would you say that weighs? Two hundred pounds?
Now this is a railing.
[Karen] Today, we're gonna get the old finish off,
take off some of the veneer.
Ta-da!
...and reassemble it into a front porch bench.
Look at this.
That is the color I want.
-That's the color you get. -Yeah.
[Karen] You know what I used to clean this?
Oven cleaner.
-What? -I've heard that trick.
-It works. -[MJ] It actually works?
It works like magic.
Uh, I scrubbed of under the sink
with just a nylon brush.
-[MJ] This is crazy. -[Cory] Let's get this leg off first.
[Karen] Yeah, let's get the leg off first.
-Did you get it? -[Cory] Yeah, I think so.
I'm gonna go handle this.
-[MJ] Are you gonna go do the oven? -Yeah.
I'm gonna go clean the oven.
[music playing]
We're gonna sand it down to a nice natural wood.
All right.
So, put her together.
Slide it down,
and then back.
Okay, that's a piano bench.
[Karen] It's so unique.
No one else has a piece like this.
This is an original MJ, Cory, Karen creation,
and there will never be another one like it.
Anytime these three get together in the studio
and make some tracks together,
it gets pretty awesome.
-[Karen] Yeah, look at how nice this is. -[Cory] Good.
[Karen] I feel like just a couple of throw pillows.
-[Cory] Yeah. -[MJ] It's kind of cool.
[MJ] This is fantastic.
[laughs]
[music playing]
[Mina] Back at our house on Keystone,
our gorgeous Americana blue has gone up on the house,
and inside the plumbing is it its proper place.
The cabinets have been moved,
and our buyer-friendly subway tile backsplash
has been installed.
Good morning!
What's happening?
[Mina] And Cory and MJ are starting work
on their wine cellar idea.
[Cory] We're gonna do our box,
dimension unknown at this point,
and then we talked about putting a slant through it.
So you can have your little bottles...
It's a big box.
[Cory] Yeah, this is not to scale by any means.
So originally, my plan was to make this wine rack
out of clay tile sewer pipes,
but apparently that wasn't bougie enough for MJ.
[whirring]
[MJ] I'm sorry, I don't like my wine touching my sewer pipe.
-Ugh. -And still I compromised on wood boxes.
Much better.
If you had to guess, how many bottles?
-[Cory] Could this hold? -Yeah.
Oh, man.
Well, I think each wedge can hold up to, like what?
Fifteen or 20 bottles.
Fifteen, 45, 90 bottles.
So because this is an unfinished basement space,
we're trying to create
what you can do with an unfinished basement
which is great for wine storage,
because the temperature's gonna be right.
Yeah, with minimal amount of money,
um, I think the all in here was,
probably about a buck, 20.
Really, what's expensive is our labor.
[music playing]
All right.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Now all I need is a nice rug, finish up this wall,
whatever I'm gonna do with that wall,
add some wine glasses, wine bottles,
-barrel, boom. -[laughs] Okay.
It's gonna look amazing.
[music playing]
[Mina] We're on to the final checklist
before we can get this hous on the market,
but a buyer is interested and reached out,
and they're really looking for a four bedroom
because there are three kids between the two of them,
and I think this house will be perfect.
So I think I want MJ to do something in the loft
to make it like a homework area,
so maybe build out a drop-down desk,
so they can use it when they want to,
but then it can be folded u and put out of the way.
[MJ] Oh, yeah.
Oh, God.
[Cory] Boom.
-Boom. -Wow.
[Mina] And Mom and Cory are putting the finishing touches
on the front yard of our Americana cottage.
Good morning, pumpkin.
-She is so... -[Cory] Jazzed up?
Yeah. She's ridiculous today,
and I thought if I left her home,
I'm just gonna come home to worse.
So, I've done some dog sitting lately,
and it made me realize how much I miss having a dog.
So welcome to the team, Adele.
She's a toy poodle, she's about eight months old.
And Adele is pretty stellar with morale.
-[laughs] -Just amazing.
And she's gonna try her paw at landscaping today
because we have a planter box to build,
and some shrubs to plant.
[music playing]
If we had tried to plant these plants in the ground,
it would have been a challenge
because the tree roots are massive,
so a planter box is a very good solution
in that situation.
[music playing]
[Cory] I wouldn't get your face too close in there, sweet pea.
[Karen laughs]
[drilling]
[Karen] Snug it up there.
Okay.
[Karen] Oh, look at that.
We killed it, Karen. We're done.
[Karen] This is fantastic.
Someone else puts the plants in, and we're out of here.
[Karen] Yeah, no, we put plants in.
Come on.
[Karen] So these everlows spread about four feet each,
and the reason we're doing taxus, commonly know as yews,
is because they tolerate shade
-really well. -Really well.
And what happens is,
they just have a slightly looser,
floppier form when they're in the shade.
And these are gonna look super cute.
-[Karen screaming] -[Cory screaming]
[Cory] So cute!
-[Cory] I'm into it. -[Karen] Yeah.
[Cory] This is our first, uh,
planter box together.
-Let me... let me deal with this problem. -[Cory laughs]
-I didn't do nothing. -[laughs]
-What is she doing? -[laughs]
♪ Hey, it's a good day For a good day ♪
♪ Hey, it's a good day For a good day Uh-huh, uh-huh ♪
[Mina] This sucker could do some damage.
[MJ] Beautiful.
This grapefruit needs to see a doctor.
-[Mina laughs] Oh, the grapefruit? -[MJ] Yeah.
We have done it.
Keystone has reached the end,
and this one was a bit of a doozy,
but she's looking really good.
[MJ] Because we went with the bold blue exterior
we wanted to do a very neutral interior,
with just some pops of blue and red.
[Mina] So it's like, a little Americana,
but like, very, very subtle.
Not like Fourth of July in your face.
Right. Overall, it's very, like, light,
and bright, and beautiful.
So it's Kyle and Laura,
and then they have three kids between them.
Their daughter wants to be a chef, did you know that?
-I didn't. -She does.
-That's amazing. -Yeah.
So she'll get some good gas cooking practice over here.
I feel like this is gonna be a good kitchen for them.
Yeah.
Kyle works in the restaurant industry
and Laura is an artist,
and between them they have three kids.
[Mina] So I think the four bedroom
is gonna work perfect for them,
that and the nice open kitchen,
I just... I think it's gonna be a great home.
Yeah, this is a great family home.
Isn't this cool?
Don't you feel like you're in a different country?
[Mina] I do.
This is gonna be a very cool space.
[music playing]
-[Mina] Hi. -Hi.
-[Kyle] Hi. How's it going? -[Karen] Hi there.
[Mina] It's so good to see you outside of work.
I know, right? [laughs]
Today we are revealing Keystone
to a really cute couple, Kyle and Laura,
and I actually know him
from a local restaurant that he works at.
You know, Indy is a small place,
but it makes it kind of like extra fun
that we're showing it to him.
And they have some pretty serious interest in the property.
[music playing]
[Mina] So pretty much the whole outside is new,
because the porch was caving in...
It looks fantastic.
[music playing]
There were some Siberian Elms
that had grown in along the foundation
and had gotten really big,
done a lot of damage,
so you have a lot of new foundation work
-and all those trees are gone now. -Oh, yeah.
-Uh, but there were... -It looks fantastic.
[Mina] Took a little bit of risk with the windows as well,
so hopefully you guys like those.
-[Kyle] Love the gray siding. -[Laura] Love it, yeah.
Cory and I had a heck of a good time
making that little planter box,
and putting those yews in there for you.
-[Kyle] That looks awesome. -And they won't mind the shade,
you don't have to do anything to them,
-they'll grow to the right size. -[Kyle] Cool.
And, uh, there's kind of a fun little project
-on the porch, I wanna show you. -[Kyle] Okay.
[music playing]
So come on over here,
and we have this cute little bench,
you can't tell how cute it is with all the pillows.
[music playing]
[Kyle] It looks like an old piano.
[Karen] It was an old piano,
and fun fact,
-we found this piano in the house. -[Kyle] Oh, cool.
-[Karen] Yeah. -Do you guys wanna go inside?
-[Kyle] Yeah, let's check it out. -[Laura] Yes.
-[Mina] All right! -[Kyle] All right.
Come on in.
-[Mina] Yeah? Yeah? -Wow! Yeah!
-This looks amazing. -Wow.
[music playing]
-[Mina] All right! -[Kyle] All right.
Come on in.
-[Mina] Yeah? Yeah? -Wow! Yeah!
-This looks amazing. -Wow.
[music playing]
I was gonna ask if we could keep everything.
[Kyle] Just leave it exactly how it is now.
[Laura] The artwork, everything.
[Mina] Pretty much everythin from the step back,
is new.
But it's kind of like a mini version
of a sunk-in living room,
so I think it gives it a little charm.
And we added a boatload of windows,
-so you get so much natural light. -[Karen] Love it.
[Kyle] Absolutely, yeah, it looks great.
This house has a really good flow of energy
because you have this
straight shot all the way through.
[Mina] Very functional layout.
[Karen] And speaking of functional layout,
would you like to take an eyeball at the kitchen?
-[Kyle] Absolutely. -Oh, yes.
All the eyeballs? Let's take all the eyeballs.
[music playing]
[Mina] The way we have it set up,
you know, it's a smaller little dining table,
but you could easily fit a nice, big long one in here
to get the whole family around.
Yeah, I think it'll be good for,
to have, you know,
-dinner with all the kids at night. -Mmm-hmm.
Have a nice little dining area.
-[Kyle] Or your drawing table. -[Mina] Yeah.
-[Laura] Or that. -[Karen] Yeah.
[Kyle] It's a lot to take in.
-[Laura] Yeah, it is. -[Kyle] It looks awesome.
[music playing]
[Mina] So the kitchen is completely new,
completely new layout.
I wanted to keep it very, like, clean
and light and bright with the off-white,
and then really the pop that we went with
was the black farm sink and the black faucet,
which just kind of anchor it,
and I think, make it look a little like,
-more modern and... -Yeah.
[Laura] A little rustic and modern at the same time.
It also looks good with the stove across
-from here... -[Laura] Yeah.
[Mina] And again, this is part of the additio that we built on,
so it's all brand-new.
[music playing]
[Kyle] Yeah, I like it.
[Mina] Well, this one's really cute,
but I think the main bedroom is the coolest.
[Kyle] All right.
[music playing]
So this is where the magic happens.
It's the main en suite.
[music playing]
Look at that bed.
[Mina] Yes.
So the ceilings in here
were already a really good height,
and we vaulted them.
Uh, it creates even more of, kind of like a,
drama when you walk in the room.
We've got this nice soft sage green,
and the floorings are throughout.
[Kyle] It looks awesome.
And the en suite did not exist,
so this is brand-new, you guys can come check it out.
-Awesome. -Sweet.
[music playing]
[Mina] Go on in.
[Mina] What is you guys current bathroom situation?
Double vanity, single...
-Single vanity. -Very single.
Yeah, I knock all of her stuff over every time.
Yeah, I got too much stuff.
As you get older,
those are the things that are like, sexy, like,
"Ooh, look at this storage!"
-[Kyle] Yeah. -[laughter]
"I can hang so much stuff in this closet."
[Mina] The vanity is a little bit different
than I usually pick.
-I like the darker stone. -[Karen] Excellent.
-[Kyle] I love the tile in the shower, too. -[Laura] Yeah.
-That looks awesome. -You wanna take a look upstairs?
-Yeah, absolutely... -All right,
-...let's see it. -let's head that way.
Go ahead, guys.
[music playing]
So this is all new construction,
and you get this nice little loft landing space.
I love all the space.
[Mina] Yeah, there are two bedrooms,
and a bathroom up here.
And I'm imagining kids are gonna be up here,
so I'm seeing some bean bag chairs,
maybe a little worktable in the middle.
Because it is kind of a pass through space
to get to the bedrooms and the bathroom,
we kinda left it pretty simple,
but MJ and Tad made this little dropdown table.
-[Karen] I think it turned out pretty well. -[Kyle] Yeah.
If it's in the way it can flip back up.
But yeah, I mean having, you know, some comfy chairs,
whether it's, you know, homework desks,
however that would work.
I think this would be my art studio here.
-Yeah. -Sorry, kids.
-I saw a look on your face. -Like, no, the kids don't get this.
There was this assessment,
and then this sense of ownership.
-Make sure you can have it. -Yep.
All right, let's go back downstairs.
Usually, most of the basements
aren't something that you would wanna, like,
-really finish... -Mmm-hmm.
...with drywall or anything like that,
but we, uh, utilized a little corner of it
to make it another functional and cute little space. Let's go check that out.
-Sweet. -Sweet.
[music playing]
What do you think?
Well, this is incredible.
It looks awesome.
[Mina] Yeah.
So the boys built these little wine storage things,
and with the temperature that maintains down here,
it's actually a good place to store it.
Yeah, this is where the trees were coming in.
Yes. Yes, but still not,
you know, the most amazing basement,
but this is kind of an example of something fun
that you can do with an unfinished basement.
You know, just kick it up like a notch.
-[laughs] -Absolutely.
-I think wine kicks it up a notch. -Yes.
-Whatever room it is. -Yeah, it makes everything...
All right, well, let's go back upstairs to the living room,
uh, and we'll talk through numbers,
-now that you got to see everything. -Sweet.
[music playing]
So now that you guys have walked everything,
what are your thoughts?
-Love it. -[Mina] Yeah?
-Yeah, absolutely. -I definitely love it.
It's a lot of space,
especially for all the kids and...
Yeah, I think we immediately saw the potential,
right when we came in, we were like, "Yes. Perfect"
-Perfect. -Yeah.
I think this house is perfect for Kyle and Laura which is great,
because this one was a bit of a gamble,
it's on the Near Eastside,
which is a newer neighborhood for us,
but since it was just $17,000,
I think it was a fairly safe gamble.
We had plenty of issues with the foundation,
which took our reno cost up to $250,000,
but since we're listing it today at 339,
I think, especially with thi being our second property
ever in this neighborhood, we pulled it off pretty well
So it's on the market for 339,000,
for the four bedroom, three baths,
1740 square feet,
and it sounds like,
it might be the one for you guys.
I think so, yeah.
Um...
-Yeah. Absolutely. -[Mina] All right.
-All right. -We agree. We love it.
-We both really like it... -Yeah.
...and it's a great home for us and the family.
-[Kyle] Yeah, that's the one -[Laura] Yeah, we'll take it
Better to take the house.
We can get some paperwork started,
and I'll get it pulled off the market.
-Yay. -Sounds good.
-[Laura] Let's get out of here. -[Kyle laughs]
[music playing]