[Karen] Our fearless leader is arriving!
[Cory] It's time to get our feet planted somewhere permanent.
[Mina] It's gonna be more space than we've ever had before.
-Whoo! Storage! -[MJ] Yay.
Yeah, where's our space?
[exclaims]
[Mina] This is a big step for the company,
and we're gonna build headquarters
for Two Chicks and a Hammer
Oh, she's turning into a real girl. I love it!
[Cory] We got some ground to cover here.
If you don't get it done,
you're just out on the streets.
Wait, what?
[Mina] We don't have any place to put stuff.
[MJ] I think if clients come in here,
they will trust us.
[all cheering]
Believing in what you're doing and persevering.
That is what this HQ means.
It's impressive.
That's impressive.
[shouts]
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses you've ever seen.
[Karen] Our team isn't afraid to tackle
the worst of the worst.
[Mina] That is so gross!
[Karen] Holy cow.
[Mina] Then we turn those run-down houses
into some of the nicest home in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow. -[woman] I love it!
[Mina mimics jet]
Ooh, it's bright.
A-Money.
-Austin. -[Austin] Yep?
-I'm in this one. -[Mina] What are you doing?
-Oh, I was just doing some inventory. -Okay.
I've got some more stuff in the truck for you.
I don't know if we really got space.
You know how much confidence I have in you? So much.
[Austin] We're just really running out.
[Mina] We're gonna have to make it work.
-For now, at least. -[Austin] For now?
Found a home yet for us, though?
Working on it.
-Working on it? All right. -[Mina] Working on it.
Poor Austin.
He's been dealing with these storage units forever.
They're all over town and they're packed to the brim.
And they're expensive.
But good news is, we have our lot.
Uh, the last few houses, we've had a decent profit.
So we've been able to, you know, put away a little bit of money.
We are ready to rock and roll,
and soon, all of your storage wants, needs, and desires
-will be in one spot. -[Austin sighs]
Hallelujah.
-This is so heavy. -[Mina] I know.
Wanna see my ninja roll?
[grunting]
-Did you just roll into the truck? -I did.
[grunts]
We've had our ups and downs this year,
but I think being able
to consolidate all of our storage units
and give my team a space
where they can work efficiently and happily, um,
I think it's really gonna pay off in the end,
and we're finally ready to break ground
on our headquarters.
Nice. I am ready for it.
When can we move in?
We have to pay the bill there first.
Ooh.
[Mina] What's your plan?
Uh, my plan is currently to beg you for a ride back,
'cause Finley dropped me off here and I don't have a car.
I think she knew I was coming,
so hopefully that was the plan.
[Austin] We'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
-So you need a ride? -Yes, please.
-All right. -I think you're gonna be great.
[Mina] Sure thing. I'm actually headed that way now.
-When's the last time we rode in a car together? -I don't know.
-We're always all over God's green earth. -[Austin] Yeah.
-I'm going to that lot we've had on East Street... -[Austin] Mmm-hmm.
...and I'm gonna walk it
and talk through, like, a potential layout, floorplan, build idea
for our forever home,
Two Chicks' forever home.
-[Austin] Really? -Yes.
Having this lot in Bates-Hendricks is perfec
because it's in our old stomping grounds
and just a few blocks from District Co.
So it'll be super convenien to have all of Two Chicks on the same street.
-Yeah. -It's commercial,
-but I want it to look kinda residential... -Mmm-hmm.
...because it's kind of that in-between area in Bates-Hendricks.
Yeah, and so much on East Street is just houses that--
[Mina] Are used as commercial.
It's gonna be able to be substantial,
like, at least a 3,000 square foot footprint.
Oh, perfect.
[Mina] Yeah, so my hope is to get a reception area, conference room,
and plenty of design and construction storage spa
on the first level.
And then, upstairs will be a kitchen,
lots of coworking space and offices.
So with both floors,
it's a solid 6,000 square feet.
[Austin] It'd be nice to have a home base
instead of being spread out across, like,
three different neighborhoods.
It gets tough to keep track of stuff.
I'm really excited that we were able to get the lot in Bates-Hendricks.
But Bates is the first place we actually, like,
-put roots down. -[Austin] Yeah.
And so, it seems like having our headquarters
and our store there is kind of perfect.
-It is kind of a nice little, like, homecoming, I guess. -[Mina] Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I appreciate the ride.
I'm gonna go search through some more storage boxes,
if you believe how exciting that can be.
I'm gonna beep-bop across the street to the lot.
-[Austin] Perfect. -[Mina groans]
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
[Mina] Taking on a project this big
feels a little bit daunting
but I think this kind of consolidating
and good business decision-making
is really what I need to be doing right now
if I want the company to keep growing.
We've renovated over 100 hom in the last 7 years.
It just started, originally with Mom and I,
and we were working at my kitchen island...
Nice work!
[Mina] ...or out at dinner.
Like, we didn't have a place to work,
so we would really just work anywhere.
Ooh, here's some good stuff.
So to see our little dream that started so small
turning into this big company that even needs a headquarters
is just really cool.
[Karen] Our fearless leader is arriving!
[Mina] This is our Two Chick forever home.
[Cory] That's dog poop.
[Mina] There's our poop.
-[Tad] There's our poop, right there. -[Karen] Yeah.
-Every place we do at least has to have some poop. -[Mina] It's true.
[Karen] So, it is a Two Chicks property?
-[Mina] Yes. -[Tad] This qualifies.
And I brought stakes for the demo area.
We need space!
The footprint's just over 3,000 square feet, and it's two stories.
-[Tad] Okay. -[Karen] So there's 6,000 square feet-ish total
-[Mina] Yeah. -[Tad] So we get 1,000 square feet
-and a sleep pod. -[Mina] No, you guys--
-None of those things. -And a nap pod.
The team is here with me because they all have lots of needs,
and theoretically, I want to hear them,
and I think that's a mistake.
Everybody has needs.
But I think there's one need
that's not being represented here,
and I'm gonna be the advocate for the unrepresented need.
The children.
-[Mina] Yes, because-- -[Karen] There are grandbabies.
-We need a place, a little space... -[MJ] Two Chicks Daycare?
[Mina] We'll have a spot where if you need
-to bring your kids to work... -Oh.
What about a place for puppies?
Look, guys, okay, we're gonna...
-Is this gonna be the ark? -All right.
-Here? -[MJ] Yeah.
[Karen] I need a front door!
I need to know where the babies
-are coming through. -All right, now I'm going back.
[Mina] Front door is here-ish.
-Staircase, up. -Okay, can I have some paint?
There we go.
[Mina] The corridor of East Street is mixed-use
so there's residential and there's commercial.
So, I want our building to look like it fits,
so we want the exterior to look leaning towards more residential
than, like, clearly a commercial building.
I met with the architects a little while back
to discuss how we can make the exterior fit into this residential area,
and we decided it should look like a home,
with a peaked roof, front porch,
and quaint, gridded windows
Basically, I wanna put all of our favorite things
from our houses over the yea into this place,
because we've had a lot of different office spaces,
but this one, we can really make our own.
We've moved so many times.
We first had our office in Mom's, like,
9'x10' home office.
Then, we had our office in the little house
that we did on East Street,
and we outgrew that very quickly.
Then we had our office at this really scary warehouse on the Southside,
and then, our current place is an actual office building
which is lovely, but small,
and this will be our fifth and final space ever.
-This front area needs to serve a few purposes. -[Tad] Okay.
-[Mina] Reception. -[Tad] Right.
[MJ] Are we gonna have a receptionist?
We're gonna have a reception.
-I won't promise a receptionist. -[chuckles]
And then up in the front-left, the conference,
'cause we'll get a lot of natural light,
and instead of having, like, solid walls,
maybe do, like, a glass wall and a door,
-depending on where we are. -[MJ] That'd be cool.
[Mina] And then this middle chunk...
...needs to be design space.
-We're all on the same page that this whole space is mine? -[Mina] Yes.
Where do our sleep pods go?
-This is the most important question. -Yes.
Can we all just talk for a minute?
To have this much space for storage...
-[Tad] Space... -[Karen] This is storage!
It's still storage!
[screams] What? What?
-[squealing] No, it's still storage! -[Mina] This is probably twice
-what we have behind the store right now. -You guys, should we...
No, it's still, still, still...
Wait! Not yet!
We're still storing. Whoo! Storage!
-[MJ] Yay. -[Tad] It has lots of storage.
Two Chicks' challenge from day one
is storing things,
because Mina's a smart buyer,
and she will buy appliances when they're on sale,
and then there's flooring and there's tile.
You need a place to put the until they go in the house.
So there is storage for days.
-Where's our space? -You guys just ride around and get it.
-You don't need an office. -[Karen laughs]
Yeah, we do.
We need to test new demo technology.
-[Karen] That's outside. -[Mina] That's outside.
Tad and Cory, I don't exactly know what they want.
They want, like...
It sounds like one of those rooms
where when you're angry,
you can pay to go break things.
It sounds like that's what they want.
They don't get that.
They seem to have forgotten that the whole reason for this build
is to help the company save money,
not spend more money on all these extra bells and whistles.
I don't wanna spray anything for the second floor,
'cause this is obviously our first floor,
but this is the idea.
-Walk, walk. -Where is she going?
-[MJ] You going up the stairs? -[Karen] You walk, walk, walk upstairs.
[Mina] This would kinda be open area,
and then when you come around at the front,
probably a kitchenette up here.
And then back here,
we could have another littl conference room, bathroom.
We could do small offices all along this back wall.
Do you wanna do offices with cubicles,
so they're more mobile?
-[Tad] I don't like small boxes. -Open concept.
-No, you guys-- -Sleep pods!
[Cory] Bean bags!
[Karen] You know what you guys need,
is you need one of those tanks with the salt water.
-What are those called? -Fish tanks.
-A floating tank. -[Karen] Yeah, a float tank.
-Float tank! -[Cory] Yeah, a floating tank!
[Mina shouts] No! What is wrong with you guys?
[Karen] You know what you guys need,
is you need one of those tanks with the salt water.
-What are those called? -Fish tanks.
-A floating tank. -[Karen] Yeah, a float tank.
-Float tank! -[Cory] Yeah, a floating tank!
[Mina shouts] No! What is wrong with you guys?
How about instead of a float tank,
-we'll do a staircase back here, too... -[all laughing]
...so other storage can come upstairs?
-[Karen] But I have a question. -[Mina] Yes.
Where do the babies go?
The babies, we can have a baby area over here,
put a gate up so they can't escape.
So, this is the gist of it. We've got our footprint.
I think as the exterior walls go up,
we can still play with the inside spaces a little bit.
But it's gonna be more spac than we've ever had before.
I'm hoping it'll be a good business decision to consolidate costs,
because I got the lot for $30,000,
and while it's gonna be a huge build,
it's a simple structure
with mostly open spaces and offices.
So I think if we can keep the build around $260,000,
we'll be in a great spot to get our overall monthly cost down,
because right now, our current office lease and all of our storage unit
are costing us about $7,000 a month.
But if we can keep our budget under control
and not go crazy with sleep pods
and other silly add-ons,
I think our construction loa can get us our monthly cost down to around $2,000.
But it's very exciting.
-Two Chicks' forever home. -[Tad] Yeah.
-[whispers] So exciting. -[Mina] We're never moving again.
-[Cory] That's what they say now. -Right?
-[Karen laughing boisterously] -[Tad] Yeah, we'll see.
[Mina] Come on.
Never in a million years did I think our tiny, 2-person business
was ever gonna grow into what it is now.
So, we're still growing. We're still learning.
But now we're gonna have our, like, forever home, which is nice.
We're gonna be grown-ups, like a real business.
It's very exciting and cool to see
and look back on how much it's, like, grown and changed.
♪ I'm dreaming in real life ♪
The headquarters project is one I want finished ASAP
We have about four months until our lease is up at our current office,
so we gotta move fast.
We got our foundation poured and the structure is coming together,
with exterior walls well underway.
-[Cory] She's big. -[Mina] She big.
But that's what we need, right?
-[Cory] That's exactly what we need. -[Austin] Yes, 100%.
[Mina] Oh, she's turning into a real girl. I love it!
Now with the second floor o and the roof going up,
it's time to nail down what exactly we're gonna do with all this space.
-What's Mom doing, burning the house down? -[Charlotte babbles]
-[Cory] Huh? -I was gonna make her eggs, but I don't have any.
-Oh, okay. -So we're going with a quesadilla.
-What you got for me? -All right, headquarters.
Okay.
[Cory] Finally, 'cause we ne some space.
First floor...
[Mina] Downstairs, when you enter,
you have the waiting area.
To the right is our conference room.
We've got a wet bar. We've g a little beverage cooler.
You got a chunk that's abou a quarter of the downstairs
that is design,
and then pretty much the back half of the first floor
is construction-storage area
That's where all the deliveries are gonna be coming,
so having Austin, like, posted up close to there I think makes sense.
[Charlotte crying]
-Are you not feeling listened to? -Oh!
What?
She's, like, just like you, though.
-She's just... -Like, yeah.
She's gonna get louder and more aggressive.
-[coos] -[whispers] It's hot.
-[Cory chuckles] -Okay.
So you come up, we'll have all this open space.
We'll have our full kitchen
Over here's the office that Finley and I will share
because I'm usually at the houses anyway
and don't really need a big office.
We'll have lots of coworking space,
a lounge meeting area,
an upstairs conference room
and then back here, we'll ha our half bath, kids' area,
and several individual offices.
Yeah, I mean, Tad and I won't be in the office too often,
but we're definitely gonna need a place to, like, hang our hat, reconvene,
do contractor interviews,
-and all that fun stuff. -We can put you guys back here.
-[Cory] All right. -It's exciting.
-Yeah, this is exciting. -High-five!
-[Charlotte] No. -[Cory] Oh.
[laughing]
♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
[Mina] Over at our Two Chicks forever home,
the roof is done and all of our house wrap is on.
We decided to install sleek black windows.
Inside, this massive buildin is starting to take shape as framing goes up.
-It's toasty up here. -[Cory] It is.
[Mina] And today, I'm havin the boys make some framing changes to the second floor
because while I will not be granting their wish
for sleep pods and float tanks,
I can give them something they actually need,
a locker room for the demo boys.
So, this is the name of the game.
-[Austin] Okay. -This space over here,
we are gonna turn into kind of our, like, locker room.
So, you obviously live super close,
but Austin's a better example.
So if he wants to come in in his nice tracksuit,
non-sweaty, some nice kicks,
he can come in, he can change, have a gross work day.
He can come and put his nice clothes back on
and take his clothes home in a dirty bag.
[chuckles] Now you don't have an excuse to drive home early every day.
So there have been days where Austin...
I'll be like, "Hey, man, what are you doing?"
He's like, "I'm at the crib for my midday change-over,"
and I'm like, "You live, like, three days away.
Like, how did you...
Are you coming back?"
He goes, "Nah, man, I'm pretty much set up here for the rest of the day."
-Okay. -[laughing] So, so...
-[Cory laughing] -You act like I've been doing that every day, anyways.
-[Mina] Ay-ay-ay. -[Cory laughing]
[Mina] This space over here,
we are gonna turn into kind of our, like, locker room.
[chuckles] Now you don't have an excuse to drive home early every day.
-[laughing] -You act like I've been doing that...
every day, anyways.
We had a demo and it's bad, and I got computer work to do, I'll go home.
I have a wardrobe change, bring my laptop with me
and just finish working at home.
I don't see what the big deal is.
Like, I realized why Austin was so quick to volunteer
to take that toilet out of demo day the other day,
it's 'cause he wanted to go home early.
He's like, "I've got this toilet, stand back."
[Mina] What we're gonna do, this wall, is create an opening here,
-[Austin] Mmm-hmm. -and you're gonna frame this out.
I want a 30-inch door from here and to swing to the right.
So we have this small half-bath going in upstairs,
and for the sake of time I can't afford to undo a bunch of framing
to make this big, luxurious lacquer room,
but what I can do is take the office space next to the bathroom
and turn that into a locker room for the guys.
I want them to frame out a door between the locker room and the bathrooms,
so after a dirty day of demo, they can go right there and clean up.
-Text me pictures, questions, whatever. -[Cory] Okay.
-All right. Godspeed. -[Cory] Thank you.
Wow, it's hot in here.
[Austin] It's hot, the windo are so far away,
not nearly close enough to get a good cross breeze going. It's very hot.
[breathing heavily] All right.
Now the plumber just needs to come and swap the stool
and the vanity location.
Should be what she needs. Let's stay by the window and suck down some water.
My [bleep] is drenched.
Let me just tell you, or show you how hot it is up there.
I'd say color.
This is my normal color jeans,
and then this darker area is sweat.
[Austin] Mmm.
[upbeat music playing]
♪ Step into my world ♪
♪ Whole lot of bad girls ♪
♪ You'll see what you wanna be taking ♪
[Mina] The outside of headquarters is starting to take shape
with siding going up.
A large driveway is being poured to facilitate
loading and unloading into our new storage space.
Inside, we started drywall upstairs,
but the downstairs drywall is done.
This is our entry,
-and then this is all design space. -[Cory] No.
[Mina] So, today I wanna walk the guys through it
now that you can finally get a sense of the space.
-12-inch crown molding around. -[man laughing]
[Mina] You can lay it out however you want, but I think
because this is the more shallow and this is your, like,
you wanna keep it open,
this would end up being more your storage-y shelving areas.
And then over here, like, you have, like, a nice big cool desk.
So, the design space
is one of the largest spaces un HQ.
And I need every single inch of it.
But it is gonna be used for designing,
-and meeting, and planning, -Inspiration?
and inspiration, and arts and crafts.
[Mina] But your space is a thoroughfare
-from the front to the back. -Yup.
[Mina] This whole massive back area is for construction storage
This is all Austin's world.
We got some ground to cover here.
We have two storage units right now.
We have our office, we rented another office for storage,
because we don't have any place to put stuff.
We're spending way too much on storage,
and I'm tired of it.
I need to start running the business better.
So I'm not renewing any of the leases on any of the storage spaces,
which means we've got about
two weeks to get everything out of those
and into the storage space of headquarters.
And then after that, we have to finish the inside
in about, I think two months,
because that's when our office space lease is up.
We're gonna epoxy the concrete
-on the first floor. -[MJ] That'll be fun.
It's new concrete, so we won't really have to go through
the prep work that we would typically have to for epoxy.
-[Cory] It'll be fine. -Yeah.
[Mina] All right, let's go upstairs.
This is all gonna be metal railing,
and then this is our full kitchen.
More co-working space.
[Cory] So we have so much co-working space.
But I think having a space that
can be kid-friendly,
so my thought is this space
Where's my office? Right here?
I don't know. I don't know if up there makes sense
or one of these back here.
The thing is, is that Tad and I always get last pick,
no matter what the situation is.
Every time we move an office we're like, "Where's our space?"
They're all like...
..."That small spot is yours."
-So... -Yeah, it's like a Harry Potter situation.
It's like, we get the closet, you know?
[laughs]
Our lease is up at our current office, so,
we, it's drywall, we should be able to be in in six weeks.
Which is plenty of time, you guys.
-[Mina] Okay? -[Cory] Mmm-hmm.
If you don't get it done, you're just out on the streets.
[Tad] We are typically out on the streets, so.
Well, then, what do you need an office for?
-[Cory] We walked right into that one. -[Mina] Yeah.
[upbeat music playing] ♪ Living it up ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Living our best life ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
[Mina] The race is on to ge our forever home finished u
in the next several weeks.
We finished all of our drywall mudding.
We hustled to get our epoxy floors done in time
for our storage leases to be up.
And we're getting our storage shelves installed to hold all of our stuff.
[MJ] This is exciting, they're finally here.
[Mina] And today, with the construction area done,
we're getting all of our supplies out
of the expensive storage uni and into headquarters.
So, I can start saving money ASAP.
We also ran out of space at District Co. to store all of our online stock,
so I gotta find some space for that to go in here as well.
[MJ] Okay, right there.
[woman] She's coming off the dollies today?
-[MJ] Yeah. -[Mina] No.
-[man] No. -[woman] No?
[Mina] No.
She not coming off today.
-She not coming off today? Why? -[MJ] Yeah.
-[MJ] This is where it lives. -I believe-ish.
But you might change your mind,
because I think we need to shrink down your space
to make room for some of our District Co. stuff.
Right here. Everything this side of the door.
Wait, what?
[Mina] I think we need to shrink down your space
to make room for some of our District Co. stuff.
-[MJ] What? -We can't block the door.
So...
...it's that.
Uh, well, it's a lot smaller now.
Hence my encouragement
to be in a space upstairs or in the co-working space,
but whatever you guys wanna do.
Did you just hear her say that our space is just the side of the door?
No, that's not what it's about,
it's about storing all of our [bleep].
So I am not happy, um,
I originally had a bunch of space for all my materials,
my supplies, the team.
A quieter area is all I wanted.
And now, uh, we either can move upstairs
and be with everyone in the common space,
or stay downstairs in this cramped little warehouse.
Uh...
...I am not happy and we're gonna have to find a solution,
this conversation is not over.
[upbeat music playing]
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Oh, hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
[Mina] Our forever home is starting to take shape,
now that our durable gray EDP flooring is down
all throughout the space.
We need to narrow down some design details,
but I know that MJ is not happy with me.
Oh, hey. Sad panda.
So I've asked him to meet m at HQ so I can pitch him my idea for his space.
All right.
I have lots of things to go over for this space.
Does that mean new space that doesn't include me?
You have gotten bebop-ed around a lot.
But I think you're gonna be happy with the final plan.
So, you got booted from downstairs.
But downstairs had no windows.
And what is good for designing and inspiration?
-Natural light. -Yes.
-So I'm gonna work outside? -What does this space have?
Windows.
-This can be yours. This can all be yours. -[gasps] Oh, my gosh.
-And it's quiet and peaceful, -It's quiet.
-all the natural light. Okay. -You're not gonna have people coming through.
I'm happy.
[Mina] We used to have the kid's area here on the second floor,
but I think it's a great pla for you. It's a sweet spot.
You're getting the brightest space, legitimately.
-Honestly... -Your space has more windows
-than any other office, even mine. -Worth the wait.
-I think all the others make sense now. -Totally.
Because the front half is really kinda like, like a house.
-Yeah. -We're gonna have the kids' room,
and the kitchen,
and kinda the dining area, and all that stuff.
Even the outside's gonna look like a house.
-We've got bright white paint, black windows, -Love it.
-and then got a couple different options -Oh, my gosh.
-for signage outside to have made. -Love.
[Mina] And for the sign, I wanna just go with HQ
since that's the nickname we've kinda given this place.
-[MJ] Love that. -But just kinda simple, so it's not...
-"We're right here!" Yeah. -...like, super commercial signage.
-I am most strong to this one, I think. -Same.
-[MJ] Same, same. -Um...
I want the office to feel like
you're working from home, kind of.
It's a 6,000 square foot commercial building.
And you would never think that walking up to it.
And that's the goal. We wanted it to feel like it fits in.
So when we first walk in,
we're just gonna have our nice, little, like,
-entry area. -A foyer.
And I think with this fun wallpaper,
like, that's the accent.
So, the only thing separating kind of, like, our little entryway living room
from the conference room will be that glass wall door
-Okay, yeah. -that we're gonna have, so matte black frame glass.
For the conference room, I don't want just a regular wall.
I would like a glass wall.
And the Iron Timbers boys,
I saw make a door for a gym
Now I'm gonna have that fancy gym door on my conference room.
And then when you come upstairs, we'll have lots of options
for, like, co-working space.
So, like, high-top, some low couch seating,
we've got our whole kitchen.
-I got some, you know, poles, I think just... -Cute.
-...Duff gray cabinets. -Love it. Yeah.
-[MJ] Keep it simple. -Simple.
We've got quartz countertops, a nice big sink,
um, and we actually have some pretty fancy-pants appliances.
Then the kids' room, now,
will be right next to mine and Finley's office
-since our kids will probably be here most. -Okay.
It's a big room, so maybe something on the walls?
-I love that. -Like paint?
Wise... roll that around in your brain.
-Kids are easy breezy. -Yeah.
For this long wall down the middle,
I ran into this gal that does murals all over the place.
-[MJ] I love it. -What she does, like, her thing
is really, like, flowers and ombre.
So, I wanted to do just the Indy skyline
but that seems a little basic,
so I asked her to do some mockups with flowers.,
That's the one I was leaning towards,
but I love this 'cause it's kind of a weird wall to decorate
-without a mural. Yeah. -Oh, my gosh, I'm excited.
What am I gonna do in here?
-You can do whatever you want. -[whispers] Oh, my gosh.
[upbeat music playing] ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Waking up, waking up, waking up to the best life ♪
[Mina] With just four weeks left to go until we have to move in,
we're starting to wrap up the outside of HQ.
We've given it a crisp coat of white paint
and artificial turf, so the lawn looks welcoming all year long.
Inside, the cabinets for ou upstairs kitchen are in.
Downstairs, we chose a soft gray
for the wet bar in the conference room.
And the glass door will add some wow factor when you
first walk into the building and make that room a bit more private.
[Karen] You did it!
-[man] We did it! -Huzzah! Yay!
[Mina] Upstairs we're finishing up our bright neutral paint everywhere.
But just so everything isn' too sterile and office-like
we're adding a bold teal col to the bathroom and locker room.
I've decided to give Tad and Cory and office just of the locker room,
so I wanted to give it a little punch of color, too
[Cory] This is actually kinda cool.
[Mina] Those lockers are for the locker room.
But this is for your shared office.
[Cory] Are we decorating Jack's room?
Yeah, this looks like a baby's room.
[Mina] Well, you are the babies.
-That's a hard pass. -No.
[Tad] We don't like that wallpaper.
-Yeah, that's a hard pass. -No.
[Mina] Well, luckily, it's not up to you.
[laughs]
We can roll with it, but I'm just saying,
-don't feel like you're forced to hang this. -[Tad] Yeah.
I'm not forced to hang it, you're forced to hang it.
Have you seen my wallpaper job?
[Mina] Go ahead and put up that wallpaper.
If you keep talking, you're gonna have to put it on the ceiling, too.
[Cory] If I had my vote,
instead of silly wallpaper, picture this.
A mural of us on the backs of dragons,
wearing Viking gear, holding demo forks.
Super dope, but that's exactly why we don't get a vote on anything.
[Cory] Probably exactly why
I hate to say it, but,
that's probably one of my best wallpaper jobs
I've ever done.
I think we need to balance this childish wallpaper
with something masculine.
-Yeah. -Something with, like, sex appeal.
You talking about what I think you're talking about?
Oh, heck yeah.
[photographer] All right. Eyes in lens, guys, eyes to the lens.
[upbeat music playing]
[MJ] Okay.
Tad has been talking about making a demo boy calendar
for quite some time now, and today is the day.
♪ Here I come ♪
♪ Making that, making that vibe ♪
♪ Why aren't you on my side, huh? ♪
♪ Look in, look in my eyes ♪
♪ Ain't gonna tell you lies ♪
♪ Five, four, three ♪
-Whoa! -[Tad] There we go.
-Okay. -[photographer] Yes!
[laughs]
[photographer] Right there.
All right, that's it, that's a wrap.
So now it's off to the printer's to get this thing made,
and it shall bring joy to anyone that steps into mine and Tad's office.
Sure, if you're, uh, into that.
[laughs]
[Mina] We've got about two weeks left before our lease is up
and we have to move into our new headquarters.
So for that long wall at the top of the stairs,
I hired a local artist to paint a mural
that marries the idea of work and hominess.
So to give this huge area some interest,
we went with an ombre background and we're going with bold pink flowers
for some classic Two Chicks glam,
and the Indy skyline, which is the home we all love.
And we've got another painting project going on in the kids' room.
MJ and Austin are adding some whimsy
with a green scalloped desig
while I decided last minute to put in a small peek-a-bo transom window
between the kids' room and mine and Finley's offic
so we can spy on our kids during the day.
And then MJ was inspired by the vertical transom
to create a castle.
So now we also have a castl
and a transom and three scalloped walls.
-That was one day. -That was like three hours, too.
Hey, Jack! Look at the kids' room.
[Finley] Where's Charlie? There she is.
Hi.
She's walking?
She can do it by herself, she's just being stubborn.
We have a few employees with little kids
and some of them are joining us today,
including Finley's kids, Kennedy and Harrison.
So we wanted to get all of our babies together
to make some art for their new playroom.
I feel like if they're gonna benefit,
we should get some labor out of them.
MJ, you wanna hand out some brushes?
[MJ] Here, this is a detail brush.
-Whoa. -[Mina] Do you wanna paint?
[MJ] Now, be careful. These are vintage chairs.
Man, you were struggling.
Listen, I'll be the first to tell you I'm a control freak,
we were totally outnumbered but it's gonna be awesome.
[Finley] Perfect!
-And, here. All right. -Yay.
I love it. Here, I'll turn it around.
-[kids] Whoa! -So beautiful.
That's awesome.
I love it.
♪ Yeah I think I kinda dig this view ♪
♪ Something that I can get used to ♪
♪ I'm back is the bottom line ♪
♪ Survival of the fittest but I'm here to thrive ♪
[Mina] As we inch closer to our grand opening at HQ,
the front entrance is finall getting some drama
with this luxurious slate-colored wallpaper.
And upstairs, our kitchen is almost done
with our quartz countertops going in.
Well, hello Cory Miller.
-You look so pretty today. -Aww.
[Mina] And today, mom has recruited Cory to create a gallery wall
that's a little walk down memory lane.
Look at that.
That is, those pictures are amazing.
So Karen surprised me with a stack of photos
of all of the houses we've done.
[Karen] So many of these pictures have such amazing stories behind them,
but we really need to narrow it down
to just the ones that are going on the gallery wall.
This was, uh, people affectionately called it the "purple people eater."
-Remember the purple house in Fletcher Place? -Yep. Purple people eater.
-Yep. -[Karen] Where we found the voodoo doll?
I found something that was, I think, kind of creepy.
-[screams] -It's this, uh, creepy voodoo doll.
-It's totally... -I just got chills. I don't like that.
[Cory] That was that house.
Yeah. You know what happened with that voodoo doll?
It came time to reveal it to the owner,
and no one could find the voodoo doll.
A year later, out of nowhere it was on my bedroom floor.
-No. -True story.
Oh. Here's a story for this one.
Didn't the whole street have to clear out because there was a gas leak?
-Yeah. -[man] Here comes the fire department.
If we get a single spark, you know what happens.
Boom.
-[firefighter] Anybody shut it off yet? -[man] Nope.
[Mina] Next time, double che that it's off at the street
Seven fire trucks.
-That was real life. -That was real life.
-Yeah. -[gasps]
This is Bright Street.
That's cute. It's got a good presence.
So we're going to put that up there too.
Top left is our house on Bright Street.
It was the first house we ever did for the show.
And I felt like that had to be here because
that started everything.
Wow. Bad. I'm gonna go with bad.
[Mina] That's ours.
-Ours is bad. -[Karen] Ours is the worst one on the block.
The fire.
I see a melted refrigerator panel.
The chest freezer in the basement.
-[everyone gagging] -[Mina] Okay, shut it.
-Shut it. -Oh.
Bleh. Uh, like, it's a good story.
And then this one. Do you remember this one?
Yeah, that's East Street.
-Yeah, it's East Street. -Isn't that our first one?
-On East? -I think it is our first one on East.
-And this is the one Adrienne bought. -Mmm-hmm.
And Adrienne loved everything.
Oh, my God.
Ah, I love it.
I love it so much.
[Karen] The color of this house was fantastic
Totally eerie.
-It's an homage to when we used to do color. -Yep.
[Karen laughs]
I think it turned out really well.
-We picked good stories, right? -So true.
Yeah. So when you look at the pictures
you think of the story behind the picture.
If you can remember the story.
'Cause there's been a lot of stories.
♪ I've been on to this life ♪
[Mina] It's almost time to start moving everything into HQ,
but first, the cherry on top a simple yet elegant HQ sign
-This looks really good. -Yeah.
[man] I love it.
-That's the spirt, Tad. -There we go.
-All right. -Let's get this thing out of the box.
Everything I touch goes to my room.
[Mina] We've got a small arm unloading the trucks
and putting furniture together.
I am over-caffeinated.
-Perfect. -I am ready.
We got a lot of work to do.
[Mina] We want to take on more client renovations down the road
and this is where we'll do presentations with them,
so it has to be on point.
The color palette up here, we want it to be
just as neutral as possible so that our clients
or whoever we bring up here can really...
We can make it look any which way.
Perfect. Yes.
Beautiful. Love these chairs.
-Beautiful. -[Mina] Lovely.
I think if clients come in here, they will trust us. Right?
After working in a scrunched office for so long,
and then on and off from home,
it's just going to be really exciting to show
the whole team at the grand opening tomorrow.
But first, I'm going to show Steve, some family,
and my best friend Adrienne and give them a little sneak peek.
-[yells] -We are like, a block from your house.
Oh, my gosh. I love it.
Adrienne's one of my best friends.
She's absolutely amazing. And she's actually bought
one of our homes that's just down the street.
She also owns a very successful bridal business.
And she gets it.
She, she gets the hustle. She knows office space.
So I'm really excited to show her ours
and kinda get her take on it
Do you like our little sign?
Ah. It's so cute.
So, because everything on this street is zoned commercial,
but some of it looks residential,
um, I wanted to build this so it looks like it fit in.
It's gorgeous.
And it does look like it fits in.
It's beautiful.
[Mina] Well, we do have our sign that the boys made.
Just a little bit of turf.
-[Adrienne] Just a little bit of turf. -You know I'm very
-low to no maintenance. -Yep.
Cute little front porch that feels inviting.
-Come on. Let's go inside. -Okay.
Aw, man. [squeals]
[Adrienne] Oh, my gosh.
Aw, man. [squeals]
Oh, my gosh.
This is amazing.
What the heck are you going to do in here?
Well, we're going to do great work.
We're going to have meetings
[Adrienne] That's the most beautiful reception area I've ever seen in my life.
The idea is to be able to be taking on, like, design clients.
So, this could be where there's a reception desk
if you need one.
I feel like you will get this.
Like, every space you've moved into,
you're immediately outgrown, right?
Yes.
Girl. We have come a long way.
[laughs]
[Mina] Adrienne is, like, my biggest cheerleader.
She is also a woman business owner
so it's just kind of a special perspective.
I'm really excited that Steve's coming by,
Missy, my step-mom is coming by.
So, it's just an exciting, happy day.
-Oh, my goodness. -Wow.
-That wallpaper? -'Tis.
[Steve] It looks great.
And then downstairs is our conference room.
We had this gorgeous glass wall custom made
to give a little privacy bu also lots of "wow" factor.
-[Steve] Looks great. -[Mina] Come on in here.
Whoa. This is amazing.
[Mina] Wet bar because I feel like
-that's what you do in a conference room. -[Missy] You have to.
-[Steve] Yeah. -I'm not, I've only been in a few
'cause I'm not very business-y but it seems like it was the right thing to do.
It looks good. Yeah.
[Adrienne] Oh, my gosh. This table.
[Mina] It doesn't feel business furniture-y.
It all feels, kind of, like, comfortable.
-[Adrienne] Yes. -Livable.
You want people to feel at home 'cause they're making huge decisions.
[Mina] Exactly. I wanted thi to feel homey,
but not like an office.
And you'll really see that when we go upstairs.
Okay. Let's go.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, this wall.
It looks so good.
Oh, it's so awesome up here.
-Look at this baby. -I mean, you guys are cute, but...
Oh, my goodness.
[Mina] Justin and Kyle, they've both been around like,
in the mix of Two Chicks and a Hammer for so long.
And, uh, been to our multiple different offices.
I always appreciate their,
you know, artistic view on things.
-[Kyle] Such a beautiful space. -[Justin] It's so good.
And then we had another local gal pant this.
-[Justin] Yeah. -I really love how you guys have incorporated
Indianapolis artists into what you do.
-To little old Indiana. -What a gift to Indianapolis.
Yeah.
[Mina] This is all really set up as, like, a co-working space.
I wanted it to feel comfortable, kinda like a house.
You've got the kitchen. You've got the living room.
You've got the dining room.
It's meant to obviously be functional.
Cook a lunch.
I think it's going to work well for our team.
Kind of feel like they're working from home,
-but we're not working from home. -Yeah.
-[Mina] So, like the living room of the house. -Yeah. This is amazing.
I mean, you really, like, pulling out all the stops.
-I love the houses. -All the houses.
Oh, my gosh.
[Mina] So, Cory and Mom, um printed and framed all those
[Justin] Memory lane.
All right, do you want to see your room?
Let's go this way, baby.
Do you want to go play on the slide?
-So fun. -This is the kid's room.
-Oh, my gosh. -This is the greatest room.
-Oh, my goodness. I love it. -I like this.
Who did this awesome mural?
So, MJ painted that.
-MJ painted that? So good. -Hey, that's so good.
What was not part of the plan, but it actually shook out very well
is we put those little peak-a-boo window.
-[Adrienne] Awe. Yeah. -[Mina] And, so now I can
check on them from mine and Finley's office
which is basically a desk since I'm always at the houses anyway.
[Adrienne] This is adorable I love it.
-I love it. It's so cool. -[Mina] Yeah.
We're going to go to show you the design space.
This is where Designland went.
-Cool. -Whoa.
Those chairs are awesome.
-[Mina] Aren't they? -[Kyle] Yeah.
So this is where you'll, like, meet with clients,
lay out plans, pick out colors,
-all that kind of stuff? -[Mina] Yes.
[Adrienne] Okay. This is huge for you.
I feel like this is like next-level stuff.
You have, like, a headquarters.
A headquarters.
-It's quite exciting. -[Adrienne] I love it so much.
You have to design my new wedding studio.
I want to.
-For real? -Yes.
-So we can sit in here and think? -Yes.
-This is amazing. -There's still more.
-Would you like to go see? -Yes.
And, look. Awe, this is nice and bright.
-[Mina] Yes. -I love it.
The old school lockers or the hard hats.
I love the color. I love it so much.
You build the houses and I will dress the brides.
And then they get married and then they buy my houses.
-It's perfect. -Perfect.
Mina's one of a kind. She is so talented
in so many different ways.
Walking through that space today was
really precious to me, watching her be successful.
She deserves it.
So you'll appreciate the numbers, particularly,
with all the commercial background from you.
The most recent old office I think was 1,200 square feet.
We got 6,000 square feet-ish here now.
And we had three storage units,
one on the north side, two on the southeast side,
and we had three mobile storage units.
So we were putting out $7,000 a month
just to, like, hold the people and the things.
And now it's all here.
And since we were able to complete the build
with no major problems, we stayed on budget.
So, now that construction loan is all we are paying for
which is so much less.
-Like, $1,922 a month. -That's insane.
I'm so proud of you.
I feel like you, you truly thought of everything.
I love it, and, I mean, I tell you all the time, but
I'm so proud of you and...
-Thanks, baby. -...I mean, this is...
-You did a great job. -...fantastic.
I think headquarters is creating a space
where people feel welcome, where it's comfortable,
where it's just functional and beautiful.
[cheering]
All right. So, everyone can go in and enjoy the space.
Party, party.
-I have so much room. Multiple tables. -This is fantastic.
We can have all of our new homeowners,
-all of our meetings. -How does this feel?
Like home.
-Ooh. -Look at this.
Yeah. This kills.
Oh.
I feel more manly already.
-And this feels... -[laughs]
Aww. It's our beautiful calendar.
-Yeah. -Yeah!
Those are fantastic-- Oh, look at that!
Look at that, yeah.
[man] Yo.
Now that I stopped to think about what HQ means,
to this company and to my daughter.
[sighs]
She's done so much.
I mean, we started out just the two of us,
a couple houses here.
Just to try to improve neighborhoods.
And she built this. Like...
That's impressive. That's impressive.
That is a lot of hard work, a lot of sleepless nights,
and never, ever, ever, giving up or quitting.
Believing in what you're doing and perseverating.
And that is what this HQ means.
That's what it means.
The inception of this project happened so long ago.
I think what I've been able create with my team
with headquarters is the best of both worlds.
It's an office, but it feels like home.
And that's, you know, the Two Chicks kind of, like, style in a nutshell.
Um, it just should always feel like home.