-Is this it? -Mmm-hmm.
[Cory] This thing looks tattered!
-Look at that roof. -Yeah, the roof's bad.
-[Cory] Where's the foundation? -I don't know...
I think not only the garage is gonna have to come down,
but probably the main house, too.
What's in that barrel?
I don't know what I'm gonna do if it's a dead body.
[Cory] This is gonna turn into a crime scene real quick.
-Oh, my God! -[bell dings]
-[exclaims in disgust] -[Mina] Tad's throwing up!
Every door in this house is framed too short by an inch and a half.
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
Ohh!
It's okay!
[Karen] She's so happy that she's helping.
-Oh, I love it! -I love it.
Hyah!
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses you've ever seen.
[Karen] Our team isn't afrai
to tackle the worst of the worst.
[Mina] That is so gross!
[Karen] Holy cow!
[Mina] Then we turn those rundown houses
into some of the nicest homes in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow! -[woman] I love it!
-Ooh! I see what's happening in here. -You wanna play a game?
-Next demo, this is to get out of toilet. -Yeah. Are you good at darts?
-I'll go first. -We'll see.
It's first to 50.
[laughing]
Hey, I told you guys we're getting a new build boss.
This is Brittany.
-Welcome! -You are her minions.
Oh, my God!
So, Brittany is the newest member of the Two Chicks team
even though we've known her for almost two decades.
She is going to be our build manager,
so, pretty much, she oversees the projects and the project managers
to make sure everything gets done on time.
And you thought it'd be funny to introduce her while I'm in the middle of--
Of not working. You're in the middle of not working.
I just wanted her to get a true picture
-of the team she was really taking on. -Fair enough.
-So, Brittany, we were working, -Mmm-hmm.
and what we were working towards
-was a goal-- [chuckles nervously] -Not working?
Was a goal to find out who was taking out the toilet in the next demo.
I think you'll be surprised how quickly I win over Brittany.
People like me. I am Mr. Personality.
I think as long as you're Mr. Do Your Job Right she'll like you.
Oh, okay, challenge excepted.
We do need to go see another property.
So, enjoy your last moments of darts
'cause Brittany is going to...
-Put you to work. -[mimics whip cracking]
-Put us to work? -Crack that whip, baby.
[Mina] Just do your jobs, okay?
-We're going to work. -Okay.
-[Brittany laughs] -There you go.
-Where are we going? -Going over to Old Southside.
-Ooh, my neck of the woods, huh? -Uh-huh,
-and on Charles, -Ohh.
-so not an unfamiliar territory. -Okay.
We've done quite a few home in the neighborhood recently
and home values have been climbing like craz in the area.
But you can still find some good deals on homes her
that are in serious need of some love like this one.
Do you know what we're getting into yet?
Are we doing a chop and pop like we typically dance?
[Mina] You know, I'm not sure.
I bought it without seeing i
but I was told that there's a living room in the front,
two bedrooms off that, a small bathroom,
and then the dining and kitchen are in the back.
So nothing too fancy.
-[Cory] Well, how much did you pay for this place? -30,000.
[Mina] The house is 1,300 square feet,
and currently it's a two bedroom, single bath house.
And I think we're gonna be able to at least hit 300,000,
-if not, like, 310, 315. -Oh, easily.
-But get... -And you know what?
-I love that it's in the Old Southside. -You, are you just,
-are you, do you leave... -Oh, I didn't even see.
-Been up there for a long time. -I was just sightseeing.
-Don't mind me. -All right, well, here we are.
-All right, this is exciting. -Yeah.
-Is this it? -Uh-huh.
[Cory] This thing looks tattered!
-Look at that roof. -Yeah, the roof's bad.
-Where's the foundation? Dirt? -Right here.
-Yeah, this is nothing, huh? -I don't know.
[Cory] Siding is literally resting in the garden bed.
This is a sad state of affairs.
Yeah, I mean, this is as much as I've seen.
You just did a little walk around and said, "I'll take it"?
-I didn't even walk around. -Oh, boy.
To be honest, I thought it was a different house.
-Okay, that's awesome. -I thought it was across the street.
-You're the wildest one out. -[laughs]
That seemed reckless a little bit,
but what she heard is the price point for the house,
and she's like, "I'm, that's it."
Regardless of what it is, lot, abandoned home, dilapidated home,
great home, whatever it is, the lot was probably worth that anyways.
-I appreciate your support. -Yeah.
First of all, we need to see what's happening with the foundation
and see if it can be fixed.
Then I'd reconfigure this side garage to the back
and then an all-new roof, new siding, new windows, new paint,
and the fence doesn't look too hot either
-[laughs heartily] -Okay.
-We going in? -Well, that was in there good.
-We're gonna replace that anyways. -Fixed the fence.
[Cory] Well, this is just as much
-as I expected it to be in here. -The ceilings are really high.
[Cory] Yes, they are. This is interesting.
Oh, my God. That kind of scared me.
[Mina] Cory's so jumpy. He's typically very easy to scare.
Mina's the same way, though.
I will get scared, but my immediate reaction
-is some kind of aggressive offensive maneuver. -Yeah.
-Cory's is not. -She'll come hands up.
This isn't terrible. There's no poop on the walls, no poop on the doors.
-I mean... -Well, yeah, they were living here.
-[Cory] Smells a little stale in here. Okay. -A little.
[Cory] We can keep these built-ins Those look nice.
-Those aren't built-ins. -Yeah, those are built in.
-No, those aren't built in to anything. -These look really nice.
And then, look, we got paint for the house.
-That's the front door paint and it's heinous. -No, it's not.
-It's yellow. -Chill out.
-And it's a yellow, but there's a pink. -You're wild.
So just keep that in mind.
-It's gonna be pink now, the house. -No, it's not.
[Mina] So, I think this is a bedroo
[Cory] Really smells like pee in here.
Well, this is awkward. Does this go upstairs?
[Mina] No, that looks like it goes into the garage.
Open the door. Pull the green thing.
I'm not gonna pull, no. Everything here has a nice coating to it.
-Do not play. Do not play. -[laughs smugly] Look how quick you get ninja.
[laughing] I know. Don't try to get me with that nasty hand.
-[Mina] So, into the bathroo -That's a bathroom, laundry room.
[Mina] You have to go through the bedroom to get to the bathroom,
so it would make more sense to move the door to this wal
so you can access it from the living room.
-Mmm-hmm. -Why is it wet?
There's actually wetness on the floor right now.
[sniffs] It smells like cat pee in here.
[exclaims in disgust]
-[snapping] -[screams]
-[laughs] -[laughing] Oh, my God.
-That scared you, didn't it? -Why? Why does it do...
Did I just break the glass or something?
-What happened? -I don't know.
-Why did it move that... -Is there glass on the other side?
-Yeah. -Yeah, that's why.
It sure was. Oh, my God. That's so...
[laughing] I thought the whole house was giving way.
I stepped on that mirror and it scared the crap out of me.
We've only looked in a couple of rooms
and you've already jumped out of your shoes twice.
I don't even want to know what's lurking in that next room.
By the looks of it from the outside,
-it wouldn't surprise me if... -Everything is leaning this way.
-yeah, well, this is what they call a lean-to. -Yeah.
The house from the front, and from what I've seen inside,
has no support underneath the floor system
and it's making me very, very nervous.
He's just making excuses for why he's so jumpy,
and the reality is he just scares super easy.
-All right, keep going. -Kitchen.
[Cory] This just keeps on giving.
[roars]
[giggles]
You think that's funny,
-don't you? -Did I get you again?
[Mina] Oh, my gosh, there's so many layers up and down.
[Cory] What is this?
-Okay, so this is like a little elevated platform. -Why is it all up into...
-Is this on a slab? Do you know? -[mumbles]
-No, I have no idea. -Yeah.
-There is some wonkier floors than typical in this house. -Yeah.
There's, like, some two by four platforms
within the actual structure itself that was in the kitchen.
And that was probably because at one point
the original floor system was sinking.
-The best we could do in here is a two bedroom, two bath. -Yeah, it's tiny.
-So you walk in and it's open. Living, dining, kitchen. -Mmm-hmm.
-Bedroom, bath, bath, bedroom. -Sounds boring.
-Sounds like a real mess, basically. -That can go up too though,
-right? -You can't go up just like magic.
-We'll just have to go up. -We don't know what the foundation looks like.
-Go outside, see if you can see -Well, okay.
-the foundation in the back. -If the foundation's certified
maybe we go up.
Ohh.
This is quite a pleasant disaster.
So you can't really see any foundation
back here either.
-No, there's your floor joist. -[snickers]
It's sitting on dirt.
Yeah, just on dirt.
We know that it's sinking
because the floor system is sitting on dirt
-right out the back door. -Because we have eyes.
-[Mina] We can see the whole thing's sinking. -Yeah,
-which is not really a good scene. -No.
All right, well, we have a ton of cinderblocks so we're good.
We've already got our money back in cinderblocks.
That looks creepy.
It says "The Tool Shed" in quotations.
-That has reflective stuff in it. -This... hmm?
[Mina] Reflective stuff.
What would this possibly be used for if...
[gasps] What?
That has reflective stuff in it.
What would this possibly be used for?
-It's got, like... [gasps] -Is it a chicken coop?
-[Mina] It's definitely not. -Oh, it's a grow room!
[Mina gasps] What?
Not that I know anything about growing,
but just from what I've seen on TV.
I bought a house with a grow room
which I imagine was used to grow illegal substances.
Well, it's not illegal to grow in some States
but it's very illegal to grow here in Indy,
so better hope no one calls the cops on you, missy.
I can't even keep a houseplant alive.
I guarantee no one would think that I had my own grow operation.
-Well, let go check out the garage, -Okay.
Quit playing.
Wow, it's kind of putrid in here
I don't want to get deeper in this garage.
Quit playing. Look at that fuzz.
-Ohh. -Stop. Quit playing.
[cackles]
God bless it. What's in that barrel?
-It could be decomposed body weight. -Can you assess?
-Wow, it stinks. -Will the top come off?
This is gonna turn into a crime scene real quick if I open that.
Shut your mouth.
[Cory] We're gonna find out what's in that barrel.
Worst case scenario, it's some previously living organism's body
that's no longer living.
With some high-powered acid in it
-that eats up organic material. -Yeah.
[Mina] But if there were bon
-it would eat the bones. -True.
We watch a lot of CSI. We don't know this from personal experience.
Especially coming to this side,
-you can see this whole thing is just leaning down. -Yeah.
-This house is shot. -So, I think
not only the garage is gonna have to come down
-but probably the main house too. -I agree.
Those joists just sitting on there,
-ain't nobody got time to fix that. -No.
[Cory] And we know that when that's the case
we can pretty much assume that we're gonna have to take the puppy down.
So, we need to tear down all the existing structure.
So the house, the shed, the garage.
And then we'll need to draw plans,
and I think the smartest build-back for this neighborhood
would be a four bed, three bath house.
This lot and house is 30,000,
and including the demolitio of the structures
and the cost of the new buil
we could expect to spend at least 225,000
if we're really, really careful,
so all in at 255.
And I think we can list it in the low 300s, maybe around 315,
which would give us a nice profit of 60,000.
-Maybe even more. -Yeah.
-It's hot. Can we be done? -Maybe even more.
Yeah, it smells like complete death over here.
-You're in charge of that. -No, I'm not.
Just get it gone.
-That's why there's gonna be an excavator here. -Scrap that.
-Yeah, I am not touching that. -Scrap that for me.
[Cory] I'll have someone come scrap it for you.
-Oh, know the birds? -Yeah.
-Good morning, Jack. -Morning.
Good morning, bud.
Karen couldn't make it to demo day,
and the only person who likes using the excavator more than her is her grandson,
so I brought Jack with me today to get a little work done.
So, we got a fun demo day. It's all coming down with the excavator.
We also need to get those barrels, just check those.
I don't want any dead bodies.
-You got it, buddy. -[Austin] What if we do?
-We call 911. We for sure do that first. -We buckle, and back up,
-and we sell the house. -[Mina] Those are on Cory's plate.
Any time I say I don't want to do something
Mina picks up on that and she rides it to the end.
So when I say, "I don't want to open up this barrel."
the first thing on her mind today is,
-"Cory, you're gonna open up that barrel." -You're gonna open the barrel.
And...
-It's reverse psychology. -It is.
You know, the label does say laundry soap
but there is a lot of locking mechanism for laundry soap.
There's this mystery barrel
that I am 80% sure has a dead body in it.
I think the whole team...
I'm asking if we have, like, a process in place for dead body discovery.
That's how certain I am.
I literally don't know what I'm gonna do if it's a dead body.
I'm going home.
[Tad] You're almost there.
[Cory] There it goes.
All right, ready?
-Oh. -What is that?
-It's cocaine. -[laughs]
-We just got rich. -We just figured out the way to fund this whole project.
[Mina] It just smells like powdered laundry detergent.
Put a little bit in a container,
and we'll double check it.
[Tad] Whoo!
[Mina] As soon as they opened it up, I could smell it was soap
and it just looks like powdered laundry detergent.
So we just need to dispose of it properly.
We like... We took a little bit out
to make sure that that's what it is.
But we'll close it back up with the barrel
and get rid of that.
-Okay, tell me when to go. -[Jack] Go!
-[Mina] Is that cool? -[Jack] Yeah.
-Do you want me to do it one more time? -Yeah.
[Mina] Now that the barrel mystery has been solved,
we can tear this baby down.
[Tad] Whoo! [exclaims]
It's crazy! Whoo!
Will you crush that freezer?
[Austin] There's a fridge in the back
which was at some point gonna be in the way of taking the house down.
So, garage goes down and the thought gets thrown around,
"Hey, let's just crush it open."
[Tad] Is there anything in it, you think?
[exclaiming]
-[all coughing] -[gagging]
[Tad] That smells so, so bad.
Oh, my God.
-[Mina] Tad's throwing up. -[groans]
Oh, my gosh!
Ew! Oh.
[gags]
-Tad's throwing up. -[Tad groans]
I think it kind of, like, choked out half the block
with the smell.
What did you think was gonna happen?
Mystery meat water.
Oh! That was stinky.
[Tad] I've never wanted to not breathe so much in my life.
Somehow the memory is worse.
Oh, it's never gonna leave.
It's always gonna be there,
every time you look at a fridge.
No! [gags]
I can smell it, can you smell it?
[Tad] Good to go? All right.
Break it, Ron!
Can we save the pillars?
[Tad] I could go grab one real quick.
Oh, God.
Tell him to halt.
-[MJ] My hero. -[Mina] You're my hero.
So, in typical MJ fashion,
as the house is coming down,
I start seeing things that I wanna save.
Really cool pillars on the porch.
Tad ran in, got the pillars.
They were saved.
Yeah, those are great.
We could strip those down ahead of time before we do our project.
-The rest has gotta come down! -[MJ] Yeah.
[clapping]
[Mina] What has it been, like, 30 minutes?
[Ron] Yeah, about 35, 40.
[Tad] And... boom!
Where's the demo floor?
Whoo!
[Mina] A few of our recent homes didn't turn the profi we'd hoped for,
and we're trying to build ba our cash flow.
So, we're hoping to get this project done
as quickly as possible
and turn it around.
We're going to have a four-bedroom, three-bath home,
1,800 square feet,
hopefully in just a matter of time.
[Tad] Looks pretty good.
Get it back together.
[Mina] With demo complete and the lot cleared,
we're digging and laying a rock-solid foundation for this new build.
The old structure was partially resting on dirt
and totally off-kilter,
so it feels good to start construction fresh.
-Mina! -Yeah?
What are you doing?
Eating popcorn for breakfast.
-That popcorn is stale. -Not stale!
All right, we've got some plans to review here.
Charles.
This is fantastic.
First floor, here we are.
[Mina] I don't usually like a U-kitchen.
But we have room here where we can have a dining area
and have bar seating and a living room.
I love how you can just entertain from your little kitchen.
-Sink area here. -[Mina] Yeah.
The first floor bedroom, it's got the shared bath.
Walk-in shower.
So, if you need to live on the first floor, you can
-Moving on. -So, upstairs we have
two more bedrooms that share a bath.
[Cory] Main en-suite upstair
[Mina] We've got a good-sized closet,
a bathroom over here.
It's only a 48-inch, but it's a double-vanity.
And then a walk-in shower.
Yeah, I love that.
[Mina] And then on the front exterior
I wanna do multiple rooflines
and a nice little concrete patio.
I wanna do the seating area out front to make it...
like, you have a space where you could people-watch,
be part of the community,
but you can also go to your backyard if you want privacy.
-Yeah. -The more options, the better.
What color does this puppy go in?
Don't know yet.
-It's a little mystery. -Yeah.
All right, I'm gonna get more popcorn, you good?
Yeah.
[Mina] We wanted a quick rebuild
to help replenish our cash flow,
and so far we're actually ahead of schedule.
Things are moving fast.
-Good morning! -Good morning!
These guys did not mess around, like,
they crushed this framing.
So, the kitchen's gonna go right here.
[Mina] Exactly.
Main en-suite on the first floor.
[Cory] This is spacious.
-Wow! - [Mina] Yeah, it is.
The front room for this house isn't huge,
so we're gonna keep the floor plan wide open.
Yeah, it's gonna feel ten times larger
and it's gonna be awesome.
The bedroom...
The bathroom is in between,
so they can both access it.
[Cory] How cute!
Main en-suite.
Bathroom...
[Cory] We love putting toile in front of windows, don't w
-Well, you're not... -The hell?
You're coming at 12 inches, so your base is right here, so you're...
you're like this.
Yeah, but do you drop your pants
when you're on the toilet
or before you hop on the toilet?
I do it, like, when I'm standing.
Yeah. [laughs]
We need to get some frosted glass for that one.
This is a really nice framing walk.
Yes, it is so far.
I think what would behoove us, though,
I think we should go ahead and do a partial inspection for framing,
just to make sure we're all dialed in.
Because what we don't wanna do is undo.
At this point, we have saved so much time with these framers
framing this up in the fashion that they did in the time that they did
that now is the time to cross the Ts and dot the Is
before we run mechanicals
because we're gonna lose a bunch of time
if we have to redo some framing.
[Mina] We're waiting on the framing to be inspected,
but I'm feeling good about the house,
so we're charging ahead with construction.
[Mina] And are already moving on to some of the design elements.
Hey!
-Hey, Mina! -Hello.
-How you doing? -Good.
This is Brittany.
She runs the build team now...
-Hi. -So you will see lots of her.
Hi, Brittany.
I want the stairs to be a real focal point.
So, my build manager, Brittany, and I
are meeting with Gary, Caleb and Dustin
who do tons of custom wood and metal work for us.
I wanna do an iron stair railing
that goes all the way to the floor.
This is the stringer.
So your verticals would just come all the way down,
like this.
Obviously, they'd be much closer together than this.
You know, your handrail goes up like this.
Usually, it's just at an angle with your stairs,
and you got verticals between.
But instead, we're gonna run it like this.
So it's like a giant...
I don't know what shape that is.
The vertical pieces that go down
will go longer, longer, longer, longer,
'cause they're gonna go all the way
from the handrail height
to the floor.
And gonna look like they just die into the floor.
It'd just be I think the big frame,
and then vertical lines, so...
Mmm-hmm.
-I like that. -Yeah, that's good.
This is probably, like, the 20th house we've done in this neighborhood,
and comps are going up slowly but surely,
so I feel like we can take a little bit of a risk on this design,
really, really, really make it stand out,
and then nudge that price point
closer to where I wanna get it to.
You guys will do a rough measure for materials,
and then you're gonna send a couple options?
-Mmm-hmm. -Okay.
-Mmm-hmm. -Let's do it.
-All right. -Thank you, guys.
[men] See you.
[Mina] In near record time,
the inside of the Charles house
has almost been transformed into a white box.
The back, we can go back there.
And today I'm meeting Mom and Austin
to figure out a plan for this backyard.
This whole area's weird elevation,
but our fence is gonna come
straight off that new fence line.
And come here and in.
Well, I mean, there's lots of things I can put on a fence.
Wisteria loves to climb on a fence.
Clematis loves to climb on a fence.
I would love some kind of climbing vine that's pretty.
-Hi. -[Mena] Hi.
-I come with lovely problems. -[Austin] Oh.
Every door in this house is framed too short by an inch and a half.
[Karen] What?
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
Every door in this house
is framed too short
by an inch and a half.
[Karen] What?
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
Brittany tells me our doors
are all framed wrong.
I definitely wanted to push framing
to get this house on the market,
and didn't realize that I needed to double-check the door height.
And now every single one is framed too short.
Do we have enough bite on each side of the doors to shave them down?
Well, they... No.
They're gonna have to cut them up.
-[Austin clears throat] -[Karen] So, time delay.
This would have been an easy fix
if we had found it during framing.
But the framing crew did it wrong,
they've been paid in full, drywall's up.
Now drywall needs to be cut out,
needs to be reframed.
It's gonna take money, it's gonna take time.
But we don't really have any other option now.
I guess I should have listened to Corey
about the framing inspection
He was right.
It doesn't... it feels gross even saying that.
We just need to get the doors fixed.
-[Austin] Okay. -We'll get the doors fixed.
Okay.
We're getting right to work fixing the framing problem with the doorways,
making them an inch and a half taller,
while getting a jumpstart on the exterior, too.
Ah, there it goes.
Now it's flowing.
[Mina] When we were applying for permits,
the neighborhood associatio
required a front porch pati
to create more of a neighborhood feel.
Watch your head.
[Mina] So, we're giving a little extra porch space
so whoever moves in can sit outside
and feel a part of the neighborhood.
[Corey] All right, let's get out of here.
This looks good, though.
Thank goodness.
[Mina] We're on track to finish this home quickly
but it's gonna be tight,
so there's no time to waste
in getting the design locked in.
-[MJ] Good morning. -[Mina] Good morning.
How's it going?
-Good. -Really good.
-How's it going for you? -It's going. Yep.
All right, so we're talking about Charles.
Yep. Charles.
Like, 1,800 square feet?
-Perfect starter home. -Yeah.
The pattern seems to be in Old Southside,
more the first-time homebuyer, like, younger...
So I think that's what we're gonna be catering to.
-Younger crowd. -Yeah.
We already have some interested buyers.
It's a young couple looking to purchase their first home.
So, to go with the young vibe,
we're gonna stay soft,
but also have some pretty big contrasts in our theme.
[MJ] So, to add to our, like, soft whiteness,
we're gonna have some dark blacks
some dark grays,
and just kind of contrast against that modern, cozy vibe.
So, the front of our house, it's really just a box.
Our cozy front porch,
I think it's gonna add a lot of charm,
but it definitely needs a peaked roof.
And then... board and batten up top.
-And lap down here. -Love that.
And I wanna paint it creamy white,
since we're going for kinda this black and white theme inside.
Somewhere around these guys.
Our inside colors are gonna be very, very similar.
So we'll do a soft, white paint
in all the shared spaces.
And then the light green paint in all the bedrooms.
Very, like, clean, monochromatic vibe.
And we can carry that color into the flooring, too.
You have it displayed lovely behind you.
The flooring easel.
But I really think that we should go with this one.
-I like the long planks. -Yeah.
[Mina] It's not a huge home
so the light floors are really gonna help make it feel bigger.
And it's gonna complement our white and gray backsplash.
[Mina] This one in the upstairs main shower.
[MJ whispers] Wow.
[Mina] Grab that one for the backsplash.
I like it because it's a little warmer.
Yeah, this is really cute. I love this.
[Mina] And I think we do black fixtures to accent the white.
-Yeah. -Got it.
-But our kitchen's gonna be... -We've got that.
...small but mighty.
-Yes. -With the peninsula.
And then I wanna do something really dramatic
countertop-wise.
Something dark with veining,
that might add some interest and break up the light floors
with all the light... lightness going on.
-That'd be really cool. -Okay, I like all that.
Beautiful, beautiful.
Oh, one more thing.
We rescued these from the house.
I want to somehow incorporate this
into a desk and built-in system
at the top of the stairs.
There's an unused space at the top of the stairs,
so I really wanna install these built-in cabinets,
create a desk area,
and then add a post from the original house.
If we can get that much storage,
that'd be amazing.
It'll be kind of honoring the original house
I think it's gonna be a really cute little house.
-[whispering] Yes. -Okay.
[Mina] We want the outside of the house to feel quaint
and seamlessly fit in with the rest of the neighborhood.
The classic roof line hanging over the front porc
along with this board and batten white trim does just that.
On the inside, we're startin the part of the design
that's really gonna soften everything.
So, we've got the ash-gray floors,
the white and gray paint.
We're using that to set this nice, soothing tone in the home.
And it's gonna be a perfect complement
for our contrasting black accents,
like the iron stair railings
I love the idea
[Mina] for this railing so much, I actually asked the guys
to make an additional piece for a partition wall.
There we go, yeah, that's tight.
Hey, Mina.
[speaking indistinctly]
What did you just say?
-I said, "It looks great so far." -That's what I thought.
As soon as the partition wall goes up, it's super cool.
I does create a nice little, like,
it feels like you're in an entryway when you walk in,
but it also can swing and be completely open and out of the way
if you don't want it there.
Honestly, even if it was this way it looks like it's purposeful.
Like, it's just a cool design thing.
And it's just those little extras that
give the home even more value,
make homeowners, homebuyers feel like,
you know, we really cared when we did this renovation.
Look at this hot mammo-jammo.
[Mina] But that was the easy part.
The stair rail wall require a precise install.
[Cory] I was gonna stand it up.
That's pretty high.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
[man] It's getting tight.
the very first piece is very snug.
[Tad] I'll get it close.
Oh, God.
[Mina] Tad didn't care abou scaring up the flooring.
-Somebody's gotta lead. Someone's gotta take charge. -Yeah.
No matter the repercussions.
-Tell 'em. -Tell 'em.
-We did tell 'em. -Yeah, we did.
Guys, this is so tight.
Do you wanna tap the top?
I think we can get it over now.
Do this!
[all exclaiming]
Oh, God.
-Do you wanna tap the top right? -[Gary] Yeah.
I think we can get it over now.
Do this!
[all exclaiming]
[Tad] It's okay.
Like a moth to a flame,
Tad's hammer misses the rail
and hits directly into the drywall.
[Tad] What happened?
[Tad laughs]
We ran into some very minor issues,
and I was quickly relieved of my hammering duties.
[Cory] Ah, don't worry, good sir.
You'll get it on the next one, I'm sure.
Yeah, y'all don't need screws.
As snug as a bug in a rug.
Thankfully, Tad didn't do too much damage for once.
It's, you know, a little bit of a touch up, not a huge fix.
And once we got that piece i
everything else went in pretty easily.
It's a real custom piece.
Ah! So pretty.
I love it.
Oh, that's custom.
Hey, it's just some custom fabrication techniques right here.
You can take some really good prom pictures on here.
-You wanna be my-- Put your hands on my shoulder. -[Gary] It does look awesome.
Right here, you just kinda do this.
We never went to prom together 'cause Cory is Cory,
but, love him,
um, you know, we, we re-enacted
what our prom pose would look like.
[Gary laughs]
-Can I put it somewhere else? -No.
Oh.
♪ Have fun ♪
♪ Seconds till the lights stop fading this our time ♪
♪ This is our time ♪
[Mina] In the Charles kitchen,
sleek black countertop with white veining
are a gorgeous contrast to the white cabinets, and help ground the space.
But to bridge the gap betwee the all white and all black
we're installing a white and gray backsplash tile
that will make the juxtaposition less jarring.
Is it a balance?
-No. -Is it a window balance?
It's a shelf, sunglasses.
Oh, hmm.
You know why I was wearing 'em
when you were holding that up above the window?
'Cause my idea was so bright?
Ah! How dare you are? You just love the punch lines.
Ever since Mina called my loft skills basic,
I've been bringing my A-game.
[Mina] What're you gonna do in the loft?
Desk space, office space, hangout space.
You're getting a little basic bee.
[MJ] The area at the top of the stairs here is wasted space,
so I'm adding pre-fab shelving units
with a simple desk under the window to give it purpose.
It's gonna be amazing.
Then to take the whole thin to the next level,
we're sealing the pillars that we saved from the original house.
Oh, God.
[MJ] Can we save the pillars?
[Tad] I can go grab one real quick.
[MJ] And using it as desk le
-It's having some pro-- [laughs] -[Cory laughing]
It's having some problems.
The end result, the opposite of basic.
The look of a custom built-i for the fraction of a cost,
which should impress Mina
and, more importantly, impress the homebuyers.
I think we really maximized the space,
I love the original post.
-You know what we call this? -What?
-Custom moment. -It is a custom moment.
[Mina] Things at Charles are quickly rapping up.
[Cory laughing]
[Karen] Are you gonna walk in some wet paint, Adelle?
[Mina] Mom and boys along with their little help and some non-toxic paint
are working on some custom a in one of the bedrooms.
[Karen] She's so happy that she's helping.
I like what's happening over there, Cory.
Okay, hold it over there.
-He's gonna hold the painting. -He's the easel?
-He is the easel. -[Cory] Okay.
[Mina] And with the inside almost finished,
the team can finally turn their attention to the front yard curb appea
Do you need another hand?
-Uh, not yet. -Okay.
[Karen] The front yard at Charles is tiny,
and sometimes less can be more.
Oh, God.
[Karen] So I wanna take that idea
and I wanna frame the house with small-scale trees.
I feel like this is all it needs.
I like how it's framing the house, I feel like this is good.
I chose these trees because this is a lilac
in a tree form, Syringa,
and it blooms white,
so it's gonna look really pretty with these light colored houses.
[Cory] They really anchored the front of the house.
[Karen] Ah, they just, it smells so good.
Oh, my Gosh.
And the reason we use cedar is because it doesn't decay.
Oh? Hell yeah!
'Cause it's so oily and resinous.
It just lasts forever.
[MJ] I love that.
-We built planter boxes. -Built them.
We're gonna set it right there.
-It was the whole kit and caboodle. -It was.
-So-- -Kit and caboodle.
Yeah, we added the caboodle.
-We put grasses in them. -[Cory] Mmm-hmm.
It's grama blue grass.
[Cory] Yeah, it looks like little cranes.
[MJ] Crane grass? Is that what it's called?
- [Cory] No. - [MJ] Oh.
Grasses look like grasses, right?
But those have those little seed head.
So pretty.
How do we feel about that?
-[MJ] Okay, beautiful. -[Cory] Yeah.
-I know, right? -I love it.
-[Mina] This guy, oh, the pothos. -Pothos.
Pothos with the mostest.
This house has had its ups and downs,
but it's finally time to decorate the Charles Street house.
I love this lamp base.
When we started this project
I didn't necessarily expect to have to do a total tear down,
but the new layout for the home is much more efficient,
and the house fits really well with the rest of the homes in the neighborhood.
-I love these, I love the pop of color. -Me too.
Our accent features are pretty dark and cold,
so we wanted to soften the home a bit more
by adding pops of colors through artwork, furniture, and greenery.
It's a great way to add some warmth.
You didn't mention the built-in.
It's super cute though, it turned out really good.
I'm really hoping to sell it quickly,
so tomorrow I'm showing it to a young couple, Kailey and Mason,
and they're looking to buy their first home together.
Just some trinkets and books.
-Okay. -So you can write the next great American novel.
I dig it.
[Mina] Good morning.
-Hi. -How're you guys?
[Karen] Good morning. How are you guys?
We kinda rolled by our first Charles house,
-so you can see something we did before. -Yes, so pretty.
[Mina] Yes.
Kailey and Mason live in an apartment downtown,
but they're looking for their first home,
and that's really the nice thing about Old Southside,
you can get a lot of home for a really reasonable price.
And with them being first time homebuyers, that's just, that's awesome.
So you have amazing neighbors,
-and then this beautiful new construction home. -Wow.
Love the exterior.
I like the overhang, really like the porch, the light jumps out at you.
The nice thing about this is it's all new construction.
Unfortunately, the original house had no foundation,
and it was just sitting on the dirt,
so it had to rebuild.
But I think this one still h that charm that fits with the neighborhood.
We have a combination of board and batten,
some different colors, we've got a couple of difference roof lines,
and some really nice differe layered patio in the front
that makes it all seem very purposeful and thoughtful,
and visually interesting.
It looks like a beach house if you squint.
-Like, without the beach. -[Mina] Yes.
[Karen] We gave you some cedar planters,
and then, you said beach, it's not beach grass,
-but we can pretend it's beach grass. - [Kailey] Yeah.
[Karen] We have a couple of lilac trees
that will bloom white in the summer,
and they are good cityscape trees, they're a good size.
We love it, yes.
And do you guys wanna go inside?
-[Kailey] Yes. -[Mason] Let's go.
-All right! -[Kailey exclaims]
Oh, wow.
Oh, I love it.
-[Mina] What do you think? -Love it.
[Kailey] This is nice.
Do you guys wanna go inside?
-Yes. -Let's go.
[Mina] This morning we're at Charles
showing it to first time homebuyers, Mason and Kailey
-All right! -[Kailey exclaims]
Oh, wow.
Oh, I love it.
-[Mina] What do you think? -I love it.
This is nice.
[Mason] Really love the layout, yeah.
The original house that was here
had a room around the front that I think was a bedroom,
and this was like open living space.
The new construction and the new layout
really gave us so many more options.
It gave us so much more space to create a comfortable living room.
[Kailey] Love it.
We went this soft dark theme in the house.
We have a lot of light and bright, like the white walls,
but complement and contrast that with sleek black featur like the stair rail.
What, with the steel?
[Mina] Yeah, it kinda creates a little bit more of an entryway if it's out,
and when it's back, it really is just a nice,
like, decoration piece it just over on that wall.
Love that.
Love this floor.
[Mina] And I'm glad you liked the floors
'cause these are throughout the whole home.
-It's a vinyl product. -Oh, perfect.
-[Mina] It's very, very durable. -[Kailey] I do love it.
-All right, let's go check out the kitchen. -Okay.
Oh, I love it.
I love the dining room into the kitchen, nice flow.
[Kailey] That's on our list
A separate space for dining
'cause a lot of houses, you just have it at the bar.
[Mina] The old kitchen was dark and drab,
but now it's sleek, modern, and beautiful.
One of the nice things I think is it that
-the drama over here really kinda ties it well -[Kailey] Yes, I like that.
with the countertop, and that's quartz,
so it looks like a natural stone,
but quartz is a lot more durable material to maintain, so.
I love it.
[Mine] We dropped in a really nice marble backsplash,
-nice, light, bright, it goe with the cabinets a lot. - [Kailey] I do love tha
And the countertops, it just integrates it all.
[Mina] Perfect.
There is one bedroom here on the main level.
-Oh, okay. -Let's take a look.
[Kailey] Love that, love this.
I like this.
[Mina] We went a little mor soft in the bedroom,
we wanted them to be less dramatic and a little more calm.
So the trim, the walls, the ceiling, the doors, everything is the same color.
and it just creates this softness.
[Kailey] I do love this.
I would never if you'd talk to me about it, I'll be like, "Oh, no."
Yeah, 'cause you'd think it would make it feel
-dark and small. -[Kailey] Mmm-hmm.
[Mina] But you get so much natural light in this room,
um, and it makes it totally doable with the high ceilings
-to get a little bit warmer color in here. -[Kailey] Love that.
[Mina] Let's go upstairs.
On the way to the main en suite
we have a really cute loft area.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I love this.
Love this.
So you guys have open storag some closes storage, a little desk space.
The coolest part is there were some porch posts...
[Kailey] Mmm-hmm.
[Karen] ...that got saved from demolition.
[Kailey] Oh.
[Karen] And that's what's in the corner there is
they've customized the porch posts to be part of the desk.
That's so awesome, I love that.
-All right, would you like to see the main en suite? -Yes.
Oh, I love this.
I love the overhead light.
-It's very calm. -[Mason] Spacious as well.
So I feel like in a bedroom this paint treatment
just feels, you just feel like you're cozy.
- [Kailey] Mmm-hmm. Yes - [Karen] Does it feel that way to you?
And again, lots of natural light.
Yes, love that.
[Mina] And you actually hav a walk-in closet over here.
We need that, I have a lot of clothes.
Well, you also have a small closet in your en suite,
so you got even more space in there
if you guys wanna check it out.
Take a peak.
All right, so you've got a double vanity in there.
Oh, I love this.
-Walk-in shower. -Very spacious.
- [Mason] Love the showe - [Kailey] Yeah.
[Mina] We've got more marble up here,
it's a different marble tha it is in the backsplash,
but kinda carries the design theme throughout the house.
Let's go back downstairs, and we can kinda go through the numbers.
This is one listed at 315,000,
it's just under 1800 feet,
so that shakes out to just under 180 a square foot.
This house, at this square footage
in Fountain Square, which is, what, half mile west,
you'll be looking between 215 and 250 a square foot,
which would put it around 380 and up.
This is a, a big decision to make your first house,
but let me know 'cause I don't think it's gonna stay on the market terribly long.
-I don't think so either. -Yeah.
The house, uh, I originally bought for 30,000,
and we ended up spending 225,000 on the construction
and so all in, just over 250
have it listed at 3150,000,
and it sounds like they might be making an offer,
and if they do, um, we'll have a decent profit on this house.
My favorite thing about the house is maybe the natural light,
and obviously the kitchen.
Love the four bedrooms,
I love how the main suite
is next to, um, the other bedrooms...
Mmm-hmm.
...um, cause we are expecting.
What?
That's what you lead with!
I'm so excited for you guys.
I'm not having any more babies,
so it just, I'm very excited when other people are.
I would love to have them in the house
and bring more family to the neighborhood.
[Mina] Kailey and Mason loved the house
and put it in a full-list offer.
They are excited to make this a home for their growing family.
We've done a handful of homes in the Old Southside now,
and families are coming
because this was a family neighborhood a long time ago.
So getting back to having families here
that own that own the homes and really care
is, is super nice to see.
-Yeah. -We're making a lot of changes over here.