Good morning.
[Ben] Just another day of making our favorite small town better.
-Erin, we got to go, babe. -Go fix some more old houses.
Ben, let's go.
[Erin] Growing up, I didn't see what was so special about Laurel.
[Ben] So every day, we make sure our girls see it.
-Good morning, Katie. -Hey.
[Ben] Can you believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
[Erin] There's so much opportunity, so many unloved houses.
I don't know what is going to go wrong in here today.
I'm sure something.
[Ben] Oh, the bat just flew through here.
-That's not good. -[Ben] No way.
We're about to see the house for the first time.
-This is the best part. -Oh, my gosh!
Holy cow. Are you serious right now?
-Ben, did you make this? -[Ben] Yeah, I made this.
The real truth of living and working in your hometown
is that you're going to see these people everywhere forever.
-It's your superpower, Erin. -[Ben] Color is her superpower.
-It is. -This is perfect.
[Ben] Every day is different when you're renovating houses
in Laurel, Mississippi.
This is Jones College.
We're here from 2003 to 2005. This is where we met.
I saw Erin -- I noticed Erin the first week of school.
All four of our parents have degrees
from Jones College. -[Erin] Yep, my mom.
Our brothers.
Y'all, I loved going to school here.
I cannot stress that enough.
[Erin] It always feels good to come back here.
-Go Bobcats. -[bobcat roars]
Ben still remembers facts from when he worked
in student recruitment here as a student on Bobcat Brigade.
What year was the school founded? Go.
The school was originally founded in 1911.
It became a college in 1927,
the A.B. Howard Gymnasium, here to our right,
where men's and women's basketball is played.
♪ Six feet when I pull up, err ♪
♪ Top of the dome in a two-seater tread ♪
♪ Cash all up in my pocket when I hit up a lick ♪
♪ If you a broke mother--, woo you making me sick ♪
Good. Let's go. Bring it.
Come on, Kera.
[Erin] Trista is the ladies' head basketball coach.
So she's called us and told us that she wants some help
with the locker room.
[Erin] Because the locker room is pitiful.
I wouldn't say it's pitiful. I would just say it's standard.
I'd say it's substandard based on what she's told me.
Pass and cut. Pass and cut.
She was at UAB last year.
More importantly to us,
she is Gwen Magee's daughter. -She is Gwen Magee's daughter.
[Trista] My mom, she was a softball coach.
She started the first softball program at Jones College.
The softball field here, it's Gwen Magee Field.
I love Jones College. I was raised here.
Nice catch. Great pass.
Here we go.
If you were a coach, you would wear
the shortest shorts. -God, they'd be so short.
Everyone would be so uncomfortable, except for me.
-What's up? -What's up, coach?
I began my collegiate basketball career
at the University of Alabama.
After my playing career, it was very important for me
to come home, and that led me to coaching.
How are you feeling about the team?
[Trista] More than half the team is new to Jones County
and new to campus. -Oh, wow.
So, but it's exciting.
If players are at the junior college level,
it means that they need a little bit more developing.
We develop them to further their education
and their athletic career.
Well, I've asked y'all here for a reason.
We're putting a fresh face on the program,
so we need a locker room that matches the new energy.
Our motto for our program is "Building champions,"
and so we want to give them a space that reflects that,
and so who better?
[Erin] She has a great big opportunity here to keep
growing them and their abilities, they can then go to
a four-year university.
And then they get a degree there,
their world really opens up.
-Let's go see it. -Please.
She wants these ladies to have a locker room that,
first of all, makes them feel like champions.
Here we are.
Feels like we're in a basement.
[Trista] It does.
-It's an old gym, so the space is smaller. -Sure.
We have some broken tiles, that kind of thing.
We want to kind of get up to date
with the quality of things.
-The school has updated colors since you guys are here. -Ahh -- OK.
This used to be Jones maroon.
We're not this steep maroon anymore.
It's cardinal now.
The graphics and everything in here are still the old
maroon and gold. -[Erin] Mm-hmm.
How many players do you have?
A full roster at the junior college level is 15.
For student athletes, 80% of their college experience is
spent within their facility.
We want to be able to create a place that they want to stay
and have it to themselves, but we want a place where
we can watch practice, game film.
How much do we have to use here?
There has been a very gracious donation of $75,000.
-Ooh. -Amazing.
You've told me "Building champions"
is your -- your mantra? -[Trista mouthing]
Yes.
If you want this locker room to feel like champions are
being built, I think we have to just kind of legitimize it.
This is where we go.
I don't wanna see any more of
the gray, the black, or the maroon.
Where we use our school colors, let's have an impactful moment.
Cover all this tile flooring, bring in carpet squares,
and then you do a checkerboard pattern everywhere.
It absorbs sound, it's comfortable on bare feet,
and if there is a stain that you just can't get out,
you can replace the square. And that's very simple.
I love that the gym at Jones has so much of that rich warmth
from the wood.
I want to bring more of that in here.
Vintage, collegiate, and feminine.
And then lighting.
Like, if you had rope lighting on top of the lockers,
that just creates an ambient glow.
-[Trista] Love that. -[Ben] So in here, paint, flooring.
-I don't know about -- -Covering that up.
Something on this wall, let's say $15,000
for this room. -Where are we heading next?
So we can venture towards the shower,
if you want to call it that. -Oh, wow.
It's more of a utility closet right now.
-This tile floor is pitiful. -The showers are not functional.
The water works and everything. The girls don't really use it.
-Do you need eight showers? -Absolutely not.
-No. -Two shower heads max.
If someone were to go down in a game,
we don't have anywhere for them to come off the court,
be seen, be treated by our athletic training staff.
-Like physical therapy. -Yes.
You could do so much more with this room.
It could be working really hard for you, and right now
it's not doing anything. -[Trista] Right.
[Erin] You could add a dressing room with a little privacy.
You could add a cold plunge, shower, and a one-person sauna.
You could have a physical therapy table for taping
and things like that. -They're gonna love it.
[Erin] You can tell this was a mosaic tile that was used
in institutional settings. -Right.
And I like that wink back to a collegiate facility like this
would have a mosaic.
A hex tile probably would also make sense, something that
could be in more like feminine versions of the school colors.
-Right. -So in here, $25,000.
I think that sounds right.
-Where are we using the restroom? -Follow me.
[Erin] OK.
[Trista] So here we are.
-Bathroom. -[Erin] OK.
When the bathroom stalls were put in, the toilets don't quite
match up with the stalls.
Once you lose all the gray, you're going to feel a lot more
beautiful in here, first of all.
New stalls.
And then you could have a big vanity with lots of counter
space along this wall and a big mirror with good sconce
lighting that makes you feel your best
when you're trying to put on makeup. -You don't say.
[Trista] I'm not going to be able to get them out of here.
And here, let's say $20,000.
And then you had told us you need a place
for food and drink. -Yes.
So this area used to be Coach's offices.
We have relocated.
We want to give them an area where they can come and eat.
-A nutrition center. -Yes, yes, exactly.
That's a good way of putting it.
The room is plenty big to make something way more useful.
Like, you could build a run of cabinets along that wall.
I think it would be fun to use colorful tile in the backsplash
that is a wink back to the school colors.
For smoothies, you need fresh ingredients.
You would have to have a bigger fridge than a dorm fridge.
Some shelving, a sink, a little table to sit and eat.
[Trista] Beautiful.
It's not a full kitchen build-out.
-$15,000 on this. -Whatever -- yeah.
-[Ben] Whatever's left. -[Erin] Using that
to make it as good as possible. -[Ben] Whatever's left.
[Trista] Well, I'm so appreciative.
If possible, we would love to be able to get this thing going
and have it done by our first outing.
-When -- when's the game? -In about eight weeks.
That's pretty typical for us, but it's usually houses.
So, by the way, while I have y'all here, my house has become
an open door for these young women.
We want to be a family away from home for them.
My husband Cole has become a professional chef
in all of this. -Is he the team chef?
When I go to her house, I feel at home.
We always at Coach Trista's house.
-Singing, dancing. -It's good.
One time, me and my teammates had a rap battle.
It was all good vibes. So we all just end up laughing.
We eat.
Cole can cook. I ate his chili the other day.
Delicious.
I'd love for you to come by my house to take a look.
-So, a non-school project. -A non-school project.
We want a deck. What do we think?
-We know houses. -Yeah.
-This is very different. -This is different and unusual.
-But houses are easy. -Yeah.
-I know all about houses. -Are you sure?
[Ben & Erin] Yeah.
All right, in five minutes, we have to actually start demo.
-Nice shot. -Ah!
Erin and Katie and I all went to Jones.
We all love Jones.
Katie played basketball in high school, so this is especially
special to her. It's especially special?
-Mm-hmm. -Does that work?
-Yeah. -OK.
Y'all look fantastic. But we've got to practice.
Five more minutes.
If you make it, you get five more minutes.
From anywhere?
It's got to be a three-pointer.
-Come on. -Come on, Ben.
[deep breath]
-A lot of pressure. -[Trista] Here we go.
-Five more minutes! -[Erin] Yes!
[Ben] It was a bad idea, probably, to hire us to work
on the project in a basketball gymnasium.
All right, go out on top.
[whistle blowing]
[buzzer blaring]
That's it.
We have eight weeks starting today to finish this
locker room. I feel pretty good about it.
-But we've never done a locker room before, so we'll see. -[Ben] Mm-hmm.
Welcome to Winnersville.
[Erin] Got a lot of marketing to remove.
A lot of graphics are coming down.
We are not going to revinylize this locker room.
[Ben] Vinyl has its place.
And it's a little too much right now.
-Less is more on the vinyl. -This is the vinyl countdown.
♪ Are you going to make it happen today ♪
♪ Or will you just settle for another delay ♪
[Erin] It feels like a basement. It feels very masculine.
And so what's opposite of that?
Keeping it fresh, light, modernize everything,
but I also want it to have warmth and feel
a little nostalgic.
So today's the day I'm going exploring.
Oh, boy.
So this room is kind of like a giant time capsule,
kind of a hodgepodge of old things
that the college has collected.
Within the gym walls.
She also said that it's kind of a garbage room, just kind of
a junk room, which has really got my attention.
Thanks, Coach.
-Good luck. -There is so much.
I am so excited.
[Ben] This is an attic in the basketball gymnasium,
that's been there since the '50s. -Oh.
Oh!
Come on. Need something bigger.
[Ben] So I'm finding tearaway pants.
I'm finding jerseys for the lady basketball team.
They don't really fit me,
but doesn't mean I'm not gonna try.
One medicine ball, a gigantic one.
It's the biggest medicine ball I've ever seen.
Trophy? Trophies?
Mississippi Junior College Association champion,
1980 and '81. That's cool.
Some cool old JC stuff.
But he found one thing that was useful to me.
Oh, that's cool. This is maple.
This is an old basketball court.
[Erin] It's very interesting.
It was for if they needed to patch the floor or something.
-They had extras left over. -They're in bundles.
What are we going to do with them?
-Something, something. -Something awesome.
♪ I'm done waiting, no more hesitating ♪
♪ There ain't nothing wrong to want some more ♪
♪ You got to feel it ♪
[Erin] We're gonna go to Trista's house to talk about
what project she wants us to work on.
I understand it is a deck.
[Ben] We've driven by their house.
-[Erin] A billion times. -[Ben] A billion.
[Erin] Daily, we pass their house, but I've never been inside.
Apparently, Trista and Cole's house is not set up for
hosting the team.
We met...
I had a master plan.
I hit him with my bike on campus.
She did hit me with her bike.
I rode off and immediately texted my roommates
and was like, "I just met my future husband."
[Cole] We've been married for five years and we have
a beautiful baby girl who is about to be one.
-Good job. -[Cole] Her name is Andi.
The whole house is beautiful. It's very well taken care of.
-This kitchen is gorgeous. -Thank you.
-This is so great.
I love a range in front of the window.
But the kitchen is tight for if you think about basketball
players coming over. -The whole team is coming.
-How many people is that? -16, 17.
You've been described to me as the chef in the house.
Absolutely.
What kind of stuff do you like to cook?
-You know, meat. -OK.
-You like to grill. -And the sides that you need to go with the meat.
Yes.
-Like, where are you grilling? -Oh, yeah.
Down the stairs, across the basement,
out the door, and I grill downstairs outside.
OK. But there's French doors here.
-Right. -Yes.
The doors to nowhere.
I mean, there's got to be at least stairs.
-There is nothing. -There is not.
-[Cole] Nothing. -[Ben] Oh.
-[Erin] OK. -[Trista] We are just...
a balcony, if you will, from a Rapunzel moment. -Mm-hmm.
-Yeah. -[Trista] Please be careful.
[Erin] You're a little tall for that. Please get away from it.
They have a one-year-old daughter.
The doors to nowhere will become increasingly challenging.
We want a deck.
It's an extension from the kitchen.
More area for the girls to be, good, fresh air.
-And it'll be a place for me to grill. -Yeah.
-Yeah.
But it's the least expensive way for them to add square footage
to their house, to what they can use.
-We're thinking we lose these. -Would you want to keep these stairs
or lose them?
They are not my favorite thing about the house.
-OK. -OK.
They're very narrow and a little difficult
to get up and down with a car seat, groceries, a baby.
This is our door to nothing.
-What were the doors for? -[Trista] The kitchen was redone.
We're not sure if maybe they put the doors in then
and had a phase two that didn't get completed. -[Erin] Yeah.
When I think of a deck, it's like $10,000 max.
This is not that, though. This is more than that.
It's got to be really tall, so it's going to need serious
structural support on the ground.
I think make the most sense, if you come off the doors
to nowhere, we come out to here.
We have a really generous amount of square footage up there,
so you can host the whole team.
And wrap around to the kitchen door, we would just cover up
those narrow, scary stairs. Yeah?
-Love. -OK.
[laughs]
You're going to have a staircase that would allow
guests to enter, a carport. I think that's everything.
[Ben] We're adding well over 500 square feet of living space.
-Yeah. -Plus parking -- $35,000.
$35,000 absolutely feels like a lot of money to spend
on a deck, but... -We get a lot more than that with it.
This is a big project,
but it won't slow us down on the locker room. -It will be quick.
How -- how's that going, by the way?
-It's great. -Great.
-OK. -That's exciting.
Look, I've tried not to peek. I have not peeked so far.
-Don't do it. -Do not peek.
♪ All that you wanna do ♪
♪ Is to be lazy ♪ ♪ Lazy on a Sunday, lazy ♪
[Ben] OK, so this is for the nutrition center,
and it goes on this back wall, correct?
It is the nutrition center.
All right, let's move it in there.
Oh, we can try it, but I don't think it's gonna go.
Not gonna go into the room?
If you want to, we'll go look and see.
-OK, show me what it is. -Like, I don't understand...
[Greg] There's a problem.
[Erin]...why it won't fit.
-Is it this is the problem? -[Greg] Uh, yeah.
-[Ben] How long is that cabinet? -96 inches.
-And this is not 96? -[Erin] No.
[Greg] This is 89.
You are correct.
The math doesn't work. I just want to try.
Well, that's fine with me. I love it.
So that Mr. Greg can say, "I told you so."
It's not that I don't believe Greg's measuring.
He's proven that he can do it time and time again.
Just want to see it with our own eyeballs.
Let's just make sure. Let's just check.
[Erin] Ain't no way.
Short of the cabinet becoming a shapeshifter.
-It's not happening. -Correct.
You can go ahead and say it, Mr. Greg.
I hate doing that, but I told you so.
-Yeah. -[Erin] Dang it! All right.
[Ben] So what's the solution?
We've got to cut the cabinet to get it in.
You want to cut this cabinet?
Yeah, we only have one little seam that's cut on the thing.
Everything else will be cut and put back together.
You won't even see none of that.
-Is that a thing that you do? -[Greg] Not normally.
I don't like to do it, but it's all good.
They're going to have a home game in a couple of weeks,
and I just feel like we're really not very close.
So Greg is not taking this cabinet back to his shop.
We're going to cut it right here.
All right. Let's cut it.
I'm ready.
-It is what it is. -Gotta cut
brand new custom cabinet. -[Ben] Nothing you can do.
You just cut it.
It just really hurts my feelings.
-Don't that look neat, though? -Yeah, it's very clean.
Now, what happens if this don't fit?
If I tell you it's gonna fit, it's gonna fit.
-I got the caboose. -[Greg] There you go.
Right on time.
We're fastening this together.
Put the pocket screws in there.
-Mm-hmm. -Plus put glue on.
[Ben] Plus put a board on the back.
Then I'll put a board on the back side.
You're talking about strong.
[Erin] And then just wood putty and paint.
Yeah, it'll be just as good as new.
♪ We're getting closer ♪
♪ We're moving nearer to the sun ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na, na ♪
♪ We're letting go of the trouble we have overcome ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ So I just want to... ♪
[Ben] The deck that we're building on the back
of Trista and Cole's house is going to be huge.
So today, we got a truck coming in with an excavator.
We're going to demo everything where the deck is going
and just give us a good pad where we can start building.
♪ Stay here for as long as we can ♪
-Aren't these cool? -These are cool.
-These are old. -They're kind of heavy.
-All right, have a seat, boys. -OK.
[Ben] I feel like we're pretty good teammates.
My brothers and I are not that competitive.
No, uh-uh.
It's hard to be competitive, when you're better
than everybody else. -Pff.
-So... -What's the game plan here, Coach?
-I want to cover this wall -Yeah?
with this parquet flooring we found in the attic.
What's the pattern going to look like?
It'll be like, boom, boom, boom, boom.
-Yeah, like a parquet. -[Ben] Like a parquet floor.
-All the way, the whole wall. -Yeah.
And then Erin wants to applique, like, a vinyl wrap.
-Cats on it. -Cats.
OK, I like it.
So let's go ahead and get them up there.
-So we're just gonna start. -See what happens?
-Yeah. -See what happens.
I think we need to go team. Cats on three.
-One, two, three. -[all] Cats!
♪ If you gotta let me down, make it easier this time ♪
[Ben] It is going together really awesome.
-[Erin] It's gorgeous. -That is so cool.
I thought it was gonna be in squares.
-You said parquet. -No, they're individual pieces.
-Yep. Yep. -Oh.
[Erin] It's bringing quality and warmth to the room,
which is something we lacked greatly. -Mm-hmm.
So we're bringing more wood back into the room.
It'll be really cool.
-Roar. -Cats -- roar.
-Hey. -How you doing, Erin?
[Erin] I'm good.
Well, I hear you want some mosaics.
Yes, I do, and I know you're looking at this floor thinking,
"What am I supposed to do with this?"
What in the world you got going on down here?
I know, it's awful.
We're going to have to go into overtime.
Building champions takes time.
Oh, God, this is wonderful. This is wonderful.
It's a hot mess everywhere in here.
Like, we had eight showers in the room,
but it's going to be a wellness room.
We're going to have over here a cold plunge tub,
a shower here, a sauna here,
and then a physical therapy table for taping
ankles and stuff.
-Wet room, a lot of water. -Yes.
So, I got a lot of repairing to do on the mud bed.
So, we're looking at several days just getting this ready.
So much prep.
The floor looks like the surface of the moon.
He's gonna have to find a way to make it all smooth
and level before he can even think about beginning tile,
and we're a long way from that.
We just need to know what color you want.
Yes. I decided on colors, finally.
I want to do hex in biscuit everywhere.
-OK. -And then flowers in passion.
-Just the petals in this color. -That'd be nice.
-I don't get to do flowers very often. -Yeah.
I wanted it to be institutional grade and nostalgic,
but more feminine than what was here.
I want to do the same floor in the bathrooms also.
OK, so you got more than this?
-Yeah. -Great!
I feel like the other floor is in a little better
shape, though. -OK.
Kind of.
♪ Good morning, a new day is dawning ♪
♪ A new swag, a new bag is calling ♪
♪ Stop soaring, my flips are pouring ♪
♪ Life is good ♪
♪ Good morning, good morning ♪
♪ A new day is dawning ♪
♪ Wake up, get up ♪
♪ Good morning ♪
♪ Stop soaring, my flips are pouring ♪
♪ Life is good ♪
♪ Good morning ♪
-So, we just got here. So nervous. -[indistinct]
-Excited. -[indistinct chatter]
We're talking to Ben, y'all. Say hey, Ben!
-Hey. -That's Ben.
[Ben] It's time for the team to give back...
to Coach W's house.
Y'all go over to Coach W's house much?
Yeah.
They be cooking for us and stuff.
When I first met Coach Trista, I had a very dark cloud over me
just all around in my life.
And I feel like when I first got on the phone with her,
she had a light that not a lot of people have.
She believed in me when I wasn't even believing in myself.
She takes good care of you. She cares.
She pushes me every day to be my best.
She believed in me on and off the court.
Like, she saw me more than just a player.
She saw me as who I was.
At Coach W's house,
we're building a back deck, OK?
So, when y'all come over, you'll have a little more room
to spread out, hang out.
What I want to do today is work
on a big round table that y'all can all hang out around.
-OK? -OK.
And then underneath it, I have this idea for a base
that will look kind of like an upside-down basketball hoop.
-[Teeale] Like the net. -Like the net.
-OK, OK, OK. -That's neat.
-What do you think? -Yeah.
-Cool. -I like it.
[Ben] All right, let's go.
Oh, do-- OK.
-OK. -Get it now?
Yeah.
So we got point guard, Teeale, and shooting guard.
We've got power forward, Anna-Patrice,
and we've got center, Zae Zae.
This is a dominant three-on-three team.
One of you post players is going to post up right here,
and you're going to cut these. Who wants to run this?
-You wanna run it? -[indistinct]
[saw whirring]
I think Trista is gonna love this.
It's gonna be great for the team to hang out
and all that, but also the fact that
the girls helped with it, it's gonna be awesome.
-We have a surprise for you. -It's a very good surprise.
-We have a surprise. -And we love you.
-A lot. -And we want you to know that.
-And we appreciate you.
♪ Are you keeping it real? ♪
♪ I'm calling shotgun ♪
♪ Wanna see my baby run ♪
[groaning]
-Check this out, Katie. -How awesome does that look?
I am obsessed.
[Erin] It is so cool and collegiate and tweedy.
I'm obsessed with it.
Well, I want to thank both of y'all, because this is really
soft on my knees. -[Katie] That's true.
[Erin] You had a horrible time in here.
-That's right. -After days and days of agony.
But look how good it looks. The flowers are everything.
[Katie] Flower power's got it going on.
[Erin] This would look just as good in a house bathroom.
Slowed us down, but it looks good.
It does look good.
[Erin] I really wanted those flowers.
I really wanted that mosaic tile.
I know that the mud bed was a huge nightmare and a pain.
And making mosaic flowers in a hex tile floor is extremely
time consuming, as it turns out.
-But we also have other delays. -We don't have our toilets.
I've got custom doors coming for the toilet stalls
for the front. -The oak doors?
Uh-huh. We don't have our cold plunge.
We kind of have a list of things that we don't have right now.
We're gonna have to go into overtime.
Mm.
-I'm sure of it. -We're gonna have to wait.
We need another week, and then I think we can get
it done.
We really don't have a bathroom
or a wellness room to show them.
We would have the locker room to show them,
and that's just not enough.
Do you want to go talk to Trista with me?
OK.
[Erin] She's here.
Here we go. Here we go.
Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
-Hey. -I did the two-hand wave, too.
-Hi! -It's not me, I just...
-It's a whole thing. How are y'all? -Good.
What's going on?
Oh, just, you know, working on "Building champions."
-Oh, we love it. -Yeah, it is looking
so good. -Really good.
-Good -- OK. -Gorgeous.
-OK. -Um...
But you're here talking to me.
-There have been some delays. -Some delays.
-We don't have toilets yet. -Need those.
-We need another week.
Is this gonna cost more money?
-Nope. -No.
-OK. -We should be fine. We just need more time.
OK -- that really only puts us out of a spot for one.
-One game. -One game.
But we're almost finished with the deck.
Really?
So we'll be done at your house.
We'll be out of your hair.
We may just have to get dressed at the deck
and then -- and then come show up for the game -- OK.
I'm sorry, though. I'm sorry.
And I promise it's gonna be worth it.
-Don't tell your mom, OK. -I won't.
-I will not. -[Ben] I don't want her to be mad at me.
-♪ One, two, three, woo! ♪ -[buzzer blaring]
♪ I love to work for you ♪
♪ So let me do my job ♪
-[Ben] All right, we're gonna finish the deck -[Erin] Mm-hmm.
-We're gonna finish the locker room. -Mmm.
And we're gonna finish strong.
[Erin] All right, we got something to talk about in here.
Yes, we do. I got a lot of questions.
Yeah.
I got what you call Dave and confused.
I know you are, because I --
we want to do an ómbre backsplash.
-OK -- all right. -Which means a color gradient.
And I thought it would be fun to use, like, the old Jones color,
something that's close to the new Jones color.
And then end on a sunsetty, peachy orange at the top.
-Yeah. -I love these colors.
-They are sporty. -That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
I think of that building in downtown Laurel that's,
like, got the, it's got stripes and, like, red, yellow, orange.
-[David] Yeah, yeah. - Do you know what I'm talking about?
-I know what you're talking about. -We're doing a lot of cream,
a lot of, like, neutrals everywhere
so that we can have moments of, like, go team color. -Right.
Do you feel less Dave and Confused?
-Yes, I do. -OK.
-We're gonna make it. -We got this now.
[Erin] Yeah.
We don't have a locker room to show Trista yet.
-[Ben] But we got a big deck. -[Erin] And it is really nice.
The team came so we can surprise her with dinner.
Cole's gonna cook.
Are you ready to get your life back and get your windows back?
-I'm so excited. -Have you been peeking?
-[Cole] I have not. -[Trista] I have not.
Oh, we covered up all the windows.
-We have bought into the surprise so we're excited. -Yes.
-Let's do it. -And I'll kind of start here.
-Here we go. -Ready?
[all] Surprise!
[cheering]
Oh, this is so good.
-This is beautiful. -[Erin] Is it enough space?
-[Trista] Oh, my gosh. -[Cole] Yeah, totally.
This is beautiful. Is it enough space?
-[team] Yes. -OK.
-Look at the food. -Did you make it?
-Yeah. -OK.
They did make the table.
-What? -[Cole] Oh, that is a very nice table.
Oh, stop. I'm going to cry.
They helped you with this?
-Yes. -[Ben] They did.
-How were they? -They were great.
There was a lot of selfie videos happening.
I'm sure. I'm sure.
It's beautiful.
You all remember what the wood is?
-It's Spanish wood. -It's Spanish Cedar.
-That's right. -It's Spanish Cedar.
Spanish Cedar is a lighter weight wood, but also
it'll hold up forever out here. -I love it.
It's an upside-down basketball goal.
-[Trista] I love it. -Wait, do we get to -- we get to keep this?
-Yeah, it's yours. -Oh, that's cool.
[Ben] Cole gets to keep the table.
It's like he didn't know how this works.
He didn't know you give people furniture that you make. -I don't know what...
[Trista] I love the color.
It's the color of your shutters.
[Trista] I love it.
I mean, we ultimately decided a gate right here made no sense
when you have kids. -Yes -- perfect.
Exactly the functionality.
Wide stairs that I feel like I can get up
with a one-year-old in hand. -On your hip.
There's also the gate in your carport.
-[Trista] Oh, yeah. -[Erin] And so...
-The original one. -Our carport.
-You have a two-car carport. -I love it.
That's why it's massive.
-So you would have two-car spaces. -[Trista] Absolutely.
I mean, it'll hold up an entire basketball team.
Oh, yeah.
Now that I'm seeing this, I feel better about how
the locker room will turn out. -[Ben] Yeah, there you go.
-[Erin] You have trust now. -Yeah.
Just...
-Just a little. -A little bit more.
-Not sure why they doubted them in the first place, but -Yeah.
but now the proof's in the pudding.
-All right, well... -This is the appetizer, right?
Sure.
Cole's got the main course coming up.
-That's right. -And the locker room --
-Will be the dessert. -[Trista] Oh, yeah.
It's coming.
I guess I'm gonna go get the burgers.
-Here we go. -[Ben] Burger time.
-Yeah -- yeah! -[cheering]
[Ben] Come on, Cole.
Back to the locker room.
Yeah. We'll get there.
♪ Yeah, I tell you no lie ♪
♪ [No lie] ♪ I'm too excited ♪
♪ To see you in real life [Real life ♪
♪ You got me smiling ♪
We're getting deep into the season.
-Yeah, it's getting cold. -Getting cold.
Basketball season has started.
[Erin] And the second game is less than a week,
but we're really close.
We're about ready for game time.
Ooh, look at that! This is so real!
The men's team is gonna be so mad.
They're gonna be really jealous.
All of our graphics are coming in, so...
Our sign for media day.
And then this is where we have a moment to use the vinyl.
-You sticking that on? -Yes, sir.
Dang.
The red and Vegas gold are very strong colors.
And I just want to make sure that however we use them
in the locker room, it's not overwhelming.
And so this plaid is born from that.
It's gonna be so awesome.
It feels very residential in there.
At first, I thought, who would want to hang out
in a locker room?
-It doesn't smell like a locker room. -No, it doesn't.
We're going to have to work on that.
But now I really think, like, if you're living
in a dorm and you have an option to hang out here,
you're gonna choose this. It's looking good.
We're real close now.
We're down to the wire.
And everything's looking good in there as far as
our sauna install, privacy walls.
Also so last minute, it feels like.
But we're gonna get there.
Building champions takes time.
A lot of facets to the champion building.
-What's up? -Hi!
-How was the first game? -Oh, so good.
-Yeah? -1-0, baby!
-Yes! -All right!
-Oh, my gosh! -You are undefeated.
Look, we can just hang it up now.
Yeah.
So I'm sorry they didn't have a locker room for
that first win to celebrate. -Well, is that why we're here?
-That's why we're here. -It's time.
-It's time? -It's time.
I cannot wait.
The players don't come until later today, so...
They have class.
For now, we're just gonna show Trista.
-I hope she loves it. -JC on three.
[Ben and Trista] One, two, three.
-[all] JC! -Yes! Let's go!
[Trista] What in the world?
[laughs]
I'm gobsmacked.
This is beautiful.
This is wonderful. This is wonderful.
[Ben] It's really good.
[Erin] It looks like new leadership.
Oh, God, this is wonderful.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
And I just, like, I haven't seen the rest of it,
but it's just...
I was raised on Jones women's basketball,
and that's where I fell in love with the game,
and so it's really cool to see the improvements.
Y'all have outdone yourselves!
It's beautiful. It's really beautiful.
-It feels like a museum. -[Ben] It really does.
[Trista laughs]
[Trista] Oh, my gosh.
[Erin] We wanted it to feel like
an emphasis on the heritage of the school.
-And to feel more feminine. -[Trista] Yeah.
-To glow. -[Trista] Yeah.
[Erin] To feel like the warmth of home, because some of these girls are
very far from home for the first time in their life. -[Trista] Right.
And we felt like these carpet squares were fun.
-It feels like a Tweedy Collegiate texture. -[Trista] I love it.
These would actually look amazing in a house too,
like a kid's playroom or a home office.
And also, these are squares, so if there's a stain on one,
pop it out, pop in a new one. -Love that.
Stripping the black latex paint from these gorgeous
wooden lockers was huge for changing and transforming
how this room felt.
And on nights when you have game film nights.
Oh, my gosh.
-The sign. -[Ben] Mm-hmm.
-[Erin] Yes. -[Trista] Oh, it's so good.
We also have surround sound speaker systems.
Oh.
So they can play their hype music.
-Excellent. -[Erin] It can be an experience.
-[Ben] Yeah. -And then this wall.
I can't stop looking at it.
This wall, this is the old parquet flooring
that they had in the gym.
The day that you let me into the storage closet.
-This was up there? -This was up there.
And this is all that exists.
[Trista] You know I love a good wood floor.
It's beautiful.
This should be your media wall.
I think you set up a table there when you're signing
a new player and it's on the news.
That's your backdrop.
-Absolutely. -This is the spot.
Unbelievable.
[Ben] The trophies were all in that storage room.
Images of the teams from the archives
from the Alumni Foundation, but then your team of course. -[Trista] Yeah.
-The old with the new. -[Erin] Yep.
[Trista] They're gonna love it.
I'm not gonna be able to get them out of here.
-This is beautiful. -I hope that you can steal recruits away
from the D1 schools because they'll visit
and they'll see this and they'll think, I could come here
and be such a treasured part of a team that treasures me. -Absolutely -- yeah.
I want to show you what's really gonna be
your recruitment draw. -Oh, my God.
I don't know that I'm ready, like...
[Ben] I -- you're not.
What?
Can you believe that?
-[Trista] What? -[Erin] Yeah.
Is this a spa? Oh, my gosh.
-Yeah. -What?
[Erin] Dressing area. So they have privacy.
Pull the curtain for total privacy.
Shower, cold plunge, sauna,
taping and therapy table.
This...
-[Erin] It's crazy. -I don't know what to say.
-This is like luxury. -[Erin] Yeah.
[Trista] They're not gonna know what hit 'em.
Like, this is -- this is beautiful!
I love the floor.
It's so clean.
And also, a tiling man's nightmare.
Mr. David, like, he lived here for a while.
I saw him a bunch. I mean, it's gorgeous.
But there is more space in the other bathroom.
Oh, my god.
I keep forgetting that there's, like, more.
There's more for the girls who want to, like, go put on makeup,
we've got a whole space for them. -[Trista] OK.
OK. Oh, my gosh.
-What? -[Erin] Yeah.
Oh.
What?
I'm trying to remember what it looked like before.
-[Ben] Terrible. -[Erin] Not like this.
[Ben] So terrible before.
So the restrooms have total privacy,
two separate rooms, custom oak doors.
Custom oak doors, custom oak vanity, floating vanity,
easy to clean underneath.
Here, we wanted to light it like a makeup vanity for any
girls who want to fix up. And if they're posting selfies.
Oh, yeah. Let's make it marketing.
I love the plaid. This is so good.
I mean, you can basically live here.
-There's a kitchen. -Oh, I want to move in.
-I do. -[Ben] Be better -- better than dorm life.
Your locker has a crown, by the way.
Oh, thank you. I needed that.
-[Erin] You're the Bobcat Queen. -[Ben] Just so everybody knows.
-[Trista] Oh the Bobcat Queen. -[Ben] Yeah.
[Trista] I love that. That is my official title now.
[Erin] And then you have a kitchen. Look at that.
[gasps]
♪ ♪
-Look at the backsplash. -[Erin] Isn't that fun?
That's called Ómbre.
They're all set to make a little meal.
They are going to be beside themselves.
I'm beside myself.
This is so good. This is so good.
I found this in the storage. I'm telling you.
-Did -- I want to go up there now. -[Erin] I know.
You never know. -[Ben] You need to.
-This is unbelievable. -Oh, look at this.
[Trista gasps]
Lighting matters.
These girls are gonna think that they have, like --
they are gonna be so bougie after this.
They are. They'll be ruined.
I'm not gonna be able to tell them nothing.
Nope.
-They will be uncoachable. -Oh, no.
Yeah, I'm gonna be like, set -- "Line up, time to run,"
and they're gonna be fixing a snack in the kitchen.
-This is, wow. -"Wait, we're cooking in here."
Uh-huh.
Well, you gave us $75,000 from the donation, and I love it.
-[Erin] Mm-hmm. -[Trista] It's so good.
I wanted, from the beginning, somebody to have this project
that cared about the place as much as I did.
-Well, there is no one better. -And who better?
I can't wait to show them.
All right, so we'll set the lights.
-You're gonna get music ready? -Yes.
-Yes, I will. -You want to get the players?
-Yes, let me go get them. -OK.
A locker room like this does put a certain kind of pressure
on the coach and the team. -That's true.
-To win. -I'm expecting big things.
Ready?
[cheering]
[indistinct chatter]
Amazing! Like, mind blown.
[cheering continues]
[indistinct chatter]
-I think they like it. -I know.
I knew they were gonna love that lighting.
I can't believe this is our locker room.
[cheering continues]
-Oh, yes. -[indistinct chatter]
We recruit these young women as basketball players
and as athletes.
And they get here and they become mine.
They become part of my family. And so...
to give them a space that'll love them back
as much as we love them...
that's what really means a lot to me.
[Ben] We got foundation issues. It needs a roof.
We got bats.
[Erin] It's a pain to get rid of bats.
What is that? I don't like it.
This house is about making it livable first.
Bats are back.
Are we going to have bats forever?
[gasps]
No, no, no. This isn't our kitchen.
No, it's not. No, it's not.
This is so your kitchen.