Every forever home has its own story.
-[Drew] Yeah. -And we can't wait to help tell it.
It's been in my family for generations.
-[exclaiming] -Lucky smash, lucky smash!
[man] This is the next step.
[woman] The next chapter in my life.
[whoops]
After you. Welcome home.
[woman] Oh, my goodness!
-[man 1] Look at this! -[man 2] Oh, wow.
-[laughing] -Let's go!
It feels like home.
[exclaiming]
Come on, it's a group hug.
[all laughing]
-How's it going? -Oh, it's going.
Are you excited?
For the door?
No, for Hillary and Trae's house in Chatsworth.
Oh, yeah.
Way more excited about that.
A 1978 home...
'78 was a good year!
[Drew] The finest of years.
And it's a split level,
which can be interesting, but also challenging.
I think we might be splitting hairs on this reno.
-Huh? -Dad jokes.
-Percolate. -It's already starting.
[both chuckle]
We met when we were about 18 or 19 years old
when we both lived in Salt Lake.
We have our amazing 9-year-old daughter Cassidy
and our rambunctious and strong-willed
4-year-old, Anabelle.
I grew up in the same home until I was 18.
And I want my kids to have that stability,
that constant,
it's their safe place.
I grew up having to switch schools
every two or three years
'cause my mom would have to move
every few years with her work and things.
So, I never was able to really
get the friends and the family and things like that
'cause we were always just kind of on the move.
[Hillary] Chatsworth is a great community that we live in.
Our daughter can walk to and from school.
You can't do that a lot of places in LA comfortably.
It's more of that small-town feel.
Our home, you know, is our pride.
[Trae] As much as we love our home,
we want to personalize it a little bit more.
And just make it a little more us.
And we want our family to be more involved with us, too.
Hillary's always been very close with her family.
Uh, I haven't been as close with my family,
but we've been sure making those strides.
And part of that is having a space
where family members wanna come visit us
and spend time with us.
Not just a day or two, you know,
come down for a week.
[Hillary] We have been living in the home for eight years.
And we haven't renovated yet
because it's extremely overwhelming.
This house is open, everything close together.
So, if we start doing one room,
you have to do the other rooms to make it all match.
It needs updating and refreshing.
And we're honestly lost about how to do all that.
[Drew] Trae and Hillary picked a great house,
the corner lot.
It actually feels a bit like a resort.
[Jonathan] It does.
-Hey! -Hey!
I feel like we're in a resort town here,
-this is so gorgeous! -[Hillary laughs]
You got your resort shirt on, I like that.
Gotta represent somehow.
[Drew] Wow. What a first impression.
You know, honestly, from the outside,
it's a little deceiving
'cause I didn't think it would be this massive
when we stepped inside.
[Trae] Well, you know, it's hectic in Los Angeles.
We wanted something where we knew
we could kind of expand
and have a little room
to breathe and grow.
Down here, this is...
a little cluttered and chaotic feeling.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here,
I think you like wine.
A little bit, uh...
-[all laughing] -[Drew] Yeah.
[Trae] I like to dabble in buying and selling.
Call it my 'liquid retirement account.'
I sold a good chunk of my collection
to pay for our wedding.
-Oh, wow. -Oh.
[Trae] What, 11, 12 years ago now?
[Hillary] 12 years, yeah.
[Trae] And it's become a great hobby.
[Jonathan] You don't wanna have it like
a storage room in your living space.
You wanna have an actual
comfortable living space, right?
Because this is such a perfect space for the piano.
[Hillary] It is. It's my great-grandmother's piano.
She bought it in 1938.
-Oh, wow. -Oh, wow!
[Hillary] Incorporating my great-grandmother's piano
really means a lot to me
because we don't have family
super close to us.
So, it's nice having that...
little bit of home in our home.
[Trae] It's been a lot of fun, too.
Cassidy's learning how to play now.
[Jonathan & Drew] Wow.
[Hillary] She's very talented.
So, this is a plain-style porcelain tile?
-[Hillary] Yes. -[Trae] It's tile, yeah.
[Hillary] We did the flooring
because the carpet was gross.
So, then we were like, "Great."
Like, you can't paint just this room,
'cause you would have to paint that room.
-And this... -Yeah, exactly.
And it... it just becomes overwhelming.
The floors actually are quite nice.
My concern is,
I wouldn't wanna waste the money
that you put in here,
'cause you did a good job.
I'm wondering if we can get any more
to tie in.
[Hillary] We got it about four years ago.
We have a bunch left over in the back.
-But also, I found a rece-- -Like, 50 boxes?
-Hmm... -Yeah... no.
-Like, 10 boxes. -I can give you the receipt.
-[Hillary laughs] -Okay, good.
'Cause if we can match this up,
it would be great because
we try not to ever have more
than two different types of flooring
-in view at any time. -Mmm-hmm.
[Jonathan] Otherwise it starts to look
a little scattered.
These chairs are kinda cool, though.
This looks like it's from an old airplane
or something.
[Hillary] Aviator chairs, yeah.
[Trae] That's actually a wine barrel stave table.
[Jonathan & Drew] Oh, okay.
I didn't even notice there's a patio out here.
-Yeah. -Yes.
[Jonathan] So, this right now
blocks your access to the patio.
[Trae] It does.
[Drew] Do you use this space at all?
[Trae & Hillary] No.
I'm guessing, Hillary, this is your office?
It's actually the dining room.
We have this great table.
This is also my grandparents'...
[Drew] Oh, okay.
[Hillary] ...that they bought in, like, the 1960s.
But I'm working from home,
so this has now become my office,
as you can tell.
Every room here is so open and airy
except for this room, there's this wall.
So, even when we have
a family dinner in here at Thanksgiving...
[Trae] With the tiny door space, too.
-For the big people. -[Drew] Yeah.
-Yeah. -[Jonathan] Just fit.
So, you'd want us to find
-somewhere else for your office? -Yes.
I really struggle with trying to keep
work separate from home life.
And it'll be nice, definitely,
to have some separation.
especially when the kids come home early
and they're driving me nuts
when I'm just trying to get some work finished.
We have this space in the back.
It's an empty pool house.
It's our storage area, basically.
[Jonathan] Oh, okay. We can look at that after.
-[Hillary] Yeah. -Is there a chance
we can borrow one of these lights
for other areas of the home?
[all laughing]
[Jonathan] 'Cause you have 500 here.
[Hillary] But they're not that bright.
Oh, yeah.
I'm used to working with things
that aren't that bright.
[all laughing]
Uh, let's have a peek in the kitchen.
Oh, this kitchen has to go.
-Yeah. -I get...
There's like a...
a proportion issue in this house.
You walk in, it's so high.
The ceilings are great, they're grand.
This is so low that the contrast is crazy.
And even having micro-islands like this.
[Hillary] I would love to have a nice, big island
that had seating on it.
[Drew] If I lived in a house with that island,
I would look at it every day
and I would expect that it's like the baby island
that one day's gonna grow up.
You just wanna pinch its little cheeks.
Yeah, you want it to become a full grown island
and it never did.
Show 'em the best feature
-of our kitchen. -Oh.
Well, we do have this wonderful oven
that has a built-in microwave.
If you guys want any more kids,
take a step back.
[Jonathan & Drew] Oh.
-[loud thrumming] -[Hillary laughs]
Oh, my God.
Wait, how old is this house again?
-[ding] -1978 is when it was built.
That feels older than 1978.
The oven barely works
the way it is right now.
And it's to the toaster oven
for all of our lovely meals.
I've missed cooking a little bit.
And I've missed taking that time
with you or the kids.
I think just to have this nice, open,
cohesive flowing space.
'Cause that's where we naturally gather
anyway with our friends and family
when people are around.
[Trae] I just want a functional kitchen.
[Drew] Have you ever used the trash compactor?
[Hillary] Oh, I love it.
It's the best thing ever.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
-She loves the compactor. -Any house
I've ever been in that had one,
-I never used it. -Really?
This is the first house I've lived in
that's had one,
and I will never not have one.
They're fantastic!
-[Drew laughs] -[Jonathan] Wow.
It's a big area.
It's just...
oddly laid out right now.
If we remove the wall
that separates your dining room,
imagine how that would open up the flow.
Fingers crossed
we can raise the dropped ceiling
in the kitchen,
and maybe vault it to match
the pitch in the living room.
Your new kitchen would feel so much larger
with room for a massive island.
Oh, this is...
-Oh, you have a bar! -Yes!
[Drew] I'm starting to get a real picture here.
[Hillary and Trae laugh]
[Hillary] It's a theme.
[Drew] Okay, so this is
the real living space.
[Trae] It's where we hang out.
[Jonathan] You wanna keep the built-ins?
[Trae] We've talked about
either keeping the built-ins
or maybe even modifying them.
[Drew] Okay.
Or get rid of the built-in
and just do glass walls all the way across.
-I mean, the, the... -[Hillary laughing]
[Drew] That also'd be pretty cool.
Stand by one sec
while I just... "Hmm, let's see, cha-ching."
[all laughing]
Cha-ching, cha-ching.
-All right, we're good. -You can always dream.
Is the pool house
something we can look at?
[Hillary and Trae] Yeah, definitely.
It's beautiful out here.
It is. Oh!
Not so beautiful in here.
[all laughing]
I hate to tell you guys this,
but I think your pool house is haunted.
[all laughing]
[Drew] What's your dream for here?
[Hillary] Like, my office would be great.
But also to have a nice living space
so, like, grandparents could come out.
Give them their own space
away from the grandkids.
[Jonathan] A kitchenette,
a living area, a desk,
a bedroom, even a bathroom.
You got the space for it.
I don't quite get your style yet, though.
You have some very quirky pieces,
and I love it,
because your home should be
an extension of your personality.
Aside from, you know, fun and funky,
what do you like?
[sighs] I... that's a good question.
I like bright, fun, textures.
[hesitantly] Kind of mid-century modern-ish.
[Hillary] I like functional.
-[Jonathan] Mmm-hmm. -[Drew] Okay.
If I can take you on an inspiration tour...
That would help a lot.
[Drew] And that's something that can maybe pull out
a bit of that style.
I wanna narrow it in so we get it right.
How cool would it be
if he just took you to a haunted house?
[all laughing]
It would not be cool at all.
Not at all.
I guess it comes down to budget.
What are you looking to spend?
Our max budget right now is $230,000.
There's a lot of house,
-I will just put that out there. -Yeah.
You already spent a lot of money
on some of the floors
that we can try and keep.
So, that'll save some budget.
But there's a lot of really cool stuff we can do.
And this, I'm excited about.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
Well, do me one favor.
Just make sure, when we are working here,
you don't have anything that's gonna make me...
-[all laughing] -...jump out of my skin.
He will pee himself.
[all laughing]
Hillary and Trae are so afraid of renovating
their 1978 split-level home,
which I believe is technically called splitzophobia.
At he same time, they really wanna do it
because the girls are gonna grow up here
and they want the house to work for them
for years to come.
There's nothing like a little demo therapy
to help someone overcome their fears.
Go ahead and grab that door,
and just give it...
Let's see if we can tip it over.
-[exclaiming excitedly] -[Trae] Wow!
-Oh! -[all laughing]
[grunting]
All right, let's check out the entryway.
I feel like the railings
don't do the space justice.
You can go first.
I knew I was gonna work well with these guys
'cause there were sparks.
There we go.
That is how we roll.
Am I allowed to touch your mallet?
[Jonathan] Yes, you may.
-[Hillary giggling] -[Jonathan] Harder.
[Trae] It's like whack-a-mole.
[Jonathan] Oh, my gosh. This is coming up like butter.
I'm not even needed here anymore.
So, I'll see you after demo.
[laughing]
Break more stuff!
-So... -[Trae] This one's her dream.
-[Jonathan] This is your dream wall? -This is her wall.
I sat here for two years working in the dining room
staring at this wall.
And now you wanna break it.
-Yeah. Mmm-hmm. -[Jonathan laughs]
Yeah!
Boom! All right.
How long have you dreamed
about having the same high ceilings
in the kitchen as you have in the living room?
[Trae] Since we bought the house?
Yeah, since we moved in.
[Jonathan] No matter what option the choose,
we're definitely gonna be raising the kitchen ceiling.
It's just a matter of how high we can go.
And it looks promising.
There's insulation and HVAC up here,
but nothing that can't be relocated.
There are a number of different directions
we could go with the ceiling in the kitchen.
We could raise it up, keep it flat.
We could do a tray feature, or vault it
to match the other side.
Let me know what you think.
-[Trae] Woo-hoo! -[Hillary] Yay!
It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be so open.
This is great.
I'm probably leaning toward doing
a really nice, high, flat ceiling.
'Cause then it still gives us somewhere
to run all of our duct work and whatnot.
Do you trust me
that I can do that for you?
-That I can open it up? -[Hillary] Yes.
[Jonathan] If you do,
then trust fall to me from up there!
-[Hillary] Nope. -[Trae laughing]
[Drew] Hillary and Trae have a beautiful house
with high ceilings, a lot of space to work with,
so I thought I would take them to a house
that has beautiful high ceilings
and a lot to work with.
Wow.
[Hillary] Wow.
[Trae] The views are awesome, of course.
[Drew] The high ceilings are just stunning.
[Trae] The lighterness of it is kinda nice.
-[Drew] The lighterness? -[Trae] Yeah...
-So, more like-- -Is that a word, lighterness?
-No, I don't think so. -[Hillary laughs]
[Drew] But it sounds good.
-I know what you mean, so it doesn't matter. -Yeah.
[Hillary] I wish there was more color, though.
I'm fine with having, like, white walls.
You've got artwork on it
and something to bring the color in.
But I think having a pop of color,
like, other places...
[Trae] Yeah, pop of color's nice.
Texture's nice.
Do you like wood tones as well?
Stone, anything else?
We do. Uh... [sighs]
Trying to think what we do like.
[both laughing]
This is not going as well as I hoped.
-I know! -Yeah. Uh...
It's hard to even put in words
what our design style is
'cause when I see it, I know I like it.
But just to use the words to describe it
it's very difficult.
The kitchen is where
we need to focus a lot of energy.
[Trae] Wow.
Very clean.
[Drew] Are you talking about clean, like,
as in there's nothing on the counters
and is nice and polished,
or are you talking about the, like,
the slab look for the panels?
Yeah, that, and like, the shelving up there
is very clean, you know,
like, it's very...
Crisp lines, I guess.
I mean, if you want us to do
floating shelves like this,
we could do them.
[all laughing]
There's one thing you have not commented on
that I thought you'd be jumping up and down for joy with.
What the... the baby wine cellar?
-[all laughing] -The baby wine cellar!
Like, this is not nearly big enough for us.
For... for anyone else out there,
they'd be like, "This is massive! I love it!"
Wow, apparently I have to step up
my wine fridge game.
What do you wanna see in a kitchen for color,
for countertops and for the cabinets?
Like, they have a little bit more color
in the countertop itself.
Just because I feel like
if you have any dirt on this,
it's going to show dramatically.
-Yeah, they-- -Marble vein, I guess?
-Or texture? -Yeah, this is veining here.
[Trae] Or veining, that's the right word.
[Drew] I mean, it's just a little bit
of that contrast in there yeah, would be good.
Do you like dark cabinets,
or do you want something light for the cabinets?
I definitely wouldn't go with...
a darker color like this.
But having at least a little fun with it.
Wood tones, or grays...
[Trae] We could get both?
Yeah, yeah.
As long as it's not just all the same.
-[Trae] Yeah. -[Drew] Okay, perfect.
The one thing that does really elevate this kitchen
is it has a trash compactor.
-Yes! -No...
No, it doesn't.
Because no kitchen has a trash compactor.
-Ours did. -I know, well...
I just still find that funny
that that's your one thing
you're like, "Don't care about anything else."
Yeah, I don't really know,
but yet I want a trash compactor.
I do like it.
I mean, it's nice not seeing any appliances
out on the countertops.
It's gotten very cluttery in our kitchen.
I mean, I actually do love cooking.
I just don't...
have the desire as much anymore
with our current kitchen.
Because it's become more of a chore, right?
It's more work than it's worth.
Whatever you want, we'll do in your house.
And I know one thing that we're gonna try to do
is give you more height in the ceiling.
More height would be great for sure.
I really, really hope we can vault.
-Yeah. -That's gonna be the biggest changer
for that space.
And if we can't,
at least we can steal a little bit of height.
[Trae] That'll be awesome.
I like this.
I like the openness
and the connectivity between the eating space
and the prep space
and then this awesome view.
[Drew] And you're right.
When we open up that wall
between the dining and the kitchen,
you're gonna have a lot more light.
And also, it can give you better flow to your dining room.
It's not gonna feel like the dining room
is the end of the world where no one goes.
Yeah, that's what this conjoined...
I would really like to keep my grandparents' table.
That's what I was using as my office.
But that's actually their formal dining room table.
And I'd like to keep that as well as the chairs,
those were also their chairs.
I mean, that's amazing.
Any time you can keep something that has memories
or is a part of your family, absolutely.
I mean, it means we can save
and spend in other areas of the design.
So, that's perfect.
I really like these windows.
I like the openness,
being able to go from your eating area
up to outside.
This actually collapses all the way down to here.
So it all opens up.
-This whole thing opens up. -[Hillary] Wow.
[Trae] See? That would be rad
to be able to do something like that, but I'm sure that's not...
very affordable to do...
[Drew] I mean, we can look at it.
Absolutely we'll look at anything you want.
The best thing for us to do is dream big.
And then we'll look at the budget
and see where we can pare it down.
[Trae] I'm excited!
[Jonathan] While Drew's been honing in
on their design style,
my crew's been busy completing the demo,
getting rid of the last of the white tiles
in the front entrance and in the kitchen.
The kitchen ceiling, once we got in there,
was a mess of HVAC,
plumbing, electrical and six decades of dust.
But in the end, I think that Hillary and Trae
are gonna be quite surprised with the transformation.
Oh, wow.
-Whoa. Wow! -[Trae] Wow!
Holy schnikes.
-[Hillary] Wow. -[Jonathan] Pretty cool, eh?
[Trae] Did you notice?
We just walked across...
Holy crap, look at the steps there!
-No, I did not even notice that. -[all laughing]
[Drew] Wait a minute, guys.
-Everyone hold hands. -All right.
And let's all walk down together.
-Ah! -[all laughing]
This isn't the big thing, too.
Walk around here and look up.
Look at that.
-Whoa! -Wow!
[Hillary] That's crazy.
-[Drew] Is it? -[Trae] That's rad.
[Drew] You now match the pitch on the other side.
[Hillary] Oh, wow.
-You got acoustics in here now. -[Trae] Oh...
[sings opera note]
-[Trae exclaims] -Wow.
-Whoa.
[Trae laughs happily]
What's going through your mind?
Is it too much space now?
-Whoa! -Hey!
[Drew] What's going through your mind?
Is it too much space now?
-Whoa! -Hey!
[Drew] You were asking us to open this up!
-This is what you were wanting! -[Hillary laughing]
It wasn't really until we turned that corner
that the kind of, like,
'Oh, boy. What did we get ourselves into?' factor kinda hit.
When we first toured the house,
both Trae and Hillary were like,
"We want it more open, we want it more connected.
Higher ceilings!"
And now Hillary says it might be too big!
-No! -No. No, no, no, no.
No, you didn't.
What is going on?
There's something not good going on in your mind.
No, it's just... so different.
Just trying to absorb it.
In my mind,
you have a kitchen now
that has a far more open space,
the connectivity to the dining room.
But the sky's the limit for what we can do in here now.
And we did find your exact flooring that you put in,
so we will be able to match that up...
-Oh, great. -...and bring it through.
You ready for this?
-Yes. -So...
Option one.
With everything now opened up,
your kitchen will have room for a large island
and breakfast bar seating for the girls.
You'll have new appliances
and tons of storage.
We'll extend the existing wood gray porcelain tiles
through the kitchen
and replace the back window
with a brand-new sliding window
that will also work as a passthrough to the outdoors.
Your sunken family room
is where you and the kids spend most of your time.
The big, dark bookcase dominates that wall.
So, we'll modify it to frame the TV
and we'll also update the fireplace.
We'll add a large, comfy sectional
so everyone can gather together
and enjoy family movie nights.
We'll keep the bar exactly where it is
because it works well for entertaining,
but we'll give it a fresh, modern makeover.
We would also completely redo your pool house,
converting it into a flex space.
There'll be a home office for Hillary.
We'll add a convenient kitchenette.
And you'll get a guest bed behind a privacy wall
for when your parents stay over.
We'll even give you back some storage
by adding a closet.
[Hillary] That'll be really cool.
[Drew] Just off the living room at the front,
we'll transform your unused patio space
into a new wine room,
so you won't have to store all your wine
in the middle of the living room.
It'll have custom steel and glass doors
for a mid-century modern feel.
-[Trae] Oh, wow. -Option one...
would be $218,000,
would take eight weeks to complete.
But after eight weeks,
you would be moving in
and throwing your first party here.
How does that sound?
I love the concept just that...
instead of all of us kind of...
conglomerating in just the kitchen space,
you know, people spreading out.
What's option two?
[all laughing]
-"I don't wanna commit." -"And then?"
I don't wanna commit, I wanna hear the other option.
Yeah. Option two...
gives you the same makeover to the living room,
including the brand-new wine cellar,
down below to the bar, the family room area,
the pool house, all of those are exactly the same.
The big change,
here in the kitchen,
we would rip that wall out
and give you an entire collapsible glass wall.
-[Trae] Oh, wow. -[Hillary] Wow.
[Jonathan] We would shift over
and build a big pantry off to the right here.
We'd give you a bigger island,
so you'd still have a lot of that storage.
And then, everything would be set up for entertaining
so you can flow in and flow out.
-That... -Wow.
[Jonathan] ...does cost a little bit more
'cause there's some structure involved.
Option two would be $230,000,
but the same eight week timeline.
Just like the inspiration tour,
I like the openness
and being able to have all windows,
being able to open up the doors.
It's easier to see the kids in the pool
if we had, you know, had all windows there.
With that first option, though,
we get more counter space...
-True. -...to work off of.
And still have the views of outside.
-$12,000 is a lot of money. -Right.
I like the saving money part, personally.
[both laughing]
You wanna go with option one or option two?
-Option... one? -Two?
-What? Oh! -[Hillary laughing]
[Jonathan and Drew exclaiming]
Royal rumble!
I was trying to be nice for you!
Hold on, just...
look straight at me, don't look at each other.
Option one or option two?
-Option... one. -One.
-[Drew] Oh, yeah! -[all cheering]
[Drew] I love it!
-[laughing] -Option one...
is gonna be incredible.
This house is gonna do everything
it never did in the past for you.
Woo-hoo!
The next time you see it, it will be finished.
-Oh, wow. -Wow.
Soak it in, take two more seconds.
-Now, get out. -[Hillary laughing]
[Jonathan] We're starting by adding a new wine room
at the front of the house.
Hillary and Trae never use this patio,
so we'll be transforming it
into a primo spot for their vino.
That requires some digging,
trenching, and clearing away the last of the patio stones
to prepare for a new concrete slab.
-Here, guys. Pour it tight. -Oh, hey.
-Thank you, thank you. -Uno, dos...
[Drew] Yeah, stick it in there.
Actually, hey.
Where did you just come back from?
Argentina.
-Which is where you're from? -Yep.
And is there good wine there?
Yeah, Malbec.
Where's the wine, then?
You didn't bring it? We're in a wine room.
I'm getting ready.
As soon as I'm done, you know, with the cellar,
I bring the wine.
He goes to Argentina
does not bring back any Malbec
for his favorite people.
[sighs] I mean, this is ridiculous.
This is pretty amazing, though.
Even though I am not a connoisseur,
it's so cool to take a wasted space like this
and turn it into a massive wine room.
I feel like this is going to give them extra storage,
but also give them their living room back.
Exactly.
[Jonathan] At Hillary and Trae's, we're gonna keep
the solid oak built-ins in the sunken family room,
but I have an idea to modify the design
to amp up family movie nights.
This is gonna be a little bit precarious
because we don't have to overspend
by completely rebuilding all of this.
This is solid wood. It's in good shape.
We can paint a lot of it.
But we're going to be reusing most of the wood,
so I don't wanna damage it.
So, they have an 85-inch TV,
so we're trying to make it look like
this was customized to fit the TV.
So I had an idea.
Zooey and I, in our bedroom,
we have the built-ins.
Let me see if I can find a picture of it.
Um, one sec here.
-Uh... -[Drew snores]
-[Drew] Tell me what I need to smash. -Hold on!
I have a picture of what I'd like to do.
Ah! Okay.
Say hello to my little friends!
-[Jonathan chuckles] -I will smash your phone
-if you don't put it down. -No, got it. Here it is. Okay.
-This is what I'm talking about. -[Drew] Okay.
So this was the idea, when we built this,
have the shelf that's in line with the other shelves
and then the TV feels a lot more fit in.
In fact, I think we could size it
even better to fit the TV.
So we would reframe this in
-right here. Yeah. -[Jonathan] Exactly.
No, I think that'll look perfect.
It's gonna be clean.
We'll paint out all the wood.
We'll make it feel very contemporary.
Don't ask him for a photo to show what it could look like.
Oh, actually, I can show you.
I have a photo.
-[sings] Ah! -[Drew] All right.
[Jonathan] We've managed to vault the kitchen ceiling,
but bringing things up to code
has a ripple effect on our reno.
I'm having a hard time figuring this out.
The fact that we had to expand our roof structure to 2x12s...
Now, all of a sudden, it doesn't match the height of the other ceiling.
[Drew] I still don't understand
why we had to use these 2x12s in the first place.
[Jonathan] Because code has changed since the house was built
with the deadload that you can get on the roof structure.
They want to see more stability.
So the engineer requires
that this is beefed up to 2x12s.
There's just so much to consider up here
[chuckles] that it's giving me a headache.
How do we route our HVAC?
The vent hood. Where does it vent out?
I mean, it is tricky. I don't think
we necessarily have to hide everything,
but we can find simple solutions.
I don't wanna add a lot of work to our plan
because we have a lot to do in a short period.
I fret because I care.
Not only do we have this weird lip on the other side there
-where it doesn't match the height of the other ceiling. -[Drew] No.
We have this weird bump out here.
So now I have to hide this somehow.
No matter what you look at here,
it is not an easy, quick solution.
Am I hiding my frustrations well?
[Drew] No, no. I see that.
[Jonathan] In the kitchen,
the new, larger ceiling joists created a mismatch
with the height of the old ceiling in the dining room
where Hillary's makeshift office was.
We've solved the problem by furring down
the original ceiling a little bit
and adding a layer of drywall
to level out the two ceiling heights.
-Yo! -Ah! I have their floor tile.
If we can match up their tile
and carry that all the way through, it'll look nice. It could...
This looks like real hardwood, but way more durable,
and it'll save us a ton of money.
Well, as you know from that floor, they like gray.
That's what they want for their kitchen cabinets.
They would like some earth tone as well, some wood.
So I'm trying to figure out the best gray.
[Jonathan] Like, light gray or dark gray?
[Drew] Um, not overly dark, but dark.
[Jonathan] This is like a nice...
That's where we can get the natural tones coming in.
[Drew] That is nice.
Can we do something like this?
Very slim profile for the gray cabinets.
I think that would look really nice.
So, if we did Chelsea Gray
with this low profile
and then we have some sort of a detail
for the wood tones.
I can get on board with this!
-Counters. Do they want... -[Drew] Yes.
[Drew] They want light gray. They like veining.
They like white. I think we just keep it simple.
We have something that's a bit of that marble look.
-Boom. Look at that. -That's nice. That's bold.
I like the detail too.
Something that's quirky and different.
You saw their artwork before.
Like, they just like to stand out.
They don't wanna be normal boring.
I think it's the same for the backsplash.
I got options.
Okay.
So, thoughts for the main kitchen. We have the gray,
we have the wood tone, we have the white countertops.
-Is it too much white if we do a white backsplash? -[Jonathan] Little bit.
What about something that's got a little pattern to break it up?
[Drew] I feel this is a bit busy.
[Jonathan] I need to know, is it a herringbone or is it a chevron?
-[Drew] It's a cherringbone. -[Jonathan] Oh, yeah?
-Yeah, it's both. -I like it.
Why don't we kinda do... Why don't we do this for the main kitchen
and then sister it up into the pool house with this one.
-Okay. -They're gonna love this.
[Drew] Hillary was desperate
to get her home office out of the dining room.
And soon, she'll have her own
dedicated office space in the pool house,
which will also double as a flex space for visiting family.
All right.
This pool house is gonna look so beautiful when it's done.
It will look pristine, brand new.
You would actually never know
that this looked so dark and dingy before.
Maybe this is where I can stay when I come over.
[Jonathan] Were you invited?
In the main house, we're re-routing
the HVAC and the gas line
to keep our maximum ceiling height in the kitchen.
There you go.
Do it. [grunts]
-All right, -Boom.
Grill, grill, grill. Eat, eat, eat.
-Entertain, entertain. -[chuckling]
-I'm excited for these guys. -That's how you entertain?
-That's exactly how I entertain. -[laughing]
Things are progressing pretty well with the new vaulted kitchen,
but there's one piece of the puzzle
that hasn't quite come together yet.
[Drew] Yeah, we really should have
our new sliding window by now, but, so far, it's a no show.
I'm checking with our supplier,
but there seems to be a backlog.
In the meantime, we're completing
everything we can in the kitchen.
We're upgrading all the electrical
and re-routing the plumbing
to accommodate new appliances
and a giant island.
But that's not all that's going on today.
Trae likes a mid-century modern vibe,
so we're doing some custom stair rails in welded steel
to create a focal point in the front entrance.
The new wine room will help Trae and Hillary
reclaim their living room space.
And we have an idea for something elegant
and timeless for the entry doors,
crafted by our friend, Johnny Emerick.
Johnny is a man of mystery.
Everything he does, he does with style.
[Jonathan] With the footings in and our rebar tied,
we can start pouring our new concrete slab.
All right. I mean, we're gonna have this completely filled
-in less than probably 10 minutes. -[Gus] 10 minutes.
We've got good coverage here already.
-All right. -And then just kind of work around
-and then pull it back to the house. -And then...
Then, once we get the top done, nice clean trowel...
I think I got a little concrete in my mouth.
We were lucky to source the exact same
porcelain floor tiles they already had.
It saves us a fair amount of work and money
not having to redo all the flooring
for that consistent look which we'll have running
throughout the new kitchen and everywhere.
To remedy their mismatched flooring problems,
we've even sourced enough of the same porcelain for the pool house.
By the way, I love this tile. You know, coming from the pool,
it doesn't matter, you know, if you come wet.
-Nothing's gonna happen to this tile. I love it. -[Jonathan] Yeah.
-[Gus] And it looks like wood. -[Jonathan] Yeah, you get the beauty of hardwood
without the vulnerabilities of it.
Well, and it's nice that it ties into the main house too
because then there's continuity between the two spaces.
[Gus] Mmm-hmm. Cool.
-We're getting real deep about tile here. -[chuckling]
[Drew] Finally, the floors match.
It's really nice to see that even flow throughout.
It does make a difference.
You can't actually tell which flooring was already there
and which flooring we've put in. Everything matches.
It even stretches under the stairs
where we're building a secret kids' adventure zone.
Hillary wants this home to be Annabelle and Cassidy's
childhood forever home,
just like she had growing up.
How can you go wrong with a secret kids' space?
I mean, at four and, what, nine years old,
Trae and Hillary's kids are going to love this spot under the stairs.
We're still on the same page, though, that we're still making
a shelf of some kind here so it's hidden, right?
Then it is still partially functional 'cause
they can kinda put some shoes on there.
Maybe, one of the shoes, you pull it forward...
-[mimics door squeaking] It opens up. -Hmm.
You do whatever you wanna do.
As long as there's a secret door, I'm happy.
Trae fell out of love cooking in the old kitchen
with an island the size of a postage stamp.
Now they'll have tons of kitchen cabinetry
and even more storage and prep space.
-Something is holding it. -Sure it's not locked?
-It's definitely not locked. -Let me help you. Let me go to,
-you know, to the outside. -See if you can delicately push on the...
-Yeah. There we go. -[grunts] There we go.
[Gus] There you go.
The kitchen is coming along beautifully.
Everything it almost done.
The window, on the other hand,
not gonna happen.
Okay, let's talk reality for a second.
I just got word,
the window, we cannot get it.
It's gonna be another two or three months.
I just got word, the new window, we cannot get it.
-It's gonna be another two or three months. -Yeah.
-What? -They're... Yeah, exactly.
[Drew] It's already been so delayed.
That was the first thing we ordered.
The first thing that we ordered.
Product delays. This is a bit of
the way of the world right now,
but we do our best to navigate the seas
and we're gonna make this house beautiful no matter what it takes.
This is a good quality window.
-[Gus] They are. -It's all wood.
We'll paint this up. We'll clean it up.
They can still pass in and out,
-you know, and it saves them money. -Yeah.
Repurposing a window that's already in pretty great shape
saves us a ton of money.
We can put that money towards something else.
[Drew] With the custom kitchen cabinets installed,
the countertops can go in.
The bar area was functional,
but it needed a style overhaul
and Hillary's getting the veined quartz countertops she loves.
The kitchenette is coming together
in their pool house transformation.
They'll get so much more use out of this flex space.
The pool house will do double duty
as Hillary's new home office
and a brand new guest suite.
Then, in the main house, the dining area
can actually function as a dining area.
[Jonathan] You can't have your office in the dining room.
You need to have your dining room in the dining room.
So I feel like Hillary now's gonna have
this incredible space
and all the privacy she needs.
Back inside the main house,
we've got tile going down on the wine room floor.
In the kitchen, the backsplash is finally being installed.
We're using that cool herringbone chevron tile.
Cherringbone. Isn't that what Drew called it?
Hillary and Trae were overwhelmed by a split-level renovation,
but Drew and I were up to the challenge.
After eight long weeks,
all we need now are the finishing touches
and, well, a family
to move back in and enjoy it.
I've been anxious for a week [chuckles] about this.
Last night, he got anxious, so then I was calm about it.
The emotional rollercoaster
started setting in last night after I got home from work
-and... -Yeah.
-It's wild. -[both laughing]
-Oh, you're giggling! -Oh, you're giggling. You must be nervous.
-A little excited, a little nervous. -Yes.
You think we screwed up or something?
No! It's just, you know, change. Change.
-Whoa! -Whoa!
[both] Wow.
[Trae] Oh, hey, now. Holy schnikes.
-[all chuckling] -[Hillary] I am, like, speechless.
[Drew] It really is a transformed first impression.
[Hillary] This is amazing.
[Jonathan] The piano without all the clutter around it
-is just stunning. -[Trae laughing]
It's amazing. It looks like it's supposed to.
I mean, that was my great-grandma's piano.
My grandmother played it. My mom and her sisters played it.
I played it as a little kid. It looks so great.
[Drew] We'll get to where the wine storage is in a little bit,
but here, you now have a space
that feels ready to entertain.
[Trae] It really does.
-Holy crap. Look at the stairs. -[Hillary] Oh, my gosh.
[Drew] I mean, you guys have a funky personality.
I know you wanted a fresher feel for the space,
but we wanted to make sure you still had
some of that funky flair and style and...
-[Trae] This is beautiful. -[Hillary] Perfect.
-[Drew] The biggest difference here is... -[Trae] That's true. Look.
-Steps all the way across. -...how open it is all the way across.
-Yeah. -Into the grand entrance.
That really opens this whole...
-[Drew] All the way to the edge here. -[Trae] ...space up.
[Drew laughs] Yeah.
It was tricky to source
enough of the same tile to match what you had, but we did it,
and now everything feels like it ties together.
[Trae] Yeah, it really does.
We wanted to make sure that Cassidy and Annabelle
have a little something fun too,
so instead of just putting generic storage
under the stairs...
What's the secret knock?
[Hillary laughs]
[Jonathan] ...there's a whole space for the girls.
-[Hillary] Oh, my gosh. -[Trae] Oh, no. They're gonna love this.
[Hillary] Oh, my gosh, Cassie's gonna die.
-I could live in there. -[all laughing]
[Drew] We're trying to make sure we're utilizing every square inch.
And that could just be storage for you down the road, but, for now,
for the kids, I think it's just something fun.
-[Trae] They're gonna love that. -[Hillary] Yeah.
[Drew] You guys have a quirky style. I love that.
And we wanted to make sure the house still feels like home
-so it's nice to be able to utilize your pieces. -[Hillary] Yeah.
[Trae] And that was my first impression, was, like,
walking in and seeing the pieces that we've known
and we've loved and we've gotten over the years already in here.
It just, it's like... [sighs]
I'm back home again.
-I mean, this is for entertaining your guests... -Yeah.
...this is for the girls,
but the kitchen is all for you guys.
-[Trae] Oh, boy! -[Jonathan chuckling]
-Holy crap. -[chuckling] Ooo!
-I mean, this is for entertaining your guests... -Yeah.
...this is for the girls, but the kitchen is all for you guys.
-[Trae] Oh, boy! -[Jonathan chuckling]
-Holy crap. [laughing] -[chuckling] Ooo!
Holy moly.
[Hillary] Wow.
This is our house. Wow.
[all laughing]
[Trae exhales] Oh, jeez, he openness is awesome.
-[Drew] The world's largest island! -[Hillary] Whoo!
We figured the man with all the island shirts needs to have an island.
-[all laughing] -[Jonathan] I love and am envious
of the length of this island.
Tons of seating. You have your dishwasher in here,
your built-in microwave under the counter, you have a wine fridge.
All the things you could possibly need in here.
[Hillary] This'll be great. Like, right now,
the girls can just sit at the counter.
Nobody else can sit with them. So they'll start eating
and then he and I go to a different room
'cause there's no place for us to hang out.
But now we'll be able to hang out together in the kitchen.
[Jonathan] I thought of something that will actually
-bring you to tears. Come over here. -[Hillary] Okay.
-Oh. -[gasps] Is it a trash compactor?
[Jonathan sings] Ah!
-Yay! I'm so excited! -[all laughing]
-[Drew] She's never been so excited. -[all laughing]
-[Trae] It's the little things. -The girls also miss
-having a trash compactor. -[Jonathan] There you go.
Now you got it back. Make the whole family happy.
It was also a big decision that you guys made
to take the ceiling all the way up.
-[Hillary] Yeah. -[Jonathan] What do you think?
[Trae] When we saw the house opened up,
I was worried it was gonna be too wide and too expansive
and just too much,
-but this is rad. -No, I mean,
when you have this kind of opportunity,
you take advantage of that.
You need to have that height.
-You have appliances that actually work. -[all laughing]
I mean, I really miss the dual oven with the microwave built in.
It's gonna be really sad.
We can actually cook. No more, uh, countertop, little toaster oven.
-It's the largest oven we've ever had. -[Hilary] In 20 years,
this is the largest oven we're gonna have. This is so great.
-[Jonathan] Tons of storage as well. -[Trae] And these colors.
-It has a little bit of green in it which you love. -I like it.
[Trae] The gray.
This wall, it's gone.
[Drew] This is what it was meant to look like.
Not your office. A dining room.
-Oh! Oh, okay. [laughs] -Wow.
-[Jonathan] The flow is now so good. -[Trae] Yep.
[Hillary] It'll be great when we have family gatherings
'cause now we can see you and talk with you
-while we're in here. -That's true.
Well, and you know, this is the same table. It's by grandparents' table
and it's beautiful. In the old space it was so...
-[Drew] Yeah. -[Trae] There wasn't a lot of space.
It's nice to be able to reuse
your pieces, your family's pieces.
The chairs are amazing as well.
That's what makes it feel more like home.
[Hillary] The fact that we are able to integrate stuff.
Families are important to me.
I come from a larger family than Trae does.
You know, like, my parents are gonna be here next week,
so, you know, I'm very excited for them to see it.
This is amazing.
[Trae] I could never imagine
being able to give our girls something like this.
I mean, I can definitely see the happiness in you
-'cause your face is starting to turn red. -[all laughing]
You're gonna do some epic entertaining here,
but nothing will make you two smile more
than your new wine room!
-Come on down! -[all exclaiming]
So excited for the wine room. So excited. You know why?
'Cause it's not out in the middle of the living room any more.
-This is awesome. This is amazing. -Wow!
-[Drew] 1,200 bottles will fit into this room. -[Trae] Whoa!
-Wow! -[Hillary] It's doable. It's doable.
[Drew] Isn't this a great use of space?
-Cool. This is awesome. -Yes.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
No boxes are underneath the piano.
-[Drew] Oh, weird! -[all laughing]
I figured, Trae, you would be the one
that would be all about the wine room, but, Hillary,
I figured you would love the style of these doors.
-Yes. -We had a friend of ours, Johnny, come and make these.
They're stunning. It almost feels like what you'd see
-in New York loft. -[both] Yeah.
[Trae] They're really cool.
This is a room I can die in.
[all laughing]
Yes. Well, enjoy it first.
Okay, we'll see you later. Bye.
[all laughing]
Your transformed bar and living space.
[Hillary] Oh, my gosh.
-[Trae] Ooo. -[both laughing]
-Look at the bar. Yes! -[all laughing]
-[Drew] Isn't it great? -[Hillary] Yeah.
[Drew] Now, walking into your entertainment room here,
there are two ways you can go.
The boring way,
-or you can just go this way. -[all laughing]
-And then you gotta redo the pillows. -[Trae] Then I'll fix that.
This is, feels so much more intimate.
It feels like a family room now.
[Drew] These are your original built-ins.
-[Trae] Oh, is it? -[Drew] We just cut a hole in the middle,
we put a new front on it and then we painted it.
We wanted to make sure that we're saving money anywhere we could, but...
-What do you think? -[Hillary] I like it.
[Trae] Great re... Re-utilization, re-imagination...
-[Jonathan] Re-purposing. -Re... Re-purposing! That's right.
-It does look like everything was custom made for that TV. -[Trae] It does.
[both exhale]
-[Trae laughing] -There's, like, enough space
for all of us to sit on the couch together.
-[Trae] And then some. -[Hillary] I know.
-[Drew] I mean, this is the movie spot. -[Hillary laughing]
[Trae] I feel like this is gonna now become, like, our little family space
and upstairs will probably become, like, for socialization.
[Jonathan] Would you like to see what you called
-your pool house? -[all laughing]
-[Jonathan] I think it was more of a storage pile. -A haunted house.
Oh, wow. Wow.
[all laughing]
[Hillary] This looks so different.
Dude!
It went from... [sings spookily] Ooo-ooo!
-...to, "Wow!" -Whoa!
[Drew] To me, this is such a good flex space.
Like, it's a dream to have something like this
-separated from the main house. -Oh, yeah, definitely.
The desk is gonna be perfect for me.
I love the built-in cabinets over here and there's so much space
for me to spread out with all my work stuff.
I can still have that separation
I like to have between work and home.
-I can lock everybody out. Perfect. -[Drew] Exactly.
Maybe they want to lock you out of
-their family zone. -And I'm good with that,
so I can work. [laughs]
I like how the flooring came out here too.
It's amazing.
What do you think of features like this, too?
It's a beautiful way to not close off the bed area,
but also create a little separation.
[Hillary] Oh, I like it because, otherwise, it would feel like...
This entry way would feel very closed in. But this still gives you
-the openness of the space in a small area. -[Drew] Yeah.
I love this. This is awesome.
[Drew] It's such a great use of space
compared to just a dark storage room.
This was meant to look like this.
-[Trae] Yeah, it really does. -[Hillary] Mmm-hmm.
[Trae] I still can't get over, like,
this feeling like a little mini home.
Well, I think, of all the houses we've renovated,
this has a wine room, the bar area,
and I think this is the most set up to celebrate.
Who wants to have an island party?
-Whoo! -Island party. Yes!
-[laughing] -I'm so overwhelmed,
so I still don't even know how I feel yet. I...
None of this has set in quite yet.
I definitely am already feeling super re-energized.
You guys have been a joy to work with
and, hopefully,
this transforms everything in this home
because I want it to be filled with laughter and love.
And here's to you guys.
To friends and memories.
-Thank you so much, guys. -Cheers.
It already feels nicely, like, lived in,
like, it's meant to be this way, versus...
-Synergy. It has synergy. -Synergy. That's a great word.
-Why don't we go this way. Whoa! -[children laughing]
-[Trae] More family time. -[Hillary] Mmm-hmm.
I'm really looking forward to more of that.
-What! -Whoa!
-Secret room! -[Trae] Whoa!
[all laughing]
-[Drew] Are we allowed in there? -No!
-What? What? Aw! -Wait, what? Hey!