Every forever home has its own story.
And we can't wait to help tell it.
It's been in my family, uh, for generations.
-Let me trash. Let me trash. -Yeah.
[Jonathan] This is the next step.
[woman] The next chapter in my life.
Hiya!
-[Jonathan] Love it. -Whoo!
After you. Welcome home.
[woman] Oh, my goodness.
-Look at this. -Oh, wow.
Let's go.
It feels like home.
-Argh! -[laughter]
Come on for group hug.
Emily and Adhir, two actors living down the street from you.
They have the best of neighbors.
Yeah.
[Emily] We've been married for a little over five years,
but we've been together for over a decade.
[Adhir] And we actually met at an audition.
I was working on a show at the time, and Emily actually
auditioned to play my girlfriend on the show.
She booked it and then I guess contractually and Adhir had probably said,
"Now we have to get married and be together for life."
[laughs] She didn't look at the fine print.
[Adhir] So we're decade later and here we are married with a new baby.
[Emily] Her name is Mira.
She is almost ten months now, and she's the love of our life, so really.
Yeah.
[Adhir] It's the two of us and our daughter, Mira.
We have a dog, Peyton.
And then we have five cats.
[indistinct chatter]
[Adhir] And...
[Emily] We foster kittens as well.
I think when Emily and I became parents, it became a priority
for us to find a home that we could really raise our daughter in
and any other kids we might have.
So that she could have a real sense of place, uh, a neighborhood
and a community that she could grow up in.
[Emily] Create memories, traditions.
[Adhir] Create memories and traditions in.
We looked and looked and looked and we honed
in on a particular neighborhood.
And lo and behold, we found the "Forever Home."
Before we bought the house, we had only seen it staged.
So once we got the keys and went in for the first time and saw it empty,
we knew the house needed work.
That's one of the reasons we were able to get into this neighborhood,
but it was way more work than we thought,
so much so that we haven't been able to move in yet.
Ouch.
It looks like they were fooled by the staging.
Mira, say hi.
It is a blank canvas, but for us, that's a little overwhelming.
Yeah, it's like scary that it's a blank canvas.
We are putting all of our resources into making this our forever home.
But we desperately need help to bring dreams
-to reality really. -Yeah.
Hello...
Hi, come on in.
It's so nice to meet you.
[Adhir] It's so nice to meet you. Welcome.
-Welcome. Come on in. -Thank you.
-All right. This is a gorgeous house. -[Emily] Yeah.
It does kind of have, like, a cuckoo clock, kind of a feel.
[laughter]
So, we both come out at the same time.
Or isn't there usually one you're chasing it with a pan
or something like that.
I love the arches.
We are huge fans of this Spanish style as well.
So I assume that's something you want to keep?
The more arch is the better.
-Yes. -Okay.
So what is it that made you decide this is the one?
You heard, Drew Scott lives in this neighborhood?
Yes. We're just following you.
Getting as close as we can.
-Smart... -[laughs]
When we kind of looked for a neighborhood that had,
like, a real residential feel and kid friendly.
You know, we kind of were drawn to this area.
What's the original age of the home is it?
-1923. -1923, yeah.
Same with mine.
I can... I'll, I'll literally give you a list of all the problems
-we had in Drew's house. -[laughs]
I love the Spanish style homes in this area.
This has so much potential, but there's also a lot of issues in older homes
and we're gonna have to deal with those.
I would personally suggest doing something with this gorgeous
barrel ceiling that you have, like do a wood treatment and white oak.
[Drew] I actually did something awesome with an original
barrel ceiling in the last season of Brother versus Brother.
Yeah, I never even thought about that, but that would be awesome.
[Drew] Another big decision, floors.
[Emily] Most of the floors are original and so we love that aspect of it as well.
We actually don't love the blue tiles.
What's this here?
You've got, like, an intro surprise thing.
[Emily] This was a test patch.
These are actually little sticker decals.
[Adhir] This is how much we disliked the blue tiling.
[Jonathan] So you would like to pop the blue tiles out and put something in,
but you want to keep the other tiles?
Ideally.
And I don't know if that's if that's hard,
but I just think the blue is so specific.
And by specific you mean not our taste at all.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[Jonathan] So you do want to keep the terracotta tiles,
but you do not want to keep the blue tiles.
Got it.
Well, since you don't like the blue tiles on the floor,
how do you feel about them on the fireplace?
-We don't love the fireplace. -Here's the problem.
-That's also not the original mantle... -No.
...that would be what was there.
If this fireplace was original to the 1920s home,
it would be done in stucco or textured plaster.
When we walked into the space, and I saw the history,
the character and the charm of the home,
we really wanted to try and restore it to what perhaps it once was.
So next is the dining room.
[Jonathan] So your dining room is just around the corner
from your living room, but divided by a wall.
-Hold on, hold on. -Oh, wow.
Whoa. Holes everywhere.
[Emily] I know.
[Jonathan] There's some weird things in this house.
[Drew] What is that? Is that a laundry room?
[Adhir] Yeah, this is...
Yeah, they use that as a laundry room originally,
but we felt like having laundry there made no sense
because all of our clothes would be upstairs.
Upstairs, yeah.
It makes sense, because when you're eating and having a sophisticated,
elegant, romantic dinner and you spill,
you want to be able to rip your shirt off and throw it through the wall.
-Shuffling into the laundry room. -It's convenient.
[Jonathan] Convenient to the laundry room.
-It's convenient if nothing else. -Yeah.
I love a formal dining room.
-I think it's a great place to host parties. -[Emily] Hmm-mm.
I just don't like when it's completely isolated from the kitchen.
My question is, what is that big thing jutting out into the room?
-[Emily] I have no idea. -[Adhir] We don't know.
[Drew] Trust me.
Whenever you see an oddball jut out like that, it's gonna be hiding,
HVAC runs, plumbing stacks, you name it.
-I'll need to investigate. -[Adhir] All right.
-[Jonathan] To the kitchen. -[Emily] Okay.
This is beautiful, though.
I love this.
-Oh, wow. -This is not so beautiful.
Whoa! It keeps going and going.
[Drew] This is huge.
Did you stop ripping apart or was it like this when you got it?
No, unfortunately, there was mold all over the kitchen
and they pulled out the walls.
We don't have a sink, so it's kind of a mess.
Yeah, we thought initially maybe we could move in and do things piece by piece.
But after they ripped this all out, we thought, "Oh, we need little help.
-This is not a useable kitchen. -You saved me some work.
[laughs]
[Drew] Do you want to keep the kitchen this expansive?
Maybe if there's any way to make it eaten, that would be great.
Just so that this could be more of a space where we actually can hang out.
[Jonathan] I assume that's probably a pantry behind there.
-[Emily] Yes. -[Adhir] This is a pantry.
[Jonathan] Which you can't even access because of the door.
-Because of the door. -[Emily] Right.
[Jonathan] We can relocate the pantry somewhere else
and transform that corner into a cozy eat in breakfast nook.
I'll build you banquette seating,
which is one of the best ways to create space.
And I'll add a round table.
It'll make a world of difference and how you use your kitchen.
[Emily] Yeah, I love that.
And then if we could hold on to all of the silverware on the carpet,
you know it'd be great, too.
[laughs]
What kind of maniac puts the fork on the right and the knife on the left?
[laughs]
[Jonathan] Crazy.
The kitchen is in really bad shape.
Listen, if it could be functioning, I think that's a win,
because right now it is completely unusable.
Do you want to keep the range?
So this is the one thing in the kitchen that we feel is worth holding on to.
-Okay. -Oh, it's amazing.
Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna inspire us to do some cooking.
-[Jonathan] So this is where the laundry was? -[Emily] Yeah.
[Jonathan] You actually could use this as a pantry or even you could actually
have a storage room and a pantry.
-[Adhir] That would be really, really wonderful. -[Emily] Yeah.
What is going on outside over here?
So that is our patio and this actually...
-[Drew] Is that patio? -Yeah.
This didn't come with the house.
We actually had this built on after we purchased the house.
[Drew] Oh, wow.
The funniest thing to me is the first renovation they tackled
in this house was for the cats.
When you have this place done and you actually move into this house
and you see Mira running around the kitchen and birthday parties,
how is that gonna make you feel?
Just knowing that we found a house... Oh, my gosh.
And knowing that we found a house that we really do see us being in long term
and growing our family and we love so much.
We're so excited and we feel so lucky to be here.
Yeah.
I mean, the first time we walked into the house, we already started having
what felt like silly conversations.
You know, this is where we're gonna put up the Christmas tree.
This is where we're gonna hang Christmas stockings.
Yeah. The house is beautiful.
You were picturing yourself living here even before you got the place,
which I mean, it just this house speaks to you like you said.
So, keep in mind, to renovate a house like this with the age
of the home and all the rooms that we need to tackle,
it's gonna be expensive.
What is your budget?
Two hundred and sixty thousand, max.
Okay, that's a great budget.
-But there is a ton of house that we're working with here. -Sure.
-[Drew] And there's a lot of moving things around. -Okay.
[Drew] We're gonna need to focus all your resources on the main floor, kitchen,
living room, pantry, dining, the spaces you'll be using most.
Okay.
In style wise, I know you like the Spanish style of the home.
-[Emily] Yes. -But what do you want for your design esthetic?
What do you gravitate towards?
I mean, living here in Los Angeles,
I think we've always really liked that California Spanish sensibility.
Hmm-mm. Yeah.
With more of a modern twist.
-Yeah. -Not too refined.
-Yes. -There's a relaxed element to it.
Totally, yes.
Uh... But also, I want to take you to house for inspiration as well.
There's so much that we can show you to inspire you.
I'm thinking of actually taking you to my house.
It's of the same era.
And Linda and I wanted to celebrate its history as well.
-Yeah. I love that idea! -Absolutely!
Today is day one of the full reno.
Yeah. I'm not really feeling nervous at all.
We bought the house a while ago,
so it's just such an exciting time that now finally it feels like it's, it's happening.
See, I can tell there's no emotional attachment.
[Emily] Let's get rid of it all.
Is there anything that you're worried right now before we jump in?
Will this be a good time to let everyone know I'm pretty clumsy, so I'm...
Yes.
[Adhir] A little nervous about that, too.
-You will not be using this. -[indistinct chatter]
All right.
When you're working with professional world class actors
like Emily and Adhir, I expect more.
At least pretend, you know, demolition, you know?
Wait. Whoa. What's that?
What is that? Wait a second.
This is where you start to see the real bones.
-Oh... -[Jonathan] What is this?
[Emily] Oh...
[Adhir] This is the first time
-I'm seeing this like, so yeah... -[Emily] Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
We've actually never opened this cabinet before.
Never seen that before...
Something might jump out.
-Huh... -[laughs]
[Adhir] Wow.
That is not how you patch drywall.
[laughs]
But this is clearly been here for a long time.
I don't know what they were cutting a hole in the wall for...
Maybe it could have had something to do with the mold remediation.
They wanted to take a sample.
I have no idea, but what a dumb idea.
One, two, three.
[clattering]
Whoa!
How's it coming?
My side's good. Got going well.
Yeah. Okay. All right.
Adhir's just poking holes in the wall just like...
It does seem that with the...
You'd still be over there trying to get that counter off
of the wall if Jonathan didn't come to your rescue.
Yeah, but, you know, we did discover
there was a problem on the right side.
That's why.
Yeah, you were the problem on the right side.
[laughs]
[Jonathan] How is that possible?
Sure feels like there's something still screwed in there.
Hmm.
Let's give it a shot.
All right.
-Oh, yeah. -Whoa.
Feels good.
[Emily] Oh, yeah.
[Jonathan] Oh, my gosh. Argh!
I'm bringing in more muscle.
Can you come here and give us a hand, too?
Can you go here?
I'm going to get you to start prying kind of toward the middle.
They did do a good job as far as building it, because it is rock solid
and this thing does not want to come out.
But from an esthetic standpoint, ooh.
[Jonathan] What on earth is holding this thing?
Whoa.
Right. All right.
One, two, three.
-There we go. -Wow.
Success.
-Whoa! We beat you, house. -[laughs]
[Jonathan] My crew continues to demo Emily and Adhir's place,
where I'll be transforming their kitchen from something cold
and commercial to a kitchen they'll be proud to show off hosting parties
or just hanging out with friends.
[Drew] Jonathan, and I know that Emily and Adhir love Spanish architecture.
They love the era of their home.
They just want a bit of a modern twist.
And it just so happens that my casa is down the road from their casa
and our home is about the same age.
I can show them what Linda I did to our place
and I'll probably help us figure out their style.
How would I describe Emily's style?
She has such an innate sense of who she is that anything
she puts on her becomes sort of an extension.
-Wait no, for house. -Oh, house?
I thought you meant, fashion wise.
[Adhir] Oh, my gosh. So excited.
-Oh, my gosh. -Oh, wow!
Look at this.
[Emily] Yeah, we'll take exactly.
-[Adhir] Yeah. -[laughs]
Gosh, this is so beautiful.
-[Emily] Wow! -[Drew] Welcome to our home.
Oh, so, so great.
So we went with sort of old Hollywood glam art deco feel
that still paid homage to the original era of the home.
Right. It's so beautiful.
[Drew] It's a beautiful historic home just like yours.
I wanted to mimic some of the original term like the arches.
-[Adhir] Yeah. -You have gorgeous arches, too.
[Emily] Yes.
So I've built in an arch over here so it mimics.
-Yeah. -[Emily] Beautiful.
Oh, it's amazing. Oh!
So we added some of the feature with our crown.
You can see we did a stepdown.
And then there's also been a molding out here.
So it sort of elongates the detail on the roof.
[Emily] And I love the little details like that,
that really make a space kind of extra special.
Anything that you feel we could do to help make it interesting...
-Dramatic? -[Adhir] ...or dramatic.
Dramatic.
Oh, we have ideas.
-Ooh-ho. -[Adhir] Great.
Because we could do wallpaper.
We can even do some wood cladding.
-I love any of those ideas. -We'll be led by hand.
-[chuckles] -Yeah.
[Drew] Given that the tile around the firebox, that's all original.
Oh, no way.
So we wanted to make it a little more low profile,
but still have detail, still have some character.
We could have done stone or we could have done stucco.
Especially with a Spanish style home too,
you can easily go with a stucco finish.
-Yes. -Yeah.
And I like the idea of keeping that Spanish style.
You have a slightly different layout than I have here.
With the size of your living area and the way you would probably
utilize your home, we could open things up a little if you wanted.
So for us, we wanted this open to have this kind of a flow.
-[Adhir] Sure. -[Emily] Yeah.
-[Drew] Consider something like that. -[Emily] Okay.
I mean, this built in is so beautiful for this space.
-I'm not sure that we have that room in our home. -Yeah.
[Adhir] But anything that you think could be visually interesting.
Having a space similar to Drew's where there's storage.
[chuckles]
-Have we mentioned storage? -We mentioned storage.
I don't know if we have. I'm not sure if we have.
I'll mention it again storage.
Having never had a dining room before, like seeing this
and just seeing how much of a statement it is and like the beautiful
chandelier and just something that kind of creates a different feel in that space
than in the other spaces.
So this was the ultimate flow for Linda and me, where we can flow
-when we're cooking or bacon. -[Emily] Yeah.
I would definitely love something like that as well.
-[Drew] You have that gigantic island. -Yes.
[Drew] You do have an easy way to have a flow all the way around.
Right.
One thing we would love is for it to be really light and bright.
I love all the natural light.
It will blend all that into your space.
-[Emily] Great. -[Adhir] Great, awesome.
[Drew] Yeah.
There's only one thing missing from here.
I don't see a catio out the window.
[Adhir] I think you need one of those.
Uh-huh. Yes.
I mean... Oh, such a fail.
Everything good to me is a catio.
I'm excited for you.
You have the most amazing house.
Spanish style home.
You want to keep the character,
but you want to add some modern functions.
Yes. Sounds perfect.
Are we asking a lot?
-[Drew] No. Oh, this is fine. -Okay.
All right. All right.
-Well, thanks for coming over. -Thank you for having us.
-Thank you so much for having us. -This is beautiful.
Your home is incredible.
I mean, the fact that our house tour
gets to be Drew's house is so awesome.
And, you know, living in the same neighborhood now
we're gonna know where he lives,
so we can creep on him whenever we want.
We know Emily and Adhir want to celebrate their homes original history.
And that's why we're choosing classic,
timeless finishes to enhance its existing character.
All of this stuff you could walk in here and not know if it's new
-or know if it's original. -And that's perfect.
That's what we did with our house,
and that's why we used it for inspiration.
I mean, even some of the tile choices,
this is very similar to my backpack.
Oh, let's not just skip over the fact that how lazy are you that you had them
go all the way to your house to do the inspiration tour.
Listen... It takes me 47 seconds to drive here.
Did you even wear pants or did you just wear pajamas?
This time I did.
I didn't want to distract them from that feature in the house.
The main thing was to figure out if they want to go
a little bit bold, if they wanted a little bit of glam,
or they just wanted more of that traditional feel.
And what I found is they really want to lean towards traditional.
I do think going with something
that's a little off white would be better.
Personally, I think if you went ultra-bright white
in this kitchen, it just would not feel like how the house was meant to be.
Yeah.
[Jonathan] Going with something that's got that kind of
-off white feel, how nice is this? -[Drew] Exactly.
And keeping the kitchen light and bright is important to them.
[Jonathan] I love this countertop here.
Like you see how the warmer vanes pick up on the cabinet color?
[Drew] Yeah.
Maybe if we did something that had a marble look.
But we do have a little bit of that earth toned veining
that can tie in to the color of the cabinets.
[Drew] You have this on the fireplace.
I think all of a sudden you see this whole palette coming together.
They told me they want their dining room to really stand out.
So I think we should go with a statement wallpaper.
-I love the florals. -[Drew] Yeah.
Depends on how much we're gonna do.
If we're gonna do one wall, I vote flowers.
-If we're doing all walls, I vote grassley. -Okay.
I would say that this house is now the best example in the neighborhood.
No, no, no, no.
This house is going to be on par with the best examples.
[laughs] Okay.
I think this will be amazing.
And now I need to work on my backstroke.
[Jonathan] Hopefully you didn't want to keep
any walls in the kitchen dining room area.
-[Emily] Oh. -[Adhir] All right.
Oh. Ho-ho.
-Oh, my... -Oh, my gosh.
[Adhir] Gosh, this is wild.
[Jonathan] Hopefully, you didn't want to keep
any walls in the kitchen dining room area.
All right.
Oh. Ho-ho.
Oh, my... Oh, my gosh.
[Adhir] Gosh, this is wild.
[Emily] Wow.
-[Adhir] Wow. -Oh!
[Jonathan] I took a little liberty.
[Adhir chuckles]
This arch actually matches the arch in the living room.
You okay with that shape?
-[Adhir] I mean, this looks amazing. -[Emily] Love that shape...
[Jonathan] Turns out we can get rid of that duck
that's coming up which is way better than having that bump out into the room.
[Emily] Sure. Yeah.
Drew wants to be a part of the options,
and he's already on daddy duty.
-[Emily] Ooh. -Because he's, he's loving baby life.
-Aw! -Amazing.
He said just come over to his house, for a walk over.
-Okay. Awesome. -All right.
[Jonathan] Follow me.
[Drew] Hey... How's it going?
[Emily] Hey.
I just put Parker down.
[Jonathan] I was gonna say the laziest real estate agent in the world,
because he has you come to him.
But I guess I'm a part of that.
Obviously, you have this incredible historic home
that can come with challenges, but it also comes
with opportunities because we can do stuff that enhances
-and modernizes the flow and layout... -Mm-hm.
...but also keeps it authentic to what the original architecture supposed to be.
-That's exactly what we're looking for. -Yeah. Yep.
We just have to get the project done,
which means we have to present the two options.
-Okay. -Hey, great. We're all hears.
Option one, would give you all of those checklist items that you were asking for.
You walk in the front door and you would have this incredible living space
with the most unbelievable breathtaking barrel ceiling, which we would clad in wood.
[Jonathan] We'll keep the original clay tile floor you like,
but we would remove the blue inlay.
For the fireplace, I'd like to celebrate this home Spanish heritage
and do a textured plaster surround.
[Jonathan] I'll arrange the furnishings in a way
that create a comfortable lounge space.
Great for entertaining friends and family or just hanging out with Mira.
You go around the wall into your dining area,
and that whole room would be completely reimagined.
[Jonathan] No more random openings in the wall to access laundry.
Instead, we'll close off the holes and add a new pantry access.
Will widen the entrance to the kitchen, adding an arch,
and we'll install light hardwood floors.
We'll add blue grass cloth wallpaper to the walls.
[Jonathan] All sorts of modern sideboard and dining table to create
a statement dining space that's truly one of a kind.
-I like the sound of this. -Yeah.
But most important, let's get into the kitchen.
I'm gonna keep the rough footprint,
but lose the massive industrial island.
I'll have the opportunity to start pretty much over from scratch.
[Jonathan] I'll give you brand new updated windows,
soft white shaker style cabinets and a rustic ceramic backsplash.
I'll build you a slightly smaller island to allow for better movement and flow.
I like that a lot. I mean, that sounds amazing.
Yeah.
So option one would come in at $245,000.
Okay.
And eight weeks to complete.
-Okay. -All right.
-There is a lot of work that has to happen. -Right. Yeah.
Option two, changes the footprint in the layout a little bit,
but still gives you every single other feature we talked about.
-Okay. -Okay.
[Jonathan] The difference is imagine walking in the front door
and instantly you have this beautiful arc
that matches the arch
on the other side of the dining room to the kitchen.
So instead of going into the hallway and then back
into your dining space, you could walk straight into it from the living room.
It would transform how closed off sometimes historic homes can be.
-Okay. -All right.
Option two is a little bit more expensive.
[Adhir] Okay.
Because we would have to build up the structure to open the wall, 260,000.
[Emily] Okay.
-Same eight week timeline. -Mm-hm.
-I never thought about that. -Yeah.
I mean, we always sort of assumed
they had to be three separate spaces.
-[Emily] Yeah. -[Adhir] ...but I mean, that's interesting.
I mean, that is, you know, a lot of money just to kind of blow out that wall.
While we appreciate the open flow.
[Emily] Mm-hmm.
I do like the idea of each space having its own identity, too.
I mean, I do love the idea that you walk in the front door
and you can see all the way back to the kitchen, really pretty.
I can't tell your expression is like a good or a bad...
No, it'd be pretty cool.
It'd be pretty cool.
Now I'm trying to wrap my head around.
Is that worth?
-Yeah. -Extra...
Oh, that face was for the money?
Yeah, that's the money face.
-Because you have a point. -At the end of the day,
-if you're honest with yourself... -Yeah.
...the most important thing for you is to have that open flow
between the three spaces.
Or is it more important just to maximize the use of each individual space?
How much time do we have to make this decision?
Thirty two seconds.
-[Adhir] Great. -What do you think?
I Just to save $15,000, to not, you know, rip out that wall.
Because I like that we actually do get a lot of the benefits
of option two and option one.
Okay.
We approached it very hesitantly, but on the count of three,
we're both gonna say, option one.
We didn't counted three. We didn't say to three...
But option one.
-[laughs] -Okay.
-We give you that. -[Adhir] I feel great about it.
-Are you sure? -Yes, I'm very sure.
I feel good about that too.
[Drew] This is great. I'm so excited.
-[Emily] Yeah. -[Adhir] We're so excited.
-Yeah... -[Emily] So so excited.
The cool thing too is on your way out,
you can take anything you want.
[Emily] No, wait I want the pool.
[Adhir laughs]
[Jonathan] We have totally demoed the dining room and the kitchen.
We didn't plan on taking down the drywall and the living room
because it's in good condition and we're not moving any walls in there.
But we do have some delicate work to do on the border tile.
It's very well-bonded.
Emily and Adhir had said they wanted to keep what they thought
was the original terracotta tile.
Turns out when we pulled up the border tile, we could see the original hardwood
underneath, which means at some point somebody put in these tiles
to make it look old.
But they're not actually old and they're not original to the home.
In my opinion, they've got to go.
But that's a decision Emily and Adhir have to make.
Hello.
How are you guys?
Hi...
I'm trying to think of a way to stay positive, but I, I should just tell you those,
you know, the terracotta tiles that you want to keep.
Some of them got damaged as we were removing that blue accent tile.
So I also discovered those the wood floors that you guys have there,
even though they're in rough shape,
they run all the way under those terracotta tiles,
which means that terracotta tiles are not original to the house.
Not original?
Those were probably put in maybe in like the '70s,
could be the '80s something like that.
Okay, not original, not matter little close.
I can try and replace the damaged tiles, so it looks like
as close to match as possible.
Or we can just pop them out and run the flooring that we're putting
elsewhere right through that whole space.
Keep it seamless.
Well, I think to me it's a bit of a game changer
that they're not actually original.
My own personal opinion is I would run the hardwood all the way through.
I think we're overshot, right?
Yes, I think up from scratch...
Let's move forward with the hardwood ground.
-Yeah. -We're on the same page.
All right. Thanks, guys.
-I'll let you know if anything else comes up. -Bye.
[Jonathan] The switchover from clay tiles to hardwood set us back a little bit
with our timeline, but it doesn't really affect our budget.
Knowing the age of the house and what it took to renovate Drew's house
of the same era, we built in a bit of a buffer.
[Jonathan] At the back of the house,
we're framing in a brand new pantry
where the old laundry room used to be.
I know I can't go wrong with more storage for Emily.
What a difference it makes.
Having the extra wall space means we can get more cabinetry...
-Correct. -[Jonathan] ...more counters.
-Yeah. -...more function.
This makes a lot of sense.
Yeah. Nice and open. Looks good.
It's a big pantry.
I feel like these guys, they want to entertain.
They're in a house that is set up for entertaining.
So yeah, it's a big house, a lot of square footage.
There's a lot of stuff that has to be updated.
Much of it hasn't been touched in 80 years.
[Jonathan] So it's a good thing they have a healthy budget.
Plumbing and electrical upgrades are fully underway
and we're replacing the dated windows in the pantry and kitchen,
swapping them out with new energy efficient ones.
I feel like this window's about ready to fall anyway.
[Jacob] Yeah.
A little less to break.
Okay.
The other thing, too, is if you ever just want some funky jewellery,
just tie this around here...
There you go.
It will work... Look at that.
Yeah. You know what that is?
[Jacob] What?
The window to my soul.
-[laughs] -[Jonathan] Too much.
-That's a good one. -[laughs]
Emily and Adhir are devoted cat rescuers, and I'm not leaving
their furry friends out of this reno.
For this place, we've got to think cat luxury.
[Jacob] Okay.
What if we just happen to build some catio furniture?
-Interesting. -Right.
So the cats are gonna come in here.
They're gonna be super jealous seeing how nice the house is in the inside.
Okay.
Could create like you've heard of wicker furniture.
Could do some whisker furniture?
I mean, not bad.
Nothing, I didn't even crack.
No, it did. It did.
It's interesting.
It's a great idea.
[Jonathan] We're cruising along at Emily and Adhir's house.
It's a historic home, but the fireplace that came with it was a later add on.
We're hoping to give it that Spanish flair they love.
But sometimes you've got to see things in the space.
I'm having second thoughts, actually.
It kind of looks like a coffin.
[laughs]
I've been trying to think of the best way to make it make sense.
Now I'm thinking this is gonna look strange to just have it stop
partway up the wall, or at least not even like 45 back to the wall.
Now that Jacob has said that it looks like a coffin,
I can't see anything other than a coffin.
[Jonathan] I think the coffin has to go.
[Jacob] I agree. Couldn't agree more.
[Jonathan] I want to see it more sleek,
more tapered to the ceiling, and decidedly less coffiny.
[laughs]
We're making a lot of modifications to this house,
but everything we do is paying a tribute to the home's past,
preserving the character and Spanish heritage.
Emily and Adhir love and adding even more where we can.
[Jonathan] Arch madness continues at the welding shop.
I've asked a friend of mine to craft a custom steel door
for the entrance to the pantry.
[Jonathan] With all the insulation done, we're ready to rock it
ahead with the drywall.
Our drywall inspection is on Monday, which means we don't really
have a lot of time to waste.
We need to get it going and it'll start to go pretty fast.
But yeah, it's a crunch.
We're creating a new entrance from their dining room
into the new pantry.
You know, I never pass up an opportunity for a limbo contest.
Yeah.
For me, it's just a pass through.
[laughs]
I love the fact that we're able to carry those arches all the way
through the house, from the dining room, even redoing the dining room.
One so they're all exactly the same.
It makes everything just look and feel so much more
perfect when it's done...
Nobody's limbo in this door anymore.
[laughs]
[Jonathan] Emily and Adhir fell in love with this home
the first time they set eyes on it.
They made an emotional decision to buy because they knew
and love the neighborhood, but they bit off way more than they could chew.
[Jonathan] Throughout the reno, we're paying special attention
to preserving the home's history, but modernizing it
to make it work better for their young family.
I think Emily and Adhir made the right decision by realizing that the tile
that was here one would be impossible to match up.
Big headache.
Two, it wasn't the original tile.
Oh, yeah.
If we could get everything super level...
Okay.
...then when we run our new boards all the way through,
it's gonna be seamless. It'll make them way happier.
In fact, we can even tease ourselves
with a little bit like, "Look how beautiful this is gonna be."
-Oh, yeah. -[Jonathan] Oh, yeah.
[Jacob] A lot better than the tile.
Yeah.
How beautiful is this gonna be?
And I like that they'll have that gorgeous white oak look throughout
the whole space, tying every single room together
right from the front door, right through to the back door.
Yeah. This is built lot better.
Oh, my God. It's gonna be so much better.
Let's do it.
[Jonathan] They're getting beautiful white oak hardwood on the floor
to match the same wood we'll be adding to the ceiling.
This will give their living room warmth
and elegance to match their style.
[Drew] I think guess not much more we can do for cabinets.
[Jonathan] I'm sulking.
-Why? -And sourcing.
I'm sulking and sourcing at the same time.
My math is impeccable when you don't make changes.
You can't add extra equations because my brain doesn't have that memory plus button.
You're like, Dad.
How dare you?
Dad's thumb measurement system is very active.
Oh, yeah. 43 thumbs in this room.
-[Jonathan] Okay. -[laughs]
Dad would do the whole, like, measure once guess and then swear a lot.
All right.
This is also flooring that is so beautiful
that it is also in demand
and it is hard to get.
I'm literally going through here
and everybody is sold out, sold out.
Special order.
If we're gonna make their timeline, I'm gonna have to pull
a rabbit out of the hat.
Well, you're a magician, so what's the problem?
[Jonathan] No. Nothing.
I'll pull out all the stops, contact my suppliers, and I'll find more hardwood.
But in the meantime, Drew and I can get plastering and reimagining the fireplace,
which now tapers more elegantly to the ceiling.
Are you going for more of a Roman clay finish
or more of a Venetian plaster finish?
I went for something that you would see in the Sistine Chapel.
Wait, what?
[Drew] In the Sistine Chapel.
Say it again.
Sistine... Sistine Chapel.
There's no fifth.
Sistine.
Sistine... Sistine Chapel.
I thought it was like pronounced with the accent.
-You do like this... -That's his close to 16th Chapel.
Didn't you get married in Italy?
Shouldn't you know these things?
Just because I got get married there doesn't mean I know everything.
Not only would you have originally seen this kind of a plaster finish
on this age of a home, but I also love the fact that it's not the color
that's like in-your-face and bold and making a statement.
It's this neutral change in texture.
And I love the feeling when it's all sanded down and it's finished.
-[Drew] Yeah. -So beautiful.
And so you do like...
If this was the final coat and you did this, I would lose my mind,
but because this is the first coat...
I know we just have to tape the corners and everything,
so we have a ways to go with this is a masterpiece.
[Jonathan] Is it though?
How dare you?
Rude.
[Jonathan] It came down to the wire, but the hardwood
finally arrived and we can get pushing forward.
Emily's breakfast nook is coming together
and they're getting a big stretch
of lower cabinets across the back wall.
[Jonathan] I've never needed to create a smaller island before.
But the original island was like the size of Greenland
and didn't allow for smooth kitchen flow.
Emily and Adhir has never had a formal dining room before,
so we want to make a big statement.
Instead of just one wall in floral wallpaper,
I'm doing all four walls of the dining room
in a textured blue grass cloth.
This will create an intimate atmosphere for when they're entertaining.
[Drew] Foot delivery.
Oh, nice.
How beautiful is this fireplace?
It's gorgeous.
Everything about this feels polished and perfect for this neighborhood.
And because I love this tile so much, I just want to make sure...
Huh... No.
Now we see it.
This table is gorgeous.
Now they have use out of this space.
And I would say this is a much better use
for this corner than the giant ball camping.
What about the bulkiness in your... What are you doing?
Maybe you stretched out your sweater.
-It's more about the style. -Is that my sweater...
Yes, it is.
[Jonathan] And we didn't want the kitties to feel left out.
-Cat fed me. -[chuckles]
So which way we facing this?
Face it this way on that upper shelf the big shelf.
Because then we can put the coffee table.
They would just be sitting there going.
Oh, this is lovely.
Mmm!
Do not taste that vaccine because it works on humans too.
[Drew] Oh, really?
Oh, look at that. So cute.
I'm trying to think here. Okay.
[Drew] Put yourself in the mind of a cat.
So cat comes up here?
Meow... mmm, mmm, meow.
And then crawls right in, into the TV, but then how does it get up
to this shelf its TV's there.
[Jonathan] Cats are limber.
Do you think we're ready to get mittens and snowball?
It is adorable that you have nicknames for Emily and Adhir.
Yeah.
-Okay. -Probably we should get them.
Okay.
This is the moment we've been waiting for for so long.
Yeah.
And...
I can't believe the moment too.
I, I butterfly...
I'm like, I, I'm shortness of breath right.
[laughs]
[Drew] Guess what the countdown is three, two, one.
Now you're here.
-[Emily] Oh! -[Adhir] Oh!
Oh, my gosh!
-[Adhir] Oh, my gosh! -Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh!
I like can't even process that this is our house.
[Adhir] Whoa!
This is unbelievable.
[Emily] Oh, my gosh.
We get to live here.
I feel like I'm walking into a show home.
[laughs]
You are walking into a show?
Your show home.
-Wow. -This is so great.
It doesn't feel real.
I can't believe the moment's here.
And it's like everything I could have ever imagined and way more, like, way more.
Oh, my the floors though...
Gosh, thank you.
Oh, my gosh the floors look great.
[Emily] The floors though...
[Jonathan] There are no sticker tiles.
[Emily] Oh, my... [laughs]
[Emily] I miss the sticker tile.
Well, there are certain things that you guys talked about keeping.
You wanted to keep the tile originally.
-[Emily] Right. -[Adhir] Originally, yeah.
[Jonathan] How do you feel with the commitment you made to go ahead
and change it all the hardwood?
One hundred percent like just the right decision.
[Adhir] Can't imagine it any other way now.
[Jonathan] It feels grand, but it feels warm.
[Emily] Yes.
I can imagine you filling it with loved ones and having good times.
They really have just gone above and beyond to create something
that is is to us just the most special version
of what this house could possibly be.
Oh, my gosh.
Look at these tiles in this house.
[Emily] Yeah, so pretty.
The fireplace is just like...
[Adhir] Yeah. You guys redid this fireplace.
[Drew] Do you like the shape?
Oh, of course we love the shape.
Yes, I love the shape.
[Adhir] Yeah, this is classic Spanish. We love it.
[Drew] We went through several iterations of what that should look like
because we wanted it to look authentic
to a lot of the homes of this era.
To walk in and almost have certain aspects of it feel more original
than it was before like the fireplace.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's so beautiful and it gives you such a feeling
when you walk in, like the house has a feeling to it now.
[Jonathan] But this barrel ceiling?
[Emily] This ceiling...
-...is stunning. -Ah!
I would have never thought to put wood across a ceiling,
but and I love the arch, but it just makes your eyes like go to it in, like,
the most wonderful way.
We knew that that had to be the hero of this space.
[Adhir] Sure.
And I love how it turned out because it complements the hardwood floors,
but it doesn't get too matchy matchy.
[Emily] Oh, my God.
-[Adhir] Wow. -What a beautiful couch.
-Oh, my gosh. -I love it.
-I love it.
It's comfortable, but also, like, it's functional and fashionable.
[Adhir] Yeah. Kind of funky.
[Emily] Yeah. It is. Yeah.
Everyone who reaches out is gonna be like.
Errrr!
-[Adhir] Yeah. -Errrr!
It is very soft.
[Jonathan] Yeah.
[Emily] This room is such a statement.
[Jonathan] Do you want to stay in here,
or would you like to look at the other side of that wall?
I don't know how much more excitement I can handle.
[laughs]
Come around.
Oh! Oh, my gosh.
-Whoo! -I love it already.
-Whoa! -Oh!
-I love it. -Oh!
This is insane.
This is the most beautiful dining room I've ever seen in my entire life.
-[Adhir] Oh, my word. -[Emily] Wow!
[Jonathan] We were actually trying to decide,
do we want to just do wallpaper on one wall?
[Adhir] Okay.
...or do we want to do all walls and I'm glad we went all the way around
because it really anchors the space.
Let's all just take five seconds to pet the wall.
Yes!
-Yes! -[Emily] Whoo!
Wouldn't have ever have thought of this really...
-[Emily] Yeah, it's incredible. -Yeah.
Now that I see it, I wouldn't want it any other way.
-Yeah. -It makes the space.
[Jonathan] When you look over there, like, do you remember
what was there instead of the little bar?
[Emily] Yeah. That jut out like...
[Adhir] Seem like a jut out like, you know,
how some sort of piping or something like that.
This is so much, so much nicer.
We knew that matching up some of these arches would simplify
the architecture a little bit.
Finding something to make this room feel elegant and elevated.
[Adhir] Yeah.
Never met archie didn't like.
Uh... And I really love these one.
Oh!
Wow!
-Guys, this is... -Oh!
...it was just incredible how they were able to capture
what our sensibility was, really.
I mean, I was just stunned.
-I think... -And I'm not speechless often.
-I don't think. -Oh, I know.
-I think both of us were a little speechless. -Yeah.
This doesn't even look like the same space at all.
[Jonathan] The hood that was there before was just too commercial looking.
[Adhir] Shock.
[Jonathan] We wanted something that was really gonna make this space
feel warm and inviting.
[Emily] The range got quite the glow up.
-[Adhir] Well, so guys. -Yeah.
I don't even recognize this space anymore.
Like, you started over.
Like, started over.
Oh, we kind of did.
You know, we had to a little.
I said...
I have never seen a longer counter space in my entire life.
[Jonathan] You have this amazing setup
with breakfast bar seating.
[Emily] Yeah.
But also in the corner over here...
[Adhir] Look at that.
Getting useful function out of this space.
[Emily] Oh, my gosh.
-Do you love it? -[Adhir] Oh, yeah.
Because this is what you've always wanted.
[Emily] I've always wanted a breakfast nook.
[Adhir] Ahh... Look at all these pictures.
Oh, my gosh. Mira, paint out there.
That's so sweet...
[Jonathan] That's my favorite.
[Emily] This corner just, like, screams family to me.
-[Adhir] Yeah. -Like, it's...
It's sort of the epitome of, like, the family home we were hoping to have.
[Emily] Yeah.
We may have, you know, brought a little furniture design to the cat space too...
Okay.
Take a peek a boo, the window over here.
See right.
Well, you know, lounging space, little coffee table and TV.
[Emily] Oh, my god.
Look at the television.
[Adhir] Oh, my gosh.
That is so cute.
God! Oh, my gosh.
To incorporate our, our pets and our animals
in such a special way
means the world to us because it's their home, too.
[Adhir] Exactly.
So, to have gone out of their way to create
those special details for them just means so much to me.
[Adhir] I know that's the level of care we were talking about.
[Emily] Yeah.
We want to make sure everything was finished.
So all this back area you have a second prep sink back here.
[Adhir] What?
[Jonathan] Lots of storage in the pantry area...
Oh, my gosh.
That door though.
[Jonathan] Our friend Johnny is a miracle worker.
Like that door is a piece of art.
-[Adhir] This is amazing. -This is so beautiful.
It's like an actual usable room now.
[Adhir] And it's got what looks like your favorite thing.
-[Emily] A storage. -[Adhir] Tons of storage.
-Oh, storage. -Yeah.
You guys have more storage than you'll ever know what to do.
-[Adhir] Yeah. -[Jonathan] Come on back out here.
Oh, it was an unusable storage area.
Sort of a no man's land, really.
So we weren't even anticipating anything there really.
Only thing we have to do is to break the family.
Can we invite some family?
Yes, yes.
Let's bring them in.
Why do we renovate our houses to...
[laughs]
[woman] Look at your house.
This is your new house.
We're not just renovating a home.
This marks like the beginning of the next chapter of our lives.
And, and so today is is really big because it's the start of
something new that was so excited about, and that means so much to us.
-Yeah. -What do you think?
-Come on in. -Oh, my gosh.
[man] What a change.
[indistinct conversation]
[man] This is a little different.
What do you think?
-Lot of work. -Wow!
Oh, my gosh!
Can you believe it?
Oh, my gosh!
[laughs]
What would you like, Mira?
What is this Mira?
Cookies?
[indistinct] That's right.
Cheers.
Cheers!
And welcome to the neighborhood.
-[Adhir] Thank you so much. -Cheers guys.