[Jenny] Sylv, you've got to leave in, like, 15 minutes?
Boys, did you need all these papers? I kept them for you.
-All right. Should we put your shoes away, Luke? -[Luke] Okay.
-Char, you're doing your homework? -[Charlotte] Yep.
-I'm making a story about me and a horse. -[Jenny] You and a horse.
-I wrote a story about a horse when I was a kid. -[Charlotte] You did?
I have it in my office?
This is my office right here.
I feel like I need a real office.
[laughs]
[Jenny] Oh, here it is, Char.
Fourth grade.
Because her horse ran away.
It's called Runaway Horse, Sylvie.
It's a tragic story of love, loss and reunification.
You know, we're always working on other people's homes,
and we don't do a lot at our house.
Um, because we just have so much stuff going on.
You know, our house, built in 1903.
It was a doctor's office in downtown Bentonville
that in 2012 we moved out here.
[Jenny] We had two 3-year-olds at the time.
So we fully renovated the house back then.
Five years later, we had four kids, and I was pregnant with Luke.
So we renovated two bedrooms upstairs for the girls.
Ben and Nate shared a room.
And now, five years later, the boys have outgrown their room,
so they need a separate space.
And so we're gonna renovate our own house.
We would just like the spaces that we have
to work differently now in this new season.
We need to redo bathrooms for the boys.
And for the girls, because Sylvie, she needs storage for sure.
And also the kids are just getting older.
They're into sports. The boys are into basketball and running.
They want a weight room.
They don't have a weight room at their school.
So we have this extra bay in our garage
that we're gonna make a little gym,
and we need to update our spaces.
Bedroom, bathroom, closet.
I have one drawer in the kitchen that I have all of my stuff,
so I need to just get organized, have my own space.
We're trying to keep the budget down as much as possible
and get a lot at the same time.
We should talk about Ben and Nate.
[Dave] Okay, Let's go look above the garage.
We've already got one bedroom up there.
-[Jenny] So... -[Dave] So I like the idea of gym here.
And then maybe we can add another bedroom above the garage.
[Jenny] Okay.
So the bedroom here, we could just make this...
Look how little they were. [chuckles]
[Dave] When we moved the boys into their room, they were four,
But they're finally ready for separate bedrooms.
You know, they need their space.
-[Jenny] We can make this guest bedroom Nate's room. -[Dave] Yep.
Maybe we just do some built-ins around the bed and make it...
Give them some storage.
-[Dave] Keep the wood floors, keep everything else. -[Jenny] Yeah.
Okay. And then this. This could be a homework station.
[Dave] I was thinking more of a homeroom where they come to unwind.
I mean, what do they love in their room?
-Well, what do they love in general? -We could put Spike here.
[Dave] Spike the lizard and games.
What if we did, like, a seating area, Spike zone.
They need a space that they can chill, that they can hang out in.
They need a space that is a little bit away from us, I think.
So this bathroom.
I like this.
I think this looks great.
I think with boys, you need something you can pressure wash out.
But we just need to definitely give them a new vanity.
[Dave] I agree with that. [Jenny] So we'll update the vanity.
Okay.
Okay, this is currently just nothing.
It used to be storage.
So this could be another bedroom.
[Dave] Yeah, I agree. Ben's room.
This I feel like's easy.
All the lighting's pretty much in the same spot.
Throw a little closet in there.
-Done. -Okay.
[Dave] We can organize the space...
-[Jenny] Yeah. -...where it will fit our family much better.
Then Ben and Nate's rooms,
we'll paint and do new lighting,
put some bookshelves in, add some storage.
[Dave] And then refresh the bathroom.
New vanity, new paint.
Make it a little bit more manly for the kiddos.
Okay. Oh, Luke, did you make dinner?
-Thanks. Ooh, that looks delicious. -Thank you.
[Jenny] You know what, Luke?
When we moved to this house and the boys moved into the bedroom
where they are now, they were exactly your age.
Feels like just yesterday sometimes,
like where did the time go?
I looked up, and all of a sudden they've grown,
and it's hitting me, like, this is... wow.
So much has changed in such a short time.
[Dave] Let's go up to the boys rooms.
All right. So this the boys.
[Dave] Okay, so if this turns into Luke's room, what do you think?
Well, I mean, we might as well keep the bookshelf, right?
-We're just going to freshen it up. -Heck, yeah, just repaint it.
I think we need to capitalize the ceiling, babe.
-What if we did one tall bed here? -Mmm-hmm.
A bunk bed there.
And we could run a bridge
-over in between them. -But why do we need so many beds?
[Dave] When he has little friends over, they all can sleep in here.
Then we have extra sleeping,
and then we'll take over his room
-and make it your office. -[Jenny] Okay.
So the plan overall is to create kind of a bunk,
a play area for Luke,
-so he's excited to have his own room upstairs. -[Dave] Love it.
Okay. So now the kids' bathroom.
This bathroom, this has been since the boys were little.
I mean, Sylvie has three different storage containers
for all her products.
So we need to do a real vanity
-'cause she just needs storage. -Okay.
Do we wanna keep the green tub or just leave it?
[Dave] I think the green tub's cool, but...
[Jenny] Problem is look how short that is.
Sylvie's as tall as me now,
They were all little when we started that.
But it doesn't really work. if this is gonna...
Let's make it a shower, then. That's great.
[Jenny] Okay, so this bathroom is gonna be for the girls.
So we'll update the whole bathroom,
give them a new vanity, new storage,
-and then a new shower. -[Dave] Full shower.
All right. So you know what we haven't talked about in this.
We haven't talked about you, Jenny Marrs.
What about me?
You are never thinking about yourself.
You're only thinking about our kids, about me, about others.
And it's time that you start thinking about you a little bit.
Okay, Jenny, we've got our bedroom,
-and then our bathroom on the other side of the wall. -[Jenny] Yes.
-[Dave] And then your closet. -[Jenny] Yeah.
[Dave] This right here, this wall
-backs up to Luke's playroom. -[Jenny] Yeah, my closet.
-[Dave] So then that means that these shelves... -[Jenny] Mmm-hmm.
-...back up to Luke's closet right now, -[Jenny] Okay.
So what if we take all of this out,
-open all this up into Luke's playroom. -[Dave] Right.
We gut this whole thing.
So then we basically have
a 9x20-foot area
that we could make like an awesome bathroom.
-[Jenny] We could do a sauna. I've always wanted a sauna. -[Dave] We could do that.
You have a bedroom office over in Luke's room,
and our bedroom now becomes your closet.
But I-- I mean, I just love...
I like our bedroom at the front.
I like to be able to look in the morning at the sheep and the pasture.
My favorite view.
I do like all of the ideas, but I love that view.
Luckily, I just get to open my eyes
-and see my favorite view, you, every morning. -Oh, gosh. [chuckles]
Why not close this off, or even better,
build this back into some of your closet area
so we can do a big built-in, redo the living room.
-So we have a big built-in. -Right.
It would be nice for this to be set back
and not to have a door off the living room to our bedroom,
-'cause that is annoying. -'Cause my closet goes to this wall,
so we could set-- We could turn the wall back here...
-And do a built-in. -...and that whole thing could be a big built-in.
Let's just do it,
-and be done with it. Let's make it. -But where are we gonna live?
We'll move upstairs up above the garage.
We can do it nights and weekends.
We'll gut our place.
Get it all done. Move into our place.
-Paint the boys' rooms, -In the new room.
-[Dave] Shift them up over the garage. -The new room.
The new rooms. Shift them up over the garage.
Our whole house will be a dust storm.
-Probably for a minute. -[sighs]
We might as well do it.
I mean, come here. Let's go back in the room.
Luke's room.
So, boys, what do you think of this?
Our bed here.
Blow out Luke's closet,
and it's a doorway going into our new bathroom.
Give this room to your mom for a little office-seating area,
redo our bathroom with a sauna,
-and give your mom a mega closet. -[Jenny] Okay.
So the current plan, then, is to make this room our bedroom.
The current playroom, a sitting room slash office, reading room.
Luke's closet entry will now be the entry to our bathroom.
We'll update our bathrooms.
We'll have a shower. I'd love to have a tub in there.
-Maybe some tile that's handmade. -[Dave] I love it.
-[Jenny] And then I want a sauna. -[Dave] Okay.
[Jenny] And then make the current bedroom our closet.
And then we can bump into the bedroom
and create a built-in for the living room,
-which will give us more space in the living room as well. -[Dave] Perfect.
It feels ambitious, you know,
because our current bedroom will become the new main closet.
We need to pack up our room in Luke's room,
and we have to get moved into the space above the garage.
Then we're gonna have to do the bedroom shuffle.
So we're gonna move up there. Then we're gonna move back.
Then the boys are gonna move up there,
and then they're gonna move back,
and we're gonna do Luke's room and we'll move Luke up.
We've agreed on 90 days to get this done.
We have so much going on.
We really don't have any other time.
This is it. We've got to get it done.
So we've got 90 days.
Let's make it happen.
[Hillary] So we're gonna categorize and zone as we pack,
Which is awesome.
So the unpacking process will be much easier.
All right. You gotta bring it over here.
You guys, thank you for coming.
Jenny gets these crazy ideas in her head,
and then we just start working.
We have a very limited amount of time
-to pack up our spaces... -We do.
...because we are still working on a lot of other projects.
Three renovations along with this one.
So I have friends who have a packing company.
They are gonna help us pack everything
and make sure it doesn't get broken,
-and then move it back in. Chop chop. -Agreed.
So we're gonna think in a 90-day period.
Hopefully, you guys will be unpacking
-in the next 90 days. -[Jenny] Yes. Okay.
-So whatever you can live without for 90 days. -Did you hear that?
Give me a couple of pairs of underwear and a shirt. I'm good.
All right, Matt, You wanna grab that rolling one too?
-I want to start in here. -[Matt] Okay.
[Joe speaking]
Let's limit the breaking to what we absolutely have to break.
Today, demo begins on our house.
-Right behind here is Jenny's closet. -Okay.
So this is going to become our bedroom.
-That's our office. -[Matt] Mmm-hmm.
All right, you can break it now.
[Matt] I almost think we need someone over there too.
[Dave] Okay, let me go over there.
We're going in strong.
We wanna open up this new bathroom,
see what kind of space we have.
-Hi! -[Joe] Howdy.
This was Luke's nursery. I'm gonna cry.
I really am gonna cry. It's fine.
-[crying] -What's wrong?
It's so sad.
This was Charlotte's nursery. It was Luke's nursery.
It was Sylvie's toddler room.
And now we're destroying it.
-Now it's gonna be our room, babe. -I know.
-[Dave] It's full circle. Full circle. -It is full circle.
[Dave speaking]
-[Jenny] I know! -[all laughing]
I'm a disaster.
You're right. We've outgrown our spaces.
But we're not moving.
I don't know. It just feels like it happened really quickly,
and I'm not emotionally prepared.
No more tears, babe.
Turn that frown upside down and get a sledgehammer.
-She doesn't want our kids to age one day. -[laughs]
-I just want them... No, I do. -But they're bigger than...
-Our boys are bigger than Jenny now. -I know. I know.
And you know, they need their space,
-and we need our space. -[Jenny] I know.
It all makes sense. I know.
I don't understand what's wrong with me.
-I am having an emotional crisis... -[Dave chuckles]
...that I cannot explain,
except that it's just the changing of a season.
It's the marking of a chapter.
It's good. It's just sad.
[Dave] Demo is happening in our house,
but in the least messy way we possibly can.
There it is!
God, this is gonna be great.
This is original siding for the exterior.
Dave, look at this.
This is 120 years old.
[Dave] I hope I look that good at 120.
So much bigger in here.
You guys needed to do this for a while?
[Dave] Yeah, this needed to happen.
I am happy to be rid of this closet.
I do hate this closet.
-And I hate our bathroom. -There you go.
It's so fantastic. [chuckles]
When we moved the house,
the boys were two when we moved house.
When I was pregnant with Charlotte, this was her nursery.
Then we renovated again because I was pregnant with Luke,
and this was his nursery.
Now we're renovating for us this time, finally,
because our kids are old, and it happens so fast.
And that means I'm old.
That really sucks. [chuckles]
There's no sadness for me.
I mean, this is what Jenny and I love doing,
and we always do it for everyone else.
It's fun to get to do it for ourselves for a while.
Oh, man.
All right, hit from this side and hit that thing off.
-Whoa! -[Jenny] Whoa!
What else do you wanna hit?
Everything?
Luke is a wrecking ball.
I knew he was a wrecking ball. I knew-- I've known this.
You give that kid a hammer. Whoo!
All right! [laughs]
-[Jenny exclaims] -[Dave] Okay. Okay.
-I'm a little bit afraid of this kid right now. -[chuckles]
-[Dave grunts] We did it! -[Jenny] Whoa!
Oh, my gosh! Huge!
-Are we done? -We're done.
I want to talk to you. Okay. All right.
Let's go sit on the front porch.
What are you gonna say? I don't even know.
[Joe] I gotta retire.
[Jenny] Are you kidding me? Retiring?
Joe.
I don't like it. It's too much change all at once.
I don't do well with change, Joe.
-I got to. -What am I gonna do?
-[Joe chuckles] -It's really sad.
-Joe, I'm emotional. -[chuckling]
They're tearing apart my baby's nursery.
-You want to go get you a beer? -Yes.
-[chuckling] -[Dave] What are you guys doing?
[Jenny] We're talking.
-Retiring. -I'm retiring.
-Are you leaving us? -I'm very sad.
-Yep. -[Dave] Joe.
I know. I'm so sad.
-[chuckling] -I'm a mess today. Oh.
-Are you Really? -I'm retiring.
Man, I can't tell you how much we're gonna miss you.
We love you like crazy. You're family, man.
Lukey.
-Say yee-haw. -Yee-haw.
-There you go. -[laughs]
-Punch it. -[screaming]
-Yes! -[laughing]
-[Jenny] Oh, gosh. -[Matt] Keep going.
You push forward and I push back.
-Okay. [laughs] -Whoa, the other way.
I push back. [laughs]
-[Dave laughing] Oh. -I'm empty.
-[all laughing] -[Joe] Somebody refill me.
I'll still come back every now and then, you know.
[crying] I'm gonna miss Joe so much. I don't like this.
-He really is part of our family. -He is.
Gosh, it's a really emotional day.
I've never cried so much on demo day in my life.
-Stop. We love you. -We love you. Love you.
[Joe] Well, I've enjoyed it.
We have too.
[Jenny] Dave, we have to talk about our garage.
We have this extra bay in our garage that we never use.
It's just storage.
So we're gonna use that space. We're gonna make a little gym.
The kids really want to get a treadmill.
The boys, especially, are really into cross country now.
Are we gonna do different flooring, you think?
No, I would leave it epoxy.
We can get some of those mats, you know, like the workout mats.
-Sweat drips through. -Yeah.
Smart. We need windows, though.
So I can either do...
-Whoops. Sorry. -What do you do in here too?
Well, this is a wall I'm gonna sheetrock.
And then I was almost thinking we could probably do a window there.
I think we need to bring the kids in on this too
to see what equipment they need.
-Yeah, they might want, like, pull-up bars, or... -[Jenny] Yeah.
And we're just leaving the door, right?
-Yeah, 'cause then we can open it up, -Is there anything like...
You know, like... Are we gonna do air conditioning?
If you want to shred it while it's hot.
Okay, stop trying to drop gym terms
'cause it's not working for you. [chuckles]
-[chuckles] -Shred it while it's hot.
All right, so in here, basically,
so this is finished framing.
Keep the flooring, we'll add some mats.
Mirror, add one window over here,
-and then workout equipment, to be determined. -[Dave] TBD.
[Jenny] So exciting.
This is a tile for our new bathroom.
A handmade Moroccan tile that was thankfully in stock.
I literally ordered it on Friday and it's here today, Tuesday.
Very exciting.
Dave did make me rush to order my tile.
So I wasn't able to order a sample, so hopefully it's nice.
Oh, wait. Is this the right color? Shoot.
Well, I think I mean, it's the color I ordered,
but like I said, I didn't get a sample,
so it is what it is.
It's not what I was thinking.
I thought it had a little more of like a blush tone.
I think it'll be fine.
It's fine. It's fine. It's gonna be fine.
-How's it look? -[Jenny] It looks good.
Now we can get started in the bathroom.
[Dave] Let's go. I like it.
It's very exciting!
[Dave] Hi. Hi. Hi.
It's her, huh?
[chuckling]
Today is the day our family gets another animal.
[Jenny] Charlotte has been asking for a horse
for as long as we can remember.
She's been riding twice a week.
[Dave] And Tim has found a rescue horse that needs a home.
[horse neighs]
-[Dave] All right, so... -[Charlotte] What are we doing?
Mr. Tim needs some help.
[gasps] Is it a horse? Oh, my gosh!
-[screams] Oh, it's a horse! It's a horsey! -[Jenny laughing]
-I want a horsey. Is it for me? -[chuckling]
-[Jenny] It's for all the kids. -Oh!
It's a horse!
-Oh, look how pretty. -[Tim] Back up.
-[Charlotte exclaims] -[Tim] There we go.
-I wanna go see her. -[chuckling] You think... You think so.
-[Tim] Say hi. -[Dave] This is Sadie.
-She needed a home. -[Charlotte] Oh, my gosh!
Good girl.
You are so cute.
At first, I was kinda hoping that Charlotte,
she'd move on to something else like kids do.
This girl is not moving on.
Horses is it for her.
So, yeah, I mean, I knew I was gonna be broken down eventually.
-It was just a matter of time. -Just had to wear him down.
-[Charlotte] Luke, do you love Sadie? -[Dave chuckling]
-[Charlotte] She's ours. -[chuckles]
[Charlotte] We get to keep her...
-I know. -...and she stays here.
So in addition to renovating our house
and all the work that we're doing right now for clients,
we also now have to build a stable.
Aw, she's so happy.
-Now you've got to get to work on the stable. [chuckles] -Yeah.
-One good deed leads to another project. -[Jenny chuckling]
Our house right now is a danger zone.
It is a disaster in our bedroom.
We have got dry-wallers working in our bathroom.
We've got tile guys showing up.
We just finished with the plumbers.
[Jenny] It's raining outside, so every single person
drags in extra mud in addition to the sawdust.
[Dave] I'm gonna put some towels down.
It feels like we need something.
We're sleeping on this mattress that is horrid.
Like, every day I wake up and I'm in pain.
-Hey, babe. -Hey.
-[Jenny] Wanna do tile? -[Dave] Yep.
[Jenny] So in the main bathroom,
I want the main floor of the bathroom
and the shower to be herringbone.
And then I'm gonna do a border...
...around the whole room,
and then I do a little tile baseboard,
and then up the walls of the shower,
I want it to be a basket weave.
[Dave] You think that's maybe too much, babe?
We still have to do Sylvie and Charlotte's bathroom.
We still have to do the boys' bathroom,
but we can't do any of those until we get this done
because we need a couple functioning bathrooms
for our family of seven to use...
-Yeah, because... -...while we're getting another one done.
[Jenny] On the whole floor and in the shower.
It's just gonna take a long time is what I'm worried about.
But we're gonna have this border.
Why don't we just get different tiles
rather than doing 45 different...
Because it's cool.
To do this really elaborate tile,
we've gotta make sure we get it right,
so we don't have to do it again.
There's zero time to do anything over here.
Question in the closet slash old bedroom.
So in here,
-so this is all hanging, right? -Mmm-hmm.
-I also know you wanted an island. -[Jenny] Mmm-hmm.
[Dave] I could build shelving.
-Maybe to, like, right here. -Yeah.
-And then this becomes my hanging area. -Oh, that's good.
-Right here, but we've got to keep this open... -Uh-huh.
...because I'm gonna have to cut this stud out
-so we can actually get cabinetry in here. -Oh, shoot.
Doing this and living here at the same time,
-it was a mistake. -It was a mistake.
We've got to finish this before we can finish the living room
before we can finish the boy's room
after we move back in here, before we can move them out to start Luke's.
-Jenny and I currently are in Nathan's new room with Luke. -[Jenny] New room.
[Dave] Our clothes and all this stuff
is in Ben's soon-to-be room next door.
We are just displaced right now,
Turns out getting a horse, you also need a horse house.
Here we go.
So I got little man.
We're gonna punch all the holes today.
Push this button this way.
Whoa, you're drilling!
Keep pushing it. Keep pushing it.
Whoa!
All right, shall we go show Mommy what we're doing?
-We'll lay it out real quick. -[Luke] Okay.
[Dave] Let me shut this off.
Oh, you're gonna put a hole here, Dad.
Holes all around here.
Are you gonna help me with all of them?
-[Luke] Mmm-hmm. -[Dave] All right, let's do it.
So I'm doing a pole barn.
I figure we do, like, a white siding or something, like our house.
12 x 12 stables, two of them.
And then tack room.
[Jenny] So the tack room is where we'll put the food.
Food. The horse saddles.
Is there also space for the sheep and Jack and Belle?
[Dave] Yeah, I think it's big enough
-that there's shelter. -Okay.
[Luke speaking]
Okay, he wants to go back and start digging.
-[Jenny] Okay, you guys go dig. -Are you done with me?
Yes, this looks... It's gonna be good.
-All right, get to work. -[Luke] Okay.
[Dave] So over the weekend, I built some cabinets.
These are actually going to go into our closet.
We've got a lot to get done in a little amount of time.
[Jenny] Yeah, It's very stressful.
[Dave] We've got construction paper trails,
we've got tile guys working.
We've got sheetrock guys working.
It's just a big, fat mess right now.
We have no time during the week
with all the other projects we have going,
so nights and weekends.
It's just exhausting.
[imitates retching]
[Dave] So at our house, we are working on the stable,
trying to get everything done that I possibly can.
This is an old-fashioned barn raising.
And then inside the house,
we are starting to get the sauna installed off of the bathroom.
In the closet, the painters are done,
and we've got wallpaper for the main bedroom.
So we can move back down to that bedroom
and, you know, restart the shuffle.
It's good to see progress going.
-[Jenny] Dave. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Jenny] We got to start packing all this stuff up. Oh, my gosh.
I'm just gonna... This is crazy.
I don't know. I give up.
Okay, boys' entertainment space.
[Jenny] I do think we should put doors on these
'cause they're just gonna be messy.
[Dave] So I'm just building doors.
-Yeah, that's it, and painting it. -[Dave] Nothing else?
-maybe you put, like, a dartboard or something. -Cool.
I'll build it out. It'll be cool.
[Jenny] All right, so this is all of our junk.
So we have to move all this out.
-[Dave] There we go. -Oh, shoot, I just knocked everything out of here.
Oh, aye, yi, yi.
It's complete chaos. I don't know where anything is.
I'm ready to just get settled.
-[Dave] Will you grab the door for me? -[Jenny] Yeah.
All right. I would love to get a rug down,
so then I can start putting our bed together,
and sleep down here again in my own bed.
-Our bedroom is done, almost. -Almost done.
-Done enough. -[Dave] Done enough that we need to be sleeping in it
so I can get painters up to the boys' room.
All right, the first time this rug is being rolled out.
You can still see the floor,
but it adds a layer of coziness to the room.
It's nice 'cause it's subtle.
I just didn't want anything too busy with the wallpaper.
So here's the problem that we have in this room.
These are in the wrong spot.
This doesn't fit.
[Dave] We've got to get the painters in the house,
which means we've got to get all of our stuff out of upstairs.
Which means, we don't have time moving lights around.
Everything keeps going wrong because I'm doing 100 other projects.
And this is our job, and I'm not here because I'm at the other jobs.
-So what do you want me to do? -I think you have to move both of them.
[Jenny] These are in the wrong spot.
They're supposed to be over the nightstand, both of them.
That's the problem.
[Dave] All right, so here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna take this light,
and I'm gonna move it over here.
Can that one get scooched without there being a hole?
-Can you... -[Dave] I'll look at it and see.
[exhales deeply]
You gotta move it here.
-I'm gonna move this. -All right.
-I'm gonna do whatever you want. -All right. All right.
[Dave] Move your clothes, and I'm gonna move the light.
[Jenny] It's such a disaster.
This whole process is very rushed.
I just want it to be done.
All right. That looks better.
[grunts] Okay.
Bam!
We get the bed finally assembled.
Get the mattress, the box springs on. It looks great.
[sighs]
We have got so many things going on
with five kids with a farm with school, sports, other projects,
I am going to sleep for about a month.
-Let's go. No rest for the weary. -[sighs]
We've got to move.
Come on. Good job.
You're also gonna have to build a new nightstand. Sorry about that.
[sighs]
[Dave] So right now we are really close to finishing our main suite.
[Jenny] We updated the vanity in our bathroom.
[Dave] We're getting cabinets installed
for Jenny's office seating area.
We've closed off the old door that went into the living room,
which is gonna be an amazing built-in.
And we still have to do the boys' bathroom and then Sylvie's,
but we can't do them at the same time.
Holy moly. We've got a lot to do.
[Luke] This way.
-[Charlotte] She's so gorgeous to pat. -[Luke] Is it this way?
[Dave] How's it going out there?
-[Charlotte] Good. -[Luke] Good.
-[Dave] Are you guys getting work done? -Yep.
We are finishing, or trying to finish up all of this V-groove siding.
I am again out burning the midnight oils,
trying to finish up this stable.
-How about you grab-- -[Jenny] It's looking so good.
You guys are helping, Daddy?
-I got some good helpers, Mom. -[Charlotte] Goodbye.
We are getting this stuff nailed up.
Right here, start right in the middle.
-Hey, gotta go to the boys' basketball game, okay? -Be there in a minute.
All right, we did it.
Let's clean up. Come on out.
Let me get the light.
Good job, Char. That's my girl.
Jenny and I's house, we've got a lot going on,
and we have a lot that has been accomplished.
Inside we are getting the sauna installed.
This last light up.
Trying to get everything done as fast as we can
so I can get painters up to the boys' room.
Then I can start on the girls' bathroom and Luke's room.
Yes! Faucets!
Our plumbing fixtures have arrived.
They're handmade. They're brass.
So pretty. I love it.
But also, the lights are here for above the built-in in the living room.
-[Dave] All right, there you go. How's that? -That's perfect.
Cute.
-All right. Onto the next. -Onto the next.
-What do you think? -It's cool. It looks good.
[Sylvie] Whoa, it's amazing.
It's so good.
[Dave] We've got a lot going on today.
We have painters upstairs above the garage,
getting everything sprayed for the boys' rooms.
[Jenny] My artist friend Bethany
is painting a mural in the gym.
We're doing the girls' bathroom.
[Dave] I've got Hunter out finishing the shiplap siding.
[Jenny] We special-ordered a luxurious handmade bathtub.
And it's finally here.
And now, we also have to move Luke into the boys' old room.
[Dave] I've got to make Luke's bed.
And because Luke loves puzzles,
I thought it would be cool to use the CNC machine and do a puzzle-themed bed.
It's gonna have three beds, which we don't really need,
but one of them is so we can kind of make it
a little playroom with the bridge.
[Jenny] And we have no other guest room anymore.
So when we have guests come stay, they'll be staying... [chuckles]
-Jenny's mom's staying with Luke. -...Luke's room.
[Dave] One bed done.
Take it into Luke's room and put it up.
Hi. What you doing?
These are corbels that I'm gonna put out
-on the little stable right on the covered porch. -[Jenny] Cute.
Are you building a cupola too?
-[Dave] I am. brought the lumber in for it now. -I think we need one.
I definitely want to add something to the top
-to finish it off. -[Dave] Yep.
-It needs a little detail. -Yeah. Make it look like a stable.
I was thinking about the base. We'll do siding.
And then I'll do trim work around...
-Mmm-hmm. -...with the windows built into it.
Yeah. And then just lower it.
And then, I was just kinda searching around for stuff that I could use.
And I remember this from when we moved here.
Where's that from?
-The top of our house. -[Jenny] No.
Jenny and I, we moved our home from downtown Bentonville out here.
The home movers had to take this weather vane off of the top of the house
because it would have hit all the power lines.
[Jenny] But you kept it all this time.
-Probably 12 years. -[Dave] Twelve, 13 years.
-Let's go look at it out there. -[Dave] Sure.
In 1903, the people who lived in this house had a horse.
We just brought it back.
Or they got a really good deal on a weather vane. We're not sure.
-You got it. -Yeah.
[Jenny] Oh, it's so cute. I think it needs something, though,
'cause it gets lost.
But maybe the cupola itself just needs to be shorter and fatter.
And then that goes up from it.
-But then that'll be up like there. -[Jenny] Yeah.
-[Dave] That good? -[Jenny] Yeah.
It's so funny.
We get it back with the house.
Okay. I'll do that. I'll build that in with it.
I will build the cupola.
Have some faux windows up there,
and then the weather vane's sticking out the top. It's gonna be really cool.
-All right, I'm gonna get at it. -[Jenny] Perfect. I love it.
We're working right to the last minute
to get everything done in our 90-day window.
Luke's room was pretty simple.
[Dave] Move it down that way now.
[Jenny] We actually just pulled up the old carpet, left the original flooring.
[Dave] And we have a 1903 wood floor with a really cool bed.
The boys' bathroom is coming along.
[Jenny] The gym is gonna be a great space.
The boys are into basketball and running and soccer.
So they said they definitely want a treadmill,
gym weights and an elliptical.
The kids haven't seen it,
so I'm very excited to show them.
[Dave] Beautiful.
We added lights to the outside of the garage.
Love it.
[Jenny] It's been hard, but finally it's almost finished.
All right. Looks good.
[Jenny] This is the cleanest it'll be after the kids get home.
-So enjoy it while we can. -[Dave] Take a picture right now.
-It's never gonna be this good again. -[chuckles]
Today, we are completing something that has caused a lot of heartache,
-a lot of headaches, a lot of dust. -[chuckles]
With this built-in, I know we only gained a couple of feet,
but it looks so much bigger.
[Jenny] Yeah, made a big difference.
I mean, we still have a 1903 farmhouse.
It's not any bigger, but the spaces are just utilized differently.
This was the vanity and shower. It's so much better.
When we moved in, we never really did anything for us.
So to create a bathroom that you love,
and then our little kind of office-seating area,
also a closet that is big enough for your stuff, it's great.
Holy cow.
Good use of an old bedroom.
So our kids, they've lived through a long renovation.
[Jenny] Sylvie, I think, is so excited about the bathroom.
Feels very grown up, and it's beautiful.
And now she has plenty of storage.
Perfect.
The boys, now that they're 13,
they have had fun picking out colors.
It's been really fun just seeing this creative side come out.
-Ben's room. My gosh, Jenny, -Can you get that one for me?
Where did you get...
Can you line this up? ...the eagle?
-[Jenny] I know! -...with the flag.
I think it's done. I think we're done.
I think we gotta go get the kids.
I want to show this to the kids,
-show it to our parents... -[Dave] Yes.
...show it to our family, and celebrate
[Dave] All right, guys, here we go. How was school?
-[all] Good. -The usual.
-[Jenny] Usual. Fun. Awesome. You learned a lot. -Mmm-hmm.
[Jenny] Okay, guys, guess what?
We are officially done with the renovation.
[Jenny] So we're gonna show you all the spaces.
Okay. Here we go.
[Jenny] Here we go. We're home.
Come on, guys.
Fun day. We get to see our house. It's all done!
[Dave] We've got kind of a fun surprise for Mommy.
-Oh, how cute! -[Dave laughing]
[Dave] We got with an illustrator,
-and we thought we would make your fourth grade book... -Aw.
-...a real book. -Oh!
I love it, you guys.
-Thank you. -[chuckles]
Oh my gosh.
All right. Ready?
Let's go.
All right, should we start with the boys
-since they're the oldest? -[Ben] Nate can go first.
[Jenny] Well, you guys both go 'cause that's your first spot. It's yours together.
-[chuckles] It's cool. -[Jenny] You like it?
Remember we decided to paint it dark?
-You guys like it in here? It's cozy. -Mmm-hmm. Yeah.
Look at the little spot for Spike.
-Does he look cute? Doesn't he look cute? -[Nate] Mmm-hmm.
-[Jenny] He's sleeping. -[Luke] Spike is sleeping.
[Dave] New blinds.
You can close it off and make a little cave up here.
-[chuckles] -Uh-huh.
[Jenny] So this will be the little common area
where you can hang out and play games and stuff.
[Nate] It's perfect.
So our kids have their own unique space now.
[Jenny] Which is what we needed.
-And they are part of this. They helped with this. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Jenny] It was awesome.
All right, Nate, you get to go first
'cause you're closest to your room. So go ahead.
All right.
-Cool. -[Jenny] What do you think?
It looks good. Thank you. It looks really good.
-Does it look good? -It's nice to have my own room.
[Jenny] And you helped a lot up here too.
-[Dave] Yeah. -You moved all the furniture.
-Yeah, it was terrible. -Been helpful.
-It was terrible. -It was terrible.
Remember, you picked out the colors.
-You picked everything out. -[Nate] I did, yeah.
I like that painting.
[Jenny] I know. Isn't that so cute. A bird-dog.
-I think it turns out so cool. -[Nate] It is cool.
Daddy said he wants to move in here.
I would stay in here.
So you guys have your own wing of the house.
All right. You wanna go look at yours, Ben?
-Ready? Okay. -[Ben] Sure.
-Ready, Ben? -[Ben] Yep.
-[Jenny] All right. -[Dave] All right.
-Go ahead. -[Ben] Okay.
Oh, it's good. It's cool.
This flag's cool.
-[Jenny] Isn't the flag cool? -[Ben] Mmm-hmm.
-[Jenny] This is a very cozy room. -[Ben] Mmm-hmm.
[Jenny] You've got your own little desk in the corner.
Go over there and look at your lamp.
-[Dave] The lamp is my favorite. -[Ben] It's cool.
[Jenny] So this room, you chose blue, which I love.
'cause I thought I was kind of going for an Americana theme in here.
Just, like, traditional, like, sports memorabilia and the flag,
-and, like, vintage stuff. -[Ben] Mmm-hmm.
[Jenny] And then you have Nate's room that's the green
and, like, the wood, and it feels really like a fishing cabin.
So what do you guys think?
Are you gonna miss sleeping in the same room?
-You're gonna be sad at night. -No.
[Jenny] Ben and Nate are teenagers,
-so they may not be the most emotional... -Yeah.
-...but in quiet moments, they really have all gone... -Oh, they've stepped up
all along to help.
And pick things out. Like, Nathan was so excited to pick out paint colors.
He tested them with me.
You wanna go see the bathroom too?
-Come on. All right, let's go. -[Nate] Yeah, sure.
Go on. You've got your own space. Look.
-[Nate] Cool. -[Jenny] You've got your own shower.
Your own bathroom.
I love the mirror. You guys picked that out, remember?
-We found that at this antique store. -[Ben] Yeah.
-[Jenny] You guys have a really cool space. -[Ben] Mmm-hmm.
-I expect it to stay this clean all the time. -Mmm-hmm.
[chuckling]
My teenagers had to get so big so fast.
Oh my gosh, they've never been
-in their own room before ever. -[Dave] Ever.
They've never not shared a room, so it's a big deal.
[Dave] All right, let's go.
We have a space we've got to show all of you guys downstairs.
-[Sylvie] Cool. -[Nate] Oh, cool.
-Cool. -[Ben] TV's nice.
-What? -Oh, yeah, TV.
-TV. -This is the best part.
-[Ben] In between, mat. -[Jenny] You got a treadmill.
It looks really good.
-The mural's good. -The mural looks really good.
-[Jenny] You like it? -[Ben] Mmm-hmm.
[Dave] Remember what this used to be?
It was just like the catchall
-where we just threw a bunch of junk. -[Nate] Yeah.
[Jenny] You guys are all in sports,
so this would be a cool space we can all use.
[Dave] All right, boys.
You guys can stay here, workout.
-Sylvie. -[Jenny] Let's see Sylvie's bathroom.
You wanna come see the bathroom upstairs, Char?
[Dave] All right, let's go up. Come on.
Okay, go ahead.
-[Sylvie] Wow, It's amazing. -[Charlotte] It's so good.
-Do you like it? -Yeah.
-[Luke] It looks good. -[Charlotte] Yeah.
You got storage back there?
You get all this storage. Look, Sylvie, you've got storage over here.
There's a lot more storage than before.
Yeah, there is. You can put all your stuff in here, huh?
-That nice? -[Dave] And you don't have that weird tub
-You've got a full shower. -[Charlotte] Yeah.
-[Jenny] Yeah, you can have your own shower. -[Sylvie] Amazing.
[Dave] We got more light in here.
[Jenny] We've got the deep pink,
and then the deep green tile is my favorite, favorite favorite.
I love it. It's so pretty.
-[Dave] It looks like an emerald. -[Jenny] Yes.
-You like it? -Yeah.
-[Jenny] Yeah. You're welcome, Sis. -[Sylvie] Thank you, Mom.
[Dave] All right, Lukey, it's your turn.
-[Jenny] All right. -[Dave] Go.
-[Jenny] Okay, go check it out. -Luke, look how cool it is.
-Oh. -[Dave] Whoa!
-[Jenny] It's so cute, isn't it? -[Luke] Yes.
-[Jenny] This used to be the boys' room... -[Dave] Luke.
...and now it's your room.
[Dave] All right, Luke, can you climb up and cross the bridge?
Go, Luke!
Whoa!
[Jenny] Love it.
Luke, he's been crying
-and begging me to see his room. -[laughs]
[Jenny] So finally, he gets to see his room,
and he's over the moon.
-What do you think? Do you like your room? -[Luke] Yeah.
-[Dave] Oh. I think that snuggle tells it all. -[vocalizes]
He's ready to read a book and snuggle on the swing.
I think we're gonna be doing that a lot.
I love it.
-All right, you wanna go see the stable? -Yes.
All right, let's go.
[Dave] Let's go, guys.
-Right over there, Luke. Go see it. -[Charlotte] It looks so good.
Sadie!
-[Jenny] Oh! -[Dave chuckles]
-[Dave] It turned out cute, didn't it? -[Jenny] I know. It's so cute.
She loves it. Hi, girl.
-Oh, she's got a braid. -[Charlotte] I love her.
Look at the front porch.
-You can walk her out here. -[Charlotte] Mmm-hmm.
-[Jenny] Isn't it so cute? Daddy did such a good job. -[Charlotte] Mmm-hmm.
You guys all helped with this too?
You guys all did a great job.
-You wanna go see your tack room? -[Charlotte] Uh-huh.
Oh, it looks so good!
[gasps] Oh, this painting looks so good.
[Jenny] So this is just natural.
You've got all the wood, so it's just really warm and cozy.
We've got your hooks. You've got your hat.
-You got your halters. -[Charlotte] Yeah.
-And then if you go back here, you've got your saddle. -[Charlotte] Uh-huh.
-[Dave] I rode in this saddle when I was a little kid. -[Charlotte] Yeah.
I love her little name tag.
Someday, when you have a stable that has 50 horses,
-you can just do a name for each one. -Yep.
[Jenny chuckling]
[Charlotte] It looks so good!
Everything in there is meaningful and sweet and perfect.
[Charlotte] I wanna walk her out here.
[Jenny] I know. You can. Here you go.
I gotta show you something else, Char.
-See that at the very top? -[Charlotte] Uh-huh.
-There's a horse up there. -[Charlotte] Uh-huh.
[Jenny] That used to be on our house.
Daddy took it off when we first moved our house, and he kept it all this time.
-Isn't that so cool? -[Charlotte] Mmm-hmm.
[Jenny] And then you have your pink door to the tack room.
I thought it was perfect for Sadie. It's so cute.
Sadie, watch the flowers. Those are new.
-Here, let me open the door and you can put her away. -[Jenny chuckles]
All right, we'll meet you guys inside while you put her away, okay?
We're gonna go see Nana and Papa.
-Is there a better playhouse in the whole world? -Uh-uh.
This looks so good.
-[Dave] I'm glad you like it. -[Charlotte] Uh-huh.
-All right, Let's go in. Come on. I love you. -[Charlotte] Mmm-hmm.
Yes, this was one of the more difficult projects that we've ever done.
It was a lot, but we are now on the other side of it.
-Hey! They're here. -Hey!
-Hey, guys.
[Jenny] Hey, you made it. Hi.
-You get to see the house. Hi! -Yes. Yeah.
-Yeah -[Jenny] Yeah.
We do a lot of renovations for a lot of people,
so this is something for us.
This is something for our family.
Now it's a house that reflects this new season of life.
This was Luke's closet, and then this was my closet.
And now it's the bathroom. [Joan] Oh, my goodness.
Wow!
We have teenagers now. They just have different needs.
And it's been neat to finally give them,
you know, something that we get to do for other people all the time.
-If you babysit tonight, you can use the sauna. -[chuckles]
-[Joan] Oh, it sounds perfect. -[Jenny laughs]
-Oh, my goodness, -[Jenny] I put all the doors on here
because I don't keep my clothes organized.
So I just kept it behind doors, and then it always feels clean.
[Dave] It goes really, really fast,
and you've got to treasure every single moment.
And now we get to create a lot of new memories in these new spaces.
[Joan] Well, Jenny waited a long time for this.
-[Dave] She did. She did. -[Joan] I give her a lot of credit.
Oh, my, it is unbelievable. It really is.
-Congratulations. -The sigh of relief
-that we're done. -Yes. Yes. I bet.
-Never again. -Yes. No.
-[Joan] You don't ever have to. Everything's perfect. -[laughs]
It's been hard on everybody, and we've all been displaced, but it's so worth it.
It feels so good to finally have our space done that we can enjoy.
[Dave] And now we get to rest.
Looking forward to it.
-You guys had impeccable timing. -Cheers.
Showing up when all the work was done.
-I know. -[all] Cheers!
-[Jenny] Look at Joe. -[Joan] Look at Joe.
[Jenny] Do it again, Joe. She missed it.
Whoo! Wow!
-Good. That was amazing. -Yep.
Put this around like this.
Take the halter off.
Now push up.
[Jenny] Good job. Good job, Sis.
Oh. Oh.
[Joe] Got her.
[Charlotte] There.