-All right, Jenny, three... -[glass shatters]
-Two... -Yes!
-One... -[crashing]
-Go! -[screams]
[Dave] Perfect!
[Jenny] For me and Dave, every day is a lot of moving parts.
-[Dave grunts] -[Jenny laughs]
[Jenny] With five growing kids.
No! Do not go in the house!
[Dave] All right, put the break on.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Jenny] A working farm full of our beloved animals.
Sometimes cows don't do what you want 'em to.
It's the strangest thing.
I think I have to go in and scoop some poop, too.
-Whoo! -Yeah!
[Jenny] A renovation business.
[Jenny gasps] Wait!
And running two stores in our community of Northwest Arkansas.
-I think we did it. -We definitely did it.
[Jenny] We stay pretty busy.
-[Jenny yells] -[Dave laughs]
[Jenny] And sometimes a little stressed.
God! Oh, my Lord, David!
But when your job is helping your neighbors
transform their lives...
Oh, my God!
By transforming the place they call home...
Are you crying?
Oh, my God, it's so pretty!
Oh!
[Jenny] It's not really work at all.
Just another day in this crazy, beautiful life we call ours.
[woman] Oh, my God, how did you do that?
[Jenny laughs]
[upbeat, happy music playing]
OK, we're here at the Leggs.
They live near us, and they have this really cute
cabin, and so I'm super excited about this one.
I love a good cabin in the woods.
-[Dave] What's up, guys? -[Jenny] Hey, guys!
-[Matt L.] Hey! -[Laura] How are you guys?
-[both] Good. -[Jenny] Good to see you.
[Laura] Good to see you. Thanks for coming.
-[Jenny] Yes, of course. -[Matt L.] Good to see you.
[Dave] Good.
[Jenny] What's the deal? What's happening?
[Laura] So this is gonna be for my parents,
-[Jenny] Right, OK. -for my mom and my dad.
They have never seen the inside.
OK.
It's on trusses, so we just started tearing out all
the walls, only to realize that there was some mold.
Multiple floors.
There's definitely still a squirrel living
somewhere in there too. -Yeah.
You can hear it running back and forth.
[Jenny] Aw.
At what point through this process did you then decide,
"You know what? We're gonna just go..."
-Let's make Dave and Jenny, deal with this. -[Matt L.] Yeah.
I think when Jenny said,
"What are you gonna do with that house?"
I thought, well, I think that you should do that house.
-Yeah. -That was about the point.
[Jenny] Yeah.
I'm Laura, and this is my husband, Matt, and we've been
married for 14 years. We have three kids.
Hadley is 12,
Camden Kate is 9, and Jack is 4.
We have a dog, Max, who's a white Great Pyrenees,
and I looked out one morning, and I saw two Maxes.
I saw two white Great Pyrenees, and when I started
to investigate it, it was actually one of them was Jack,
Dave and Jenny's dog, had wandered over to our farm.
The escape artist.
[Matt L.] He kept coming over about every four days,
and we got to know Dave and Jenny a little bit better
as they'd come and pick up their dog.
We also have children the same age
that enjoy playing together.
So the property that we purchased
is around nine acres.
There's two homes on it, one in which our family lives in today,
and the other one's gonna be renovated
here for Laura's parents.
My dad's a large animal veterinarian in Oklahoma,
and my mom is a speech pathologist.
We just thought that would be a really cool opportunity
for my parents, Tom and Debbie, to just be across the land
from us, to be able to be in our children's lives daily.
We had ambitions for renovating
this house ourselves.
When we kinda peeled back the layers, so to speak,
it was clear we were in over our heads.
Jenny came over and visited Laura and...
She would constantly ask,
"What are you gonna do with the house?"
So it just seemed like the natural time now
to let Jenny do her magic.
That's super exciting.
So you're gonna tell us what you want and we're gonna
do this without them having any input?
Right. My mom had zero input on.
-She's OK with that. -She's OK.
-She does not enjoy making decisions. -OK, yeah, yeah.
She also does not have a vision.
So if she saw it right now, she would just see lighting
on fire. -She'd be overwhelmed.
-It'd be overwhelming. -There's no way or no.
There's no way that this can be revitalized.
-So I don't like the roof. -[both] OK.
[Laura] I wanna see this porch gone.
We have a very tight budget, so I don't know what kind of
porch you can add in.
But at minimum, I want a gable
over that door just welcoming
and giving some dimension. -Something to define it.
-[Jenny] OK. -[Laura] The door also enters into the kitchen,
and so I'd like to see it moved over. -[both] OK.
I'm assuming, just looking at this house, we want
new windows. -[Laura] And lots of them.
So you said you have a tight budget.
-What is the budget? -So the budget's $190.
OK.
-Not $191, Dave. -[all laugh]
So you guys started working on this.
I see some colors here. So you tried these.
Do you like any of these?
Are these what you were thinking?
[Laura] So out of the three of these, I would say I liked
this one the best. -Yeah, that's pretty.
-I like some green tone. -Yeah.
It's really pretty. It looks good with the stone.
-Matt loves the native stone. -Yeah.
[Jenny] I love the stone.
I just don't know if we're gonna have enough to cover
the whole house and to fill in all of the holes.
-Would you be OK with siding? -Yep.
-Yeah. -What's the bell from?
OK, so this bell is from my grandparents' house.
[Jenny] Aw.
[Laura] And I grew up going to my grandparents' house
multiple times a week. -[Jenny] Aw.
[Laura] And this bell was out at their property, and you would
ring it to let my grandpa know dinner was ready.
Oh, it's a dinner bell.
And I thought it would be really cool for my mom.
It was her dad, and I thought my mom would really enjoy it.
-That's a great idea. -I have great memories of like ringing it all the time.
I love that. OK.
Love the bell. What about this carport?
Are we keeping this?
So we'd like to add an extension on that side.
We'd like to see a pantry, a laundry room and a tornado
shelter added on over here. -[Jenny] OK.
So I'm doing the math in my head, because 190
and we haven't even gone inside.
I'm assuming there's a lot we have to do inside?
-Oh, it's terrible. -Everything.
Yeah.
They obviously have done a few remodels themselves and at some
point decided, "We're not doing this.
We're gonna pass this off."
So that's a, you know, that's a little bit of a flag
as a contractor that you're looking for.
And then it's just a -- it's a small budget.
But there's so much that we have to do.
Oh, this is so nice.
-This is so peaceful. -We have the swings out here.
The kids love to be pushed on the swings.
[Jenny] Yes.
While we're out here, they would love to have like
some kind of swing out here on the porch.
Oh, OK.
OK, so the plan for the exterior is we're going to move
the front door, we'll have all new windows,
replace the siding, we'll expand the house
to the covered carport, we'll get a new roof,
touch up the landscaping, and hang the dinner bell.
-[Laura] Love it. -[Jenny] All right.
-I think that's a great idea. -All right.
-Should we go inside? -[Matt L.] All right.
Here we go.
-[Jenny] OK. -[both] Wow!
-So this is it. -So you guys did all this demo.
You're actually standing in the old bedroom here.
And then you can see on the floor
where we removed the wall.
We blew this out to make
a wider space for a living room.
We're actually moving the front door.
You wanted to move it to maybe around here.
Move it a little bit over so when you walk in, I'd like
to see the kitchen have enough space for a table here.
[Jenny] OK.
And maybe we do like a little walkway out to a pantry
and laundry room. -OK, OK.
So we have a door right here going into those,
keeping the fireplace. -You like the fireplace?
Yes, just dressing it up better.
Is there something we can do with the stone?
It's darker in here.
We could do a smear on it or something like that,
that lightens it up. -Lightening up more.
[Laura] I'd love for it to be lighter.
I really want the inside to still stay nice and light,
'cause we're dealing with short ceilings.
-[Jenny] Absolutely. -Tight space.
Yeah, yeah.
So if we have a hallway here, then this would be
basically the dining room.
And then that space is the kitchen.
Yes, so when we push the door over, we'd have a little bit
more space for a table to sit here. -Sure.
And maybe just a very small island,
just something else to work with
for countertop space. -[Jenny] So we have living room.
We'll have either a slider or French doors
to access the porch. Lots of glass on that wall.
We'll have new flooring, of course.
We will paint.
We're gonna change up and move the front door.
We will keep this wood-burning fireplace, but lighten it up
so that it fits with the rest of the aesthetic.
We will have a hallway here to the new
expanded part of the house.
And then you have your kitchen here.
Of course, we will actually add cabinetry,
countertops, appliances, all the things to have
a beautiful kitchen here for your family.
Sounds great.
OK, so should we talk bedrooms?
That'd be great. So I'm thinking a two-bedroom.
And in our primary, I'd like to go ahead
and have you finish that out. So my parents could get
in here a little quicker. -Yeah.
But then maybe in the other, to save some money on labor,
we just white-box that
and Matt and I come along later and finish it out.
And maybe that bathroom as well.
Oh, OK. Yeah, that makes sense.
So you get all the plumbing, all the stops,
all that kind of stuff on.
-So then you can just go in. -Get the electrical in.
-Yeah, and -- -Perfect!
Anytime a homeowner wants to do some work on some
of the rooms, it will save the homeowners money.
And it's decisions that Jenny and I don't have to make.
But also, they can spend the current budget on, you know,
everything that needs to take place in the house.
And we can do the primary bedroom, primary bathroom.
And then when they have the time and they have
the money, they can do a phase two and go back and finish
those other spaces that weren't priority.
So it'll be a two-two.
We'll white-box one and we'll have you guys do the other.
-So it's gonna be over here. -OK.
So this is the primary suite.
-This will be the primary. -OK.
It'll just be a real cozy space.
The adequate.
And then a hanging closet area.
[Jenny] OK.
So we are putting either a slider or French doors,
some way to access the porch.
Do we want to do the same in the bedroom?
-I think it'd be awesome. -Yeah.
Do your parents have any preference on anything within
this house at all? -You know, I've never asked.
What? We should call and ask them.
-All right, let's ask 'em. -Do you have your phone?
Yeah, I do. OK.
See if they answer.
-Hi. -Hello.
Hey, I'm with Dave and Jenny and we're talking about
the house and they asked what your desires of colors
and style would be, and what are you thinking?
Oh, connection's unstable.
Hey, turn your turn your Wi-Fi off.
-Oh, there they are. -[Debbie] Hello.
OK, do you guys have any color preferences
for your bedroom? Oh, no.
-Can you hear us? -[Debbie] Yeah.
Babe, you don't have to yell.
-Well. -They're not deaf.
Do you guys have any color preferences for your bedroom?
[Debbie and Tom speaking]
Awesome.
Well, we're excited to be working on this, and we can't
wait for you guys to come up and see it when it's done.
Don't come today.
It doesn't look so good right now, so --
Give us a little time.
All right, thanks for your input.
[both] Bye.
[Jenny] OK, so the plan for the main bedroom is, of course,
we'll add flooring that will match the rest of the house.
We'll have a closet for storage.
And we'll go with nice, dark, moody bedroom.
[Laura] Great idea.
OK, so then let's talk about their bathroom,
and then we're set, yeah?
[Laura] OK, so this will be the new bathroom right here.
It'll be the bathroom, OK. So we'll have a door here.
What would you like to see in the bathroom?
Careful! Is that a hole?
-That's a hole. -[Laura] That is a hole.
Don't fall back. Be careful.
I love that light right there. That's pretty.
[Laura] I'd like to incorporate it somewhere.
-[Jenny] Yes, it's cute. -I think it's really classic.
I do, too. I love that.
All right, so this will be the bathroom.
Are we wanting a shower, a tub?
[Laura] So in one of the bathrooms, just a shower.
OK. Two sinks in the vanity?
-Two sinks in this one. -[Jenny] OK.
We'll have an entrance from the main bedroom,
and we'll just make this warm and timeless and beautiful.
-I love it. -OK.
-Well, thank you for doing this. -Yes.
-Yay. -Absolutely.
All right. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
I appreciate it.
The budget's really, really tight for really having
to touch the entire home.
And that's just a bid not knowing what else we could get
into, what rot, what mold.
We don't know what other issues we are going to uncover.
And that budget is going to dwindle very quickly,
but there is potential.
And I think it's going to be a lot of work,
but it will definitely be worth it.
[joyful music playing]
Day one at the Legg house.
I mean, there was really nothing to clean out, so
see what we get into on this house.
-[Jenny] Hey, babe. -[Tim] What's up?
-Tim. -Hey, hey.
-You look excited to be here. -I'm ecstatic.
-You got your jorts on today. -Look at the jorts.
[Tim] I'm ready.
Oh, you can even see your pocket through 'em.
Is that the new style?
It's got a little design on the pockets too.
They said, "These are from when I was 18."
[Dave] So you got the shoes where they're frayed too.
[Matt M.] Yeah, they did it all.
OK, guys, so let's talk about this.
This porch needs to go. Do we wanna do that today?
-The inside's already demoed? -Yeah.
-There's nothing in there. -Yeah.
Why don't we just try to rip this off?
We don't even have to get tools out.
We just rip it off the truck.
[Dave] I think we can rip this thing off, don't you?
Oh, 100%. We've never failed before.
[Matt M. laughs]
[Dave] Yeah! Whoo!
Keep going. Keep going.
[screams]
[Dave] Perfect.
Go, go, go, go,
[yells] OK, I'll do that!
[Dave] Good job!
-[Matt M. laughs] -All right.
Hey, you gotta move your car while we hook everything up.
OK, got it. I'll do that.
♪ Hey! ♪
So, do you think the roof and the deck's gonna come,
or you think just the deck's gonna come off?
[Dave] Could go either way.
-Ooh. -It's getting tight.
[Matt M.] Not looking very promising.
[Matt M. laughs]
-[Dave] What happened? -[Matt M.] Oh, it pulled underneath?
How did it do that?
[Dave] It pulled through the whole thing.
It, like, it ripped through
every single nail.
I would have not thought that possible.
[Charlie] Tie around this.
See if it'll rip that whole post.
Yeah, we can.
Or just go right around the middle.
[Matt M. and Chris] Yeah.
-[Dave] Yeah. -[all laugh]
Man, this is not going exactly as I had anticipated.
[Matt M.] OK, how about we go around this corner?
[Dave] Yeah, let's take the post off.
Yeah, see what happens.
I don't think we're giving this house enough credit now.
I don't think so either.
We thought it was about to fall down, it's not.
Yeah.
[Matt M. laughs]
[Dave] You gotta be kidding me.
[Dave] All right, let's try it one more time.
-[Chris] Oh, my goodness! -[Dave] You gotta be kidding me.
That porch never even needed those posts.
It is...
very securely strapped in there.
Look at that!
[Matt M.] This is one of the most dramatic demos
we've ever seen. -[Dave] Hey, you guys get on that end.
[groans]
[Tim] Look out!
[Matt M.] Look how quick that happened.
-[Tim] Well... -[Dave] Should we go look inside?
This is not starting the way I wanted it to.
Let's grab some pry bars and let's get at it.
♪♪
-[Tim] OK. -[Jenny] Hey!
[Tim] Power's off.
-Where's Dave? -Right here.
[Tim] Back here, saving the light.
You guys got the porch off.
I'd just like to know that nobody even noticed
I left and came back.
You guys even noticed I wasn't here?
Well, we were actually thankful that you weren't here.
[Matt M.] It was embarrassing.
[Dave] It was really embarrassing.
Well, Dave told me to move my car out of the way, so I just
figured I should move it back home for a little while.
Jenny, here's your light.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Matt M.] Dave? -Yeah?
[Matt M.] You didn't tell us that you would step holes
through the floor back here. -Did you fall through?
[Tim] Yeah.
I've been -- I've been -- I've even been eating salads
and trying to lose weight. I blew through the floor.
-[Jenny] Oh. -[Matt M. laughs]
[Jenny] Oh, no.
[Dave] Oh, no, though. You know what that means.
[Matt M.] Look at that, though. I mean, it's --
[Jenny] Look at that, it's rot.
That's just peeling. That's just completely rotten.
[Tim] And it's all up under that too.
Probably just take the saw all the way around the outer walls
and peel it all up.
How much is this gonna cost?
-That's a lot of money. -Probably 10 grand.
I would say, keep going for a minute.
There's a lot of issues so far that we're uncovering
in this house. It's just not looking good.
It's not a good start.
This is getting worse and worse.
♪♪
OK, we're here at the Leggs.
The guys should be inside adding in new floor joists
because we have all of the rot that we found in the flooring.
So we need to install the new joists so that we can then put
new flooring in because we don't have a floor.
[tools hammering]
-Hi. -[Tim] How's it going?
-[Dave] What's up? -Is this the old stuff?
-Yeah, but that's actually... -Is it safe to stand on?
[Tim] Just not where that ladder's at.
[Jenny] OK.
That's actually somewhat sound.
This is a definite hit to the budget for sure.
For real, I gotta go figure this out.
-Do you see that? -Where we can save money.
Well, and then we have...
[Jenny] No, if there's more bad news, what?
No, I don't wanna know.
Well, the addition on the side, the ceiling was
a foot lower than this, so we just had to
tear it all down.
Should we talk to them about that addition?
Like, do I need to ask them, because this is costing
so much, should we just not do the addition?
The addition is it's a laundry room, right?
I mean, a pantry.
Can we go look at that real quick, seriously?
[Dave] Yeah, let me check this. Hold on.
There you go. All right, I'll be back.
I mean, like, should we talk to them about just leaving this
and not doing the addition?
The addition is the square footage.
[Jenny] I know, but...
That's what adds the value to the house.
I know, but it's gonna be an absolute fortune.
That's what I'm saying. I think we need to ask them.
[bright, gentle music playing]
I think if it were me and I was the Leggs, I would want
the addition at least framed in, even if it didn't
get finished.
But the problem with that is then you have to do
the exterior of that.
-You can't just have, I mean... -I know.
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
It's so much money. It's not just the inside.
I knew there was rot in this structure when we started
in the kitchen, in the bathrooms.
The Leggs had identified some of that prior to us starting.
But once we got into it
everything needed to be completely pulled out,
all new joists put in.
And so what was going to be a $10,000 demo is now turning
into a, I think, probably $20,000
to $30,000 experience.
This house, we've gotta get the whole inside
of this structurally sound and ready to go.
So let me just finish up everything in here.
I can get a more definite number on,
"Hey, this is just what we spent."
Let's not call them until we know.
-[both] Yeah. -OK.
It's a lot of work.
♪♪
See you later, OK? [kiss smacks] Bye.
Good girl.
All right, I'm gonna get these to Dave.
I think he's been working on the porch swing today.
Dave!
[Dave] Yeah?
Look, our daughter is a horse hoarder, the way you're just
a general hoarder.
Look how cute these little horseshoes are!
Clearly, they don't fit Sadie. They're just fun.
-How cute is this one? -[Dave] It's fun.
So I was thinking, Laura's dad
is a large animal vet, loves horses.
The Leggs have miniature horses that they're wanting to move
out to this property.
So I was thinking, we get some horseshoes.
There's three grandkids, so you could inlay three of
these for the grandkids. -[Dave] You want them there?
-Where else could you -- -I could do this too.
-Put 'em on the front. -Put 'em there.
But make 'em out of wood and inlay 'em.
I think it would be actually cute if you did it like
three on the side like this.
Laura's parents are moving here to be closer to the grandkids.
They love horses. They have miniature horses.
So we're gonna have Dave try to make a horseshoe out of wood
that we're gonna inlay into the porch swing that's gonna
go on the new porch. -[Dave] OK.
I have to sand it at some point, but not now.
[Jenny] OK.
That guy will inlay in there.
I'll trim it to fit.
Let me get a little drill bit
and we can drill a few little holes in it.
Yeah, look, it has like...
this one has three.
-[Dave blows] -Cute.
And then I can just take --
I can inlay it. -Yeah.
And I'll get some little black screws, finish screws,
and then I'll use the screws to set it in there
like they're little nails. -[softly] Oh, shoot
[bright, techno music playing]
-[Laura] Hey, guys. -Oh, hey.
What's going on?
-[Dave] Hey. -[Chris] Howdy, howdy.
OK, so that's why I called you over.
So I told you we had some issues.
We wanted to wait until all of this was fixed before we really
got a good sense of what we're dealing with.
There was rot.
[Dave] We had to replace everything.
Laura, I think we're probably pushing an extra 10 grand
in here on just replacing this entire floor system.
That's a lot, Dave. Mm-hmm.
-[laughs] I know. -[Laura] Mm-hmm.
I mean, I think the biggest question is the only way
to really save $10,000 is not to add the addition.
-I think we have to. -OK.
-I think we have to. -Yeah.
I think that, you know, there's several things there
that we just don't wanna cut out.
But our child who was so scared of tornadoes has suddenly
become not afraid. So I don't know.
Maybe we talk about that?
Change the shelter or just not do a shelter?
Maybe not do one.
We've done it before where we've done like
inch and a quarter plywood and OSB on there.
That's something that we can definitely do
that's a lot less money.
Yeah, and if we have a section without windows.
-Yeah. -Maybe that's the pantry.
We make the pantry
more secure. -Mm-hmm.
[Jenny] I mean, it's not officially a storm shelter, but it would
at least be more secure. That would save a ton of money.
We're not gonna do a certified storm shelter,
and we're gonna save the money there to make up for
the cost of the floor joists. -Yeah.
-Let's get back to work, then. -All right.
[Dave] These unforeseen issues have put us a little behind
schedule, but we're moving forward with the additions
with, well, with footings, blocks, everything.
And so we'll be back on track in no time.
[crickets chirping]
[Jenny] It's time for dinner.
-[metal squeaks] -[bell tolls]
That was anticlimactic. No.
-You're not very good at this. -Terrible.
-[metal squeaks] -[bell tolls]
The bell tolls.
I like it.
The Legg family had this dinner bell on their property,
actually belonged to Laura's grandfather.
Do you put this on the new roof of the porch?
-I think we... -Do you brace it on the porch?
I think we get some steel and we build like a L.
-In the yard. -Or whatever, a U.
It kinda -- and then we just mount it in the yard.
-Like a little hook. -Then you can put it wherever you want.
Yeah.
And they mentioned it specifically to us that
they wanted to install it at the cabin and use it again.
Do you think we should replace this...
This actually might be pretty close.
...this rope and make it something else?
'Cause this rope a little raggedy.
-Um. -I'll get some new rope.
[Dave] Oh, you know what you should get?
What?
They love horses, and they'll let their dad get
a braided, like, horse lead. -Oh, that's a really good idea.
I know a lady who makes custom leads.
That's a good idea, like a rope, a horse lead rope.
I should probably cut some off.
We're having two different conversations,
but you're right. -Maybe a foot.
-I'll cut a foot off. -All right, I'll get the rope.
-All right. -Thank you.
You're welcome.
♪ Baby, you're the juice ♪
♪ Baby, you're the juice Baby, you're the juice ♪
So I checked and I found a photo of the same bell,
and Dave hung it upside down.
So that's why it wasn't working.
-It wasn't my fault. -Dave Marrs.
-[Dave] Yeah. -[Jenny] Look at this.
This is what the problem is. You have the bell upside down.
[Dave laughs]
It goes like this.
And it's mounted like that. And then you ring it.
[bell tolls]
Look, it says "Bell."
Right side up now. It would have been upside down.
Dave, "Bell."
So I didn't have to build any of this.
All I had to have was a flat post.
Yeah, exactly.
It's amazing.
[Dave] Shoot.
Best part is, neither of us noticed that it actually
says "Bell."
It's almost like in 1890, they were printing instructions
for morons like me.
It's like, this side up is basically what it said.
I would expect you to miss something like that,
but I should've never missed it. -Oh, this is what I do?
I'm leaving!
[laughs]
[Debbie] I can't even tell it's the same place!
-Oh, the fireplace! -It's amazing!
-[Matt L.] That's so good. -[Laura] It's so great.
[action music playing]
[Jenny] We're here at the Legg house. I mean, we're getting there.
We got the sidings going up.
I'm sad because we did not have enough stone to wrap the whole
house once we replaced these windows and added on
the addition, uh, so we actually
had to remove the stone altogether.
I think the stone was kind of charming,
but we're gonna still make it charming.
We're gonna add charm back in.
♪♪
So Laura's parents are in town.
Her dad, Tom, is actually a vet.
So he just agreed to stop by and take a look at Sadie.
-Charlotte, Mr. Tom's here. -[Charlotte] Oh, OK.
-OK, come on. -Hi, there.
Hey, guys. Hi.
The whole crew's here. Look.
All right. Hello.
-This is Charlotte. -Hi, Charlotte.
[Charlotte] Hi, it's nice to meet you.
I'm Dr. Tom. Nice to meet you.
Our vet, he's been booked on his farm calls,
and since Charlotte is friends with Laura's daughters,
her dad, Tom, offered to come over and help us out.
[Charlotte] Sadie!
So you're getting ready to go to some play days.
You need to have her blood tested for
-Yeah. -the equine infectious anemia.
Charlotte wants to take Sadie in to do some rodeo rides,
and we have to do this test before she's allowed to take
her to make sure she's healthy.
Well, she looks really nice.
You take good care of her.
-[Charlotte] Thanks. -[Jenny] Oh, good.
-Well, we got the blood sample. -[Jenny] OK.
-We'll send it to the lab. -OK.
And the lab will have it done in less than a week.
-OK, amazing. -Thank you.
-[Tom] You're quite welcome. -So much.
Good girl. All right.
Well, thank you, guys. Enjoy your visit.
How long are you in town?
-A couple of days. -[Jenny] Oh, good.
We're anxious for this house to go down so we can
stay longer. -Oh, yes.
-It's been an adventure. -[Tom] Yeah.
I don't know if Laura's told you, but we're getting there.
-Now we're on the upside. -[Tom] That's great.
Now it's all up from here.
[mellow music playing]
[Dave] We are finally seeing noticeable progress
at the house.
We are putting in flooring, sheetrock.
I think it will be a really
cool finished product, but it's not easy.
♪♪
-All right, ready, Char? -[Charlotte] Yeah.
OK, we're here at Kristy's place.
They made custom halters.
So she is actually gonna make us a custom lead rope
for the Leggs dinner bell.
-[Jenny] Hi. -Hi.
-[Charlotte] Wow. -[Jenny] Hello.
-[Kristy] Come in. -How are you?
-Good to see you. -[Kristy] Hi, great.
-Nice to see you. -[Jenny] Oh, what is that?
How did you get this? What is this?
-Believe it or not, I had one. -No way.
-It's my great grandfather's. -Oh, my gosh.
-I think it's the same era. -Yes.
This is just like the bell that the Leggs have.
So they have a dinner bell from Laura's grandpa.
OK.
And it has this really old ratty kind of rope on it.
And so I was like, they love horses.
They have horses.
And they would -- I thought it'd be really fun to do a lead rope
to pull the bell. -Absolutely.
So I brought Charlotte to help me pick out.
-The color? -The color, the style.
They have girls in their family.
-OK. -But they also have a boy.
What about this one? It has like blue and purples.
[Charlotte] I like this one.
Oh, that's cute, but that's really bright.
Maybe not so bright. Oh, what about this?
-Do you like that? -[Charlotte] OK, I guess you do.
-This one, I think, is nice. -All right.
[Jenny] OK, so do you think this is gonna work?
-Yes, I do. -OK.
-Yes. -It'll work.
-We'll do this rope. -[Jenny] I love it.
On the end, would you like it rolled like this?
Would you like us to put a piece of leather
on the bottom? -You put leather.
-That would be better. -Oh, leather.
-[Kristy] Like this. -Oh, well, sure.
[Kristy] Because lead ropes typically have these on the bottom.
-[Charlotte] Yeah. -[Kristy] If you want it to look
like a lead rope, we could put a popper on it.
We'll do it. It's so pretty.
You were right, Char. You were right.
-Look just like -- -And it will look good with that color too.
Very pretty. OK.
-Blend with it. -[Charlotte] Yay!
Love it.
I feel like this was super successful.
I think the Leggs are gonna love their bell and their lead rope.
I mean, the best part is the bell is no longer
upside down, so I mean, win all around.
[Dave] With just three weeks left in our construction schedule,
we're finishing up the exterior of the Legg house
with hardscaping and paint.
[Jenny] So it's gonna be a deep green.
It's gonna look really natural,
like a cabin in the woods.
[Dave] Progress is continuing inside as well, with cabinetry
being installed in the kitchen and bathrooms.
[birds chirping]
-[Jenny] Hey, babe. -Hey, baby.
Oh, hey, Banana.
Banana knows where she could find Dolly.
She's been looking everywhere for her.
I keep looking over and expecting to see her
sitting in the sawdust, the pile of sawdust, but...
-[Jenny] I know. -[Dave] No go.
Can't think of a time I ever came out here where she wasn't
out here with you. -[Dave] I know, she loved it.
But she's in a better place.
We had taken Dolly to the vet.
You know, she went to the vet once a month.
I took her every month. Yeah, she got her hip shots.
She got steroid shots for her hips, but it was different.
Her back legs just weren't working anymore.
We brought her to the vet to see if there's anything else
we could do 'cause she was on all sorts of stuff
for her arthritis and thought maybe there was something more
we could give her, but...
there wasn't.
There wasn't. There wasn't.
But she did get Hershey Kisses.
She got a lot of chocolate, which was awesome.
The vet said, "Every dog should have chocolate before they go
to Heaven," and so we got to feed her Hershey Kisses.
We were all with her.
She felt safer and comfortable and she was eating chocolate.
So... [sighs]
You know, we have her collar.
So I was thinking maybe you could build like a little
frame or like a little box and we can put it up, hang it
next to our painting on the wall. -Sure.
-Wouldn't that be cute? -Yeah, that would.
Dolly came into Jenny and I's world, our family's world
about 10 years ago. -Yeah.
[Dave] She was a rescue then.
And, you know, we really didn't know at that time,
they said she was eight, nine years old, kind of
how long she had.
Should I bring out that painting that Nate did of her?
And you could put a little --
we need to put a hanging thing on it.
You could hang it next to it.
-Yeah. -All right, I'll be right back.
-Then she just, you know. -She had a whole second half.
Whole second life.
And she lived large, slept 18 to 20 hours a day.
If you were to ask Dolly the rules for living,
they would be -- sleep and eat whatever.
You find a dead animal outside, bring it home.
Isn't that so good?
I can't remember how old he was.
I think this was like three years ago he did this.
I think he was 12.
We were very blessed to have her in our family for as long
as we did. -She was the best.
-Will it stay? -Mm-hmm.
[Dave] Aw, her little paw print and her little nose print.
-Good? -[Jenny] Yeah.
You miss her too, huh?
OK.
So I gotta wire it,
so it's just sitting there right now.
Banana now. That's at your height.
You can look at Dolly whenever you want, babe.
What do you think, Banana?
Oh, gosh. Wanna go out?
Let's go outside.
Come on. Looks good.
OK, I think maybe, like, in here feels nice.
So they can see it from the porch.
Hang on. Yeah, that's cute.
-[Matt M.] Is that good? -That's good.
[Jenny] So we've got the post hole digger.
We're gonna install this metal post where we're going
to attach the dinner bell from Laura's family.
I wanted it in sight of the front door,
but not blocking the view.
-[Matt M.] That good? -Hey, watch this.
Look at this new tool I just bought.
-[Matt M.] You ready? -You bought this?
[Matt M.] How much do you want it in there?
That's good, I think.
Go check and see if the height's good.
I don't know. You've gotta get the bell.
[Dave] So you like this right here?
-[Dave] That's good? -[Jenny] Let me see.
[Dave] You wanna go up on the deck and look at it?
Yeah, I think if it's any shorter, it kinda gets lost.
I think it's cute.
[Dave] I don't know. I'll just put in the top part.
[muffled] I'll finish the rest later.
Oh, Jenny, I could be a painter.
-Holy cow! -[Jenny] Huh?
I could totally be a painter.
[tool drilling]
[bell tolls]
Paul! Dinner's ready!
Ma, get on in here.
-You like it? -[Jenny] Yeah.
Man, that's the best post hole I've ever done.
-Do you guys buy this together? -Yeah.
[Jenny] Whose house is it being stored at?
Jenny, Dad always said, "It only costs 85% more
to go first class." We went first class.
[Jenny] You never fly me first class.
We can't 'cause we bought that post driver.
[Jenny] All right, let's go. Let's go in.
[Dave] Well, we gotta hang the porch swing.
♪♪
[Jenny] OK.
It's coming. All right, so...
down this hall, this is the addition.
We have nice big room here, big extra spaces for storage.
That's gonna be beautiful and just functional,
really, but that's nice down the hall.
Nice, moody, dark bedroom. So this is the main bathroom.
Tile still needs to go up.
We have car siding going along the wall.
I have really fun sconce.
This is where I'm gonna hang that old light as well.
Yeah, this is gonna be cool.
-How's the swing? -It's good, babe.
-[Matt M.] You like it, Jenny? -[Jenny] Oh, it's cute.
[Matt M.] We were gonna let you sit in it first just to make sure.
Gee, thanks.
[Matt M.] This always reminds me of Jenny when she was
on the rope swing. -[Jenny] Mm-hmm.
[Dave] We don't talk about that.
Ah! Oh, God, Dave, it's slipping!
-It slipped! -[Dave] Oh, it is slipping!
[both laugh]
But I've learned my lesson. That's why I don't
test these out anymore. -[all laugh softly]
It's cute, though.
Did you see the little horseshoes in it?
-[Matt M.] Yeah. -[Jenny] Isn't that cute?
-That's so cool. -Yeah, it looks good.
I also wanna see the dining table.
I saw you brought it.
-I did. -Yeah.
You wanna help me carry that in, then you can leave?
Yep.
-[Dave] You good? -[Matt M.] Yep.
[Dave] All right.
-This table looks good. -Yeah, I built that.
-It fits this house perfect. -[Jenny] Oh, it looks so cute.
-Oh, I love it. -Three by six.
[Jenny] It's so cute.
Yeah, no, it fits perfectly, and I love the style.
It's very dainty. It's super cute.
[Dave] We gotta paint that too, don't we?
[Jenny] Well, so I was thinking of doing just filling in
all the mortar and making it lighter, but then maybe doing
a light wash on the stone, just 'cause you have
all this orange.
All right, man. Thank you.
-Got a lot to do. -Take care of you guys.
All right. Bye, thanks, Matt.
[Dave] The things are winding down.
We are getting close.
Giving this back to the Legg family.
Right there.
But we've got last-minute projects to finish up
in several spaces.
We've, it's come a long way, but we've had a lot of bumps in
the road, and we're racing against the clock now
because Laura's parents are coming to see the house
in less than a week.
[Jenny] I feel like once we bring furniture in here,
the art and all of the decor, it will help to make this home
feel like a home.
[rock music plays and ends]
[Dave] We are here.
We have finally made it to the end.
We made it.
Oh, man, this thing's on full throttle, Jenny.
-Full throttle, huh? -Look at that.
OK, OK, babe, come on, we gotta go.
[Dave] This has been a tough one.
From the start, we have hit just problem after problem.
[Jenny] I mean, this house has changed completely inside.
I mean, we had to go all the way down to the studs.
There was no floor at one point.
We had to go down to the dirt floor.
We had to take out everything on this house.
This is a brand new house.
But all this doesn't matter anymore.
It's so cute.
I love how the fireplace turned out.
Yeah, it turned out really good.
-The whitewashing is good. -It's really soft,
the new mantle. It's very pretty.
I feel like this house, it's gonna be something that
these grandkids, grandparents having everyone
close together.
There's gonna be a lot of memories made in this house.
Yeah, it is.
-It's the dream. -Yeah.
-[Laura] Are you guys nervous? -I'm excited nervous.
-[Matt L.] I'm excited.
We've been wanting to come over and see it so much.
We've talked about it a lot.
Well, I think the kids are super excited about this.
Grandchildren's sleepovers, huh?
Yeah, we'll just send them over.
Here we go.
-They're there. Let's go. -Oh, OK.
You can't even tell it's in the same place.
-[Dave] Hello. -[Jenny] Hello.
[Matt L.] What did you do with that old house?
-This is a brand new house. -[Jenny laughs]
-[Laura] This is amazing. -[Jenny] How are you all?
-I'm good. -[Debbie] Looks so good.
[Dave] All right, come on over here.
[Jenny] Come on, let's go look. Check it out.
And I don't know if you noticed anything else in the yard.
-[Laura] Yes. -[Tom] The bell.
-[Debbie] Oh, yeah. -[Laura] Wow!
-I love it. -[Debbie] It was my dad's.
[Laura] When I was little, I used to sit there and yank
on this bell forever. -This would make them come in.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
So I had a friend, so Kristy, a friend who makes horse leads
and bridles, she actually made this.
This is actually a horse lead.
So, it kind of tying back into the horse
farm and the business.
And you can be out here, ring the bell, and the kids can
come running. -[all laugh]
[Jenny] And then the house.
OK. It's a little bit different.
-[Debbie] Oh. -[Jenny laughs]
[Matt L.] This is so good.
The green that's my favorite color.
-[Jenny] Yay! -[Laura] I love it.
[Jenny] And it's very cabin-y, but cozy.
-[Debbie and Matt L.] Yeah. -[Jenny] Yeah.
Originally, the bottom half of the house was stone.
-[Laura] Yeah. -[Jenny] We talked about keeping that.
But once we added this little addition,
we didn't have enough.
So we got rid of the stone, but we did keep it on
the fireplace, which is a nice little nod to what it was.
[Laura] Yeah, yeah.
I like it with that and just the touch-up there.
-[Jenny] OK, good. -[Debbie] So good.
-Love it. -You ready to go inside?
-Let's do it. -OK, all right.
-[Dave] After you guys. -[Jenny] After you guys.
-[Debbie] These look so good. -[Laura] I like these steps too.
I'm excited.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, it's a dream.
♪♪
-[Laura] I love it. -Oh, the fireplace!
-Oh, my gosh, the fireplace! -[Tom] Oh, my.
-It's amazing. -[Matt L.] That's so good.
[Laura] It's so great.
I did like the stone, of course, because it was
original and it was pretty, but I mean, it was just dark
and the grout was really heavy and there was like orange
on the stone, so it really wasn't salvageable.
So we tried to just lighten the grout.
Then I was like, "No, we gotta whitewash this whole thing,"
and then it wasn't enough, so we did another layer
and now it feels really warm.
You can still have the texture
of the stone. -Yes, the texture is white.
But then this white oak mantle and of course we had to
incorporate the horse. -[Laura] I love it.
And then Dave made this.
Yeah, I built you guys a table that fits the area.
-It's perfect. -You built it?
Yeah, it's an elm.
Jenny wanted something that looked older.
-[Tom] This is perfect. -[Laura] I love it.
And then of course the kitchen.
The colors are amazing.
[Debbie] That's the first thing I noticed.
[Laura] Yes, like I could not have dreamt for better colors.
-[Debbie] It's so good. -The countertops are amazing.
-You did such a great job. -[Matt L.] This is so good.
-You did it, you did it. -[Jenny] Aw, thank you.
-It's so good. -Thank you.
-It's awesome. -It's very cozy.
-And the windows are massive. -[Jenny] They're big windows.
[Matt L.] That's awesome.
Well, I love the light that comes in.
-[all] Yeah. -Big ones.
I mean, he never wants to be indoors anyway.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. See out.
-I feel the exact same way. -Yes.
OK, and check out the living room.
-[Tom] This is really pretty. -[Laura] I love it.
[Matt L.] This is great.
This whole space felt tiny
when we first started, remember?
And now I feel like it doesn't feel...
It feels like a great size space, especially for the two
of you to enjoy and have the kids over and do
sleepovers, like we said. -[Laura] So great.
[Jenny] OK. Into your bedroom.
-Go check it out. -[Tom] Cool.
[Laura] OK.
Oh!
-[Tom] Very cool. -[Laura] I love that.
-This is great. -It is so awesome.
-[Laura] Awesome. -Nice.
It'll make good sleep in here.
[Laura] I love the deep moodiness.
-Yes. -Yes.
-Very cozy. -I think it's so great.
Yes, it is.
[Jenny] We brought in some vintage pieces, have the wood,
just add some texture in here. It's just a very cozy space.
And of course, most importantly, you've got
your doors outside.
So in the morning, you can go right outside.
[Tom] Yeah.
You also have your new bathroom.
So we're gonna get out of your way 'cause
it's a little tight. But you go on in.
-[Matt L.] Go ahead, Debbie. -[Debbie] Oh!
Oh, the shower!
I've never got such a reaction to a bathroom.
-It's fantastic. -I love this bathroom.
-[Laura] Oh, I love it. -[Tom] Nice.
Yeah, the shower is nice.
-It is great. -[Debbie] Isn't it pretty?
Tons of storage. You have an extra stack here.
-[Laura] Jenny, is this? -[Jenny] Yeah.
[Dave] It is.
-[Laura] This is... -Oh, that's the original light.
Yes! Yes!
-[Debbie] I love that light. -Yes!
That was in the other,
and I just thought it was super cool.
Yes, it was, like, the only thing
that was worth saving.
-[Debbie] It's just -- -[Laura] Super cool.
[Jenny] OK, and then we have one more space.
-Should we come out here? -[Laura] Yes.
[Jenny] All right. Let's go this way.
All right. After you.
-[Laura] Oh, that is amazing. -[Tom] I love the [indistinct].
-Oh, so great. -[Dave] It's a swing.
-[Laura] Oh, my goodness. -[Tom chuckles]
-[Debbie] Oh. -I love that.
Oh, look at the cute little horseshoes.
-[Jenny] Yay! -[Laura] Oh, look we noticed.
[Dave] But for the grandkids,
You know, you gotta have one for each of them.
Dave built this for you.
And we feel like you're gonna spend a lot of time here
watching the grandkids play. -[Jenny] Yeah.
It's a perfect spot to start in the day
and really just take in the view.
I mean, this really is just, this is the spot where you
wanna be. -[Laura] Love it.
-Yeah. -So great.
All right. Well, I hope you love it.
Welcome to Arkansas. Enjoy your grandkids.
Enjoy the space.
So glad you guys get to have them so close by.
Thank you for letting us be a part of this.
[Laura] Thank you for doing this for us.
There were many times I was not thanking you for letting us
be a part of this, but it ended great.
[overlapping chatter]
Ah, neighbor.
-Thank you. -All right.
-[Dave] We'll see you all.
-Bye! -Bye, guys!
[Laura laughs]
[Laura] For my parents to be able to come and have
their own space, we're really excited to have them here.
I can't imagine it being any better.
Seeing it today is absolutely the right choice.
They turned this house from an eyesore to an absolute
amazing experience and kind of the center point
for our property.
[Laura] Come in.
-[Debbie] Hey. -[Tom] Hey.
-Welcome to our home. -[Laura] Welcome.
[Matt L.] Look at it. Jack, what do you think?
-[Tom] You like our home? -[Laura] What do you think?
-Isn't it beautiful? -It's different, huh?
It's gonna be awesome. They're super excited.
-We're super excited. -Yeah.
The kids are excited.
It's a win for everybody.
[Debbie] And Mr. Dave made this table.
[Matt L.] Look at this table. This is out of Elm.
He did. This is just beautiful.
And it just, it looks so natural in this,
you know, the outdoors. It's just great.
Did you see the swing? Isn't that great?
Isn't that awesome? So Mr. Dave built this.
And do you notice what he did down here?
He put three horseshoes, one for each of you.
[Debbie] Our family is such an important part of our life.
It is our life.
And so to be here and to watch them grow and to be together
in such a wonderful space is just like a dream come true.
[bell tolls]
[Matt L.] Good job, buddy.
[Dolly panting]