I wanna do ficus hedges. How tall can I get them?
Eight to ten feet tall.
Wait a minute. Those are really short hedges.
They're gonna have a really nice hedge wall.
It just won't be in this lifetime.
[Jeff] They have every single fountain you could ever think of.
-[Fortune] This is like an amusement park. -[Jeff] It is.
[Jax] Oh, my God, yes.
Wow, this looks amazing.
[Lamorne] It's a very sexy place. It's so dope.
The new bar/kitchen area looks far better now than it did when I got there.
Thanks, man.
Cheers. Congratulations.
Cheers.
Holy crap, there's, like, a whole room in here.
[Tyler] Wow, looks good.
[Jeff] We have a bunch of chairs to show you.
[Wilmer] Is this for the dining room?
Mm-hmm.
I knew you were gonna pick that. I just knew it.
I think that they really understood how bold we could be.
They brought some really great options that kind of share that same spirit,
so it was cool.
These are amazing choices.
-Yeah. -These are really fun.
We're excited. Things are gonna start probably moving pretty quickly.
I would like Jeff to give me his idea on the exterior of the house.
I'm thinking about just keeping these trees up front.
Eventually, we'll probably take 'em all down, Anthony.
[Anthony] Jeff Lewis. What's going on?
Juan can remove those roots in the back for $500,
so you would pay 1,000 for the tree, 500 for the roots.
[Anthony] Okay, I'm gonna give this to you 'cause this is what you do.
It's gonna look worse before it looks better. That's what happens.
[theme music plays]
[pop music plays]
[Jeff] This week with Fortune, Francisco is installing the sod Saturday.
He's getting a lot of guys. He can do the entire yard on Saturday.
[Megan] I should be there. How many guys?
-[laughs] -How many can you handle?
[all laugh]
I'll supervise.
And it's hot, so they're gonna have their shirts off, probably.
Yeah, that's what I was counting on.
[Jeff] Um, the hedges are in.
All right.
No one's really happy with the height, um, but there's nothing we can do
because once they've been put in the ground,
we've paid for them.
I'm very happy with the outside of Fortune's home,
except for the hedges.
That's a disappointment that I'm working through.
Fortunately, they will grow and they do grow pretty quickly.
Are they gonna live there? Are they gonna sell it? What's...
'Cause I know Fortune was kind of like...
I don't know. I don't know where we are.
The good news is, is that you can see the house.
I love it. I wanted show off your work.
-It has nice curb appeal. -[Megan] Yeah.
[Jeff] Okay, in regards to Anthony,
we've convinced him to remove three trees in the front
and then one in the back
because they were in the way of the wall plant, irrigation,
and they're blocking the house.
Yeah, you wanna see the house.
There's two trees in the back that I think we need to get rid of as well.
It's baby steps.
All right, in regards to Wilmer's job, he just needs to decide on wallpaper
and then we need to start shopping for furniture.
Okay, then we'll go shopping for wallpaper.
I would get, like, 100 choices which we can then narrow down to, say, 25
and then he can choose.
All right.
So then we have a new client in the Palisades, Melissa Rivers.
Oh, I love her.
Yeah, she's great. She's got very good taste.
She has very expensive taste, by the way.
A little more traditional.
Her tastes are softer.
That's why I want you involved
because we want a little bit more of a feminine edge.
-I can do that. -[Jeff] I know you can.
Okay. Is that...
-[cat meows] -[Megan] Oh, God!
[all laugh]
Honestly, you look like his mom right now. You're wearing the same exact colors.
I know. The tail went in my mouth.
And, honestly, he doesn't see very well.
[Megan] The tail went inside my mouth.
[laughs]
We got about five minutes until my throat starts closing up.
-Does anyone have an EpiPen? -[meows]
[pop music plays]
I need a hair brush because I had to use my daughter's princess hair brush today.
-You don't like doing that? -Which is emasculating.
[phone rings]
-With Ariel on it. -I thought your hair looked really nice.
[both laugh]
[Shane] Do you want me to text Jax?
Yeah, just say we'll be there at 2:00.
I think all we have left for Fortune is a couple tables and then some pots.
I think that's all we need, right?
-[Shane] Yes. -[Jeff] We're almost done.
[pop music plays]
[Fortune] This is fun, you guys.
Your house is gonna be great.
-[Fortune] I love it. I'm so excited. -I'm excited.
[Shane] I love all your fountains. I'm obsessed with them.
-I'm so... -[Jeff] Yeah, did we get enough fountains
or should we get another one?
[Shane] I think we should get a third.
[Fortune] For real? No, two is good.
-I noticed your diamond again. -[Jax] Uh-huh.
[Tyler] And I just saw it flashing.
-[Jeff] It's a big diamond. -[Jax] Thank you.
[Shane] Really pretty.
Yeah. It cost more than our house.
-No. [laughs] -[Fortune] Come on.
-[all laugh] -[Jax] I'm just kidding.
I had to get her to say yes. That's her love language, jewelry.
Her dad's a jeweler.
Hmm. So if I wanted things for my daughter, I could go to him?
[Jax] Mm-hmm.
Diamond earrings, one day. Necklace.
-Yeah... -Are you looking for another daughter?
[all laugh]
I don't think Monroe is gonna want a sibling.
[Tyler] I think it'd be good for her, though.
She thinks Shane's her brother.
-Yeah. -Oh, really?
-Because I told her that. -Yeah.
-Oh, my God. -And there is a serious sibling rivalry.
-I get a lot of abuse. -Wow.
She'll be like, "Daddy, this is for you 'cause you're my favorite.
Shane, this is for you 'cause you're not my favorite."
[all laugh]
[Jeff] Fortune and I were acquaintances,
but in the last few months, we've become friends.
I don't know if Fortune really envisioned
what the remodel is going to look like after the fact.
I think it is more of a "trusting me" kind of situation.
It's moving along, moving fast, your house.
Yeah. I'm so excited, like...
Like, the house being done, it's, like, that's something I really want
-that I don't know how to do for myself. -[Jeff] Yeah.
-That stuff excites me. -Yeah.
And then as soon as it's done, on the market and we're gone.
Yeah.
[both laugh]
Fortune will come up with 27 reasons why she can't move,
so there is a possibility that Jax is not gonna get her out of there anytime soon.
In my opinion, when I'm finished, they should sell it
and I think they should buy a bigger home.
Like, twice the size or more.
You'll be ready to put that house on the market in 30 days.
No. I gotta at least enjoy the fountains for a minute. Come on.
[laughs]
[pop music plays]
[Tyler] Hi.
Hi. How did you get here so quick? What way did you go?
-I don't know. -Wow.
[Jeff] Did they get all the roots?
You gotta make sure they dig and get the stump and the roots.
[Tyler] I can ask him.
I mean, those roots are... Like, they're as tall as me.
-[Tyler] It looks nice. -[Jeff] It looks really nice.
-[Jeff] Can we get... -[Shane] So much house.
[Jeff] Can we get rid of those pots on the balcony? I gotta ask him.
-Did he get to the tree in the back? -[Tyler] Yeah.
-[Jeff] How does that look? -It's good.
I would go... I would go this way, though.
Now that you've done this, I wish you would take these two out.
-[Tyler] It's just a mess. -[Jeff] I agree.
[Tyler] I just think it'd be so much nicer.
[Jeff] Well, I would take out that third one too.
-[Tyler] Yeah. -[Jeff] Look at the needles everywhere.
[Shane] Mm-hmm, it's a mess.
[Tyler] Is it expensive for three?
[Jeff] It's three grand, probably.
[Tyler] Not bad. And they're here, so he could just keep going.
[Jeff] I can ask him. I just try to pick and choose my battles.
Anthony let me remove very large trees from his property.
The house does look a little bare now. But that's okay, it's temporary.
[Jeff] It's gonna be a nice house someday.
Thanksgiving 2024, it's gonna be beautiful.
[Jeff] All right, can you text him?
[Shane] Anthony Anderson?
Just say, "The house looks great without the pine trees.
My guy will remove
the remaining three pine trees in the backyard for three grand.
Please consider it.
Those trees are ugly, messy, and in the way.
Anything is better than those ugly trees."
Send it.
Anthony is a little bit more hands-on with me.
"Okay, what is this price and what are you doing?"
I have a feeling that the budget got out of hand before I started
and I think now he's probably trying to be more careful.
He can trust me, but right now I can tell he, you know, he doesn't
'cause we haven't worked together long enough,
but ultimately it's my job to build trust with the client.
All right, what's next?
Megan is working on wallpaper for Wilmer.
Guerin can pick up the wallpaper samples today for the dining room.
-And we're meeting at 11:00. -Okay.
[pop music plays]
[Megan] Oh, look who's here. Hi, Tyler.
-Hi. -[Megan] Hi, honey.
[Tyler] It's so nice and cool in here.
How can I help you today? What are you looking for?
Just looking at some wallpaper samples.
-[Megan] You've come to the right place. -[Tyler] Yeah, I'm sure.
[Tyler] It's like a real office.
[Megan] I told you, we don't... around.
-[Shane] Hey, girl. -[Megan] Hi.
Wow, there's a lot.
Just settle in and keep an open mind.
What kind of animal is this?
-[Guerin] That's a leopard. -[Megan] That's a cheetah.
-[Shane] Oh, I like that. -[Megan] It's a big Kitty.
[Shane] I want a big kitty.
When it comes to design choices, Wilmer is not restrained at all.
He's very open and I think he is a risk-taker.
He was okay with color. He's okay with patterns.
He's okay with multiple patterns.
It is a little harder when someone can't nail down exactly what they want,
but they're open to so many different things.
I kind of like the tiger.
-[Guerin] Yeah. -[Jeff] Where are they?
-[Megan] They're in Guatemala. -[Guerin] India. That's India.
-[Megan] Are you sure? -She said Guatemala.
-I don't think tigers live in Guatemala. -They live everywhere.
[laughs]
I would probably trust you.
Shut up, Tyler.
They only live a few places. I'm pretty sure that's India.
[Jeff] Okay, question, though.
Wouldn't you rather go with this than this?
[Tyler] Yes.
That one's more feminine to me.
-[Tyler] I don't like that. -[Shane] I like it.
-[Jeff] Let's include. -[Megan] Yeah.
We are doing Snakes on a Plane. It's very masculine. Wilmer will love it.
-[Megan] Mm-hmm. -[Guerin] Mm-hmm.
[Jeff] I would like to guess how many times he's gonna say "experience"
in that long meeting.
We clear the whole thing and expand the kitchen into this one experience.
No, I do this speakeasy experience.
The experience is to line it up with the stairs.
This is actually being centered to the experience of this floorplan,
as opposed to the stairs.
The idea would be that you center the door experience to this floorplan.
Okay.
[Megan] I think he said it probably 11 times.
[Tyler] No, more than that.
Here's this whole stack.
-[Jeff] So this is the same thing? -[Guerin] Mm-hmm.
-[Tyler] The Gucci one's pretty. -[Jeff] I like that one.
-Mm-hmm. -So beautiful.
I wanna use this. I love that one.
-Wait till you see it big. -Here.
-[Tyler] Oh, yeah, I love it. -[Jeff] It's insane.
-[Guerin] Isn't that nice? -[Megan] It's incredible.
-That's the one I would choose. -[Megan] It's stunning.
I wouldn't even show him anything else, but I have to.
And the wallpaper can get here, like, lickety-split.
-Yeah. -Really, Grandma?
-[Megan] Yeah. -What does that mean?
-It means, like, in three days. -Yeah.
Lickety-split. [laughs]
[phone vibrates]
[Jeff] Uh-oh. Hold on one second.
[Shane] Drama.
Hey.
[Anthony] What's this nonsense that I'm reading about those horrible pine trees?
[Jeff] Can I take 'em down?
[Anthony] God damn you, Jeff.
[Guerin] Uh-oh.
We gotta make the decision.
[Anthony] If my house looks bare and barren, it's on your head.
It's gonna look barren for a second, but don't worry.
Right now, I mean, you wouldn't believe the amount of needles on the roof.
The maintenance with those, I mean, I'm doing you a huge favor.
You're gonna be thanking me. We gotta... They gotta go, they gotta go.
I think, for whatever reason, people ethically think
that we shouldn't remove trees,
but I don't really share in that viewpoint.
Those trees are not attractive. They were blocking the house.
They're messy, dropping pine needles and sap.
And it would probably destroy whatever we decided to do there,
not to mention we would be very limited in what we could do
because of those massive roots.
Is that a yes?
[Anthony] All right.
All right, thank you, Anthony.
[Anthony] All right, no problem.
Okay, bye.
[Anthony] Bye.
Okay, will you tell Juan take them down?
The remaining three in the back.
Before he changes his mind.
He's a little worried 'cause we just took down seven trees.
[Shane] Yeah.
Hope he doesn't change his mind. He loves those trees.
[pop music plays]
-[Jeff] I like that Melissa. -[Shane] She's so cool.
Is it right here? Yeah.
Is there a doorbell out here?
Hello.
-Hi, how are you? -Good, how are you?
-Good to see you. -I'm glad I didn't wear my navy shirt.
We could have been twinning and I was gonna wear navy sneakers.
Wait a minute. What is going on here?
Okay, I'm in the process of zhuzhing.
[pop music plays]
I'm Melissa Rivers.
People always say, "What do you do?" I say, "I'm in entertainment."
Red carpet, just turned in my fourth book,
I take a lot of ulcer medication.
Pretty much, I think, today, that's the best description of me.
This is my new house.
One of my best friends is a realtor.
She sold my other house and I moved into a rental.
And three weeks into the rental, she calls me and says,
"Get in your car, I'm sending you an address."
I walked in and two days later, I made an offer.
I bought the house very quickly
and so I've taken down, like, the wallpaper and I'm repainting.
So Melissa lives in a very affluent beach suburb.
It's not cheap.
It's actually very expensive,
but it's a really beautiful place to live and to raise a family.
Are you living here right now?
-No, not yet. I'm still in my rental. -Okay.
Okay, so let me see the rest of the house.
[pop music plays]
[Jeff] How big is the house?
[Melissa] The house is just under 5,000.
[Jeff] Oh, wow.
This is gonna be the backyard. I'm gonna do two lounge chairs here.
-[Jeff] It's so nice and private. -[Melissa] Isn't it?
My son is a junior in college.
I know he is not gonna really be living at home.
He's gonna live with me next summer before his senior year
until he finds his own place.
So pretty much it's me and the dogs.
Where I am in my life, it's just the perfect house for me.
It just needs to be elevated.
This is the kitchen. See, it's gorgeous.
And the previous owner kept it pristine, so I'm very lucky.
I'm gonna change the hardware.
Some high-end faucets, maybe.
Maybe. Those are my down-the-line things.
[Jeff] Yeah.
Melissa's house is a very nice home.
When you look at it, it looks like any other ordinary house.
But it's not an ordinary house 'cause it's on an extremely expensive street
in an extremely expensive neighborhood.
I don't think you would know it's an $8 million house, but I love it.
[Melissa] This guest bathroom is, like, on my to-do list.
How much is it really to replace some tile and vanity and wallpaper?
The thing with this house is I was keeping myself on a pretty strict budget.
Okay.
Jeff is not a budget kind of guy, which is not good
'cause I am not a good budget person either.
So I feel like it's gonna be my job to say no.
[pop music plays]
[Melissa] So that's gonna be my office.
Okay.
-This is gonna be the guest room. -Okay.
-That's gonna be Cooper's room. -Okay.
And what's been eating at me is the primary bathroom and closet.
[Jeff] Okay.
This is the bathroom.
[Jeff] Okay.
[Melissa] It needs a facelift and maybe a little lipo.
[Jeff chuckles]
There's certain things I don't need, but I love a beautiful bathroom.
I am a bathroom whore.
This is lovely, but it doesn't work for me
because I get ready for shoots very often at home.
I don't have offices. Hair and makeup is run out of the house.
[Jeff] Yeah.
Like, this is not enough dressing table space.
-[Jeff] Okay. -[Melissa] You can't.
[Jeff] It's silly, yeah.
And where am I gonna put a giant makeup mirror with the lights?
Yeah.
'Cause I need it to be a real space that works with my real life.
Like, a glam room.
[Melissa] Yeah, work-friendly.
So if this was all one level,
then you could have a really nice vanity here.
Right.
[Jeff] Melissa's bathroom, most people would think it was done.
I would wanna change some lighting and some cabinet hardware
and do some painting, like, decorating part.
But I also understand when you're an $8-million buyer,
you want it the way you want it.
I see people buy brand-new homes and demo the kitchen,
so it's not crazy to me 'cause I see it all the time.
[Melissa] And then I don't need two water closets.
I agree with you. I think it's so silly to have two different water closets.
-What a waste. -I also feel like the shower is very dark.
I would love a way to slide the shower to be able to have a window in it.
[Jeff] Hmm.
The other thing I had checked is... See this crack?
[Jeff] I noticed that when I walked in.
-[Melissa] And this crack. -[Jeff] Yep.
I would wanna do a floor that we're not gonna crack.
Yeah, it could just be the way it was laid.
-Yeah. Yeah. -Incorrectly.
If I'm gonna be here for a while, I want it to be how I need it.
I am alone
and have not had a significant relationship in quite a while.
We're just gonna call it Melissa's bathroom.
[pretends to cry]
'Cause I got no one to share it with. [laughs]
And then the closet, which, again, is a great closet,
just doesn't work for me.
Okay, so explain why this doesn't work for you,
just so I can kind of get in your head.
First of all, it's too dark. It could be much more open.
It feels very small and closed in.
Okay.
I know it seems wasteful, but they want what they want and that's fine.
You know, this is what I do, just trying to provide the best.
The best fixtures, the best lighting, beautiful tile...
Everything can be elevated.
Do you want me to show you what my fantasy would be?
[Jeff] Yeah.
-To open this wall. -Okay.
And then maybe if we get rid of this.
-And give it to the closet. -And give it a door here.
-Don't you think? -It's a lot of storage.
-It's a lot of space. -Yeah.
I mean, I just wanna maximize this space.
[Jeff] Melissa has a lot of clothes, so she needs a big closet.
She'd like it all in one place.
And then, um, there's things about the bathroom that don't work for her.
She'd like to upgrade the finishes and take it to the next level.
She'd rather use one of the water closets for storage.
So in essence, we're enlarging her closet.
I'm assuming that you want all of these things lit.
Like, I have everything lit in my house.
-I've never done that. -It's amazing.
Because it's always been so expensive.
It's, like, maybe five or six grand.
You have a lighting issue. I would absolutely light everything.
All right, so we need to get people in here for estimates
and let's figure out what we can do.
[Melissa] Yeah.
[Jeff] I'm impressed at how you've, like, thought all of this through.
[Melissa] Yeah.
-Thanks. -Love you.
-Good to see you. -Good to see you.
[Shane] See you soon.
[pop music plays]
[Megan] Hi.
Isn't it just incredible?
It's so pretty.
I love the fencing and the ficus, a lot more privacy.
[Jeff] So, Megan, got the Ring doorbell, mailbox.
[Megan] Yeah.
[Jeff] Imagine what this is gonna look like.
The end of day Saturday, it's gonna look amazing.
It's gonna look incredible.
[Jeff] I would say that the exterior of Fortune's is coming together.
We got all new plants, new lawn that still hasn't been installed,
and then we have some outdoor furniture
and then I think we're done.
And then he's gonna fill all this with gravel.
-[Megan] Great. -[Jeff] This is all gonna be sod.
-[Jeff] Look at the fountain. -[Megan] Aw.
-[Jeff] Okay, so... -[Megan gasps]
Oh, my God, love it.
[Jeff] Doesn't it look great?
[Megan] It looks amazing, so much better.
The only thing I'm not happy with is that I was promised taller hedges.
And I didn't get that and I'm a little disappointed in that,
but otherwise I like the way it looks.
I like the way it turned out.
[Megan] Those are pretty. I like the color.
And then you could do a little baby.
-[Tyler] A little baby next to it. -[Megan] Yeah.
[Tyler] So then I think you need to have a teal moment in the front.
-At least one. -[Megan] I like the teal.
'Cause especially if the door is gonna be that light blue.
-Mm-hmm. -It just kind of ties it all together.
[Jeff] How many of those do we have, Tyler?
[Tyler] Two big ones and the one small one.
Okay, so we just need to go to Jackalope for a couple teal pots.
-[Tyler] That's it. -[Jeff] All right, we'll just...
I'll just run over and buy 'em right now.
We're just gonna buy 'em right now.
[Tyler] Buy it right now.
This is pretty.
[Shane] I love her.
[Megan] Yeah.
[Jeff] That's a good size for the front porch, don't you think?
[Megan] That's pretty.
-Just need a friend. -Are they gonna be next to each other?
No, I was gonna put one at the neighbors'
and then I was gonna put one on the front porch.
-Yeah, they're right next to each other. -They're gonna be BFFs.
Oh.
All right, why don't you take one over there?
I'll look for one, Shane'll look for one, and then we'll vote.
[Megan] All right.
[pop music plays]
Aw, these are pretty.
I guess nobody else wants teal pots.
[Megan grunts] I like this one.
[Shane] Hmm, more blue.
[Jeff] I love blue.
-[Megan] That's my pick. -[Jeff] Oh, that's nice.
That's pretty too. Where's Shane's pick?
-[Jeff] Shane. -[Shane] I found my pick. I'm coming.
Time's up.
-[Megan] Put your pots down now. -[Jeff] The challenge is over.
Coming.
Yours are so flat and boring.
Well, it's gonna be filled with beautiful succulents. It's not empty.
-Do you care? -No.
-I don't either. -[Megan] Okay.
-[Jeff] All right, Shane, load 'em up. -[Shane] All right, here we go.
-Load 'em up, Shane. -I could take this one.
-[Jeff] Teal pots. -[Megan] Teal pots.
[pop music plays]
-[Megan] Hi. -[Wilmer] Hi.
[Jeff] How are you?
[Wilmer] Good. Nice to see you.
Yeah, welcome, welcome back.
-[Amanda] Hi. -[Jeff] Hi. Wallpaper books?
-[Megan] Yeah, let's do it. -[Jeff] We all have our favorites.
How many did we start off with?
Fifty.
-[Wilmer] Oh, jeez. -[Jeff] So we had 50 papers.
We went through and we edited.
And now we're down to this.
[Amanda] Whoa.
[Jeff] And then I'll let you guys, if you have, like, a top five top eight,
whatever, I'll let you guys sit with it.
I like that one.
[Wilmer] Mm-hmm. Wow, this is so sick, dude.
The Gucci one.
[Amanda] I like that.
It's super timeless too. It's like...
[Amanda] Ooh, that's pretty. I like that one.
[Megan] Isn't that pretty? Yeah.
Tonally, you're going into a pond that I'd like to swim at.
-So... -[Tyler] With the dramatics.
Yeah, and I also do like... I do like this experience too.
Everything that I have bought or acquired or have done in my house,
it's tied to an experience of mine.
And therefore each room I get to live that experience,
based on the artifact or the texture.
[chuckles] Dude, lion skin on the ceiling, that would be so obnoxious.
Like...
I gotta look at it real quick.
It's like the gold accent, but it's like its skin.
I think it's super cool.
Jeff's probably gonna think we're out of our minds.
But you know what? That's when magic happens.
[Megan] Right.
This feels almost like lion skin. Obviously, it's not real.
And now we're thinking about,
how do we compliment a roof texture with the wallpaper?
Or how do we continue to go deeper?
You know, there's lion heads in the Gucci wallpaper.
And what if the ceiling felt like lion skin, you know?
-What's happening? -[Megan] Keep an open mind.
[Megan] On the ceiling.
I want you to be able to do your front door.
I want you to be able to do all these other things we're talking about.
We could put that wallpaper in first.
-We can paint the ceiling a color. -And see.
And if it's really just not working for you,
I guess we could primer it and wallpaper it.
[whispers] Tell me what you feel.
[all laugh]
[Jeff] Look, everyone has their process.
You know, I might have internal conversations.
Like, "Oh, what about this wall? Should that come out? Or what about this?"
But I don't talk to the house
with the expectation that it's going to respond.
I think we might be overdoing it.
[whispers] What do you want?
[pop music plays]
[Wilmer] Dude, there's something about this that I just think is amazing.
I mean, I'm gonna tell you this. I'm carrying this tonight in my brain.
[Jeff] Yeah, yeah, I think it's just paint.
I think you just do paint. We'll find the right color.
Okay.
[Jeff] So there's a lot of things we could do.
-[Wilmer] Mm-hmm. -We have a lot more meetings.
A lot more experiences.
-[laughs] -[Jeff] A lot more.
I'm glad we're speaking the same language now.
-[Jeff] Yes, we are. We are. -[laughs]
Each room has a certain purpose, but I also feel like each room
has something else to say and a different memory to make, right?
So I feel like an experience is the easiest way
to explain what's needed in a room.
I think it's an efficient term to say, like,
"We gotta pay attention to what this room is saying."
It's beautiful. Thank you.
This is amazing. This is gonna be a dream.
This room is gonna be incredibly fun to be in.
You're gonna be proud of this room. It's really gonna be incredible.
[grunting]
[chuckles] I'm sweating.
[grunting]
[all laugh]
It's so good, so good.
[Jeff] I love that he loves his house so much.
He... I mean, if he could... that house, he would.
It probably drives Amanda crazy, let's be honest.
But I get it and I... I love to watch it. I do.
Thank you. Thank you all very much. It's fantastic.
[Jeff] I'm glad you're happy.
-[Jeff] Bye, thank you. -[Wilmer] Thank you guys very much.
[pop music plays]
[knocks on door]
-Hi. -Oh, hi, welcome.
Isn't this a nice place? I'll show you what she wants to do.
It's a new house that she bought, but she now wants to kind of elevate it.
Okay.
She has a ton of clothes and shoes and bags
and she needs every bit of space,
so we wanna rip all of this out so she could get an island.
She wants white cabinets, glass fronts, like that kind of thing.
-[Megan] Versus the back. -[Jeff] Yeah.
-None of this works for her in here. -Okay.
We're gonna take out this door and open up the whole wall,
make it feel more open.
-So she needs space, yeah. -Hair... She needs space.
Okay.
-[Jeff] She needs, like, a bigger vanity. -[Megan] Yeah.
She wants it all one level. She wants these gone.
The floor is cracking. She doesn't love the fixtures.
[Megan] I don't like the shower pan. It's really dated.
Maybe if we do a new floor,
then the shower pan won't bother us as much.
[Megan] Shower glass is terrible. She deserves better.
You're a good upseller, by the way.
I really am. I have finessed my craft.
-I mean, you're upselling me. -I know.
I have to have all my A crew on that job.
Melissa has a very trained eye. She knows quality.
She will pay attention to every detail in regards to the workmanship.
This is truly being personalized for her.
But I am confident that the people that I put on that job
will do the kind of work that makes her happy and that she expects.
Slab this and this.
Well, if you have to re-slab this, you might as well re-slab this.
Absolutely, it'll elevate the whole thing.
It could even be a Carrera slab. I don't care.
I just hate the tile framing.
Are those stains on the bench?
It looks like there's, like, a spot here too.
[Frank] I don't think this is a stain. I think it's on top of the surface.
Touch it. It's got like...
-Touch it. -[Frank] It's tacky.
-It could be anything, Jeff. -[Shane] Stop touching it.
[Frank] What is it?
[all] Ooh!
I think it's, like, candle wax.
Oh, someone was having a romantic moment in here.
Oh, my God. [laughs] Melissa.
[all laugh]
Go, girl.
[laughs]
So that's it?
Closet, master bathroom.
What's happening here with this floor?
Because if this cracks, she's gonna freak out.
We can't have it crack again.
Are you gonna do a marble again or are you gonna do, like, a ceramic?
[Megan] We gotta go shopping.
[Jeff] Yeah, I don't know.
Because the ceramic will hold up a lot more than marble will.
It's really soft.
Yeah, we can't... That can't happen again.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't love those fixtures either.
She was talking about new fixtures.
Frank, we need a bid on demo. I guess the shower pan.
I'm aware of the budget, but I know Melissa.
She's very refined. I think she has very good taste.
I think she has high expectations, but I also do believe
she's willing to pay for good-quality, high-end work.
What do you think all this is gonna cost?
I don't know. Off the top of my head, a lot.
Hmm.
[pop music plays]
Hey.
[Tyler] The grass looks great.
Looks really nice. We're ready to put the chairs in.
Over here.
[Tyler] Like, here, right?
[Jeff] Yeah.
[pop music plays]
These look good. He put the third one over there.
I can't lift it, but it's cute.
Okay.
[Jeff] We added a few more pots.
We got the plants and the hedges and lighting, an all-new lawn.
And that ended up being an immediate transformation
which we really needed.
I think she'll like what we're putting together.
I think she's gonna be really happy.
I disagree. I don't think it sounds like five guys peeing.
[Tyler] No, I think it's nice.
No, it's like three guys peeing. I feel like I'm back at The Abbey.
[Jeff] Yeah, I think it's a nice sound.
[water trickling]
[pop music plays]
[Shane] So nice.
-[Jeff] The two chairs are in. -[Amanda] Okay, cool.
In regards to the furniture for the great room,
I love a swivel, especially in this particular room
because it's just... It's really, really practical.
Wilmer's furniture for the great room is starting to come in.
I have swivels in my family room and great room
and I find them incredibly practical.
You know, I'm always keeping an eye on Monroe.
So what's nice about the swivels,
you can easily move around and keep an eye on your kid.
I'm very happy with those chairs.
They were actually a really good find and they were very reasonable.
It's beautiful. Yeah, you can do the sit test.
[sighs] It's not bad.
-[Jeff] Okay. -Yeah.
-[Jeff] Good. -[Shane] Good.
Pretty squishy.
[Tyler] Actually looks good with the walls.
I definitely like that it's swiveled. It's nice.
[Amanda] Jeff is creating something
that's a little bit more comfortable for the family.
I love everything that he has done so far.
It does feel more like our home because it's something new
that we're literally just building with each other now.
[Jeff] We ordered the chairs for the dining room.
They said they're in stock.
But even when they're in stock, it takes a couple weeks to get.
Okay.
[Jeff] The only problem is that the sofa for the great room
is gonna take, like, eight weeks.
We have this really long, black, leather couch in our room.
I remember seeing it.
[Jeff] Is it comfortable?
Yeah, it's comfy. It's pretty, like, lived-in.
-[Tyler] Can we look at it? -Yeah.
If you can utilize something that's already there
and save the money, I'm all for it.
[Tyler] This is a great size.
It's a nice sofa.
I think that... I think the sofa works great in there.
I'm very happy with it.
Okay, well, let me tell Megan, then. Are we gonna go with this one?
-I think you should. -Okay.
[pop music plays]
[Kevin] Good morning, guys. How you doing?
[Jeff] How are you? Good morning.
[Kevin] Good. Pound, pound.
-Thank you for letting us... -Have you met Tim Brown?
He's Anthony's contract manager.
Oh, how are you, Tim?
-Good. How are you? -[Jeff] Good. Nice to meet you.
Tim seemed like a nice guy, um, easy to get along with.
I just feel like more should be getting done there,
but I don't know who's responsible.
I have no idea.
-[Kevin] So everything good today? -[Jeff] Everything is good, yes.
I think we're gonna end up going with Robert.
-Hey, Robert, how you doing? Good. -Hi. Good. How are you?
[Jeff] So we're just gonna go through it again.
-Okay. I've got the other check for you. -[Jeff] Great.
So you're doing, like, a concrete border, right?
And then we're doing squares, but we're gonna do full on here.
And then we're gonna do squares all the way over there on the driveway.
It's big.
Then we're gonna transition into a solid driveway,
-just because of the slope. -Okay.
[Jeff] And then how long does all that take?
[Robert] About three days, four days.
[Jeff] Okay, so are these new sprinkler lines going in or...?
Yeah, they had busted the lines or something
when they pulled up the tree roots.
Oh.
[Kevin] Yeah, it was like it was three or four of 'em that got broke
when some of the roots had, um, got pulled up.
-I didn't know about any of this. -[Shane] Mm-mm.
[Kevin] Juan, the landscaping guy, told me about it.
When the water line broke, the project manager,
whoever's there once a week for an hour,
should have called me and said, "We have a break in the water line."
[Tim] Then they damaged that downspout right there too.
-[Kevin] What the hell? -[Jeff] Hmm. That's not cheap.
Well, if we broke the sprinkler line, we should probably pay for the repair.
Yeah, I think you guys did break it.
Right.
So maybe I should just hold your check.
It's not like they called me and I didn't respond.
I never got a single text alerting me to the break in the line.
[pop music plays]
[Jeff] So let's talk about this storage for her luggage and all of that.
Is it worth it to take over that spot, that space?
The only way to find out is to open up the drywall
and then go into the attic and see how much space you really do have.
-[Melissa grunts] -Somebody's here.
All right. Hi, we're upstairs.
Um, can you give me two estimates?
All right, I'll see you guys.
-Hi. -[Melissa] Hi.
[Jeff] We've been troubleshooting.
Oh, I don't know. Can't you see? I'm, like, a hot mess today.
-No, you look cute. I... -But what is it with us and...
-Is that navy? -Yeah, it is navy.
I know. You and I keep showing up wearing similar colors.
It's nice to wear sweaters.
-Isn't it? -Yeah.
But then it's gonna be really hot this weekend.
I know. I heard.
Um, we've been going through here and we've been comparing the numbers.
I mean, we could spend 125,000 just here.
-Which is ridiculous. -Yeah, but we will spend 100.
We will spend 100 just here.
Okay.
-You have very expensive taste. -I know. So do you.
-We're... We're... We're not... -Yours is worse than mine.
Yeah, we're not, uh... It's a deadly combo.
Yeah, I'm not wearing a... I just have my iWatch.
[Jeff] Okay, I've had this for a million years.
As he covers it up. See, I'm gonna tell everyone about the real Jeff Lewis.
Yeah. The plumbing fixtures, that will be expensive.
So it's gonna add up. I think slabs alone, we'll spend 20 grand.
Not to mention all the labor, which is probably gonna be 50 grand.
We've got shower doors, which will be $5,000.
We have the vanity. It's expensive.
So the estimate I got for all the cabinetry we want is $80,000.
Are you kidding me?
You've got more cabinetry in there than most people have in their kitchens.
-[Melissa] Which is crazy. -[Jeff] Right.
I have to trust in Jeff, which I know I should,
but cost scares the hell out of me.
So my therapist thinks this is a very good, healthy exercise for me.
[Jeff] I'm trying to bring the numbers down.
I wanna propose something to you which we think in the long run will be good.
[Melissa] Okay.
Now this, I still am very committed to taking the entire wall out.
-As am I. -[Jeff] Okay.
Instead of reframing this whole thing, what if we just took the door off?
-We drywall it, right? -Uh-huh.
Um, so this door is no longer here.
Now we go into the closet.
And are we gonna have a...
We need some sort of a door somewhere so I can close the closet door.
-But maybe it's a glass door. -Right.
Or maybe it's a steel-and-glass door to match our shower glass.
-Right. -Something like that.
And then you would have basically a whole closet in here
with a glass door that could be devoted to purses or shoes or both.
Yes.
This I feel is all doable with our budget.
Uh-huh. Okay.
-It's this where it starts to, like... -Shoot up.
-I mean, it doubles the expense. -Okay.
[Jeff] Sometimes with celebrities, there's a lot of managing expectations.
I mean, I wish I had a whole, like, Rolodex of trade-outs.
I don't really get things for free. I don't have a money tree.
So the reality of it is, to implement the design of the bathroom,
she's gonna have to cough up more money.
Or you're gonna end up with a bathroom that you're not going to love
and it's gonna remind you of the old bathroom.
So I'm actually hoping that Melissa will raise the budget as needed.
I'm banking on it.
I mean, ideally, I would love to see you build it out the way you want it.
But also, you know, if it's not in the cards right now,
it's not in the cards right now.
This is fantastic how it is.
We're just trying to make it more of what I need.
It sounds to me like we've got about $150,000 budget.
So I do believe we could go ahead and start demoing the bathroom
and opening the wall and building that out.
Let's buy the tile. Let's buy the slabs.
Let's buy the plumbing fixtures. Let's see where we are.
Right.
The unknowns here are the slabs and the tile and the plumbing fixtures.
I'll pull some inspiration pictures of different patterns.
Mm-hmm.
And you and I can figure out, like, what you're drawn to.
Like, "I like this pattern, but I like these colors."
-Right. -And we'll figure it out.
And we'll build the room around the floor.
That's the fun part. That's the fun part.
I'll send you a bunch of photos and you just tell me yes or no.
Right.
[pop music plays]
[Shane] What a cute house.
[Shane] That's a nice gate.
Look at the pot. It got moved over, huh?
-[Jeff] That pot wasn't there, right? -[Tyler] No, it was like...
[Jeff] Yeah, can you move it?
[Jeff] What the hell happened?
Oh, he's making them move things. [chuckles]
-Hi. -[Fortune] Hi.
-The house is so different. -Yeah, right?
-Do you love it? -I do.
I think we've accomplished everything that I intended to do,
which was, you know, the relandscaping and the painting.
And I think that the house has real curb appeal now.
I think the house looks more updated.
If they found a house they wanted tomorrow,
I believe they could put their house on the market
and get a nice number for it.
Wow, the house looks great. Happy?
Yeah. The house looks awesome, yeah.
[Jax] I feel... yeah.
I mean, we certainly appreciate it. Are you happy?
Yeah, it looks good. It looks really nice.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[Jeff] Everything's working? All the lights?
Yep.
If you see what our house used to look like,
it's just a whole different style, a whole different look.
[pop music plays]
[Fortune] This is definitely more modern.
The doors are really nice. I mean, all of it's very clean and manicured.
Beautiful fence.
[Jax] The grass looks amazing.
I love it when there's ficus in the backyard.
I think it looks great.
The only thing we're waiting on is the privacy from the baby ficus.
[both laugh]
Yeah. It's gonna be a little longer.
In three years, we are gonna have the coolest hedge.
[Jeff] Yeah.
[all laugh]
So what's the plan with the house, then?
I mean, she definitely wants a new house.
So...
But there's just nothing that I'm even interested in looking at.
[Fortune] Carrie still sends stuff.
She sent us the Nightmare on Elm Street house.
[all laugh]
I can't live in the Freddy Krueger house.
[Fortune] We definitely want a bigger house.
It'll be a minute before we find a new house,
so it's nice to have an updated version of the house while we're here.
But the desire for a new house has not changed.
But also you feel like you're on a timeline.
When you look at how pretty everything is,
you're like, "Oh, man, this is, like, the perfect time to sell soon
when the house is in its best shape."
Eventually, I think we will find something else,
but for now, I like all the updates.
We got you... We got you a gift, by the way.
-[Fortune] You did? -Yeah.
-[Jeff] Remember when I... -[Fortune] Are you about to strip for us?
-Yes. Do you remember... -[imitates dance music]
Do you remember when I asked you to get the gardener twice a week?
-[Jax] Uh-huh. -[Fortune] Mm-hmm.
Right. So right now the lawn needs to be mowed, right?
[Fortune] Right.
[Jeff] Well, I think we've solved the problem.
Wait, are you gonna... Are you gonna mow our grass in a Speedo?
No, it's even better than that. It's like a Roomba.
-A Roomba lawnmower? -[Jeff] Yeah.
-Really? -[Jeff] Yeah.
What?
It's big.
It's a lawnmower.
[Fortune] Whoa, okay.
What if it just, like, takes out all of these little shrubs?
It just, like, destroys all of them.
[Jax screams]
[Jax] Wait, wait, wait, come here, come here. [laughs]
[Jeff] That's what happens. It's gonna... It'll just run over the dog.
[all laugh]
I like the Landroid. It's pretty fun.
You just watch it do the job that you're supposed to do.
And you could essentially just sit here on the chairs,
have a margarita.
-With a cocktail, yeah. -Yeah.
You gotta admit, it looks a lot better.
-Yeah, it looks great. -Yeah.
I mean, maybe I'm imagining it,
but I do think the ficus might be growing in.
It depends on which one you're looking at.
We're happy that it looks so good
and we're excited to finally get to enjoy it.
He updated it in a way that we, you know, had not thought to do,
so they did something for us that we would not have done for ourselves.
Hopefully, we can still get a little bit of his touch on the interior.
Anything that he's willing to help us with.
-[Fortune] Jeff, can you see us? -[Jeff] No.
-I didn't think so. -I can't see you at all.
[Jax] Bye. Thank you.
-[Jeff] Stay away from that thing. -[Jax] Seriously, yeah.
[Fortune] Bye, guys.
-[Jeff] Bye. -[Tyler] Bye.
[pop music plays]
-Morning. How are you? -What's up, buddy?
Tim, you didn't fix the PVC line out front, did you?
[Tim] We fixed many of 'em.
The ones that we broke, who's the person that actually repaired it?
That would be our...
The main guy who takes care of the yard here, all the maintenance.
[Jeff] So what happened was they hired their person to go in and fix it.
They dug up a hole, repaired the line,
didn't even bury it, and then I got a bill for $5,000.
It was a sprinkler line. A sprinkler line is no big deal.
A PVC plastic pipe, 500 bucks.
Maybe that's a lot. $600.
You know, we talked about us paying for it because we damaged it.
[Tim] Right.
But 5200, as you know, you've been doing this for a long time.
5200 to repair two PVC lines seems really expensive.
I just don't know what justifies 5200.
Right. Yeah, I don't know neither.
Uh, James would know how he broke it down.
Oh, he knows.
Yeah, he's our boss. He's the owner.
-Hey, James, how are you? Jeff Lewis. -Hi, Jeff, nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you. -Yeah.
I wanted to ask you because, our guy, when he was taking the trees out,
-I guess he had broken two PVC lines. -Yes.
We got the bill. It was about 5200 bucks.
I'm just curious, what is the breakdown there?
'Cause it seems high.
I can... I can break it out for you.
I mean, I don't know off the top of my head.
[Jeff] Yeah. Right.
My drywaller went and tried to do the water and there's no water.
Right.
So we had to repair it to get water so our guys can still continue to work.
But he didn't break a valve, right? He just broke a PVC line.
He broke a main piece of the line.
So what should have happened is if we damage something,
we should have had a call and then I could have had someone come out and repair it.
They left it and our guys came the next morning. There was a lake there.
I didn't even know. I knew nothing about it.
Yeah.
I guess what I'm trying to figure out is what we're responsible for.
We actually billed Anthony for it.
It was kind of fun just watching 'em go back and forth and argue.
I let Jeff handle it.
I stepped back and just wanted to see how it was gonna be handled.
So if we broke the lines, we should pay for that.
So I guess what I would like to know is, how much is the downspout?
How much are the two PVC pipes repairs?
Sure. Yep.
Okay, good. And then we'll go from there.
'Cause obviously Anthony shouldn't be responsible for that.
-Yep. -Great. Thanks, James.
I'm from the world in which,
if you're doing something and you break something,
you fix it.
So I'm glad he did.
You know, trust is a big thing in dealing with anyone
that you have in your home doing the work.
And I give it to him and I give him the power
to do what he needs to do when I'm not around.
I'll wait outside.
-Okay. -Finish with your guys.
I have a question for you, though.
Yeah.
Uh, we're talking about stone for this thing right here.
-In the bar? -Yeah.
I want you to weigh in. Natural stone versus Caesarstone.
I've used Caesar, it is nice,
but I'd wanna weigh in on the color choices.
Okay, yeah, I wanna talk to you about that.
[Jeff] The more time I spend in that house, he trusts me more.
So this could be a long-term relationship
that could ultimately be very profitable for me.
And this 3200 that I have to eat could just be nominal.
-Okay, okay. Thanks. -Okay.
Tyler and I are little bit overwhelmed right now,
so I'm bringing in Andrew to take over Anthony's house.
What's our goal of getting this done? Time frame?
I just... I don't know how long it's gonna take.
I think if we get it done and show that we move forward.
-[Shane] Right. -Yeah.
That and good work, then we can continue.
He's extremely resourceful and what I like about him
is there's very little talk, he just gets it done.
-Hello, hello. -Hi. How are you?
-Hi. Ashley. How are you? -Hi. How are you? Nice to meet you.
Now, how long have you been here?
For a year.
And this is our room and we haven't touched it.
Really cool wallpaper would be amazing.
-It's a big room. -[Ashley] Yeah.
So we are really, I think, creating the most beautiful bathroom.
Yes.
It has been very expensive.
Where we are right now is 137.
Then we need to find ways to cut.
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