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00:01Real crazy.
00:02This is the biggest construction project
00:04I have ever been a part of.
00:06And it's an heirloom home that's multi-generational.
00:09This house is significant to the history of Laurel
00:12and to the history of this family.
00:14This used to be my father's chiropractic office.
00:17The biggest challenge we've ever had.
00:19So this is the room that we do not speak of.
00:23Whoa!
00:24It is hard to let people see what's been happening to the house.
00:28Good gracious.
00:30Some contractors have said I won't touch this one.
00:32It would be simpler to rip it off and start new
00:35than try to fix what's there.
00:37How much are we wanting to spend?
00:39Around $250,000.
00:41It's $400,000 to do it all.
00:43I'm really sorry.
00:45We love this house.
00:46We don't want anything to happen to it.
00:48We gotta stay.
00:49We gotta do what we gotta do.
00:52Oh, my gosh.
00:54You have been cooking in here for 20 years.
00:56I know.
00:57The kitchen is my baby that I'm worried about.
00:59Everything in this house is so twisted.
01:01We can't put a $60,000 kitchen on top of Spongy Force.
01:04What the heck are we gonna do?
01:06That's the biggest contingency we've ever spent.
01:08We're hundreds of thousands of dollars into this.
01:10So we have to see it through.
01:13Because we've never had to delay so bad,
01:16we went to the team and said,
01:19let's finish out the primary suite and show the Gallagher's.
01:22It's a long time to ask people to wait without showing them anything at all.
01:25Check it out.
01:27Jiminy Cricket.
01:29Oh, my.
01:31Oh, my gosh.
01:32Love it.
01:33So excited.
01:35Oh, my.
01:37Look at the shower.
01:39Do you wanna see the kitchen where it is at this point?
01:41Oh, heck yeah.
01:42It's not beautiful.
01:43Hopefully, there'll be no more delays.
01:46There is so much work left to do.
01:48Mm-hmm.
01:49So much, yeah.
01:50I don't think I trust the house to be good yet.
01:53Good morning.
01:54Just another day of making our favorite small town better.
01:57Erin, we gotta go, babe.
01:58Go fix some old sad houses.
02:01Ben, let's go.
02:02Growing up, I didn't see what was so special about Laurel.
02:05So every day we make sure our girls see it.
02:07Good morning, Katie.
02:08Hey.
02:09Can you believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
02:11There's so much opportunity, so many unloved houses.
02:15I don't know what is gonna go wrong in here today.
02:18I'm sure something.
02:20Girl, the bat just flew through here.
02:22That's not good.
02:23No way.
02:24We're about to see the house for the first time.
02:26This is the best part.
02:27Oh, my God.
02:30Holy cow.
02:31Are you serious right now?
02:32Ben, did you make this?
02:34Yeah, I made this.
02:35The real truth of living and working in your hometown is that
02:38you're gonna see these people everywhere forever.
02:40It's your superpower, Erin.
02:42Color is her superpower.
02:43It is.
02:44It is perfect.
02:45Every day is different when you're renovating houses in Laurel, Mississippi.
02:49It looks so good.
03:01It feels like we've crossed that line of the house is not gonna fall down anymore.
03:05It for sure isn't gonna fall in.
03:08We're ready to start painting.
03:10How did they like the bedroom?
03:11Loved it.
03:12And that closet.
03:13Loved it.
03:14I think the bathroom was kind of a dream come true moment.
03:17Jeff and Chris did ask how much longer.
03:20We're getting close.
03:21You know, with our kitchen floor problem, that delayed us.
03:24Yeah.
03:25And now it's resolved.
03:26Four weeks feels like a good amount of time to get them back in their house.
03:29As long as there's no more problems.
03:31Okay, we've been working on the Gallagher's house for five months.
03:34Five months.
03:35We're normally done in two months.
03:37And they need to go home.
03:39We are ready to complete phase two, which is Chris's dream kitchen, the parlor, the dining room, the back porch, and paint the house.
03:47In four weeks.
03:48In four weeks, we're gonna do all that.
03:50Not months.
03:51Okay, the house was green originally.
03:53They want it green again.
03:54It's beautiful.
03:55And we love that it's gonna stay green.
03:58When paint goes on the exterior, that's when it gets really real.
04:01For a long time, people have thought that the primed siding boards is the color.
04:05No.
04:06No.
04:07We can do so much better.
04:08I've got a bunch of green samples to try.
04:11I really like this color.
04:13Oh, it's beautiful.
04:14Oof.
04:15Yeah, that feels more regal.
04:17Well, that's a good word for it.
04:18Yours just reads totally blue.
04:20It's very beach house.
04:22Totally wrong for this.
04:23Actually, at this point, your shirt and your overalls are the color palette, but are all very coordinating.
04:28You're the siding.
04:29And this beach sample.
04:30Oh my gosh.
04:31That's pretty strange.
04:33Look at our clothes.
04:34Look at our swatches.
04:35Whoa.
04:36Isn't that freaky?
04:37Is that on purpose?
04:38No.
04:39But which color do you like?
04:40I feel like this is...
04:42It's a trap.
04:43This is such a trap.
04:45Hey, babies do.
04:47I'm thinking three weeks.
04:49So you're like to the point where like a surprise could happen at any moment.
04:53Yeah.
04:54You can pack a bag.
04:55Life's about to change.
04:56Okay.
04:57All right, so green.
04:58We're going green.
04:59Dark green.
05:00Green feels good.
05:01So this is going to be the Gallagher's dream kitchen.
05:14It's going to be very nice.
05:16Okay.
05:17When I think about the way Chris made it work with the kitchen that they had for so, so long, decades.
05:23Our oldest son, Jacob, calls it the hallway with appliances.
05:27If someone tries to get ice, you can't open the freezer.
05:30If someone's at the stove, someone's got to move.
05:32We really need to go above and beyond to make this kitchen the greatest of all time for them.
05:38Exactly what she wants.
05:40Let's start on this wall.
05:41Okay.
05:42So we're going to have, for the first time ever, a full size fridge and freezer side by side.
05:47Shaker style cabinetry.
05:49We're going to try to blend really historic charm and modern elegance.
05:53So I want to do a warm color.
05:55I want it to feel luxurious and inviting.
05:58A special inset coffee nook.
06:01And then you'll have those, like, bifold doors that slide in.
06:05All the way to the ceiling.
06:06All the way to the ceiling.
06:07To the left, we'll have a wall oven, drawers beneath, cabinet doors above.
06:12And we'll have a breakfast nook in the corner.
06:14So over here, we have the range, counter space, cabinets.
06:20The cabinet will die into the corner.
06:22Right.
06:23Then it gets even more exciting.
06:25Oh, okay.
06:26We're going to have pantry cabinet and another matching pantry cabinet that goes down to the countertop on that side.
06:33Okay.
06:34The island, ten feet by three feet.
06:36Oh, now that's a big island.
06:38It's a big mama.
06:39Chris and Jeff's design survey said that they like greens and blues.
06:43So we're going to do it in a color that's going to feel really sophisticated and timeless.
06:47And I want to do white pearl quartzite countertops.
06:50Overhang on that side so you can have barstool seating.
06:53On the end, you're going to have open shelving for cookbook storage.
06:58Beside that, a bank of drawers.
07:00A dishwasher.
07:01The sink and cabinet below.
07:03A trash pullout on the end.
07:05We're talking about using all the room in a big kitchen.
07:08She's never had a big kitchen.
07:10She wants to go all the way.
07:11Oh, yeah.
07:12This kitchen is max level finest of everything.
07:18She was very specific about all the details that she wanted.
07:21This was their family since Jeff, our homeowner.
07:26So our homeowner here, two years old.
07:29Their whole life of the people they love is on this board.
07:33I want to put it somewhere where it's just for the family.
07:36Beside the back door.
07:37It's not so on display, but it's very much part of the house and their daily life.
07:42It makes me want to cry.
07:43It's so precious.
07:44We raised all three of our boys in this house.
07:48They were born in this house.
07:50We had three and three years to the date.
07:52What I love about that is they still are close.
07:55Having the boys grow up here is a blessing, really.
07:58The best memories, I think.
08:01Yes.
08:02Jacob.
08:03Uh-huh.
08:04Logan.
08:05No, me.
08:06Logan.
08:07But that is the birth order.
08:08Yes.
08:09Three years apart, exactly.
08:10On the day.
08:11On the day, yeah, we have the same birthday.
08:13So we've got the Gallagher boys because we've got some furniture that we want to build.
08:16They're heirloom pieces.
08:18This is from the wall between the den and the dining room.
08:21These walls are actually what was holding the house together.
08:25Yeah.
08:26That's wild.
08:27That's crazy.
08:28We're going to build two tables.
08:29We've got this stove.
08:30I want to return the stove to the back porch.
08:33I want to repaint it black, use this rustic old wood out of the house, and make a tabletop.
08:40Oh, that'll be sweet.
08:41Cool.
08:42The next build, y'all all like to play games, right?
08:45Oh, yes.
08:46When you come in the house, the parlor, which used to be the waiting room for the doctor's office,
08:50we thought that would be a good room to build a game table.
08:52That'd be pretty sweet.
08:53That sounds really cool.
08:54Yeah.
08:55We're going to build a game table that is essentially a coffee table.
08:58We'll use cherry.
09:00It'll have a drawer in it for storage.
09:02It'll have a rack underneath for storage.
09:04Dividers on the top for individual game pieces.
09:06You can put together puzzles on it.
09:08You can set a cup of coffee on it.
09:09But the idea there is that multiple members of the Gallagher family gathering around, making
09:16memories, living life in this house for the next 100, 150 years.
09:21This is going to be for our game table top.
09:23I got two of the legs ready.
09:25OK.
09:26So the way this works, you want to keep holding pressure down.
09:31All right.
09:32Nice.
09:33Nice.
09:34Yeah.
09:35Sweet.
09:36I mean, this is real rough.
09:37Yep.
09:38The bones are in place.
09:39You think your parents are going to like these?
09:40Oh, yeah.
09:41It'll be like we'll still have a piece of us at home since we built it.
09:43Let's build the base.
10:00I can't get over the volume of the kitchen.
10:04It's real grand.
10:05Oh, it's so grand and so gorgeous.
10:07It's getting painted today.
10:08It'll be actually one of these colors in my hand.
10:11Did you see what Stubbs did here?
10:14And I think it's my favorite thing about the house.
10:21I got to touch it up, though.
10:22I got to glue down where it's popped up, put a new clear coat.
10:25I'm just really glad we were able to keep it because when Stubbs called, he was like, hey, we can't find it anywhere.
10:31I was like, what?
10:32What?
10:33Please, Lord, no.
10:34OK, no one told me that.
10:35It was in the garage.
10:36Oh, my God.
10:37Safe and sound.
10:38That just made me want to throw up, and I know it's here.
10:39It was all OK.
10:40Great.
10:41But Chris loves green and blue.
10:44Uh-huh.
10:45So now I think it's time to talk about wallpaper in this half bath.
10:48This is all part of the new addition.
10:50Yeah, none of this was here just a few weeks ago.
10:53I had to rip off all the rotten stuff, which was like the whole back of the house.
10:58So when we built it back, we planned it out and made it better.
11:02This way there is a half bath and a laundry, dedicated space, because water was getting in between the addition and the original house.
11:11Now it's waterproof.
11:12We no longer have a failing foundation.
11:14We rebuilt the breakfast nook off the kitchen and back entry mudroom, then a half bath and a laundry room.
11:21We're going to now build a new screen porch that spans the entire back of the house and will reconnect to those original brick steps.
11:29We needed a laundry room.
11:30They needed a half bath.
11:32But doing these pocket door systems, we're using pocket doors to create little walls.
11:37And it also doesn't take up much space.
11:39You can really get usefulness in every single inch of that addition we built.
11:44We gave her the green on the exterior and we're giving her green in the dining room.
11:47But this is her blue moment.
11:49I love this pattern.
11:50I wish that the background were more saturated.
11:53Like it feels like this is a white wallpaper, but the colors are right.
11:56Otherwise, I love this large scale.
11:59I like that rich color in the background.
12:01Easy pick.
12:02So that's the one.
12:04That's kind of the island color.
12:06There's navy in the pattern and I'm using a navy that leans a little green for the island in the kitchen.
12:12We're bringing the navy from the wallpaper to the island to the parlor.
12:17Can we talk about how we can like try to make these look better?
12:20And what do you mean?
12:21I don't love these bookcases.
12:24They're very 1980s and the color is not my favorite.
12:28This is the ugliest room in the house.
12:31Building custom built-ins would be great, but we don't have that kind of money.
12:34So we're going to use the cabinets that were here and make them built-ins.
12:37This is going to be their like living room game night family time parlor.
12:41I hope they're going to have fun in here.
12:43It used to be the clinic.
12:44We lost the door.
12:45We put in the windows and now it's just this hodgepodge patchwork hot mess.
12:50These are all the colors I'm using in the house.
12:52This is our exterior color.
12:53So I don't want to see that again right when we walk in.
12:55I like the navy.
12:56It feels very parlor.
12:58What color is the game table?
13:00Cherry.
13:01The floor is like the color of cherry kind of.
13:03Yeah, that looks great together.
13:05If we can paint the cabinets and the walls the same color, I think it could help me warm up to them.
13:10And then all the trim in the room will be that historic, almost black mahogany color.
13:22Countertop day and we have everyone helping.
13:25It's so many countertops.
13:27I mean, we started with the smallest kitchen in the world to demo and now we're going to have just endless counter space.
13:33Chris Gallagher is going to be so, so, so, so happy.
13:38I'll be happy when we bring the rest in.
13:39You will be happy when we're done?
13:41Yeah.
13:42Yeah.
13:43I added pantries on each side of the window.
13:45And so our countertop is going to slide between our cabinetry.
13:49Yeah.
13:50It's only a space this big and it has to fit perfectly like a glove.
13:53That fits almost as good as DJ's muscle shirt.
13:56Yeah.
13:58It is so beautiful.
14:00I just am getting giddy thinking of how Chris is going to feel when she sees this and gets to cook in this kitchen.
14:08Like this right here, this one little space.
14:11That was the whole kitchen?
14:12Right here.
14:13This is all she had.
14:14That rolling dishwasher.
14:15I think that's this.
14:16No, there's one more.
14:17We need everybody to go outside for it.
14:19Uh-huh.
14:20Deshawn and his wife Emily are expecting their second baby boy soon, but they needed a bassinet.
14:26We all pitched in as a crew and Emily and Deshawn are about to be so tired.
14:32Baby's first sawhorse.
14:34That's awesome.
14:35Thank y'all.
14:36That's why I very like inconspicuously asked you about your baby register a few weeks ago.
14:40Were the hammers on there?
14:41Yeah, they were on there.
14:42Yeah.
14:43Baby hammers.
14:44Get them going.
14:45Yep.
14:46When he comes, we'll be ready.
14:47Stick that baby outside.
14:48Don't have to worry about mosquitoes.
14:49It's a perfect plan.
14:50Go play outside.
14:51You're ready now.
14:52Thanks everybody.
14:53Yeah, you're welcome.
14:54The blueberry bushes in Chris and Jeff's backyard finally produced enough blueberries, and I
15:08got them before the birds did.
15:11This home is called White Oak.
15:14Yes, sister Gwen lives here, she and her husband, so they're staying here with the decals until
15:20we finish their house.
15:21It is famous in Laurel.
15:23It's just like right across the street from their house, but the back of this house faces
15:28it, which is great for them because it's still really close to their chiropractic clinic.
15:33I'm coming to bring blueberries.
15:35Definitely not here because I want to look at this house.
15:37Hey.
15:38Hey, neighbor.
15:39How are you?
15:40Come in.
15:42This is amazing.
15:43This mural is incredible.
15:44The stairwell was hand painted by Jill Bisken, an artist for the Metropolitan Opera Company,
15:55and she came and lived with us for about six weeks while she painted the stairwell in.
16:00She loved to work at night until about three in the morning.
16:04Wow.
16:05Most of the woodwork beyond the floors is mahogany.
16:08How old is the house?
16:091906.
16:10Okay.
16:11Oh, the woodwork.
16:13Ben would love this.
16:16Oh, yeah.
16:17It's amazing, isn't it?
16:18It is.
16:19Well, look who's here.
16:20Hey, guys.
16:21Hello.
16:22What's going on?
16:23Look at this.
16:24Wow.
16:26I just wanted you to know your backyard is alive and well.
16:29That's good.
16:30We haven't killed everything.
16:31I have not lived with my brother since he went away to college.
16:34How's that?
16:35Oh, great.
16:36Oh, we're not choking each other.
16:37We always have fun.
16:38Yeah?
16:39We always have a good time.
16:41Good.
16:42Because, you know, there can always be delays.
16:43Don't extend it out too long.
16:45Well, you know, I hope you're comfortable in here.
16:48Is it true that the third floor was like a roller skating room?
16:54Yes, it was.
16:55I have heard that rumor before.
16:57That's where we're staying, on the third floor.
16:59You're in this roller rink?
17:00It's the size of the house.
17:01Yeah.
17:02It's huge.
17:03And the floors were concrete at the time.
17:05Well, what I do know is that there's a little driveway right off the back that goes straight to your house.
17:11There is.
17:12That's right.
17:13Have you been...
17:14We're parking up front.
17:15Okay, love that.
17:16The outside's gonna look very different.
17:17Crazy.
17:18Very exciting.
17:19I think I'll be excited to get back in the house.
17:20Yeah?
17:21Yeah.
17:22Home is home.
17:23It's true.
17:24Uh-huh.
17:25No matter how beautiful this house is, it's not home.
17:26It's coming.
17:27I promise.
17:28There's no rest for the wicked, wicked.
17:31Keeping my eyes on the written tickets.
17:34Only myself getting down and dirty, cause you can't trust anyone else.
17:39I'm the real thing.
17:41Can't be me for real things.
17:43Can't be me for real things.
17:47All right, so we don't need to put this door on until we get that hardware up.
17:56Yeah.
17:57And do we have a stretcher?
17:59Check this out.
18:00I don't care.
18:01I need to see baby pictures.
18:02Oh, baby pictures!
18:03Yeah, look.
18:04Oh my gosh!
18:06Which one's Abel?
18:07The smaller one.
18:08Oh, okay.
18:09Look at that.
18:10No jealousy.
18:11Look here and look.
18:12He's beautiful.
18:14The baby is here.
18:15I feel bad that I didn't even think about the baby.
18:17To be fair, you didn't think about it because Deshawn is acting 100% normal, energetic, alive, awake, alert, enthusiastic.
18:25Okay, this is the disappearing?
18:28Disappearing, reappearing coffee bar.
18:30Deshawn won't let me stand on the countertop.
18:33Is that why you called me here?
18:38You should just let me pick paint colors.
18:40No, you're doing great, baby.
18:48She really wanted doors that would open and then hide.
18:51Is he good?
18:52Yeah.
18:53Yeah.
18:54Yeah.
18:55Perfect.
18:56Now time for the shelf.
19:00Okay, got a little drag on one side.
19:02We got a little fine-tuning.
19:03And now...
19:05This kitchen's really growing up.
19:08This kitchen's like all our babies, you know?
19:11They just grow up before you know it.
19:13In 1904, this was the first house on the block.
19:18Yes, a little bit before the Titanic was sunk.
19:21And the Gallagher's tell us this was a light fixture.
19:26When Jeff was growing up in this house, he and his friends would dare each other to stick their finger in this live wire and see who got zapped.
19:34Thanks.
19:35I bet they did get zapped.
19:36I bet they did.
19:37Wow.
19:38What is the possibility of making it alight again?
19:41Would you be against taking this round piece off the top of the post?
19:45If you want to make an omelet, you got to break some eggs.
19:47Because sometimes you got to do what you got to do.
19:51Did Colton fix the doorpost?
19:53The wiring is dead now, but he thinks if he goes under the house, he can see what's possible.
20:00If you told me I had to go under the house to fix this, I'd say, can't be fixed.
20:04Any time you can bring back an original feature to the house, I think we should.
20:12And if we can give the Gallagher's some very special architectural feature that his sister's house does not have, that would be a feat.
20:21I believe in Colton, and you have to believe to receive.
20:27You need some too.
20:28There you go.
20:29Ah, squid it!
20:30I just tried to get off the screen up.
20:33It goes right through it, it's amazing.
20:36Um, but the bugs don't.
20:37That's right.
20:38Let's get that thing up.
20:39Today should be the last day that we need bug spray back that way.
20:45Because by the end of the day, it's going to be screened.
20:47A couple of shots here, then you stretch it out.
20:50Then pull the top really tight.
20:53A screened-in porch is such a luxury in the south, isn't it?
20:56And it's my very favorite when it's on the back of the house and doesn't block the front door.
21:00Got to get it tight.
21:01Got to be able to bounce a cat off of it.
21:03Got it!
21:04Hope it's declawed.
21:06Tony is the cat man, he oughta know.
21:09There's a fly in here.
21:10Got to get him out before we finish.
21:12The Gallaghers are going to love that back porch.
21:14And really, they'll have the best of all worlds.
21:16You've got a big, deep front porch that's shaded and cool with ceiling fans.
21:20And you've got a great little back porch that's private and screened with ceiling fans.
21:25It ain't no big deal.
21:27It ain't no big deal.
21:29Adam and his wife, Lily, are really good friends of ours.
21:33Adam is an artist and a painter who's done so much beautiful work for us.
21:37Adam asked for swatches of all the rooms that we're doing at the Gallaghers.
21:41Typically, it means he's going to do a painting, if I'm lucky.
21:44The tresses are just across the street and to the left.
21:47We just finished the pool here a few months ago for Adam and Lily.
21:50Now, I told him the girls would be here all the time.
21:53How's the water?
21:54It's perfect.
21:55Okay, I'm going to get in in just a minute, okay?
21:57I promise.
21:58I got all of the swatches that you asked for.
22:01Thanks for bringing those.
22:03Well, you know, like the Gallaghers, we love them.
22:05They were like my first job out of college.
22:08I taught the boys art lessons when they were like three, five, and six.
22:13They were your first students?
22:14First students out of the back, yeah.
22:16They're adults now.
22:18It really is hard for me to deal with, actually.
22:22But I would love to do something for them and have a piece in their house.
22:26The kitchen island is kind of a bold, and then the dining room, this color.
22:32Because I love their boys so much, I want to do something that's kind of representative of them.
22:37Is this going to be something that's going to make them cry?
22:39I would love to do that.
22:41Do your best.
22:43I would really love to do like a row of three trees.
22:47Mm-hmm.
22:48They have had a million pets in their life.
22:51The weirdest, craziest pets you can imagine, like hedgehogs and parakeets.
22:56If the boys brought it home, it was a pet.
22:58They named it.
22:59And they named it and it was there.
23:01And so they had Belle the dog a long time ago, and then they've had lots of cats.
23:05But I would love to do like three trees that represent the boys.
23:09And you're going to hide the animals.
23:10And then hide as many of those pets as I can in that painting.
23:13They have raised three solid kids.
23:16Yeah.
23:17Ben really enjoyed working with them in the wood shop.
23:19He said they were awesome.
23:20That makes it even better.
23:21Lily and I had a dinner party there with them once and helped wheel the dishwasher around the kitchen.
23:26Oh my gosh.
23:27I ain't never in my life seen anything like their old kitchen.
23:33I don't know a family more deserving.
23:35The reason it matters that we do good work is because we see these people every day.
23:41Everywhere we go.
23:43We are friends with these people.
23:45This is the part of small towns that people talk about.
23:48Everybody's in your business.
23:49Everybody's watching.
23:51Yep.
23:52Okay.
23:53What's the verdict here?
23:54Well, we're ready to set a new light on here.
23:56The new old post is wired and ready for light.
24:00That's so perfect.
24:01It's like it was made for that spot.
24:03Almost like it was made for that.
24:05Turn the switch on and signed up together.
24:07One, two, three.
24:12Bingo.
24:13Dude.
24:14All right.
24:15That is so rad.
24:16That looks cool.
24:17Ben, come here.
24:18Look at this.
24:19Dang.
24:20That's awesome.
24:21We have light.
24:22It is glowy.
24:23It is beautiful.
24:24It feels historic.
24:25I think Chris and Jeff will love it.
24:27No more finger shocks.
24:29Yep.
24:30No more.
24:31How are they going to entertain themselves?
24:32They'll just have to pull a socket out upstairs.
24:34You could climb a higher pounder.
24:37You could break the seventh seat.
24:41But you're never going to find another one.
24:46Dollies are out.
24:49Go.
24:50I'm not helping because of height difference.
24:53They're moving in a range that's as big as a small truck.
24:57The delivery guy set it on the sidewalk and said, good luck.
25:00All right.
25:01Let's just set her straight down right here.
25:04This range is as big as their old kitchen.
25:07Eight burners, two ovens, a warming dish.
25:10This is a full kitchen right here.
25:12I know it will fit because Stubbs built those cabinets.
25:16You could squeeze a sheet of paper.
25:19On each side.
25:20On each side.
25:23I just want to say how blessed I feel that we do this kind of work
25:28because I have your phone number.
25:30You are constantly saving me from some emergency situation.
25:35True Wilt is having the phone number of a pediatrician,
25:39a plumber, and the HVAC man.
25:43That's a nice range.
25:45Mm-hmm.
25:46If tomorrow's half as good as today,
25:50we'll be fine, fine, fine.
25:57It's just not centered.
26:00And I don't know how we didn't notice it
26:02when the dang Peabody Hotel chandelier was hanging there.
26:06Chris and Jeff have a chandelier from the very famous Peabody Hotel
26:10in Memphis, Tennessee.
26:11What makes it famous?
26:13The Ducks.
26:14The Ducks walk around.
26:15There's a show.
26:16Anyway, it's a very cool hotel and you should all visit.
26:18But the thing is, this chandelier weighs 150 pounds,
26:22and it had to go somewhere safe so we could renovate the house.
26:26Poor Colton, our electrician, had to wrestle this thing upstairs
26:31into the attic, which is like three flights of stairs,
26:34so that it wasn't damaged at all while we renovate the house.
26:37And I'm wondering if the reason it was off-center
26:40was because that was the strongest point to hang a 150-pound light.
26:44It is so very possible.
26:46That is one of the Gallagher's most prized possessions.
26:49As it should be.
26:50Yep.
26:51It's from the Peabody Hotel.
26:52It's pretty rad.
26:53But it isn't centered.
26:54Oh, we gotta get a home back up here.
26:55It's not centered at all.
26:57The light was centered in this direction,
26:59but it was not centered in this direction.
27:02I think it blinded us with its beauty and its sheer volume.
27:06You were blinded by the light.
27:08Yes.
27:09And I just really want that chandelier centered on the window, too.
27:12So what if we do a medallion?
27:15Then we can cut it out, put whatever bracing we need.
27:18Yeah.
27:19And slide our Peabody chandelier over.
27:22No one's the wiser.
27:25You know, medallions don't always have to be a focal point.
27:29They can sometimes just be a little concealer.
27:32Doop.
27:36Colton feels good about it.
27:38That light's going up.
27:55Drew.
27:56Hello.
27:57How are you, Erin?
27:58Yeah, how are you?
27:59Great to see you.
28:00You too.
28:01We drove to Hattiesburg today because Stan and Drew will let me print
28:05four recipe tea towels for the Gallagher's.
28:08I did this with my grandmother's cornbread and biscuit recipes
28:10so that I can always quickly grab them when I'm cooking.
28:13When we were demoing the kitchen,
28:15I found these handwritten recipes taped up inside a cabinet door,
28:18and it looked like they could have been there since the 70s.
28:21So these are well-loved and used by the family.
28:24I want to print these recipes on tea towels.
28:26That is really neat.
28:27That is really neat.
28:28Sentimental.
28:29It's handwriting.
28:30It's just a wonderful idea.
28:31I saved the recipes.
28:32I scanned them, isolated the handwriting from the paper,
28:35made it all black, added some decorative frames.
28:38Did you have a color in mind that you wanted to see in particular?
28:41Like blueberry, peach?
28:43Yeah, blueberry.
28:44Which is almost a navy.
28:46Yeah.
28:47Let's do navy.
28:48Okay.
28:49And that's about what we're going to get.
28:50I think that's good.
28:51So next we'll print it out on a piece of film and make a screen.
28:55We'll burn the black toner on that film into the screen,
29:00and that's how we get the stencil onto the screen.
29:04It's like developing film.
29:05It is, absolutely.
29:06So we're going to take this image,
29:08and there's nothing currently on there.
29:11Yeah.
29:12You have to wash out the design so ink can pass through,
29:15and then you just pull a thin layer of ink over the design,
29:20and it's on your fabric.
29:22Lift up.
29:24Woo!
29:28Nice!
29:29Look at that!
29:30Perfect.
29:31I think it looks good.
29:33I think it's a really sweet little tea towel.
29:35Put it on the dryer and we'll lay it flat.
29:37And then you have to cure the ink by putting it through the heater.
29:42Well, what do you think?
29:43Perfect.
29:44Oh, that turned out great.
29:45Yeah.
29:46Love it.
29:47Thank you all for letting me do this.
29:48You're very welcome.
29:49It's our pleasure.
29:50All right.
29:51Three more recipes.
29:52What other colors should I eat?
29:53Oh, hmm.
29:54Let's see.
30:02I'm going to paint the clinic sign.
30:03That sign has been there since the 70s, I think.
30:07It's where the entrance to Jeff's dad's chiropractic clinic in the house used to be,
30:11which is now the parlor.
30:13The house looks great and it's like a dumpster fire out here.
30:21We got grass coming.
30:23We got some trim ups and mulch coming.
30:26We're so close.
30:27It's been six months since we started on this house.
30:34I'm actually sad to give it back to the Gallagher's because I've enjoyed it so much.
30:40I'm going to meet up with George Bassey.
30:42He is our museum director.
30:44Well, you'd ask for some old photos.
30:46Yes.
30:47Anything relevant to the Gallagher's.
30:48To the house.
30:49So this, though, is the 6th Avenue.
30:51Yes.
30:52That's the Gallagher's house.
30:53Wow.
30:54This house is over 120 years old.
30:57It's only had two owners.
30:58So the Whitaker's had the dry goods store and that's who built this house.
31:02This is really special.
31:03To see a house evolve with a family is so rare.
31:07And we feel hugely honored to get to participate in that.
31:11This is big.
31:12In a small town, this is history happening.
31:15Adam did a painting of three trees representing, can you guess?
31:19The three boys.
31:20That's right.
31:21I felt like this room risked getting a little bit stuffy and formal.
31:24Well, it's perfect for this wall and perfect for this house.
31:28They love to be the entertainers.
31:30This house is going to be full of life and people all the time.
31:33Games, part of entertaining.
31:35That game table that Ben built for the parlor gives that room sort of an identity now.
31:38And their back porch feels like the best possible version of itself.
31:42I love that we took something they already had and repurposed it.
31:45And then the height measurement board.
31:47That means family.
31:48You watch your children grow and they leave the nest, but you still have that memory.
31:53And it took so many people and so many hours to save this house.
31:59It really was close to the end of its life.
32:03Miraculous.
32:04This is why we do what we do.
32:07This house and houses like it.
32:10And I'm so excited for the Gallaghers, but really sad for us that it's over.
32:16Are you excited to be back in your own house and out of your sister's house?
32:21We've had a good time.
32:22We have.
32:23But we definitely missed our home.
32:24We're ready to be back in the house.
32:25Okay.
32:26All right.
32:27Welcome to the Gallagher house.
32:28Whoa.
32:29All right.
32:32That looks awesome.
32:33Man.
32:34That is unbelievable.
32:35Oh, my God.
32:36It's beautiful.
32:37Incredible.
32:38And no holes.
32:39No holes anywhere.
32:40Yes.
32:41She's ready for another 120 years.
32:42Yeah.
32:43Well, we basically put a whole new outside on.
32:46Oh.
32:47And that's the first time we've ever done that.
32:49You have all new siding now.
32:50You have insulation.
32:51And your window trim is a lower profile that doesn't let water get in.
32:56You have a lower power bill.
32:58Yeah.
32:59Really good.
33:00The house has always been a shade of green.
33:01It is still a shade of green.
33:03Wow.
33:04It looks so good.
33:05It's kind of a dried rosemary color.
33:06Yeah.
33:07It's unbelievable.
33:08Beautiful.
33:09The shakes look good.
33:10Yeah, they do.
33:11Yeah.
33:12It highlights those good.
33:13Yeah.
33:14They're such a defining feature.
33:15We're excited.
33:16We've missed our porch.
33:17Oh, yes.
33:18We have enjoyed your porch so much.
33:20Yeah.
33:21This front porch has just been a dream.
33:23We love this porch.
33:24We love the porch.
33:25We love that porch.
33:26And you kept the gnome.
33:27We kept even the clinics on.
33:28Oh, yeah.
33:29We gave it a little china.
33:30Oh, that's awesome.
33:31The outside is the least of the changes that have happened to your house.
33:34Let's go inside.
33:36Yeah.
33:37Oh, my.
33:43Look at the light.
33:44Oh, my gosh.
33:45Look at the light.
33:46Yes, that's awesome.
33:49That is.
33:50That is.
33:51That is.
33:52I love it.
33:53That wire that was tucked down in there was still wide.
33:56Oh, my goodness.
33:57Our electrician found out.
33:58And here, dear, sweet neighbor, George Bassi, help me.
34:00Oh.
34:01There's your street, and there's your house.
34:02That's great.
34:03I love it.
34:04That is awesome.
34:05And then we made big changes in the game parlor.
34:08Oh, my gosh.
34:09I love the color.
34:10It looks beautiful.
34:11And the bookcases.
34:12Oh, my gosh.
34:13Wow.
34:14The door's gone.
34:15Yes.
34:16Yes.
34:17Oh, my gosh.
34:18I love this table.
34:19Yes.
34:20Man.
34:21Did you make this table?
34:22I did with your boy's help.
34:23That's awesome.
34:24Oh, that's awesome.
34:25These pieces come out.
34:26So if you're doing a puzzle instead of a game, there's a drawer underneath for a little
34:33bit of storage, and it goes all the way through the other side.
34:36Oh, yeah.
34:37Oh, yeah.
34:38That's awesome.
34:39This is something that they will do with y'all.
34:41Yeah.
34:42Yes.
34:43And this will be a really special memory, not just for y'all, but for them.
34:47That's right.
34:48The cabinets were repurposed.
34:49Yes.
34:50Yes.
34:51We just updated them.
34:52They look great.
34:53They just kind of blend.
34:54Yeah.
34:55It's like they were built down or something.
34:56Yes.
34:57And there was a door here and a door there.
34:59That's right.
35:00Right.
35:01Not there anymore.
35:02No.
35:03And you can see the clinic signs through here.
35:04Mm-hmm.
35:05It looks great.
35:06It used to be the clinic.
35:07Yeah.
35:08This was the waiting room.
35:09How about that?
35:10We just wanted it to become the game parlor.
35:12Yes.
35:13All right.
35:14Is it time?
35:15We're going to the kitchen?
35:16Do you want to go to the kitchen?
35:17Oh, my gosh.
35:18Do you want to get in?
35:19Yes.
35:20Oh, my gosh.
35:21I can't believe this is happening, really.
35:22Go see your kitchen.
35:23Oh, my goodness.
35:24Whoa.
35:25Oh.
35:26Oh.
35:27Woo-hoo!
35:28Oh, my God.
35:29Wow.
35:30Oh.
35:31Oh.
35:32Oh, my God.
35:35Wow.
35:36Oh.
35:37Oh.
35:38Oh.
35:39Where am I?
35:42Got your kitchen, honey.
35:43Gorgeous.
35:44It is gorgeous.
35:46Absolutely.
35:47Oh.
35:48It's just overwhelming just the size of it compared to what we had.
35:51It's beautiful.
35:52Oh, I love it.
35:53Oh, it's gorgeous.
35:54Mm-hmm.
35:55Mm-hmm.
35:56Mm-hmm.
35:57You have counter space.
35:58Yeah.
35:59Lots of it.
36:00Oh, my gosh.
36:01Cabinets.
36:02Oh, my gosh.
36:03Cabinets.
36:04I mean, I'm going to need, like, a stepladder.
36:06Before, I never needed a stepladder in the kitchen.
36:10A dishwasher.
36:11That stays in one spot.
36:12Yes.
36:13And look at this stove.
36:14And all the counter space.
36:15And you wanted quartzite?
36:16We got you quartzite.
36:17Yes.
36:18I love this.
36:19This was the biggest and heaviest countertop job we've had in a long time.
36:23Oh, I love it.
36:24The stove is so heavy, they use straps to carry it in here.
36:28On their backs.
36:29Oh, my goodness.
36:30We owe them an adjustment.
36:32Oh, yeah.
36:33They're probably going to need one.
36:35I love the shelf above the stove.
36:39Uh-huh.
36:40Yeah.
36:41And I love that it's seamless, no grout lines.
36:43Mm-hmm.
36:44So clean.
36:45I have a question.
36:48Is there some significance to this recipe?
36:51Okay.
36:52Yeah, that's his mom's.
36:53She had the perfect handwriting.
36:54Love it.
36:56That's awesome.
36:57That's great.
36:58Oh, that's awesome.
36:59We didn't know the significance of them.
37:00Yeah.
37:01That's great.
37:02That's awesome.
37:03Mom's very happy up in heaven right now, I tell you guys.
37:04Yes, she is.
37:05She always wanted this kitchen.
37:06Check this out.
37:07Go open that up.
37:08See what you think.
37:11Oh, yeah.
37:12Oh, my gosh.
37:13Wow.
37:14Lovely.
37:15Coffee bar has more counter space than the original kitchen.
37:20Exactly.
37:21I'm good.
37:22This can't be our kitchen.
37:23And the bookshelf for the cookbooks.
37:25Yeah.
37:26I love that.
37:27Do you miss what was?
37:28No.
37:29No.
37:30Not in the least.
37:31No?
37:32Mm-mm-mm.
37:33The floors, the floors look great.
37:34It was worth the wait.
37:35It was worth the wait.
37:36Oh, my gosh.
37:37We did new old-growth heart pine flooring that blends with the rest of your house.
37:42Beautiful, seamless.
37:43They look beautiful.
37:44I'm glad that we did that.
37:45Your whole life.
37:46I can't believe this is my house.
37:4856 years in the making.
37:49And this is...
37:50You guys did it.
37:51This was...
37:52Oh, yeah.
37:53Part of the kitchen.
37:54This was your dishwasher.
37:55That was the dishwasher.
37:56That's right.
37:57That's where the dishwasher came from.
37:58Oh, I love it.
37:59I love, love, love it.
38:03I'm so glad you love it.
38:07Do you want to see the dining room and how they sort of work together?
38:10Oh, my gosh.
38:11And this opening is massive.
38:13Yes.
38:14I love it.
38:15Oh, I love the...
38:16What do they call that?
38:17The medallion?
38:18Oh, yeah.
38:19This light was totally off-center in the room.
38:21Oh.
38:22Did you know that?
38:23No.
38:24And so this was our solution to quickly repair the ceiling.
38:27But there's not another one in the world.
38:29That's great.
38:30Absolutely not.
38:31That's awesome.
38:32And there's not another one of these in the world, either.
38:34Oh, my goodness.
38:35Oh, my gosh.
38:36That's obviously Adam.
38:37Yes.
38:38Adam wanted to gift this to you.
38:40Can you guess what the three trees represent?
38:43Our boys.
38:44That's your boys.
38:45Yes.
38:46Oh, that's beautiful.
38:47Adam told us that his first job as a teacher was tutoring your boys.
38:50It was.
38:51Yes.
38:52It was really important to him to give y'all a gift to thank you for giving him that wonderful
38:57first experience.
38:58That's awesome.
38:59And every pet you've ever had is in the painting hidden.
39:04Look, the hedgehog.
39:05The hedgehog quills.
39:06Quills.
39:07Quills.
39:08And JoJo.
39:09And Belle.
39:10Yes.
39:11Elephant.
39:12A mouse-nawed elephant.
39:14Yeah.
39:15Cute.
39:16That's good.
39:17Yeah.
39:18Oh, my gosh.
39:19That's awesome.
39:20Your house is so beautiful.
39:21Mm-hmm.
39:22But the thing that makes it more beautiful to me is that it's been a family home, and I
39:26hope it always will be, which is why I had to die on this hill.
39:31Come see this.
39:32Come look at this.
39:33Oh.
39:34We had to keep something from the house.
39:37So it's a part of your family's history, so I wanted it to be here.
39:42Oh.
39:43Oh, yeah.
39:44Because I love it.
39:45I was wondering where it was.
39:46I love it.
39:47I'm so glad y'all could save that.
39:49We cleaned it up.
39:50I touched it up.
39:51I glued down any paint that was flaking off.
39:53I love it there.
39:54We love it there.
39:55That's great.
39:56That's perfect.
39:57We've also got a little half bath for your guests.
39:58Okay.
39:59Oh, yeah.
40:00You do love to throw a party.
40:03Look at the wallpaper.
40:04That is beautiful.
40:05Oh, my gosh.
40:06That is gorgeous.
40:07I like it.
40:08Yeah.
40:09And the lines.
40:10Yes.
40:11That was in the study.
40:12Yes.
40:13No pedestal.
40:14I love it.
40:15Easy to clean.
40:16Oh, but I love this wallpaper.
40:17It's beautiful.
40:18I thought it was a fun, bold pattern.
40:20It is.
40:21It brings, like, a silvery color and a gold color, so we kind of mix the metals in here.
40:25Yeah.
40:26And you still got your screen porch.
40:28Oh.
40:29How sweet is that?
40:30Yeah, Ben is loving the screen porch.
40:32Oh, wow.
40:33Look at that.
40:34Oh, my God.
40:35Yeah.
40:36It's good, isn't it?
40:37It's here.
40:38Oh, I love that.
40:39And that thing, that is something else.
40:41Look at how y'all...
40:42You guys shine that sucker up.
40:43Absolutely.
40:44So, your boys helped us with this.
40:46Oh, they did?
40:47Yep.
40:48We took the stove all the way apart.
40:50That is...
40:51Cleaned it up, painted it.
40:52This is the old den.
40:54Yeah.
40:55These are the den walls.
40:56Oh, yeah.
40:57We cleaned them up.
40:58I see that.
40:59I see that.
41:00Oh, yes.
41:01They came up with the decision to let it come all the way around the old stovepipe.
41:04Uh-huh.
41:05Uh-huh.
41:06This piece was always on the back porch, and, heck, I used to play with this.
41:09This thing when I was little, like four years old.
41:11Oh, wow.
41:12It's been in this house since we came here, 56 years.
41:14It looks fantastic, though, right now.
41:16Yeah.
41:17It looks really good.
41:18That's great.
41:19But it's such a good back porch that I think is comparable to what you had before, but you
41:23can actually use it.
41:24Yes.
41:25Yes.
41:26I know some people would be jealous.
41:27Uh-huh.
41:28Mm-hmm.
41:29Well...
41:30Okay.
41:31Six months.
41:32I hope this was worth it.
41:34It was so, so worth it.
41:36Yes, we can.
41:38That's the best renovation we've ever worked on.
41:39Yeah.
41:40Y'all did a great job.
41:41That's good.
41:42The original quote was $400,000, but the historic board allowed us to use composite siding and
41:47aluminum windows, which saved us about 50 grand.
41:50We ended up dipping about 30 grand into the contingency.
41:53So $380,000, that's not a small investment.
41:56Mm-hmm.
41:57But I know your boys will appreciate it.
41:59Y'all are gonna appreciate it.
42:00But I think everybody in the neighborhood appreciates it.
42:03It's gonna take a little while to sink in that this is my house.
42:06All right, so this is the part where you're gonna want us to throw to something that's like a very dramatic this season on Hometown.
42:17Cue the big, beautiful montage.
42:19Do we feel super solid about this plan?
42:24Nope.
42:25That's what makes it a good one.
42:28There's gonna be things you've never seen on TV.
42:30It's now a wedding venue.
42:31It's not just a house.
42:33Is there a chance that we could deliver a baby?
42:35And then there's problems and problems.
42:38It puckered.
42:40Honestly, every single house this season made us work for it.
42:44You were headed towards catastrophic failure.
42:47That's as dangerous as it gets.
42:49Well, it's probably the worst thing I could have, you know, fathomed.
42:54Oh!
42:57And then there's gonna be crying and screaming.
43:00It is so beautiful.
43:05I love it.
43:07Oh, sweet mother of...
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