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00:01Hard work never came easy.
00:05Don't pressure break out who a team needs.
00:07Hop against, but I'm so breezy.
00:09There they go. All right, ready?
00:11Hey. Born ready.
00:13Oh, by the way, our new clients, Charlie and Yosemite,
00:15they love game nights.
00:16Oh, my God.
00:17I 100% relate.
00:18Nothing is better than having friends come over
00:21and have the ultimate showdown game night.
00:23I have heard that they have some legendary social shindigs
00:26and they just don't have the space right now to accommodate that.
00:29Their place, it drives them insane.
00:31It's closed off.
00:32Downstairs, the bar area feels more like a storage room
00:34than anything else.
00:35Doesn't work.
00:36And that's not conducive to entertaining.
00:37We need to create a more mature take on a game room.
00:40That's gonna be challenging.
00:41Putting in a vibe that's fun but also sophisticated.
00:49This is my nightmare.
00:50It's really frustrating.
00:51Oh, this is not good.
00:54What? I'm stressed.
00:55You're not alone.
00:56This all has to be ripped out.
00:58I kind of feel like throwing up.
01:00And rebuilt.
01:01I don't want to finish a beautiful house and then they aren't happy.
01:05No pressure.
01:06My hope is that they will see this house as everything they've dreamed of.
01:09I love the house now.
01:11Before it was a love-hate.
01:12Yosemite and Charlie bought their house three years ago and they hate the layout.
01:24So they've been saving for years and that money that could have gone elsewhere like a vacation,
01:27they've decided they need to do a full-on reno.
01:29Yeah, they've been struggling to try and entertain their chosen family, their friends, in a house that has rooms that resemble a college dorm.
01:37The layout is isolating, there's not enough storage, and they are out of ideas.
01:42We need to help them get back to what they love to do, which is entertaining their friends.
01:46Hello!
01:47Hi!
01:48May we come in?
01:49Yeah, come on in.
01:50Step into our dreary front entrance.
01:53I see some of the dated facade with the color of the tile.
01:57It's pretty dark.
01:58It's just so hard to keep clean.
02:00Footprints, stains.
02:01You guys really hate this tile.
02:03We do.
02:04The biggest problem for me is the stairs right here.
02:07It's so dark when people walk up and down.
02:09I'm always like, watch your step.
02:11People have tripped up, tripped down.
02:13I don't know if it's just the lighting, but I think it's just because it's too dark.
02:17The worst thing about this place is that it doesn't have a good layout for game night.
02:22It feels a little weird that your living room furniture is so far back that way.
02:26We usually have 15, 20 people, so they fill that up and then we put a lot of chairs so everybody can get in.
02:32If we have a party and I'm stuck in there, he's really the cook, he's stuck in there, we can't entertain properly.
02:39So I've always wanted like an open kitchen.
02:42Sometimes she'll sit out here and she'll yell, hey, Charlie, get me something.
02:45I'm in the kitchen.
02:46I can't hear.
02:47I mean, that's not fun if you literally invite guests over to have fun playing games and one person's stuck in the kitchen the whole time.
02:53So I'm with you.
02:55The house looks like it's in good shape, but there's so many things here and there that just isn't working or needs help.
03:02You got to watch your step on here. We cut our feet many times on these tiles.
03:06Oh, the travertine, the traffic areas, it starts to spall a little bit and then, yeah, you'll get like full holes through the stone.
03:13It's crazy expensive to properly maintain stone floors.
03:17One thing I do not like is the 1970s wall.
03:20We hang out at the couch a lot and, you know, watch TV and the wall just, it just doesn't do it for me.
03:26We love modern.
03:27More modern style?
03:28Yeah.
03:29Okay.
03:30We have a lot of frustrations with this house, but one of the reasons we can't move is my parents.
03:35They're at the age to where they need a little bit of looking after.
03:38So we had purchased this place a little bit larger and they had moved in with us for a little bit for about a year and a half.
03:45Almost two years.
03:46Yeah.
03:47And it got to be that they needed more help than we could give them.
03:49And are they in a great space now?
03:50Yeah.
03:51They are.
03:52They are miles from here and it's convenient, easy to go visit them anytime.
03:55Yes.
03:56Okay.
03:57That's good.
03:58I mean, to me, this house feels almost like a magic trick.
04:00It's like a facade.
04:01It looks okay, but in reality, it needs a lot of work.
04:05So we have holiday dinners here.
04:07Put the crock pots and stuff out and kind of let people just get a little buffet.
04:11I don't know why they did this.
04:13We've had so many people trip up and down this thing.
04:16Would you want us to remove this and have everything all one level?
04:19100%.
04:20Yes.
04:21I'd love to have this wall gone so that we would have space here like a big island.
04:26We're always having to go all the way around into the kitchen to get whatever and come back out, back and forth.
04:31It's just, it's frustrating.
04:32Yeah.
04:33I can tell you one thing for sure.
04:34This is going to be a load-bearing wall across here.
04:37Okay.
04:38So there would be some engineering involved.
04:39Yeah.
04:40We were here for three years and we walked in and we were like, this looks great.
04:44A lot of storage.
04:45And then we started living in it and cooking and then we realized, not so great.
04:49It makes me feel more isolated when I'm cooking.
04:52This stove, we like it because it's huge, but there's like no space.
04:56Yeah.
04:57That's one of the reasons we wanted an island with a lot of space, a lot of covers.
05:00A lot of space.
05:01A lot of drawers.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Yeah.
05:04Okay.
05:05We'll look at opening up the wall between the kitchen and dining spaces and give you an island.
05:08Doing that will enable you to better entertain your friends.
05:10Because this to me looks like the biggest trouble point.
05:13Oh, no.
05:14We have a bigger one downstairs, our game room.
05:16Oh, okay.
05:20Pinball?
05:21Yes.
05:22I grew up with pinballs in my house.
05:24My dad loved pinballs.
05:25So right smack in our living room, we always had pinball machines.
05:29Yeah.
05:30All right.
05:31Oh, another gigantic TV.
05:32Two more pinball and a foosball.
05:34Wow.
05:35Okay.
05:36An air hockey and an 80s video game.
05:37Oh my gosh.
05:38We bring people down here and it's kind of embarrassing because it is kind of all just cluttered
05:43and...
05:44They turn a pinball on here and there and that's about it.
05:46We want more out of this.
05:47It also seems like a lot of wasted space in here.
05:50You can see the tile goes through here too.
05:52We don't need a fireplace down here.
05:54We don't.
05:55We've never used it.
05:56Okay.
05:57If we can open it up, that would be great.
05:59Yeah.
06:00I'm okay having a cased opening, but if you could expand this to the same distance,
06:04that would be pretty incredible because then all of a sudden, oh wait, you've got a clean out there.
06:08So if you have a clean out here, it means you've got a stack going up.
06:12It's a lot more work.
06:14You'd have to jack up the slab, potentially move plumbing.
06:17So not as easy as just opening it up.
06:21We really want this space to be welcoming, so we're willing to spend the money.
06:26Mm-hmm.
06:27It's really frustrating that half our friends have to hang out in this room and the rest in the other room.
06:31Right.
06:32Yeah.
06:33And there's a bar over here too.
06:34Charlie's a bartender.
06:35That's all his.
06:36That's his dream to have a built-in bar.
06:39With all the bottles, it feels like a messy frat house.
06:42We want this to feel like a home.
06:44I could see something like a wall on the wall, just, you know, something amazing where you walk in.
06:49Wow, you know?
06:50Okay.
06:51Are you wanting to keep every single one of these games?
06:54We can get rid of the foosball and the air hockey table.
06:57I want to have room for pinballs as well though.
07:00Okay.
07:01Yeah.
07:02But you're okay getting rid of these two?
07:03Mm-hmm.
07:04Okay.
07:05We're gonna definitely create something much more stylish in this space.
07:08And I agree, I would open this up as much as possible.
07:11I do see a pretty big budget for this because we have that whole kitchen expansion, structural,
07:17all this down here with more structural.
07:19If you're looking for that built-in bar and you want to have this flow like it was always meant to be a game room,
07:24there's a lot that has to happen.
07:26You're looking at like a good 240 grand for all the work you're asking for.
07:30Well, whatever we gotta do to make it happen, you know, we love the neighborhood, we love our neighbors.
07:36His family's close by and we're not leaving this place.
07:38Yeah, we're not going anywhere.
07:39Okay.
07:40Can we come to one of the game nights?
07:41Absolutely.
07:42Oh, yeah.
07:43Yeah.
07:44What's your high score?
07:45Your name's on that one.
07:461.1 billion.
07:48Billion?
07:49Yeah.
07:50Oh my gosh, we're near that.
07:52Yosemite and Charlie need an amazing space to entertain their friends.
07:56And we're dealing with a pretty healthy budget, but let's be honest,
07:59when we're opening up the walls on both levels as much as Yosemite and Charlie want us to,
08:04it could get costly and complicated.
08:06Yeah, we don't know if there are any obstacles within the walls until we rip them open.
08:09We haven't been through a renovation before, so this will be interesting.
08:12Yeah, it will be.
08:13We want to be happy in this house.
08:15We're finally pulling the trigger and making it happen.
08:22We're not going to be able to save these cabinets because they're kind of like weird small sizes and whatnot,
08:29so they can't be donated.
08:30You agree?
08:31They're way small.
08:32Yeah.
08:33They are.
08:34They kick out so easily.
08:37Oh, there we go.
08:39The little micro shelf is done.
08:43Yes.
08:48Actually, I'm very excited about this.
08:50I'm so over all of that.
08:52So originally the plan was if we took the beam back even to about here,
08:56get it as open as possible.
08:58Right now the island isn't huge.
09:01We still have this awkward spot over here by the window.
09:04Okay.
09:05Which gives me an idea.
09:06Would you be open to potentially closing that off?
09:09But what we could do so that aesthetically it still looks good from the street
09:13is we could close the shutters, insulate on this side, close a wall all the way across,
09:17and continue our cabinetry all the way around.
09:19We would put our fridge over there.
09:21That'll give you ample space for serving trays and whatever you need for your game nights.
09:25Actually, I like that idea. I never even thought of it.
09:28Okay, good.
09:29Then not only would we be able to pull this back another four feet,
09:33it means our island can be another four feet long.
09:35It's a wonderful idea.
09:36The bigger the island, the better.
09:37Yeah, I want to make sure that it still feels bright in here.
09:40You'll now have all the light coming from that window on the other side,
09:43and you'll have the skylight.
09:45Closing the window, adding more cabinetry, and a larger island will be around $20,000,
09:50but if you're open to doing that, I think it'll give you way better flow in here.
09:54The only concern I have is losing storage space.
09:57Right.
09:58We're essentially taking all of this storage, putting it over there,
10:01continuing your uppers and your lowers all the way across.
10:04You'd actually still have more storage because then you also have an island with storage on it, too.
10:09I love that. I love it.
10:10She's excited.
10:11Good, good.
10:12Okay, we cannot tear this wall down yet because it's load-bearing,
10:16but we could rip the drywall off to see what we're dealing with.
10:22All right.
10:23Ready?
10:25I see daylight.
10:28Yes.
10:29That was good.
10:30Yes.
10:31I love it.
10:32I actually want to cry right now. I'm so happy.
10:35Do you want to see if we can open up any other walls downstairs?
10:37Oh, yeah.
10:38Absolutely.
10:39Absolutely.
10:40All right.
10:41Obviously, adding $20,000 to the renovation is a big deal,
10:45but we want to be happy in this house. It's definitely worth it to us.
10:49We're not going to let money stop us from living our best life.
10:53Nope.
10:54We saw our parents living their best life, and you know what? We're going to follow suit.
10:59Just like upstairs, it's kind of separated.
11:01Yeah.
11:02So have a nice, smooth flow would be great.
11:04My engineer warned me, if this is a shear wall, we might not be able to open it up anymore,
11:11because originally, this was probably the exterior wall of the home.
11:15Shear walls strengthen the structure of a house, so it can withstand high winds and even earthquakes.
11:19So there's a shear rating on here.
11:21Because of the earthquakes and everything, we want to make sure that we still get that,
11:24and it would have gotten us clean out here.
11:26So, not ideal.
11:28My hope? We can open it all the way, and the only way to know that is to bust it open.
11:33Okay.
11:38Oh, there's another pipe. There's two pipes there.
11:41Okay, we're going to open from this side.
11:45I'm a little concerned, now that I see all this stuff in here, whether it can actually be opened up or not.
11:51Ah!
11:53That's what we did not want to see.
11:55Uh-oh.
11:59That diagonal framing, which means this is a shear wall, so that might prevent us from even widening this at all.
12:08That's a bummer.
12:11Maybe there still could be a fix.
12:14The way we do shear framing now is different.
12:16There's a chance the engineer can say, okay, under the new method, we can give you an extra 10 square feet,
12:24or whatever it might be for the opening.
12:26But, or sometimes they'll come back and say you can't do anything.
12:29If he was to say, oh, you could move at a maximum of two feet, well, this plumbing is in the way.
12:35So, we'd have to trench, move the main stack, move the plumbing lines, do all of that.
12:41If it was going to cost us thousands of dollars to only get two feet, I don't know that it's worth it.
12:46Right.
12:47That's disappointing.
12:48I want to give Yosemite and Charlie a ton of open space, but I'm not going to have them spend a bunch of money for very little change.
12:54So, we'll have to wait and hear what the engineer says and go from there.
12:57Yosemite and Charlie like a modern style, so I'm taking them on an excursion to find out exactly what they want in their downstairs bar.
13:07Oh, look at this.
13:08Hang out over here.
13:09Oh, wow.
13:10Yeah.
13:11I like this.
13:12Do you want one of these at home?
13:14Can we just take the whole bar with us?
13:16Yeah, just put it into your house.
13:18I wanted to bring you here in a really cool L.A. bar to give you ideas for your bar.
13:25Because right now, your bar is not cool.
13:28And we want to make it cool.
13:29Yes, we do.
13:30Yes, we do.
13:31If that wall downstairs can be opened up some more, that bar will become a focal point.
13:34A large built-in bar will give you somewhere to organize your clutter of bottles.
13:38And we also need a design scheme overall for the game room.
13:41So, let's pick colors.
13:43You said you wanted to modernize the space.
13:45The walls are going to be lighter, so we're probably going to do like a warm white.
13:48For the cabinets, do you like the blues?
13:51I like the blues.
13:52Yeah, we're partial to blue.
13:54Okay.
13:55I like this one.
13:56I don't know.
13:57What about you?
13:58Really?
13:59Because I kind of like that one.
14:00So, you like the darker?
14:01I think I do.
14:02This could be like a little bit of a pop in behind it, like in the cabinets.
14:05But I like this because it's a muted tone.
14:07It's going to look very elegant.
14:09I win.
14:11What are you thinking for the flooring?
14:13Not too dark.
14:14And that actually might go good with these colors.
14:18I can see that.
14:19What jumps out to you for stone for the countertop?
14:22Just right off the bat, this one.
14:24That one looks kind of plain.
14:26Yeah.
14:27Yeah, I agree.
14:28Okay.
14:29So, you like some veining.
14:30You want to see some of that character within the stone.
14:32Nothing too white.
14:33Okay.
14:34Good.
14:35I wanted to show you some photos.
14:36We've done a ton of different bar and entertaining spaces over the years.
14:39We did a built-in like a wine fridge.
14:41They wanted to have an open layout for this whole space.
14:44Do you like the idea of changing it from an official bar to a hangout space for everybody?
14:50I think he wants to be the bartender.
14:52Okay.
14:53I don't think we want something where people just all go around.
14:56This client was a mixologist.
14:57So, he wanted to have only himself behind the bar and then seating for everybody else.
15:01So, he wanted to have lots of storage for his bottles and mixes.
15:05I do have quite a bit of bottles of liquor.
15:07Yeah.
15:08And I would like to showcase some of that.
15:10Maybe having some floating shelves, something.
15:13Yeah.
15:14Yeah.
15:15Like what they have here.
15:16Yeah.
15:17And I like lighting.
15:18It makes it look appealing.
15:19Yeah.
15:20I like the glasses hanging down.
15:22You like that?
15:23Okay.
15:24Yeah, yeah.
15:25I know it feels a bit more professional too, like that's what you see in a lot of bars.
15:29If we could do a sink, that would be amazing.
15:31I'd want a sink, but knowing there's concrete and there wasn't any plumbing, we didn't think
15:36that was an option.
15:37It is a slightly more expensive option because we have to jack up the concrete a little bit.
15:40We have to run new plumbing.
15:41It does affect the budget a little bit.
15:43Making a wet bar and adding an ice maker would probably cost an additional $20,000.
15:47Are you okay if things come in a little bit higher than they were before?
15:50Well, let's do it.
15:51I love that.
15:52Having the sink down there is just going to make it easier to entertain.
15:57I could give you so many great options.
16:01Now that you told me about the sink, I will be disappointed if it's not there.
16:05Okay.
16:06And the ice maker.
16:07And the, okay.
16:08I just don't want you to be frustrated because it ended up costing too much money.
16:11Okay.
16:12Well, we told you earlier, we want the awe factor.
16:14We want to walk in there and just like be blowing away.
16:17No pressure.
16:18Yeah, no pressure.
16:19The cost of the sink may be a little bit shocking.
16:24We want to spend the money one time and we want to do it right.
16:28So, we don't want to have the remodel done and then look back and go, oh, we wish we would
16:35have asked to put a sink in.
16:38The upstairs fireplace is getting stripped down in preparation for adding built-ins on either
16:45side, giving them the space to store their cards and board games.
16:48We're adding a central TV that doubles as art and an electric fireplace.
16:53All finished off with stone tiles for a clean modern look.
16:56After blasting away any trip hazards in the dining room and all that loathsome tile floor
17:01throughout, we've asked them to come back to the house.
17:03Because Yosemite and Charlie have been so enthusiastic about adding elements to the renovation for
17:08their dream home, we want to make sure they understand the full cost they're incurring
17:11and the full scope of the work.
17:12You guys were saying when you're over here in the dining room, oh, you're so close,
17:15I get to go all the way around.
17:17The plan would be try and have this as open as possible right to the far side.
17:23Yes.
17:24So, adding a support beam is a big portion of your budget, as you know.
17:27I love it.
17:28I could definitely.
17:29You're rid of it.
17:30I'm picturing an island right now.
17:32You're not excited at all, are you?
17:33I'm so excited.
17:34She is.
17:35She is.
17:36She is like, here's what's going through her mind.
17:38Gadgets and more drawers and her double-decker wine fridge that she decided that we haven't
17:44told you about yet.
17:45Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:47Big information.
17:48Wait a minute.
17:49A double-decker?
17:50Yeah, it's like a double drawer.
17:51Oh, okay, okay.
17:52You know that'll be an added cost, right?
17:53Yes.
17:54Yeah.
17:55This is a situation we rarely experience.
17:56Usually we have a tight budget and then we have to make some compromises.
17:59And then we worry if we got everything they wanted within the budget.
18:02Then we worry that we can't do enough with the budget.
18:04With Yosemite and Charlie, we have a different problem.
18:07They have saved and they want to spend as much as they have to to get what they want.
18:10But this is still risky because no matter what, we've been doing this a while.
18:14Even if you have a good budget, you have to be prepared for those unexpected items,
18:19things you didn't plan for.
18:20Otherwise, your budget can get completely out of control.
18:23Do you want to see downstairs?
18:24Yeah.
18:25I do.
18:26I do.
18:27Oh!
18:28Oh my God.
18:29Oh my God.
18:30So, blank slates.
18:33Wow.
18:34You can also see over here with the bar, from what we were talking about, we'll shift
18:39it from that wall over to this wall so you get a little bit more expanded space.
18:43It's going to be a great way to stay open to the rest of the room.
18:46There will be plenty of space for the pinball machines and there will be a cozy, cool lounge
18:50area, so you'll have very comfortable seating for your game nights.
18:53I think that's going to work a lot better.
18:55Now, over here, in the dividing wall we opened up, do you know what this is from?
19:00You have rats in your walls.
19:02Wait, what?
19:03And so this goes to show how many years they were in the walls.
19:06Every time they would scurry up your wall past the metal brackets, it kind of pulls a
19:10bit of hair off.
19:11No one know that.
19:12They're still in the walls.
19:13We haven't caught, we can hear them, but we haven't caught them yet.
19:17You have rats in your walls.
19:19They're still in the walls.
19:20We haven't caught, we can hear them, but we haven't caught them yet.
19:23B.S.
19:24B.S.
19:25It's just dirt.
19:26Oh, so you were messing with us?
19:27He's just joking.
19:28He said he was messing with us.
19:29Oh, I was just making it up.
19:30Yeah.
19:31The look on your face is horrifying.
19:34It's so gross.
19:37Drew mentioned you want it to be a wet bar now, so we need to run plumbing.
19:41We just found out that we can have a wet bar.
19:43We're excited.
19:44Yeah, once he mentioned we can have a sink, now we have to have a sink.
19:47And then there's the ice maker and all the little extras.
19:50You know, it's important for the bar to feel bar-ish.
19:54It actually does make sense because the bar will be pretty substantial now.
19:58We would have to trench the slab all the way over here to connect in for the drain and
20:03to get our plumbing across.
20:05I have heard back from the engineer, and I know you wanted to open it all the way, but
20:10there's no way we can do that because we can't remove the shear wall.
20:12Bummer.
20:13Bummer.
20:14He said we can widen it about 30 inches more, but that means moving the plumbing.
20:18If we're trenching all the way over here already, we could just trench an extra couple of feet
20:24to the side and then shift this pipe over.
20:28So the extra cost probably is not going to be that much.
20:31Before I would say it would be too cost prohibitive, but you guys already are trenching.
20:36I want to make sure it's perfect.
20:37I don't want it to be a situation where we spend all this money and then you're still like,
20:40ah, it's not the perfect space.
20:43No, I want super wow.
20:46Yeah.
20:47Super wow.
20:48Super wow.
20:49Super big, super wow.
20:50See, this is adding more pressure too because you're like, no, no, no.
20:53As long as it's super wow.
20:55Can I reach that bar?
20:56Wow.
20:57Super wow.
20:59We're spending a lot of money in this house and we really want to make sure it's the house of our dreams.
21:04It's everything we want.
21:05Trust me, we want to give them super wow and the entertaining home of their dreams.
21:09But sometimes super wow can be expensive and there comes a point where you're not going to get the return on your investment.
21:15The new wet bar with the bells and whistles, that's 20 grand.
21:18They want a wine fridge.
21:20That's another thousand.
21:21They want to close in that window and add more cabinets.
21:23That's another around 20 grand.
21:25So right there alone, that's $41,000 in add-ons.
21:28The pressure's off us now.
21:29It's just up to them to make us love it.
21:31We've bombarded them with so many different ideas and add-ons and changes.
21:36It'll be exciting to see if they get it all.
21:49In the kitchen, we're preparing to put a wall up in front of this window to give us way more space for cabinetry.
21:55What we're trying to do here is change the inside, add more function to the kitchen without changing the outside.
21:59We want the window to still look like a window from outside.
22:02Gaining storage is necessary because when we remove the wall to open up the kitchen and dining area, we lost a wall of cabinets.
22:09I stand by this solution for more storage, but covering a window isn't anyone's first choice, and it's a risk because even though Yosemite and Charlie agree with the idea, when they see it, they could regret losing the view they're used to having.
22:22I guess we'll find out.
22:25Getting your clean on?
22:26Yeah, it's looking good.
22:27I mean, to me, nothing is worse than when you enclose a window, but then from the outside, you see grime on the blinds or, like, dead bugs in the sill.
22:35Because there's no going back after to clean it.
22:37No.
22:38So you want to make sure it's perfect.
22:39They're going to have tons of storage.
22:40This whole wall now is storage over here.
22:41They've got the fridge.
22:42Yeah.
22:43And then the island is pretty massive.
22:45So I am going to start cutting our framing material so we can close this up.
22:49Do it.
22:52Tap it back just a hair droop.
22:54We are ready to have our beast of a beam installed.
23:05The goal is to connect the kitchen and the dining room by opening it up.
23:09That way, Charlie won't be isolated when they have friends over and he's cooking.
23:13It's a sizable cost, but it's essential for how they want their house to function.
23:18After we pour the concrete footings and the concrete sets, we can add our new posts, which will carry the roof load down to the slab.
23:28Now that all the structural work is done on the main floor, we're going to dry fit our new electric fireplace in the living room.
23:34OK, slide your way.
23:35Watch your fingers.
23:37Charlie was asking about, can it change colors?
23:39This is, like, one of the very nice ones.
23:43One of Charlie's requests was for outlets in the floor for side table lighting.
23:47It's a $3,500 cost, but it will enable them to have lamps to better see their cards on game night.
23:52Yeah, they got their, uh, floor plugs here.
23:55One here, one here.
23:57Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
23:59What the heck is, why is this over here?
24:01What is happening here?
24:04Why are floor receptacles in the middle of No Man's Land?
24:08Like, these are supposed to be on either side of the sectional, but even that.
24:12This one's right in the middle of the room there.
24:13Let's see.
24:14Hold on, hold on, hold on.
24:15Yep.
24:16What is happening here?
24:19The plan has the sectional sticking halfway out over the door.
24:24Mm-hmm.
24:25Yeah, that's where, well, that's the drawings we had.
24:27The idea was that this side was going to be shorter.
24:31Mm-hmm.
24:32So...
24:33How'd that go south?
24:34You know what I totally did?
24:36I sent the link for the sofa that I thought would fit to them, and the team put it right in
24:42the end of the plan.
24:43I assumed we were going to measure out and then build it, because it's modular...
24:47Right.
24:48...to what we needed.
24:49So it is not your electrician's fault.
24:52Okay.
24:53Cool.
24:54This guy.
24:55You know what?
24:56It was Drew's fault.
24:57Yeah, that's right.
24:58He's not here.
24:59Blame Drew.
25:00We'll start by definitely moving this in line with that one, right?
25:03Yeah.
25:04These definitely have to be in line, because it's supposed to be a box on either side of the sofa.
25:07This one I feel like we could sneak over and we would be fine.
25:10Okay.
25:11So we don't have to obviously dig a new trench, so we'll just continue this piping all the
25:14way to here.
25:15Okay.
25:16So this is not what I needed right now.
25:20This is an additional expense that Drew and I have to cover, but it has to get fixed.
25:25I apologize for the error on my plan.
25:38Thankfully, things are going smoothly downstairs.
25:40Plumbing to the new bar means Yosemite and Charlie will get their new sink.
25:44A wet bar is key for easy cleanup and hooking up the ice machine.
25:48But upstairs where the kitchen sink used to be, we found a lot of moisture in the soil.
25:55There's a lot of water in there.
25:56It's like clay.
25:57I'll have to get Yosemite and Charlie back here to tell them about the problem.
26:02Watch your step here.
26:07Ooh, there's a big hole.
26:08There's two big holes.
26:09Two big holes.
26:10Oh, there's a lot of big holes here.
26:11We did find an issue, because when we were cutting open the floor so that we could run our
26:16electrical to the island, we discovered it was so wet under the slab that usually means
26:21you have a leak somewhere.
26:23You did have a leak over here under your sink.
26:27You see the original pipes here?
26:28Yeah.
26:29Well, that galvanized pipe under the sink and where the dishwasher is was leaking,
26:34which basically means, and I have a video of it, every time you ever turned it on, it was leaking.
26:40And all that moisture, every dishwasher load, every time you drain the sink,
26:45all of that moisture was going in and under the slab, and that can cause serious issues
26:50with the slab, like cracking and heaving.
26:52Thank you for catching that.
26:54I had no idea that was there.
26:55You would have had no idea.
26:56The only way is by opening up the wall.
26:58One of your copper lines as well had to be replaced.
27:00That had a kink in it as well.
27:01Lord knows what else could have happened if, you know, they didn't catch it.
27:05Makes me wonder how long the water has been leaking even before we bought the house.
27:09As you know, we're already about $41,000 over the original budget with a lot of the stuff that has been changed or added on.
27:15I don't want to find any more issues.
27:17I don't either.
27:18And now we have an additional $5,000 leak to repair.
27:21Yosemite and Charlie have exuberantly added on extras to get this house exactly the way they want for entertaining their chosen family.
27:30And we support them to spend so that the house gets to where they want it.
27:33But that combined with the setbacks, all of a sudden the budget is just creeping up and up.
27:39We're not even done roughing yet.
27:41And I'm afraid we're not out of the woods.
27:43The good thing is our major structural work is done.
27:46We are moving in the right direction.
27:49Do we have a timeframe?
27:50Right, because you're living in a rental right now.
27:52Probably going to have to push back a couple weeks, something like that.
27:56It could be a couple weeks before we get back into our house, but...
28:00We're missing all that time with our friends.
28:01We are.
28:02Spending time with our friends is what we live for.
28:05And spending $5,000 on a leak is not fun.
28:09Nope.
28:10We're not going to let something like this bum us out.
28:13You know, some people look at it as a big negative and a big setback.
28:16What do we say to negativity?
28:18Poof!
28:27With the old kitchen window closed off, we can start to lay the new floor.
28:31To keep things dry from any humidity beneath the floor, we're putting in a waterproofing membrane
28:36before we swap out that scratchy travertine tile with the new luxury vinyl.
28:41This same flooring will be used throughout, including in the front entryway, we're getting rid of that dark tile that Yosemite hated.
28:48Everything will have continuity, which will make it feel bright and light.
28:52It's a new day, and unfortunately we have a new problem, so I'm gonna have to give Charlie a call to let him in on it, and it's not good.
29:05Hello?
29:06Hey, it's Jonathan.
29:08Oh, hey Jonathan.
29:09I think I just jumped right in.
29:11I've got bad news.
29:12Hello?
29:13Hey, it's Jonathan.
29:14Oh, hey Jonathan.
29:15Hello?
29:16Hello?
29:17Hey, it's Jonathan.
29:18Oh, hey Jonathan.
29:19I think I just jumped right in.
29:21I've got bad news.
29:23Hello?
29:24Hello?
29:25I'm here.
29:26Uh, no.
29:27Go ahead.
29:28Over the weekend, my crew came across a massive flood.
29:31It flooded the front entry, right into the hallway.
29:35There was water everywhere.
29:37Oh, no.
29:38It turns out your main waistline going out to the sewer is damaged with tree roots, and we had the toilet off on that lower powder room.
29:47Over the weekend, water came up through the flange and flooded that whole front area.
29:53The annoying thing is we already had all the work done.
29:55Our floors were in, baseboards, everything, and now with the water underneath everything, we've got to pull all this up and redo it.
30:01Oh, man.
30:02That's a bummer.
30:03We'll need another few days to actually rectify the problem, repair everything else.
30:08Oh, no.
30:09Yeah.
30:10What's that going to cost?
30:11We're probably looking at about $15,000.
30:14Oh, my gosh.
30:16You try as a contractor to be as conservative with the budget as possible to guard against something like this.
30:23Spending a lot of money and then having something unexpected pop up that you have to deal with and pay for.
30:28I do already have extra baseboard and flooring and stuff like that, so it's not going to cost extra for those materials.
30:33It's pretty much all labor at this point.
30:35Okay.
30:36So far, other than that $5,000 in the kitchen, I know most of our overages have just been from add-ons, but we have no option now moving forward.
30:44We have to be careful.
30:46Oh, man.
30:47This is the only renovation we've ever done, and we want to add all the bells and whistles to get what we really want, things that were fun and, you know, for us and our friends.
30:57But with this news, this is a real downer, unexpected disaster.
31:01Yeah.
31:02I feel you.
31:03I mean, the good thing is we've resolved the issue with the roots and the line.
31:07We've relined your main sewer line going out, so all of that is, like, new?
31:10That's good to know.
31:11At least it's taken care of.
31:12We don't have to worry about that in the future.
31:14Okay.
31:15I'll let you know if anything else comes up, but in the meantime, I'm going to do everything I can to find you some savings.
31:20Getting the news about the flood and spending $15,000 is upsetting.
31:24It makes it hard to stay positive.
31:26It does.
31:33I want to just plug it in.
31:36Got that?
31:37This is already going to look nice against a clean surface.
31:40So I think this is a place where we can make a budget trim.
31:43Oh, I agree.
31:44What do you think of trying to scale back this feature wall a little bit?
31:49If they can make the decision as to whether they want to reduce the built-ins or reduce all the stonework on here to save some money, I think we need it.
31:56We did kind of hint at them, though, that there was going to be, like, this great built-in feature and blah, blah, blah.
32:03So we maybe shouldn't have built it up so much to the point where we might let them down.
32:07Something has to give.
32:08Let me quickly call Yosemite and see what she says.
32:10Yeah.
32:11Okay.
32:13We are making progress.
32:15You probably want to just get home already.
32:17I do. I'm ready.
32:19I feel like this is the part in the project where I need to be the parent and I need to have a talk with you about the budget.
32:28So if we do everything that we're planning to do right now, we are at a point where we're $61,000 over your original budget, and that doesn't include the cost of an extra month's rental.
32:38That's a lot of money.
32:39We're working on the fireplace right now in the living room, and we were originally going to do, like, a stone facade and then full custom built-ins on either side.
32:48That feature alone is, like, a $20,000 feature. It's a lot of work that goes into making that happen.
32:54Instead of going as elaborate as we were planning, maybe we can scale back a little, still make it beautiful, just not as expensive when it comes to the finishing touches and the finishing materials.
33:05I know it's frustrating because, you know, you want to have your dream space and stone is a lot nicer, but it's also a lot more expensive.
33:12Well, it is important to save money at this point, being so far over budget.
33:18That would save about seven grand.
33:20Um, I mean, we can do without the stone then.
33:24Okay, great.
33:25I really did not like the fireplace that we had before.
33:29So, my biggest fear is walking in the house and being disappointed again.
33:35I am with you.
33:36We don't want that.
33:37So, we'll do our best.
33:39The flood in the powder room has put us another week behind schedule, and we are itching to get Yosemite and Charlie back in and out of their rental, so we have to finish things up as soon as possible.
34:03I'm glad we don't have the trip hazard of the dining room anymore.
34:06Oh my gosh, everything about this is so much better.
34:33Their lives surround entertaining.
34:36And now, you've got the TV zone, the movie zone, kitchen zone, dining zone.
34:40You have so much space to relax.
34:42I didn't know that we would get here.
34:45There were so many issues and we went so far over budget that I think these guys are mentally exhausted.
34:52Oh yeah.
34:53And I hope that this is what they envisioned.
34:55They have super high expectations.
34:57Yeah.
34:58So, I hope we've nailed everything.
34:59We were up last night, just couldn't sleep much.
35:13Anticipation of what our dream home is going to look like.
35:18The bar is huge for him and he's so nervous that he's not going to like it after all of this.
35:23Well, we're hoping they made the right choices.
35:25Let's go see what they did.
35:27Hello.
35:28Hello.
35:29Who's ready to see their new house?
35:30We're ready.
35:31We're ready.
35:32Come on in.
35:33Hello.
35:34Hello.
35:35Who's ready to see their new house?
35:36We're ready.
35:37We're ready.
35:38Come on in.
35:39This is all for you.
35:40Oh, look.
35:41Oh my goodness.
35:42Oh.
35:43Oh my God.
35:44This is beautiful.
35:45I'm shaking.
35:46Let's go in the kitchen.
35:47Oh.
35:48We got an island and no wall.
35:49I'm crying.
35:50You deserve it, you guys.
35:51This doesn't look like the house.
35:52It doesn't look like our house at all.
35:53This is so cool.
35:54Look at the lighting.
35:55It's just amazing.
35:56Oh, yeah.
35:57Oh my gosh.
35:58We got an island and no wall.
35:59I'm crying.
36:00You deserve it, you guys.
36:01This doesn't look like the house.
36:03It doesn't look like our house at all.
36:05This is so cool.
36:06Look at the lighting.
36:07It's just amazing.
36:09Oh, yeah.
36:10Oh my gosh.
36:11We got drawers.
36:12Yeah.
36:13For stuff.
36:14Definitely a lot of storage in here.
36:15And the island meets your, because you were the island queen.
36:18Oh my gosh.
36:19Yes.
36:20I wanted a huge one and this is huge.
36:21Yeah.
36:22We got not only the extra size, we got the storage all across the back, too.
36:25So you have cabinetry on the back, cabinetry on the front.
36:27Oh.
36:28Storage on the other side, too?
36:29Yeah, this is all storage across here.
36:30That's awesome.
36:31Oh, I love it.
36:32Yes.
36:33Yeah, we told you guys we want a bunch of storage and you delivered.
36:35You delivered, for sure.
36:36Oh, yeah.
36:37You know something that you didn't notice?
36:38What?
36:39What?
36:40The window that's missing over there.
36:42Oh!
36:43I don't miss it at all.
36:44Nope.
36:45This is beautiful.
36:46How crazy did you think we were when we suggested closing off that window and leaving it as a fake window for me?
36:52I didn't think it was going to work.
36:54No, I didn't picture this.
36:55I always imagined that I wanted this open space and I never imagined that it could look this good.
37:01It's a dream come true.
37:02Yeah.
37:03I mean, I can't wait for the holidays.
37:04I can't wait for game nights.
37:05I can't wait to just entertain here.
37:07This is just perfect.
37:09Her main thing was the kitchen and just to see her emotional like this, that tells me right there that you guys hit the nail on the head.
37:19I love the fact that you're so caring about each other and really now you have a space where you can do that one joint thing you really love, entertain people.
37:28I mean, you finally have a space where you can breathe and to have that sight line to your guests and that wall was such a nuisance.
37:34I can see the dining room table.
37:37You're not going to see anyone tripping either because it's all one level.
37:40This is what it should have been like all along.
37:42If you have a beautiful kitchen, you need to have a beautiful dining space, right?
37:46Oh, let's go see.
37:47Oh, my goodness.
37:49Oh, hey, look at the pictures.
37:52Oh, they got my parents on there.
37:54Oh, I love that.
37:55Oh, my mom.
37:56Oh, man.
37:57I'm getting all too emotional now.
37:59I love the color too.
38:00I love the color of the blue.
38:02I do.
38:03That right there is something little, but it's a big, we didn't expect that.
38:06It's huge.
38:07That's just amazing.
38:08It's so nice to be able to cherish all the memories that you guys have, but also have a space where you're excited to create new memories too.
38:16Yeah.
38:17You have a very good game table right here.
38:19Yes.
38:20Or you could eat on it from time to time too.
38:21Yeah, yeah.
38:22From time to time.
38:23And then you also have this unobstructed view so that you don't have to feel like you're stuck in the kitchen and nobody can see you.
38:29I like that you no longer have that trip hazard right in the middle because it almost makes this whole area more usable.
38:33Look at the flooring also.
38:34I love it.
38:35I love the floors.
38:36Oh, yeah.
38:37I just love all the space, but look how comfortable your living room is.
38:41Get in.
38:42Oh, look at this.
38:43How does it feel?
38:44Two lower.
38:45This is so comfortable.
38:46We talked about the different options of what we wanted to do here, and we had to make some real tough decisions.
38:52Where were we going to try and save money because of the overages?
38:55I think closed cabinet storage below, open shelves above was the right decision.
39:00This fireplace is perfect.
39:02You know, the other one was just dirty.
39:04We never used it.
39:05That linear fireplace, it feels more modern.
39:08It's also clean.
39:09This is electric.
39:10If you remember before we had the couch like way back there, you had to get binoculars to look at the TV.
39:15Oh, I remember.
39:16I remember, yeah.
39:17When you have the sofa too far back, it obstructs your flow to the yard.
39:20We wanted to make sure you could open those doors up, have that flow with no obstruction.
39:25And then it also creates a much more cozy zone over here for when you are watching movies.
39:29This is perfect because we're all together.
39:32We could fit a lot of people.
39:34This is just, this is, this is fabulous.
39:36I feel as much as I love everything about this upstairs area, I kind of feel we need to get down to the game area.
39:42Oh, yeah.
39:43And your bar.
39:44Oh, let's go.
39:45Let's go.
39:46Let's go.
39:48Oh, my God.
39:50Wow.
39:51Oh, look.
39:53Big TV, lots of room for games.
39:56Let the fun begin.
39:58Look how cool this is.
40:00This is amazing.
40:01Wow.
40:02Oh.
40:03Who says you can't play and also feel comfortable at the same time?
40:07It's amazing.
40:08So soft.
40:09Yosemite, you're going to be in here enjoying these.
40:11You're not going to get a chance to because you're going to be living behind the bar.
40:13Let's go look.
40:14You know you want to.
40:16Oh.
40:18Babe.
40:22Oh, this is amazing.
40:25That's so beautiful.
40:27You think?
40:28Oh.
40:29He's always wanted one of those.
40:34Oh.
40:35Oh, my ice maker.
40:37The bar was me and the ice maker was you.
40:40Yes, it was.
40:41Moving the bar from over here to back there.
40:44Look at all the space right here.
40:46He was so nervous that it was going to be small like the other one and not have enough room.
40:51Babe, you have plenty of space back there.
40:53This is beautiful.
40:54We tried to squeeze every single thing into the design.
40:57The function and the style here.
40:59It's literally like you're in your own professional commercial bar.
41:02It is.
41:05But in the end, the final cost, $301,000.
41:09Ooh.
41:10It's never fun to have overages, but we had $61,000 of added expense with the flood and a lot of the surprises that we found.
41:18Also, some of the add-ons, because we, of course, widened the opening to connect to two spaces.
41:23Yeah.
41:24Had to move plumbing.
41:25Had to run plumbing here for a sink.
41:28Was it worth all the extra work?
41:30Completely worth it.
41:31100%.
41:32Ugh.
41:33Please, get me a drink.
41:36I love it.
41:37So happy to hear, because nothing's worse than if you spent all this money than it wasn't quite what you dreamed of.
41:41I can't wait to have people over here.
41:43Oh, yeah.
41:44Can't wait to have friends sitting here.
41:46I'm ready to have a big, huge party and just sit here all night, just make drinks all night.
41:50Definitely.
41:51We've been waiting for this for three years.
41:54Since we moved in.
41:55Since we moved in.
41:56And it was just such a mess down here, and we never could figure out what to do with it.
42:01And you guys figured it out.
42:03It doesn't matter where we hang out now.
42:05It's everywhere's perfect.
42:07Yeah.
42:08You guys have such an incredible energy.
42:10And so being able to pull this off and make it still feel like home was a lot to ask.
42:15But I'm glad you guys love it.
42:17We do.
42:18Every penny we spent was worth it.
42:20Yeah.
42:21I don't have any regrets.
42:22Thank you so much.
42:23Couldn't be happier.
42:24We told them at the beginning, bring your A game.
42:26We're going to be tough to please, but I don't have one issue of anything in that.
42:31Everything they did was just perfect.
42:33It was more money than we were expecting or even wanting to spend.
42:37But we're going to be here forever.
42:39So in the long run, it's totally worth it.
42:42We're going to have epic game nights now.
42:44Come on in.
42:48Go home.
42:49Oh, my God.
42:50These are good, right?
42:52Here's for our new home.
42:57Yay.
42:58Salute.
43:00Yay.
43:01Salute.
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