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00:00Good morning.
00:02Just another day of making our favorite small town better.
00:05Erin, we got to go, babe.
00:06Go fix some old sad houses.
00:08Ben, let's go.
00:09Growing up, I didn't see what was so special about Laurel.
00:12So every day we make sure our girls see it.
00:15Good morning, Katie.
00:16Can you believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
00:18There's so much opportunity, so many unloved houses.
00:22I don't know what is going to go wrong in here today.
00:25I'm sure something.
00:27Girl, the bat just flew through here.
00:29That's not good.
00:31No way.
00:32We're about to see the house for the first time.
00:34This is the best part.
00:35Oh, my God!
00:37Holy cow.
00:38Are you serious right now?
00:40Ben, did you make this?
00:41Yeah, I made this.
00:43The real truth of living and working in your hometown
00:45is that you're going to see these people everywhere forever.
00:48It's your superpower, Erin.
00:50Color is her superpower.
00:51It is.
00:52It is perfect.
00:53Every day is different when you're renovating houses in Laurel, Mississippi.
01:06Good morning.
01:08Good morning.
01:09So Joe and Brian are moving to Mississippi from California,
01:13and they have been best friends since they were 11 years old.
01:16Joe.
01:17Pleasure.
01:17Brian.
01:18Ben.
01:18Ben.
01:19Good to meet you all.
01:20They're like brothers.
01:21Brian and I, we met each other back in the sixth grade.
01:25We grew up in a small town called Temple City.
01:27Had a population of about 18,000 people,
01:30which is about the same population as Laurel.
01:33Temple City has changed now.
01:34It's over 40,000 people.
01:36There's no friendliness.
01:38Nobody's just smiling and saying good morning.
01:39Every single person we've passed since we've been here in Laurel,
01:42they're still smiling and saying good morning.
01:46Laurel is just less expensive,
01:47and you can buy a beautiful home for a fraction of what it would cost in California.
01:52The way I understand it is it's going to be you, Brian, and your mom.
01:57Yeah.
01:57My mom has been a fan of the show ever since its inception.
02:01Being able to move to Laurel allows me to have extra money to retire mom
02:06and to hire the professional help that I'm going to need.
02:10But if the house doesn't work for Joe...
02:13It doesn't work for anybody.
02:14...then it can't work, yeah.
02:14Yeah, I've got to have the accessibility.
02:16I've got to have the access for the wheelchair and everything.
02:19He reached out to us to say,
02:21before I think about buying this house,
02:22could you please go look at it and see if you think it's a viable house for me?
02:26Y'all have not seen this house.
02:28No.
02:29No.
02:29Only online and in pictures.
02:31Looking at it online for a couple of years, actually.
02:35Wow.
02:36And now it's come down to $350,000.
02:38Makes it now in my price range.
02:41Any house I move into is going to need modifications.
02:43And so my all-in budget was about $5,000, $550,000.
02:47This is the McNeil house.
02:49Four bedrooms, four baths, 5,600 square feet.
02:54Currently at $350,000, like you said.
02:56He said that this house in his neighborhood would be a $2 to $2.5 million home.
03:03And here it's $350,000.
03:04It really is made for your situation where you want to have three adult people who want their own separate
03:11spaces.
03:12One wing for Joe.
03:13One wing for your mom.
03:15Downstairs for Brian.
03:16The basement.
03:17It could be a huge apartment, like a whole house down there.
03:20Since mom's older, I'm in a wheelchair.
03:22It's nice to have that comfort of Brian to be able to move in with us and be there.
03:26You're wanting to spend $200,000 on phase one, correct?
03:29Yes.
03:29If Ben and Aaron are able to show me that this house will work, and when I'm able to sell
03:34my house in California after I move here,
03:37I could do phase two and fix up the other parts of the house.
03:41Do you like the color it is now?
03:43Do you wish it were different?
03:44The white kind of goes.
03:45The brick, it's very classic.
03:47It's very southern.
03:47With the shutters, it's gorgeous.
03:49Well, I have a painting to show you, but it's basically the same.
03:53Oh, nice.
03:53Maybe this dark color around the door and the white door is a little strange.
03:57I would kind of invert that.
03:58We could paint the shutters a new color, just freshen up the landscape in a little bit.
04:02Out here, $10,000.
04:04Literally just freshening everything up.
04:06The house does need some HVAC work and some electrical work, so another $20,000 before we ever go in
04:12the door.
04:13Yeah.
04:13Okay.
04:13Let's go see the inside.
04:15All right.
04:15All right.
04:16It's juicy.
04:16Never done any job like this before.
04:18We've never had a project where our homeowner needed wheelchair access.
04:22When I was 15 years old, we're on my bicycle.
04:25He's on his.
04:26The quick release on the 10-speed on the front tire wasn't tight enough.
04:30I flipped right over the front end of the handlebars, landed on my head.
04:34I became paralyzed at that point at 15 years of age.
04:41That's when you know who your friends are.
04:43I don't know what would have become of me without Joe as my best friend.
04:49Brian took me in the wheelchair, and we walked everywhere together.
04:53We'd walk to the mall.
04:55We'd walk to our role-playing game with our buddies that we like to do.
04:58We're unbeatable together.
05:02What do you think?
05:04It's certainly a dream.
05:05It's big.
05:05I like it.
05:06It's like a very grand entrance in our house.
05:08Yeah, it is.
05:09And the brick floors are amazing.
05:11Love it because I don't leave a trail behind me easier to clean up with a wheelchair.
05:15This wallpaper doesn't seem very you.
05:18I'm not a big wallpaper kind of person.
05:21So I'm thinking paint.
05:21Paint, definitely.
05:22Some fresh paint, some new lighting.
05:24And then here is a beautiful office.
05:27Oh, Moses, Joe.
05:28Office space like this would be great.
05:30I'm not sure if I'm going to online teach or look for local school, something like that.
05:36For me, being in a wheelchair has probably been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
05:40It made me do things that I wouldn't have done otherwise, like going to college.
05:45I was just planning on going into the military.
05:47I became a teacher because of it.
05:50And I've been teaching at Temple City High School for my, this is my 24th year.
05:54And it's been the greatest thing I've ever done.
05:57He wants to keep teaching.
05:59I hope he finds the perfect place to do that here.
06:01Starting with flooring, let's talk about that.
06:03Okay.
06:04So we were thinking, get rid of all the carpet.
06:05And then it would be a really high quality laminate flooring.
06:08I'm not a big fan of carpet anyways, because the wheelchair kind of sink in.
06:12It slows you down and everything.
06:14How do y'all feel about paneling?
06:16Because it's having a revival right now, but it's not for everybody.
06:18I like wood, but I don't like paneling.
06:22So for these rooms here, first two, 15 grand.
06:25So right now, we've got a dining room that's sharing this big area with the kitchen.
06:32But I want to know, like, who is loving to cook?
06:35Everybody?
06:35Mom is the big cook.
06:36Okay.
06:37Christmas lasagna.
06:38People fight over taking that home.
06:40We'll be hanging over at Joe's house.
06:42And Joe's mom, she feeds us.
06:44That's Mary Lou.
06:45She's awesome.
06:45After I broke my neck, my mom had to stop working.
06:49She became my caretaker.
06:50She's been my caretaker ever since I've been in a wheelchair.
06:54To be able to give back to my mom, I can give her the world, and it's still not enough
06:59for what she's done for me.
07:02For the cabinets and everything, instead of knobs, I like pull handles.
07:07It's easier to get my hand inside and open that that way.
07:10I like it the same way.
07:11Right?
07:12Aren't they nice?
07:13From what you've told me in your design survey, I feel like your taste is a little bit modern, timeless.
07:18So here's what I'm thinking.
07:19You got all that space there.
07:21That's a dining room.
07:22And on the other side of this wall, that's a dining room, too.
07:25That's wild.
07:25That's a lot of dining rooms.
07:26What we think would work best, take out all this cabinetry here that's separating that dining room from the kitchen,
07:33so this all becomes kitchen.
07:34Delete this wall on this side, too, and we could build a peninsula here, a new cabinetry that wraps the
07:41room.
07:42You would have tons of storage here, a laminate flooring, and then that cased opening would shrink a little bit
07:48so that you could have double wall ovens on one side and a refrigerator built in on the other side.
07:54And then under the window would be your sink.
07:57It's nice.
07:57While you're doing dishes, you can look out.
08:00All of this where right now there's a dumbwaiter and a built-in desk, we would take all of that
08:05out.
08:05So you could have your cooktop built in over here with counter space on both sides, roll under access for
08:12the cooktop and the sink.
08:13That's great.
08:14This would be a $50,000 kitchen.
08:16Okay.
08:17Which is the same price.
08:19Yeah.
08:19We're not talking about doing anything that we don't normally do.
08:24Nothing custom that changes the price here.
08:26What is this thing?
08:27This?
08:28I don't know.
08:28I was just staring at that thinking, what is that?
08:32No way.
08:34It's a mixer.
08:36It reminds me of Star Trek.
08:39He pushes the button, the Ubitron targeting device.
08:42Everybody knows what that is.
08:43Definitely, 100%.
08:44He uses that to attack Klingons or Romulans.
08:48Wow.
08:49That's fascinating.
08:50I raised one eyebrow.
08:51We're nerds.
08:54Boldly going where no one's gone before.
08:56Hey, we are boldly going where we've never gone before.
08:59For real.
09:00This is where it gets really, really custom, but I think it's what would make the house perfect.
09:03This house has two huge stairwells.
09:07This one is right beside the carport.
09:10Imagine if you come through the kitchen door here.
09:12Forget these stairs.
09:13They're dead to us.
09:15And you would have a big pantry here.
09:18There would be a wall, and that would create a gap between that wall and this pantry.
09:24Inside that gap would be an elevator that would open into the dining room and take you down to the
09:28carport.
09:28That would be amazing.
09:30Right?
09:30How did you think of that?
09:32The fact that you found this house online is amazing because it really is perfect.
09:37Like there's no other house where you could do that.
09:39It has two staircases.
09:40Let's go to the dining room that you would actually use, and you can see where that door would magically
09:45appear.
09:46All right.
09:47Wow.
09:48Big room.
09:48It's a huge dining room.
09:49Huge dining room.
09:50Yeah.
09:50And this would be the door to the elevator.
09:52Automatic.
09:53You drive in.
09:54You unload your groceries.
09:55Come up.
09:56You're right there in the kitchen.
09:57So for these rooms, this space across here, including the lift, another 50 grand.
10:01Most of that goes to the lift.
10:03But it's worth it.
10:04It's what makes the house perfect.
10:05Yeah.
10:06Yeah.
10:06Do you want to go see your wing of the estate?
10:08Yes.
10:09This way?
10:10Huge living room.
10:11Oh, I love this living room.
10:13Yeah.
10:14Awesome fireplace.
10:15Yep.
10:15Oh, wow.
10:16The double-sided fireplace.
10:17Love fireplaces.
10:19Hey, we're back.
10:20Here's the matching staircase that we talked about.
10:24And then this is Joe's suite.
10:26This room is huge.
10:28And here, I think it's just like paint, lighting.
10:31The new flooring will again change how everything feels.
10:34Mm-hmm.
10:35The bathroom is complicated.
10:37Okay.
10:38Okay.
10:39You see how it's a little bit tricky to see the whole thing?
10:42It'd be a pain for me in the wheelchair to try and maneuver.
10:46There's a pair of sinks in like two separate rooms.
10:49It was his and her sinks, his and her closets.
10:52Oh.
10:52But you kind of want to keep his and her sinks.
10:55Might not be single forever, so you know where to go.
10:58I like it.
10:59I like it.
11:00You're romantic.
11:01Yes.
11:01Yeah.
11:02We were thinking it would make sense to steal this little closet here and make that a vanity.
11:07Standard vanity here.
11:08And then a roll-up vanity here.
11:12This wall could go away.
11:14And then this door and this wall would go away.
11:17So this would be open space.
11:18And you could just have a toilet over here.
11:21We would do tile floors.
11:22That access to the closet right now would go away because you would enter from the bedroom side.
11:27And then it would be clear, open access to what would basically be a wet room.
11:32That end of the bathroom becomes all shower.
11:34You feel like this would work.
11:36It's nice.
11:37It's open.
11:37This room was the only one that I was sort of second guessing if it would work.
11:41The biggest changes are mainly doorways and being able to reach things.
11:47Otherwise, everything else is pretty good.
11:49It's going to be interesting to see how do we make functionality also beautiful.
11:54For this bathroom, this is major surgery.
11:57Tearing out walls, moving plumbing.
11:59The Joe Suite 55 grand.
12:02Now, that's the whole $200,000.
12:04Mm-hmm.
12:05How do you feel?
12:06It's a big investment.
12:10So, you like the house?
12:12You're doing this?
12:12It's a big investment.
12:13But to bring everything up and make it suitable for me, Mom, Brian, it is worth it.
12:21What do you think, Brian?
12:23I love the house.
12:24And the ideas that Aaron's got.
12:25Yeah.
12:26They're going to put a lift in?
12:27Oh, yeah.
12:27Oh, yeah.
12:28This is awesome.
12:28This is rad.
12:29I'm doing it.
12:31Okay.
12:31This is it.
12:32And fantastic.
12:33When you sell in California, then maybe you can move on to phase two.
12:37So we're doing this?
12:38I'm going to buy this house.
12:39You'll be able to beam him up.
12:42First ever elevator in a house.
12:45Oh, my gosh.
12:46What was that?
12:46There was a crazy spider on your neck.
12:47Holy smokes.
12:49It was black and bright green.
12:50Oh, gosh.
12:51Where did it go?
13:03It's going to be a lot of demo in this house.
13:06But I'm bringing the thunder.
13:16I came in like a wrecking ball.
13:18Like Miley Cyrus in that music video.
13:20That's right.
13:21I should have wore that outfit.
13:23It's effective.
13:32I just want to say that I think this countertop is pretty.
13:35It is very fun.
13:36And I like that towel.
13:38It's okay.
13:39It's not our house.
13:39It's going to be fun.
13:47Okay.
13:47Or you can just be tall and do it that way.
14:13All right, Dijon.
14:15Let's put some mustard on this thing.
14:19I showed up this morning, prepared for demo, but demo was done.
14:24So we started framing in the floor of the pantry and starting the structure for where the elevator shaft will
14:32be.
14:32Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
14:34Yeah.
14:35Yeah.
14:36Yeah.
14:36Y'all did that so fast.
14:38Taking out a stairwell seems really complicated.
14:41Like it's important to holding up something besides people, but I guess it's not.
14:45It's just attached to the walls.
14:47Stringers are nailed to the walls.
14:48And so it's like tearing down a wall.
14:50But like one step at a time.
14:52Yeah.
14:52Well, literally one step.
14:54Gosh, Dijon.
14:55He's one step.
14:56That dude, he's a father of two.
14:58You can tell.
14:59Yeah.
14:59The dad jokes just come forth.
15:00He can't stop them.
15:01Yeah, can't slow them down.
15:02This is going to feel as though the house was built this way.
15:05It's like it was made for him.
15:06The way it's so cleanly removed, it looks like it was a dollhouse where you could choose to
15:12just pop in a staircase or an elevator.
15:14You choose.
15:15No two-story house in town is like this.
15:17It's so rad.
15:18Once we get everything framed up around the elevator, there are still days of work before
15:23the elevator can actually be installed.
15:25And I don't even know how we do that.
15:27We're going to learn.
15:39Tony and I are prepping the zero-entry shower floor.
15:43And by we, I mean I'm handing him screws.
15:47It's an important job.
15:48Somebody's got to do it.
15:49Hey, hey.
15:50Look at this.
15:51Amazing zero-entry shower.
15:53So this will be bathroom floor, shower floor here.
15:57Yes.
15:57So it's just, he can just roll right in.
16:00No ledge or anything.
16:02Yeah.
16:02What's the radius in here?
16:04Are you talking about the diameter?
16:06For ADA accessibility in a shower?
16:08Yeah, what is it?
16:09Five feet.
16:09Can you turn around in there?
16:11Oh, you've got more than five feet in town.
16:13I'm five foot five, so we're good.
16:15Before you see the pretty things, you have to first make it ADA compliant.
16:18And that's like making doorways wider, adding blocking for strength, for pulling up.
16:24So we're getting close.
16:25This is open between here and that wall.
16:27Yes.
16:28We'll have to move all of these pipes.
16:30Everything comes out.
16:31And when it's gone, you'll be able to see.
16:34He said that he wanted to have a standard vanity along with the ADA vanity in case he meets the
16:40one-day Mrs. Antonia.
16:42Got to keep hope alive, right?
16:43Always.
16:44He's future-proof in his house.
16:45When Joe brings his special lady friend to the house, she's going to be impressed by that bathroom.
16:50All these dreams are of you and I see that I'm running circles when you're not with me.
16:58And now all these days I've spent too long alone.
17:02I'm going to hold you in my arms and never let go.
17:06This is like a totally different house.
17:08Hey, Mr. Gregg.
17:10Mr. Gregg, this is a first for us.
17:13First time to have an elevator in the house.
17:17Whoa, that's scary.
17:18Yeah.
17:20Stop.
17:21When you open that door, it feels like it's trying to pull me in there, like there's a demon in
17:25there.
17:25A magnet trying to pull you into the elevator shaft.
17:28Down in there.
17:29He's scared of heights.
17:30Not only are we doing a kitchen for someone in a wheelchair, we're doing a kitchen with a lift.
17:36We're doing a kitchen without an island.
17:38That is one of the biggest kitchens we've ever done.
17:40And comfortable for Brian and his mom, who will also share this kitchen.
17:44This is the wall where we want the stovetop, a cooktop only.
17:50And roll under access for the cooktop and the sink.
17:54And then I would like to have a pullout underneath the microwave.
17:59Because he has said when you need to get something hot out of the microwave, he needs something to pull
18:04it onto.
18:05Can we do that?
18:06Oh, yeah.
18:06That'd be precious.
18:07Just under the microwave.
18:07And then a peninsula here.
18:10We would have chairs on the backside here in the dining room.
18:13I just wish that there was some way that Joe can also eat at the peninsula.
18:20Make him some pocket doors so we can swing and hide the doors and slide up under it.
18:25Yeah.
18:26It would just look like standard storage, normal cabinets.
18:31But then it's a surprise.
18:33It has a space for him to roll up to eat with his mom, his friend Brian.
18:39Okay.
18:40Anyone who's here.
18:41Okay.
18:41Sounds good to me.
18:53We knew that David was starting floors today.
18:55And so Erin and I took some initiative.
18:57We're removing the old carpet pad.
19:01Please get every bit of it.
19:02It is ruining all my shoes.
19:04It's like bubble gum.
19:06Scrape it hard.
19:07Get it out.
19:09And I'm sick of it.
19:10You want to sit?
19:12I can't get it out.
19:13It's in there forever.
19:14Hang on.
19:17Don't cut apples for the girls with that knife.
19:19Oh, I never do.
19:20Thanks.
19:22Good morning.
19:23Well, good morning.
19:25So we were trying to get you a little bit ahead here.
19:28Well, thank you.
19:29Have you seen this, Florin?
19:30This is very different.
19:32First off, it's crazy thick.
19:34It just sounds different.
19:36It is kind of a cross between the vinyl and the laminate.
19:40And this is supposed to be much better.
19:42Well, we chose this because in all of our research, it said this is an excellent choice for wheelchair
19:48use, that it locks together in a more permanent way and it won't slip apart.
19:52I like it.
19:53It's long and wide and will go down quick.
19:56And the bathroom tile is here.
19:57Yes.
19:58Definitely want to talk about it.
19:59I'm going to keep scraping.
20:00Yes.
20:01Please.
20:02Look at this.
20:03It's huge.
20:07This is like the most spacious bathroom.
20:11Wow.
20:12Wide open.
20:13I could live in here.
20:14It's so different than what it was.
20:16It was like divided up into a million little dressing rooms and vanities.
20:20I mean, style-wise, Joe likes things kind of neutral.
20:24Warm colors.
20:26The tile is pretty simple.
20:28Then this is our shower floor.
20:30We really had to pull it out of Joe.
20:35What do you love style-wise?
20:38And he really was kind of like, you know, I don't like any crazy bright color.
20:43That's really kind of all he gave me.
20:45But what this means is, like, I'm just keeping things very neutral.
20:49I've got to lay this floor first, then get this tile to hit exactly even with it.
20:55For the smoothest transition.
20:56We're learning.
20:57Like, every room has a different challenge that we haven't had to handle before.
21:01And I'm loving learning new things.
21:04You never stop learning.
21:05That's for real.
21:06Yeah.
21:07Mississippi.
21:08Mississippi.
21:10What good your scars without a little pain?
21:19Mississippi.
21:24Mr. Gregg, you only brought me half a chair.
21:27I thought you was building the whole thing.
21:28Well, we only brought half a chair just to whet your appetite.
21:31Today in the woodshop, we're going to have a real American hero, Mr. Gregg Harkins.
21:38Who was the first president you made a rocking chair for?
21:40Jimmy Carter.
21:41How many presidents since then have you made a chair for?
21:44Five more.
21:45Five more?
21:46Wow.
21:47He's a famous rocking chair maker and one of the most interesting men I have ever had a conversation with.
21:54I made a chair for Pope John Paul.
21:57And saw this thing.
21:59Hang on, you made a chair for the Pope?
22:00For the Pope.
22:01Gotcha.
22:02Okay.
22:02Every single chair that he builds is a masterpiece.
22:06And so I'm excited to have him in the shop today.
22:07Well, let me tell you about these people we're making this for.
22:11A gentleman, Mr. Joe Antonio.
22:13Joe was in a, had a bicycle accident and he's paralyzed.
22:16And his mom has always been his caretaker.
22:19They bought a great house.
22:20We thought it'd be great to give mom a rocking chair.
22:24Mm-hmm.
22:25And who better to build a rocking chair than Mr. Gregg Harkins?
22:29I agree with that.
22:30I knew you would.
22:31Mm-hmm.
22:32What is this?
22:33Bodock.
22:33It's hard, right?
22:34It's densest wood in the state of Mississippi.
22:36What do you do the weaving out of?
22:38That's hickory bark.
22:39Oh, okay.
22:40Well, what ought to we have left to do here?
22:42We're going to take and turn the front post.
22:44Okay.
22:44And then go about putting the rest of the chair together.
22:47I want to see how this turns on the lay.
22:50Okey-doke.
22:52All right.
22:53Next one.
22:56Look at him.
22:57He's doing it backwards.
22:58How am I doing it backwards?
23:01Let me show you.
23:06We will be in my shop, but he will be in charge.
23:10Lay it down?
23:11Mm-hmm.
23:12Well, now you could have told me that before I picked it up.
23:14I just want to see if you can pick it up.
23:15All this soft living, you know.
23:17Mm-hmm.
23:19Knock it up.
23:24So we still got to weave it, add the arms, and add the rockers.
23:29I think Joe's mama, and Joe for that matter,
23:32is going to love having this at the house.
23:34Mm-hmm.
23:40Joe really didn't care about color.
23:42He said, whatever you think.
23:43But we don't have to be cream everywhere just because he likes neutral.
23:47So we've chosen some darker neutrals for around the fireplace and in the kitchen on the cabinetry.
23:52I really like the countertops we went with here.
23:55They have a lot of movement.
23:57Not the bathroom.
23:58No, the bathroom is a black mist.
24:01Leathered.
24:02Leathered finish.
24:03That one's my favorite.
24:04We put it in our kitchen in the farm.
24:07Oh, I really like these colors together.
24:09Let me see the tile with it.
24:10Yes.
24:13No, it's going to be like a chocolatey warp up the wall.
24:17I think it'll be really pretty.
24:18Love it.
24:19It is neutral.
24:21Masculine.
24:21You could say it.
24:22It's masculine.
24:23It's going to be two dudes living here with mom.
24:27I like having it down low.
24:29It's just a built-in dinner table.
24:30Mm-hmm.
24:31It's so cool.
24:32It's a big kitchen.
24:33It's like a commercial kitchen.
24:35It's so big.
24:36You could run it.
24:37Make whatever they want to make in here.
24:38Frozen pizza?
24:39Real pizza?
24:40Beef bourguignon?
24:42Beef bourguignon?
24:43Beef bourguignon?
24:45Beef Wellington?
24:46Beef Wellington?
24:47There we go.
24:47That's the one I wanted.
24:48That's the one.
24:57Knock, knock.
24:59Fighting.
25:00We have an elevator.
25:02Whoa.
25:04Dang.
25:05Dude.
25:07How are y'all?
25:07I didn't know you'd be like using the elevator at this point.
25:11This is the frame of the elevator.
25:13It works.
25:13You just went up and down on it.
25:15But it is way smoother than I was expecting.
25:18The older elevators, they had machines and everything was way up top.
25:22This one has an enclosed gearbox with a three-phase, three-horsepower motor.
25:27It's like, it's all controlled from pulls up there?
25:31Well, the controls are in this closet.
25:33When you install the cab, it's all going to be connected to that controller.
25:38And then it'll have an electronic lock right here.
25:41Lock only allows the door to open at the elevators at that floor level.
25:45Okay.
25:46Wow.
25:46That's awesome.
25:47Fascinating.
25:48Is there anything that we can help you with?
25:50Not really.
25:51Okay.
25:52I mean, we've already done our part, Aaron.
25:53How do we do on the shaft?
25:55So as far as the shaft goes, this is a very good built shaft, really.
25:59Good.
25:59Can you hear that?
26:00I probably had to use three or four shims this whole rail system.
26:03Wow.
26:03And usually, you have to use a whole stack of shims.
26:07Okay.
26:07We have the best team.
26:12The whole point in Joe's moving here is that he needs a house that can be customized to work for
26:19him,
26:19that he can afford to customize.
26:20And so we're customizing every square inch that we possibly can for him.
26:25What's up, y'all?
26:26Hello, Ben.
26:27Hey, hey.
26:28How's it working?
26:29All right.
26:29Doing good.
26:30We just fixing to put the rod in.
26:32If you think about it, everything that Joe has access to is probably four feet high.
26:38And so if you've got a closet that's seven, eight feet up, he can't reach those clothes.
26:43This is Joe's primary bedroom, his primary closet.
26:46He comes in.
26:47He needs a shirt from up here.
26:49He just pulls her down.
26:51It'll be easier when there's clothes hanging on it.
26:53Oh, yeah.
26:54Send it back up.
26:56And now his closet just tripled in size.
27:00It's awesome.
27:01It's very cool.
27:09How do y'all know Joe?
27:10Kind of became friends around the, I think it was the fifth grade.
27:13Well, that's cool.
27:14So y'all have known him forever.
27:16Yeah, I got to find some new friends.
27:17This is talking to Joe's buddies, two buddies he grew up with, Rick and Ed.
27:23After the accident, I got to spend a lot more time with him.
27:27Yeah.
27:27Because gaming was one of the things that he could do.
27:30So gaming is something that Joe did before the accident and he was still able to do it after.
27:36Yeah.
27:37I love that.
27:38I want to build a game table that is also a beautiful dinner table.
27:42What we'll do is we'll take the top off.
27:44It'll be four pieces.
27:46You've got this whole world of gaming inside and two chunky modern style pedestals.
27:53Those lifts are going to live inside that.
27:55The inside of the table will raise up so that it's flush with the top, lower it, cover it up,
28:01ready for dinner.
28:02Joe's kind of a geek at heart.
28:04So the fact that it's got some technology in his table, I think, is going to make him happy.
28:09So what all games do y'all play?
28:11Lately, it's been Dungeons and Dragons.
28:13That's cool.
28:14So this is some form of Dungeons and Dragons, right?
28:18Yeah.
28:18All right.
28:19What is this thing?
28:20It's like a lion, unicorn, tyron.
28:24There's a druid, a cleric, a thief, assassin.
28:28As luck would have it, my wizard just arrived.
28:31This is Ronnie.
28:32Look at that beard.
28:33Very wizardy.
28:34Very wizardy.
28:35Ronnie is actually an expert in robotics.
28:37Oh, nice.
28:37I think I would be a troll in this world, right?
28:40Because I'm big.
28:40Because I'm ogre.
28:41Ogre.
28:41Ogre.
28:43God.
28:44Yes.
28:45All right.
28:46The wizard and I got it.
28:47We'll see y'all later.
28:49Ronnie and I, wizard, ogre.
28:52You know, big and strong.
28:54Not stinky.
29:00We're going to use white oak.
29:01It needs to be durable.
29:02It needs to be heavy because they said that Joe's furniture is all very sturdy, heavy furniture.
29:08And which makes sense because if he was to bump it with his wheelchair or something,
29:11then you're not worrying about breaking a leg on it or anything like that.
29:18Oh, yeah, baby.
29:28Let's go, baby.
29:35is it ready we're almost there first ever automatic door it's my first ever automatic
29:42door in a house for sure was it a nightmare or was it okay it was a little bit of
29:46a nightmare
29:46okay the instructions are in a foreign language but you know a great electrician
29:53speaks all languages so we don't know yet if it's openable not positive yet okay y'all will
30:00be the first trial run hey if it doesn't work I'm sorry here we go there we go so cool
30:13and then do
30:15you click this to close it no ma'am okay that actually times out on its own so you don't
30:19have to press anything else so cool I love it Joe's family is a unique one where his best friend
30:33is more like a brother and his mom has been a caretaker but now he wants to give her a
30:38vacation
30:40what I hope is that you don't even think about the function of the house that you see how comfortable
30:45and beautiful it is that it's not any different than any other beautiful home but then there are
30:49quiet customizations throughout the house that make Joe's life easier and better I hope it's going
30:56to feel like taking a deep breath finally for his mom especially and for Joe just that we tried to
31:03think of everything all right welcome to the Antonio house wow oh man nice that is really nice no it
31:17is
31:18very cleaned up I like the rocking chair yeah so the rocking chair is for your mom oh this was
31:26built by a
31:27very famous chair maker the famous Greg Harkin it's beautiful it is this mom's gonna love it you had
31:34talked about how this house was for you but it was more so for your mom for her to have
31:39a place to relax
31:41and to do it here in Mississippi with a front porch you got to have a rocking chair there you
31:47go mm-hmm
31:48so that's her chair that's her chair thank you yeah yeah okay now I can't wait for you to see
31:55the
31:55inside yeah yeah let's start at the elevator normally we would say let's go through the
32:00front door but I can't wait to see that all right yeah so you'll be able to just pull down
32:04here yeah
32:06yeah come on in there you go okay I love that Brian's gonna be living down here in the super
32:1470s
32:15gotta love the 70s is this gonna be phase two oh yeah you call us when you need us definitely
32:20you
32:20know what that is that's your elevator button oh okay oh my god the door works you have an elevator
32:27in your house Joe look at that an elevator a Joe-evator Joe-evator y'all hop in pretty self
32:35explanatory two one liftoff yeah but it won't do anything till this door closes that's right and
32:42the upstairs won't open until the elevators there see you up there see you up there all right you
32:47push the red button that's awesome that's very smooth it's not jerky or anything like that you're
32:56ready all righty oh my oh my god oh my god Joe oh my god wow wow wow it is
33:10huge yeah it is
33:12huge wow there's nothing in my way yeah no big guy like an island yeah yeah what do you think
33:31Joe
33:33it's good I know
33:42you like the color scheme and all this I love the colors just went with mossy greens and woodsy browns
33:48that felt like the house is just surrounded by it yeah yeah and I wanted it to feel a part
33:53of the
33:53landscape I love it I love the stonework cooktop love it it's great I can get under it mm-hmm
34:01yeah
34:01hope you're ready to cook yeah and then sink wow mom always likes the double basin so yeah yeah check
34:11out
34:11it under the microwave that custom drawer oh wow yeah and this is just a cutting board I put in
34:17there
34:17if you want a different size I can make that but our thought was this one comes out it's easier
34:23yeah
34:23yeah to take it out if you have a spill this is great because when you microwave something it comes
34:28out it's hot but you can pull it out onto there mm-hmm I'm not burning my lap yeah we
34:34try to think
34:35about everything that you had requested and talked about plus some like this this is an extra a little
34:44bonus got here oh wow this is great but if everybody's having dinner at the peninsula then you can too
34:51wow yeah I fit right under it it's great for working space eating with everybody yeah and you don't even
34:59know that it's there you're in a wheelchair nobody knows well I want anyone who comes in the house to
35:04forget that it has any wheelchair accessibility because it should just be seamless yeah it just
35:09flows quietly accessible yeah yeah that's really good yeah that's exactly what it is originally there
35:15was a wall here mm-hmm all right so you couldn't see into your dining room yeah let's try out
35:20this
35:20table see how it works oh love that the armrest of the chair don't hit anything mm-hmm this one's
35:29custom-built for you and it's a little different than a dinner table okay so okay back on up all
35:35right let's say that it's game night your buddies are coming over oh wow oh shut up look at that
35:44grab that
35:45remote how does this do oh I love it whoa Michael feel like a super villain that's amazing it's great
36:00it's got the felt on it for rolling the dice and then it gets time for supper you can just
36:06lower the
36:06table put the top back on it thank you thank you so much this is amazing okay you want to
36:12see the den
36:13the living room go see the foyer there's so much more to see yeah yeah let's go we will follow
36:17you
36:18wow oh my gosh paint and lighting yeah it doesn't look like the same at all looks like a totally
36:23different room the double-sided fireplace will be so I love the fireplace yeah let's go look at it
36:28from the other side go see your study yeah okay yeah all righty oh my goodness wow can you work
36:37remotely from here oh my gosh oh I love this oh wow wow working in here looking out and I
36:45love the
36:46shelves look at that it was so much brick before it's better this way yeah wow since you work remotely
36:53and you're online you always want that background to look good yeah look at that window all that light
37:01is going to pour in here and then the flooring throughout the house yeah so the only floor that
37:06we kept in the house up here is this brick in the foyer yeah and this flooring it's a new
37:14material
37:14glued down and it's locked together and so we were worried about with other flooring types is that they
37:20might try slide I've had that happen as I turn it would always yeah slide we chose it specifically
37:27because of wheelchair use yeah so that they wouldn't separate let's go see the bedroom yeah all right
37:33but what are we going to do there's no doorknob oh that's so interesting how do I get in almost
37:39as
37:39as a handle but we thought of something for that whoa yeah wow wow oh my god so strikingly different
37:54oh
37:54my god joe wow we wanted it to be cozy but all about space and movability so you have plenty
38:05of
38:05room it feels huge yes it's a huge bedroom yeah easy enough to get in and out of the bed
38:12because I
38:12have room on the side to get up next to it so a lot of space show them how cool
38:17the closet is let's talk
38:19about your closet all right it is a big closet okay but it's custom oh wow all right we wanted
38:29you to have accessibility here we were only gonna do this one but we liked it so much we decided
38:35to
38:36add another one here that is so slick I've never seen those before oh that's great love it so cool
38:42gotta go see the bathroom yes Aaron has been excited about you see in the bathroom for weeks
38:49oh man holy cow
38:55you could park a car in here and still take a shower yep
38:59isn't that cool this is so much more space than last time we were all crammed in here up against
39:05the
39:06yes so strange and cut up able to get in the shower love it we move that handle so that
39:19you can turn it
39:20on without getting sprayed yeah when you're coming in you can turn it on yeah you turn on ahead of
39:26time
39:26and everything warm up see your mirrors adjustable oh that's perfect that's fantastic yeah all the
39:34mirrors that I've used I'm just looking you know yeah add it straight across but to be able to get
39:39the
39:40full shot sometimes you want to make sure that you look good all the way you know that's right make
39:44sure the white tennis shoes look really good with the navy shirt I gotta make it match this is a
39:51kitchen sink faucet with a sprayer oh that's great I'm able to lean for it a little bit use the
39:58sprayer
39:58if I was just doing a quick wash and I like the high part of the faucet because then I
40:03can get under
40:04and wash everything it's easier and the floors are completely waterproofed like a wet room there's an
40:11extra waterproof layer under the towel because when you're in a chair we learned that it pulls water with
40:18you yeah yeah so the whole room is ready for like any amount of water okay do you like the
40:26house did
40:26we get it right you guys are amazing wizards you got it absolutely right just incredible we're wizards
40:32wizards wizards and we can come back and retrofit the retro area downstairs eventually but phase one
40:40was 550 grand it's purchase and renovation all in I doubt you could get this much house in Temple
40:49City or LA couldn't even look at a house for that no no I hope it's comfortable for everybody that's
40:55another it is amazing mom's really gonna love the kitchen in there it's great it's what she's wanted
41:02to get back to a little bit of a quieter peaceful time and I'm yeah yeah really happy to be
41:14able to
41:15get that for her yeah that's in everything I mean I know the house is set up a lot for
41:21me
41:22but the whole ride the whole journey is all about mom the house is set up for you so that
41:29she can have an
41:29easier life exactly I know she's gonna love it and her front porch and the rocker even though I
41:37can't get it myself well when y'all are there together it's rock and roll there yeah well what
41:52do you think I'm overwhelmed it's beautiful for all of us the opportunity to get to one day take care
42:00of your parents is something that we don't think about but as you age you hope you get there for
42:07Joe
42:08he's there he's accomplishing that and that is gonna be life-changing for everybody I couldn't be happier
42:16thank you the least I could do for everything you've been doing for me all my life you don't owe
42:23me
42:23anything you've been the best son so I'm thrilled well I love yeah yeah I love you too baby I
42:35never in a
42:37million years thought this perfect maintained house would give us endless problems
42:48I don't want to freak you out okay we also found termite damage in the kitchen
42:57oh it puckered at this point it would be surprising to find anything else are you ready
43:05now I'm blown
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