🏘️ Home Town (2017) - Season 10 Episode 15
Every home has a story — and sometimes, it just needs a new chapter. In Episode 15 "The Cottage Comeback", Ben and Erin Napier help a young family transform a neglected Laurel cottage into a charming, functional forever home. With original hardwoods hiding under carpet, a layout that fights flow, and a budget that demands creativity, the Napiers bring their signature blend of Southern craftsmanship, vintage finds, and heartfelt design. From demolition day to the final reveal, witness the magic of making a house feel like home.
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Historic charm: preserving original character while modernizing for today's living
• Layout reimagined: opening walls, adding light, and creating spaces that connect
• Vintage meets value: Erin's eye for antiques + Ben's woodworking wizardry on a budget
• Family vision: helping clients articulate their dream and bringing it to life
• Signature Home Town warmth: community, craftsmanship & unforgettable transformations
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Home Renovation / Lifestyle Documentary / Design Serial
• Original Network: HGTV (US) / Max / International Syndication
• Series Launch: 2017 | Season: 10 | Episode: 15 | Title: "The Cottage Comeback"
• Setting: Laurel, Mississippi, USA | Language: English
• Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
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👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "Which room transformation was your favorite? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for Episode 16!
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⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "Home Town" belong to HGTV, Warner Bros. Discovery, and associated producers. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.
Every home has a story — and sometimes, it just needs a new chapter. In Episode 15 "The Cottage Comeback", Ben and Erin Napier help a young family transform a neglected Laurel cottage into a charming, functional forever home. With original hardwoods hiding under carpet, a layout that fights flow, and a budget that demands creativity, the Napiers bring their signature blend of Southern craftsmanship, vintage finds, and heartfelt design. From demolition day to the final reveal, witness the magic of making a house feel like home.
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Historic charm: preserving original character while modernizing for today's living
• Layout reimagined: opening walls, adding light, and creating spaces that connect
• Vintage meets value: Erin's eye for antiques + Ben's woodworking wizardry on a budget
• Family vision: helping clients articulate their dream and bringing it to life
• Signature Home Town warmth: community, craftsmanship & unforgettable transformations
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Home Renovation / Lifestyle Documentary / Design Serial
• Original Network: HGTV (US) / Max / International Syndication
• Series Launch: 2017 | Season: 10 | Episode: 15 | Title: "The Cottage Comeback"
• Setting: Laurel, Mississippi, USA | Language: English
• Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to home renovation recaps & design inspiration podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "Which room transformation was your favorite? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for Episode 16!
#ShowTVMovies #HomeTown #HGTV #TheCottageComeback #S10E15 #HomeRenovation #BenAndErinNapier #BingeWatch #SouthernCharm #HistoricHomes
⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "Home Town" belong to HGTV, Warner Bros. Discovery, and associated producers. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.
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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.
00:08Yeah, 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.
00:14Good morning, Katie.
00:15Hey.
00:16Can you believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
00:18There's so much opportunity.
00:20So 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.
00:31Oh, what?
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 is 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.
01:05You're excited?
01:06Just a little bit.
01:08What you think they're going to do?
01:10I'm just excited to get the Porsche whole new makeover.
01:12Maybe re-screen it?
01:14That's something, huh?
01:15Kay and Tecardo actually grew up in Laurel and have been friends since elementary school.
01:19And they have been sweethearts since high school.
01:22Ready?
01:22Oh, yeah.
01:23Well, I hope you got an appetite.
01:25Oh, yeah.
01:26We've been trying to get married about 13 years.
01:29We're still working on it.
01:30We're trying to get there.
01:32I originally grew up in the house next door, this house.
01:36My dad bought sort of like an investment, and he was going to fix it up.
01:40He passed away.
01:41I moved in about two years before he passed.
01:44I didn't know a lot of things needed to fix it.
01:47Kay owns the house, but Tecardo spends a ton of time here, and he's been helping Kay with the house
01:51whenever he can.
01:52They want a real proper home before they have a wedding, and it's taken time to save the money to
01:58do that.
01:59Every time we, like, get close, something come up.
02:02They've helped a lot of family members over the years.
02:23Whenever a family member got sick or passed away, it was Kay and Tecardo who would step up and take
02:28care of things.
02:29Now they feel like they're in a really good place to finally take care of this house.
02:33We have a $75,000 budget.
02:36We're hoping that this really turns this into a home.
02:42Oh, look at them roosters.
02:43It's great.
02:45They're going to lose a crop.
02:46Everybody loves Tecardo.
02:48Tecardo worked at Lot Furniture for years, which was right by our stores.
02:51We saw each other all the time.
02:53All the time.
02:54I worked at Lot for 13 years.
02:56Met a lot of good people.
02:58It was one of the, it was the oldest store in Laurel.
03:00They cool, man.
03:01You're going to like them, though.
03:02You've known them for a long time.
03:03Long enough, yeah.
03:04Okay.
03:05Tecardo is Tony Stallworth's nephew.
03:08We're for sure putting Tony on this house.
03:11Hey.
03:12There you go right there.
03:13Oh, okay.
03:14Good morning.
03:16How y'all doing?
03:17We're good, stranger.
03:18I haven't seen you lately.
03:20I know it, stranger.
03:20Hey, you're so long.
03:21Y'all doing good?
03:22Yes.
03:22We're good.
03:23How are you?
03:24It's good to see you.
03:25Me too.
03:26This is a big day.
03:27Yeah.
03:27It is a big day.
03:29So this is your house.
03:30I've been here since 2012.
03:32Such a charming little house.
03:34There's a lot about it that's so classic.
03:35It's just getting a little wonky in spite of this.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Yeah.
03:39So this house is two bedrooms, two baths.
03:42Yeah.
03:421,500 square feet.
03:44No air conditioning.
03:45None.
03:46None.
03:46How?
03:47Just cool thoughts.
03:48Trying that right now.
03:49Tell me the things that you love about this house.
03:51You've had a lot of time.
03:52I love the porch.
03:54Yeah.
03:54Yeah.
03:54It's a good porch.
03:55And y'all spend a lot of time there, right?
03:57Oh, yeah.
03:57Right.
03:57We're pretty much off the same day on Sunday.
04:00That's the only day we have off.
04:01Okay.
04:01And so we kind of meet up on the porch.
04:03To save money everywhere we can.
04:05We keep what's good.
04:06Okay.
04:06But there are some issues.
04:08We got foundation issues.
04:10Yes.
04:10It needs a roof.
04:11We got bats.
04:13Your gable vent needs some love.
04:15The bats have really done their thing.
04:19It's a pain to get rid of the bats.
04:21Most people don't even know where to begin to get rid of them.
04:25We have a little experience with this.
04:27Yes.
04:28First of all, let's just imagine if you no longer had bats.
04:31Okay.
04:31And we can dress this thing up a little bit.
04:34I love it.
04:35Yes?
04:35Yes.
04:36You still recognize it and it's still home?
04:38Yes.
04:38Okay.
04:39But better.
04:39Good.
04:40Trying to, like, give the house a little of a Creole cottage vibe.
04:44I think of little houses in New Orleans that are this color is what really put me down the path.
04:48Replace this gable vent and the screen door here.
04:51I love the door.
04:52Maybe some color with landscaping.
04:53Okay.
04:54Some flowers.
04:55Yeah, for sure.
04:56I love plants.
04:57So I'm a plant mom.
04:59And dig up the old sidewalk, pour a new sidewalk.
05:03Okay.
05:03Making this front porch into your Sunday fun day living room.
05:07Yes.
05:08But keeping all of this good vinyl siding, it saves you a ton of money.
05:13The best part.
05:14Yeah.
05:14That really is a big focus for us because we want to make your money stretch as far as possible.
05:18It's going to be gorgeous.
05:19$75,000 is your budget.
05:22So on the exterior, $35,000, that's going to cover your roof, the paint updates, the new walkway, foundation repair.
05:30And air conditioning.
05:31New air conditioning.
05:32Yes.
05:32Okay.
05:32Okay.
05:33You like it?
05:33That sounds good.
05:34You want to talk about the inside?
05:35Let's go.
05:36Okay.
05:36Yes.
05:37Get in out of this heat.
05:38Yeah.
05:42All right.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Like you've gone into a lot of trouble to make this into a real room with real furniture.
05:48That's the vibe I was going for.
05:49It's not just a porch.
05:50Mm-hmm.
05:51Right.
05:51So we will honor that.
05:53Appreciate it.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Let's go on in.
05:55All right.
05:55All right.
05:55Talk about the living room and the mystery room.
05:58Mystery room.
05:59Mystery room.
06:00All right.
06:01Oh, man.
06:03Whoa.
06:04Yeah.
06:05I bet you wish you had a ceiling fan in here to move air.
06:08I wish you had a ceiling.
06:10I don't know.
06:11I don't know how you feel about paneling, but paint would make it feel totally different.
06:15I'm okay with it.
06:16I'm good with it.
06:17And once your roof is fixed, you wouldn't have a leak ever again, so then you could just do new
06:21sheetrock on the ceiling?
06:22Okay.
06:23Well, let's talk about the mystery room, okay?
06:25Yes.
06:25All right.
06:25What is...
06:26The mystery in the middle.
06:27The mystery room.
06:28It's more of a catch-all.
06:29It's a dining room.
06:31I'm sorry.
06:32It's so hot that I have to put on my hat to get wet hair off my face.
06:37All right.
06:38What was going on here?
06:39I set up a little date night little scene.
06:41Oh.
06:41Yeah.
06:42And I actually had a dining room table in here.
06:44Dang.
06:45That's so Ben Napier of you.
06:47Is he a romantic...
06:48Are you a mushy-gushy romantic?
06:50He's a mushy-gushy.
06:51When you find a good romantic man who makes gestures like covering the back wall in greenery and special fairy
07:00lights to make you feel special on a date night, you keep that man.
07:03I'm getting the feeling that you don't have a dining room because maybe you don't need one.
07:09It's kind of like pity-pity.
07:10Yeah.
07:11Where are you eating food?
07:14Well, we have a little nook in the kitchen.
07:16Yeah.
07:16Well, it could be a dining room, again.
07:19We have to give it an identity in here.
07:21I really don't know what to do with that middle room, and neither do they.
07:24So for these two rooms, paint the panel and sheetrock ceiling, we want a lot of 10 grand.
07:29Okay.
07:30But you have to eat food somewhere.
07:31Yeah.
07:31Let's see the spot.
07:33I've heard about the spot.
07:34This is your favorite spot to sit.
07:35It is.
07:36Okay.
07:37And you want it to keep being your spot?
07:38I love this spot.
07:39I have friends that show up daily.
07:43Those critters.
07:44And you, like, recognize them as the same squirrel and bird.
07:47They come every day.
07:48We got Oscar.
07:49Yeah?
07:49We got Heath.
07:52Oscar and Heath showed up one day, and they never left.
07:55Oscar is the squirrel.
07:57He comes to the window, and Heath is the bird.
08:00It's the cardinal.
08:01Okay.
08:02So you can tell there's something happening for sure in the subfloor when the towel does that.
08:06The subfloor and Joyce probably have some issues.
08:11Has this leaked?
08:12Is that what's happened?
08:13There's a leak.
08:14Somewhere under the kitchen sink.
08:16It's leaking into the floor, so it has, like, a sinky, rocky feeling.
08:20I don't think that's good.
08:22The kitchen will be the most expensive part.
08:25It would really be all about making sure we repair whatever has happened here.
08:30So I think we could keep the layout basically the same as far as plumbing, but change everything else.
08:39So if you pulled out everything that's in this room right now, you build new custom cabinetry.
08:44Where your sink is now, the sink would still be, make room for a really economical, small dishwasher.
08:53It's important to save money by not moving plumbing, that would help a lot.
08:57And then laminate countertops would also save a lot of money.
09:00This has gotten shabby, but you could do a new laminate countertop that feels like something new and different.
09:06And then you'd have new cabinetry on this wall all the way across.
09:10With your range and your hood bent in the middle, you'd have tons of counter space.
09:14And the flooring, right now the tile is cracked.
09:17We know there are problems, but have to do big repairs under there.
09:20Then I think it would save money and give it a fresh new look if we did rollout vinyl.
09:26There are some cool patterns out there.
09:28We could just make the kitchen work better for you, be more comfortable.
09:33I just want to get this color out.
09:34I know you love those, like, rich, moody, deep teal navies and lots of natural wood.
09:40No more of those.
09:41No more of these.
09:42For everything that we're planning on doing with the house is about making it work.
09:47It'll still be a good, durable, solid kitchen, but we can do it for $30,000.
09:52I'm cool with that.
09:53Yeah.
09:53Sounds good to me.
09:54Yeah.
09:54That's $75,000.
09:56That gives you a new roof, fixes the foundation, new walkway, HVAC, no vats, a good kitchen.
10:03Is that going to get us to the altar?
10:05That's who it's doing.
10:05Is that going to get us?
10:07What is it going to take?
10:09We already have a ring, right?
10:11Got a ring.
10:11Okay, we got a ring.
10:12That's covered.
10:13I ain't going to put that in the budget.
10:15That's not in the budget.
10:18We really shine with a house like this.
10:21I just love to prove the point that you can have a small budget, a very modest house, and
10:26you can make it beautiful.
10:27You really can.
10:36All right, watch the sink, Cole.
10:39We'll deal with that later.
10:40Okay, I want to get started on the screen porch, taking all the screens out, and then
10:44just ceiling tiles in here, right?
10:46Right.
10:46Only ceiling tiles.
10:48Kay has moved out and is staying in a rental in Hattiesburg so we can finally fix this house
10:52for good.
10:53It's actually a pretty small demo.
10:56Made large by the heat.
10:57That feces is going to be big today.
11:01Mm-hmm.
11:01Everything can go.
11:03Like, even the floors and the joists and the subfloors, we know for sure they're rotten.
11:07Yeah.
11:07There's severe rot in the kitchen.
11:10Everything is wet.
11:11Under that towel, the towel moves.
11:13One, two, three, two.
11:26Better not have been a mirror.
11:28Dead gum and I didn't need that luck.
11:33I love a screen porch.
11:35I do too.
11:35That old screen is tough.
11:37Like, I bet it was put there in 1970-something.
11:48All these ceiling tiles have got to come down.
11:50I'm really worried about these tiles hitting me on the head so I got my hard hat on.
11:54Right there with you.
11:55I do have this for you.
11:57What is this?
11:57Painter's plastic?
11:58Protection.
11:59Because, listen.
12:03What is that?
12:05It's the bats.
12:06That's the bats?
12:07They are right up there.
12:09When we start pulling this down, guano is going to be raining upon us.
12:14Mmm.
12:17We just really don't want the back guano to fall on our heads.
12:22I didn't feel anything taking down the ceiling tile.
12:24I went to a different place.
12:27You dissociated?
12:28I dissociated with my body so that I would not feel what was happening to me in there.
12:32They are stirred up.
12:33We got them riled up now.
12:35They're going to come down here if we're not careful.
12:36I need them gone.
12:37I need them gone immediately.
12:40A snail.
12:41I cannot handle.
12:42Are you Batman?
12:44No, I'm Batman.
12:45Does that make me Robin?
12:46Yes.
12:48We got to get these bats out of here, man.
12:49I'll follow the Batman.
12:50You shined the light in the sky.
12:52I don't know how else you would.
12:55Huh?
12:56That's the Batman music.
12:57Was it?
12:58Yeah.
13:01But you could hear the bats.
13:03I'm going to go take a shower.
13:04Yes.
13:04Please do that.
13:11Today the bats have to go.
13:12But they're federally protected in Mississippi.
13:15And they keep the mosquito population beat back a little bit.
13:19So when you have a bat infestation, you can't just exterminate them.
13:23You have to relocate them.
13:25And you have to call professionals who know how to do it correctly.
13:29Nathan, we've been demoing in here.
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:31If you can imagine it, the kitchen is actually better than it was.
13:35Nothing's rotten.
13:36It's just dirt.
13:37Oh, my goodness.
13:38You've heard of sunken dens.
13:40Well, this is a sunken kitchen.
13:42Yes.
13:42Yeah.
13:43You want to go to the bat cave?
13:44In this scenario, you're Batman.
13:47I'm Robin.
13:48Okay.
13:48Well, I like being Batman.
13:49Yeah.
13:50Take him to the bat cave, Robin.
13:58To get into the attic, you have to go through a scuttle hole that my shoulders touch on.
14:04No.
14:05I can't.
14:08The roof line is there, so I had to, like...
14:13I'm too tall.
14:14What is that?
14:15I don't like it.
14:17Luckily, I do yoga.
14:19Yoga!
14:22What now, Batman?
14:24Oh, gosh.
14:26If you want to just angle it more towards the front of him.
14:28Oh, the bat just flew through him.
14:29That's why I gave you that cap.
14:31Look right here on the side.
14:32So they'll come off the screen.
14:33They'll go through here where it's open at.
14:35Uh-huh.
14:36And they'll go in and then go out.
14:37But we'll go up there on the outside.
14:39We'll put up a one-way valve.
14:41A one-way door is what it is.
14:42Uh-huh.
14:43It'll allow them to come out, but they can't get back in.
14:45But it looks like they're coming in the front also.
14:48We got some over there, too.
14:50Shoot.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Is that them in that screen?
14:53Yeah, that's all them in that screen.
14:56And that over there is where they're coming in the most.
14:59And what we'll have to do is do the valve on all three of these areas so we can get
15:03all
15:03the bats out.
15:04So now that we have indeed located the bats, we know everywhere they're at, he is going
15:08to put a valve at every entrance.
15:10And that's the little trapdoor thing that the bats can fly through, but then they can't
15:14fly back.
15:15No more bats.
15:15No more smell.
15:16Then they'll seal off all the gables, all the openings.
15:18You see all that down there?
15:20Yes.
15:20That's all their guano.
15:22That's the stuff you don't want to stir up.
15:23Nope.
15:24He said that he will come by early in the morning next week to clean up the guano.
15:36Who's the oldest?
15:38He is.
15:38How many of y'all are there?
15:40Four.
15:40I'm the baby.
15:41You're the baby?
15:43Dadgum.
15:44I didn't know that we had baby brother in there.
15:46Any time you can connect a family member to something you're building, it's always going
15:52to make it that much better.
15:54What was Ticardo like growing up?
15:56It was rough.
15:58Very competitive sports, football, basketball, wrestling.
16:02Is it still competitive?
16:03It is.
16:04It is.
16:04Thanksgiving is the day we meet up and we get in the grass.
16:08You still wrestle?
16:09To this day.
16:10I want to build a new daybed for their front porch.
16:13I want that to stay the go-to spot.
16:15So that house is a little bit craftsman.
16:18So I want to build this like a couch that has these wide arms on it so they can use
16:24those
16:25for like setting a glass of tea down or something.
16:27A rail across the front.
16:29You know, the mattress would be up here.
16:31That acts as the sofa and then we'll put pillows and stuff on the back, make it more
16:34comfortable.
16:34It's going to be the size of a standard twin size bed.
16:37Maybe add a little notch on the bottom just to give it a little bit of creative detail.
16:43And then up here on the top, I want to just add a little bit of a decorative piece.
16:48Just something to dress it up a little bit.
16:51What he had to fight me for.
16:52Yeah, that'd be your spot, man.
16:55So I learned that Corey and Ticardo are really into wrestling.
16:59Not wrestling.
17:00Wrestling.
17:02Now you might be asking yourself, what's the difference between wrestling and wrestling?
17:06Wrestling is a sport.
17:08Wrestling is just some people having it out in the yard, but you're just trying to best
17:13each other.
17:15If you're building a daybed for a front porch that looks out onto a wrestling yard, it's
17:21bleachers.
17:22It's no longer a place to sit and read and take a nap.
17:25It's a place to sit and eat popcorn and cheer.
17:27Who's the thing going to win?
17:31All right, let's make some slats.
17:46Tony, Tony, Tony.
17:47What's going on, bitch?
17:48Missed you for demo.
17:49Y'all said y'all had bats.
17:51Not here.
17:52You don't do bats?
17:53No, I don't do bats, man.
17:55No.
17:55Tony's afraid of bats.
17:57Is that why he hasn't been here?
17:59That's why he's not been here.
17:59This is his family, and I've been wondering, where is Tony?
18:04Well, he's also been busy on other projects, but-
18:05I know he's been busy.
18:06He stays busy.
18:07I mean, it was literally, the floor was caving in in here.
18:10Put me to work.
18:12Let's get it.
18:14We are putting in the new flooring system for the kitchen.
18:25It's miserable hot.
18:27I don't know how Katie and Ticardo were doing this.
18:30Have you ever been here?
18:31Yes.
18:32Have you ever, you come and hang out?
18:32Yes, but it was, like, in the cooler months, so.
18:36Check level.
18:36Check the level.
18:37Shouldn't be.
18:39Looks good to me.
18:40It's good.
18:44What's going on?
18:45The man that we have been waiting for.
18:49What's up, cold guy?
18:50What's up?
18:51It's hot.
18:51It is.
18:52I've never been more glad to see an HVAC man in my life.
18:57This house has never had air conditioning that we're seeing with HVAC, the HVAC, is that
19:02we don't have any.
19:03So they can start from a blank canvas, do it exactly however they want to.
19:09No more bats and no more blana, and it won't be long now we'll be working in the cool.
19:14It'll have heat and cool now.
19:24Mr. Gregg, we got you a floor.
19:27It's easier to install cabinets when you have a floor.
19:31Oh, gosh, let me tell you something.
19:33That breeze you feel right now, you don't feel that inside this house.
19:36No, you don't, and the air still isn't connected to anything.
19:40Is this the sink?
19:41This is the sink.
19:42That's it.
19:43That's it.
19:43Nope, you gotta save a space for the dishwasher.
19:46There's gonna be an 18-inch dishwasher.
19:48It's more dishwasher than they had before.
19:50I'm just trying to be efficient.
19:52This house is about making it livable first, beautiful second.
19:57We're trying to make their budget just stretch as absolutely far as possible.
20:01This saves the most money to keep the plumbing where it was.
20:04I know we usually try to put it with a window or an island or something, but in this case,
20:09that window is their favorite spot to sit and watch Oscar and Heath, the bird and squirrel
20:13that live outside.
20:23Paint's going up on the walls in the front two rooms, but I have got to finalize color
20:27for the kitchen cabinet.
20:28So I'm bringing Mallory with me because she's got a great eye for design.
20:31This is the thing.
20:32We want to be as affordable as possible, but also give her as much design as we possibly
20:36can so we can be bold in the kitchen.
20:39So the cabinets are going to be a bold color.
20:41Yes.
20:41Typically, if I want a bold color, I'm going Valspar.
20:44This is a big opportunity.
20:45I think she just wanted the house to feel bright and clean and a little more modern.
21:07So they have to dig up the old sidewalk, then hopefully just get it really leveled up is
21:13our biggest problem.
21:14They've got to level up everything.
21:24Laramie and I are installing the laminate countertops.
21:33People have a lot of bad things to say about laminate only because we have since moved on
21:38to creating more expensive and luxurious countertop surfaces, but there's nothing wrong with laminate.
21:44When it's right for your budget, it's right for your kitchen, especially if it looks pretty.
21:48Dang.
21:50No, that looks good.
21:52Yeah.
21:53This is way, way better than the laminate countertops our mammals had in the 80s and 90s.
21:58Kay loves the look of stone that's this color, and she also loves butcher block.
22:04Both of those were a little out of budget.
22:05But I think I'm going to do a wood V-groove backsplash so she gets the natural wood she wanted
22:12in here.
22:12It looks so good, y'all.
22:13Now, can you talk to me about this room?
22:17Sure.
22:17Whatever this room is going to be called.
22:19Oh, come around.
22:20Oh, my gosh.
22:21I don't know what we call this room.
22:22It's the dining room.
22:23But Kay and Tocardo said they don't really need a proper dining room.
22:27They've used it as a lounge for date nights, a place that feels cool to hang out.
22:31We got cold air.
22:32Shut that door.
22:34It feels so good.
22:35This is the first time I've felt cold air in this house.
22:38First time anybody's felt cold air in this house.
22:40I finally know exactly what I'm doing.
22:42I need a table for this room, but not like a dining table, a banquette table.
22:49So we're going dining room.
22:51But smaller than that.
22:52They never use this door.
22:54Into the hallway.
22:55So there will still be room to pass through.
22:57If they were to some reason start using this door.
23:00They could.
23:01The only thing they suggested was that they would use this room possibly for, like, date
23:05nights to make it feel like they're somewhere special.
23:09It's a lounge.
23:10Here's what I need.
23:11Here's what I'm thinking.
23:12You ready?
23:12We're going to have a bench here that's longer, a shorter bench here, the table here.
23:18We're going to put the light fixture over it.
23:20And then over here, I've ordered some bookcases that are prefab for right and left of the window.
23:26And then we'll have a settee in the middle in front of the window.
23:30What about over here?
23:30We can have a little space for a little storage or plants.
23:33She loves plants.
23:35Mm-hmm.
23:36Make this room, like, romantic and fun and playful.
23:38And also, if they're going to host, they can wrestle in the front yard.
23:42But you have more seating.
23:44Mm-hmm.
23:44So we're calling this a dining lounge?
23:47Sure.
23:48Sure.
23:48I like that.
23:55Guess who's coming today?
23:57Bobby Joe.
23:58Did you see this before?
24:00Oh, yeah.
24:01So this was real thin and all broke up.
24:04We're going to get it fixed.
24:05Oh, yeah.
24:06Well, when we get all this done, this is going to be a wrestling yard.
24:09Sure enough.
24:10It's their favorite thing to do.
24:11You ever do any wrestling?
24:12Oh, no.
24:13I didn't, but I enjoy it.
24:16Bobby Joe has a very specific Southern dialect.
24:20That's a little bit hard for those outside of our area to understand, maybe.
24:25What would your wrestling nickname be if you was a wrestler?
24:28They used to call me the Junkyard Dog.
24:33I guess my wrestling name would just have to be Big Ben.
24:36Yeah.
24:40I would wear basically a one-piece swimsuit, but with the shorts, you know.
24:44One shoulder.
24:45Andre the Giant style.
24:47That's you.
24:50You know, people always compare me to Andre the Giant.
24:55Get a new walkway.
24:56Then when that's done, Hunter will come back and do the fresh landscaping.
24:59I just am ready to see some paint happen outside, and then we're going to be looking way better out
25:04here.
25:08What do you think?
25:08It looks great.
25:09Yeah.
25:10Yeah?
25:10Yeah.
25:11Yeah, that's great.
25:11This here is a Junkyard Dog, Aaron.
25:13Yeah, yeah.
25:14That's his wrestling name.
25:15That's what they used to call them tootals, Leah.
25:17Are you out of the game now?
25:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:20Well, it looks great, y'all.
25:21We got stuff happening in the kitchen.
25:3019 and three quarters.
25:32Are you measuring?
25:32Yes, sir.
25:34We are working on a backsplash.
25:35I feel confident that I can do this myself.
25:45I feel like it's something that's time for me to learn how to do a V-groove backsplash.
25:55Aaron, are we going to paint these?
25:57No.
25:58This is the only, like, wood moment.
26:02We're going to give her natural wood backsplash.
26:04I think it'll look good if you do a light stain on all of it.
26:14Yeah, they say that you are an expert at something when you have 10,000 hours of experience in it.
26:18But five minutes.
26:20It's so long.
26:20You're a quick learner.
26:21Real quick.
26:22Oh, thank you.
26:32Oh, my goodness.
26:33Look at this.
26:34Locked furniture is closing after 109?
26:38Over 100 years.
26:39Over 100 years.
26:41And this is, like, one of those-
26:42Our oldest business downtown.
26:44Hey.
26:45Hey, y'all.
26:46Welcome.
26:47Y'all been busy.
26:48We have.
26:49Oh, my word.
26:50Welcome to the estate sale.
26:51Yes.
26:52This is the end of an era.
26:53I know.
26:54It sure is.
26:54The Rowells are ready to retire.
26:56It makes sense.
26:57So they're having an estate sale.
26:59Y'all must have brought stuff in from, like, all the storage areas.
27:02Everywhere.
27:03Wow.
27:04There's so much good stuff.
27:06We're doing Kay and Ticardo's house.
27:08That is so exciting.
27:10Isn't that fun?
27:11There's still not a wedding date, though.
27:12Don't get excited.
27:13Well, it'll come.
27:14It'll come.
27:14They're going to get married sooner than later, I hope.
27:16Right.
27:16Ticardo would love if there were pieces from Lott.
27:19He would be so happy to have a piece of Lott, because he was here almost 15 years.
27:23These Bentwood chairs.
27:25Those are really great.
27:26Aren't those so cute?
27:27Forty.
27:28And there's five of them.
27:29They're in great condition.
27:30I want all of those.
27:33I think it is sad any time one of those heritage businesses closes in town.
27:38We all feel it a little bit.
27:40But also exciting, just because something new, something fresh is going to come.
27:44That's a good label.
27:45Isn't that good?
27:45I love that dollhouse.
27:47Always have.
27:48I feel like the girls have plenty, though.
27:50Yeah, they do.
27:56What is that?
27:58It looks like a gumball machine.
28:01Is it plastic or glass?
28:04Lucite.
28:06It's one of those old terrariums.
28:09Dang.
28:10Do you know what I'm talking about?
28:10Yeah, it's vented up here.
28:11Kay loves plants in the house.
28:13I actually think she might really like this.
28:15Is this crazy?
28:16It's pretty crazy, but it's really fun and unexpected.
28:19Our taste is a little more modern.
28:21I'm getting this.
28:47And then you can see it.
28:50My work is barely in those areas.
28:51You can see the girls in the house who won't go in there.vez
28:51yourself in there, but it's really terrible.
28:51me go up in the attic i've been smelling them bat guano smells like mothballish it's acrid
28:58it's disgusting dang it that's her back ah kay and carter are coming home in one week so we had
29:07to call nathan back so you saw the signal saw the bat signal yeah saw it in the sky i
29:11did take a look
29:12up there and it looks to me that they have come back and there are in the side of the
29:17screen up
29:18there in the gable vent hey batman returns yeah i've been smelling them well he just confirmed it
29:23right yes i did looks like what happened the screen on the back side we took your screen down
29:29we needed to paint it and fix it so we took it down but we told them to put it
29:32on the inside yeah
29:33once they've lived in this house for one time period they'll come back so those bats were able to get
29:38in
29:38to the actual attic again so it'll be uh good to keep that screen on so what happened is it's
29:46our fault
29:47how big of a gap can a bat get through usually about a pinky they put the screen over the
29:53gable
29:53vent but we had not yet scraped or painted so we had the guys move the screen to the inside
29:59of the gable which created a perfect habitat for the bat attack what we have to do is just screen
30:07the front side to where we can prevent them from going back into it because if they get into that
30:11gable and hang on that screen they'll just keep going back into the attic like are we gonna have bats
30:15forever as long as we're able to get that front closed up and prevent them from actually going
30:20back in to the actual gable itself then we'll be able to keep them out is this even possible in
30:24a
30:24week bats will come out within 24 to 48 hours after we put the valve up i'll be so glad
30:30when they're
30:30gone i hope that they're gone by then and i hope that the smell is mostly gone if it's not
30:35totally gone
30:36he's gonna redo the bat valve he's gonna come back and we're gonna do a hardware cloth screen he'll fit
30:44it
30:45inside our trim around the vent so that it doesn't stand out
31:07see mom and dad that's why i got this art degree yeah
31:32i'm so excited for kay and ticardo to come home and see how fresh and cool their house is because
31:39it has air conditioning and it smells nice because the bats are gone i mean it's like a different house
31:44for those two reasons and you don't even take into account the way it looks
31:49the lounge dining room date night spot kay needed storage in there we gave that to her around the
31:55windows and then the benches and the banquette in the corner it feels like it's a cute little cafe it
32:02is a dining room but it's also a sitting room we've still got the little sitting spot in the window
32:08in
32:08the kitchen so kay can observe heath and oscar assuming they come back this house was a study in
32:16how far you can stretch a budget we use laminate countertops we use rollout vinyl flooring in the kitchen
32:22when you can save money on those big things then you can find ways to creatively make the house feel
32:29transformed
32:31you know ben was really focused on making the day bed on the front porch something beautiful something
32:36that will last an heirloom because that's where they always spend all their time it is a work of
32:40art kay and ticardo's entire relationship has been a very tumultuous time for them with their families
32:47helping others instead of themselves the house was always the very dead last priority for them and so now
32:55maybe this changes their priorities maybe they'll get married to me i don't know we'll see maybe one day
33:01this house will be the jones williams house
33:07i love it i absolutely love it
33:17that's crazy
33:26oh my goodness i never saw this cut
33:29i love it
33:34oh my goodness it looks like you can see the whole house now yeah man it looks good though
33:39oh my goodness we put a roof on the house we re-screened the front porch we added air conditioning
33:47they'll block the bats bats are out of here baby new screen in the gable that should keep them out
33:53for good
33:55i'm excited about the sidewalk and the doors yes got fresh paint on the brick and the skirting and
34:02the columns to save money where we could on the exterior man it looks so good
34:08i mean i like the landscape and everything man it's crazy look at the yard i know right the yard
34:13was
34:13kind of just disappearing it looked like there had been an earthquake here ticardo you can wrestle in
34:18the yard with your brothers your brother corey helped me in the woodshop with something and he
34:24said every holiday get together ends up turning into a wrestling match i'm a little old for wrestling
34:29whatever to say my knees are not made for that no more no he said i might give him one
34:34match i'm ready
34:35to see let's go let's go let's go for it oh my goodness this is gorgeous you like it i
34:51love it yes
34:55you had a day bed out here this one is made with love your brother corey helped me build this
35:02this is
35:02what i learned about corey this is how i learned so much about your wrestling so you didn't quite put
35:08the pillows on the bed no no he helped me build it that's cool though that's cool that is amazing
35:13i love the wide armrest because they're like end tables you can sit a plate on it they're wide enough
35:18it's spanish cedar so it will last forever out here covered like this and you have screens the bugs
35:25will stay out sunday sunday sunday sunday sunday it's back beautiful maybe the inside is even better
35:37oh my goodness this is crazy what do you think no way no is this my house yes
35:48oh this is crazy this is crazy feels good in here it's weird i mean this air conditioning is
35:53the best thing we did yeah i've never felt it feel like this it's so cool it's not hot
36:01you have new ceilings fresh paint new ceiling fan uncover the fireplace and that's it you said this
36:10it this is amazing like it ain't nothing you know you're just that's it oh there's way better no no
36:16no it's the lounge date nights go see we're calling it the lounge room the lounge yeah because it's kind
36:23of a dining room oh this is amazing okay and you can invite family over for dinner but it's also
36:35like
36:35a sitting room but you really needed storage oh my lots of storage over here because i could tell
36:42you were struggling to find your cabinets yeah so we did these bookcases beside the window oh i know
36:48that okay oh those people
36:56and then the banquette is all storage you can lift that up and put things inside okay i love it
37:02this table josh and i built it in the shop this was aaron's idea she kind of designed it i
37:08just
37:08want it to be a really pretty little cafe table it is cute though it didn't take up the whole
37:12room so
37:13you could still use this this door if you want to still not technically a dining room it's a lounge
37:19room i was going to say make the whole room look like bigger pictures from the fair that's what's up
37:24with you and ferris wheels we love them but that's kind of when we first started dating
37:28the fair is in town this week so we should go yeah y'all should go yeah this is my
37:34favorite
37:34you like it i love it can you tell me nope but i'll try okay we found the terrarium at
37:40the lot
37:41closing sale felt like it was kind of like your vibe your plant lady vibe i love it yeah and
37:47then we
37:48got these little chairs that i thought were so pretty yeah i recognize them yeah awesome for real
37:54with the windows being open like this nothing in front of them you can sit here now and watch
37:59for oscar and heath no you didn't wait a minute oscar and heath built their own houses while we were
38:05here isn't that amazing they built it um we scared them off i think because we haven't seen them and
38:11so i thought if we get them cute little houses maybe they'll come back they'll come back which one's
38:15oscar and which one's he show you when they come out okay oscar's the squirrel yes heath is the bird
38:21that's right okay but you still have your spot i'm excited
38:34why yo no
38:41you see this this is crazy yeah a little better this is a little better what are you serious
38:51especially way different this area was about to just sink and fall hold up no no no this isn't
38:59our kitchen no it's not this is so your kitchen look how wide open they opened the whole kitchen
39:06cousin tony came over and we took everything out and then rebuilt we did have to take out the entire
39:12floor all the joists the subfloor everything because it had leaked from the sink for so long that it
39:18is spread everywhere cousin tony cousin tony and he and i did the v-group backsplash he taught me his
39:24ways you wanted teal kitchen cabinets you wanted some natural wood somewhere but it never looked like
39:31this in my head you've got laminate countertops sheet vinyl floors i feel like it achieves the look that you
39:39were kind of after this is amazing is that a dishwasher yes it is kay that is your very own
39:47dishwasher and it's small but mighty this is crazy jacardo can just sit here we talk to oscar and he
39:54sure instead of having to wash dishes and here's your spot so when k is cooking you can still hang
39:59in
39:59the kitchen as nice as it feels inside let's go sit on that front porch yeah wow wow
40:10are you so glad to be home i am good y'all it ain't a sunday but it feels like
40:16it feels like it
40:18please keep using your front porch though i am even though you have air conditioning this is where we have
40:23sunday sunday yeah you gave us 75 grand to work on this house which is a tight budget so we
40:30had to
40:31be with a lot to do it's real good i love it good i feel like this has been something
40:37that was just like
40:38the last priority on the back burner because everything and everyone else was your first priority
40:44i hope that this can be a happy fresh start something new one last thing we have 13
40:52left over what's this about conveniently the cost of a marriage license
41:01that's right that's right jacardo don't go to the fair tonight and blow it on
41:06blow it on the fair as well i don't think we got enough for corn dog with this
41:15it's been four years our friend michael mckinnon is an architect in town and he's asked us to come
41:22back and finish this building but we are coming back under very different circumstances
41:28what happened was probably the worst thing i could have you know fathomed we were seeing pictures of
41:34this building up in smoke i mean it was billowing out of this area that we had just finished
41:41you know part of me hopes it goes back to what it was do we feel super solid about this
41:46plan nope
41:47that's what makes it a good one michael's taste is totally not my taste but we can't just do
41:54english country houses every day i need to call this building complete y'all
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