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00:01It's been four years since we did his third floor.
00:04Doesn't that feel crazy to you?
00:06Oh, here we go.
00:08Let's go, buddy.
00:08He's ready.
00:09Our friend Michael McKinnon is an architect.
00:11He lives in downtown Laurel.
00:12He invited us to help him renovate the top floor of his loft.
00:16This is how you do a bedroom.
00:17And he's asked us to come back and finish
00:19the second floor of his building.
00:20But we are coming back under very different circumstances.
00:26What happened next was probably the worst thing
00:28I could have, you know, fathomed.
00:33We were seeing pictures of this building up in smoke.
00:38I mean, it was billowing out of this area
00:41that we had just finished.
00:46Good morning.
00:47Just another day of making our favorite small town better.
00:50Erin, we got to go, babe.
00:51Love you girls.
00:52Y'all have fun.
00:53Ben, let's go.
00:54You believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
00:56I don't know what's going to go wrong today.
00:58I'm sure something.
00:59Anytime we start a new house, we don't know how it's going to go.
01:02Girl, the bat just flew through here.
01:03That's not good.
01:05No way.
01:07They're about to see their house for the first time.
01:08This is the best part.
01:10Oh my god!
01:11Are you serious right now?
01:13This is perfect.
01:14Every day is different when you're renovating houses
01:17in Laurel, Mississippi.
01:27Look how big Zeus is.
01:30He was already big.
01:31He's too big.
01:31Hey, buddy.
01:32We've done this before.
01:33Yeah, I'm not...
01:34This top floor turned out beautifully.
01:36Awesome.
01:36Michael lives on the third floor, but he works on the first floor,
01:40and he's a commercial architect in town.
01:42Actually, he's done some of our projects here in Laurel.
01:45He did the Scent Library and the Visitor Center,
01:47and he's asked us to come back and finish the second floor of his building.
01:51I need to call this building complete so I can really keep focusing on everybody else's projects.
01:55The building is 4,000 square feet.
01:58You've got your office space here on the first floor.
02:01Top floor, that's your area, primary bathroom.
02:05And then middle floor, you've got another bathroom, your kitchen, another bedroom.
02:10But it's very dated.
02:12The top floor is so well identified.
02:14The first floor makes sense.
02:15That second floor is just like, who am I as a person?
02:18It's a nothing sandwich.
02:19It's a nothing burger right there, right?
02:20There in the middle.
02:22And I was thinking 60,000 for the project.
02:24So is there fire damage here?
02:26Well, the fire pretty much got balcony and then apartment.
02:30This space all renovated.
02:32And then about 30 guys with hoses came and just flooded the whole building.
02:36Thankfully, they did.
02:37But, you know, so the second floor, we just got it finished last week.
02:43The project wrapped up last week as far as the remediation repairs from the fire.
02:47As you can tell on this top floor, what Ben and Aaron did,
02:49it's pretty much the same way, but we left it.
02:52If we can just close out complete and walk away from the second floor like we did this,
02:57I mean, it would be a dream.
02:59So we're going to do the second floor?
03:01Yes.
03:01Is it set up back the way it was since the fire?
03:04Like, does it look the same?
03:05It looks exactly the same.
03:06You know, it was just water damage, the ceiling, and a little bit of pain.
03:09So all that's repaired, and we're ready to renovate?
03:12Yes.
03:13So where did the fire start?
03:15It's been pinpointed to the ceiling in the kitchen.
03:18Okay.
03:19There was actually a not-so-funny joke going around town that it was my TV thing started the fire.
03:25We didn't start the fire.
03:27No.
03:27Apparently, there was, like, insulation, can light, something going on up there.
03:31You know, burned up through the ceiling, up on the balcony, up the balcony wall, into the apartment.
03:36Didn't that scare you to death?
03:37Oh, I was sleeping.
03:38Dang.
03:38But this dude was not.
03:40I was awakened by Zeus, like, hovering over me on the couch, just barking at my face.
03:45Ears pinned back.
03:47It had never done that before.
03:48Kind of got me up, started walking around, and then started hearing a lot of pop,
03:51and realized it was daylight outside, and then realized it was not daylight.
03:54It's just all fire.
03:55Thankfully, two to three fire departments showed up, and I had 30 strapping guys running through
04:01here with hoses, just flooding everything, putting the fire out.
04:04And I'm so thankful for that.
04:06I'd just like to think, pretty much, because of him, the block's still here.
04:10It didn't burn up.
04:11Yeah.
04:11Neighbor's fine.
04:12Good job, Zeus.
04:13Good job, Zeus.
04:14He's the goodest boy.
04:16Yeah, he's my guy.
04:17I mean, um, yeah, he's the dude.
04:25Let's go look.
04:26Remind me, have y'all been in here before?
04:28Yeah.
04:28Okay.
04:29A few times.
04:29One time.
04:30Our episode was the first episode where the kitchen was not reworked.
04:34This is more than adequate for my needs, you know.
04:36It's got cereal storage and a milk cooler, so.
04:39Like, the way it is.
04:40The way it is.
04:40And Ben and Erin, uh, said I would regret that.
04:43And they were right.
04:45All right.
04:46It's a time warp.
04:47Remember this face?
04:48Oh, yeah.
04:49Oh, yeah.
04:49It all needs to be reworked.
04:50You want it to be so cool that you can't help but cut.
04:53Right.
04:54Y'all remember, Michael only eats cereal.
04:56And pizza.
04:57But he's ready.
04:58He's ready to have a real kitchen and be a grown-up who cooks food.
05:03Do you like the exposed brick?
05:04I love the exposed brick.
05:05Okay.
05:06Okay.
05:06See, to me, that doesn't feel Michael, but.
05:08As an architect, it's just, it's nice to see building construction.
05:11Yeah.
05:11The layers of it.
05:12Lighting's big for you.
05:14Lighting's big for me.
05:15Do you want your cabinetry to speak that same vernacular that we did upstairs?
05:19I do.
05:19Honestly, Michael's taste is totally not my taste.
05:23And that means I get to flex creative muscles that are very weak for me.
05:28And I need to do that.
05:30We all need to do that.
05:31We can't just do English country houses every day.
05:34It needs to be more Mad Men.
05:36I love the Mad Men right now.
05:37This is not inspiring.
05:38I understand.
05:39The fridge is recessed into the wall.
05:41This is a pantry.
05:42It would be very cool if we could tear out all of this.
05:47And this would be the face of your cabinetry.
05:49Keep things where they are and completely change the look.
05:54And you continue it this direction.
05:56Stained is the vibe upstairs.
05:59Mm-hmm.
05:59And we could just pull more of that down here.
06:01And I think a beautiful stone countertop is key.
06:04And you continue it for the backsplash.
06:06And then we'll have floating shelves.
06:08Beautiful track lighting or something gimballed.
06:11Task lighting, hidden lighting.
06:13Yeah.
06:13And then the range stays here.
06:16The vent hood above is usually a feature.
06:19Something simple and faceted maybe.
06:22Faceted really helps me.
06:24It's the way diamonds are cut.
06:26I want to make it kind of like the thing in here.
06:28Cool.
06:29Okay.
06:30You're going to have to cook for real.
06:31I know.
06:31I know.
06:32And I want to.
06:32I want that for myself.
06:34Okay.
06:34Cereal's always good.
06:35But I do know that you should have more than just fiber in your life, apparently.
06:40It's not a big kitchen.
06:42In order to pull off the Michael McKinnon big city modern, you have to use luxury materials.
06:50$50,000?
06:51If you're going to have a Mad Men kitchen, you got to spend some Dawn Draper paper.
06:54That's right.
06:55Dang.
06:58Look, I love these bookcases.
07:01But you got to get curtains that go all the way to the floor, Michael.
07:04I know.
07:04I did one thing in here.
07:06And I didn't do it right.
07:08This room seems nice now.
07:09But at night, it gets extremely dark.
07:11So you need better lighting in here?
07:12I need better lighting in here.
07:13Did I make this up?
07:14Or did you used to have like a poker game you would play with friends?
07:17The best poker game you can imagine.
07:19But then come Saturday when it's football time, this whole room turns into the football room.
07:23You know, part of me hopes it goes back to what it was.
07:25You know, I would say there's been some paralysis over the last year and a half trying to get through
07:29this.
07:31And it's just been so long since the fire.
07:34Like I miss entertaining.
07:36And we're trying to bring play back.
07:38We're trying to bring people back.
07:39And so when you have overnight guests, this is their room.
07:42It'd be great to have a place for overnight guests to stay.
07:45This is it.
07:46Perfectly fun.
07:47Yeah.
07:47You just need some paint and a new light.
07:49But the bathroom...
07:51Yeah, the, uh...
07:52Barry Winkle really screams Michael McKinnon.
07:55This is a cute bathroom for anybody else.
07:57But you don't want to spend a lot of money in here.
07:59I don't think it's necessary.
08:00I don't think I'll be in here a lot.
08:01Light update, new vanity, new lighting, new paint.
08:05You said you wanted to spend 60.
08:06Now, I know we ate a big chunk of that in the kitchen.
08:09I think, uh, with $10,000, we can do the living room, bedroom, bathroom.
08:15Some refinishings and touch-ups.
08:17It's just paint.
08:17It's just paint.
08:17Yeah.
08:18A lot of paint.
08:19Yeah.
08:19Okay.
08:20I think we can do that.
08:21Now, where are you going to stay?
08:23Where are you going to stay?
08:24All right.
08:24You can't be walking through this while we're trying to work.
08:27I plan to work downstairs.
08:29I finally just got my apartment back upstairs.
08:31Still want to sleep up there.
08:33I mean, it's awesome.
08:34I promise I have no interest in ruining any surprises or anything.
08:37So, we would just need to build some sort of, like, temp tunnel.
08:40That's it.
08:41Don't be looking.
08:42I want to be surprised.
08:43Don't let Zeus peek, either.
08:45And everybody knows he can't keep a cigarette.
08:47Everybody knows I have zero control over my dog.
08:49Yeah, that's true.
08:58Troy!
09:00How about this? Demo!
09:01Yeah.
09:02It's an easy one.
09:03We're easing you into it.
09:04Troy's been on the crew for a while, but he hasn't done demo before.
09:07He's been mostly a runner.
09:09That's right.
09:10Goes in, we need a sheet of plywood.
09:11Troy's your man.
09:12We have to take out this kitchen and this wall,
09:14and then a vanity from the bathroom.
09:16So, it's pretty quick and pretty easy if we, like, get on it.
09:19Troy's also getting married.
09:22In three months.
09:23In three months.
09:24They met in sixth grade three years ago.
09:27Hush!
09:28She's not in ninth grade.
09:31How old are you, Troy?
09:3223.
09:3223.
09:3323.
09:34That's how old I was when I got married.
09:36Quit.
09:39There we go.
09:40They're coming out pretty easily.
09:41They are.
09:42I picked it up a while ago.
09:45I'm not.
09:46Mine is still stuck.
09:48Good job.
09:49Good gosh!
09:50That is very heavy.
09:51It's good for TV to see Ben pick up really heavy things.
09:54I love it.
09:55It makes me watch.
09:59Three, two, one.
10:02Nate, open that door.
10:06Easy one, right?
10:08What do the others look like?
10:11It's honestly a very simple demo, but the stairs complicated.
10:17Oh, Lord, we ain't gonna make it.
10:19Let it down.
10:23Think about what downtown needs more than ever.
10:26For 20 years, we've been looking to do a hotel.
10:28Right now, two of the most iconic buildings are available downtown.
10:33It's gonna be the biggest project we've ever done.
10:36Can I be honest?
10:37Well, yeah.
10:37I feel a little overextended.
10:43Let's come back down.
10:45We're taking these apart, Ben.
10:52Literally, the only hard part about the demo was the stairs.
10:55It's like a 45-minute demo, but I have to get to ballet rehearsal right now.
11:07Got to get away, got to get away, yeah, on the road.
11:15You're a hero.
11:16I don't know about all that.
11:17You are.
11:18Travis Runyon is a firefighter, and he is one of the firefighters who came and saved Michael's apartment,
11:25so I want to have Travis help me build something for him.
11:29I met Michael many, many years ago when we first moved here.
11:32In fact, now we even play poker.
11:33You're in the poker club.
11:34I am at the poker club.
11:35Yep.
11:36But on that particular night, a call came in, and I knew exactly where it was and who it was.
11:40My heart dropped.
11:42That's when you're like, this is now close to home.
11:44Is that the first one you've done where you knew the person?
11:47Yeah.
11:47Dang.
11:48Once we got there and I was able to assess that he was outside and Zeus was outside,
11:52I weighed off the shoulders.
11:53Now let's get to work.
11:54You really are a hero.
11:55One, you saved Michael's apartment.
11:57That's great.
11:58But you saved the piece of furniture that I built.
12:01This is the first time we've ever done this.
12:03You all built that.
12:04Yeah, we built this in there.
12:05That is gorgeous.
12:06So it has little burn marks on it, which makes me like it even more.
12:10Right.
12:10Because now it tells more of a story.
12:13Right.
12:13Absolutely.
12:14Well, speaking of important items, so this is genuine mahogany.
12:18And then we're going to use to build a six-foot-tall floor lamp inspired by one
12:23that Frank Lloyd Wright had in his home.
12:25Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the most famous architect in American history.
12:28Michael refers to himself as Frank Lloyd Wrong.
12:32Wrong.
12:33I like that.
12:33He better recognize it when he walks in.
12:35And then I'll say, Travis the fireman, help me build it.
12:40How exciting.
12:40Mr. January?
12:42No, no, no.
12:43I am not doing a calendar.
12:44What?
12:45No way.
12:46Maybe for my wife.
12:47Maybe for your wife.
12:48You'll be every month then.
12:49Yeah.
12:49All right, let's go run into the plan.
12:56It's a very Michael McKinnon lamp, because Michael likes the way light plays on structural
13:03elements.
13:04That's what I like about this lamp, is the way the light plays with the mahogany in the build.
13:09And it's just, it's a very Michael lamp.
13:12I've got LED bulbs, low heat, since this is a wooden lamp.
13:17Probably a good thing.
13:18Do we think Frank Lloyd Wrong will like it?
13:20I do.
13:22It looks good.
13:30Good morning.
13:31Hey.
13:32This is so different.
13:34This wall has been taken out, and the goal is to make it all feel just like smooth paneling,
13:39basically.
13:40And so this will be paint grade, and then we'll have pretty stained wood.
13:44That's right.
13:45Where will the robot live?
13:46Yes, he wants a robot vacuum cleaner.
13:50This is his house right here.
13:51Yeah, he'll just go right in there and disappear into the cabinet.
13:54Yeah, and go to his charger.
13:55No, these robots are wicked smart.
13:57This may be the beginning of the end, when you start building houses,
14:00rooms for your robots in your house, and then they just take over.
14:05But he's a small robot.
14:07Yeah, he's just a little one for now.
14:09I'm okay with these robots.
14:10Yeah, I hope that you don't have any animals in the house that are having any accidents.
14:14Yeah.
14:15Ask me how I know.
14:17It happened to a friend of ours.
14:19I'm nervous about this duct up here.
14:21How do we make this look beautiful?
14:23The way we handled it upstairs, it's like louvered cuts in the wood.
14:28I like that.
14:29Yeah.
14:30And I think it'd look good too.
14:31So in this kitchen, we'll have a pantry, very sleek.
14:35We will have way more cabinets.
14:36But the kitchen's all about the hood vent that doesn't exist yet.
14:40We're just designing a whole room around something that doesn't exist, which feels uncomfortable.
14:44Michael wants the focus to be this piece of art that is actually a hood vent.
14:49It needs to be unusual, architectural, faceted.
14:53And then we'll have floating shelves, because Michael's the kind of person who can actually live that way.
14:57Do you have someone?
14:59Found a guy named Ryan Durrett in Atlanta.
15:02And he's like a metal fabricator, sculptor, artist, woodworker.
15:05And he says he can do it.
15:08Okay.
15:09We need to do the bathroom vanity.
15:11Troy's here now.
15:12Do y'all want to do the tunnel?
15:14Yeah, we can do that, and y'all can work on the vanity.
15:15Okay.
15:17You want to climb out, or do you want me to wall you up?
15:19I really do think that this will work.
15:22We're at the point now with Michael's apartment that we're starting to build it the way that it will be
15:28for him.
15:28So we now have to seal off his passages, because he's still living upstairs, and he's working downstairs.
15:35Inside voices.
15:38I want him to be surprised.
15:40It's hard to surprise someone when they're living and working in the space you're trying to renovate.
15:44He's not going to know anything.
15:45No, he'll have no idea.
15:47It's going to be a secret.
15:49We don't work on as many commercial buildings as Michael McKinnon does.
15:52Right.
15:52That's his specialty.
15:53But we have worked with him on several of our own businesses, and we own four of them here in
16:00Laurel with our business partners, who are also our best friends.
16:03Jim is also my first cousin, which makes our group Framly.
16:07One of our goals is revitalizing downtown Laurel, which we've been working on ever since we all moved back here
16:13from college 16 years ago.
16:15You know, they want to get breakfast this morning.
16:16We usually do that.
16:17We have company meetings all the time.
16:19All right, guys.
16:21Oh, it looks good.
16:23Usually over food.
16:25This has to do with real estate.
16:27This is something different.
16:28Think about the last time you had family come in.
16:32This weekend.
16:33Do you find it easy finding them a place for them to stay?
16:37Nope.
16:37That's the point.
16:38Yeah.
16:38Think about what downtown needs more than ever.
16:42For 20 years, we've been looking to do a hotel.
16:44There is no hotel downtown, and downtown is where most people are coming.
16:48And more than that, right now, two of, I would say, of the most iconic buildings
16:53are available downtown.
16:55A hotel helps revitalize Laurel.
16:57Saving one of those buildings helps it equally.
17:00I feel like we're in a position where we can make this work.
17:05It's going to be the biggest project we've ever done.
17:08Collectively.
17:09Collectively.
17:09Can I be honest?
17:10Well, yeah.
17:11I feel a little overextended.
17:13I'm pretty maxed out.
17:15We're doing like five houses at a time at all times.
17:17The idea of owning and operating a hotel is too much for us to swallow.
17:24This is millions of dollars.
17:28The thought of it overwhelms me so much that I can't even talk about it.
17:31The way our lives are, I have everything on my plate that I can eat.
17:35Yeah.
17:36But our friends feel like they could eat more.
17:38I don't think that I can own a hotel downtown.
17:43But I can help y'all own one.
17:45We're going to need all the help we can get.
17:47So we're not going to be touring the buildings with them.
17:49We're going to let them make this decision.
17:50Once they decide which building it's going to be,
17:53then we will help all that we can.
17:55However we can.
18:06Michael's apartment has been painted and it feels so rich.
18:10Very transformative.
18:11The whole apartment, we've got these really deep warm brown grays and stone.
18:19The guys are delivering countertops today.
18:21I was a little late getting here accidentally.
18:25There was one left when I got here.
18:27I wanted to save a little for you.
18:29Mm-hmm.
18:29Be careful going around this corner right here because if we hit that piece here,
18:32it's going to break.
18:34Erin, you want to carry this?
18:35Yeah, maybe.
18:36I really don't understand how you're going to do this.
18:40Just try it.
18:43Oh, my gosh.
18:45This is stupid.
18:46Just think, Ben.
18:48I can't think right now.
18:49I'm trying to not break a slab of stone on Michael's house.
18:54You all right?
18:57Hang on.
18:58All right.
18:58Yep.
18:59Thank God.
19:01It's so sharp.
19:03Wow.
19:05Man, that looks good, though.
19:06I felt like it was very Michael.
19:09It's bold.
19:10It has a lot of depth.
19:15The unique thing is that they're waterfalled.
19:18We took a stone, cut a 45 here and a 45 there, and then just folded it.
19:24That looks awesome.
19:25Mine's look good.
19:26Mm-hmm.
19:26Yeah.
19:26It's so cool.
19:27Michael will freak out.
19:29All right.
19:34You don't need any help.
19:35It looks...
19:36Oh, I got this one.
19:37OK.
19:37This one's a little lighter here.
19:39OK.
19:39It looks so good.
19:41The brown in it is my favorite thing.
19:43It looks expensive, probably because it is.
19:46It is.
19:47Unless you get a tiny little scrap of it.
19:49And it's a perfect water bowl for Zeus, the Great Dane.
19:53Really?
19:54You thought it was a vanity, but it's really a dog bowl.
19:56Huh.
19:56Yep.
20:04It is hard to walk past this building and not look at it.
20:08Jim and Mallory and Josh are officially going on a tour of two of the buildings that are available
20:12downtown that could become hotels.
20:14What an iconic building.
20:16Yeah.
20:16You know?
20:16The arches.
20:17The column.
20:18It is so grand.
20:19The windows.
20:20It is so big.
20:20It screams luxury.
20:22It does.
20:23From the 1960s, right, Jim?
20:24What year was it?
20:25Uh, 1969, it finished.
20:27So it's been vacant for two years.
20:29Two years.
20:30I'm curious what it looks like on the inside.
20:31I want to see it.
20:32The Trestmark building, it's a landmark building.
20:34It doesn't look historic in a turn-of-the-century kind of way.
20:40Oh, wow.
20:42Yeah, this is a big space.
20:44A lot bigger than I even remembered.
20:46Such good memories.
20:47Oh, I know.
20:48Remember these stairs?
20:50Absolutely.
20:50Did you hate the great part?
20:51Stairs I could never go up.
20:52Yeah.
20:52Your mama said you couldn't.
20:53Yeah.
20:54Yeah, mine too.
20:54Can't go up there.
20:55I love this, like, 60s style.
20:57It would be fun to design around.
21:00My mom also worked at Trestmark Bank in the 70s when she was a newlywed.
21:06Yeah.
21:07Imagine walking into this lobby.
21:09Dang, look at this thing.
21:11But this, imagine this being your continental breakfast.
21:14You have, like, all your utensils here where the banknotes used to be.
21:18Pretty cool.
21:18Got a big urn of, like, fancy coffee and pastries and...
21:22Well, you could make the check-in counter between these two columns.
21:26That's enough for a proper check-in counter.
21:29Sitting area over here with a nice club chair,
21:32plain lawns, wood paneling, leather.
21:35You've got all this space here, and I think we could add some walls,
21:38maybe create some more revenue somehow.
21:40Or space for retail, event space, or space for wedding, or conference space too.
21:45Mm-hmm.
21:46These stairs, like, I remember as a little boy coming in.
21:49Well, I want to go upstairs.
21:50I've never been upstairs.
21:53Wow, this is unbelievable.
21:55Look at this.
21:56Oh.
21:57Oh, the arches.
21:58What a view.
21:59Oh, and Matt, can you imagine a hotel room and having coffee looking out this window?
22:03Top of the world.
22:04I love this bank building because it's mainly concrete and steel.
22:08You know it's not going anywhere.
22:10This is a sturdy building.
22:12Jim likes it because of the style.
22:13I love the style.
22:15You bet.
22:15It's got that, it's got that 60s vibe, man.
22:17I like it.
22:18It's groovy.
22:20Groovy.
22:21Yeah.
22:22Yeah.
22:22The view doesn't match the hall.
22:25Right.
22:26The view's amazing.
22:26The hall, ah, it's boring, but we could fix that.
22:29Original curtains too.
22:33Look at this.
22:35Man, you could get like 60 rooms.
22:37This would be unbelievable.
22:38Like, so much cash flow from the rooms.
22:40It's a lot of cash flow coming out possibly, but that's a lot of cash flow going in too.
22:45Yeah.
22:46That's true.
22:50This stone backslash has a lot of movement, and that's good because I think the kitchen
22:55is so dark.
22:56There's so much darkness that I think we need the movement to break up visually what we're
23:02seeing.
23:02I'm also excited about what that hood vent's going to do visually paired with all of this.
23:09Ready?
23:09This is the coolest hood vent!
23:11Oh, this is good.
23:12Yep.
23:12Ah, my goodness.
23:14Ryan Durrett is a metal worker.
23:17Sculptor.
23:18Artist.
23:19Sculptor.
23:20One day country music singer.
23:21You wish.
23:22I remember the name like Ryan Durrett.
23:24Yeah.
23:24Yeah, I like doing hood vents.
23:26I've done quite a few.
23:27Really?
23:27They're fun.
23:28Yeah, there's a real big market for them in any like high-end kitchen.
23:33This is definitely statement making.
23:34Oh, yeah.
23:35I would call it brutalist design element.
23:37Yeah, definitely.
23:38This is very Michael though.
23:39He's an architect.
23:40He's super inspired by buildings that are faceted.
23:44Yes.
23:44Like the Shard in London and also the Leidenhall building.
23:49That's right.
23:49I think this is what it's called.
23:50He's going to freak out.
23:52I can't wait to get this welded and ground and get to the next.
23:56Can you teach me to TIG?
23:57I would love to teach you to TIG.
24:00Fire in the hole.
24:03So quiet.
24:05I have MIG welded and I have stick welded.
24:10This is something different.
24:11It's just the difference in material?
24:14Yep.
24:15And style and positioning.
24:17Ooh, that's a good looking weld.
24:18I would say that TIG welding is the most complicated.
24:23I'm looking to Ryan right now.
24:25All right.
24:26Can I try one?
24:26You can.
24:27Be mindful.
24:28If you touch this tungsten to this metal, it is going to arc.
24:31Where should I start?
24:32Can I do it up here?
24:33Um, you're tall.
24:34We'll start here.
24:34Okay.
24:37So just try that again.
24:40Boy.
24:41I'm trying.
24:43Dadgummit.
24:44I'm not very good at TIG welding.
24:47What's that Patrick Swayze movie?
24:49Let me ghost it.
24:52Oh, this is, isn't this magical?
24:56What?
24:57I'm going to help you in the beginning again.
25:01I was trying to.
25:02Patrick or Demi?
25:03I'm Demi.
25:05The dab on the right when I moved to the left.
25:08The dab.
25:08Gotcha.
25:09Dab.
25:11Dab.
25:12He was strong, firm, but tender.
25:16I felt as light as a feather.
25:19Like a, like a dove in his hands.
25:24These legitimately look good.
25:26Pretty, pretty, pretty great.
25:29I mean, it's a big building.
25:31It's a huge building.
25:32So this building though, product of the 1920s.
25:36Which is also.
25:37I've always loved this building.
25:38I do too.
25:38This is a great building.
25:40It's truly an icon of the city.
25:42When I see the great old photographs of Laurel at its peak.
25:45It's heyday in the 1920s.
25:47The crest building is always there in the background.
25:49Tons of traffic coming and going.
25:51Which is so different from what it's been in my lifetime.
25:55All right.
25:55Be careful.
25:57Yeah.
25:58Wow.
25:59Whoa.
26:00Look at the ceiling height.
26:06It's even taller over there.
26:08Wow.
26:09They really demoed.
26:10It's kind of.
26:11I mean, they took it out.
26:11They demoed everything.
26:13I mean, you're talking about top to bottom remodel and that's going to be an extensive budget.
26:20Okay.
26:21So this was the department store, right?
26:24This was one building and then next door.
26:26Ah.
26:27That was the theater.
26:28And you see the change.
26:29It jumps up.
26:29But what's really cool is you can see the stairs going up to the mezzanine.
26:33I wonder if that went to the projector booth.
26:34That's cool.
26:35That's great.
26:35Isn't that awesome?
26:36Imagine walking in to this grand lobby.
26:39Man.
26:40God.
26:40It could be a grand lobby.
26:42And I love this has like really good street store frontage all the time.
26:45Uh huh.
26:45Pretty good.
26:46We could take advantage of that and put some retail space in here and bring back the lobby
26:50to how it used to be in the 1920s.
26:52Tons of wood, molding, leather in the sitting areas.
26:56Grand, but still cozy feeling.
26:58It's not as big of a lobby as the building up the street, but I still like it.
27:04Yeah.
27:04Still getting that big feel, you know?
27:05I want to see upstairs, see how many rooms that we could possibly get.
27:09And these windows.
27:10Ooh.
27:11Wow.
27:12Dang, look how bright it is.
27:14Watch the holes.
27:15We got holes.
27:15Oh, yeah.
27:17How far down is that?
27:21I want to go to the third floor?
27:22Yeah.
27:23Yeah, I do.
27:23I wonder if it's the same layout.
27:24I would think.
27:25Wide open.
27:27Between the Trestmark building and the Crest building, you have a very distinct style
27:31that you would have to live with.
27:33You have a building that the historic charm has been erased, so you would have to try to recreate that.
27:40I don't know how you decide.
27:49Look at this hood ornament.
27:51That's good.
27:52I didn't want you to pull up too far.
27:54Sure.
27:54And him see your truck and all.
27:56Is it finished?
27:57It is finished.
27:58It's done.
27:59It's done.
28:00Ryan is delivering the finished range hood.
28:03We don't want Michael to see it.
28:05It's a big day.
28:06Michael lives on the third floor.
28:07He works on the first floor.
28:09We're trying to renovate the second floor without him seeing it.
28:12Right.
28:12It's tricky.
28:13So we need to be slick about this.
28:15All right.
28:15Sneaky.
28:15Yeah.
28:16Yeah.
28:16Just be quick.
28:17I will go talk to him.
28:19Let's do this.
28:21Hey.
28:22Hey.
28:23Where's this?
28:24Ah, spa day.
28:25Ah.
28:26You know.
28:26Of course.
28:27This is cool.
28:28What you working on?
28:29Um, I'm actually sitting here trying to compare the, uh, the Trestmark bank and the,
28:33uh, the Crest building.
28:35Um, doing room counts.
28:36Yeah.
28:37Yeah, looking at room counts.
28:38How many rooms can you get in the Trestmark?
28:4250.
28:44Easily.
28:45Yeah.
28:45That's a big hotel.
28:46It, it, it has the potential to be a phenomenal, huge hotel, but it's going to be a big project.
28:51What about Crest?
28:52Right now, I've got it at about 26, 27.
28:56That seems more manageable.
28:58Absolutely.
28:59Glad things are good.
29:01Yeah.
29:01Have they been, uh, are they leaning one way or the other on the hotel?
29:04Uh, I was told they're leaning one way.
29:07Yeah?
29:08Wow.
29:08Dude.
29:09He turned out so awesome.
29:11The way this multi-faceted hood vent has to be installed.
29:15There's Michael.
29:16Oh my God, it's right there.
29:18What are you doing?
29:20What are you doing?
29:20Checking mail.
29:22Just checking mail.
29:23Huh?
29:24Don't be going.
29:25I'll be sneaking up.
29:27He's checking the mail.
29:28Yeah, checking the mail.
29:30Yeah, checking the mail.
29:43Guess what's here?
29:44Fridge looks good.
29:46It's getting crazy.
29:47It's got a touch screen.
29:48I always get counter depth.
29:49Yeah.
29:50But here we could build however we wanted.
29:52Got a whole room.
29:53For that pantry space.
29:54And so I went full depth.
29:55I'm now realizing that it might not actually fit through the upstairs door.
30:00The kitchen door.
30:00That was tight to get the countertop out of.
30:0329 and a half without the doors.
30:05I don't know, y'all.
30:08When I'm out there ordering appliances, the last thing I'm thinking about is the doorway of the kitchen.
30:15You don't think about a door not being standard size?
30:1829.
30:19Because why would you?
30:20Why would a door be smaller than, say, 32 inches?
30:22We have a problem.
30:24It's 29 inches.
30:28Any world where it can squeeze?
30:30I mean, there's water lines and stuff on the back.
30:32We really need 30.
30:33Kind of worried about this.
30:35Hang on.
30:35Let me make a phone call.
30:36I have an idea.
30:38What are you doing right now?
30:47Beautiful.
30:48You're a hero today.
30:50Am I?
30:51Yeah.
30:51Our buddy, Jack Andrews, just happened to be working on a project down the street.
30:55And he is a jack of most trades, including driving a Lyft.
30:59I asked for a favor, and he delivered.
31:06Oh, didn't see you there.
31:08Do we feel super solid about this plan?
31:11Nope.
31:12That's what makes it a good one.
31:15I understand it's going to fit, but it could get dropped, scratched, bent, dented.
31:20I don't love any of that.
31:22Watch your hand, Ben.
31:23It is like the exact size of that hole.
31:27One, two, one.
31:30There it is.
31:32Down now.
31:35You did it.
31:36Did it get scratched?
31:37No scratches.
31:38High five.
31:46Look how high that is.
31:48That is really remarkable.
31:49Isn't that impressive?
31:49It is impressive, but what is it?
31:52Michael McKinnon's the single guy.
31:54Gotta have a TV.
31:55A big one.
31:57So big, in fact, that he uses a projector, and we don't want to hang it from the ceiling.
32:02So I thought, let's hide it in a spa table.
32:07Ah.
32:08A spa table?
32:09Because it's going to come up out of it.
32:11Imagine just like a traditional sofa table.
32:14Do curved ends with a reeded front all the way around, and then white oak on top.
32:21Pop comes up.
32:23Projector is inside that.
32:25Hidden.
32:26Hidden.
32:26When we did his primary suite, he wanted a wall of cabinets that just looked like paneling.
32:34This will be another hidden feature.
32:36That's really cool.
32:40TVs and radios used to be designed to be beautiful pieces of furniture.
32:44Now they're this gaudy black square hanging on the wall.
32:48It'll be a beautiful piece of furniture, but it'll be a very Michael piece of furniture.
33:22Oh, yeah.
33:22It'll be a good day.
33:23Well, it was close.
33:24We almost got busted.
33:25Bye, bud.
33:26See you later.
33:27See you, bud.
33:27I can't wait to show this to Mallory and Jim and get their opinions.
33:29Round and round she runs, trying to catch the light.
33:40Oh, good morning.
33:42Good morning.
33:43Ooh.
33:44What's going on?
33:45Things like Sputman.
33:46So, the whole lighting situation in here is really next level.
33:50Yes.
33:51I agree with you there.
33:52Today's a big day for Colton.
33:53We got him bowed up.
33:55It's a lot of lighting in one tiny little kitchen.
33:58We have chandelier over dinner table.
34:00Yes.
34:00We have toe kick.
34:02So, that'll go.
34:03That'll be a first.
34:04Underneath on both sides.
34:06It's ribbon lighting.
34:07It's remote control.
34:08What's going here?
34:09These are going away.
34:10Okay.
34:11We've got track lighting.
34:12Cool.
34:13Here and there.
34:15All right.
34:15It's under cabinet.
34:16Michael is all about life.
34:18Where the light's coming from.
34:19The way it moves around slatted wood.
34:21That's always his thing.
34:22Those are the things he cares about.
34:24He cares more about lighting than most anything.
34:35How are the buildings?
34:37They both have potential.
34:38Both of them need a lot of work to be a hotel.
34:41Jim really loves the bank building just because of the style.
34:44He loves that mid mod.
34:46I'd be deeply intimidated by the bank building.
34:48That's a huge, huge hotel.
34:51The Crest building, it's very similar to every other project we've done thus far,
34:56where it's 1930s, all of the historic, nostalgic.
35:01A lot of the historic charm of the building was erased 40 years ago, 50 years ago.
35:07Yeah, the cost to build that out, that's huge.
35:10How many rooms do you think he could get in?
35:12So we just got back from Michael's and the minimum number of rooms that we need to do this is
35:1725.
35:18If they can hit 25 rooms, then they cash flow it and it makes a profit.
35:23How many rooms could you put in the bank?
35:24Between like 50 and 60.
35:26There's a nervousness factor on 60 rooms.
35:30That's going to be more staff to keep it up.
35:32That's going to be 60 beds, 60 air conditioners.
35:3560 toilets to stop up.
35:37Make up your mind!
35:38Make up your mind!
35:40Make up your mind!
35:42Okay, all in favor of the bank.
35:45Really?
35:47All in favor of Crest, raise your hand.
35:50Really?
35:50I love it!
35:51I love it!
35:52I'm sorry!
35:52I love it too!
35:53I want both of them!
35:55They both need something to happen to.
35:56Start with one!
35:57Yeah.
35:57So you're doing it.
35:58Y'all are going to buy the dang Crest building.
36:00That's the one.
36:02Y'all!
36:02Somebody's going to do something with that building.
36:04We're going to spend some money?
36:05Just a little money?
36:06Oh, we're going to spend some money.
36:08I'm excited to see the Crest be something.
36:11My whole life, I wondered what it looked like when that was alive, and I'll find out.
36:19Together, live forever, always feel the same.
36:25Hello!
36:26Oh my goodness.
36:29I love it.
36:30It's Michael.
36:30It's so Michael.
36:31You think Michael's going to learn how to cook?
36:33No.
36:34He's going to be busy building a hotel with us.
36:37This looks great.
36:39For the second time with Michael, I have worked way outside my comfort zone.
36:45He has unusual taste, and you can't always know for sure
36:49that you got it right.
36:50I hope that we did.
36:58Michael.
36:59Yes, sir?
37:00Are you ready?
37:01It is time.
37:01Oh, thank God.
37:03Let's do this.
37:05Oh, what a greeting.
37:06Yeah.
37:06Uh-huh.
37:07You like the runner?
37:08Oh, yeah.
37:08It's different.
37:11Y'all.
37:19Bro.
37:24Y'all, this is awesome.
37:33Who did the hood?
37:34His name is Ryan Durrett.
37:36Okay.
37:37Yeah.
37:37Who is a metal fabricator and an artist. It's silver in the areas where it's stainless.
37:44And then this is steel with a black patina.
37:47If there was a sexy hood, this is it.
37:50Mm.
37:50It has abs.
37:51It's chiseled.
37:53Man, there's toe lighting.
37:54Yes.
37:58Lighting is your thing.
38:00This is a sick lighting package.
38:01You got toe kick, under cabinet, the very special Sputnik chandelier.
38:06It's everywhere.
38:07Look at this.
38:08Mm-hmm.
38:09Waterfall.
38:09I try to get it in every project.
38:11I've been chasing waterfalls for a long time, y'all.
38:14Longer than TLC.
38:15Longer than TLC.
38:16And we finally got one in a project.
38:22Oh.
38:23Ooh.
38:23Cereal.
38:24Y'all.
38:25That is the bougiest cereal holder I've ever seen.
38:28And then we carved just like upstairs above your closet.
38:32So that's your AC vent.
38:33Mm-hmm.
38:34Okay.
38:35Let me tell you about this fridge.
38:36Let's talk about this fridge.
38:37All right.
38:37This is the most techy fridge.
38:39Like, if you're at the grocery store and you can't remember how much milk you have for
38:43your cereal, you can just pull up the app on your phone and see inside your fridge.
38:49See what you have.
38:50That's awesome.
38:50Isn't that crazy?
38:51And under here, your robot vacuum has a special hideaway in there.
38:56Elon Dust has got his own place.
38:58Elon Dust.
39:00Sour worms, too.
39:01I mean, the details.
39:03All you eat is cereal and candy.
39:05I know.
39:05I know.
39:05But it's like, let me just see one of those.
39:07Like, this is awesome, y'all.
39:09You like it?
39:10Because this is not my style, Michael.
39:12I think we both know.
39:13I may have forced this on y'all a little bit.
39:15This is a reach for me, and I hope that it's correct.
39:20This is phenomenal.
39:26y'all, this is home.
39:27Yeah.
39:28Again.
39:30This is home, y'all.
39:33It's just like your apartment before was an outfit that you would never wear.
39:39Oh, yeah.
39:39It was a nice one.
39:40Yeah.
39:41But we're trying to make it an outfit that you would wear.
39:44This is like what it's supposed to be.
39:46Good.
39:46It's very loungy.
39:48What's this?
39:51It mimics the thing up top.
39:53At first, I was like, they brought that down from upstairs.
39:55What do we do up there?
39:56What about that in the corner?
39:58That's beautiful.
39:58This is a lamp inspired by a lamp that's in Frank Lloyd Wright's house.
40:04Travis Runyon helped me build this.
40:06Really?
40:07Do you know who Travis is?
40:08Firefighter.
40:09I got Travis to come and help me because he was one of the firefighters that arrived on the scene
40:14that night.
40:15Absolutely.
40:17Yeah.
40:17I, uh, you know, that night I had about 20 firefighters here and it was just because of them, we
40:25were able to do this project still.
40:27Yeah.
40:27So like, I just, I owe it all to the, to the lawified apartments.
40:31They're so awesome.
40:32Yeah.
40:32That's pretty cool.
40:33Y'all got him involved too, because he played poker here the night before.
40:36And then like the next night, you know, he's putting it out.
40:39So, well, we got you a new poker table, a proper one.
40:42Our aunties just went up with this table.
40:44Have a seat on the sofa.
40:47Now, let's say that you're hanging out with your buddies, but it's not a poker night.
40:50It's a movie night.
40:55Bro.
40:57Get out of here.
41:02Oh, it's like, that is ridiculous, dude.
41:06This is phenomenal.
41:08It's the Zeus show.
41:10So he loves going to your set library and playing with your globe.
41:13Seeing him drink water out of the sink reminds me, we need to show you a bathroom.
41:17You're not done yet.
41:18Before we go, let's, uh, close all this up, you know, because we're sophisticated.
41:23Because we can.
41:24You can feel the room transitioning.
41:26That's very satisfying.
41:27You've peaked, sir.
41:28That's it.
41:29I've leveled up.
41:30I don't know how you ever go out and do that.
41:34You have a guest room.
41:36It feels comfortable, like it's actually lived in, too.
41:39We hardly did anything at all, and it feels so different.
41:41I may have only been in this room twice, too.
41:43Like, I didn't, I never had a plan for this room.
41:45You gotta see the bathroom.
41:46Okay.
41:47Oh!
41:48Different!
41:49This is a very legit space.
41:54More of this.
41:56That reeded look.
41:57I just wanted to make the whole thing feel like it's singing the same song as the rest of the
42:03apartment,
42:03but we did it on, like, a shoestring budget.
42:06There's nothing.
42:07We just paint.
42:08I mean, paint the vanity.
42:09The brass does magic, where Zeus can drink out of this sink.
42:13Y'all, this sink bowl.
42:14I know.
42:15Isn't that cool?
42:15Yeah.
42:17What do you think?
42:18I mean, this is a real pear.
42:20It is a real pear.
42:21Sure is.
42:22I like to use the real word.
42:23It tells y'all.
42:23It's not just for TV.
42:25I only assumed I was gonna grab a fake pear and start talking.
42:27Uh-uh.
42:28Well, you gave us 60 grand to do this, and I love it.
42:33Yeah.
42:34I doubt you'll ever be over the fire, but maybe this is...
42:40This is gonna help.
42:40You can't be upset in a space like this.
42:43Mallory brought up a good point.
42:44She's glad that we were able to take this off your plate so you could focus on a whole hotel.
42:52I'm excited for Michael that he has a finished apartment.
42:57I'm excited for our friends, and we will absolutely do everything in our power
43:02to help them build it out.
43:04Like, I want a huge success for this.
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