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Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation - Season 12 - Episode 02: A Family Reno on the Beach in the Pacific Northwest
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00:08we're headed to the Pacific Northwest looking for a beach house in Blaine Washington this
00:14coastline runs along the Strait of Georgia where Pacific saltwater meets fresh river
00:18water to create an estuary teeming with wildlife waterfront property here costs millions but this
00:25family's joining forces to fund renovate and design their dream beach home for far less get ready for
00:32a beachfront bargain hunt renovation
00:51beautiful really nice there's so many boats maybe we would find a place to launch our boat I'm Alice I'm
00:58June and along with my parents Min and Bob we're looking for a house in Blaine Washington nice nice
01:06a real yeah nice here we currently live in Los Angeles California and my parents live in Redmond
01:13Washington we try to at least do like one family vacation together every year and I guess somehow
01:20it always kind of involved going to the beach and there's a beautiful Beach Bay hiking area in the
01:27state park and that's how they first discover Blaine so Blaine is on the coast of Washington it's right
01:35next to the border of Canada the beaches here it's a little bit more sandy and rocky but you definitely
01:43don't get this type of scenery you know the beaches that we regularly see it really feels like you're in
01:49nature it's a very friendly little town everything just seems like it moves slower there's a lot of
01:56small local businesses there are people picking oysters it's really welcoming my dad is a handyman and
02:05my mom Min she's an engineer when my dad first came to America he definitely struggled with speaking
02:12English because it's not his native tongue I remember when we were little we will always go to the public
02:18library and he'll always look at home improvement bugs to teach himself how to do plumbing electrical and
02:25even how to build houses the ideal beach house will be within walking distance to the water maybe two bedrooms
02:34at least one bath and what's also important is the lot size or the potential to add and expand to
02:41that house when we do
02:42purchase the house and when we're able to have access to it I believe that every time we come up
02:48to Washington we'll visit the beach house and also whenever we're not here I know that Bob and I'm not
02:55going to be able to have access to it I believe that every time we come up to Washington
02:55Bob and men will come up every month having the potential for short-term rental is a plus 20 years
03:03ago
03:03when my parents first came to the US they basically had to start their life all over again having a
03:10vacation
03:11home wasn't anywhere in their mind having a house that's close to the beach is kind of like the pinnacle
03:17of
03:17their American dream and you know for us we just wanted to you know do what we can to really
03:23help
03:24them to make their dream come true we have $450,000 pulled together by the whole family for buying the
03:31house and for renovation I found a few listings here in Blaine and hope that we can tour some houses
03:38and
03:38hopefully we find one that we all like the first time we got here we love it a lot of
03:52water activities
03:53fishing and boat launching it's a small quiet time and the beach nice yeah so we're going to look at
04:03Birch Bay view it's a two-bedroom and one and half bath a little under 1200 square feet is listed
04:12at 425
04:14so it leaves us with about $25,000 for renovation okay it looks like it's pretty close to the water
04:22pretty close to the state part that's great all right we're here
04:32nice there's gonna be a lot of restoration to be done yeah I'm not a fan of the yellow color
04:38so
04:38repaint it the outside needs a little work but let's go ahead and go inside
04:47okay so this is the house a lot of green here yeah
04:52oh look before this water damage that probably need to be replaced I think the style is very old
04:59right definitely new countertop maybe we can keep the cabinets maybe painting it yeah I guess this is
05:07the bathroom oh my gosh definitely need work maybe just water damage yeah all water damage
05:15there's so many like destroyed area what is going on okay let's take a look at the rest you can
05:23use
05:23this as a maybe dining space do we need to change a tile I know it's a lot of different
05:29materials going
05:30on with the tile and then the wood maybe that was the concept they were like let's just throw every
05:36ingredient into the house and then we have a full bath wow there's a huge bathroom that's very large we
05:44definitely need to update everything here so it's connected to the bedroom oh kind of good size but
05:53it's definitely old maybe we should go upstairs let's go it's definitely a weird layout the stair also I mean
06:01I
06:01do like the wood we just need to maybe paint it and refinish it
06:06watch out the ceiling okay it's very bright nice and airy up here I'm not sure what that sink is
06:15doing
06:15over there though very random I'm getting rid of that for sure no I want to keep it why would
06:24you
06:24keep that it's like yeah yeah yeah you could take it to your house okay oh this is my house
06:31I'm keeping
06:31doing this oh yeah it looks yeah wow it is an ocean view oh wow I like it very close
06:54to the water
06:55just one row behind yeah love it yeah okay let's maybe go down and see the creek
07:05the listing said there is a custom sauna that's made out of boat I think this is it wow
07:13that's kind of unique this looks really cool okay so we have a nice size deck here oh yeah it's
07:21just
07:21old and we need to replace it I mean definitely overall it's nice it's a little expensive 425
07:29our budget is leaving us 25k for renovation I mean it's so close to the water so there's good beach
07:37access you know two three minutes so definitely some rental income to kind of think about too for this
07:43house yeah I like the income stream
07:59the next house we're going to look into is salmon away location-wise it's located between you know
08:07Drayton Harbor and Birch Bay it looks like it's a little farther from the beach it's about five
08:14five-minute drive but it's a three-bedroom and two bath what is the price the price is listed at
08:22440
08:23thousand so it's higher on our price range leaving about only ten thousand dollars for renovation so
08:32that's something to think about but I like that has a three bedrooms which is a plaster point yeah it
08:40looks a little bigger with 1,500 square feet
08:45we are here so this is the house what do you guys think
08:52kind of don't like the color of the wall but I like it actually yeah well I'm always wrong wife
09:00is always right
09:00it's very open yeah yeah I like it a big fun yard mm-hmm nice quiet street we'll see you
09:07know what kind
09:08of view we get but it is a little bit farther away from the beach but I think just take
09:13a look
09:13okay shall we go inside I think we're ready go that's the way oh you see the ocean right there
09:35gives you more incentive to cook I like the floor you like the floor yeah yeah since we only have
09:43ten
09:43thousand dollars of budget we might not have to you know change the floor in this one let's check out
09:50the kitchen the layout's nice bring a lot of natural lights that's very open yeah should we take a look
10:00at
10:00the bedroom I believe this is the primary bedroom with a bathroom attached wow this is a really big size
10:11we can all fit in here
10:13oh yeah maybe get a double sink that's a good idea since we do have the space for it
10:24yeah very open very open time to explore the deck right yeah here we go ladies first thank you
10:35beautiful sunshine yeah wow big view not too far away from the beach there's not too much privacy though
10:45right to the neighbors you can definitely see what they're doing you're gonna stock on them no I'm
10:54just saying you can see what they're doing like from here so what do you guys think about the house
11:01overall price is on the high end of our budget but other than that I think it looks like a
11:08good house
11:16house is on the high end of our budget so now we're going to go look at oyster on deck
11:20it's one bedroom
11:22and one bath this is small right yeah it's 684 square feet I think it's a little bit small a
11:31little bit
11:31small but the price it's really good it's listed at 299 and it gives us about 151 000 for renovation
11:43oh that's nice yeah it looks like the seller also recently dropped the price by 11 000 we could use
11:51every penny I like the price here's the house oysters on deck I like the deck in the front of
12:01the house
12:01if we want to expand the house with this torture maybe we can extend the wall out and then make
12:09additional room maybe should we go in yeah take a look oh wow oh I guess this is the bathroom
12:20like
12:20right when you come in yeah it's old and dated this is small everything needs to change it's kind of
12:30weird laid out too you know you just walk in and it's like the bathroom right away this is for
12:36the SOS design
12:38just walk in just walk in gotta go yeah and then this is the kitchen oh I think that the
12:46whole house
12:47just feels dark to me just with the gray wall the brown trim the cabinets are brown yeah the floor
12:56as well
12:57I do not like the floor color oh yeah yeah yeah kitchen is a small bedroom is small
13:11well we do have 150k to renovate so maybe second floor I don't know we'll have to see what we
13:20can do
13:22here now to the living room oh the living room is huge could we push this wall a little bit
13:33to this
13:34side and then expand the kitchen I need to go to the attic to check the structure yeah okay so
13:44maybe we can
13:45take a look at the deck the backyard let's go to have some very good view oh the ocean view
13:56is beautiful
13:56yeah we get a nice ocean view right here very big yard also a bit messy though they leave a
14:04lot of
14:05materials for the materials for Bob oh can you use some of these oh maybe for the firewood
14:12but we do have 150k to kind of renovate and make it our own and um you know in terms
14:22of rental potential
14:23I think that as it is we might only able to do maybe a hundred dollars a night but maybe
14:30if we add
14:31another bedroom can potentially get to 150 200 yeah that's a room for expansion so something to think
14:39about
14:48so we saw a lot of great homes and then one of them is clearly a winner salmon away it's
14:54a good size but
14:55the price it's a little higher on our budget oyster on deck the price is really good but then
15:03there's just a lot of work to do and now the drum roll moment we decide to go with birch
15:11bay view
15:15it's really close to the beach it's less than two three minutes walk the house was listed at
15:22425 000 but we're able to get it down to 360. i think the renters will love it i think
15:29we'll love
15:30it i think it'll be a great time but you know we definitely have a lot of work to do
15:35all right all
15:36right that's it we did it guys oh we got it man yeah now time to get to work yeah
15:48let's talk about the exterior of the house so i really like the idea of creating a greek island
15:54vibe by using white paint with a deep blue accent i think it will look really unique and vibrant and
16:01the house will really stand out given that it's so close to the ocean let's go ahead and check out
16:07the
16:07sauna that's good idea oh wow for the sauna it's just refinishing some of the woods putting
16:17new cedar and that's pretty much it it's gonna look really nice okay and then this outside area
16:23we probably need to refinish the pathway switch out the wood power wash the deck maybe repair some of
16:31the wood put a new hot tub here it's a nice space for it and then you get a water
16:38view it's a good place
16:40nice and maybe get rid of that chicken on the top oh it's a little weird yeah you don't like
16:48chickens
16:52okay so i think that for the living room we'll just go ahead and change all the flooring to match
16:58the rest
16:59of the house to lvp so you don't have the tile and all the mismatched flooring and then we'll repaint
17:07everything to freshen it up okay i don't know i kind of wanted to do something a little bit more
17:14creative with the color maybe blue board and batten some wallpaper new flooring keep the tub and the
17:23toilet but new mirror and just keep this okay yeah but just change the color right yeah yeah okay yeah
17:31cool not too much job yeah not too much work in here that's good and then for the kitchen i
17:38think
17:38that's where some of the big work has to come in um for the cabinet um i think it's still
17:45pretty good
17:45quality so maybe we just resurface it and repaint it but we'll need a new stove in this area a
17:55butcher
17:55countertop maybe easier to work with and then depending on you know what color we want to do
18:01the cabinet we'll think about the backslash okay so for this bathroom we're not gonna keep it maybe
18:09converting it into a second bedroom in the first floor so is that still what you guys are thinking here
18:17entire wall yeah push out maybe about two feet to my uh small bedroom okay sounds good let's head upstairs
18:29so i think that for this room lvp flooring all throughout adding some cabinets and floating shelves
18:37just making a small kitchenette in this space i guess we keep the sink there and turn that into a
18:43dining
18:44space putting a wall behind the tv and then we can put a couch in this space try to refinish
18:51the
18:52bathroom give it a new door do some decorative paint or wallpaper maybe to just give it more of a
18:59finish so you know it's not just like a toilet there then we are keeping this fireplace do not have
19:06to
19:07five years for you i want to keep this one um we'll probably refinish it and repaint it okay so
19:15i think
19:15that we walked through everything um mom how much do you think that everything will cost i think around
19:2345 000 to 50 000 i think that would be durable and then let's make this a beach house our
19:32next vacation house
19:45we're going to demo the kitchen ready to work yes i'm ready today the whole family's here at the house
19:53we didn't hire any outside help because you know june is really great with his muscles and helping out
20:00the labor so we kind of thought it's a good time for us family to get together and bond and
20:05just work
20:06on this together i would say i'm a semi-professional okay
20:21wow you're so strong see i told you you can do it by yourself i am impressed
20:27demo it's pretty fun i kind of felt like it's stress relieving too to kind of just like break things
20:32pull it out pull it out wow that's easy
20:42you're strong guy this is very fun i like to break things there's definitely strength that i did not
20:50know about hold it to fall on your head this demo project i hope that we are not finding too
20:59much
20:59damage that we have to fix oh whoa whoa whoa oh this is damaging right the damage underneath the kitchen
21:09floor it kind of scares me a little bit i think that we didn't anticipate it to be that big
21:15of a project
21:20wow this just like literally comes right off is this worse than you imagined worse worse much too much
21:28worse
21:37oh blood damage wow this just like literally comes right off
21:44the flooring was very damaged it was very surprising to just see it ripped apart so i was thinking wow
21:52this really has to go my dad wants to just take out the subflooring everything just cut it through
22:10to kind of see what's underneath it what kind of repair it needs to be done
22:16oh wow oh to check for water damage in the kitchen
22:25a little bit good news it's not damaging too much we need all insulation here but we don't see a
22:33lot of
22:33flood damage though so just the flooring that's yeah just the floor after he sliced off the dry wall we're
22:40able to get a clearer picture and it seems like it's better than we expected we probably have to
22:46replace some of the rotten wood and then the damage underneath the kitchen floor good news
22:52mostly good news just looking at the kitchen how open it is i'm excited to see how it'll look once
22:59we
22:59have the floating shelf the floor finish and then putting all the cabinets back in i think we made a
23:05lot
23:05of progress we just need to work on it a little bit more and i think it will be a
23:10great product at the
23:10end so yeah i'm very proud
23:21all right let's do this we're back at the house and we're choosing the flooring i think that flooring
23:28is probably one of the biggest projects we have to tackle so it's a pretty big decision because we
23:34choose the wrong one the whole house is going to end up with an ugly flooring that we're going to
23:38stare at i picked up three lvp flooring samples and the first one i kind of like it because it
23:47gives a
23:48coastal kind of vibe the second one you know the oak color it's great it gives a lot of warmth
23:54to the
23:55room the third one it's a little bit different it's on the darker side it's a walnut shade these are
24:02like
24:02stickers yeah so you just peel right boom yeah yeah so this will be your dad you know working through
24:09the house yeah this anyone could just go whoop and done yeah i guess you know simply put and just
24:18kind
24:18of put some numbers to those different samples this one is the most expensive one around 250 per square
24:26foot so for a 1200 square foot house it's going to be a little under three grand and then for
24:34those two
24:35i think it's 129 per square foot so for our house it will be a little under 1500 so we
24:43have to really
24:44think about our budget and which one to pick for me the oak color is just very casual and normal
24:51so i don't
24:52think it will go bad with anything so i think it's like the easy choice i think that it's too
24:58yellow
24:58for the house i see i do like you know the material here just because i think that with a
25:05stick and peel
25:06it might not be as durable and waterproof i know it's a little bit more on the pricier side but
25:13i think
25:14that it's worth it i know my dad's gonna probably hate us for choosing this but i mean just leave
25:20your
25:20phone off for a while you'll be okay all right let's go ahead and maybe place an order and then
25:25we can get started let's do it i think you're gonna have to talk to your dad
25:41since i've been gone my dad has been working on fixing some of the flood damage so he replaced all
25:48the
25:48stuff floor on the kitchen area and he's also putting on waterproof drywall in the downstairs
25:54area we're turning the old kitchen into a bedroom with an ensuite bathroom because we wanted to
26:02move the kitchen upstairs to prevent future water damage from the flooding the upstairs kitchen that
26:09will be the only kitchen at the house today we are really excited to do the painting we just
26:17wanted to brighten up the space and i think that downstairs it can tend to be a little darker so
26:23we're just doing white dad tend to like more of like the warm yellow color and i was like no
26:29more
26:30yellow please yeah i think it's a better choice
26:46i think that you know a coat of paint will really refresh the whole entire area
26:59oh you can cut it too yeah you're a strong guy that's still young now the paint has dry we're
27:06ready
27:06to start with the flooring in the new bedroom we bought about 30 boxes of flooring
27:16we're putting on flooring you just have to really prep the floor making sure that it's clean that's
27:22why you see we keep on like sweeping the floor just making sure it's like spotless vacuum it you need
27:40to
27:40the flooring sample you just see like one piece of it and you never know how they look in the
27:46room and
27:46with the lighting and with the wall color so it's really satisfying that it didn't look bad so that was
27:53it's not gonna look good
28:03okay there are two bathrooms on the bottom floor one is in the bedroom the other one is the main
28:12functional full bath it has the dated look so we're gonna do some board and batten do you want to
28:18nail it
28:19no i don't know how i can hold that
28:29and then we went ahead and painted it blue
28:36and then fun beach vibe wallpaper on the rest of the wall so we're all doing this for the first
28:43time
28:43yeah no no no no no no let me let me let me let's see is it oh wow
28:55that actually match perfectly wallpaper can really change up the space and make it really fun
29:03i think it's a lot harder than what we expected oh no oh i don't like to do this stuff
29:14oh but i'm hoping that at the end everything is going to be worth it because it's looking really good
29:20so
29:31far
29:33my dad picked up a wood-burning hot tub from his friend his friend was giving it away so i
29:39guess
29:39this was the perfect place to put it at its forever home okay okay that was okay
29:47oh perfect
29:50with this hot tub since it was used there wasn't any instructions on how to put it together
29:57oh no no no no okay but it's going well i think it's just supposed to come together like a
30:04tetris
30:06this is quality family time high quality it burns wood it's different than a traditional hot tub
30:14i never tried it at the end there's no tub inside or whatnot but it will be waterproof it's a
30:22hot tub
30:23we're almost done putting it together the problem is this is the last piece and when we're
30:29trying to put it in it doesn't fit it doesn't seem like we have big gap all the gaps add
30:37together maybe
30:38two inches so we're just trying to figure out how to salvage this and then just put the last piece
30:45in
30:46on my phone i'm trying to look up like maybe there's an instruction menu that we can follow
30:51my dad didn't even bother he's like i'm just gonna figure it out on my own it doesn't seem like
31:08we have
31:08a big gap but somehow it doesn't fit we get it put together first as we're kind of figuring out
31:16how the
31:16last piece is fitting together my dad kind of thought about maybe we'll take the metal ring to
31:23kind of screw together first
31:35you got it wow wow
31:39wow okay good nice wow we did it
31:51nice wow
31:55it feels really good that we are able to finish it i'm looking at this and it looks really good
32:01so
32:02i just can't wait till when we finally able to enjoy it together yeah some chicken chicken wing yeah
32:09yeah can you barbecue here yeah
32:26for the new kitchen upstairs we're reusing the old cabinets from downstairs to save some money
32:35originally we wanted to use a butcher countertop for the kitchen but of course my dad changed his
32:40mind again and we ended up using a formica countertop for the kitchen and use a butcher block
32:46countertop for the island i don't think that formica has the best reputation but i think that
32:52we use the right element the right design it will end up looking really great
33:09one of the unique projects is the sauna but we knew that there's some work that needs to be done
33:16to it
33:17so my mom and my dad are demoing ripping away the siding and also install a new siding for the
33:24sauna
33:28my dad tried to salvage the old chimney
33:32but it's clogged so he's just trying to change it to a new one
33:38my dad got this maroon siding material from the hardware store even though we're going to pay the
33:44house more of white and blue so i'm not really sure how that really reddish color fits in with that
33:51overall theme but my dad is pretty adamant about just kind of keeping the way it is
34:11oh yeah it's walking enjoy the sauna after the chimney is installed he did a test and it seemed like
34:19the
34:19new chimney is going great and i'm excited to try it out
34:33so we had a hard time deciding on the backsplash tile choice but we ended up picking out a floral
34:41a
34:41backsplash tile but my dad did exactly what i expected him to do to go another direction
34:48how's it going wow it looks beautiful i really like the color i think that the color really matched
34:56the ocean the blue sky not bad not bad yeah well i guess i'm not as mad as i should
35:04be with his choices
35:07wow oh you like it
35:13oh my mom loves giving my dad a hard time when he's doing the projects why this is not the
35:18same
35:19high you can get great okay no no no no it's okay you know my mom keep my dad on
35:26his toes i guess
35:55oh wow
35:57maybe it'll be better once you see you know the grout getting put up and everything is finished
36:11today my parents and my brother and i are planning to do the exterior paint
36:19once he sprayed it white you know it really freshened up the house but it looked really white
36:24so i was a little scared at first but i keep on telling myself you know once we put on
36:29the blue
36:30it's going to be fine the original color we wanted to do with like a deep blue you know the
36:40green
36:41centurini type of vibe but my parents kind of felt like the blue looks too dark and moody so they
36:48decided with more of like a lighter blue color look the knife hi hi what else i need to do
37:01we just have to
37:02put it up yeah where do you want to put this in the bedroom today's a day where we're gonna
37:09finish
37:09things up and i'm gonna show the house to my husband june and we're gonna have a party to celebrate
37:16are you tall enough i think so it's been months since june has seen the house the place look
37:23completely different since the last time he's seen it i'm gonna pull oh good how will pay off
37:31this whole entire process has been hard challenging stressful but at the same time really rewarding
37:37and it's really special to make this dream come true as a family together are you ready i'm nervous
37:49so i'm really excited to show june the place and you know see how he reacts
37:59man the white and blue here so pretty you like it so nice i'm very excited let's go let's go
38:08me first yeah wow it looks like a real house now exciting yeah um so we changed the floor do
38:21you see
38:21that yeah all our sweat and labor went into changing the floor yeah the pain is different everything is
38:29one of the bedroom yeah take a look wow you already have a bed here yeah nice and cozy right
38:37yeah before
38:38it was like so gloomy and dark and yeah a little bit depressing so it's connected do you remember this
38:46space yeah it's just like basic work like resurfacing and pain we wanted to do wallpapers
38:51but then you failed it didn't stick we're trying to do things on a budget you know so this is
38:58super
38:58nice shall we move to the next location yeah okay this looks very different and i think there was like
39:05a monitor here yeah so this was just like maybe like a workspace but we decided to turn this into
39:12a
39:12dining space my dad wanted to keep the lamp oh yeah the lamp the lamp yeah i remember that well
39:20do you
39:20remember what this space was before i think there was like a kitchen over there yeah we we changed it
39:27wow it looks very different yeah it looks a lot better now but now it's a bedroom yeah i think
39:33it's
39:34a really great choice now we could have more guests here and i believe this was a bathroom yeah
39:43a tiny one though yeah but it looks nice yeah this new cabinet that's in the place yeah yeah it
39:50looks
39:50so much better than before ready to go upstairs i'm always ready okay
39:57you decided to keep the chimney oh yeah but we did repaint it
40:04i like this the back splash yeah oh yeah this is nice well we tried to match the blue
40:11yeah i mean the island is like super pretty though this was like the white
40:17tile and then he changed it to the butcher countertop oh the bathroom
40:23you haven't changed yeah there's no door there was this was the best part i'm glad that you have a
40:29door though oh ready to look at my million dollar million dollar view yeah i forgot how it looked
40:40oh okay my dad switched all the siding here so now the sauna it's all working now oh it works
40:48yeah oh that's nice okay well i need to show you a surprise well a really cool thing that we
40:54did
40:55it's a hot tub yeah oh it's a wood running hot tub wow it looks super nice yeah that looks
41:03very
41:04different from before did you guys replace all the wood yeah yeah yeah my dad did all this well yeah
41:10it
41:11looks very nice we have a place to enjoy the water view the ocean view looking forward to excited moment
41:20together i'm really proud of all the work that we did and you know my dad you did a lot
41:26of work so
41:27so now we can finally enjoy it yeah let's celebrate it uh by having a barbecue party
41:35we budgeted fifty thousand dollars for the renovation and we spent twenty three thousand
41:41and two hundred dollars so we saved a lot of money and i tell my dad maybe we can use
41:46the money for a
41:47nice vacation or something we're really proud of the work that we've done um given the short amount
42:03of time and given limited resources limited budget and you know we kind of try to roll up our sleeves
42:10and just did everything ourselves oh i'm so proud of you you know we finished this huge project now
42:19pressure's off um honestly there was not much pressure for me what do you think i'll have in the
42:27party amazing amazing oh thank you did you do this by yourself uh not lately and this by all yourself
42:36oh my dad always wanted to own a house next to the beach and i think that you know by
42:43us doing
42:44that it's definitely fulfilling his american dream one two three cheers thank you all for coming thank you
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