- This is a new project we just started.
As you can see, we gutted all the ceilings.
So we open it up, we're gonna do a spray foam insulation.
- Big part of demolition,
or pre demolition is-- - Right.
- protecting the existing floors, walls,
everything else that's not gonna be touched.
- There's a layer of foam that's taped down,
so that if anything falls and is heavy,
it's not going to gouge the floor.
- That's our hope because we don't want
to redo the whole floors.
- And we plastic the openings, try to contain the dust,
but the dust never really gets contained.
Dust gets,
everywhere - Everywhere.
- Everywhere.
You got sheet rock,
everything else that's had dust sitting there
for 50, 60 years and then we disrupt everything.
- [Susan] You didn't know that that dust had--
- Yeah it's like the dust was hanging out at this home.
"Yeah it's cool."
And then it's like their residual dust friends come
and hang out here. - Right. They're like
"they'll never find us here." - And then all of a sudden--
Yeah, they're like, - They're hiding.
- "Oh, cool, we got this new spot for us to chill in"
and then all of a sudden,
"the cleaning lady comes by and wipes us all out."
And then the new dust guys are somewhere else.
- That doesn't make any sense.
There's some termite damage in the next room.
So we thought that damage came in here.
We wanted to fix it before we put a new floor down.
And we didn't find any termite damage.
But we did find another surprise.
- [Paul] A basketball sized hornet's nest.
- [Susan] Yeah, it's huge.
- We don't think there's anything in there,
or we hope not.
- We don't wanna find out.
- If somebody encounters a hornet's nest,
they should like run.
That's what I would do.
That's what I did.
I was like, I ran and I called Paul.
And did you call the pest control people?
No. I don't think you did yet. - No.
- We think it's empty but we don't, yeah, we don't know.
- I'm pretty sure it is because if--
- That thing's huge.
- It's pretty incredible.
- I wouldn't,
I'm feeling like I'm gonna stay over here
and Paul can stay near the hornet's nest.
- I'm gonna get a selfie with that thing.
It's awesome.
Serious.
I'm gonna poke it.
I'm doing it.
- [Susan] That kind of sounds like buzzing.
Ew.
Okay, now I'll stand next to you.
- The termites lost, and now the hornets lost.
- This fireplace has been covered up
since the very beginning.
- It's been covered up for so long,
we'd forget what it looks like.
- Right, so we need to open it up,
so we can see what it looks like.
And then think about what we're gonna do with it.
Oh yeah, now I remember.
Should we get the stuff in the--
- No, because you're literally talking about
a fireplace walking away when we're supposed to talk about--
- Well, because I need to look at it.
- Oh, well you didn't say that.
You just walk over to the trash and go,
"Should we get rid of this?"
See, she's just all over the place.
- You're hot and angry.
- 'Cause it's hot in here.
- Get rid of that trash.
- I have a sweat mustache.
- Get out of here.
That's better.
So this whole room is gonna be painted.
The different options we have are
one is to do a (laughs)
he found his way back in.
- (Mocking Laugh) Yeah, there's two doors.
- So one of the options was to do
the plastic faux finish which I think we decided is out
because it might not look modern enough.
- They want to paint it, do reclaimed wood
and put a fireplace in.
- [Susan] Yeah.
- That's gonna be a few bucks to do it.
You have to be careful how high up you're going here.
- She wants to put like, art there.
So I think we're gonna keep it here.
- She wants to put me on the wall?
I mean, it's flattering.
- I think almost we could paint the bottom
a little bit darker than the top.
Knock off that top row of bricks.
And get a wood mantel on it.
I think that would look the best.
That's what we're gonna do.
- So you wanna cover this row or
just sit the mantel right on top of it?
- No I wanna sit the mantel right on top of it.
- [Paul] So how big of a mantel are you talking, the height?
- Two inches, maybe four or five?
Maybe like double.
- Four, six roughly.
That's how we measure things.
This is all wood back here.
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.
We're renovating the majority of the first floor.
This was an oversized dining room.
It has nice high ceilings.
Nice big window, lots of light.
Really nice for a kitchen space.
We did a two tone kitchen which has stained cabinets
on the bottom, white cabinets on top.
And because the ceiling is so high, it was awkward.
There was no interest and we thought about doing
a light box over the island.
Originally we were just gonna have
the two levels on the ceiling.
But once the cabinets were in,
I felt like it was just too plain.
But because of the way the room is shaped
and because there's a hallway,
we ended up sizing it so that we can have two light fixtures
that are gonna go on top of it.
I just felt like it needed a little extra something.
So the beams kind of did the trick.
- Susan and I like this kitchen so much that we're--
beaming.
- That's right, honey.
So our clients bought a mirror
that they want hung over the fireplace.
Paul's very excited to get it hung.
So we're trying to just figure out--
- Super, super excited.
- We're just trying to figure out
where exactly it's gonna go.
And get it centered.
It's the first thing you see when you walk in.
It's really the focal point.
So you gotta get it right.
And then what is it?
like another six inches above that point.
- [Paul] Huh?
- I'm just looking at how high it's gonna be.
I'm just talking to myself.
Just go ahead.
- Keep talking to yourself.
- I'm just saying that's the point
where you're gonna put the hooks
and then the mirror itself
is like another six inches above, right?
- Found, nothing.
There's nothing to find.
- No studs.
- You know what I found?
Sweat mustache on my face.
That's what I found.
- Paul, how many studs did you find in this room?
- That a serious question?
Just one,
you're looking at him.
It's good that this thing's really light, too.
It helps.
It's so hot in here.
- [Susan] That's just you, honey.
- You're a liar.
- [Susan] I think the mirror needs to go a little bit lower.
- I don't think it does.
- [Susan] I'm just kidding.
- I was gonna say, have fun making it lower.
The hooks aren't like wide to catch the head of that thing.
It's not the greatest setup that they sent to hang it.
- I don't think it's gonna catch anybody's eye.
Like it's gonna be off the wall a little bit anyway
because of the way the hooks are.
- Does it look straight?
- [Susan] Yeah.
- I think it looks pretty straight there.
- [Susan] I think it's fine, don't you?
- I don't like the word "fine."
- [Susan] I think it looks great.
- "Fine" is not a word that we use.
- She just told me that all
of her friends love the ceilings
and that they've never seen anything like that before.
- Do you think her friends said that the ceiling was fine?
- You said, "How's it look?"
And they're like, "Fine."
Depends on the term you're using "fine."
Like we're going out to dinner
and you're like,
"Honey, you look FINE." - [Susan] FINE,
yeah, that's how the mirror looks.
- That's like a different thing.
- [Susan] That's what I'm trying to say.
- When you say like, "Damn, that looks FOINE."
It's totally different.
- Dayum!
- It's all about being fine.
- Yep.
- Don't push that too hard.
Whatever Susan tells you, I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
There was a basketball sized hornet's nest
in the floor below us.
And we have renovated the entire thing.
Including getting rid of that hornet's nest.
- This room had pink walls.
We raised the ceiling, added all brand new windows.
New tile flooring.
- So you walk in and you're like,
"Cool this is a nice little room."
What do we have behind door number two?
- So where I'm walking through right now used
to be the kitchen and a hallway.
It wasn't a very functional kitchen.
It was tiny.
And so now when you walk in,
you actually have a place to put your stuff.
- It's a big mud room too. - It's huge.
- But it's uniform,
ceiling height's pretty tall in here.
We got a nice light fixture.
You got the hooks for the mud room.
Got the V groove on the walls with the bench seat.
And the little cubbies below.
So they can put their shoes.
And then you come through door number three.
- [Susan] They moved the dining room to here
which was the original living room.
- This is kind of their formal space now
for when they entertain, have guests.
And now the fireplace was a red brick.
It was a wood burning fireplace.
The mantel was kind of eh.
Susan came up with the design
Said, "Why don't we do a reclaimed piece of wood?
"Paint it white."
- We kept it simple, did a new gas insert.
There was an old brick shelf here that you took off.
And we were able to replace it with a wood mantel.
- I think it looks really good in the space.
It's very clean, simple, I think, design overall.
- And this mirror, oh my god.
This mirror is amazing.
I wonder who put it up?
- Obviously, a really strong guy.
- [Susan] Obviously.
- This room was being used as a sitting area.
And then after we were looking at the whole thing,
we're like, "It really makes more sense"
"to have your kitchen in here."
This whole space was being taken up by just a table
so Susan came up with this.
- It was already just a huge space
that they were using as a sitting area.
We decided to bring the kitchen into here.
So we wanted two tone cabinets.
They did stained, dark lower cabinets.
And light upper cabinets.
Ended up putting in a good size island.
The overall function of it works much better.
- I love this counter top.
It's got almost like a little beige in it.
It goes really nice with the stained cabinets.
- I don't see the color at all.
That's why I let her pick it.
It looks gray to me, but she's saying it's beige.
So it's beige.
- [Susan] The ceilings were already pretty high.
I think they were about 10 feet high.
- We had added these beams with the crown
to kind of doll it up a little bit.
- Yeah because it was long
and it was just super plain.
And so we just wanted to give it a little bit of detail.
- If she ever built a house for a basketball player,
they would love her,
because there would just be tall ceilings.
And the guys wouldn't have to worry
about hitting their heads anywhere.
- [Susan] Who doesn't like tall ceilings?
- They got these awesome pendants.
- Yeah, the pendants are cool.
- [Paul] Nice, big statement pieces over this
because it's a pretty big island.
- The back splash, we kept pretty simple,
just a white subway with white grout.
It's not flat, it does have
a little bit of movement to it.
So that gives it a little bit of interest.
- This window actually was here.
A lot of the old trim was a stained color
which Susan would say it's a tell-tale sign
the age of the house.
- [Susan] It's just crazy how much a room can change
and how it can look new just by painting the trim.
- And we put the fridge over there.
- So this just gives them some more space
for extra cabinetry.
Overflow stuff and gets the fridge out of the way.
The only wall we really had in the rest of the kitchen
to put a fridge would have been this wall.
- Yeah, which would have cut that off some.
- [Susan] Yeah.
- When you walk in here.
- Well it would have been too close to the stove.
So this was just a good spot to tuck the fridge away.
Get it out of the way.
And keep the kitchen nice and open.
It really opens up the space.