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So I got a call from a potential new

client couple, Naima and Edo,

and they have an immediate need to either find a way

for their house to work or move on.

Do they have any kids?

They do, yes. They have kids.

There's nothing worse than when you feel your home doesn't

work for you and your family,

and you're desperate for change.

I could tell from the message that there's more to the story.

Whatever is going on sounds pretty serious.

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This reminds me of Aunt Margo's neighborhood.

- Oh, yeah. - Cute old '60s homes.

But family homes need a little new life breathed into them.

Yeah.

- How are you? - Hey, Edo.

- Pleasure, Jonathan. - Yeah, yeah, nice to see you.

- Naima. - Hey, good to see you.

Good to see you. I'm a hugger.

- I can't help it. - Hey, come on.

Get in, get in.

I'm feeling a little left out.

Come on in.

First of all, love the view out here.

- Thank you. - So this is--

is it just houses down here?

So the stairs on the left hand side,

our left... - Yes.

...you go down those stairs, and there's what we call

a rumpus room or, like, a man cave, back in the day.

Oh, so that's your property down below?

That's our property down below.

- Oh, OK. - Yep.

You go down another 15 stairs,

and it's a shuffleboard court. - Oh, wow.

- So we have a basketball hoop down there. - Yes.

It sounds like you have something down there

that could be considered an ADU. - Yes.

This is your family home, right?

- You inherited? Right. - Yes, yes.

So my grandmother-- my grandparents moved in

in 1963.

So my mom and my aunt grew up here in this house.

And so when I got pregnant with our daughter,

my grandmother said,

"I want to pass the house on to you guys."

Because it's impossible to buy, not impossible,

but it's really hard to buy a house here in LA - Yes, yeah.

- Mm-hmm. - How old are the kids now?

Well, our daughter will be 10 in two weeks,

and our son is seven.

That's what actually, kind of, inspired us

to throw our name in the hat for this process,

because our daughter, every day,

"Mom, we need more space. Mom, we need more space."

Our kids share a room right now,

and you can imagine, obviously, having a girl

and a boy sharing a room. - OK.

Surprise!

- It is a nightmare every single day. - Yeah.

A preteen girl sharing her room

with her little annoying brother.

- Exactly. - I appreciate the pain.

That's a story that's-- yes, exactly.

Our daughter wants peace.

She wants to sit in her bunk bed and read books.

And our son is walking around, shirt off,

like he's a wrestler

and wanting to jump on her all the time. - Yes.

Wait, is your son and my son the same person?

He is.

What's the catalyst right now for taking this on?

- Why-- why all of a sudden? - The kids.

Yeah.

I think, well, also-- let me see,

the kids and their ages,

and we all kind of pointed out their different personalities.

Bursting at the seams.

- Bursting at the seams. - Yes.

But also, Edo grew up entertaining,

having a lot of people over all the time.

We feel like we don't have enough space to really have

the kind of gatherings that we really wanna have.

I will say, I am going through breast cancer treatments

right now. - Oh.

So I am in chemotherapy.

So we embarked upon this-- this process, reaching out

to the Property Brothers several months ago.

And during that process of applying for the show,

I learned that I was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.

For me, it was important to still move forward

in this process,

even though I'm going through chemotherapy right now.

Because for us, I think, this process of thinking

about the house, thinking about our next chapter,

thinking about potential renovation,

it's been a bright spot for me.

But also the kids have been asking for, begging for,

fighting for a room for months.

And the idea of being able to surprise the kids is the gift

that I wanna give them.

I know they're worried about me.

And I know that they're always kind of watching,

like, "You know, how's mommy going to feel today?"

I just wanna also show the kids

that we can do hard things together.

It's a brave face.

And who she is.

- Both. - You crying?

You're gonna make me cry.

Naima, you're a superhero.

Like, what-- you're like,

you can't just be like, "Let's take care of this,

and then we'll house hunt." You're like,

"I can handle all this at one time."

So yeah, I think, we're here for you,

however you need to use us.

We're definitely interested in looking at other homes,

just to kind of see what's out there, what's possible.

I'm also just kind of worried about the--

the process of, like, a renovation.

Looking for a new home hopefully kind of cuts down

that renovation stress.

We can look at other houses, but Jonathan and I always like

to show people what their house could become... - Mm-hmm.

...before you just think about packing your bags and leaving.

- I'd like to actually see the space. - Yes!

- Starting in the living room... - Yes.

...is there anything you wanted to get rid of

or ways of changing the flow in here?

I've always imagined what it would look like opened up.

- Like, for example, the fireplace. - Yeah.

We never use it. It's not working.

- I mean, I do agree this blocks everything over here. - Yeah.

It is a big job to get rid of a chimney.

- You have to go all the way up through the roof... - Mm-hmm.

...and deal with that.

Now I'm getting torn, right?

Because when I did come here as a kid, I had pictures of me,

like, you know, roasting marshmallows

and, you know, using the fireplace.

But honestly, we have never used it once.

- Because of this view... - Yeah.

...I'm thinking about, like, can we go out this way?

Yeah, 'cause right now, if I had to make drinks at a--

I have to go up, through the side door,

all the way around. - Yeah, yeah.

No, that's a no-brainer.

And these windows are old, single-pane, original windows.

Yeah, they are. They're all original.

This is our dining room area.

Go ahead and open the door.

Oh, wow. That's not a good flow.

Yeah.

Did you ever just think about getting rid of the door?

We've thought about it, yes.

We're just, like, used to it, so it's one of those things

that, "Oh, I would love to change it,"

but then you just kind of, it becomes a running joke.

- I could see how this does not work very well. - Yeah.

We were thinking about, like, "What do we do with this space?"

It's narrow.

You know, the only counter space we have is

that little counter space right there.

This was on the part of the house that we just kind of

like got overwhelmed and we just stopped.

There's a way that we could renovate,

open up a little bit,

make this a nicer kitchen, better flow.

But then there's also a way to do it

where we completely move things around.

How much money do you have to spend on a renovation?

We have about $220,000.

Is there space--

'cause you said you only have two bedrooms--

is there space somewhere that you'd think

you could put a third bedroom?

It's a good question.

This is our den space.

This is where we-- this is where we go when we wanna

just like relax on the couch, watch TV.

OK, but in reality then, this is a three-bedroom home.

I never thought about it like that,

that this could be another bedroom.

- Yeah. - I think we've always kind of seen it

as a den space.

I mean, Jonathan and I actually shared a room

for many, many years and I can remember how annoying

he was as a roommate.

- So I can only imagine. - Bunk beds!

Yeah, but for a boy and a girl to be sharing a room together

and your daughter's almost a teenager, I mean,

obviously she needs her own bedroom.

I do wanna see the outdoor space.

OK, let's do it.

That's a good-sized yard, though.

- I like this. - Thank you.

I want to make sure that

we're looking at all options. - Yes.

I think it would be good for us to show you some other houses.

- OK. - Yeah.

That we think would fit the bill.

Yes.

Whether you look for other houses,

but especially taking on a renovation,

it would be a lot.

Are you absolutely sure you wanna do this right now?

If you're going through treatment...

I'm sure.

- OK. - Going through this, it's tough.

It's been tough on the kids.

I think me going through this journey

and coming out on the other side,

I think it's gonna be a really big deal for us.

I can tell there's some reservations hidden

under the surface.

There is some hidden anxiety

'cause it's, um... - Not so hidden.

...that, you know, Naima's undergoing treatment

and I do worry about her.

So I am a little nervous, but I think having

the expertise in hand and taking it out of our hands

will just put me at ease

and I'll be able to sleep better.

Our whole goal is to take the stress off your plate

as much as we possibly can.

Obviously, there are decisions you need to make.

Do you know roughly what the value of your house

would be if you were selling it today?

We-- I think it's a little over a million.

- OK. - For selling it.

And then if you're looking at a new house,

what could you spend?

- I think 1.6. - I think up to 1.6.

We're gonna make sure we find

not only the right space for all of you,

including the kids,

but whether it's in a new house or this one,

we're gonna make sure it's right.

I think it was inevitable that at some point

we would outgrow this space. - Yeah.

Now we're here 10 years later, and what do we do next?

The idea of moving, I think, is appealing

because we don't have to just go through

the renovation process.

At the same time, we have sentimental value.

We have an attachment to this house as well.

Honestly, I think-- I think we're a little torn.

Naima's going through cancer treatment.

Uh, they have the stress of looking to potentially

move and renovate. Like, this is a lot.

I almost would suggest

let's just put a few more bucks into it

and find a place that's already renovated

and just move into something that works.

Then there's no headache, no mess,

no long delay of having to wait for renovation.

You just move in.

This house is understandably not working for them

because there's just no room. They have two kids.

They wanna have separate bedrooms.

The den could be a second bedroom.

Ultimately, they would have the best solution if we found

another house that gave them everything that they wanted

and maybe a little extra. This house, it's tight.

It could work, but it's gonna be stressful.

OK, I wanted to show you this gorgeous Spanish style home.

Oh, I love this.

Not only does it have

three bedrooms already.

- OK, yeah. - We definitely need three bedrooms.

Three bedrooms is a big dream.

It has more square footers than you're used to,

so it's 1,832 square feet, two bathrooms,

and its very own cathedral, but we'll get to that.

- OK. - Wow-- OK.

How much do you know about this area?

So, I love this neighborhood.

I grew up maybe five minutes away down Crescent Heights.

And I know for a fact this is close to your work.

Yes, I can actually walk to work,

which is amazing.

My goal would be to get the price down.

- It has been listed for a little while. - OK.

Um, they're still listed

in the high 1.6 range. - Yeah.

I'm pretty confident that we could get this down

to around 1.5, maybe 1.53,

something like that. - OK.

And that would leave enough room for a renovation.

- But let me show you inside. - OK.

OK.

- Wow. - OK.

I like it, actually.

I like that it opens out into, like, a really big

living room space.

I could definitely see, you know, hosting friends

and family, kids.

I always love when the first room is impressive.

- There are two outdoor spaces here. - OK.

This is a separate courtyard from the backyard,

but I love it's fully self-contained.

There's a little outdoor fireplace.

How cool would this be?

It could be an area for the kids.

- Very private. - Yes.

Now, you step up here.

- OK. - Yeah.

This is weird.

- It's low. - Yep, yep.

We could just get-- we could take that right out.

- Fake arch. - OK.

But it is interesting that we are kind of,

you know, stepping up. - Just a step up.

To what would be possibly a dining room.

I do like the fact that you have another nice,

spacious room right off of

this main area as well. - Yeah.

I agree.

How do you feel about hot air ballooning?

- Oh. - Oh.

We're going to the World's Fair in 1932.

Yeah.

This is, uh, quite a kitchen.

- Is it the bathroom? - This little-- OK.

Don't worry.

As a part of the reconfiguration,

I'd want to put in a walk-in pantry

and then shift the powder room forward

so you have it more centrally located.

If, by chance,

as you're cooking, you stub your toe

and you swear and you need to say a couple Hail Marys,

you have your own cathedral. - Mm-hmm.

- Wow. - OK.

Monastery of Los Angeles is here.

- It does look monastery-like. - Wow.

Yeah, we don't wanna miss our blessings, but wow.

I did not expect that.

You'd mentioned it, and I just didn't realize

it was gonna be so accurate.

Yeah.

Straight out of The Book of Renovations.

Yeah.

- Writing credit. - Ta-da!

You could take this wall, return it into the kitchen,

and keep that totally open, and open this at the front.

You don't need to have that mini, little arch there.

This has three bedrooms.

Good-sized bedrooms, which is nice,

because it already has three.

And then one courtyard here.

Got it.

And then one big backyard here.

- Pretty private yard. - Yes.

Fully sealed in,

direct access to the side street.

I did not expect so much space.

And I can see the, kind of,

possibilities of what you can do back here.

I think it would actually go for somewhere in the 1.5s.

- Yeah. - We would need it down because obviously

your max budget is 1.6. - Yeah.

But the goal would be get it down just enough

that we can redo that kitchen... - Mm-hmm.

...redo that connectivity between the main floors.

- Just thinking through what you guys need... - Mm-hmm.

the number of bedrooms, the extra space,

that is why I showed you this. - Yeah, it's a great option.

- Drew's gonna show you something else as well. - OK.

He'll have his take on what he thinks that would be

for you guys, but I think this would be

a really, really great option for you.

Thank you-- no, I agree.

I'd love to take a little bit more look around,

but I love-- - Alright.

Do it. Check it out.

I'll be in my ballet studio here.

OK.

Don't tear your hamstring.

Too late. Ah!

I think it was actually pretty good.

They would have a beautiful house

in a great area.

The kids having their own bedrooms,

plus that bonus space.

This is a really, really good-sized house.

They're not trying to squeeze more bedrooms into a home

that can't really accommodate it.

This house, it's easy. It's done, it's already there.

I think what I do like about this house

is that there's plenty of room for entertaining

and thinking about,

like, our family being here.

Definitely concerned about being on such a busy street

that's busy all the time.

I was born and raised maybe five or ten minutes south of--

from this area, so it kind of brought back the feelings

of being close to a main thoroughfare,

you know, being an LA native.

The architecture of the home hit me as soon as we walked in.

I'm definitely curious on Drew's choice.

I mean, if you could top Jonathan in this,

we'll be surprised,

but I'm really interested to see what,

you know, he has in store for us.

You can show them this place,

but I don't know if they're gonna like it.

When I showed them, they were, especially Edo,

were all over it. - Yeah, but that needed work.

- Hey, guys. - Hey!

- Good to see you. - Good to see you.

- How are you? - Good.

- We've been having a little brotherly competition. - OK, OK.

I know he showed you a house that you thought was great.

Needed some work, Edo.

I know you were all over it, but come on.

I like this house.

It's close to our current house.

So we know the neighborhood pretty well.

There's a school right down the street.

This house was built in the '50s,

but it's renovated. So I think you'll like

some of the improvements they've done.

Four bedrooms. Two bathrooms.

It's listed at 1.399 million,

basically 1.4 million. Mm-hmm.

I think it's a little underpriced.

- OK. - Should we get inside?

Yes.

Wow!

I really like this island. It's-- it's huge.

And like you said, there's so many things

they've already done. - Yeah.

And so, it's a bit of like turnkey, just love it.

You'll notice no giant fireplace in the middle

of the room. The fireplace is tucked

over to the side where it should be.

Wow. That's how people do it.

This makes it feel bigger when you have

two of the big areas connected.

- Three of the areas connected. - Yeah.

It just feels like a much bigger space.

I love how it just, you know, kind of goes

out into the backyard.

Again, it also kind of feels like an extension.

Access directly to the backyard from your living room?

I know!

It's definitely something that I love.

It's just, it's nice to have a flow like this.

If you're in the living room, you can see people

in the dining, the kitchen, or outside.

And I do like that the house is split.

You have, on this side, one of the spare bedrooms,

which could be an office or a guest room,

and then your bedroom.

Your main bathroom right here.

On this side, you actually have the kids' rooms.

A shared Jack and Jill as well.

It's nice that you have the extra bathroom in here

for the kids. They can make a mess of this.

- Keeps yours clean. - Exactly.

- Yeah. - At this point...

Yes.

...you have the house Jonathan showed you that--

your original house and this house,

which are you leaning towards?

I just kind of wanna know.

- You're losing right now. - I'm losing?

What? I feel like you're winning.

OK, hold on, hold on. You answered too quickly.

- I was like... - OK.

I like this house.

I like that it's, like I said, more of a neighborhood feel.

- I like that it's very open. - Can I show you the backyard?

- Yes, exactly. - You guys can wait here, yeah.

- It's a good-sized yard. - Yeah.

Yes. Usable for the kids.

Yeah.

What I like about it is that

it feels very similar to what we have at home,

but it's just to say that they don't have

the same downstairs that we have.

There's definitely potential in this space.

This house is listed at basically 1.4.

You have the money to renovate as well with this house,

even though they've done a lot of work.

But the kitchen is gorgeous.

The layout of the home is pretty great.

And I would add a beautiful big deck.

You could take a deck all the way out to here,

and it doesn't take away any of the grass,

but at least it gives you a whole

other entertaining space. - Yeah, it's a great idea.

Yeah. You know,

the idea of moving into a home that's like,

you know, turnkey and requires a little less work.

Why don't we do this? Why don't you take a look around?

- Before you make any decisions, we'll hang back here. - OK, let's take a look.

- All right. - OK.

See you in a little bit.

It is a nice place.

They've done a great job with the landscaping.

It's not an expensive renovation.

- It looks the same as their house... - Yeah.

...like the size of the lot.

I love that you can see the backyard.

It's perfect.

I can definitely see the kids playing back there.

She's going through chemo right now.

They don't need to do a massive renovation.

This house, they can actually very, very comfortably

move into. It's clean.

- The bathrooms are renovated. - And they do like the area.

- And they do like the area. - I don't know.

I think that there's opportunity here,

but it just depends what they want to tackle.

So what do you think?

The kitchen is the main attraction

of this whole entire house. - Yeah.

I think for the footprint, it's not that bad.

- I mean, you have four compact to pint-sized rooms. - Mm-hmm.

Yeah, there are less things that would change about

this place. - What about the backyard?

We-- we get so much more space

in our backyard. Right?

We have, like, an ADU and, you know, more space downstairs.

Thinking about renovating or staying put versus,

you know, moving somewhere else,

you know, it's a lot to consider.

Coming into this space today just reminded you that,

you know, you can have a large kitchen.

You can have all this new functionality

that we don't have, you know, in our current space.

I think that they did some great upgrades,

but they were the basic upgrades.

At our home now, we have, you know,

our backyard with an amazing view.

We have something great.

We have something great at home.

- How's it going? - Hey, guys.

Yeah, hey.

Just the deliberation, just taking it all in.

- Yeah. - So looking at this house,

it helped you?

It did. I think there's a lot

of similarities with this house to our house.

It's not exactly the same, but I think it kind of allowed us

to envision the possibilities.

But to be honest, I think we love our home.

I think we definitely see a lot of potential here.

And I also think we have a lot of great things at our house

that we're not really ready

to give up yet.

The whole point of looking at houses

is to get you to consider everything.

- Right. - And now that you're more educated on the whole process,

what your needs are... - Yeah.

...you've figured out what you want,

you're making the right decision

because it sounds like your home

is the right decision. Yeah, I think so.

What do you think?

- It's good. - Yeah, I think we should stay.

I think when we were first embarking upon this whole process,

I was ready to move out. I was ready to, like,

you know, do something new.

And now kind of seeing different spaces,

it reminds me of the gem we have at our own home.

I feel good.

So for me, getting started right away means that

by Christmas, we could have, like, our family over,

our friends over.

I'm excited about being able to give our kids

something special, you know, for the holidays.

We do have a tight timeline,

but we're hopeful to see some magic.

Yeah.

- Hello. - What's up, guys?

Welcome to Casa Warehouse Scott.

Glad you're here, because we need to sort of

kick things off and move fairly quickly,

but we need to know what your style is.

- This is where I struggle. - Yeah.

I mean, spiritually, we think we're cool.

- We're LA people. - Yeah.

We want something hip and chic, but also intimate

to kind of meet our needs

in the space that we have. - Yeah.

If you wanna make a statement when people walk

into your house, that's what we need to know.

The benefit of going through this process is that

we trust you.

When you look at this, just because this is

very neutral, the wallpaper here,

but when you look at this grass cloth,

it has just a bit more texture, still neutral. - Yeah.

And then you look at these two bold patterns.

What jumps out to you? Good, bad?

What do you think? How are you feeling?

Really?

You really want to make a statement.

This is courageous.

I mean, for me, because I'm so simple.

- I actually like this better. - Yeah.

I mean, just this, like, combination.

Again, because it's a little bit lighter.

Yeah, what we can do then is we can take that color

you're saying that you really want to be bold with,

and we can find ways in our art,

our throws, our pillows.

- This is bold for us. - This is what we'll do.

OK, Jonathan, you guys are here.

- We're here. - Oh, all right.

- Oh, OK. - Whoever wins between the two of you gets to pick.

Three, two one, go.

Oh!

Now that we've got Naima and Edo's design style in mind,

we're gonna transform the den into Evan's room

with bold colors, a big-boy bed,

and a desk for homework and crafts.

Ella's room will get a preteen-dream makeover

with soft pastels,

a new bed and desk, and whimsical accents.

In the living room, a new entertainment unit

will anchor new chic furnishings that play off their preferred

palette of greens and blues.

The fireplace stays to keep things budget-friendly,

and we're knocking down the walls

between the dining room and kitchen

to open the space up for smoother sight lines

and a whole lot more flow.

Out with the old kitchen

and in with a fresh and fun space

that'll make cooking and hosting feel effortless.

- What's that? - We have company.

- Hi. - Hello.

- What in the world? - How are you?

- Come on, dude. - Good to see you, buddy.

Wow. This feels like a complete--

I mean, like I am blown away. - Wow.

You know how you're used to a space and you've walked

into a space a million times and you're just so conditioned

to think about a space a particular way?

- Well, we need different things out of spaces today... - Yeah.

...than we did, you know, back when this house was built. - Yeah.

So I'm excited to breathe

new life into this house

because I think you will just experience

how much more fun it is

to spend time together as a family if you have

this open and connected. - I agree.

Watch your step.

We have two big, costly decisions to make.

- OK. - One of them being...

this.

I suggested that we swap the doors.

You guys were waffling a little bit

as to whether or not that's

where you want to allocate.

I really, really think that's something we should try and do.

It'll not only be double-pane glass.

This is all single-pane, so this is just

letting everything through.

So we could go fully custom, and we could even do,

like, bi-fold doors and everything,

but you can literally get into, like, 20K, you know,

to do a lot of that sort of stuff.

If we go with a slider,

the cost is a lot lower... - Mm-hmm.

...but you still get all the light, and you still get

all the access.

This is something I think has to happen.

- Yeah. - I agree.

They also have an argon-filled gas in between,

so that's better for the efficiency.

UV block, so you're not gonna have the same effect

on your floors. The other thing is your floors.

So you've probably noticed that your floors

have bleached out in areas.

This is all matte right here, and this is all really glossy.

You, at some point, bought a product that you just

kind of roll on or mop on. - Yeah.

But you didn't remove your rug when you did it, so...

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Hold on a sec.

Side.

So, always take the soft goods away.

But anyway, it's gonna be a little unfortunate

if you have all this new, beautiful stuff done here,

and then your floors still have these bleached-out lines.

Basically, anywhere where you had a rug or a piece

of furniture, you can see a noticeable line

and change in color. - Damn.

Wow-- I didn't realize it was so drastic.

And I didn't realize it happens with the product.

What do you think about going to a nice mid-tone like that,

as opposed to really dark? - I do like a mid-tone.

- Yeah? - How do we take care

of the wood so we don't end up in the same position?

The UV from the sun is the roughest on it.

So if you have sun protection outside,

I think that's gonna go a long way.

The darker the floors,

the more dirt and dust and debris

and scratches that it shows. - Wow.

The higher gloss you go on your finish,

the easier it is to see scratches.

We'll do a real nice diamond-coat finish,

so it's real good for high-traffic. - OK.

You shouldn't have to really do anything to the floors

for years and years. - OK.

Do me a favor. Shake it off.

I'm giving you so much information.

- I know it's a total pain. - I'm, like, ready.

- I'm like, OK. - Yeah.

Get the heck out of here.

- OK. - All right.

Hi, Naima. It's Jonathan.

I'm good. I got your message.

Everything-- everything good?

OK.

You're making me nervous here.

When I'm like, "Oh, we got to get everybody on the phone."

What's, uh, what's going on?

Yeah, I mean, from day one, I've said I would love

for that fireplace to go.

I priced it out with construction,

and the price was $8,800.

If that's something that you guys are like,

"Yes, we want to do that," then I'd have to get on the horn

right away and get the engineer over there tomorrow

and see if we can do it. And I think we can.

It's just a lot of money.

There you go.

OK, OK. Sounds good.

Oh!

- Hey! - Hi!

All right!

Who's ready? Give me some low tens.

- Hey! - Some high tens.

There we go.

So, this is a part of the process.

I told you we want to de-stress

you as we're doing this renovation.

Today, Jonathan is dealing with house stuff,

and I get you over here. - Oh, this is super fun.

- We get the fun one. - You get the fun brother.

You know what? I knew I loved you, Ella.

OK, so, here's my question. Who's the fastest?

- Me. - Me.

You all think you're the fastest?

- OK. - What does the winner get?

- What does the winner get? - Um...

- $100. - The winner gets $100?

All right, good. Ella's paying.

- OK. - Let's get in there.

- What? - All right.

I'm going orange! Ha-ha!

Yeah.

This is the trick when you're my height, getting in.

- Bye-bye. - Three, two, one.

Whoo! Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoo-whoo!

Ah!

Here we go!

Bye-bye!

Ha-ha!

Oh, no!

Gah!

Whoo!

We won, buddy!

Did I end up in last place?

That's Ella.

- Ella's the winner. - Whoop-whoop!

Ella, I blame the cart. There's something wrong.

- Whoo! - I never lose.

How dare you? You stole my record.

By the way, the winner gets...

- What? - You .get your prize money.

That money has to go towards the renovation, so...

I was gonna say, I was like, "We need it."

So there's some ice cream coming.

You have to track for another half hour, all on you.

So I'll say goodbye. Nicely done.

- Thank you so much. - Thank you, sir.

I'll see you guys sometime soon.

- Thank you so much. - Good bye!

- And keep practicing. - That was fun.

- Keep practicing. - Thank you.

- Bye, guys. - Bye.

Have fun.

I actually can't believe I lost.

I never lose.

Maybe I need to have Jonathan there to have someone to beat.

This is fun. This is what it's all about.

I mean, you just wanna see them laughing a little bit.

I want to see them having fun,

forgetting about any of the stresses in their life.

Uh, well...

I mean, I love the fact that the fireplace is gone.

This just changes the whole footprint of the space.

We've added a whole room.

Look at the size of the footprint

from that old fireplace.

I feel like, obviously, it was a huge expense, nine grand.

- Mm-hmm. - Very well spent.

This is a complete game changer for this room.

Remember, we were having the issue trying to figure out

how our wallpaper was gonna terminate.

We were gonna have to pull the wallpaper

all the way across.

Oh, speaking of wallpaper,

they wanna change the wallpaper.

What?

Yeah, they want to change the print.

It was a little too wild for them.

The bold paper with the birds.

Their whole thing when we started talking about design

was that they feel that they wanna do

something interesting. That color, it was so vivid.

It was gonna be perfect for the space

to add a little interest.

Otherwise, white ceilings, white walls.

I am pretty bummed that they want to get rid

of that wallpaper we chose.

The rug I was putting in here literally would have perfectly

paired with that wallpaper.

Maybe they'll change their mind,

or maybe we can find something else that's halfway between,

but, um...

we're just running out of time.

It's definitely been...

quick to get responses, but then also quick to get

second guessing.

- Oh, hey-- hello. - Hey.

What's happening? How are you?

- Good to see you. - Literally just saying,

how you guys are quick to respond,

but are you second guessing more? - Yeah.

Majority of the house is pretty much covered.

I wanted to see if there's something we could do

for our bedroom. - Oh, OK.

Um, it's been a pretty rough journey for the past,

you know, three months.

First, we started this process.

Naima got cancer. Her grandmother passed away.

And then recently we just got news that she has to do

an additional round of treatments.

Oh, no.

And I just wanted to have something that was nice,

comfortable for her.

We can do something that I think will go a long way

for her to recover, will be great.

I love this, the idea of doing the room.

This whole project in itself is the beginning

of a new chapter for us. - Yeah.

And this room is the icing on the cake.

Yeah, I love it.

Naima was the one

that quarterbacked us into this process.

I heard that you said no, initially, when she's talked

about reaching out for the show, and you were like-- - I did.

I wanted Chip and Joanna. Nah, just playing.

Son of a [bleep].

Pack everything up. We're ripping it all back out.

Um... I was working on that for a while.

Trust you 100%.

I'll walk out with you.

- All right. - All right, thanks, dude.

I appreciate that.

Why are you just sitting there while I'm doing all the work?

I only have one roller.

I don't think we ever thought we would grow out of this home,

only because it feels like such a wonderful space to be in.

When I was eight months pregnant,

my grandmother graciously allowed us

to move into this home because she saw

that we were starting our family.

Our kids are growing, and it is to live in a house

that has been in my wife's family

for almost three generations.

And I think this pivot and working with Jonathan

and Drew kind of set the foundation for our kids

when they inherit the house and they start their families.

And we're just grateful.

♪ I feel the hope ♪

♪ Come closer now ♪

♪ I see the sun on the horizon ♪

♪ And I'm feeling all right ♪

It is crazy how long the family lived here,

and they didn't have access to this back patio.

I know.

Change like this will impact every day.

Every day. And this is amazing.

They will use this every single day,

and especially with how clean those windows are.

They're really gonna use it.

♪ Things are looking up now ♪

♪ Just when we thought They'd never ♪

♪ Things are getting better ♪

I'm so glad Naima decided that she was OK going

with a bold wallpaper because that looks so amazing.

And we've added a thousand square feet by just getting rid

of that fireplace. - I know, right?

We're excited.

I think we're nervous. I think we're--

I'm excited about the kitchen.

I'm excited about the kids' rooms,

the living room.

- I'm excited about the-- - All right.

Oh, what?

- The moment has come. - It's time, oh!

Wait, how long have you been out here?

Forever and ever and ever.

Obviously, this has been a bit of a stressful process.

Yes, a lot.

How do you feel at this very moment,

knowing that it is done?

We know you guys do great work, so it's nervous,

but it's also like we know we're in good hands.

- Yeah. - I'm glad we were able to take

a bit of stress off your shoulders,

and we're just happy to get you into your home,

so you can relax and enjoy. - If you're ready.

- Let's do it. - All right.

- Wow! - Wow!

- Wow! - Wow!

Oh, this is a game changer!

Wow!

This looks like a completely different space.

The layout, the feeling of it.

I mean, it's like so much more open.

What do you think is causing it to feel so much more open?

- Hmm! - I was like...

Hmm!

There's no fireplace.

- Gone. - It was huge.

- I mean, it was like-- - Money well spent.

I love how open it feels.

And then going directly out into the--

- Right? - Oh, my gosh!

Guys, you can open these doors and walk

straight out to your yard. - What?

How ama-- I'm outside!

I mean, we just-- Yeah.

Before, we had to go all the way through the kitchen.

- Yeah. - I mean, just--

But the idea that this now becomes kind of like

an open space. - Yeah, this is amazing.

I appreciate the intimacy of the space

and the functionality. - Yeah.

It really feels like--

this space here just feels cozy.

- Hmm. - Yeah.

Oh. This space.

Wow. This is amazing.

Oh.

This is amazing.

Like, the fact that we could,

like, have dinner as a family. There's no wall.

Remember when we had to, like, the door, and it would

hit the other door? - Yeah, yeah.

- And then we had to-- - Two doors collide, gone.

Two doors collide, and we had to kind of push each other.

It was a whole thing.

We have an island, babe.

The infamous "Property Brothers" island.

Let me clarify, you have a peninsula.

- Peninsula. - Oh, peninsula.

But I love the color scheme.

- Yeah. - And the tile.

I love the greens, the brown.

Like, I just feel it's very relaxing.

Tons and tons of drawers and storage.

The dishwasher, babe!

I know we shouldn't get excited about that,

but it's one thing we weren't able to touch

when we moved in.

I'm really excited about this.

That's your feature over there.

All my dreams are coming true right now.

This is crazy.

I mean, I can't believe we live here.

I know.

I feel like we're going to somebody else's house.

I do feel like that.

When you look at the transformation

in the living room,

transformation in the dining room,

transformation in the kitchen.

These are all things that are gonna impact how pleasant it is

to spend time in this space. - Yeah.

But there were also some things that weren't just for you,

they were for the kids. - Right.

The kids sharing a bedroom was not working.

It was not working.

And so I think the most incredible transformation is

giving Evan his very own bedroom.

- Wow! - Oh, my gosh!

This is amazing!

- Oh! - This is for our little guy?

- A desk that, sit down. - I know.

His own little desk.

- Doing his homework. - For his homework.

Yeah, I just, I don't know.

It's like our baby's growing up.

I think he'll love it.

This is the perfect space for him to transition

from seven until he's a teenager.

You know, when you look in this space, I know it's got

the fun memories of what it was before,

but your house has to evolve

as your family evolves. - Yeah.

But also, Ella deserves to have her own space.

Oh!

Ella is going to love this.

- It is such a cute, beautiful, light-filled room. - Yeah.

It is. And it's like

all the pink that she loves, but something

that she could, like, grow into.

She's on the verge of becoming a teen, and she's on the verge

of wanting to be an adult. - Right, yeah.

And it's a space that doesn't feel kiddish.

Perfect for Ella. All of it.

Growing up here, it's hard to see potential

'cause you're so used to a space being a certain way.

- You know, the kids were begging us for their own space. - Mm-hmm.

So we did feel a lot of pressure to figure out kind

of what to do. But we were also overwhelmed.

You know, I think, through this whole entire process,

I've been holding a lot of pressure.

We felt under pressure in terms of what the final product

would look like. - And also taking care of Naima.

In fact, he came to me at one point and he said

you have been a champ through this whole process

because you're going through a lot,

but you're also still looking

out for the kids, looking out for the family.

And so he asked if there's a little something

we could do for you.

- Want to take her? - What?

- Oh! - Wow!

Babe, this is exactly what I needed.

This is so...

- Babe! - Oh, man.

Thank you.

This feels so relaxing.

This was exactly the kind of space that I'd want to come

into after a long day, after treatment,

after just the hustle and bustle of the day.

There's something to be said for having a place of your own,

especially during your recovery, and I think it was

important to Edo to know that you--

you do have a zone that's safe for you when you need it.

Once we heard that your treatments got extended...

What are you thinking, Naima?

I can tell it's emotionally hitting you.

Yeah, well, one, it was just, you know,

such a thoughtful surprise, um, that I was truly not expecting.

But learning that, you know, I did have breast cancer

through this journey, there were moments

where it felt a little overwhelming, you know?

Um...

And just kind of managing all the logistical parts

of moving out and the kids and treatment

and work, and it's a lot.

And, um, to have kind of like a sanctuary or a space

that looks this warm and comfortable and inviting,

this is an amazing surprise.

This was really sweet.

Thank you, baby.

I think we just need to back out and give you a few minutes

in your own room. - Yeah.

Let us know how the kids enjoy this.

Oh, my God.

Tell us what the kids' reaction is.

- OK, we will. - All right.

Oh, this was so sweet, babe. Thank you.

Obviously, the thing that's gonna have the biggest impact

on our day-to-day lives is the kitchen, hands down.

Like, I think that, obviously, the kids' rooms

and their own spaces is why we went into this.

Oh!

Evan, this is your room. - Oh, my gosh!

- All yours. - That is so cool.

Watching our kids grow up before our eyes has been one

of the most transformative experiences in this. - Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

This is all yours.

This is amazing.

They're growing.

Their needs are changing and evolving.

And then our needs are kind of changing and evolving.

So I think this, for us, for our family,

is that next chapter in this house.

We definitely honor the history of the house

while still making the necessary upgrades

for where we are now.

I'm excited. I feel home.