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We are headed to meet newlyweds getting close

to their one-year anniversary.

ASHLEY MORRILL: What's going on here?

Oh, this camp is up in the air.

We got started this morning, but we ran into too much mud.

So we decided to let it dry out.

WOMAN: No, no, no, no!

No, no! - Good boy, Gussie!

Take a dip.

Want to go in mama's car?

Beautiful floors under here.

They're hardwood under that, too?

Wow!

Look what "Maine Cabin Masters"

has done while we've been gone.

Oh, this is beautiful!

NARRATOR: In a place called Vacationland...

Time to get to work.

NARRATOR:... there are thousands of cabins that have

been unchanged for decades...

Everything must go.

NARRATOR:... all over the great state of Maine.

- Nice! - Oh!

NARRATOR: Chase Morrill and his family

of Mainers renovate, restore, and save

these historic structures.

Are we in the right place?

CHASE MORRILL: I'm Chase, and I lead the team.

Ashley's my sister, she's also the designer.

Ryan's my brother-in-law, he's my voice of reason.

Dixie and Jedi can handle any jobs we throw at them.

Nice!

- Wow! - What?

NARRATOR: Our crew is the best at what we do.

- Nice job on this one. - Cheers!

NARRATOR: We're all best friends, and we love it.

You're excited to get there. I know!

Me too!

[woof]

Yeah, we're going to a new camp.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Back in Belgrade, who are we going to see today?

CHASE MORRILL: We are headed to meet Linda and Mike White.

They are newlyweds... Well, getting close

to their one-year anniversary.

How many years are we out, Ryan?

Your honeymoon is definitely over.

We're upset.

Ha!

Gus, our honeymoon is over, but not yours and mine.

CHASE MORRILL: This camp has been in Linda's family

since she was a little girl.

She claims her father bought it for her personally.

They are looking to put a foundation under it,

and then put a small expansion on it

for a screened-in porch area.

And it will have a daylight basement, as well.

It'll be good practice.

It's going to be on a foundation?

Yes.

Wow, we're getting lucky this year.

CHASE MORRILL: You know, luckily,

they've hired a jacking and foundation company.

ASHLEY MORRILL: Oh, not us?

CHASE MORRILL: Not us.

We'll come in, just do the demo.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Perfect.

CHASE MORRILL: Yeah.

ASHLEY MORRILL: [gasp] I think we're here, Gus.

Hey, guys... ASHLEY MORRILL: Hey, guys.

...How you doing?

ASHLEY MORRILL: Nice to see you.

Nice seeing ya, and welcome to the lake.

CHASE MORRILL: Hey, thank you, thank you, thank you.

ASHLEY MORRILL: What's going on here?

Oh, this camp is up in the air.

LINDA WHITE: It is. We're really excited to put a...

That's a sign of progress.

Yeah.

...Put a foundation under it.

This is a family cabin that goes back to 1957.

My dad had purchased a 1956 Ford convertible.

And he repaired it, and then he resold it.

And that $1,500, he applied to buying the cabin.

So I'm so thankful that I have the cabin now.

And I just want to expand it, upgrade it for us

and for future generations.

MIKE WHITE: And we're going to add a new roof to it,

put some new windows.

ASHLEY MORRILL: You like the trim color, the green?

Yes, we do. We do like the trim coloring.

Yes.

ASHLEY MORRILL: OK, so find a color

that looks nice with that trim.

LINDA WHITE: Right.

CHASE MORRILL: And so it's going to be a full basement

with a daylight front.

LINDA WHITE: Correct.

I see a chimney up there.

Is that our heating source? MIKE WHITE: Yes, it is.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: And are we going to keep that?

If we can.

There's a fireplace inside that's...

Fireplace?

...Made out of aluminum.

OK.

We could insert.

LINDA WHITE: I prefer not to burn wood,

whether it's electrical, or gas, or whatever.

It's bright red, so it stands out,

it kind of goes with the cabin.

So I really don't want to lose it.

So once the camp's back down on the foundation,

we're ready to get started.

When would you like the camp back?

Well, we were in kind of in hopes like,

maybe late September?

And so how much are you looking

to put into the construction piece of this project?

It would probably be approximately

$50,000 to $60,000, rebuilding, remodeling part of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because that even... that includes the new roof,

the new windows, the expansion off to the sides

for the screened-in porch, the daylight

basement down below, expanding the kitchen area,

and redoing the bathroom upstairs.

I think that's a reasonable budget...

Correct.

CHASE MORRILL: ...to get that done.

So you can enjoy the place.

LINDA WHITE: Yes, exactly.

Exactly... giving us more time to enjoy the fun on Great Pond,

because Great Pond has a tendency to offer more

fun than anyone ever expected.

And we're approaching your one-year wedding anniversary,

is that correct?

That is correct.

That's coming up this Monday...

CHASE MORRILL: Congratulations, congratulations.

ASHLEY MORRILL: What is it, July 6?

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Chase said you guys are newlyweds.

July 6.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Aw!

Our grandkids are very, very excited

about coming back to Great Pond, and we just can't wait.

Usually, we get the keys at this point.

But we're not getting in there today,

so we'll do a quick walk around.

We won't go in, but we'll check it out.

Guys, thank you very much for your...

All right, thank you.

Thank you, bye.

MIKE WHITE: After watching many, many episodes on TV,

we felt strongly that "Cabin Masters"

was the most qualified.

They seem to cherish that thought of remodeling camps

that have a history.

And we just can't wait.

You guys did all the hard work.

RYAN: Yeah, well, we got started this morning,

but we ran into too much mud.

So we decided to let it dry out.

CHASE MORRILL: Turned to mud fast, didn't it?

RYAN: Oh, yeah, it did.

We raised it two and a half feet,

put an eight-foot basement in it... gives

"you 7'10" for wall height.

But it needed it anyway, because it

was so low that the ground was up here,

and the camp was down here.

So when is the foundation going in?

We're hoping to have it done next week.

Oh, next week?

RYAN: You know.

Can't plan anything in construction.

ASHLEY MORRILL: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, next week, and then we can come back and get in there.

Then we'll do the floor and backfill it, and...

CHASE MORRILL: Well, we appreciate

you doing the hard work for us.

We appreciate the business.

- Well, let's go check it out. - All right.

Have a good day, guys. RYAN: Yeah, we'll see you.

Thank you. Whoa, they weren't...

I'm gonna stay right here.

She is muddy!

Where's your sense of adventure, honey?

Not in flip-flops.

Usually, I get to go in today and find out what I can keep,

what I'm going to be able to work with.

But today, we just found mud.

Beautiful, fabulous...

(SINGING) Super-duper mud!

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Come here.

Want to ride in mama's car?

Oh my god, that is...

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Oh yeah, good boy!

Gussie, go over there.

ASHLEY MORRILL: What is wrong with him?

CHASE MORRILL: So the Whites have $60,000

to put into this project.

That involves screened-in porch, access on the side addition,

new roof, new windows up above, finishing off the basement,

bathroom downstairs, enlarging the kitchen,

finishing off the interior, new bathroom upstairs.

So it's a larger budget, but there's a lot to do.

ASHLEY MORRILL: Ryan?

Had enough of this.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: She's in good shape.

ASHLEY MORRILL: No, no, no, no! - Good boy, Gussie!

Take a dip.

Want to go in mama's car?

Oh yeah!

Oh, he's so excited. ASHLEY MORRILL: So excited.

Good boy.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: We're back at the Whites on Great Pond.

And we are doing things out of order.

Normally, it's... meet the homeowner, call the guys, demo.

This is... meet the homeowner, bring a team in, set the camp

back down, and then demo.

So it's going to have a huge, finished basement,

and a big, huge, covered porch on the side.

The foundation's quite a bit bigger

than the house, so we had to build some walls,

put down the plates on the whole thing.

And then we can set it down and get on to demo.

Now, the problem we got to deal with

is, we got to get around this beam

and keep all our heights the same.

And it's running downhill.

We've got to prep this thing so the concrete

and the jacking company can bring it down.

One of the challenges is, there's

beams coming everywhere.

So we have to leave pockets.

On the back wall, where it's all concrete, they left pockets.

We'll either put a window in, or board it over.

So it sets down on the plates, you peel the beams out,

and it's go time.

And that beam's in the way, which sucks.

So 48 and 42 is 90, right?

MAN: Yep.

Plus a quarter and an eighth is 3/8.

What did you have?

93 and 1/2.

And then we also got to add an inch and a half

for the top plate.

That gets us to...

MAN: [inaudible]

We're an inch off.

MAN: Huh?

We're an inch off.

MAN: Huh? - We're an inch off.

We're trying to build the basement walls today,

but we're having a lot of trouble with our measurements.

This was a pretty difficult project.

You know, if we had used a Transit and stuff all the time,

would be one thing.

But we usually use a laser level.

So we're trying to chase around the right height.

What sucks is you can't... we couldn't even get a laser in.

There's no clear path to even get a laser on it, you know?

That's why we got Nick "The String Guy."

We decided to go old-school, and use a string level

to determine the wall height.

Level?

NICK: I think you're going to like it.

It's pretty level.

Let's just run with it, then.

We'll get our little jacks in if we have to, and microadjust it,

put shims in.

But it's going to be close.

And hey, we're going to be working off of concrete floor,

so it'll be perfect.

Four stars, just like this job site.

Right, guys?

Brian from the jacking company, he came by,

saw what we've done.

And we've got mini walls with bracing and blocking,

so they won't get crunched.

And we're going to put some 6-by-6 pressure

treated posts, where we have half-flats

on the existing building.

And he's confident it's going to come all down, him and his team

will have it perfect for when we get there.

Yeah, you know, this isn't your typical camp.

Normally, it's... meet the homeowner, call the guys, demo.

This is... meet the homeowner, call the guys,

bring a team in, set the camp back down, and then demo.

CHASE MORRILL: We are on Great Pond in Belgrade, Maine.

And we are back at the White camp.

They're still working on the foundation.

They still need to get the floor poured on the lower level,

and backfill around the camp.

But we're here to kind of get inside, to start demo, get

into it, and see what we're working with,

and come up with a plan for it.

Wow, she's up on foundation now.

CHASE MORRILL: Yeah, so we just need safe access.

So we'll build a bridge to get in.

Bridge builders anonymous... get to work.

All right, let's do it. - Yeah.

I'm unionized.

Not only did we have to set the camp down and get here

before the demo team, we had to build

a bridge to get over there.

So it's been interesting, to say the least.

CHASE MORRILL: Ryan and Ashley and I,

we're here to meet the Whites.

But they haven't been inside.

I've been inside it when there was still a lot of stuff.

So it'll be good to get in and actually tear into it,

see what's behind the paneling, and see what it's going to take

to actually, you know, do the changes that the Whites are

looking for.

Whoa, there's nothing left in here.

When I met Linda, she was telling

me all about this red stove, and how special it is to her.

This is the red stove that she loves.

So her dad painted this.

And she loves the red.

I actually like the red, too.

It's really neat, actually.

We never, ever, ever, ever, ever see wood stoves like this.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Well, I was nervous to walk

across that bridge with my heavy tool bag.

And I was very surprised when I got there.

It's really nice inside, you know?

So it's kind of cool that that's not going to be

the hugest amount of work.

You know, we're going to focus on making

it all one big area, screen porch,

and redoing the basement.

That's coming out because the kitchen is...

You know, we're extending that living space.

The bedroom, we're going to pull down the paneling,

put up more pine to match.

Finish the ceiling, obviously.

CHASE MORRILL: Finish that ceiling off.

So it's two bedrooms right now.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: Yeah, making one big one.

...Bigger, and then increase the size of the bathroom

up here, as well.

All right, we've got a plan.

This camp is going to have so much more room just

by putting it on the foundation.

And you're going to get two bedrooms downstairs.

So then the bedroom upstairs can now get larger.

The living space can now get larger

because they're going to add an addition as

well, with a screened-in porch.

I mean, this place is going to be able to hold

all of their family.

There it is.

Nice job, Ryan.

One down, huh?

There's one.

Nice!

I'm ripping and tearing right now.

Had this exterior doorway here that

led into the screened-in porch.

We're going to get rid of this wall.

And then along that kitchen wall,

once the counters are out, then we'll

be able to open this right up.

And we'll move our kitchen to the front windows.

The Whites love the idea of having a screened-in porch.

But the screened-in porch is going

to be moved to where the new addition off to the side is.

And once we move that screened-in porch,

we'll be able to open up the kitchen area

and make it the larger kitchen and the living room area.

Ryan?

RYAN ELDRIDGE: What?

CHASE MORRILL: Beautiful floors under here.

Nice!

The hardwood!

CHASE MORRILL: I know!

Are you freaking... They never even used 'em!

CHASE MORRILL: I know!

Under that, too?

Probably throughout.

We just... I don't know if they're glued.

It's almost... it's unfinished!

CHASE MORRILL: Oh yeah, they're gorgeous.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: I got to see what's under this.

CHASE MORRILL: Ryan, beautiful floor under here.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: The hardwood!

CHASE MORRILL: I know!

Are you freaking... They never even used 'em!

CHASE MORRILL: I know!

Under that, too?

So when we were pulling everything back,

I peeled back a piece of the carpeting

in one of the bedrooms.

And it looks like beautiful wood floors... unfinished, untouched.

It's almost... it's unfinished!

CHASE MORRILL: Yeah, they're gorgeous.

They... look, it goes all the way

throughout the whole thing...

CHASE MORRILL: It is!

Yes!

DIXIE: Look under here, Chase.

CHASE MORRILL: Yeah.

DIXIE: It's in the kitchen.

We'll kind of leave all that stuff down as a protector

so that we don't damage the floors any further.

And once we get further along, we'll peel it all up

and see what it's going to take to refinish the floors.

If we can salvage those floors and reuse them,

that's fantastic.

This is a major score.

This has hardwood floors under it that never got used.

And this camp's not that old...

Probably the '80s, maybe?

Who would do that?

Fake brick... looks like Santa Claus set

something, and then hardwood.

People did that all in the '60s and '70s.

It makes no sense.

So that's going to save thousands of dollars,

and it's going to save days, you know?

This camp is taking a lot more time

to jack and level and get back.

So hey, that might get them back three or four days earlier.

And that's awesome, that's a big score.

This porch is really, really little.

You know, it's nice for like, a good chair, too.

But I think it's going to be nicer to have this all

opened up as living space.

JEDI: Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, you got fatty grilled cheeses.

MAN: Get a large fries...

RYAN ELDRIDGE: I need an ice cream.

No fries!

Fatty grilled cheeses.

RYAN ELDRIDGE: I need an ice cream.

CHASE MORRILL: Today, we are pulling off the siding

on the existing screened-in porch, pulling out the kitchen,

and peeling back the paneling and the wall

in-between the two bedrooms.

It's week four at the White camp.

And we're focused on getting the two

sliding doors and the bay window in the basement framed out.

One of the biggest challenges with basements

is the feeling of darkness.

Basements are always dark.

It's called a daylight basement, but the back half's

full of concrete.

So you want to try to get as much light in the daylight side

as you can.

Once that's done, we can start sheathing the exterior.

We're here at the White camp.

It's a beautiful, muggy morning.

Few things on the docket today... we're

going to get all our downstairs basement framed in.

That way, Doug can come in and get all his plumbing done.

We're getting the upstairs all finished,

and demo-ed, getting everything out of there

that doesn't need to be there.

All right, hold on.

Got it.

I got you.

Dixie and I are working on the new addition.

We've got our two walls framed up.

And now, we're going to do our post and our beams

in the front end of the screened-in porch.

So what I'm doing is, I'm just notching out some of the old

sheathing on the existing building so our 4-by-4

and 6-by-6 can fit tight to the framing and existing building.

Today, we're working on getting the rafters and the roof sheath

ASHLEY MORRILL: Ready for mine?

Sure.

We'll do your outside one, and then we'll do the...

These last two, and figure something out for the outside

so we can start sheathing.

We're looking good, in terms of time.

There's a little bit to do.

We have some milling to do, and some tying in, too.

But I think we can potentially start to roof it on Monday.

JEDI: We're here at the White camp.

Got our sheathing boards up, paper down.

We're ready to lay some shingles.

Climbing up in that morning dew, it's

a little slippery to start.

But sun's popping out, it's drying off.

We're able to rock and roll.

This roof's really straightforward.

There's just one chimney coming out of it, which is

really easy to step and flash.

Other than that, the two rooflines

came together really well.

So it's just putting our drip edge, and laying our shingles.

We're here at the White camp today.

We had a lot going on.

Everybody was here, everybody had a job to do.

And I jumped on our belly band, our flashing,

and our clapboards.

So do we do the windows first, and then adjust the belly band?

Or do we do that belly band across, and figure

out the windows after?

Ideally, those windows should be in there, right?

Ideally.

There were four openings where the jacking company

and the foundation company left open

in order to remove the I-beams after jacking

up and leveling the camp.

And Ryan had ordered some custom-sized windows

to put in those openings.

And it was just a matter of figuring out how

those windows are going to sit.

Generally, you want some wood framing.

Because actually, if we put anything on the bottom,

that's going to bring that up to there.

Those cut outs in the concrete were there

to move the I beams through the house

when they moved the house, so it wasn't really straight.

It wasn't square.

It wasn't plumb.

Yeah, I don't know, man.

The issue we're dealing with out front

here at the White camp, the homeowner

wanted windows back here for the basement.

These weren't really initially built or poured for windows.

These were poured, so he could slide the beams in and out,

and lift the camp, and put them in.

We've got some custom windows.

They're a really tight fit.

Unfortunately, when you have a tight fit,

working with concrete, it's not always easy.

How are you doing this?

I don't know.

I don't know.

So what?

I'd like to have framing inside my window.

So you cannot build a box?

We cannot.

We have 24 and 3/4 inch wide windows.

3/4 inch on the bottom, 3/4 inch on top.

You will still be able to get your window in.

Well, the windows are made to screw.

They've holes through the sides.

What's going to stop them from coming out?

They'll have a stop, and then we'll silicone.

On both sides, we'll stop front and back?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, OK.

Because they're going to get these stops.

We're going to silicone the window in,

and then silicone the stops on the side.

It's not going to...

The side ones are, basically, just a weather seal.

Yeah.

We were able to frame up inside those little mini windows,

you know, just a little bit of stuff

that we had kicking around.

We get them to lock in there, filled our stops.

Now, we have a nice, sealed off window in the basement.

Generally, this is what we do.

We tie-in new stuff to old stuff.

Very rarely do we start with new construction,

and it's just part of what we have to deal with.

Custom windows call for custom framework.

All right, last one.

It's a beautiful, sunny, windy day here

at the White camp in Belgrade.

Windows are going in.

Doors going in.

The side over here is finished off, just ready to be painted.

The front here, we've got the doors

that need to be installed, a few windows,

and then get the place finished off.

Originally, this camp was sitting on posts.

It was jacked up, a new foundation put underneath,

and a 10 foot wide addition was put on this end.

That allowed for a large second bathroom,

two extra additional sleeping rooms, and a nice set of stairs

up to the main camp.

This will be an enclosed, heated space with a doorway

out onto the screened in porch and a nice, wide entry

into the main living space.

We've got a larger master bathroom, a larger master

bedroom, and by removing the old screened in porch,

we were able to open up this for a new, larger kitchen area.

The ceiling will come across, and then

we'll just close in some walls.

It will give the Whites a lot more living area.

The view's amazing.

You know, it was amazing before, but now that it's raised up,

you can see a whole lot more of the lake.

And it's just a really nice space.

Even the basement's going to have a great view.

We're going to put in these huge French doors

and let a lot of light into this place.

Normally, you have you pressure treated

plates and your KD plate.

And we'll just cut the KD plate out.

Well, because of the levels and stuff,

we had to put a pressure treated strip in here

to get the floor thick enough.

So we can't take this plate out.

So now, I've got to gnaw away at the header.

It's really a pain in the butt, but we

have a big 10 inch skill saw.

I should be able to do it OK.

It's going to look like I gnaw away, like a beaver.

But it'll be practical.

It'll work.

CHASE: You always run into issues,

and the level of the foundation floor

was a little bit higher than we had planned for.

So Ryan ended up having to cut out a little bit of the header,

which is no big deal.

Because there's a six by six header that the entire building

is sitting on.

That was just kind of an additional support,

so losing an inch or inch and a half isn't a big deal.

Come on, guys.

Let's go find daddy.

This place gained a lot of space.

- It's huge, isn't it? - Yeah.

Its huge.

So you guys are going to spray this all out?

Yeah, I'm not sure what color it is.

Its a color similar to this.

- Oh, cool. - They liked the colors.

They wanted to stick with the same colors.

Nice.

So the Whites really liked the color scheme a lot,

so we just decided just to freshen it up.

So we were painting the trim a nice deep, forest green,

and then the body is going to be a little bit lighter

of a tan color.

And we're going to keep that dark, forest green at the trim.

This was originally a screened in porch,

and there was just open screening.

I had the guys frame in for new windows

that we were going to order.

But I didn't realize we had two windows left over that we had

ordered that, I think, we had planned

for another one in the bathroom and probably

one on the opposite wall.

But we decided we didn't need those,

so we had two extra windows.

So I know it's going back and redoing

the work they've already done.

But instead of waiting three to four weeks to get new windows,

I figured it's worth changing this out

in order to use the windows we have to get

this place entirely closed in.

Lovely.

Keep our fingers crossed and see if it fits.

Yes, lovely.

The next big steps are finishing the exterior.

We're pretty close there now that the doors

and windows are mostly in.

We'll get the siding finished, so that Jay can

come in and paint everything.

And then it's going to be go, go, go on the interior.

ASHLEY: Come on, Charlie.

Come on, guys.

Get up.

So Linda has a very particular style, a particular taste.

So I wanted to just stop by, and kind of

get a feel for their style, and see if they have

any pieces that were taken out of camp

that I could put back in.

So Linda loves, loves, loves this red fireplace,

and actually, it's pretty cool.

It's not like anything you seen in any cabins.

Yeah, it's very, like, retro.

Very.

Mhmm, I like it.

Yeah, it's cool, so I feel like a lot of our design ideas

should kind of be focused around that.

We can go poke around in the storage to see

the furniture they left me.

You have the red fireplace that her father painted,

and that fireplace is kind of the focal point

of the whole upstairs living space.

So it's going to be really great to be

able to pull in pops of reds to kind of complement that stove.

So when I first came here, there was

this, like, round sort of piece of art

on the end of the building.

They're called barn quilts, so they're just pieces of wood.

And you paint them, so they almost look like a quilt.

And I feel like that's something that they would appreciate.

Yeah, it seems like their style.

Yeah, as I see quilts in the background.

Yeah, all the quilts.

Yeah.

DIXIE: So today, I'm here on Great Pond.

We're at the White camp.

We are plugging right along.

90% of the windows are in.

So now, we've started on putting pine up on the inside

and just working on some miscellaneous stuff around.

I'm just wrapping up the smaller basement windows that

were in the front, allow light into the bedroom

and the bathroom that's going to be in the basement.

And the rest of the crew, Brad, Brian, and Sarah,

are all working on putting up the one by eight [inaudible]

that we're putting on the walls.

It's week seven of the White camp,

and Dixie and my painting crew are out there,

spraying out the White camp.

They really wanted to give it the same color,

so we're just going to put on a fresh coat

to cover up the patches that we put in.

And then I'm going to try to do some specialty

pieces to really make it pop.

So today, I'm over at my design studio.

Gussie and I have a big project to take care of.

So Linda really wants the cabin to stay the same color,

so I thought a nice way to kind of

brighten it up or spice it up a little is to add a barn quilt.

Come on, Gussie.

It's arts and crafts time.

Do you want to learn how to be a designer?

Lots of people have these barn quilts.

They're just like these really nice, kind

of quilt like looking pieces of art

that you can hang up on your house.

It's an old fashioned decorative piece that will just add

a lot of color to the exterior.

What color should we use, guys?

What are you doing down there?

He's hiding.

He doesn't want to have arts and crafts day with me today.

So I've never done this before.

Gus, what color should I use next?

Gus is the best design assistant a woman could ever ask for.

What do you think?

Do you like... ah, really, red?

All right, if you say so.

Every style he chooses is fantastic.

Do you like it?

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OK.

I mean, everyone needs a Gus in their life.

All right, I like it, Gus.

Let's go.

So now, I have it sketched out.

I need to transfer it over to the boards, get it painted,

and it will be ready to go.

This place is huge.

I'm standing in the original camp,

and one thing that's helping us out with the budget

is that there's a lot of pine here.

Materials prices have gone and skyrocketed this summer.

So we have enough to finish this room out with all the old stuff

with the same patina.

This will all match, and then the different rooms

will be new.

Then downstairs, this will be all new pine.

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So after today, Brad and I should have this wall done.

We'll be doing a little stuff up here.

Tomorrow, I'm supposed to pour, finally,

so we'll focus on this.

And we'll get ready for the floor.

I hope they save these floors.

This week, our hardwood flooring

specialist Rick is here to refinish

the floors in the White camp.

The unfortunate part is the carpet had been glued down,

so we called Rick to refinish the floors.

He came in, and he said he probably went through a stack

of sandpaper about this tall.

But he was able to get all the glue off the floor

and get them restored back to their original beauty.

You know, we definitely saved money

by refinishing the floors.

If we had to install all new flooring,

it would have taken a lot more material.

We also need to put flooring in the new screened in porch.

Instead of trying to match up what was original in the camp,

we decided to go with a click together flooring

that is perfect for areas that need to be waterproof

and where there's not going to be heat, so changing whether.

It's all plastic.

So if you have dogs, if you live on a lake,

especially for a mudroom coming in with wet shoes, sandy shoes,

it will definitely withstand a lot of abuse.

These floors look unbelievable.

They do.

Imagine how much sandpaper he went through.

That's just getting all that white stuff up.

It was the glue that banged them up.

It's beautiful.

Totally worth it.

Yeah, what did you have into that?

1,500 bucks maybe?

I think that's right around.

We're almost there, huh?

I'm going to put screens in.

The hatch is done.

Yeah, so get Doug up here.

We're going to put a materials list together,

and then the shads showing up tomorrow for the counter top.

We are wrapping up today at the White camp in Belgrade.

Today, we're going to work on getting

all the trim upstairs finished up,

the kitchen cabinets in place.

We're ready for shads to install tomorrow.

We are going to get the bathroom put together,

all the doors hang, and get the place finished

up and ready for Ashley's team.

So things are coming together really

nicely at the White camp today.

We've got a few last things to do, and the camp will be done.

Is that your barn quilt?

Yeah, I finished it.

It came out beautiful.

It's dry.

It's ready to go up.

I was going to have it outside, but I

feel like it should be inside.

No one will ever see if it's outside on that far wall.

I feel like maybe in here somewhere.

Right there?

Yeah, I feel like I kind of want it to be at a triangle.

Diagonal?

I mean, diagonal, like a diamond.

Here, I'll go up there.

You can tell me which way to go.

OK, I like it diagonal.

Do you like it this way better?

Yeah, that looks great.

Just like that, perfect, right there, right there.

Perfect.

That looks perfect.

Never miss if you look at the elbow.

Thank you.

Nice move.

Hey, Chase.

Yes?

Ross is here down back.

Want to walk down with me to talk to him?

He's doing the floors in the basement.

OK.

Ross already put down the base color.

Now, they're putting down the actual topical color.

Hello.

ROSS: Hey, Ashley.

- How's it going? - Good.

How are you? - Good.

I'm just excited to see the color.

- Hey, Chase. - How are ya?

Good, so we're going to do our color.

It's a metallic red we're going to do.

Yep, I saw it.

This is just my base coat right now,

and we're going to pour it out into ribbons and trail it on.

What is the color?

It's a color called Americana.

It's a red.

I don't hate this black.

I wouldn't have ever thought that the black

would have been... - I know.

I don't hate the black either.

That's kind of funny, but this will be perfect for Linda.

And it will match the stuff that we already

picked out for furniture. Oh, whoa.

That's just powder.

It's powder.

So you mix that with the product.

- With the epoxy. - Right.

So how many days, until I can get in here, do you think?

I think Friday.

By Friday, we can come in?

So two days, about 48 hours.

That's perfect.

That's perfect timing.

Great.

All right, we'll let you get back to it.

- Awesome. - Thanks a lot.

Give us a shout when it's done.

Yeah, see ya.

Linda really loves red.

She loves her red fireplace.

She loves the color red, so I thought,

why not make the floors a nice, beautiful red?

It's a little bit of a difference.

It's funky, but it's a beautiful color.

And I know Linda's going to love it.

Hey, Ross.

What do you think?

I think it's so beautiful.

I think it's coming out nice.

And I just love how the black is showing through.

This is such a cool color.

I love it. Thanks a lot.

Yeah.

So the floor is going to take a couple of days to dry,

and then my team can come in.

And we can put it together.

It's go time for us.

Welcome back.

Oh, my God, it's beautiful.

We know it's been a long wait.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

This is beautiful.

Look what you folks have done.

For the White camp, my whole inspiration for everything

was based upon the stove.

So we took that red and just had touches of red

throughout the place.

I was able to bring in a lot of furniture

that they already had, and then we brought

in our own little pieces just to kind of jazz it up

and give it a different feel.

But overall, we wanted to keep it family friendly, a very

warm, welcoming feel, but still be accommodating

for the whole family plus a place for the kids

to go wild and crazy downstairs, while the adults

can relax upstairs.

And I think Linda and Mike are going to love it.

There you go.

Perfect.

We had 12 weeks and $60,000.

Our timeline got pushed back a little bit,

just because the foundation took a little bit longer.

Our budget didn't include the foundation work.

So we were able to get the downstairs finished off,

the upstairs redone, a new addition

on the side for $60,000.

It's all set.

Let's go change and get ready to meet them.

Sounds good.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

Wow.

Look what Cabin Masters has done, while we've been gone.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

- Welcome back. - It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

We know it's been a long wait.

This is beautiful.

Look what you folks have done.

That's great.

Good to see you again.

Great to see you.

This is just incredible.

I am impressed.

We have been busy this summer.

Yes, I would say so.

We stuck with the colors that you already had, but you loved.

Right.

So we just spruced it up, gave it a fresh coat.

And you have a brand new foundation.

That's just incredible.

What a difference it's going to make.

The camp was lifted up.

You've got an addition off to the side

here, a new roof across, new windows throughout.

It's kind of one of those things, where you've

just got to go in and see.

It's just incredible what you folks have done.

Look at this.

The added addition, I think, helps a great deal.

One, because of the stairs going down into the basement,

which before, we would have lost space

if we didn't have the addition.

This is what we've been waiting for.

It ain't been easy.

Well, yeah, let's not wait any longer.

Let's get you inside.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, look at that.

Wow.

Look at this.

Oh, this is amazing.

Unbelievable.

Look at this.

This is beautiful.

Look at what they've done.

Oh, look at my kitchen.

Look at this.

Unbelievable. Look at this.

So we got you a bigger kitchen.

Yes.

So these were your original floors.

You're kidding.

No, we start peeling stuff up, and we

saw these floors under there.

And we were like, well, is it worth it to keep going?

And it was definitely worth it going.

Oh, I had no idea.

Yeah, we didn't either, but they had put them down.

And it looked like they had instantly covered them.

They have never been really walked on

or treated with anything.

The rustic camp look that the hardwood floors give it.

When we opened the door and saw that, it was just beautiful.

Yeah, so originally, this was a screened in porch.

So we ripped out the wall, and you were able to...

Oh, OK.

Yeah, you're standing in the old screened in porch

right now. - Right.

Unbelievable.

Wow.

This is just incredible.

We kept the fireplace, put a propane insert inside of it.

It's remote controlled, very easy to use.

Great.

That's what we like, easy to use.

Ashley did do a lot to go with my taste,

the red accents in there, which also goes with the fireplace.

My dad had put that back in the '60s.

And now that we can actually use it with the heater,

that's great. Wow.

Look at this.

Look at this.

Unbelievable.

This is amazing.

All new electrical, all new windows.

We kept with the pine boards inside,

lofted this just to give it that bigger feel to it.

We've got a doorway into the main bathroom now.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Look at this.

Look, a full-sized shower.

And our screened in porch.

Look at this.

Look at this.

Wow.

Look at that.

So I went ahead and just painted a barn quilt that I was

going to put on the exterior.

Because of the addition, you don't really...

You're not really going to be walking that way anymore.

You see it.

So I thought, we'll just throw it up here.

Nice. Thank you, Ashley.

Yeah.

That's great.

Look at this.

That's great.

This is incredible, what you've done.

This is beautiful.

A lot of times, we do go out there in the morning,

have our coffee, and sit and relax for a little bit

before we go for our morning walk.

The screened in porch is just incredible.

Wow, look at this.

Oh, look at this.

Look at this. - Isn't it beautiful?

Unbelievable.

Wow, it is.

Isn't it beautiful?

This is beautiful. This is incredible.

This is gorgeous.

It doubles.

It doubled the size of your camp.

Never did I ever, ever.

Oh, I never thought it was going to be that massive.

Really.

- It really is, right? - Wow.

It is.

You have so much more space. It's crazy.

Wow.

And it's also amazing how much extra space

we have with that daylight basement now.

I didn't expect that there was going to be that much room.

This is really, really nice.

- Wow. - This is the kids room.

Look at this.

I love this.

And now, with the expanded daylight basement, the ability

to have our three sons and all six

grandchildren at the same time, we can do that now.

Are you excited to show your family?

I can't wait.

- Next summer. - Absolutely.

Next spring, it's ready for you.

You don't have to do any work.

And you can just sit back, and relax, and enjoy it.

Exactly.

Put the boat in the water and take the kids for a ride.

I just can't wait.

The camp is yours.

It's beautiful.

I love it. - It's amazing.

I love it.

I guess you just need these.

They fulfilled my dad's dream, so that makes me really happy.

This is incredible, a dream come true.

We're going to have so much more room, and it's so much nicer.

It's just the greatest.

Maine Cabin Masters has been nice to us.