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It's ready for some updating.

- [hitting] - Wow...

[Dixie] This wasn't their winter house,

it was their storehouse.

[thudding]

[rattling]

[groans] I hate you!

[chuckling]

An old road sign, used as wood down here?

We'll try and do something cool

to re-incorporate it into the camp somehow.

[Ashley] Welcome back.

Wow, look at the color.

- Wow. - Love it.

[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.

Oh...

[narrator] Chase Morrill and his family of Mainers

renovate, restore and save these historic structures.

Are we int the right place?

[Chase] I'm Chase and I lead the team.

Ashley is 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 job we throw at 'em.

- [man] Nice... - Wow...

[Chase] Our crew is the best at what we do.

- Nice job on this one. - Cheers.

[Chase] We're all best friends, and we love it.

[birds chirping]

- [Ashley] Morning, Chase. - [Ryan] Morning, Chase.

- [Chase] Good morning. - Just our luck,

nice calm day to go canoeing.

[Ashley] Chase, Why do you want to meet us

out here on the windiest day of the year?

[Chase] I'm meeting Ashley and Ryan today in Farr's Cove.

We're going to canoe up to the camp.

I didn't realize it's going to be so windy.

We can pick our camps, but we can't pick the weather.

[Ashley] Where you taking us?

[Chase] Going to the Costin camp

to meet Patty and Tim and their kids,

Tim and Pat.

They have a camp

built in 1897 that needs our help.

1897 would be one of the oldest camps we worked on.

This area has a lot of old-old history.

People would come up to take the trains out

from Boston and New York

and then take trolleys out to these lakes.

You're going to tip us.

[Ryan] No, I'm not.

- You paddle forward. - [Ashley] Maybe I should be the driver.

You're fighting me.

[Ashley] If you tell me what to do,

I'm gonna... I'm going to splash you.

[Ryan] You know what they say about testing a marriage in the canoe.

- [Chase] Don't do it? - [Ryan laughs]

Oh, we're flying now. We're in unison.

We're jiving, honey.

This is it right here.

Yeah, head to the dock.

- Hey, guys. - Hey, guys.

Come on up.

[Ashley] Get me off of this boat.

We'd help you guys tie off,

but he's sleeping and...

You guys look like you got it.

[Tim] Patty and I have been coming up to Cobbossee

since I started to date her back in 1980.

We bought this in 2001.

It was a wide open screen porch.

It had a decrepit old wood stove

that we ripped out first weekend that we bought it.

And it was little cramped with only, uh, a bedroom and a loft.

[Ryan] She gotta get her sea legs back.

Such a good day for it.

- How are you doing, guys? - Hi, guys. Nice to meet you.

- I'm Ryan. - Nice to meet you, guys.

So tell us about the camp.

We know it's an older one.

[Tim] Built in the 1897.

It's ready for some updating.

[Chase] The deck is fairly new.

[Tim] Yeah, we replaced that, uh, this past spring.

[Chase] So you live in Massachusetts?

- We live in Newburyport. - Okay.

- Originally from Swampscott. - Okay.

Boys have moved up to New Hampshire.

What are you looking to get done to the camp?

As you can see, our family is growing.

We'd like to add a couple of bedrooms if possible.

Right now, we only have one entrance to the camp.

We blocked off one of the other entrances

to pick up a bedroom,

so we'd love a second means of egress

and maybe a way in off the driveway.

[Chase] And you have access to the loft area?

- [Tim] Yes. - [Patty] Yeah.

- [Tim] Um... - Stairs are this big.

Dog can get up but the dog can't get down.

[laughing]

[Chase] What else are you looking to get done?

Button up and bug free.

Is there anything you like about it inside

that you are looking to save our keep?

[Patty] There's an original glider on the porch,

which, you know, we would like to put that back in.

I like the campy feel.

The mooses and the bears

- and you know... - Yeah, we love that campy, pine look

that these Main Cabin Masters have done on numerous places.

We just kind of fell in love with that look,

and we'll like to see 'em duplicate that here if possible.

[Chase] Update the camp.

Make it more comfortable for the whole family to stay in this place.

Some jacking and leveling, an addition of some sort.

- Keep the critters out, keep the bugs out. - [Patty] Yes.

What do you have to put into the camp?

[Tim] We were thinking $75,000.

[Chase] Okay. When do you want the camp back?

[Tim] We don't really have a timeline.

We'll leave that up to you folks.

Realistically, there's... It's uh, you know,

it's a small camp style but there's quite a bit to be done.

I think 12 weeks is probably a safe time,

but by then it'll be... Camp season will be over,

so it will be ready for you for next year.

We just need a set of keys.

[Tim] We could accommodate you. There you go.

- All right. - Great. Thank you guys,

- very much. - Thank you.

- Thanks, guys. - We'll take good care of her.

[Chase] From the back of the camp, it's gonna look

like a whole new place.

With a large second floor, new windows,

new siding to the new roof.

From the lakeside or waterside,

the camp won't change that much,

but with a new paint, slide-in windows, it will look like a new camp.

It will be buttoned up

and bug free, just as Patty hoped.

Main camp.

- They love their porch. - [Ashley] It's a cute porch.

Look at this. I like this glider.

- That's cool. - That's old, huh?

Yeah.

I feel so tall in here, I like it.

It's just old, dated. It's weird.

This is the original camp.

It's got that loft room up above.

Kitchen over there.

This used to be part of the screen porch, I guess.

[Ashley] They got a lot of furnishing that I'm going

to be able to work with, though, that's cool.

I think we're going to find some funky stuff behind these walls.

[Ashley] When we canoed up,

it looks a lot bigger than it does when we went in.

It's really deceiving.

Look at this though. This is awesome.

The wind coming in off the lake. This is nice.

[Chase] On the inside, we're going to redesign the floor space

to make better flow throughout the main floor.

We'll take it from two bedrooms

and a lot of three bedrooms and a loft.

We'll leave the screen and porch intact

but we will update the windows and panes.

So we got a little bit of concern

and a lot of confidence.

That's reversed.

What's going on here?

Do they need to come back and clean it out?

- Before we do anything? - Yeah.

We'll be a couple weeks.

Yeah, and then we can call the guys.

Yeah, we can figure out with the town what addition we can do and...

- All right. - [Chase] Let's go.

[Ryan] Ladies first.

[Ashley] I don't know if I want to get back on the canoe.

[Ryan] You want to double up on the canoe, Chase?

[Chase] We're going with the wind.

Today we are at the Costin camp on Farr's Cove.

It's a really small camp,

so we didn't want to be stepping on each other.

So it's just the main five of us today,

just kind of ripping to the inside.

See what we're working with...

We kind of just want to know what's going on inside.

- [hitting] - Wow...

[Jedi] Squirrel.

- [Chase] Squirrel? - [Ashley] Squirrel?

Stored some nuts over the years.

Stored everywhere.

This wasn't a winter house, it was their storehouse.

I picked this room because it looks like it's been remodeled

in the last 25 years so hopefully what's behind this wall

isn't as bad as what's in there.

Oh, sounds like it's raining.

"Keep lift-up door and keep hardware set."

[dog barking]

Okay, I'll keep it.

I'll keep it. I'll keep it.

They has left some tape on a few things in there

that they want to keep that are important to them.

Hey, guys. There's a cool guest book in here.

Hey, guys!

Come check out this cool guest book.

This is from, oh... I don't even want to touch it.

[Chase] Patty and Tim cleared the place out.

They left a few notes about stuff they want to save.

Ashley found a log book in the kitchen cabinets.

[Jedi] 1897 that's pretty wild, someone wrote that.

I don't really want to go through it too much, but maybe

I should have it rebound, do you guys know anybody

that does that?

Somebody that reads books.

[Ashley] Oh, my gosh.

All right, let's go back to tearing.

You guys are too much.

[Chase] Let me somebody, see if they know.

- [Ryan] Yeah. - [Chase] Hello, Operator?

Yes?

[Ryan] Stuck in time.

[Jedi] Oh, do you know someone that binds books?

Great, I'll let her know. Thank you.

[Ashley] Well, you hung up?

Hello?

All right. Well, I'm going to check out upstairs.

[Chase] Okay.

So I went upstairs to kind of check out the furniture.

There's two bureaus and that big trunk.

Once they get opened up, we'll be able to take it out

and save it, use it down the line

but right now, it just has to stay there.

Good.

- [whirring] - [groans] I hate you!

- [whirring] - [groans] I hate you!

[giggling]

I hate you!

Jedi! Why are you doing this stuff to me?

So I went upstairs to kind of check out the furniture.

Jedi must have heard me saying I was going to go up there

because when I opened up that trunk

to check out what was in it, out pops Jedi.

[drill whirring]

[nervous chuckle]

Yeah, that's good enough.

You can hear the acorns out there.

There's stuff coming out from behind the trim.

We're at the Costin camp

and we are doing some demo.

Of course, it's hot and muggy,

and no air and we're right in the middle of it.

Look at all those mud wasp nests.

[Chase] Our goal today was just start in the main living space.

There's a lot of paneling.

It's really small.

It's old, so we know

there's just going to be probably layer upon layer of renovation.

Plan is to remove the back third of the camp,

so there's not much to it we'll pull everything out we can

in order to make tearing that piece off that much easier.

[Ryan] Ryan's ten in one show.

Slice, dices, pries, punches, pokes, cleans up.

And the roof's coming down.

Ah...

Gross.

I'm just looking at what they framed it with

and surprised that it's still standing.

These are not even two by fours.

They're like a three by two,

and it's quite a span.

So I'm just kind of surprised

that this place is still standing.

[Ashley] What's up Chase.

- Oh, look at that. - [Chase] What's going on?

"Interstate 95." What is this?

It's an old road sign?

Used as wood down here?

We started peeling into the kitchen,

and at some point they had done some renovations,

and it looks like they used old state signs from

when they built Interstate 95.

I bet if we put these together,

it will talk about the new interstate system.

Yeah.

It was built, what, in the '50s?

I think so.

[Chase] You know, that's a perfect example

of Yankee ingenuity and just Maine frugality.

If there's some material that they can use, you know,

reuse of somewhere else repurpose it.

Why not? It lasted this long

because we're able to save enough pieces of it.

We'll try and do something cool

to re incorporate it into the camp somehow.

Five point three-eight miles state funds,

ten percent, federal aid funds, 90%.

So the state had to come up with 10,

and the federal came up with 90.

Gus, do you want to help me, Gus what you think

the next words going to be?

State potatoes?

Thought it was kind of cool that we just found this

old State Police sign.

Went into the main room of the Costin camp

to take the rest of the bricks out of that chimney

and crazy enough, everything came crashing down.

- [thudding] - [groaning]

[Jedi] So we figured out the hard way

that these beams right here,

were kind of strengthen up this floor system.

They were not secured to anything.

The only thing holding them up is this three quarter board right here.

This right here and all these beams

along here are pretty much just floating.

They're just resting on the top plate over there.

And it was resting on this three quarter trim board here, so...

Soon as you remove that,

the end's going to fall

and you're hopefully not going to be standing there.

Whoo...

"Whoo" is right.

What happened to you? You look like you got in a brawl.

- Oh, one eye. - Looks like the sand won.

Look at him. He looks like...

- Hot chocolate lab. - Gussy, come here.

That sums up today, we're cleaner but we're dirty.

We're dirty but we're cleaner.

But it was cool to find those signs.

- We'll do something with them. - Those signs are neat.

Very cool.

All signs point to let's get out of here.

- Okay. - Let's go.

- [Ashley] Come on, Charlie. - [Ryan] Come on, Charles.

[Jedi] We're at week two at the Costin camp,

it's windy. Wind's howling across the lake,

but it's time to get some stuff done.

Major goal for today is to get that back third to the camp

all torn off, and then we can jump on to jacking the original camp.

We could have hooked the truck on

and rip the whole thing right off.

But I wanted to just dismantle step by step.

Start with the roof.

Work my way down.

Nothing comes crashing down.

Nobody gets hurt.

Here it goes.

Chimney down.

Things are going really well.

We got the back third of the camp

all ripped off, got that stuff all out of here.

Now we're just getting underneath.

It's probably six to eight inches

off from one corner to the other.

We're just going to start at our main focal point, the high point,

and we're going to bring the rest of the cabin up

to that one point.

This is the post that this camp was sitting on.

So there's a bunch of those all the way through this camp,

that we're going to have to go and replace.

[machine whirring]

Slow and steady is the number one key

to jacking and leveling.

Everything underneath looks pretty solid.

[machine whirring]

[Jedi] Fall's here.

It's nice, cool, windy day.

We've had some frost already,

so now it's time to start building our addition.

Got the guys cutting all the stringers and all the joists

right now. We're going to get that first deck built.

Get that sheathed over and then we'll be able to start going upwards.

[Chase] It's our third week on Farr's Cove

at the Costin camp,

and Jedi and his crew did a great job

building a new floor system for the addition.

Today we're getting ready,

to frame of the walls to close,

and sheath in the new room.

[machine whirring]

Right now, we're a little ahead of schedule,

which is good, because there's some nasty storms coming

that are definitely going to slow us down.

[Ashley] I am at my friend, Ashley's house

in Lowell, Maine.

She makes beautiful custom lampshades,

and I thought she'd be perfect for the Costin camp.

You ready to make a lampshade?

I am, all these different patterns.

Oh, my gosh, I'm overwhelmed.

[chuckling]

It's hard to choose one.

Oh, yeah, so this is the one that we spoke about, right?

Yes.

[Ashley] Before I came up, Ashley sent me a bunch

of different fabric choices to look over.

Instantly I knew that the trees

was what I wanted to use.

Patty and Tim really like the camp decor,

and I think that these lampshades

are going to totally just blend in perfectly.

So we decided to do a floor lamp and a table lamp?

- Yeah. - And so...

- With the same fabric... - Yeah.

...so we're going to start working on the smaller one.

It's easier to learn on the smaller ones.

[Ashley] Okay, perfect.

And I've gone head and I've done the hard part,

which is pre-cutting the paper.

Okay. Something totally different than anything we've ever done.

It will add to the overall enjoyment of the camp.

And this one's a great pattern to start with.

Now, what we're going to do is we're going to pick an end,

and we're going to glue this down.

In this end. I'll cut.

So it's nice and straight.

[Ashley] First thing we did, was we cut out the template

for the actual size of the shade,

stuck it on to the actual fabric

that we chose to use.

Then we glued down the herringbone trim

let that dry, and then took our lampshade rings

and glued the herringbone trim to the lampshade.

And there you go, we have a lampshade.

Oh... That's beautiful.

- That's awesome. - Yeah.

Just like that, we've got a beautiful lampshade.

It's a really cute touch, and her work's going to go great

in the cabin, but it also is

going to bring in some great light.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for coming.

Absolutely.

I'll be back.

Sounds good.

[Ashley] I love it so much.

- Bye. - [Ashley] Bye, see you later.

What have you got here big stud making little studs?

[chuckling]

[Chase] Luckily, we got all the rafters up.

Then we can finish doing the lower roofs.

Get those sheathed over and get the place

closed in weather-tight soon as possible.

[Chase] We are back at the Costin camp.

We tore off the back

addition, tore off most of the roof.

Kind of figured a good place to go.

We rebuilt that and extended the camp six feet.

We're able to get a bathroom over there.

A new back entrance, kitchen will be right there.

And first bedroom is on this corner

of the new addition,

and second bedroom is on this side of the camp.

We're not doing much to the front of the camp

because they've already built a new deck.

Today we are working on getting the roof

rafters up and lofted so we can start closing in the camp.

We've got one ridge beam

that we're setting the rafters on

for the front part of the roof.

But then we need to go up a little higher

to set the back rafters in order to get enough pitch

on the roof to shed snow and water.

Beautiful.

Because the original camp was built in the 1890's,

it wasn't built to last.

So we've struggled

with being able to support the original structure

without tearing the whole thing down.

You know, we ended up creeping further

into the original camp than we had originally intended.

But once we got it all stripped back,

we saw how poorly framed up it was.

And so, in order to get that second floor

in there and new roof system, we had to make sure

that everything was properly supported.

[Dixie] Cutting little mini studs for our little knee wall

that's going on top of our ridge pole that we just set up.

What have you got here, big stud making little studs?

[chuckling]

So we are coming to check up on the Costin camp.

Um, they're still doing the build part of it,

but I thought of the fun to get all dressed up

in our fall colors and come visit the guys.

Check out the design.

Let's go, bug the boys.

Hi, Nick!

- Hey, girl, how we doing? - Good.

Hi, Arnie.

Hi, guys.

Yo, what's up?

Come here... see what's going on.

- Hi. - [Ryan] Are you guys all matching?

- Oh, look at the dogs and you. - Oh, matching-matching.

Oh, my goodness.

[Ashley] Got to stay safe. We're in hunting season.

- Hi, Chase. - Hello.

What's up?

- How are you? - [Ashley] A lot has changed here.

Good. Just needed to come and check it out.

Get some ideas of, spatially, what's going on in the camp.

[chuckling]

Whoa.

- This has grown. - From right here.

- [Ashley] Wow. - To right here.

There'll be a wall right there.

That back will be walled all the way off

so that bedroom will be enclosed in that back "L."

[Ashley] So, just standing here looking around,

I mean, this is a lot more open space.

I don't really think that the camp had that much potential.

They got six more feet on the backside.

So what this means to me is I'm going to have to

just find that much more stuff to decorate with.

[Chase] I mean, our goal today was to get the rafters on.

There's supposed to be rain later today.

It doesn't make sense

to start sheathing if it's gonna start raining.

So, you know, if we can get the rafters in,

get the walls kind of figured out,

then sheathing can happen once the rain stops.

And the rain arrived, but luckily we got all the rafters up.

We've got the window layout figured out

so that the gabled end walls can go up.

Once those walls are up and sheathed,

then we can finish doing the lower roofs.

Get those sheathed over and get the place closed in

and weather tight as soon as possible.

[Dixie] We're out of here.

Got to cut the day short,

while, you know, it's not real safe to be up on a roof.

You know, we're supposed to get some high winds, too.

So better to play it safe than sorry.

[Jedi] It's week five.

We're here at the Costin camp today.

A lot of things happening.

We got the roof going on right now.

Got all our rafters, our flying rafters

our fascia board, all our shadow board.

That's all up. So now we're able to come in

and we're able to roof all these new roof lines.

Easy enough we'll be able to tie the old roof line

into the new roof line out front.

The sides, we've got stripped back.

Once we get a roof on it, we're ready for house wrapping windows.

[Chase] So I brought the signs from the Costin camp over to my workshop today,

and I'm going to work on a small kids' playhouse.

One of the Costin boys has a small child,

and, you know, as they get older,

they'll have a small playhouse to use.

Thought I'll bring these inside, de-nail 'em, and start ripping 'em up.

The signs, they weren't in the greatest condition,

they're a few different thickness variations.

So to actually build a solid structure, there probably isn't enough.

So I decided to kind of go with a lock-together playhouse

that can easily be assembled, disassembled and be in a few different configurations.

You can just take it like so.

You kind of can make windows.

That's the general idea of it.

You kind of take triangles, make 'em like that

so that you can then just put slots across that.

When it's four feet wide, we'll be able to have

a small opening for the doorway.

But this is just the general,

basic layout how it's gonna work.

We're into the fifth week of the Costin camp.

The guys are ready for Eastern White Pine siding,

and I decided to go with a solid maroon stain on the clapboards.

Today we are working on getting the stairs

to the second floor laid out.

You know, stairs are always a head scratcher.

We've got, you know, certain parameters and restrictions

in order to get the stairs in,

and we just need to configure 'em

to make the most use of the space,

and make it as easy as possible to get up to the second floor.

[Jedi] Right now we're all inside, getting all our interior framing done,

getting some walls sheathed,

getting a little bit of insulation on some of those walls,

and just trying to get as much buttoned up as we can.

The weather is turning on us, and supposed to be down to 25.

It was frozen this morning when we got here.

So hopefully the snow holds off for another two weeks anyway,

but we'll see what happens.

So today I've brought the cushions from the glider

from the Costin camp over.

- I've got the cushions. - [Lori] Hurray. Come on in.

- Move right to the table there. - Okay, perfect. Thank you.

The one thing Patty really pointed out

and definitely wanted to save was this glider.

So I thought, let's re-upholster it and give it a fresh look.

So Roger and Lori are the experts.

What they did was, we took off the old cover

and what we found immediately,

was just this old, kind of nasty, foam.

[Roger] What we're gonna do is we're going to repair the broken wood pieces.

- [Ashley] Okay. - We're going to re-fasten those loose joints we found.

- Yeah. - Then we're going to cut a new piece of foam...

- Yeah. - ...that'll fit this side here.

- And we'll glue it to this side. - Okay.

- We will wrap the whole thing up in a new clean muslin. - Yeah.

And once that's done, I'll use the material you just brought in.

- Okay, cool. - It's just the right amount of heavy.

- Perfect. Yeah. - It's nice and soft.

The first thing that we had to do was we took and measured the cushion.

After we measured the cushion, we got the fabric out

and then we made our cuts.

After we made our cuts, we took all the pieces,

sewed them together, added a zipper,

and then we're ready to go.

- [Roger] We got some Dacron. - [Ashley] Once the cover was made,

we took the cushion, put the Dacron covering around it.

[Roger] And we'll put the zipper on this end.

So this is the front, is a nice smooth wrap in the Dacron.

Most fun part about the whole thing

was when we got to wrap it in that silk stuff.

[Roger] And we're gonna wrap this whole thing in this film,

and we're gonna suck this foam down really small,

put it in the case, we take the vacuum off,

and it expands back into place.

- [vacuum whooshing] - [Ashley laughing]

[Ashley] Get some of that silk stuff,

get your vacuum cleaner,

put on the reverse cycle.

Boom, shove it in.

Oh, my gosh. This a great trick I learned today.

- This is... - There you go.

[fanfare]

So the cushion came out great.

I love the fabric.

So now I'm taking a little swatch of the fabric

and I'm gonna go pick out a paint color,

and I'm gonna paint the glider and we're gonna install it.

It's gonna be comfortable, and it also is gonna look great.

As soon as, um, it's ready, give me a call and I can

- meet you out at the camp and we can install this. - Perfect.

I can't wait to glide in it.

Maybe Ryan will glide in it with me. [laughs] So that's how you glide.

I can't [laughs] glide.

[Jedi] Assuming these are the two kitchen and the two upstairs.

But we'll just get 'em in, uh, on that back wall, get 'em out of the way.

Windows are here today.

It's awesome. It's a beautiful day outside.

We've got great weather for the next couple,

so we're gonna get all our windows in,

we're gonna get our outside buttoned up,

and that's gonna allow us to concentrate on the inside

and get that right to where it needs to be.

Windows will be in today, and we'll be back to siding tomorrow.

[Ashley] It's our final week.

It's a really freezing day here.

Everyone's got a job and, yeah, lots of moving parts.

So kitchen cabinets are getting set in place by Dixie.

We got sink, cabinet, corner.

We'll put the stove there, fridge there.

And then those will be ready,

ready for the countertop, ready for a sink.

Ready for Doug.

And then really, last thing in here will be flooring this

but that's the last thing we'll do.

By the end of the day, we will poly ourselves right out of here.

[Ryan] It's below freezing, the wind's howling.

The inside crew...

It's nice and warm in there, but you know, it's only November.

So it's too early to get soft.

You got to be out here, toughening up.

Oh, white. As a primer?

No, this is the color.

[Patty] Love the glider. It's so amazing.

The rustic little plaid. Perfect.

[saw buzzing]

- Hi, Dixie. - Ash, what's going on?

Kitchen duty as usual?

- As always. - Nice to see.

It's chilly out there. Hey, um, I need to get into the shed.

Sure. Keys are, uh, hanging out back behind the shed.

[Ashley] Okay.

Patty really wanted to keep this.

So I went and had it re-upholstered.

[Ashley] This cabin is a lot larger than it was.

It now has three bedrooms, plus a nice big seating area

in the upstairs.

So a lot more living space.

So we need to have a lot of furniture.

And fortunately for us, they had a lot of really nice stuff already.

Oh, white. As a primer?

No, this is the color.

Then we'll get Jake to turn that heat back on

and it'll dry right up, and it'll be ready to go

when they get here with the cushions.

The glider frame still needed to get a fresh coat of paint.

And I'm just waiting for Scott and Lori.

Whoo! It's cold.

It's pretty.

[Chase] We are finishing up painting on the interior,

getting right to poly the floors,

getting the kitchen countertops in place,

finishing the bathroom.

Uh, really, it's the last minute trim details that need to be wrapped up.

Place is looking good,

- and we are ready to go. - See you, Chase.

- Thanks. - [man] See you, Chase.

- Bye, Chase. - Yeah. Looks like they're done. [laughs]

- Have a good day. Thank you. - Ciao.

[laughs] All right, we're out of here.

[Ashley] It's a really large cabin.

So fortunately, Patty and Tim had, um, a bunch of furniture that fit right in great.

So I just came in, added a few personal touches.

Ashley's team came in here, did a fantastic job.

You know, just a little bit of clean up, a few more small things to hang.

Camp is ready to get back.

Hello?

- [Chase] Good morning. - [Ashley] What's up?

Nothing.

[Chase] It's a chilly morning here in Farr's Cove.

Ashley and I are getting ready to hand camp back to the Costins.

We got few last things to finish up but we should be done fairly quickly.

Last thing we had to do was assemble the little kids' playhouse

that I'd built using the old signs that we found in the walls.

I want to be the builder.

You never used to let me play with the building sets when we were kids either.

Now you just let me come in and decorate 'em.

So found his old signs that were part of the renovation

at one point in the camp.

Um, they're old highway signs,

and we decided to reincorporate them into

almost like a build-your-own, kids', you know, playset.

So over the last couple of days, I finished it off.

I made these side roof pieces and then I put these little

notches right here to hold the slats on.

I had a little bit of left over pine

that I stained the same color as the camp

so that they're easy to, you know, set in place

but they're also easy to remove.

Their grandson's a little young right now

but something down the road, they can play around with.

- Your team did a good job. - Yours did, too.

- All right, let's go change your hat. - [Chase laughs]

[Ashley] They had this old journal,

and I brought it to a specialist, who rebound it for me.

So now all of the pages are in here, nice and secure.

So then Nick and I built this shadow box to display it.

And I've left it open

so if they want to look at it and flip through the pages

and whatever, they can.

- Did you like those lamp shades? They're cool. - They are.

The Costins had $75,000.

We were able to get it done before winter really set in.

- The house looks great. Let's go meet 'em. - All right. Let's go.

[Ashley] Nothing left to do but give it back.

Long wait, long fall.

Hi, welcome back.

- [Patty] Wow. Look at the color. - [Tim] Wow.

[Patty] Love it. [giggles]

[Tim] There's a whole 'nother second floor.

- I don't think we're in the right place. - [Patty] Oh, my God.

- [Ashley laughs] - [Patty] It's beautiful.

- [Tim] Oh, my. - [Patty] You are absolutely beautiful.

- [Patty] I love it. - [Ashley] Great.

[Tim] Excellent. Nicely done.

I love the color. See, to me, that's rustic with the green, with the red.

Oh, it's beautiful. I love it. I love it. I'm so excited.

It's like a house, it's not a camp anymore.

- [Tim] You actually have a back door. - [Patty] I know.

[Chase] Yes, you have a back door now.

It's jacked and levelled, got it out of the dirt.

We've got in here and started tearing it apart.

So we tore off that back third,

and we you know, had to really be smart about how far we went

because, you know, there wasn't much originally holding it up.

So we had to, you know, get creative,

find ways to get some structure into the place.

But we were able to get it, you know, rebuilt, get a second floor on it,

rebuilt the bathroom side.

We went with a pine clapboard siding, new windows throughout.

It is buttoned up and bug-free.

Awesome. Thank you. I really appreciate that.

That was the top of the list.

Great. That's all that mattered.

They really listened to what we wanted,

- and they were able to fulfill our wish list. - Yes.

- [Tim Jr.] That the original roof? - [Tim] Wow.

Yeah. You can see where the original roof line was,

and then brought out another nine feet there.

Put in solid headers, we were able to get creative

in order to get enough head space up on the second floor.

- [Ashley] Tons of head space. - [Chase] Yeah.

[Tim] Great.

Obviously, the process it came out of, incredible work.

So thankful at what we can see now.

It doesn't even look like the same place.

[Chase] Let's keep going.

- [Patty] Your road sign he talked about, Tim. - [Chase] So...

[Tim] That's part of the kitchen.

[Chase] It was under the sink.

It looks like signs from the highway when they were repairing it or something.

So we decided to build a little build-your-own playhouse for when he's older.

He can, you know, build his own little cabin.

- [Patty] Very cool. - Nice idea. Thank you.

Super cute. I think it's really cool

that he can take it apart and put it together, and kind of build his own thing.

[Patty] Awesome.

- And then your glider, we had re-upholstered. - [Patty] Yes.

- The cushions underneath were in very bad shape. - So pretty. Yeah, they were.

They've been here since like 1897.

Now it's extremely comfortable.

[Patty] Love the glider. So amazing.

Love the color that she painted it,

and the rustic little plaid. Perfect.

[Patty] Oh, my gosh!

- [Tim] Wow. - Wow.

Oh, my God.

[Tim] Wow.

[Tim Jr.] Where'd the camp go?

[Patty] Wow, What a difference.

[Patty] All the amazing space. It's just open and light.

It was pretty dark before and now it's all bright, and it's awesome.

[Chase] The ceiling was so low.

It was barely supported.

So we were able to pull the floor system out.

But we needed to re-support everything

so we kind of did, almost did a timber frame inside the structure.

So we got the carrying beams you know, posted up, it goes right up through.

And we were able to raise the floor height,

which allowed us to put larger windows.

And then we just carried it right through with you know, the beams

and the floor system, into your new kitchen area.

[Tim] Wow. Oh, my God, I love the countertops.

[Patty] Wow. Oh, my gosh. This is amazing.

- [Patty] Like we bought a whole new camp. - [Ashley laughs]

It's a real shower, too.

[Ashley] We were fortunate to have all of your stuff,

and we just kind of added our own touches to it.

And we found your old journal.

- That's awesome. - I didn't want to put glass in there

- so you can flip through it and get into it. - [Patty] Yeah, sure.

But, I mean, that thing was close to falling apart,

- so I was, hey, let's take the time, get it redone. - Thank you.

- Yeah, and now you have a new one. - Oh, good.

- [Ashley chuckles] - Adorable.

[Ashley] And then we also, the lampshades,

- I went and made. - Oh, you did?

[Ashley] Yeah. I thought they were really cute.

[Ashley] So we have some stairs that you can actually feel comfortable using.

- [Patty] Tim, look. - [Tim] I can see that.

- [Patty] Got to hang on. - [Ashley] Come on up.

I'm not used to this.

Going up and down back then,

- we didn't really mind it too much. - [Patty] Mmm-hmm.

It's gotten to be a little tougher lately.

We were a lot skinnier back then too. [laughs]

- Oh, my God. Wow. - [Patty] This is amazing.

This is crazy.

[Chase] You know, we had to get creative about how to get...

- [Patty] You did a great job getting creative. - [Chase] ...the space up here.

So we kind of did that bump up there,

you know, to get those windows up top

to let more light into this space.

You know, we've got that bedroom out front with those,

you know, with those sliders that have the great view.

Let the breeze in here.

- [Patty] I love this. This is our room. - [Ashley laughs]

[Alexandra] I like the separate bedrooms

'cause before we were in the bunk bed with the Pack 'n Play with the baby.

So it'll be kind of nice to have the space.

Guys, thank you so much. It's amazing.

It looks awesome. Thank you so much.

- [Ashley] Yeah. Absolutely. - I still can't believe this is the same place.

[Tim] The amount of room up there is just incredible, in those two spaces.

And in the front room, it's just, it's so bright.

And you still get a good view of the lake up there,

- and it's just... - We're going back up there.

[both laughing]

[Chase] So, you know, this definitely was a challenge.

One of the older camps we've worked on,

but I think we were able to blend the old with the new.

- We were right on budget and a little bit early, so... - It works.

- The keys are yours. - Thank you very much.

Absolutely amazing. Thank you.

- Thank you so much. - [Chase] Enjoy.

Here you go.

[Tim] I kind of feel like I hit the lottery

because right now, I guess, I can come up here now

and don't have to worry about doing projects for the foreseeable future.

So I can just come up and enjoy myself.

That's the way it's supposed to be up here in Maine.

We're kind of happy that we can hand off something to the boys now,

that hopefully will last another 120 years.

So thank you, Maine Cabin Masters.

The place came out outstanding.

Thank you.