Christina in the Country (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

1
This is what I'm really
excited about.
- [Christina Hall] I'm Christina.
- Hi.
I've built a thriving
design business in California.
I'm so glad you love it.
And while
the coast is my first love
the country has been
calling my name.
I feel like I'm in a dream.
It's time for
a new adventure.
Are you designing
a chicken coop right now?
Yes.
It's time to expand
the business.
Along with
my friends and family
we're making a move.
Spending more time
in Tennessee.
Come on, we're gonna be
best friends.
- Hi.
- [Christina] I've got new clients.
It definitely is us.
[Christina] New challenges.
What in the world
is going on back there?
[Christina]
And the same vision.
Welcome to your
new kitchen.
[both] Oh, my gosh!
[Christina]
Create beautiful spaces
for families to call home.
Feels like a five-star hotel.
This is crazy, man.
You did good.
[Christina] It's all coming
into view.
Why?
Yes!
- [toy squeaking]
- Whoo!
- [Christina] I'm ready for a whole new ride.
- [Christina yelling]
My heart's happy.
No worries in the world ♪
Head first, I'm diving in ♪
Goodbye lonely ♪
I'm taking back
My broken heart ♪
I've known Dani
and Cristina Wheeler
since we were kids, going
on three decades of friendship.
[Christina]
They're super cool girls.
They're real estate agents.
They're country singers.
And so, whenever we get a
chance we always hang out with them
when we're in Nashville.
Goodbye lonely ♪
Goodbye.
- Yeah!
- [all cheering]
Thank you so much!
We're the Wheeler Sisters!
- [man] Yeah!
- [all cheering]
Ah! What's up?
What's up? What's up?
- I'm sorry. Let me give you a hug!
- How are you?
- [Christina] It's so good to see you.
- [Dani] Let me take my seat.
I love your jacket, girl.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Had to add a little sparkle
for our
That was so fun!
Can I thank you guys
for coming?
- Of course.
- [Josh] Of course.
I was excited
to bring her here
and say, "I know them.
I know them."
- [laughing]
- [Dani] I know.
I know we did
grow up together.
We did.
It's been a long time.
It's so fun having
you guys here because
now, you know, now that
you're working here
we get to see you more,
- and, you know, do some jobs, potentially together.
- [Dani] Yeah.
Are you guys busy? Are
you looking for new clients?
We're always busy. [chuckles]
- [Cristina] You're so busy, but do you need new clients?
- [Dani] Okay.
- Are you looking to bring on any new clients?
- [Josh] Oh, we're not afraid
- to add more to our plate.
- [Cristina] Okay.
- Whatever you got, send it our way.
- [Dani] Cool.
We have an agent
in our office
whose name is Nick.
- [Cristina] Nick.
- [Dani] He, um, has a beautiful wife,
she's pregnant right now.
They have a couple kids
- and they actually are looking to redo their home, so
- [Christina] Heck yeah.
No, that would give us an
excuse to come out here more.
- We love being out here.
- Yeah.
So we'll get in touch. We'll
put them in touch with you.
- Perfect. Where do they live?
- They're in Franklin.
- [Christina] Oh, perfect.
- Yeah. Not too far from here.
[gasps] Job number two?
- I'm in. More time to catch up
- Yes.
- make up for all the lost years? I'm in.
- [Dani] Please. We're in.
Yay!
I'm super grateful that
the Wheeler Sisters
introduced me
to my next client.
Nick and Kristen are a cute,
young couple, with a growing family
and they are in desperate need
of a kitchen renovation.
[knocks on door]
- Hi.
- [Nick] Hi. Welcome.
- Thank you. Hi.
- [Nick] Hi.
- I'm Nick. Nice to meet you.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- Hi, I'm Kristen.
- Hi.
- Nice to meet you guys.
- [Kristen] Nice to meet you.
- Thanks for having me.
- Come on in to our home.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- Thank you.
- We'll take you back to the kitchen.
- [Christina] Thanks.
I haven't been to this
neighborhood yet. It's really cute.
- [Nick] Here it is.
- [Christina] The kitchen feels very different
from the rest of your house.
- [Kristen] Yes. So when we moved in
- [Nick] Yes.
the whole house was just
very, very '90s.
Everything was mustard,
orange, heavy drapery.
- [chuckles] Yeah.
- And I've done what I could
so far with furniture.
- But nothing like major projects.
- [Christina] Well
You've done a great job
because when you walk in
the house looks super cute.
Like it feels very country chic,
it's very calming
and soothing.
And then you come in here
and you feel like you're in,
literally a totally
different house.
- It's like orangey and straight out of the '90s.
- [Kristen] Yes. Yes.
I say it's like
a really bad spray tan.
- Like no one wants that.
- [chuckles]
- Yeah, mine's kinda coming off right now.
- [Kristen laughs]
So I can relate.
Right now,
our kitchen's just
it's like dark, it's dingy,
it just
it feels old.
Just no function with now
a family of six.
- Well, you guys have four kids?
- [Kristen] Yes.
And, Kristen, you just had
a baby a week ago?
- A week ago today.
- Uh, you look
You're literally like
the best looking,
post-partum person
I've ever seen in my life.
- Thank you.
- [Christina] Yeah.
I mean, wow!
So, four kids, and then I feel
like when you walk in here,
- you're just like slamming straight into this
- [Kristen] Yes.
oddly-shaped peninsula that
really doesn't make any sense for kids.
[Kristen] Yeah.
It's so awkward.
[Christina] So, let's talk
about what you don't like.
We have no storage space.
- So, like, this right here is our pantry.
- Take a look at yeah.
- [Kristen] It's a mess.
- Oh, what the heck.
I organize it constantly.
- But it doesn't matter.
- [Christina] I thought that was gonna be
Like I thought I was gonna
walk into like a walk-in pantry.
I had to install
extra shelving just to
- fit it all in there and
- [Christina] Not good.
- Four kids and this is what you're working with?
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- I would love just like a big flat island
- [Christina] Yeah.
with good seating. So like
when I'm making breakfast,
like the kids can
just be there.
- That's easily done. Yup.
- [Kristen chuckles] I need function.
I would love to, like,
have a sink in the island.
- Like move the sink
- Okay
over to an island.
It just makes
more sense to me.
And then you'd be
facing out this way?
- Which I'm assuming this is where the kids hang out?
- [Kristen] Yes. Yes.
The whole entire
kitchen's kind of
off in this side of the room
and so you got everything here.
And then you kinda
come over here
we have all
this space right here.
It's sort of transitional,
but not really,
- it's kinda like wasted space to me.
- Yeah.
- [Nick] Like, I don't know.
- It's wasted real estate
and we can totally
use this wall to do something.
- [Nick] Yeah.
- What about in here?
Do you guys utilize
this whole space?
- 'Cause this is a pretty big laundry room.
- [Kristen] So this is
as clean as this gets.
- When I come in, like, we're constantly
- [Christina] For sure.
tripping over things.
- [Christina] Yeah.
- [Nick] Just making this space more functional for like,
- dumping bags and shoes and stuff like that to
- [Christina] Totally.
- Like it would be a dream
- come on into the house, you know?
- to have the kinda like, the cubby systems.
- [Christina] Yeah.
- Like hooks for backpacks, and like storge for shoes.
- [Christina] Yeah. I think
- Totally. Yeah.
- [Kristen laughs] Clearly, we don't use the sink.
[Christina] This'll make a
huge difference, just right there.
[Kristen] Okay.
[Christina] So before we
go into figuring out
- really what layout makes the most sense.
- [Kristen] Oh.
What is your guys style?
I can kinda get an idea of it
from the entrance
of the house, but
I do like the light
and dark contrast.
- Like I love the color palette
- [Christina] Yeah.
- of like a black and white and gold.
- [Christina] Yeah.
Um, I'm also like
a huge fan of like
- mixing materials. So like I love
- Me too.
like stone and brick and
metal and things like that.
Are you into that too?
- [Christina] Sort of.
- Yes.
- I don't like super modern.
- [Nick and Christina laughing]
- But I also don't like real farmhousey either.
- [Christina] Yeah.
Like I do like a good,
like, middle ground.
I just want to make sure
whatever we do in here,
- like, flows with the rest of the house.
- [Christina] Totally.
[Nick] The only other thing
is like
I don't want everybody
else's kitchen either.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'd love to have like,
some uniqueness to it,
a little bit of character.
As a real estate agent
I see all types of homes
and a lot of times I feel like
I'm in the same kitchen.
And I'm so excited that
Christina's here
'cause I'm really hoping that
she maybe will push the envelope
on things a little bit and give us
something a little more unique.
Are you opposed to
losing the window?
- I'm not.
- Yes.
[all chuckling]
[Nick] I'd be a little fearful
that like taking
this window down, like,
would take away
some of the light
that I already feel like is
maybe missing from the house.
I think you guys have
really nice, high ceilings,
and once this kitchen
isn't this brown,
dark color anymore,
and we do maybe
white cabinets on the back
and a different color island.
I think that's gonna make a
huge difference. And then two,
I feel like your flooring
is a bit dark
- if you're mentioning darkness.
- Yes, absolutely.
And I think maybe,
staining it and making it
a lighter color
- [Nick] Love that.
- would be really pretty.
And then also,
I think it'll really change
the whole look of the house and make
you feel a lot more light and bright.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I love that. A ton. Yeah.
Okay. So.
Before we go over options,
what are you guys
looking to spend here?
He got a nice car last year,
so this year is about
my kitchen.
And pushing out
four kids, so
A push present, times four,
is about 100,000.
- [chuckles]
- [Christina] 100,000.
- [Christina] Okay.
- All right. There it is.
- So let's give you your dream kitchen.
- [Kristen] Yes.
- [Nick] We'd love that. Yeah.
- [Kristen chuckles]
- [Nick] That'd be great.
- Okay. So we can definitely make that work.
Especially I think we can
work with the existing
floor plan
without having to
take down walls or anything,
- which will save some money.
- [Kristen] Okay.
So here's what I'm thinking.
First of all,
what's most important
is getting rid of this
awkward shaped island.
Do a large island
in the middle,
all one level,
all counter height,
with bar seating on each side
and we can do a nice sink in
the middle with a dishwasher,
all facing out here.
- [Kristen] Perfect.
- [Nick] Perfect.
Okay. From here, we can
do the refrigerator right here
and then we can do
some uppers and lowers.
Start here, remove
the crown molding
and carry the cabinets
all the way up the ceiling,
that way you have
more storage.
- [Nick] That would be amazing. Yes.
- [Kristen] Amazing.
[Christina] Do a nice,
slide-in range with a hood vent.
And then, just continue all of this
as counter space, tons of prep space.
- [Nick] That's great. Yeah.
- [Kristen] Love it.
And then over here,
where we have this
blank wall with a calendar,
I think it would be great to
do floor-to-ceiling cabinetry.
Like a really large pantry
with pull-out drawers.
- [Kristen] Love that. Yes. Love that.
- [Nick] That is perfect. Yes.
[Christina] In here, I really wanna
make this room super cute, right?
Right now it feels
a bit dingy
and I think it can be really nice
and much more your guys' style.
- Yes.
- [Christina] I'd love to do a super cute tile floor,
so it's like the first thing you see
when you come into the garage.
And then we can do,
sort of like a mud room.
We can flip the washer dryer
to this wall, where the sink is.
And then we can do,
like, all cute storage,
uh, maybe a sitting area,
kids can take off their shoes,
put everything away.
And then on this wall
we can do a cubby system.
- [Kristen] Love it.
- [Christina] Hide everything, organize, light and bright.
I think that's gonna make
a huge difference.
- [Kristen] Yes. Love it. Yeah.
- [Nick] I mean, that's exactly what we need in here.
Okay. When do you guys
wanna get started?
- Ready whenever you are.
- Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
- [Christina] Well
- Let's do this.
Are you guys gonna
live here during this?
We do have family in town,
but mostly we'll be upstairs.
Hopefully, because we're not
moving walls and stuff
- it won't take too long.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- All right.
- Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. We're excited.
[Christina] Yay.
I'm super excited.
[drill whirring]
[sink clattering]
Five, four
three
two one
- I saw you.
- [Christina chuckles] Rah!
[Josh] Come on.
Let's go, Hudson.
- Let's go. Let's go.
- [Brayden El Moussa] It's not hide and go seek tag!
One of the best parts
about Tennessee
is just quality time
with family.
Spending time in nature.
[Christina] Yup. I saw you
hiding behind that tree.
Yeah, unfortunately, there's
no trees big enough to hide this.
[Taylor El Moussa] Found you!
All right. Who's it?
[Hudson] Dun-nun. Ow!
[Taylor] Tag.
Come on!
[Taylor] See you!
See you!
- [Josh] Do you have to tag me?
- [Taylor] No!
I wanna get away with you ♪
Oh-oh-oh ♪
This is the life ♪
Paradise ♪
[Christina]
I love this weather.
- [Josh] Isn't it great?
- Yeah. It's perfect.
So this is interesting.
You know my client Nick
- that Dani and Cristina referred us to?
- Yeah.
[Christina] He has a listing
that he thinks
we might be
interested in flipping.
I'm in. I would love
to do a flip while we're here.
You want me to give him
a call right now?
[Josh] Sure.
Let's talk to him.
[line ringing]
[Nick] Hey, Christina,
how's it going?
Good, I'm sitting here
with Josh and, um,
we're excited to hear about
what you have in store.
[Nick] Yeah. Hey, Josh.
How's it going, man?
Good, man.
How you doing?
[Nick] Good. Good.
I have this new listing,
So I thought of you guys because,
Josh, with your background in
real estate and, Christina,
you guys doing flips
all the time,
you've seen it all.
I think this could be a
perfect property for you guys.
Josh and I have both been
in real estate for years
and flipping a house in
Tennessee is definitely been
something that
we've talked about.
And even though we already have
a really heavy workload already,
when the right opportunity
comes along,
you have to jump on it.
[Nick] It's listed
at 700 right now.
Here's the thing.
It's actually also
on 11 acres
of other land. There's a bunch
of other homes around there
that are just, kinda in
the multi-million dollars.
Just really beautiful,
uh, homes.
And then this one
is just kinda sitting there
in the middle of
the perfect location.
- Needs a little TLC.
- So, it's a diamond in the rough.
[Nick] Yes. And I would say it's
a little bit more on the rough side.
[Nick] I think this could be a
perfect property for you guys.
So it's a diamond
in the rough.
[Nick] Yes. Yes.
And I would say, uh,
- it's a little bit more on the rough side.
- [chuckles]
[Christina]
Well, you know what?
- I love that. Right up my alley.
- [Nick chuckles]
Uh, when can we
take a look?
[Nick] Whatever works
for you guys.
I can meet you guys
over there and, uh,
let you guys in
and take a look at it.
Okay. Well, we'll send you
some days and times and
we'll meet you out
at the property.
[Nick] Okay. Sounds great.
I'll, uh, text you the address.
Looking forward to it, man.
- [Nick] Talk to you guys then.
- All right. Thanks.
- [Nick] Bye.
- Bye.
- A flip house?
- How interesting.
- In Tennessee?
- So fun.
- Well, let's see it first.
- Yeah. Exactly.
Let's not get too excited. It
sounds like it's pretty bad.
Yeah. Yeah. Don't bite
off more than we can chew.
Let's be smart on this one.
All right.
Well, we'll see.
Come back home
We're safe and sound ♪
And you're crying out
You're okay ♪
You can always
Come back home ♪
- Nick, do you mind grabbing that table over there?
- Yeah. Yes.
And then we can use it
for materials.
So how's it going?
We're living up in
our playroom upstairs
- [Christina] Aw.
- right now, so.
I think our boys are actually
kinda having fun with it,
of like, "Oh, we get to"
You know,
eat somewhere different and
- It's like a little like camping, kind of.
- [Kristen] Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. We're super excited
to see what you brough today.
Okay, good. So, James might be
interrupting our design presentation
because he has
something to show me,
but in the meantime,
let's get started.
I got a call from my
contractor James, and
he's gonna be
stopping by today.
Apparently,
there's a problem,
which, is never
a fun part of the process.
- These are heavy. Okay.
- [Kristen] Whew.
Couple of cabinet colors.
I was thinking white
for the perimeter cabinets.
And then this really pretty
bronzy color for the island.
- Good?
- [Nick] I think it looks great. Yeah, I love that.
Couple options
for countertops.
- Oh, I like that.
- Oh, pretty.
[Christina] Or there's this
one, a little more subtle.
I actually haven't really seen
a countertop with the gold in it
- and I really like that.
- [Christina] I love that.
- It's like Calcutta.
- [Kristen] Yes.
- Yeah. I love it.
- [Christina] Yeah. Very classy and I think,
- again, it looks nice with this as well.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
[Christina]
And this is like subtle.
- So it's not gonna be overwhelming.
- [Nick] Yes. Yeah, absolutely.
- [Kristen] Yeah. Yeah.
- [Nick] I love that.
Okay, good.
Now, backsplash.
- [Nick] Ooh!
- [Kristen] That's cool.
- [Nick] I like that. Yes.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- [Nick] Definitely, like, different, you know?
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- I don't see it in a lot of houses.
- But it's still like
- my neutral white and bright that I like.
- [Christina] Yes.
[Nick] What would you do
for like grout color?
If it was my kitchen
- I would do white because
- [Nick] Okay.
it's all still
gonna stand out
- and you're gonna be able to see like all the shapes.
- [Kristen] Mmm-hmm.
But I just worry
that if you do a grey
- you might tend to get more sick of it.
- [Kristen] Yes.
[Nick] Okay.
I'm up for it. I'm up for it.
[Christina] It's gonna be like
the showstopper of the kitchen.
When you walk in, it's really
gonna be what stands out.
- Okay. Yeah, that sounds awesome.
- Okay, great.
- Love it so far.
- Okay. So, pull handles.
What are you guys leaning
towards out of these three?
[Kristen] I don't really
care for this bronze one.
- It's a little bit more, like, traditional.
- Yeah, I agree.
Trying to go with
that modern,
- I just don't think it quite gets there.
- [Christina] I agree.
Seeing this with, kinda,
all these different things,
I would, think I would go
for the gold pulls.
- Really?
- So, this is like a beautiful brushed brass.
- Brushed brass sorry, brushed brass, okay.
- So, there's a big difference
- between old school gold
- [Nick laughing]
and this beauty right here.
- [Nick] I actually love it.
- [Christina] Good, 'cause this is my first choice too,
- and I knew Kristen would love it, so.
- [Kristen] Yes.
Okay. I also think it looks
really nice
- with both cabinet colors.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- [Christina] And it looks beautiful
- [Kristen] Yeah. I love how it
- hides it.
- [Nick] I think looks Yeah, I love it.
This design looks incredible. I think
you guys are gonna be so happy.
- It's gonna look so different than it did before.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- [Christina] It's gonna be so light and bright in here.
- [Nick] Oh, my gosh.
[Christina] Yes. Okay.
- So, I'm gonna put some of this away
- [Kristen] I love it.
and we will talk about
the mudroom.
Okay, there's
two different options
for flooring.
Here's one.
[Nick] Okay.
This one makes these
like kind of
- really cool star patterns.
- [Nick] That's cool. Yeah.
[Christina] So, here is
another option.
[Kristen] I honestly,
like both options,
so I'm gonna defer to you
on this one.
- Oh, did you just hear that?
- [Christina] I did. I did.
I got a. I got a
- Well, let's see what I'm
[chuckles] - I did this big space,
- I'll give you that little space.
[chuckles] - When you come in
from work, from the garage,
and you walk in
Which is the first thing
you'd wanna see?
I like the pops of colors
in this, but
I love how that maybe
just kinda ties in
- coming into the kitchen.
- It's kinda soothing.
- Yeah. I'm gonna choose that one.
- [Christina] Okay.
I think this one's beautiful.
And it's gonna play
really nicely off
the light flooring.
And plus, I just think, like,
it is soothing, but then,
still, like, sets the tone and
then that backsplash with this too,
- 'cause you're gonna be able to see it.
- Yeah.
I think it's gonna look
really pretty.
- I'm excited. I can't wait.
- Yup.
- [door opening]
- Okay, sweet. Oh.
- [door closing]
- I think James is here.
- Hello? Hi.
- [James Maciuk] How you doing?
- Hey, Christina, good to see you.
- [Christina] How are you?
Good to see you.
How's it going?
- Good.
- We got our design.
So you're making some
decisions I see.
Hey. Yeah.
Okay. So, what's going on?
- We ran into a problem. Yup.
- [Christina] Oh, no.
- What?
- [James M] So, in the kitchen design
- [Nick] Of course.
- [James M] we want to extend it a little bit, but
we end up opening,
there was a closet here,
and we found some pipes.
So that's why the pantry was so
small before because it was like shoved
- in between these. Okay. Oh.
- [James M] It was covering that up.
I've seen this
a million times before.
Once you open up
the walls in a house,
you just never know
what you're gonna find.
I met with the plumber. So he
said that we can move those pipes.
[Christina] So, what's that
gonna cost?
Eh, plumber said it's gonna cost
about $1,000 to move those pipes.
And then, what we're
gonna do here is,
structurally, we still have to have a
header there, but we're lose this and
that way we can get in
about a foot on each side.
[Christina] I think this is going to
look awesome one it's all opened up.
But I do have a question.
What is happening over here?
[Kristen] Yeah, so I kind of
did a thing.
So this was like this really
ugly wet bar slash junk closet
and it was covered by this really
ugly, old, like, accordion door
- Oh.
- that I just hated.
- No wonder I didn't even notice it.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
But it's like the first thing your eye
sees when you come through the front door
and it's always bothered me. So when
the demo guys were here I just told them
- to rip it out. [chuckles]
- [Christina] Well, good for you.
- Yes, she did.
- [Christina] That's a great executive decision.
So now what are you thinking
you want it to be?
Honestly, we can't go over
budget too much to do something,
anything kind of grand.
But I would love to do just something
kind of, like, decorative, bar area.
Maybe some, like,
lower cabinets
or something with
some floating shelves.
[Christina]
Maybe we just carry
that really beautiful, um, Calcutta
marble slab all the way up?
- [Kristen] Ooh.
- [Nick] Oh, interesting.
- That would look stunning.
- Pause.
- [all laugh]
- Hold on a second.
- It all comes with a cost.
- Oh, gosh!
If you want the showpiece
when you walk in the front door,
- imagine that beautiful Calcutta just carried up
- [Kristen] Yeah.
with the light-colored
floating shelves.
- Mmm.
- I mean, it would look so good.
- How much would that cost?
- Yeah, what are we talking?
Yeah, it's gonna cost you
about $3,000 for the whole setup.
I don't know how I feel about
going that much over budget.
It's a little more
than I was thinking.
And I don't know that
I can, like,
maybe I'm not quite
conceptualizing it.
Well, we could save money
and not do
the counter going
all the way up.
And what would that save?
It'd probably save about
750 bucks.
So, not a ton.
[Nick sighs]
I mean, I guess, yeah.
I guess let's go ahead
and do that.
It will look really good.
- We'll make it happen.
- [Kristen] All right. Great.
- [Nick] Thanks.
- All right. So we've got a plan.
Spending money during
a renovation is tough,
especially when you're
mid-construction.
But, I'm really glad
that Kristen had this idea.
I think it's going to look
incredible
and I hope that when
I come back with materials
that Nick sees
the vision as well.
[car horn honks]
- Hi. How's it going?
- Hi.
I love the effect of the
broken down cars everywhere.
One thing I failed
to mention to you,
that two cars are included with
the purchase of this property.
[Josh] This is a lot
to take in.
[Nick] It is a lot to take in.
If anybody could take on
a project like this,
- it would be you guys.
- Heck yeah.
All right. Well, we've got
our boots on.
- You got boots on, safety, yep.
- I've always got boots on.
[Nick] The owner of
this place passed away
a little over a year ago.
His kids inherited the property
and they don't live in state, so.
- Over a year.
- Can I stop you? They died here?
Not on the property.
- [Josh] Okay.
- Elsewhere. So you're good.
We don't need to, like, put
up sage or anything like that
- [Josh] Oh, don't worry.
- to, like, get the spirits out or anything.
- She's gonna sage it regardless so.
- [laughs]
[Josh] Yeah, Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
[Nick] Come on in.
[Christina] Oh, my God.
[Christina] Oh, my God.
You want me to lead
and protect you from anything?
- Come on. I got you.
- [Nick] Come on. Come on, come on.
- [Josh] Wow, this is
- [Christina] What happened here?
As you walk in you'll notice
the open concept kitchen.
- [Josh laughing] I love your sales pitch here.
- [Nick laughs]
You really want to sell this.
There was, like, a hoarder
situation who took over?
[Nick] Yeah, because the guy
hadn't been here for over a year.
Somebody came in and squatted
and ransacked the house
and just destroyed it.
- Squatted and just like swam in trash.
- [Nick] I guess so.
- [Christina] I mean, what is happening?
- [Nick] Yeah. Yep.
- [Christina] I can't really get back to the bedrooms.
- [Josh] Aw, just on come in.
[Nick] Yeah, yeah. Come on.
We're fine. We're fine.
I just went back there.
Come here. Come here.
[Josh] Come on. You got
the boots on, I got you.
[Christina] I've probably
walked through over 200 houses
- and this is one of the worst. This is horrible.
- [Nick] Really?
But, I love it!
- [Josh laughs]
- I love it that you love it.
We've been talking about
a project like this
the whole time that
we've ever been here.
And just, like, waiting
for the perfect one and
- you definitely nailed it.
- [Nick] Great.
I love it.
Back in the south,
working on real estate,
get back to my roots.
I love it too.
It's a perfect project for us.
There's a door back here that
goes down the stairs to the garage.
Okay.
It's a garage space that kind of
shares like a little basement space.
Does that look like this?
- You know, honestly
- [Christina] I'm gonna take a peek at that
That's a little bit nicer.
- [Josh] We gotta see. I gotta help you here.
- [Nick laughs]
[Josh] First step has
stuff on it, so don't slip.
- [Nick] Okay, careful.
- [Josh] If so, just use my back.
[Christina] Oh, my gosh.
What the heck
is going on in here?
[Nick] Again, open concept
downstairs.
You could, theoretically,
get two car in here.
- [Christina] Okay.
- [Nick] You know, stacked back to back.
- [Josh] Nick, you've got to stop selling this place.
- [Nick laughs]
All right? Listen.
It's got no potential
as it sits.
Your open concept,
don't worry about it.
[Christina] We've seen enough.
[Nick] All right. Okay, okay.
All right. All right.
Let's go talk outside.
I'll be throwing all these clothes
in the wash, including the boots.
This house is definitely,
it's bad.
- It's bad.
- But I've done a lot of flips before
and what it does have
is potential.
What it does have
is an amazing location.
If we can renovate
this place properly,
it's going to yield
a huge profit.
[Nick]
So what do you guys think?
I mean, we're not paying full. I think
we can probably work something out
for, like, $600,000 'cause it's
obviously a complete teardown.
Yeah, it just needs
a little work.
Just a little work. I love it. He
never stops being a salesman.
Look, I definitely, I would
love to take on this project.
I just feel like $700,000
is a little too high.
I think if you talk to your seller
and they're willing to work with us,
it's I think we're in.
Let me give them a call, chat
with them, see what they think
and I'll get back to you guys
and let you know.
Thank you so much.
We'll go home. We'll talk.
And we'll definitely be calling
you soon and seeing you soon.
- Sounds great.
- This was fun, man.
- Thanks for checking it out. Appreciate it.
- Definitely.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
Yeah, let's have us
A day of fun ♪
It feels good to be
Kissed by the sun ♪
- You guys ready?
- All right. Go.
Today we're doing something
really fun.
We're going to
an alpaca farm.
We have so much land
in Tennessee
and I really want to
fill it up with animals.
Oh, they're so cute! [laughs]
Oh, they're so cute.
- Are you allowed to pet them?
- Yeah.
- Stay back.
- [Christina laughs]
[Brayden] Mom! That one's
looking at me like stay back.
[Christina] Aw!
We're going to let you
feed them some leaves.
[Brayden] And now this one!
The black one!
[Josh] He's come up, just
looked underneath you, hi.
- How are you?
- [Christina] That's so weird.
Anybody brave?
Brayden, are you brave?
Yeah.
Watch this.
Are you brave?
- [Brayden] Do that.
- [Leanne] Can you do that?
That's disgusting.
- Oh, come on. Here, I'll do it.
- [Christina] Brayden!
I'll do it, Brayden.
I'll show you.
- Which one am I going to feed with this?
- [Brayden] That one.
These are really cute
and I really want one.
One? Just one?
One.
Who's going to
take care of it?
You.
[Brayden] I like this guy,
watch him.
[Christina] So how hard
are these to maintain?
They're very easy
if you only have alpacas.
Because they're very clean,
they only go in certain spots.
All other animals
are going to go everywhere,
which makes them
not as healthy.
- This is where they all go, right here?
- Yes.
So I just need to build something
like that and I can have alpacas.
A run-in shed and be able to see
out. They don't like closed barns.
[Christina] Brayden, should we
get one of these for the house?
Yeah, sure.
I think they're super cool.
They're just super docile. They
want to just hang out, just like dogs.
Oh, yeah, and did you hear they're
actually, like, fairly easy to maintain?
Yes.
They only go to the bathroom
in one spot.
Yeah, like me.
[Christina] I think
we should get some.
[Josh] Don't think about it.
We're going to do it.
Yeah.
I know last time
we talked about the bar,
Nick, you were having trouble
visualizing.
Yeah, a little bit.
It was a little bit
of a surprise to me
- I kind of sprung it on him.
- a little bit.
So I had to kind of wrap my
brain around that last time.
Right. Well, since it's gone,
we've got to put it back together.
- [Nick] Okay.
- So. Okay.
- What have you got for us?
- I've got some materials.
Cabinet color.
So we can either do, like,
the perimeter of the kitchen
or the island.
I think I like tying in
the island color in here.
I think it would be
really pretty, yeah.
I like the pop, because the
white walls and everything.
- [Kristen] Yes.
- I think this
- will look really nice.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
That makes sense. I'm in
so far. Yeah. So far so good.
But we can
look at everything together.
So I will do a couple of
options that we can do.
We have the countertop.
Then we have
these pull handles.
So basically what we could do is we could do
the countertop and run it up the back wall,
which would look really pretty
or we can kind of tie in the look from
the kitchen and do the same backsplash,
we could do a different
grout color to mix it up,
the same color as the island,
and/or we could do this one,
which would totally mix it up.
When you mentioned last time
running the countertops all the way up,
- I really liked that idea.
- Me too.
- I feel like it would be such a statement piece.
- Yes.
I think it goes really well with
your decor and everything, too.
Yeah.
It totally looks like
your guys' style.
Yeah. I love it.
Yeah, I feel good about it.
I mean
[both laugh]
You're like, whatever.
There's a baby crying.
She can just do her thing.
No, I feel good about that
I feel good about that,
'cause if we're already
tying in this with the island,
to me, it does kind of
just make sense
to include the countertops
and the kitchen in here
and just kind of create some
continuity and cohesion with it all.
Totally, and we'll have
a couple of floating shelves,
some decor,
so I think this one just looks
the most smooth, pretty, and
it's just going to look beautiful
when you're walking into the
front door to not see that old
Yes.
dilapidated closet thing.
- Yes.
- Yeah. [laughs]
So this look, I think,
is classy.
- [Nick] It looks great.
- [Christina] Yeah.
And then we can do
one of two pull handles.
We can do the same
as the kitchen
or we can mix it up
and do a black.
I like the gold, still.
- Yeah, I'm all in. I'm all in.
- Okay.
If we're tying it all in
to the kitchen,
I'm all in. That makes sense
to do the gold.
- I like how you're kind of checked out at this point.
- [Kristen] He is.
You're like, look. Just put
my house back together.
[both laugh]
Whatever you guys want,
ladies, just, you know what.
I'm going to step out of this one and
you guys figure it out and I'll just
- I like the gold.
- Yeah.
[Christina] We're good?
[Nick] Yeah, it will look good
with my bourbon.
- [Christina] Okay.
- [Nick] Yeah.
[Christina] So this is our look
and I think that is the best choice.
I think this will look
incredible.
- Yeah, that's great. I love it.
- I really like it.
Okay?
I know you guys got
a lot going on here.
I know there's a baby crying,
I know there's everything.
So I'm going to get this
ordered. We'll get moving.
- [Nick] Awesome. Thank you so much.
- [Kristen] Thank you.
What's up, guys?
- What's up, man?
- [Josh] Ready to get to work?
- Yeah.
- What do you think?
So in order to close
on this house,
we're going to have to
clear it out a little bit
so the inspector
can work his way around
and really see
what he's working with.
I'm going to get in there with
a crew and clean it out myself.
I don't mind
getting my hands dirty.
The smell's pretty bad,
but I can handle it.
She's like, I'm so glad
we're going to demo this.
No way.
We're going to reno it.
That's my man.
It's got the bones.
It's beautiful. You've got
to look past all the trash.
Yeah, well, I noticed you
brought three dumpsters for me.
I brought my gloves.
Let's get to work.
I'm just going to start
throwing this out the back door.
- At least we can move it.
- [James M] I'm pushing some towards your side.
Dude, I think this might
take us a little while.
We can use this part
at staging, later.
[Josh laughs] Yeah, exactly.
Stage our new bar.
Oh, dude.
An unopened shirt.
You're going to try it.
All right, dude.
Brand-new shirt.
- That's your new work shirt.
- Ooh, look at that.
Dude, that's actually
pretty slick.
Dude!
I'm going to work
in this thing. I like it.
- Do another load.
- [James M] You got it? You need a hand?
- [Josh grunts] It's not that bad.
- Dude, it's the shirt.
Oh, man.
I think it's reno-ready.
[Christina] This is
looking so great.
[Kristen]
We're getting excited.
Light is definitely at the
end of the tunnel right now.
Are you at the phase yet where
you're like, this is taking a long time?
Yeah, you know, with four kids,
we're ready to spread back out
and have our space
and everything like that.
I feel like it's like
the phases of construction.
It goes into super excited,
oh, my gosh, can't wait to start
and then it's like, oh, my gosh, everything's
a mess and dusty, this is horrible.
And then it's like,
we all want to scream.
And then it's like, okay, now it's
okay, we see it coming together.
Yes, that's where we're at.
I feel like that kind of happens
when the cabinets are in.
- Yes.
- Yeah, for sure.
It definitely is, like,
taking shape and, yeah.
I love the pull handles you
guys chose. They're so pretty.
The island, it's coming
together. I know it's not there yet.
- [Nick] I am so happy with this color.
- Good.
Like, I love it so much more than just,
like, a stark black or whatever, so
- I love it.
- It looks so pretty.
I love the sink.
Everything's coming together.
Once the countertop's on, it's
going to look so light and bright.
- Can't wait. Can't wait.
- We're getting close.
Well, you guys are happy?
Yes, we love it. We're so
excited to see the final product.
Okay. All right.
Well, next time you're here,
you'll be walking into
a fully done space
and I know you can't wait,
so we'll get moving,
we'll get everything
finished up.
And then, good to go.
Awesome, thanks for all
you're doing here. Appreciate it.
Thank you.
[Christina]
The appliances are going in.
The backsplash
is being installed
and the final touches are being
done on Nick and Kristen's home.
While all this is going on, Josh and
I are headed back to the flip house.
I can't wait to see it
with all that junk gone.
Well.
[Josh] Does it look
a little better yet?
I don't know.
That screen's falling off.
I can see a bunch
of like dog cages.
I know, there wasn't as much trash
out front as was inside, last time.
- I'm excited to see the inside.
- Yes. You're going to like it.
It's a lot more presentable.
All right. Welcome home.
[both laugh]
I think it looks so good. You
may not have to remodel at all.
- Maybe do some decor.
- Oh, gosh.
Ew!
[Josh] What do you mean, ew?
You haven't even been in far enough.
You're acting like it doesn't
need to be torn down still.
Listen, it's still ugly, but you
did a great job. It's, like, actually
[Josh] Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
You're giving me credit before
you even walk in the whole thing.
- Well, I can see the floor.
- There's a lot more to see.
[Christina] I didn't even know
there was linoleum underneath.
I want to go back here,
but will you go first?
Yeah, of course
I'll go first.
[Christina] Okay, so last time
we were here,
I couldn't even
walk back here.
- [Josh] Yeah, so let me give you a tour.
- Okay.
On the right,
we have a bathroom.
Come on down the hall to
all these beautiful bedrooms.
- There's no light.
- So we'll add some lights.
Here's bedroom number one.
[Christina] There's no closet?
Oh, there's a closet. Come on.
This is a fully functional house.
Okay, I guess
that's a closet.
All right, so the linoleum
Ew, I can't believe
I just touched something.
Oh, God!
Actually, I don't mind at all. Come
and see bedroom number two.
The door to the left
is a closet.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Third bedroom.
- This is the most odd bedroom ever.
[Christina] So this is it.
This is the whole house.
[Josh] Uh, well, there's actually
a garage basement down below.
Yeah, I remember that,
but all right.
Do you have some thoughts,
some ideas?
Okay, look. Like,
I still am excited about this.
- We're on, what, over ten acres?
- Yeah.
The possibilities are endless.
Definitely major additions.
Add some bedrooms,
definitely need more bathrooms.
Maybe go up, I don't know. But
please don't touch that anymore.
I'll wash my hands.
Like this, I'm washing.
Sorry, you're making me
uncomfortable. Hands in the pockets.
Okay. Does this make you
feel better? Okay.
So anyway, yeah. You may
think things are endless here,
but I'm working on something
right now.
And, uh, there's an issue out here
with this county and their septic.
They have to send
the soil scientist out here.
He has to find good soil
within all these trees,
to expand the septic system to
accommodate more square footage.
Okay.
If he can't find a proper
soil area to expand the tank
or even bring ours
up to date and code,
we have to remodel it
as it sits.
Wait, who told you
all this information?
James over at Sage.
Well, luckily we know him, because
I know he knows the ins and outs,
because I would have had no
idea about this whole septic situation.
After seeing this house
all cleaned out
and now hearing we potentially
couldn't expand the house
and also this whole
septic tank issue,
I'm just not sure
this is the right flip for us.
If this is the square footage
that we're stuck with,
we'd have to go for
a massive price reduction.
- 100%.
- I'm talking, like, $500,000 to $550,000
is the max we could pay
for this at this sized house.
I completely agree.
This place is listed as a
three bedroom, one bath.
However, the bedrooms
are very small,
so if we can't expand, it's definitely
not going to be up to anybody's standards.
Definitely not
in the $600,000 range.
There's just no way
we can make that work.
I mean, I don't think
in any range
anybody wants to live in
a room the size of a closet.
True.
I mean,
I cleared all this space.
Do you want to hang out
for a while
and get the vibe
and maybe make lunch?
No, the vibe is
not good, sweetie.
[Josh] The results from
the soil scientists are back.
Today we're going to go
meet with James and Stacy
and find out what we can do
with this property.
Okay, do we have good news?
We found a soil area to
allow us to do the expansion.
- Wow.
- There you go.
- Can I give you better news?
- Yes.
The soil scientists also found
another soil site on top of the hill.
- What? A second one?
- [Stacy] You hit the lottery.
[James M] Yeah,
you hit the lottery.
Great news. Not only do we
get to expand the existing house,
but even better news,
we can actually build another
home on the property as well.
Two homes.
Two for one.
- All right. Well, I'm excited.
- Yeah, me too.
So now we close escrow and then
we'll break ground in six to 12 months.
- Thank you, guys.
- No, thank you.
- This is great news.
- It's going to be awesome.
It is a long wait.
It's going to take about six to 12
months before we can break ground.
And she's not patient.
I'm not patient.
[James B] Don't you love
this backsplash?
I do, so pretty and I love that some things
never change between here and California
and that's the cookies.
[James B] Well, you know,
they have kids.
And I love to do that
for people that have kids.
Nick and Kristen's house
looks absolutely beautiful.
I'm loving
the farmhouse chic vibe.
And once again,
James has flown out
to help me
with the finishing touches.
I love how a lot of our California
flair transfers to Tennessee.
We've got our cutting boards.
We've got our rugs.
But, like, there's definitely
more of a country flair here.
- Like a country chic.
- Yes.
You know, actually my favorite thing
in this kitchen is actually the sink.
- This is so cool.
- [James B] Isn't it gorgeous?
We should think about
some time, if it's right,
to do a whole kitchen
in this color.
Yes, please. I would redo
my whole kitchen in this color.
[James B] Okay.
- Here in Tennessee?
- Yeah, I love it. Oh, no. Any house.
- [James B] We'll figure it out.
- It's gorgeous.
- The house looks fabulous.
- Yep.
- Great teamwork.
- Yep.
[Christina] We're ready to go.
All right.
It's been a few months.
Are you guys super excited?
- Yes.
- Yeah, we are.
Cannot wait.
It looks so good. I can't
wait for you guys to see it.
- Okay, are you ready?
- Yes.
All right.
Welcome to your new home.
[both] Oh, my gosh.
You ready? Okay. All right.
Welcome to your new home.
[both] Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my God. That looks
- That's, like, exactly what I wanted.
- [Nick] Amazing.
It's the first thing you see when you
walk in. It's such a statement piece.
I know. It's like, your eyes
go straight to that bar now.
The dry bar looks gorgeous.
Like everything
I've ever wanted.
[Nick] It went from being
a junk drawer
to being a feature piece right
when you walk in, inside the home.
[Kristen] I love it.
[Christina] I'm jealous
of your bar.
- [Kristen] This is stunning.
- [Nick] This oh, my gosh.
[Christina] You guys already
had a fabulous living room.
The living room I feel like
didn't match the rest of the house
but we just spruced it up
a little bit.
Added some poufs, crystals,
some rugs, very country chic.
- [Kristen] Yes.
- [Nick] Looks amazing.
- [Kristen] It totally came together.
- [Nick] Yeah.
But now, back to the bar.
Let's get back to the bar,
though. [laughs]
[Christina] To be honest, I didn't even
notice it the first time I walked in
because it just
looked like doors, right?
Yeah, it was just a closet,
basically.
[Christina] This is so cute. Like, this
sets the whole tone for your house.
[Nick] Amazing, yeah.
It's very country chic. I love these
yellow tones, too, the mustardy.
So cute.
Yeah, and I love that we took the
stone all the way back up the wall.
Good job, babe.
- Great idea. Great idea.
- Thank you.
The bar is fabulous, but now
it's time for the main event.
- The kitchen.
- Let's do it. We've been waiting all along for this.
Welcome to your new kitchen.
[both] Oh, my gosh.
[Nick] Look at how much
space it is.
What Christina did in our
kitchen is just amazing.
Walking in, I definitely feel like I'm
looking at one of those high end homes
that just got built, you know,
that I see all the time
and now we have ours.
It feels so huge.
It feels huge. It's so bright.
Yes. See, losing the window, luckily, I
feel like it's more bright in here, now.
[Nick] Probably one of
my favorite things
is getting rid of that window
back there.
It just feels
light and bright. I love it.
- We don't miss the window at all.
- No.
[Kristen] I can't stop staring
at how many cabinets I have.
- Right?
- [both laugh]
The storage game is strong.
You guys have got
all the storage.
You have the beautiful pantry,
but then also just the fact that we took
the cabinets all the way up to the ceiling,
and then the island has a massive
amount of storage, too, it's endless.
[Kristen] I just get so
excited, like, visualizing, like,
the kids coming after school to get
snacks and do their homework here
while I'm just, like,
prepping dinner.
- It actually makes your life easier.
- [Kristen] Yes.
Not only is it beautiful, but
it's so much more functional.
[Kristen] Yeah.
[Christina] And what do you
guys think about the backsplash?
[Kristen] It's gorgeous.
I love, like, the high gloss and there's so
much movement to it when the light hits it.
- [Nick] Yeah.
- [Kristen] It's beautiful.
It looks incredible.
And still a timeless choice.
- [both] Yeah.
- [Christina] Absolutely beautiful.
One of the other things
that I'm just now noticing, too,
that makes
such a big difference
is how you guys opened up this whole
entire casing and, like, took it up.
- It makes such a big difference.
- It does.
You just totally see
the whole living room, now.
You're able to see
the kids hanging out.
You can actually see
the TV from here.
So you have all this storage
in the kitchen,
but we also gained
this amazing pantry.
[Nick] Amazing.
[Kristen] This is, honestly it seems
so silly, but a dream come true.
Yes, totally.
This is honestly, probably more
efficient than, like, a walk-in pantry.
- I feel like.
- [Christina] I agree.
Now, with this new pantry, I just
envision this beautifully-organized space.
I cannot wait
to start using it.
And right behind you,
your new mud room.
[Kristen] Wow.
[Nick] That looks different.
For sure, that's amazing.
[Christina] Just by flipping
the washer-dryer,
we were able to add
the drop center,
all the kids' backpacks, shoes,
lunchboxes, so much more convenient.
[Kristen] Yeah.
And the flooring
was a huge update.
- [both] Yeah.
- [Kristen] It's beautiful.
I wanted to do this area
as far as a drop zone,
just to make it convenient. The
kids come in from the garage,
leave their sports cleats,
their backpacks, shoes.
- Exactly.
- Yes.
I can relate.
We have one in my house.
And, you know,
it's hit or miss.
Sometimes the kids do it,
sometimes they don't.
But at least it's there.
It looks cute.
Yeah, no, this is great. I mean, we
didn't have anything like this before.
And it's going to be
great for them.
Christina was definitely able to help
kind of add in so much of the function
with the kids and just kind of being a
mom herself, knew what we needed.
It was really helpful to kind of
have her perspective joined in.
- I'm very happy for you guys.
- [Kristen] Thank you.
You guys deserve this kitchen,
this home. It fits you guys perfectly.
- And this isn't goodbye.
- [Nick] No, it's not.
We're real estate
partners in crime now.
- Thank you guys so much.
- [Nick] Thank you so much. This was amazing.
Some would maybe say
that we're crazy
that we did a reno with Christina,
like, the week after we had a baby
and we are crazy. It was
It was an interesting summer,
but it's so worth it.
Yeah, it's been amazing and
we're just excited to get all settled in
and start our new lives in our new
space with our whole entire family.
Cheers, new kitchen.
Yay! Whoo!
Yeah, new kitchen.