"Tear the drywall off, call a structural engineer, pay the thousand bucks. For the love of God, people, if you're going to put that kind of money into a house, get a professional to tell you if you can rip it out."
"Honestly, adding the recess lighting was a bigger change than I could have imagined for our family. It's so well-lit now that we actually want to spend time down here."
"Well hello! So the lighting changed, because the time changed, because we had to discuss some things with our builder about cornicing."
"I wish I could have gotten it out earlier for you guys but, you know, my schedule was absolutely crazy. Like, renovating this home, it took so much work."
"You could really transform some of your dated furniture and update your home."
"We've got to paint the doors, door hardware, bathroom hardware like towel bars, toilet paper holders, the other towel holders."
"It's really amazing what you can accomplish when you're this huge... just renovate a house like that."
"Changing out hardware can be really effective."
"Applying a coat of white tub and tile surrounded wonders for that area, and getting rid of the original floors was definitely the right move."
"We ended up with the most beautiful original floors that we were able to keep in the home. There have been so many ups and downs with this entire renovation project, that this feels like a real win."
"I'm ready to like rip these shelves out and put in new ones that maybe extend out a little bit more so that there is even more room in here."
"We're excited to turn this house into a home."
"After 2 weeks of hard work, once again Andrea had knocked it out of the park and made another space in our home absolutely beautiful."
"Walking into this, we agreed that we didn't want to cut any corners. We want to live here for a long time. So when we do projects, when we renovate, we want to do it right."
"Invest smartly: flooring options tailored to your needs and preferences."
"We're pretty thrilled to be here in Detroit to work on a house of our own."
"We felt at a complete loss because now we see okay this is a bigger problem we thought it's not just the kitchen it's everywhere."
"An innocent home renovation that resulted in police at their doorstep."
"So much work has gone into this house over the last over six months, and it was just such a huge transformation turning this rundown old house into a beautiful, happy, inviting home."
"Home renovation budgets can be tricky and really what it comes down to is what you feel comfortable with, what you want to spend on your home renovation based on all of the factors of your life."
"We're gonna make it a kitchen but I bet you got that now."
"Good luck we can do this and if there's any of you who are out there who were just about to move into a place that needs doing up good luck you can do this."
"We want to spend six months doing work on it and making it a real dream home."
"If you're finding these videos helpful and you think maybe you're empowered to do renovations at home but you just got a little bit of concern left, feel free to hit the join button."
"We have put so, so much work into this house so far, and it's very satisfying to go back and look and see what it looked like before."
"This kitchen used to feel like a dark hole back here in the corner and now it's so open and bright and white."
"We ripped out the bathroom, that's right, I just demolished the bathroom at my Palm Springs Airbnb to give it an Extreme Makeover."
"From 'eh' to extraordinary! Watch how we turned our house into a luxurious yet functional home."
"House makeover complete! Thanks for joining me on this journey. Here's to new beginnings and a cozy, transformed home!"
"You know, if you buy a house that's a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand dollars and then if you put money into it and then your house flips for 400 K."
"I can't believe it's the same house we started with. I'm stunned, it's just amazing."
"In October 2018 we moved into this 1960s fixer and it was dark, dated, and just plain ugly in some places, but my wife had some incredible vision for this home."
"If you're just joining us, we're right in the middle of replacing some rusty floors."
"Good morning everyone, today we finished the bathroom, look how cool these turned out."
"The first thing I wanna mention about this remodel is the house flows now."
"Moving on, our main story tonight concerns home renovations. There are big commitments that always turn out great... unless that is you're on trading spaces, in which case they can turn out like this."
"One of the biggest changes of this whole makeover is the layout, the configuration."
"Paint can honestly solve so many things when it comes to redoing your home especially if you have an older home like I do. It instantly brightens and makes everything feel fresh and new again."
"Our complete living room makeover, I am so thrilled with how this space turned out."
"Kitchen cabinets are installed, I'm really liking the way this is turning out."
"For you ones that have a home, you'll renovate or do something different to it."
"It's a bit updated in a few areas, has a few more contemporary touches."
"Basic home interior renovation: remember the basics."
"It's a lot to work with here but we are loving how it's turning out and it's just a great place to hang out and have parties."
"Now this room has gone from being my absolute least favorite room in the house to no question my absolute favorite room in the house."
"One of the biggest transformations in this entire loft is the kitchen."
"I love having people over and now that we're kind of towards the end of our renovation in this house I'm so excited to host again and just have family and friends here all the time."
"We replaced the original plaster ceilings cuz they were completely cracked um and just had drywall put up but we went for this really neutral actually this is also French canvas my favorite new white color and um this is just a really soft feel."
"It's already looking really good, like I'm looking at this and I'm like whoa, it's gonna be such a good house, I'm so excited."
"October 16th marked a year since we first toured our 110-year-old cottage, and we've made loads of progress to transform it into our home."
"I can't think of a better way to learn about details and budgets, form and function, than a do-it-yourself remodeling project."
"Welcome to the 100% restoration and remodel of my family's $7,000 Mansion."
"Don't get downtrodden by the feeling of 'well, I wish I could just do a full remodel'."
"The transformation of the facade of this home is going to be absolutely incredible."
"I'm gonna end up closing this off and it's my man cave, that's exactly what it's gonna be."
"It's a disaster but it looks nice once you get in here in the house and start turning things apart that's when you really realize how sad things were in here."
"I am so confident... Once we've made these changes, it's going to look incredible."
"I bought the cheapest house in a super nice neighborhood and I'm remodeling the entire thing."
"Now that we're done with the bathroom I think we're done with the entire build."
"Wow, we got our mudroom, we got our laundry room, we got our entertaining. It's a Weekender first, a three-in-one."
"Family makes shocking discovery behind walls during home renovations."
"To decolonize and to deconstruct the hegemonic power structure that CRT says is white supremacy, you must also advocate for the policies that activists tell you you must advocate for."
"If only changing floors in a real house was this easy."
"We're going to achieve that thanks to Extreme Home Makeover's help and giving us a good start."
"We're fully done with the attic and now that means we're fully done with the entire base and the entire build."
"It's amazing what some elbow grease can do to a 100 plus year old home."
"Hey there, and welcome to Fix or Flop."
"As historic homeowners, we do respect the past life of these wonderful buildings but also recognize a need to adapt them for modern life."
"I'm so excited with how this kitchen turned out, it makes me feel so happy whenever I walk into this room."
"My dad ends up having to put a little over $30,000 into the house to make it livable."
"One of the main challenges with finishing a basement is working around things that you can't move."
"The first thing we did was rip out the carpet and try to restore these original floors."
"Finding a contractor that you click with is hard already, but finding a contractor that you can click with for five years is even harder. And I think you've got to keep them happy so that you can keep a lifelong of home building and home renovation going, you know?"
"...this much happened while we were out of town for a week, imagine what's coming over the next months in summer as they really knock out the rest of this house, this is incredible, this is awesome, this is the biggest update we've seen so far."
"We moved into this home on a snowy gloomy January day and over the course of the last two years we have brought this house back to life."
"This is a beautiful historic home and it's been so much fun renovating it and giving it just the love that it needs."
"We truly love it, it feels like such a blessing every time I get to cook a meal or decorate this space for a new season."
"Hats off to anyone redoing their homes by themselves because oh my goodness it is difficult."
"Overall it cost about 550 dollars for this laundry room makeover including everything from decor to project materials."
"Renovating a house requires a demo day. You have to tear some things down, it's necessary in order to build something back up."
"But we haven't... we have an exciting reveal because the floor has been grouted in the kitchen and I must have said this about a million times on my stories."
"We've gotten into the mode of renovation, so we really get it now."
"Holy smokes, how did this kitchen come together? Well, this right here was a cubby, it was an eight cubby system that we found on the side of the road, scooped it up."
"Shortly after I filmed the first video I did end up swapping the locks so we do have the working functioning front door locks on this house now."
"There's something almost universally appealing and satisfying about watching a home renovation and seeing the big reveal."
"Watching her renovate her house and make her dream home, it's just kind of like such a lovely little encouraging thing."
"Our goal is always, always, always if the original owners of this home came in and they looked around they would say what that's my dream bathroom."
"I'm going to renovate this main floor so that when you see it you're going to love it."
"So what if we open up this wall out to the living room and then I think that could help it feel a little more open as well?"
"God literally gave me a white kitchen. So obviously we're changing the backsplash here. That's gotta go, it's gotta go."
"Always striving to do full home renovations or new home builds."
"The joys of home renovations when you're working with foam board."
"This isn't just another Cottage renovation to me; this is my forever home."
"hopefully you got an idea of what the house is looking like and all of the progress so far"
It's expensive, especially when your spouse says, "I don't care that it's two million dollars, rip it out."
"I would totally suggest buying an old home if you are a person who likes to DIY and you have a vision of what you want your home to look like."
"The Property Brothers guide families through the entire process of finding, buying, and transforming these homes."
"I've been thinking about this renovation for over a year year and a half now since we actually purchased this home and moved in."
"Renovating this house and turning it into our home has honestly been the biggest project I've ever actually taken on and every single step of the way has been so rewarding."
"We're gonna have big beautiful windows and big beautiful chickens outside chips I'm getting chickens and we get a name our own chicken be ready to go to Murdoch's yeah we're Murdock."
"Completing the nursery makeover made me realize how much I do not like my own master bedroom."
"We've turned a pokey old two-bed one-bath bungalow into an open-planned living three-bed two-bath house. It's crazy what a bit of jiggling around can do."
"I see old homes like on Instagram all the time that are for sale really cheap and I would like to remodel all of them but it's a bigger house would take me a whole year you know so I have to love something a lot in order to take on something that big."
"I'm into this renovation for $50,000."
"To see my sister just run down to see the new basement-- she came down there with, like, so much pride, knowing that she was able to do it."
"Now we need to decide what colors we want the house to be before we replace the windows."
"Kerdi-board is way easier to use than cement board in these older bathrooms."
"Transforming this space is a major part of a dream for big family get-togethers."
"We bought this house for three million pounds and we're spending a load more money on it making it our own."
"This isn't a 100% foolproof do-it-yourself, but it does give you a good place to start."
"In four months, the couple hoped to double the size of their dilapidated cottage and create their dream home in their ideal location."
"From that epic stone fireplace to this extremely private backyard, it just needed a little bit of love."
"The kitchen looks incredible; I'm so happy with how this turned out."
"For anybody who loves to entertain and you're working on a renovation, I would recommend a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling built-in."
"I'm beyond excited about this woodworking project; as much as I love renovating my house, woodworking is my jam."
"The Schluter system is the system for me."
"We completely remodeled our 1970 home, meaning we took it down to the studs; we did all the work ourselves."
"The house turned out beautiful, and the sale also well exceeded my expectations."
"This channel is helping to support my family; it's helping to pay for this home renovation."
"Their main mission was to assist families in transforming these forsaken houses into their longed-for dream homes."
"The thing about home renovation is that their average order value on their customers is extremely high."
"I just wanted the space to really evolve with the new addition, and I just thought it was time for a change."
"I hope that you guys enjoy getting to see our last six months of home renovations in one video."
"We are foster parents to three adorable little kiddos and we are also home renovators."
"Welcome back to my channel where I help designers, decorators, and home renovators create beautiful homes that they love to live in."
"If we do that, we're going to turn this house into a house that's really gonna last."
"I think one of my biggest YouTube regrets is that I didn't do this at every stage of the house."
"Bringing light to dark basements can add an entire new dimension to your home."
"I'm excited to see what it looks like once we wood plank the ceiling and do the stucco on the outside of the house."
"It's so nice because this is actually the first time in the two and a half years of renovation that we've been shopping like this for the home."
"We're going to talk about what you could do to an existing home for one thousand, five thousand, or ten thousand dollars that would really make a significant difference in healthy indoor air and energy efficiency."
"We didn't start from scratch; instead, we came into a home that was more traditional colonial and brought it to a more modern state by making it a little bit lighter and brighter."
"This is definitely a space worth taking notes of if you're looking to renovate or design a house."
"Home renovating used to be a grim necessity of life; now it's a hobby, a hot fad worth over forty billion dollars a year in Canada."
"We always found ourselves downtown, in midtown and uptown, and I grew up in a very old home that my parents actually renovated, so I love old things, I love old houses."
"We have a job that we can take with us anywhere. Why don't we find a fixer-upper, a small property near our family, and just live there during the winter?"
"Through renovation, I learned lots of things."
"I'm transforming it into a suburban retreat with modern flair."
"These visions won't happen as fast as I would like to, but these are the long-term goals that I have for this house."
"It's going to be amazing once it's done."
"It looks better than I could have imagined."
"It's not a home renovation project unless you have to go to the hardware store twice."
"What an amazing job you did on this home."
"It was just a tired old house, it was structurally sound, it needed some TLC, which is what we've done."
"Puppies are cute. Anything, it was cute that I thought we're just gonna change some kitchen counters and we tore the house down."
"This would be gorgeous if you redid this house, all new flooring, painting everywhere, new railings."
"It only took me 30 minutes to get this wall down, that's not bad, right?"
"We're all about showing you DIY renovations and remodeling projects to help increase the value of your home."
"We're certainly learning what we don't mind doing in the house renovation and what we really don't want to do in the future."
"New carpets throughout, full painting, reconnection of main utilities, and most of all, a touch of love and care that the house has been missing for a very long time."
"They looked at this as an opportunity to make the house exactly the way they wanted it."
"I am happy that we did buy this house and decide to renovate it because I know that if I was to buy like a new build... the end result is more than what you would have afforded at the time when you bought it."
"I really like this style, I like this renovation."
"I've seen the finished results on Chip and Joanna Gaines' show Fixer Upper; it looks amazing."
"I've been using this frequently since I got it this summer to redo the exterior of the house, and it just makes painting so much faster."
"We have finally finished, so that you can actually get a tour of how the house turned out after a year-long remodel job."
"It definitely looks so different than it did already."
"I love the idea of opening up these walls, popping an island right here."
"When you're doing home renovations, things always take longer or are more difficult than you think they're going to be."
"I'm officially trading this house for a bobby pin, meaning that somebody is going to get this fully renovated house just for trading me a bobby pin."
"I probably did since I've owned the house 20 grand in electrical upgrades, but I did it for maybe a couple thousand over the years."
"I still have to do the floors, I have to do the countertops, and I also have to add new lights above the kitchen island, but so far I am very happy with how the cabinets turned out."
"This painting pad was able to paint this entire room, and it's so much faster."
"I recently painted my walls in Alabaster white color, and I am so happy that I did."
"I've just had the samples through, marble samples, and the limestone samples for all the garden and the bathroom renovation look amazing."
"Our big goal in the first phase of it was to kind of open and lighten and brighten."
"Making over Holly's kitchen to be a little bit more functional for her and her lifestyle has definitely been quite the mission."
"I bought this house and transformed it literally from a fixer-upper to the star and the glam that you see today."