Shop Transformed: BEFORE | AFTER

Happy 6th day until we move into our dream house. Get your car, get your seatbelt. I feel like this period of my life is full of distractions. I wanted to clean that shop today, but Rebecca ran out of her thyroid prescription. We thought we picked it up, but I— but we didn't. I need to go get that for her so she can take that today, and she's got to do that in order to eat. She's got to take it on an empty stomach. It's already 9 o'clock, so The shop's gonna have to wait, and that's a critical part of moving in. And we have people coming to help us move in. I don't want the shop looking like that. We have this nice house, and I'm gonna have this janky shop downstairs. Come on, it's all fine. Well, that was a futile trip. They said we picked it up on the 26th. I'm discouraged. That's just— I'm losing my mind. Wait, no. And now the question is, if we picked it up, where is it? Becca really needs this. This is her daily must-have thyroid medicine. Did I put it in her purse? You found it? Where the heck? Dang it. Okay, reenactment time. Didn't catch it all on camera. We looked everywhere. He even called the doctor to see if we could order another one. Nobody— they're off Friday and of course Monday for a mega long Labor Day weekend. I literally had this bag in my hand ready to go to the trash can and go through it. Although the trash ran Tuesday, we would have picked that up Monday. There was not much hope there, and so I said, hmm, Let me call the pharmacy. Will they understand and maybe just fill that for us? I came back up the stairs, paced about, and the kind people at Ingalls understood and were gonna do it. And I literally went in to tell them so, and then Mom literally found it right here. Nobody's gonna look like, like right there. Why did I put it right there? But anyway, we found it. So I'm trying to get into this new habit I heard it some organization guys say, put away, not down. I put that down thinking I'm gonna come back and get it. Yeah, you forget about it. Put away. You could say put up, not down. Put up, not down. Put up, not down. One or two out, but why are there so many out? Yeah, and we gotta mark them. Can you guys, uh, Put them up. All right, our floor guy, I think he usually comes in the afternoon. Nothing like cutting it down to the last minute. Cleaners are coming Monday and they're the last people to come through. Happiest day of your life— your year, beefcake. We put the pigs together for January babies. Keep the cycle going, guys. Oh, is this what you were gonna do, these outdoor areas? Heck yes. And the porch is too.

Front porch, I don't know what to do with. Okay, because there's so much weird stuff.

You could still sweep. This is awesome that you're doing this, owning this house, man. It's our gift to y'all anyway. 6 days, guys. 6 days till we move into this dream house. What do you think? Great. And y'all will know nothing else but this house. Hopefully this house goes strong for a good another 100 years. That looks good, Jonah. Thank you. I'm gonna start going at the shop. The kids and Annie put up the lean-to while I was gone to the pig port. You see me kind of looking to the side there? It's like when you're on the farm, you always see something. Like that corner fence needs to be straightened up. That one's taking every drop of water it can get. Enough putting off this shop job. It would do my heart so good to be able to get this shop cleaned up going into the rest day. Super intimidated every time I see this. Let's have goals, Gideon. Of course, pick everything up. Maybe I can do at least one pegboard right there to see how that's gonna go. Picking up first.

It's going to be over or is it gonna be like down? Like this side going—

I think it'll be over.

Wait, are you making a wall?

Well, no, I'm going to take these pegboards, hang them up right there, and then we have hooks that we can hang our tools on. That's another organization rule: everything has a place and everything in its place. Look who came down. Of course he's got his own ideas. He's ready to start on the pegboard.

Did you want to measure it?

I'm not saying that stuff, John. Did you want to measure it? It's life, you know, we're navigating through life. You know you have to— I can relate to that.

You know you have to put slats up first.

Because, you know, it's kind of, you know, I was kind of doing my own thing and I wanted you to, you know, you came by and I tried to get you to help me and then there's compromise. If I want you to help me, then I gotta get, you know, I gotta give and take, you know.

You know you gotta slat it, right?

I can't just say help me and then— Do you?

Yes, you have to.

Push it against the wall. Let's see.

You have to, I promise.

It's the wrong side.

Wait, wait, what is that?

You go like this.

Oh. Wait!

See, you have to slat it. Did you not know this?

Oh my gosh. How do you do that?

You just get little thin strips of boards. You put one here, one in the middle, and one right there.

That'll be a good project for you while I clean up. We're gonna have to get you to make more racks for this. Jonah, don't look.

Dar, did he get away from you?

Yes, he did. I was—

oh, I thought you sent him down here. What do you want me to do? He's happy. Well, it's just a mess down here. It's embarrassing. The love of my life has to see it like this.

We gotta clean it up.

People are coming next week to help us move. We might move all the meat that's in these freezers. If we do the white side, Jonah, we could do Sharpies around the tools so you can see where it goes.

See what's missing.

I don't want your label maker, Dar. Well, I'm gonna— I need to buy Buy the best label— is that your label maker, Dad?

I'm so excited.

Buy the best label maker they got.

I'm getting a good one. I've read reviews. I've already done the research. I know which one I want.

Just go pull the trigger.

Hey, y'all, send Austin a link for the one you're getting. People are gonna want to know.

Okay. It's gonna be a nicer one.

Oh yeah.

Because I want it—

You're getting serious about all these things.

Because you can— you go on your phone and you go on the app and you just say what you want it to print and then it prints it. Donna, should we have you do it on the phone?

I don't want to be like doing something on that. Well, then I have to— you and I are both like right here.

It's perfect off the concrete. See if I use it off through it.

Why don't you hang it this way?

I don't want to reach down that far. Don't go below this.

Oh really?

Yes, really.

Why?

Because I don't want to reach down there for a tool. I want it down there. Things will hit it. You want it down there?

Okay.

You want it all the way down? You really want to come in and bend over and get a tool?

Only be like here.

It's the old man in me. I just want to get tools like right here within this window. Just go to the wood. Let me show you this trick.

I'll buy the label maker.

Oh good, you buy the label maker. Stay in your lane.

Out of my finger.

Sorry, what'd you say? Stay in your lane.

You smashed my fingers so hard.

You told me to stay in my lane. You're funny.

Camera's rolling so you won't beat me. I'm proposing about right there.

And then none of it down here?

None.

Really?

Okay, she doesn't like that. How about that, babe?

Why don't you do it the top 2?

But you know— oh, because I only need 2 more.

You know we're doing all the walls.

All the walls?

Yes, so we don't have to have these crazy angles. Stay in your label maker lane. You know I'm just teasing.

Oh gosh!

Oh, it's just a joke.

I'm gonna buy you a pair of jeans anyways because you're gonna be done. Okay, and a shirt.

All right, that's a good lane for you to be in. Jonas, lifting it up. I'll be, uh, reluctantly— I gotta get this, start putting it off. Stop putting it off. Good news, floor guys are here. Bad news, I need to step away and show them some scuffs. All right. And Jonah needs this hung, so if I get Jonah on this, you can get going. There you go. Good. All right, you got this. Can you come to help us show the Scots on the floor? Yeah, they're here. Much later, we got the floor guys squared away. Only two little nicks they have to prepare. They weren't told about the nicks, so thankfully there's only two. Could even lower that down a little bit to make more room. But you can move the pegs, right? This is cool. Let's do the before and after, right, Austin? I think I was standing right here panning back and forth in here. Let's do the before and then let's do the after. We're still not done, but we're reasonable. That's all our tools right now. I see another one there for drop cords, power tool wall, something another. We'll figure something out. This is nice, and this lighting— it's hard to take a bad shot in here. Doesn't it look great? Doesn't it all look great? Looks fantastic. Now that's a road shot. I think I need to set you guys up on a time-lapse while we go do lunch on them working on these floors. They have the windows open. That's nice. Nice big window with a view of the garden. Our chimney used to be here and we couldn't see that before. We're going to a very special place in just a second. I gotta show you this first though.

Oh my goodness. This is so nice.

Rebecca's reaction: this is so nice.

It's gonna be so great when we get it.

I still got details. Oh, I know, but that's the future of this place.

And I like that we still have lots of room.

We still have more room, and then we're gonna hang drop cords over there, and I'm sure we'll need to hang something over here too. You know, we're gonna have a bike stall in there, hang our bikes.

I'm excited about it. I'm excited.

Needs to match the quality of our upstairs. Stairs. Yeah, how about that? The lighting, isn't that just—

the lighting is so wonderful. Oh, look, and he's got the light, he's got the thing on the—

they finished the floors. How does it feel to have our last contractor out of here?

It's good, it's good. It feels real good.

The big boys playing in the hay.

Okay, so tour of our hay fort. Here, let me just hold the light. So we have the door, which is locked right now, and then we have the balcony out there. A balcony has railings. Then we have our front room. Then we have a tunnel. Ba ba dum ba dum. To here. And then we have a place there and a place here. We'll go along this one. Takes the turn and goes in this narrow tunnel. Then we have an area here. Oh, it's kind of a Tight squeeze. Papa could not come in here, actually. And then here, that's where we started. All right, so bumpy butt, I have to crawl through this tunnel. It's pretty narrow, narrower than the other ones. And then we're back in this room, and then here we are. Gideon, shall we show them the secret room?

Sure.

Okay, look at the bale. Move, Gideon, and then there's a room down there. Okay, cover it back, babe.

You are glad to have square bells back, aren't you? Look at my—

hey, forts, they're actually strong.

Henry, can you tell me where we're going?

Apple house.

Apple house. It is apple season. Henry hasn't had an apple from us in a year.

He goes up to Grandma and Grandpa.

He sneaks and gets some up from Grandma and Grandpa. We, we've stuck with eating with the seasons. Here we are.

We're at the Apple House.

Yep, we're at the Apple House. They did not let us film in here, so back on the road. Henry is in heaven.

He is. He came up to you right when we walked out and said, can I have an apple?

You can eat all the apples you want here for the next couple of months. We're gonna get so many from this guy, store them in our root cellar. There's gonna be fresh apples for Several weeks.

So my goal is to get 4 bushels a month.

Yeah.

And the kids can eat 2 of the bushels a month, and the other 2 bushels I will preserve into applesauce, apple pie filling.

Bush trailer! Clear!

Um, I think I'm gonna try to see, I think I might shred some apples and then keep it for uglies. So we can have like donuts.

We live in apple country, western North Carolina. That's the one organic apple farm here, so we're happy to support him.

Yes.

He gives us good deals. He's great.

They're very— so he's very—

yeah, definitely beats the price of the supermarket.

Well, and his story is so good because he took the apple orchard over from his father and his father was sick.

What?

And he decided to— that he didn't want to be sick sick, and so he changed it over to organic because he felt the chemicals that his father had been using had contributed to his illness. So it's, you know, I would love to support a local farmer, and then also, I mean, he lives— he's like in our community.

Happy day!

Happy day! Organic!

Organic!

Yeah, he said— I think I think he said I said it.

Did you say I said it, or did you say organic? Can you say Holler-ganic?

Holler-ganic? I can't even say that.

That's our food. Holler-ganic. It's from the holler. It's organic. Holler-ganic.