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(female #1) My name is Meg O'Rourke.
My husband Jeremy and I are renovating
our claustrophobic, sketchy kitchen...
Go, Jer!
...to open it up and brighten our lives.
Woo!
I'm definitely a girl's girl
(Jeremy) Push on the bottom.
(Jeremy) Bottom of the refrigerator.
(Meg) But I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty...
Ew!
...and take this renovation on headfirst.
I can't do this.
It's too heavy.
(Jeremy) Man up.
Put some weight on it!
What the hell was that?
Oh, I don't even want to know.
What am I doing wrong?
Am I cutting these backwards?
(Meg) This was a really bad idea.
[quirky music]
My husband Jeremy and I love where we live.
We love bein' near the ocean.
We just love the area because it's so beautiful.
And Warren's a very small town,
it's quaint.
I can't think of any place else I'd rather live.
[rock music]
(Jeremy) We love the house because we've worked very *** it
over the last five or six years.
And next we're gonna work on the kitchen.
It's very small, so we have to open it up.
(Meg) This countertop has chips in it,
and it's old and it's scratched.
Over here, there's, like,
sticky stuff
(Jeremy) It's awful.
If you look at this cabinet, it looks okay on the surface,
but as you can see,
it just is like falling off the hinges.
(Jeremy) So, the kitchen's gotta go.
It's an eyesore, it's an embarrassment.
[emphatic note]
(Meg) The plans are we're gonna have
all the cabinets replaced,
the drawers replaced,
and we're gonna get new countertops.
(Jeremy) We're gonna put a new floor, it's gonna look really sharp.
This wall's gonna go down.
And then a new island is gonna be right here
with a dishwasher, couple of cabinets on either side.
It's gonna look really different,
be more homey.
We do need to get it done as soon as possible
so that I can get back to work.
(Meg) The budget is 6,000 dollars,
and I think that we have a good chance
of falling, you know, within the budget.
[big band music]
We've done a lot of projects on the house already.
Hopefully the kitchen's going to be okay.
We've painted the floors...
(Jeremy) Point of clarification.
"We" do not paint floors.
Who paints a wooden floor, really, you know?
Yeah.
It looks good.
(Jeremy) She did it when I wasn't home.
(Meg) I don't need your permission.
Apparently not.
[rock music]
[cash register ringing]
♪
[coin clattering]
(Meg) Maura, wanna go to the kennel today?
We've gotta bring her today, Jeremy,
'cause I don't want her breathin' in all the dust.
(Jeremy) Come on.
(Meg) Today is, um,
the first renovation day.
All right. In, in, in.
Get in the back, Maura.
We have a dog, her name is Maura.
She's like our little baby and we love her very much
but we don't want her here today
'cause we don't want her breathin' in the dust and dirt
and all that stuff.
Here you go.
(Meg) So, we're gonna drop Maura off at doggy day care.
Bye.
All right.
I'm psyched.
(Jeremy) Yeah.
[rock music]
♪
All right, get to work.
♪
So you all set, you ready to go?
All right.
(Jeremy) I'm feelin' pretty good, you know, ready to get to work.
We'll start low, we'll get the low stuff off first.
First thing we're gonna do is demo our cabinets,
and then we'll get this off and just keep workin' around.
Hopefully it goes fast and easy.
Okay.
Oh.
Go, boyfriend!
Wow.
(Jeremy) Why don't you use the hammer if you're gonna do that?
'Cause I'm strong, not like you.
I don't need those tools like you need.
All right.
[hip hop music]
What?
(Jeremy) Well, it's not buried treasure.
Ew!
(Meg) Ugh!
Oh my goodness! Disgusting.
This is very strange.
All of a sudden we come across this substance
that looks like dog food,
and I'm like, oh my goodness!
What is that? I never heard of--
They must be cement balls or something.
[quirky music]
(Jeremy) You know what, I--
(Meg) I think they're some kind
of form of filler.
We don't know what this is, but it's really strange.
Why on earth would anybody
put dog food down there?
I--that doesn't make any sense to me.
Pull it up and see what's really under there.
It's buried treasure!
♪
That's--that's dry dog food.
All right.
Okay.
Disgusting.
(Jeremy) How we don't have rats is amazing.
[squeaking]
The end of the dog food.
(Jeremy) Onto the next cabinet.
We're gonna move on and continue with the wrecking
of the cabinets and the shelves.
Just watch your feet there.
[rock music]
All right.
Next step is to move our fridge out of the kitchen
because it's next to the wall
that we're gonna be breaking down.
My leftover sandwich and a six pack of beer is in there,
so we have to be very careful.
So this should be easy.
Now, how do we slide it through?
Will it fit this way?
All right, honey, um...
Yeah, jeez, okay, I'm gonna push on the top.
All right, can you push? Push on the bottom,
push on the bottom, push on the bottom.
(Jeremy) Bottom of the refrigerator.
Jer, hold on, I don't understand what you mean.
Jer, I'm pushin' the thing, I'm trying.
(Jeremy) We're trying to get the fridge out...
Push on the bottom.
...but Meg has forgotten
the fundamentals of physics.
Look, I've got to angle the refrigerator towards you
up a little bit so you can push it out.
Now push kind of towards the bottom of the fridge
(Meg) When you mean from the bottom, like down here?
(Jeremy) Like a football player, yeah, exactly.
(Jeremy) See, if you watch a football game or two,
you'd know what I was talking about.
Okay, go go go.
Great, we're stuck.
(Meg) I can't do this.
Come on, Meg, we don't have time for this.
We've got to get this out before we can move on.
(Jeremy) Oh my God, Meg.
And I'm gonna need 30 seconds of your time down here.
How heavy is that? I'm a little bit nervous.
I'm scared, I don't know if I can do this.
It could fall on my head.
Jer, I can't hold it.
Go, go, go.
Great, we're stuck.
(Meg) I can't do this.
Come on, Meg, we don't have time for this.
We've got to get this out before we can move on.
Jer, I'm trying.
(Jeremy) I mean, it'd be better
if I just got in there and pushed.
Do you want to come around?
Okay, I'm comin' around.
Meg's havin' a hard time,
so I'm gonna have to switch spots with her
and show her how it's done.
Jer, I don't think this is a good idea.
Shush. Push the fridge towards me.
Go on, you can do it. Let's get it on a little angle.
(Meg) Go, Jer!
(Jeremy) We are watching Monday Night Football this weekend.
All right, let's get to work on these cabinets.
(Meg) Okay.
[rock music]
(Meg) Woo!
We're finishing up the cabinet demo.
♪
And we're gonna then break the wall.
Go, Jer!
We have a lot of work we have to do tonight.
Woo, yay!
We still have many hours ahead of us,
so it's gonna be a long night.
Go, Jeremy!
[laughing]
(Jeremy) Maura.
[panting]
Meg.
What are we doi'' first today?
I'm getting dragged around by your dog.
(Meg) This morning we're taking Maura to Colt State Park.
Go ahead, Maura!
And just take her for a little walk
so that she's not gettin' in our business all day.
Jump, jump, jump, jump!
Jump? No jump?
All right, she's gettin' tired.
Let's get back and let's get started.
(Meg) Get goin'.
[quirky music]
Yep.
(Meg) So, you tired?
I am tired.
Late night last night, but we were able
to finish the deconstruction...
(Meg) All right, woo!
(Jeremy) ...and we were able to rip up the floor.
So the first thing we need to do is just get
all of these screws screwed in.
Start in that corner.
We have a bunch of screws sticking out of the floor,
so we'd like to get them all nice and flush,
put 'em down deep into the floor
so they're out of the way of the new floor.
It should go pretty quick.
Here, use the girly one.
All right. I can do it.
(Jeremy) All right, stop, stop. Come on.
We've been over this before.
Look, move.
Get it in. It might mean getting on top of it like that.
[quirky music]
Stop. Put some weight on it.
You're not putting any weight on it.
You're just tearing it up.
(Meg) No.
(Jeremy) Well, gee ***, I wonder why.
[sighing]
(Meg) So the drill isn't working for me.
Still stickin' up a little bit.
(Meg) Jeremy, I'm just gonna use my own technique.
[quirky music]
♪
(Jeremy) Meg has her own technique going right now.
Why?
Well, they're meant to be screwed.
I'm torn because I don't want to make fun of my wife,
who I love very much, but it's slightly comical.
Yup.
Good!
Okay.
I don't think it's endorsed
by the National Carpenters' Association.
I know.
(Meg) I just use my own strength.
(Jeremy) We're done with the floor for now..
So what's next, babe?
We're gonna take a two by four.
Yup.
(Jeremy) And we're just gonna slide it right in there.
[funky music]
♪
Son of a...
Where's our other drill?
See if that's a little bit better.
[classical dance music]
Ah, ***.
I'm bending these screws, it's ridiculous.
Havin' a hard time with the drill?
[drill squeaking]
Yes.
Mm.
Oh, I'm not the only one, huh?
Havin' a little bit of trouble?
Boy, I should never have said those negative things
to you earlier.
Mm.
I say God doesn't sleep.
It's karma.
(Jeremy) We need to start with the process of bringin' in
All right.
We're gettin' ready to hang our cabinets,
but first we need to find the studs in the walls
so we can actually hang them up.
Why don't we try to drill a hole right in there?
All right.
No, I don't feel the resistance.
Try at the 16.
You right on top of the black?
There you go. See what you got.
[quirky music]
No? Well, let's just try right on the other side of it.
No, that's definitely not it.
(Jeremy) No.
This has taken a lot longer than I thought.
Ah, doggone it.
This is, like, ridiculous.
Are you kidding me right now?
What are we missing here?
Huh.
Ah, ***.
We're trying to find studs
and we're not havin' a lot of luck,
so I think we're just gonna go crazy
and start drilling a bunch of holes
until we find somethin'.
♪
Let's try a half inch to the left or to the right of it.
Nope, to the left of it.
[laughing]
What a joke.
[dramatic music]
Nope.
Jer, how about that stud finder you have?
I don't know where that is. I don't trust that thing.
[humorous somber music]
One more time. Oh, of course.
I found one.
Yeah.
Ooh, go boyfriend.
I am really excited that we found the stud
'cause now I know the next process
is to actually hang the cabinet.
Okay.
And I'm gonna need 30 seconds of your time down here.
(Meg) My drilling skills are, you know,
a little bit to be desired.
How heavy is that?
(Jeremy) Between 45 and 50 pounds.
Not terribly heavy.
I don't know if I can do this.
All right.
I'm gonna go ahead and hold it
and Jeremy's gonna screw the screws up.
I need 30 seconds of your muscle.
Okay.
I'm a little bit nervous
because it could fall on my head.
I don't know, Jeremy, I'm scared.
It's too heavy.
Push, push the cabinet into the back wall.
I am, Jer.
[dramatic music]
Hurry up. Jer, this is heavy.
Meg, keep pulling the cabinet up.
I am.
This is a bad idea.
I can't do this. Is it gonna fall?
My name is Meg O'Rourke.
My husband Jeremy and I
are in the middle of renovating our kitchen.
Woo!
I need 30 seconds of your muscle.
Man up.
(Meg) And this is getting scary.
This is really heavy. Is it gonna fall?
Come on, Meg, I'm almost there.
[dramatic music]
[drilling]
All right, it's up.
All right. Help. Are you holdin' it?
Okay, all right, go.
Good job, sweetie, good job.
Yay!
What a feeling of relief. We got one cabinet in.
New things make me happy.
Onto the next cabinet.
You got that?
Bend our knees.
That's really good, too.
(Meg) It looks great so far, though, Jer.
[upbeat music]
Cabinets.
(Meg) We just have to install two more cabinets.
[Latin dance music]
And I think it should be pretty easy after yesterday.
No, it's right there, right?
(Jeremy) So I think I'm in the right area.
♪
***.
Okay.
I've got it.
I know, I know.
[quirky classical music]
Sorry, I'm sorry.
(Jeremy) My back's killin' me.
[sighs]
♪
Ah, honey?
Sorry, Jeremy.
So tired.
There it goes.
Atrophy.
Uh, I think that's too far in.
Meg's in charge of the drill,
and she's havin' a hard time with it.
This is it, Meg, this is your last chance.
If you can't do this, you will never be allowed
to use bits again.
Kind of a reoccurring theme.
I know, just a little bit--
Stop, stop, don't. Why, you go too far.
I bet you have to reverse it now.
Uh oh.
At the beginning of this project,
she shunned my attempts to train her on it.
It's really catchin' up to her now.
Well, catchin' up to me.
I'm the one with the sore shoulders.
Now grab the black one-- other direction.
There you go. Hard, do it hard.
Good. Thank you.
(Jeremy) Oh, Meg.
♪
Good, sweet.
(Meg) Awesome.
All right, cabinets are in.
[clapping]
So what are we gonna do next?
Let's work on the island.
Let's get the top on it and drop the sink on it.
Sound good?
Sounds good.
Sure.
Ahh, what are you, pushin' me?
Sorry.
It's a nice sink.
(Meg) It's pretty.
[upbeat horn music]
Start screwin' it in here.
(Meg) I'm excited 'cause things
are really starting to come together.
♪
What?
Oh, that's awful.
The screw just must have come through.
(Jeremy) This is, like, ridiculous.
A lot will ride on how good this floor goes in.
Holy crap, I've been doing this thing backwards the whole time.
It's gonna be a very long night.
Am I cutting these backwards?
Boy, this is when it's gonna get funky.
What?
(Jeremy) Oh, that's awful.
The screw just must have come through.
(Meg) Oh no!
This is, like, ridiculous.
Oh, well. What are you gonna do?
(Jeremy) Looks like a screw came up just a wee bit too far
through the countertop.
That's where my coffee cup goes from now on.
You could put your pots and pans
Exactly.
It's okay right now.
Really looking forward to puttin' the floor in,
and if we can get that to come out great,
I'll probably forget about this.
All right.
Shall we start addressing the floor?
Yes.
[upbeat organ music]
♪
What the?
Holy crap, I've been doing this thing backwards the whole time.
I thought it was always comin' out here,
it's comin' out here.
I really could have hurt someone.
[sighs]
[cymbal crash]
Let's run some lumber here.
[quirky music]
Where?
Or something--yeah, this big space.
(Jeremy) What am I doin' wrong?
Am I cutting these backwards?
(Meg) It's not as easy as I thought it would be,
but we need to get this floor done tonight.
There's gotta be a smarter way to do this,
I just don't know what it is.
(Meg) The dishwasher's gonna go there.
Oh yeah.
Thank God someone's thinkin' tonight.
[tools clattering]
(Meg) Oh no.
[sighing]
(Jeremy) It's gonna be a very long night.
[owl hooting]
[upbeat music]
(Meg) Maura, look around.
There's gonna be so many new things to smell.
What do you think of the kitchen?
Today I'm feeling really happy
that the kitchen is almost done.
Yup.
Thought you would.
(Jeremy) So, this is it, hon.
We're going to do a little bit of painting.
Dishwasher, roll that in.
Cool.
And then we're gonna move our refrigerator back in,
and hopefully it'll go better than it was
when we were taking it out.
And then we can put the project to bed.
Okay, here we go. Help me bring it down.
[grunting]
We're almost there.
[dramatic music]
All right, good.
Looks good.
[upbeat piano music]
There we go.
Girl power, perfect.
Look how good it looks.
Doesn't it look nice?
It's beautiful.
I'm very happy with the end result.
It came out a lot better than I thought it was gonna come out.
Meg and I did a lot of good work together
and it was fun workin' with her.
It looks wonderful, doesn't it?
We did such a-- so much hard work,
Yeah, it looks very nice.
You did excellent.
(Jeremy) Oh, you did, too.
(Meg) Demolition is full of surprises.
(Jeremy) Is that dog food?
Oh my goodness.
Power tools are not easy to use.
Put some weight on it.
(Meg) My name is Meg O'Rourke.
My husband Jeremy and I wanted to open up our kitchen
and make it brand new,
and I am happy to say that it's bigger, it's newer,
and it's better than we could have ever imagined.
[laughing]
[classical music]