- [Deshaun] What makes a home to me is the energy.
I'm a big energy person.
Where I can relax,
just feel free and not have to worry about anything.
I'm Deshaun Watson and this is My Houzz.
I was born and raised in Gainesville, Georgia.
I grew up with pretty much nothing.
In the hood, the ghetto,
whatever you wanna call it.
It was maybe a two bedroom,
a government apartment with seven people in there.
So there wasn't too much space.
My mom had raised four kids as a single parent mom,
havin' help here and there but it was just tough.
Barely had lights
but my mom always made sure
we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep
but it wasn't nothing that she really dreamed of.
And then one day I went to a Halloween church function
and brought some candy home
and there was this card in there.
It was a Habitat card
and it was just saying,
hey, if you wanna register
for a house you have to fill out this information.
My mom had to do like, 200 hours of community service,
take classes, kids had to have been in school,
have good grades, she has to work,
her credit has to be good, and that's what my mom did.
She said, "I don't have nothin' to lose,"
so a year and a half later,
she was blessed to be able to get picked
for the Habitat for Humanity home.
It was just a fresh start for us
that built our own foundation
in a good environment, good neighborhood.
And it changed everyone's lives.
It made me motivated to fulfill my dreams.
It helped me get to where I am today.
I'm thankful for that.
Me and my mom's relationship is very close.
She is my rock, my hero.
She always was there and givin' 100%
each and every day to try be the best she can
to help her kids be successful.
Growin' up, she said I could be whoever I wanna be
and if I put my mind to it and work for it.
I just dreamed big and she was always there to support me.
Then, once we got blessed with the home
that we're livin' in now,
she was diagnosed with tongue cancer.
She didn't know if she would be able to speak again,
be able to eat again, all types of things.
But she wanted to show her fight.
Now it's hard for her to be able to speak
and she never complained.
She never once was sayin' that she wanted to give up.
She's always been a fighter
and that really inspired me.
If she can get through that,
no type of adversity can hold me back
from what I wanna achieve.
I want to give back to my mom and renovate her house.
She deserves it from all the things
that she always dreamed about
and dreamed that she wanted in a home.
It's been a solid home for us
for, I wanna say, over 12 years now.
The living room, kitchen, and dining area,
those areas need a little touch-up,
but for my mom, I'm gonna do a little bit more
than just touch it up.
From everything that she went through,
this is really the smallest thing I can do for her,
because she deserves even more.
I'm a momma's boy, so, she can get whatever she wants.
I live in Texas.
My mother lives in Georgia.
So I turned to Houzz to do this renovation.
Houzz is a website and an app
where you can get everything for a renovation.
I looked up contractors in the Gainesville area
and found Infinite Home.
I went and looked at their profiles
and they had great reviews.
I had a quick call with Laurel and David
and I decided to meet them in person.
(upbeat music)
- Thanks for having us.
- [Deshaun] No problem, I appreciate y'all comin' down.
- Can you tell us about your mom?
- Yeah, my mom, she's a single parent mom, four kids.
She loves to read, listen to music, watchin' TV.
If I think that bein' able to do somethin' for her,
it'd be nice.
- Tell me about when the family gathers.
How are you using the kitchen and the living area space?
- Everyone just kinda gathers on the couch
or sits on the kitchen counter.
Not on the counter, but
(Laurel laughs)
the chairs next to it.
- Wherever. (laughs)
- I feel like as we've gotten a lot older
and bigger, the space has gotten smaller.
- Yeah.
- Do you have any ideas of what direction
we wanna go with this?
- What I observed when we saw your home
was we walked through the front door
and you have that great living area
that we can reconfigure a bit.
- I feel like that extra sofa
when you walk into the house
is kind of blocking up the view
between the kitchen and the living room.
- What I'd like to do is take that sofa away
and make the living room and kitchen
feel so much more spacious.
And then I'd like to talk about the kitchen
and expanding that island
just to give you some more seating.
- Whenever I come up to the counter,
my knees are like, hittin' the wall,
and I have to turn sideways
just to be able to have room to eat.
- What do you think if we gave it an overhang
for the bar stools to sit at,
make it a little bitter, a little longer.
- Would be perfect.
- I put together a Houzz ideabook.
An ideabook is the place where I can collaborate
with our clients, share photos,
and actually buy the product.
I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
- Alright, that sounds good to me.
- This is a good representation
of the colors that we're thinking of.
- Right.
She's more...
Nothing, pretty much, white.
She's more of a darker feel.
- Gotcha.
- I like the opening area, though.
Both of 'em are real open
and we can easily get around and maneuver.
- So I think I wanna put a fireplace in the living room.
- That's somethin' that she always wanted,
but never had the opportunity to do it.
- And I found this photo.
- [Deshaun] Do you have to build a chimney?
- [David] No, actually, it's an electric fireplace
on the Houzz shop that we can put the TV right over it,
flip a switch, turn it on, enjoy it, still puts out heat.
- Sounds good to me.
- [Laurel] So, we like this fireplace.
Let's just go ahead and add it to our cart.
- [Deshaun] Let's buy it!
Honestly, if that's the only thing
that y'all put in the house,
she'd be totally fine with it.
(laughs)
- Okay, good.
- One of the ideas she always wanted
was to make it all hardwood.
- [David] I'd like to extend the same hardwood
throughout the entire space.
- She'll walk in and she'll really like that part.
- I added this to show you an idea
that we had to do a contrasting color on the cabinets.
- I think that'd be the idea that we kinda shoot for.
Yeah, for the cabinets, the tops now are like a foot
from the ceiling, so if we can get those longer
and get it closer to the ceiling.
- That'll look nicer
and give her some more storage space as well.
- [Deshaun] Exactly.
- [Laurel] This shows more in line with the island color
that we're thinking.
- I'm not really a big fan on the stools.
- Well, let's go have a look.
What do you think about these stools?
- I really like those.
Let's buy it.
- [Laurel] Okay.
- [Deshaun] I think another thing
that she would really love is moving the microwave
that sit on the counter
and gettin' one of those
that are sittin' at the bottom of a drawer
where you can, like, open up.
I think she would really find that pretty cool.
- We can put one right in the island
and that'll free up a lot of counter space
for her as well.
- Exactly.
- Over the island, I'd like to add some lighting.
- [Deshaun] I think the pendants
would bring a nice touch to it,
especially now with the counter we have,
we just have maybe one or two lights
that kinda lighten up the whole kitchen.
- Okay.
- [Deshaun] But if you bring that,
we can really brighten it up.
- If we like these, Houzz has this really neat feature
called Visual Match,
so we can click on this little light tag
and it'll give us these other options here.
Yep, that's gonna look really nice.
Let's say, three of these,
and let's add to our cart.
- So, what are the ideas for the table?
- I found a table I really liked
and I think would fit the space well.
Also, I'm thinking it would be nice
to put a big piece of art on that wall
in the dining room just to anchor the space.
I found this one.
- How big is it?
- It's 54 by 54.
- Wow.
Now, I really like the idea,
but I'll have to just probably see it with my own eyes.
- Okay, great.
- I appreciate you guys comin' down
and bein' able to sit down and talk with me
and kind of go over the idea of what we're thinkin'.
I'm not gonna be there,
but I'm gonna make sure my Auntie Sonia is there.
She's like, the other half of my mom.
- [Laurel] I can't wait to meet her.
- Yeah.
- Thank you for trusting us with your mom's house.
- [Deshaun] No problem, appreciate y'all.
- [David] We'll take good care of her.
- Thank you.
(upbeat country music)
- Hi, you must be Auntie Sonia.
I'm David.
- Nice to meet you, David.
- Good to meet you.
- Hi Auntie Sonia, Laurel.
- Nice to meet you, Laurel.
Y'all come on in.
- Thank you.
- [Laurel] Deshaun told us all about you.
- What he say about me?
(laughs)
- Only nice things.
(laughs)
- [David] Very good things.
- [Laurel] David and I are really excited
to be working with you on this project.
- Well, first of all, I'm gonna say that
Deann is, you know, they homebodies.
- [Laurel] You can tell just how important family is.
- She love her photos.
- And memories. Okay.
- I'm gonna tell you now.
- [Laurel] Well, we're gonna try and find a solution
so that we can display all these.
- [Sonia] It's really important to her.
If y'all don't get them photos in there,
she will be disappointed.
Because the photos makes her house warm
and a happy home.
She just loves her family.
- [Laurel] I love that.
Auntie Sonia made it very clear
that family photos are a big part of this design,
so I'm gonna make sure to keep the family
in this family room.
One of the things I really like about this room
is that there are so many windows.
I'd like to take this TV and move it
above the fireplace that we're gonna put right here.
- Make that happen for her.
- Ooh, it's gonna be good!
I tell you the truth.
(laughs)
Sometimes we gather in here.
- Okay, so about how many people
at any given time?
- Well, about twenty.
- [Laurel] Okay, wow.
So it's a really loved area.
- Yeah, it is.
- [David And Laurel] Okay.
- [Laurel] One of the design changes
in the kitchen is take out this pantry here.
The biggest thing it does for her
is it connects the two rooms together
instead of kind of visually blocking
the spaces from each other.
And don't worry, she can still have a pantry.
It'll be part of the cabinetry.
- Is the cabinets gonna still be over here?
- Yes.
- [David] Around your new refrigerator,
we're going to actually build cabinetry
that it pushes into to give it a built-in look.
- Ooooh, she gonna love that!
She gonna love that.
- It's really fancy.
- Yeah, she gonna love that.
Well, what about this island?
It's gonna be big?
- [David] You don't like the kitchen island?
I think it's...
- [Sonia] Well, you know.
It's alright.
- You can sit at it, you can entertain here.
I sat down at the kitchen island
and my knees hit the cabinet.
It's just not gonna work.
We're gonna get her a much bigger island.
(laughs)
- It's gonna be goo-ooood, good.
What are y'all gonna do about the dining room?
- [David] We're pushing the table back this way,
'cause your island's comin' out more.
- [Sonia] But this light.
- [David] Gonna hang it right from where it was.
- From its original location.
- But will it be over the table?
- [David] It will.
It'll be right over the table.
- Oh okay.
That's gonna be good.
You know me and her talks a lot.
She really had wanted that room hardwood.
Y'all gonna give her hardwood in there?
- [David] We are, we have hardwoods in the living room.
- Ooh!
Let me tell ya'll somethin',
let me tell y'all.
She gonna love that hardwood.
Is that gonna be the same?
- It'll all be the same.
- It ain't gonna be mismatched--
- No, no mismatch.
- That gonna be awesome.
- Alright, well if we're all set on the designs,
I think we're ready to start demo tomorrow.
Are you ready to be here for that?
- What I'm gonna be doin'?
- You're gonna smash out this kitchen island behind me,
how 'bout that?
- Ooh, I'm gonna have a sledgehammer in my hand?
- [David] Absolutely!
- You know, I ain't never done nothin' like that before,
so I'm gonna be able to hit somethin'?
- Absolutely.
- I'm gonna be able to crush?
- [David] Yes.
- [Laurel] Yep.
- Ooh!
- Well, we're so excited to get started tomorrow
and lookin' forward to seein' you here again
in the morning.
- [Laurel] I've loved working with you, Auntie Sonia.
- Thank you so much!
(upbeat music)
(drill sounds)
(loud thump)
- Hey!
- Hi, Sonia.
- Hey, how are you?
- We're just finishin' up preppin' the kitchen for demo.
- Sure is a lot of space in here, now.
- We're about ready to start on cabinets.
- Y'all said that I'm gonna start breakin' stuff today.
I sure hoped it!
I wanna get in and see what I got to break.
- Let's put your goggles on first, though.
- Okay.
- Safety first.
- I'm gonna do this.
- [David] Choose which one you want.
- Let me try to choose.
This one.
- [David] Alright.
- You think I can do it?
- [David] I think you can do it.
I know you can do it.
So get ready to take a swing on three.
One...
Two...
Three!
(smash)
(screams)
(laughs)
(cheers)
- I'm goin' again!
(laughs)
Ooh, this kinda fun.
Whoo!
- Ow!
- I'm doing one more for the road,
one more for the road.
Give it a go!
- [David] There we go.
Nice.
(laughs)
Nice!
- Y'all want me to do the rest of that kitchen?
I'll do it!
- I know you can handle it,
but I think we're gonna bring in the crew now
and let them get to work.
(banging sounds)
(upbeat music)
(hammering)
(dramatic music)
- [David] Oh, is that glued down?
Didn't see that one comin'.
Oh, there you go.
In my experience, some areas will come up real easy
and then the high traffic areas
it'll really be stuck.
(hammering sounds)
- [Man] Is everybody's back broken?
'Cause stop what you're doing.
(buzzing sounds)
(upbeat music)
(record scratching)
(birds whistling)
(upbeat banjo music)
- [Deshaun] It's been a couple weeks
and we're halfway there.
Cabinets have gone in,
the new island has been placed,
and the fireplace is almost done.
I can't wait to see what Auntie Sonia thinks.
- [Laurel And David] Hey, Sonia.
- Ooh!
Hey, y'all!
This place look good!
I love this fireplace.
Ooh, that island is so big!
That's beautiful.
- [Laurel] Yes.
- [Sonia] Now this is the counter?
- This is the counter.
- [David] That is the countertop, yep.
- Ooh.
This is gonna be prett-ay!
What color is that, Laurel?
- [Laurel] Well, it pulls in the browns and grays.
- Oh, okay!
- [Laurel] I think she'll like this
because of the dark veining.
- I love this kitchen already.
- [Laurel] Let's walk over to the dining room.
One of the things that I wanted to do
is put a piece of art on this wall.
There's a great tool on the Houzz app
called View in My Room 3D,
so we'll be able to digitally place the art
on the wall using the Houzz app.
- Great!
- [Laurel] You wanna see it?
- I wanna see it.
- Alright, let's have a look.
So we're gonna go to our ideabook,
scroll down to find our piece of art,
there's this little button, View in My Room 3D,
I'm gonna tap that,
and it wants me to scan the floor
and then place my device against the wall,
well done.
Take a step back.
- [Sonia] Wow!
That's gonna be beautiful!
I love them colors.
- So let's take a photo of it,
we'll save it to our ideabook
and send it to Deshaun.
- Okay.
- And see what he thinks.
(phone rings)
- [Laurel] Hi, Deshaun!
- Whassup?
How y'all doin'?
- Hi Deshaun!
- Sup Auntie?
- [Laurel] Deshaun, now that you've seen the artwork,
what do you think about it?
- She's gonna love that.
- [Laurel] Great.
- [Deshaun] I think it'll fit well in that space.
- [Laurel] I've got so much to show you.
You ready?
- Alright, let's do it.
- [Laurel] Alright.
So, this is your mom's new fireplace
with a TV above it.
- [Deshaun] Man, that's dope.
That's gonna be a big TV.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- [Laurel] By making that the focal point,
it really opens up the flow between these two rooms,
'cause, you remember, there used to be a couch here
and it was blocking our view.
Now we have this gorgeous kitchen to look at.
- I like the different colors,
the color we chose for the cabinets.
And the island color, makes it pop.
It's a lot of space for her to move around.
- I bet she gonna love it.
- Course, you, Auntie, might want that.
- What you tryin' to say, if Auntie cook?
(laughs)
- [Laurel] You remember your old pantry.
- [Deshaun] Yeah, I do.
- We redid it.
Have a look.
- [Deshaun] So those are like pull-outs?
- [Laurel] They are, mm-hmm.
- Nice.
- [Laurel] All four of those shelves pull out.
- That's gonna be a lot of space.
A lot of stuff that--
my mom throws stuff in there for sure.
- What you think she gonna have in there?
Potato chips, or...
- Straight snacks.
You already know how we is.
(laughs)
I gotta head out,
I'm on a plane right now about to take off.
Thank you guys.
It looks amazing.
- Bye, Deshaun!
- I really think Deshaun liked everything
that we did in the house.
And Deann is gonna love this place.
(upbeat music)
- [Deshaun] Today I'm back in Gainesville.
And I'm very excited to finish up the house.
- [Sonia] This looks good!
Ooh, that's so cute over there!
(Laurel laughs)
Ooh, that's gonna be her spot!
- [Laurel] We have some things to do.
Let's get to work.
- [Sonia] Girl, you know what.
I'm decoratin' now.
- [Laurel] You are.
It's comin' together.
(upbeat music)
- Hoo-hoo!
- Hey!
- Whassup, Auntie?
- [Sonia] How you doin'?
- Good, how you doin'?
- Doin' great!
- [Deshaun] Hoo, fireplace.
She gonna love this.
I hadn't realized we have that much space.
Crazy.
Couldn't even imagine that it could look like this.
Nice.
- [Laurel] Sonia and I have a couple of things
for you to help us with.
- [Deshaun] Alright.
- [Sonia] Come on!
I'm good at settin' a table or two.
- [Laurel] Oh!
That's great.
- These are the pendants that we picked on Houzz, right?
- They are.
- Nice.
They really brighten up the kitchen.
(upbeat music)
- I think a little bit to the left.
- [Deshaun] To the left?
- [Sonia] I think that's it.
That look beautiful, it's pretty.
- [Laurel] Alright!
- [Deshaun] That good?
- [Laurel] Grab this one.
We're just gonna kinda slide 'em over.
- [Deshaun] I think it looks good.
- [Laurel] That's it!
It's all together!
- I am fixin' to go pick up Deann!
See y'all!
- Thank you so much.
She gonna love it.
I'm very excited and that everything turned out
how we wanted it.
I think it's gonna mean a lot to her.
It means a lot to me.
(slow guitar music)
- I know you gonna be happy
and I just hope that all of us...
Hope we was able to give you what you want.
- [Deshaun] Hey.
I hope you like everything.
I wanted to surprise you.
Everything you've done since I was a little kid,
bein' a single parent, you deserve all this
and you should have the best.
[Deann] Thank you. Thank you.
- You ready?
Let's go.
You got your eyes closed?
You can peek a little bit.
One step.
Yeah, you got it.
Can you close it, Auntie?
Alright.
One...
Two...
three.
- Ooh!
- [Sonia] Oh, look at it, girl.
- [Deshaun] And the TV in the wall.
- [Deshaun] We flipped the couch around
to kind of open this area up
to have more room to walk.
All the pictures.
Got Junior.
- [Deshaun] The island we made it a lot bigger.
If I could fit underneath it,
you know everybody else can fit underneath it.
- [Sonia] You like this, don't you?
- [Sonia] Mmm-hmm.
- [Sonia] Look at your pantry, Deann.
Remember how this was?
When it was just a little small pantry.
- [Sonia] Mm-hmm, slide it out, girl.
- [Deshaun] What you think about the floors?
It was carpet before that cuts off the kitchen,
but I knew you always wanted the floor just wood.
- [Sonia] She love it.
Remember your microwave was on the counter?
(clapping and laughing)
Oh look at it, girl, now.
Let me show you how it work.
Watch this.
See where it say open?
- [Sonia] And you close it.
But don't that give you a lot of space on your counter?
- [Deshaun] These pendants right here.
I picked this out.
- I did.
- [Deshaun] New kitchen table.
- [Sonia] I love them colors.
- [Sonia] Beautiful.
- [Sonia] Oh, you like the silverware?
- [Deshaun] This painting,
of course we had just a blank space before.
And so it makes it pop more.
- [Deshaun] Thank you.
- I could just see it in her eyes.
She's very moved.
- [Deshaun] Everything that she saw,
she loved it, so it was good.
Of course, I would like to take all the credit,
but behind, really, it was the master team
and a couple of people who really helped me out
and do most of the work.
They actually here.
I'm gonna go grab 'em.
Mom, this is Laurel and David.
- [Laurel And David] Hello!
- So nice to meet you.
The smile on her face just said it all.
- [Woman] Hey!
How you doin'?
Oh my god!
I love it!
- [Sonia] How you doin'?
I know she's happy and she loves this
and she excited and overwhelming.
- I love this house.
- [Sonia] And this makes me feel great with joy.
(pops)
(cheers)
- Love you, mama.
Love the whole family.
Appreciate y'all for helpin' out.
Y'all a part of the family now.
Toasts up!
- [Sonia] Deshaun gave her this gift.
- That's smooth right there.
(laughs)
- I'm not just sayin' this because he's my nephew.
- Good, ain't it?
- But he's a real good person.
- The smackin'.
(laughs)
- Bein' a son and bein' able to take care of your mom
and help her out.
I feel good.
I love you, mom.
You deserved it all.
And enjoy it.
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