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Paula Deen's House Renovation Update & Tour - Today, Paula & Michael are giving a long-awaited tour of their Dogwood house, mid-renovation. Tune in to see the big changes they're making to their home.
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0:00
- Hey, y'all.
0:01
We're at Dogwood.
0:04
See all the big equipment and the whole mess?
0:07
Our yard is going to have
0:09
to be completely redone again, y'all,
0:13
and Eddie, the dogs live with Eddie
0:17
in the garage apartment,
0:19
and listen to 'em up there.
0:21
They know that we're here
0:23
and they're ready to take that wall down.
0:28
I miss 'em so bad.
0:32
Since you so happy.
0:34
I'm just so happy.
0:36
- [Michael] Come on, Max.
0:38
- Y'all wouldn't believe how much I miss these babies.
0:42
(Max barking)
0:43
Max, you've got the shrillest bark ever, buddy.
0:48
If you just wouldn't bark like that.
0:52
They just had a bath.
0:54
They went to the beauty shop.
0:57
- [Michael] Come on, Gus.
0:58
- Yes, you did.
1:00
Oh, Max.
1:02
Eddie put out his hand to help me up the stairs
1:05
'cause this not being able to see good sucks.
1:09
It really does suck.
1:11
So, we had wooden steps before.
1:17
Come to find out they were not in code, so, okay,
1:22
so we've got to do a new step
1:24
and we decided to go with brick,
1:28
and I love it 'cause it kind of
1:29
really anchors the house down.
1:32
So, this was, I have to hold on that bush
1:35
to make sure I don't fall, y'all. (laughs)
1:40
Oh, buddy.
1:42
You know, it's funny.
1:46
This house is like 17 years old.
1:50
Hey, how you doing?
1:51
- Good, how are you?
1:55
- It's 17 years old,
1:57
but we felt like it was still in pretty good shape,
2:00
and come on in and I'll show y'all what all I wanted to do.
2:06
I told Michael,
2:09
where is that radio so we can turn it-
2:12
- [Michael] Over here.
2:13
- Down, please.
2:14
- [Michael] I like the music.
2:15
- Well, I do, too,
2:16
but I want to talk to my friends right now.
2:20
♪ Cold beer in my hand ♪
2:21
♪ Life is good today ♪
2:24
♪ Life is good today ♪
2:26
I was good today.
2:31
So, we had to gut the kitchen.
2:38
So, I was keeping my cabinets and everything,
2:41
my island, everything,
2:43
but I'm wanted to paint the cabinets white.
2:47
Well, they had been faux painted,
2:51
and the faux paint could not be covered up with all paint.
2:57
So, they had to rip all the cabinets out,
3:00
take them to a shop, and strip them down,
3:04
and now they're repainting,
3:05
so they should almost be through with them.
3:07
And y'all have seen this kitchen one million times
3:15
on "Paula's Best Dishes," and well,
3:20
I guess you recognize the fireplace, right?
3:23
And maybe the hood.
3:25
So, we're ripping out the tile.
3:28
We're putting in a new countertop,
3:30
but we can't do that until the cabinets are in, right?
3:32
- [Michael] Right, can't do that until the floor's in.
3:35
- (laughs) I know it till the floors, I think.
3:38
- [Eddie] I think the floors arrive next week.
3:40
- And listen, come to find out-
3:43
- [Michael] They just arrived,
3:44
but you have to let them acclimate.
3:46
So you have to put the floor in the house
3:49
and let it acclimate a couple of weeks.
3:51
- To the temperature, what...
3:54
I would not have had any idea when those floors came in.
3:57
I'd have just brought them in and nailed them down.
3:59
- [Michael] That might've been what they did.
3:59
- Good thing I ain't redoing this house.
4:07
Tony Reardon,
4:08
you know who I was fixing to say?
4:10
Tony Butterman,
4:12
who's a great guy too.
4:13
He does landscaping like no other,
4:15
but Tony Reardon is doing our reconstruction
4:23
and he is so very, very good.
4:29
He's just about, probably,
4:31
on the back side of before he retires,
4:36
so I'm so glad that he agreed to do our project
4:41
before he said he had had enough.
4:44
So, all I wanted to do y'all when we first moved in,
4:48
I told Michael,
4:49
I said, our family has grown.
4:51
The last time we lived here,
4:53
we didn't even have a grandchild.
4:55
Well, Jack was born while we were living here, wasn't he?
4:58
But all I wanted to do was just bump out this room
5:02
to the edge of the porch
5:05
because I have to try to figure out
5:07
how to feed around 21 people.
5:10
So, we'll have seats at the bar,
5:14
and this is our dining room now.
5:19
So, our porch really shrunk.
5:24
Our porch,
5:27
gosh, we don't have any kind of knobs.
5:32
- [Michael] That can be done.
5:33
- Why is that gold out there?
5:36
Why are those walls gold?
5:38
- [Michael] 'Cause they're painting.
5:40
That's the color it comes.
5:42
- So, if we pushed out the dining room wall,
5:49
we had to push the living room out,
5:56
now we've got this much more living room space.
6:02
And I found these doors.
6:07
Oh my gosh, so many years ago
6:10
I found them when we were building this house,
6:13
and I said I've just got to have those doors.
6:15
They're so beautiful.
6:17
And they're painted,
6:18
they're faux'd on the other side in gold,
6:23
and that was pretty,
6:24
but I had forgotten just how pretty the natural wood was.
6:32
So, we're going to take these
6:35
and we're going to hang them in the foyer,
6:37
in the living room entrance,
6:39
and I'll have them open where you can see this
6:42
and Eddie and I'll have to figure it out
6:44
how we're gonna do this.
6:46
We'll wax it or something, won't we, Eddie?
6:48
- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah, we'll just-
6:49
- We'll do something.
6:52
And the fireplace stayed.
6:54
We, you know, we had a piece right here, a built-in piece,
6:58
but mainly what y'all would have seen was the kitchen,
7:03
and I don't know if y'all ever saw
7:05
the little room off of the kitchen.
7:10
I'm sure y'all can probably remember
7:13
all the years that I shot here,
7:15
Ladybird, screeching, screeching in the background.
7:21
And you know, this was her room out here.
7:28
This where Ladybird lived
7:31
along with some parakeets and finches.
7:35
- [Eddie] Now this is gonna be Paula's room.
7:38
- Yet, it's gon' to be the big bird's room.
7:43
because bird brain, what you say, bird brain?
7:47
So, this is going to be my little hobby area.
7:49
You know, I like to paint.
7:50
I like to try to paint and shell,
7:53
and so I'll be able to do all of that right here.
7:58
- [Michael] Maybe I could play my guitar
7:59
- And see that bonehead house right there?
8:01
That kind of rickety shack?
8:08
That's where Michael grew up,
8:10
and he had some fine parties in the bonehead house.
8:16
Didn't you, Mikey?
8:17
So, see, this was the color the kitchen was
8:19
and can't paint over that.
8:22
- They say I had some good parties there.
8:24
(Paula laughs)
8:26
- [Paula] It was the '70s, so you don't remember, do you?
8:28
- [Michael] I remember parts of it.
8:32
- And I don't know if I ever took y'all
8:34
in the little pantry.
8:37
This was screen doors.
8:39
I just love screen doors and back porches and front porches.
8:43
So, that will stay,
8:46
and then that was Michael's office,
8:48
but since I've got into the appliance business, y'all,
8:55
I'm having to take over this room as another pantry.
8:59
- [Eddie] This would be your dish pantry,
9:02
a new dish pantry.
9:02
- Yes, a dish pantry kind of like I had it.
9:06
Well, it's only a third-size of what I had at Riverbend,
9:11
but Michael's gonna have a little desk in there
9:13
so he can shuffle his mail in.
9:17
(Michael laughs)
9:18
And of course we're not doing anything upstairs.
9:25
Here's another thing.
9:27
It's like, you do one thing and it calls for another.
9:30
I hated, hated the wood floors
9:34
that were here in this house.
9:36
They were like a, what were they, Michael?
9:39
It was some kind of wood.
9:40
I just never liked 'em.
9:42
- [Michael] It was some kind of Australian...
9:44
- I don't know.
9:45
- [Michael] Something.
9:46
What was it, Australian?
9:48
- I don't know.
9:49
It should have been in Australia.
9:52
It was so unattractive.
9:54
So, that called for redoing the floors,
9:59
so it's just like one thing leads to another,
10:03
and we probably could have torn this house down, Michael,
10:06
and started over for less money.
10:09
- [Michael] No.
10:10
- [Paula] We couldn't have?
10:11
- [Michael] No.
10:13
- All right, so the fireplace wall
10:15
is going to be bumped out,
10:19
given a little bit more weight to the...
10:22
And upstairs, we've got,
10:24
might as well say three bedrooms, Eddie?
10:28
And then like a den- - 2-1/2.
10:29
- Living up there.
10:31
But this is the place where a lot
10:34
of reconstruction took place.
10:36
And the closet that was put in this house 17 years ago
10:41
was really, really bad, and not very well thought out,
10:47
so Michael and I learned a lot
10:50
when we were building Riverbend,
10:53
you know, all the girls that came in my house,
10:57
their favorite part was the dish pantry and our closet.
11:02
So, we are making the most of this room.
11:08
This is going to be our closet.
11:11
The dry cleaner rack is going to go right there
11:14
and down and around.
11:17
And because when you have a house with real tall ceilings,
11:23
you have to figure out a way
11:24
to take advantage of your height,
11:28
not just your width.
11:30
So, this was originally the laundry room, there back.
11:35
So, but we're leaving it open now,
11:38
so our laundry room will be part of our closet
11:41
because I don't know whoever started doing this,
11:45
but I have never one time undressed in my kitchen.
11:48
Have y'all?
11:50
- [Michael] I have.
11:51
- You have?
11:51
Well, you was probably drunk. (laughs)
11:55
So. (laughs)
11:57
- Might have been. - You know,
11:58
the laundry room should be in the bedroom suites.
12:03
All right.
12:04
So, now all the cabinets are gone from here.
12:07
I thought they were going to leave those, Eddie.
12:11
- [Eddie] They've got to be painted.
12:12
They had to take the floors out,
12:14
so they had to take the cabinets out.
12:15
- Oh, oh, oh.
12:17
Yes, the floors are gone.
12:19
Yeah, we're putting in a new floor.
12:21
Like I said, one thing calls for another, y'all.
12:25
And so when we built the house, this was a porch.
12:30
It didn't have a roof on it,
12:34
but it did have the fireplace.
12:36
- [Michael] And a hot tub.
12:37
- And we had a hot tub over here,
12:39
and I can count on one hand how many times
12:42
Michael and I got in that hot tub.
12:45
So, I loved my bathroom so much at Riverbend
12:52
because, you know, it had my sofas and my coffee pot
12:56
back there and the TV,
12:57
and it was just a great room to relax in without being,
13:04
you know, in the living room or the kitchen.
13:06
So, I said, hopefully we can recreate that, Michael,
13:12
like we did at Riverbend.
13:14
So, this is it, and Henry spends a lot of nights with us.
13:18
So, we're putting in a bed for Henry,
13:23
so we're really working on making the-
13:24
- [Eddie] Putting in a window seat.
13:25
- A window bed, yeah.
13:27
A window bed right here,
13:30
because like I said, Henry spends the night a lot,
13:34
and he loves staying with his Papa. (chuckles)
13:37
So, that's it, y'all.
13:39
I can't wait for this all to be done
13:41
because I do want to bring y'all back in,
13:44
but I told you it looked like a bomb was set off,
13:47
and sure enough. (chuckles)
13:49
- [Eddie] Yeah, every day, something's changing now, so.
13:52
- I know, I know, I know, Eddie.
13:55
Eddie has a chance to really keep an eye on it
13:58
living in the garage apartment
14:01
and he's enjoying it.
14:05
He says he's enjoying it.
14:06
I hope so. (chuckles)
14:08
I hope so.
14:10
Well, this is a part of my journey
14:11
I wanted to share with y'all.
14:13
So, you know, I'm saying love and best dishes
14:16
to everyone of y'all.
14:18
- Bye, y'all.
14:19
- Right, Peepaw?
14:20
- Right. (Paula chuckles)
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