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- So come in, y'all, to
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(door slams)
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what 17 years ago,
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we called this our forever home.
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And then five years later,
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I found myself down at Wilmington Island,
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on this five-acre lot that was like a compound.
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And I said, "Oh, my goodness."
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But Michael and I both agreed
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that we would never sell this property,
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because we were already,
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I was already in my 60s when we built Riverbend,
0:30
and Michael was just nine years behind me.
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So, we were getting to that age where,
0:37
at some point,
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we're gonna wanna downsize.
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So, we always agreed that if that happened,
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we would come back to this house,
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that we built when we married.
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And, you know, I still love it so.
0:52
And after we started working on it,
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all four of our children,
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Michael's daughter and son,
0:59
and my two sons, and,
1:02
Corrie, did you say the same thing?
1:06
Corrie, my niece is here.
1:08
They all said to us,
1:09
"Well, we always liked Dogwood better than Riverbend."
1:13
So, we are back here,
1:15
and all of our children are so excited.
1:18
So, this is shiplap board,
1:21
and we did this when we built the house.
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I just love it.
1:25
It makes it look vintage.
1:28
It makes it look like what this is, it's a cottage.
1:36
And I want it to wrap its arms around you when you come in,
1:40
and I want it to hug you,
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and here's the little half bath down here,
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and we brought in a pop o' color,
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and that is
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what the team calls, "Paula Deen green."
1:59
When we started getting our...
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- [Eddie] Your brand (laughs).
2:05
- Yeah.
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Yeah.
2:07
When we were settling in on what our brand was gonna to be.
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Thank you. Thank you, Eddie.
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This was the green that we selected.
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So, that's the name of it.
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And this is shiplap too,
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also in here, in the ceiling.
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Now I want y'all to pay attention to these gorgeous doors.
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These are antique doors.
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I can't remember where they came out of.
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I don't know if it was a place here in Savannah,
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but we had a bedroom door that went out onto a patio,
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and I bought these beautiful doors,
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for that door.
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And I fell in love with 'em,
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18 years ago,
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and I still just adore them.
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- [Eddie] And they would have been
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like a storm door for one of the townhouses downtown,
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probably- - Probably.
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Probably.
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I say there would be another door behind it.
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But you can lock it.
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And I love, I love,
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we had this done to the door.
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This was on the inside in our bedroom.
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And we had inlaid gold put on it. Christie.
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Did you ever know Christie?
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- No.
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- Christie did that for us.
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And this side was left natural,
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which I'm so glad,
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because Eddie and I are just gonna rub this down with a wax,
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and so we'll have the two different finishes.
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And this is our living room,
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and pay attention to all the chandeliers.
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I think they just did a fabulous job on 'em.
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And what's the company name?
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- [Eddie] The woman's name is Becky Brackett,
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with The Light Post.
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- The Light Post- - In Bluffton.
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- Yes, in Bluffton, South Carolina,
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just over the bridge here.
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And she and her team are very, very talented.
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So, for those of y'all that have followed me for years,
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you know that our living room,
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came to maybe right here, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Ah, yeah, right to the edge of this doorway.
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- Over there.
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So, right here.
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- [Eddie] And then this would have been the back porch.
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- Yeah.
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This was the back porch.
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And I said, "If the family keeps growing,
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I've got to have a way to seat 21 or 22 people
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for a meal."
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So, we knocked those walls down.
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And if you remember,
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we had three big double doors,
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and we decided we liked it narrowed down
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to just one double door.
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And our windows,
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the sun sets in the west,
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and the house, the front of the house,
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which, this is called the front,
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the sun is brutal.
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Brutal.
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So,
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(shades rasping)
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we had blackout shades put in.
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And these shades go all the way to the tip-top, y'all.
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But Eddie just set 'em right here,
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because that's as high as I can reach (laughs).
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So, I'm gonna have to find me a stool, or something.
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So, we came back in here with the shiplap,
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and
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just recovering this part of the porch,
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has made this room nice, nice, and cozy.
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In Riverbend,
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there was decorators and people working on my house,
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and
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I got so tired of looking at my own pictures (laughs),
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I said, "If I ever, ever move back to Dogwood,
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nothing's going up but my grandchildren's pictures."
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But it was all that work, you know.
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We were deep in work when we built Riverbend.
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But this hallway is gonna be our photo gallery
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for our grandchildren,
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because I do have 11.
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And this is just a few of the photographs I have.
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(picture frames clunking)
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Oh, let's see what's in here.
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Oh.
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I took this picture of Olivia,
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I meant, of-
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- [Eddie] No.
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- Amelia.
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This is Amelia.
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And this is when she was like a really young baby.
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And she would purse those lips.
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And I had my phone in my hand,
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and I just,
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by chance I caught her in the middle of that pout (laughs).
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So, I just adore, adore coming in here
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and looking at them every day.
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And y'all wanna hear something funny?
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(laughs)
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(picture frames clunking)
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Oh, crap.
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This is so Paula (laughs).
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I've just been sending pictures to Eddie,
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and say,
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"Wall. I want this one for the wall."
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And he sent off to Smallwoods,
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and they do a great job, and a very fair price.
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So, I saw this picture, and I said,
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"Oh, look at that. That's so cute."
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Nobody knows who it is! (laughs)
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I thought it was Davis.
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But Brooke said, "No, we've never had a hat like that."
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Corrie was here,
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and I said, "Would by chance that be Sullivan?"
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She said, "No."
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Contacted Michelle, "Is this one of your babies?"
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"No. I don't know who that is."
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So, instead of having 11 grandchildren,
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I guess I have 12 (laughs).
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The Unknown (laughs).
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So, this is my grandchildren gallery.
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Now, when we built Riverbend,
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I had the neatest closet and bathroom.
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I lived in my bathroom.
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That sounds funny,
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but when I had meetings,
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I'd have it in my bathroom (laughs).
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So, I loved my bathroom and my closet at Riverbend.
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So, I tried my best to duplicate it here.
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So,
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this is our new closet.
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The closet that was put in here originally,
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I bet I couldn't hang
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probably 25 coat hangers
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on the racks.
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It was just awful.
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And they were all the way up to the ceiling.
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You couldn't reach 'em.
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So, that dry cleaner's rack is wonderful.
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Y'all, when you have high ceilings,
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and it's like wasted space,
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well, you can recapture that space
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by putting in a dry cleaner's rack.
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And,
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this is gonna be our chest of drawers in here.
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And it was designed
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so that I would have a place to put my jewelry.
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And I love, I love that.
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And these are wonderful drawers.
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And I love the pulls that we selected.
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(drawer scrapes)
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They're easy
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to get at 'em.
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And so,
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I've always said,
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"I have never undressed and dressed in my kitchen" (laughs),
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which is where so many laundry rooms are.
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I said,
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"I want my laundry room in my closet,
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or at least near my closet."
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So (laughs),
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I mean (laughs),
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it's gonna be so handy.
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And I did not have this at Riverbend,
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so, this is an added bonus for me,
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to have this convenience.
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What is that, Eddie?
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Oh, it's the lights- - Those are the lights.
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Yes.
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- I'm gonna have to
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try to figure out where all the light switches are,
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but we've got
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a lot of cabinet space,
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and storage.
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And all these shelves are adjustable, right, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Hm-hmm.
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- Which is great.
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And we've got a lotta open spaces,
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like this,
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which Michael and I are gonna have to get used to,
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because I think we're gonna need to fold
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our T-shirts and things rather than hanging 'em up.
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Michael's got more shirts, y'all,
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than a show dog can jump over.
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I'm not kidding.
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He's like a clothes horse (laughs).
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He has clothes from fat,
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real fat clothes,
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to just fat clothes.
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And then to little fat clothes (laughs).
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I mean, he's got every size, Eddie.
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Every size.
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What is this?
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- [Eddie] Oh, that's the bar that goes in the bathroom.
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- Oh, oh, oh.
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My handicap bar (laughs).
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So,
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believe it or not,
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Michael's shoes are gonna be able to fill this up.
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Isn't it, Eddie?
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That man knows he's got some shoes.
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So, I'm just thrilled with the closet.
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And I hope that if y'all are building and remodeling,
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that you see something that could work for you,
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because this is truly,
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our last stop
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before the last, last stop (laughs).
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So, you know, I want it to be what I want.
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What makes me happy to live in,
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and so...
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This was our toilet area before.
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And then our shower was over here, and it had a door.
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Well, because the toilet side was bigger than the shower,
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we just flipped 'em.
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And we don't have to have a door, which is great.
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And,
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oh, Michael's had a shower this morning, I think.
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- [Eddie] Yes, he did.
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- Great time of day and look how I got my feet wet,
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and now they're wet and dirty.
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And y'all, something that was really, really, really
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such a wonderful luxury.
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Some friends out in California,
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Michael had gone out to go hunting and fishing with 'em,
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and he discovered, he sat on this toilet that the folks had,
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and he called me up,
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and we were in the middle of building Riverbend,
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and he said,
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"We got to stop on any toilets that we've ordered.
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We've got to stop,
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because my butt is the cleanest butt in California,
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and I want us to have one of these toilets at Riverbend."
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And it's a TOTO, y'all.
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It's wonderful.
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It automatically opens.
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It has a light.
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It has a wash,
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where you can wash,
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and it has a dryer.
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And then it flushes automatically,
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and the lid goes back down.
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I highly, highly recommend that.
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I will cut back on something else, so I can have that.
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The little teak bench worked out good, didn't it, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
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(door shuts)
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- Did we wind up ordering that?
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- [Eddie] Yes.
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- Well, it came in quick, didn't?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, pretty quick.
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- Perfect.
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So, the floor is new,
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but all the cabinets are the original cabinets.
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All the fixtures are original.
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So, like I said, I really wanted to duplicate
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what we had done at Riverbend,
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you know, I had my,
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in my little bathroom, I had two sofas,
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and, I mean,
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it was bigger than this room, isn't it, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Well, with the sitting area now,
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I would say it's about the same as what you had.
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- And had a TV above the fireplace in there,
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and I'm gonna miss that fireplace,
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'cause when I get out of the shower,
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I crank that fireplace up,
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and stand there and get warm quick.
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- [Eddie] Well, you have a fireplace.
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- Oh, yeah, that's right.
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It's just not in the same room as the toilet.
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So,
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this was
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a porch,
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no covering, no nothing.
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It was just a porch,
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and we had put a hot tub right over there.
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And, so, I told Michael, I said,
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"I want the sitting area
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just like we had in our other bathroom."
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And so we put up walls,
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and we had to heighten up the fireplace,
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in order for that to work properly.
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And I said,
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I wanted like a sleeping sofa
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for the grandchildren,
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'cause quite often,
16:46
just one will come to spend the night with me.
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So, this is where they will sleep right here.
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And we've got the covers and everything for it.
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I just hadn't set it up yet.
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And you got wonderful deep drawers.
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(drawer scrapes)
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You can keep your linens, and your blankets,
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and your pillows.
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So,
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you know, Riverbend was sold furnished.
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They wanted everything that I had.
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Which, it was good and bad.
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Good and bad.
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But, so, as soon as we closed on the house,
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I had to start getting furniture,
17:33
starting over with furniture.
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Well, I'm so fortunate that I had a Paula Deen line
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with Craftmasters.
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I have a furniture line for soft furniture.
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No longer doing the wood, just the soft.
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So, we ordered all of our sofas,
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all of our chairs,
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and I haven't even seen them yet.
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And they're gonna be coming in in the next day or two.
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So,
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Craftmasters,
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Paula Deen Fabrics,
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there's some beautiful, beautiful fabrics.
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And I have seen some of 'em in very expensive shops.
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The price indicates that it's in a fancy shop.
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But you can check that out when you see our furniture.
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So, that's it for the closet and the bathroom.
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So, we're in the boudoir, y'all (laughs).
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Not a whole lot to say about this room.
18:45
They delivered our mattress and our box springs,
18:49
and we just don't have the bed yet.
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Now, this slate blue color,
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it's the same color that you're gonna see in the kitchen.
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And I liked it so well in the kitchen I used it in here.
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And if you're a magazine girl
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that does a lotta looking through magazines for ideas,
19:12
I'm seeing this color a lot,
19:15
a lot, in magazines.
19:19
So, this is Michael's newest purchase (laughs).
19:26
- [Eddie] His movie theater.
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- He said,
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"You know, I'm 65 and my eyes are starting to get bad."
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I said, "Well, I can watch that without glasses, Michael.
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You done good.
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You done real good."
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So, I can't wait to show you this,
19:43
this room after we get it set back up.
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And why don't we go
19:52
onto the back porch.
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So, in our old bedroom,
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it was just windows all across here.
20:05
And a door was right here.
20:08
Well, we closed up that door,
20:10
and made this our exit from the bedroom onto the porch.
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And I just adore, adore the colors
20:20
that we've done out here y'all,
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(door shuts)
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which is the sweet, tender, baby blue,
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which brings like the sky under here,
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and
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the floors.
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What color green is this- - This is called celery.
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- All right, Eddie. Look under the swing.
20:43
Something is leaking.
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- [Eddie] It's probably just coming in
20:48
from the side of the porch-
20:49
- No, it's lying all around.
20:53
Come on, Lulu.
20:56
(door shuts)
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And this is the original bed swing.
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We're gonna have to check that out.
21:06
We've still got to have the...
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- [Eddie] Mattress.
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- Mattress made for this.
21:17
And naturally, we'll do that in an indoor-outdoor fabric,
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so we won't have to worry about.
21:21
That's what I did before.
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And I'll be rocking my babies in this.
21:30
We changed around the design of the rails.
21:36
They were just solid slats.
21:40
And I really wanted to give it more of a cottage look.
21:44
So, we did this, and I love it.
21:46
And this is gonna be screened in, but believe it or not,
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screen is hard to get to right now.
21:54
So, we're having to wait for that to come in.
21:56
But the screen is gonna be on the outside of the rail,
22:00
so we can use this part to set our sodas down.
22:08
And then one more time (laughs),
22:12
we're waiting on screen (laughs).
22:17
But we just went with a single door, right here.
22:23
But those of you that remember,
22:26
our porch was really big.
22:29
You know, the living room
22:33
was a lot shorter- - And inset.
22:37
- Yes, inset.
22:38
And we actually had our,
22:41
what I'm gonna use as our dining table, Eddie,
22:43
that old farmhouse,
22:45
it sat out here on the porch.
22:49
So, the porch lost some, but the living room gained a lot.
22:55
So, we'll have room for a little table and a chair, maybe,
22:58
and a couple little chairs down there.
23:04
And when this house was built,
23:07
we put in wooden steps.
23:11
Hated 'em.
23:12
Hated 'em.
23:13
They were so dangerous,
23:14
and I can't believe I didn't break my neck, y'all.
23:18
So, they suggested
23:19
that we change out the wood steps to brick.
23:23
And it really has anchored the house, you know.
23:27
I almost felt like the house was floating, before.
23:30
So, I love, love, love that look.
23:33
And at Riverbend, we were far from the water.
23:38
I didn't do much going down to the dock house,
23:41
because it was a long walk,
23:43
and I love that we are back real close to our water now.
23:50
It's just a real peaceful, calming feel.
23:54
So, that's it for this video (laughs).
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