As you mentioned, the house that you’re working on is a lot bigger than what you usually do. What was that adjustment like?
Keith: Oh man, that square footage difference was insane. It felt like we did six of our houses down there because this was like…
Evan: Each space is essentially like a similar budget to one of our entire houses.
Keith: It felt like, square footage wise, the main suite is about the same square footage as some of our houses. In fact, it’s a bigger first floor than most of our bungalows. We were standing there, and we were like, “We’re doing the same amount of work for a whole house and the same budget and everything, but we’re doing it six times.” It was like, “Wow.” It felt like six houses in six weeks instead of [one]. I think everybody else was — I know Egypt and Mike have done much larger houses. I feel like they were in their wheelhouse and the twins (Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb) too, and Dave and Jenny also do bigger houses. We attacked it like it was six different houses.
Evan: Well, not really. We still had —
Keith: With the same design.
Evan: We had a plan of attack, but it was also really fun, though, to be able to have that kind of budget where we could pour in $50,000 into a kitchen where we obviously would never be able to do that on our houses.
Keith: No, that was a dream come true to have a budget, to be able to express some of the fun ideas that we’ve had when you’re standing around, and you’re like, “Oh, if I had $10,000, this is what I would do.”
Evan: Well, you do.
Keith: Now they’re like, “Here, here it is.” I’m like, “Now what do I do?” When we don’t have a big budget and our shows, we don’t have the luxury of a lot of selection. We don’t have to worry about, “Can we buy handmade tiles?” It’s like, “No, what’s available at Home Depot today?” The difference is, suddenly, the whole world opened up in terms of design possibilities, [and] it was hard for me to pick because I love doing so many different things that it was really a challenge for me to find something and make it cohesive for that much square footage and those big impacts.
