[uplifting music]
[train whistle blows]
[Shea] Darin and Sarah. They have an old pioneer home.
I think it was built in the 1800s.
Oh, that's so cool.
And they live in Charleston.
It is pretty remote, but I think that's what's beautiful about it.
-[Syd] It's pretty. -[Shea] We talked about moving there.
[Syd] I wonder if we could live there.
I could have a little farm with some cows on it.
-Not after our garden this year. -But I have actually no idea…
We got busy, and then the garden…
[laughs]
It really fell to pieces.
"Oh, the cow's sick or something. It's got a cough."
-Or I don't know what kind of-- -Do cows get coughs?
[laughing]
-Bad hay? -I don't think you'd make a good farmer.
I don't think so either.
[Shea] I think this is it. We're here.
[uplifting music]
Yeah.
-Hi. -Welcome, y'all.
-Hey, I'm Sarah. It's nice to meet you. -Good to meet you.
-Thank you for coming. -Hi, nice to meet you.
-[Shea] Your house is so cute. -[Sarah] Welcome. Thank you.
We've lived all over the place,
and we're excited to finally be somewhere and put down roots.
We've lived in Southern California, we've lived in Boston, in Florida.
There always has been a little bit of us that's wanted to go back rural again
and go small town.
Why have you guys moved around so much?
-So I'm a professor down at BYU. -[Syd] Okay.
When Darin's work brought us out here to Brigham Young University,
we landed in Charleston.
It just felt like home.
-So what do you teach? -[Darin] I teach astronomy.
I'm actually the physicist side.
-So you're a… astrophysicist then? -Yeah.
We can hardly say it.
I've never met one. I've just heard they exist.
They're like rare animals. I've never seen one in real life before.
Just when I thought I couldn't feel any dumber, here comes Darin, so…
Stay humble.
[Shea] So it looks like a farmhouse.
It is an original, real farmhouse.
Like, she's 1885. She was built as a pioneer home.
Is this the home's exterior in its original state?
-Or any additions? -[Sarah] It's not.
The original was just this front piece right here, 1885.
And in the '70s, the whole facade was changed.
We definitely just want to make all of her different pieces
a little bit more congruent and a little bit more us.
[Shea] Does she have a name?
-We're kind of working on that. -I hear you refer to it as "she."
-She speaks to me. She really does. -Okay.
This is the first time I ever had a client refer to their home as a "she."
So I know it's going to be an interesting project.
Yeah, it means a lot to her because they feel like it's--
Yeah, like it's a family member.
-A "she." -Yeah.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Well, I love the exterior of your home, but I'd also really like to see inside.
-Can we go in? -[Sarah] Yes! Come on in. Let's do it.
-So we're walking into entry, dining. -[Sarah] Yeah.
-No sofa, but living space, I'm guessing. -No sofa.
We don't have couches yet.
[Darin] And this is the room that we'd like you to help with.
One long, narrow space is not conducive to one long living room.
So I know that this room immediately needs two functions.
I don't know what they are just yet, but I know it needs to be divided in two.
So we kind of intentionally haven't set up yet
because we knew it wasn't quite the way that we wanted it to be.
-[Shea] We got a long space. -[Sarah] Yeah.
-From here, all the way down. -[Sarah] The whole stretch.
The front room is really a major family gathering space,
but without couches or, you know, furniture,
we're not really using this space very well.
Enter Studio McGee.
Are we creating a dining space out of this area?
-[Sarah] No. -[Shea] Or you don't care if it's a table?
-[Sarah] All could be living space. -[Shea] Uh-huh.
Oh.
-So how many kids do you have? -So we have four kids.
Darin, this past year with COVID, has been working from home.
We've been educating from home.
I think, like, some things that we definitely want to bring in…
We use this space for reading.
That's a huge part, like we said, of our homeschooling.
We need to store all those books somewhere.
We have four awesome kids.
Chloe is 15. Abby is 12. Nathan is 9, and Leah May is 5.
[Darin] She teaches our kids. I'm also a professor.
We definitely need lots of spaces for books.
There's books here. Okay, I got a lot of books to show.
Here, and then here. There's a lot of books.
Well, this is just the beginning of our homeschool.
We'll be getting more and more books.
There's plans for more.
I don't see any screens anywhere.
It's actually great,
because I hate having to design around TVs.
But we need to figure out a solution to store all these books in a beautiful way.
I kind of want to hear how you'd like to see this space,
your visions, your ideas,
style preferences, all of that.
You can see the '70s lighting, '70s fireplace.
The floors and the paint are kind of like newer.
-And so she's had all these looks. -Lots of looks over the years.
And we're excited to put our look and stamp on her.
And maybe restore up a little bit of the pioneer feel in the home.
I'm hoping there's pioneer beams in the ceiling we could expose,
if they're there.
I've actually never really heard the term "pioneer beam" before.
-[laughs] -Maybe it was around
for as long ago as when the Pioneers settled in Utah.
-We're just hoping for old beams. -Pioneer beams.
The door originally used to be right here in the middle.
And we were talking about how she speaks to me.
And from the first minute I met the girl, it was like, "I want my door back."
-That's how it's set up and would flow. -Okay.
The house wants her front door back in the center of the living room.
I don't know how you win an argument with a home.
[laughing]
-Yeah. -Yeah.
I'm gonna have to show the home who's boss.
-Not knowing the history of the house… -Yeah.
…moving the door to the middle creates some design challenges.
I know it creates a more symmetrical look on the front of the house,
but it also makes it so that when you walk into the home,
you walk directly into your living room and dining room
with no break for you to have a designated entry space.
If I had not known that request, I would create a special moment in the entryway.
Just food for thought now, because it's like we've had it set
that it was gonna be moving that door and going back to roots, and now…
Just…
You know, maybe it's a better vision than we even had for ourselves.
So we're open. I totally trust you, and I'm open to it.
There's so many different potential layouts.
He could, like, quantify exactly how many permutations--
Calculate all the combinations.
Good one, babe.
Syd's really easy to talk to and fun, you know,
with some jokes that are not great, but they're pretty good.
[laughs]
Gotta get you guys feeling more settled because it is your forever home.
So I'm really excited to be able to do that.
Thank you. We are so excited for you guys to do it.
-[chuckles] -Right now, it's all open and--
[Shea] Yeah, we got a big open space for a dance floor.
So, um, our kids do Irish dance.
Irish dance?
Oftentimes, when people come over, the music goes on, Irish dance comes up.
So, like, do we get to see the dancing, maybe?
-I think we have arranged something. -Okay.
-Do you want to go check that out? -Let's see what we can do.
Oh, I am excited.
And I really hope that Syd is going to honor his Irish heritage
and join in on the dancing.
[Celtic music playing]
They are putting on a show,
-and-- Yes. -[Syd] It's incredible.
They keep the upper half of their body, like, completely still,
and then, like, everything is going really fast.
-[applause] -That was so great!
[Syd] You guys killed it!
-Good job. -Do you wanna learn how to do this?
-Heck yeah. -Oh yeah.
I'll try to do my ancestors proud.
But I don't know that much about it, or my heritage.
But I can do a wee bit of dancing.
[both laugh]
Is that right?
I don't know.
It just sounds like the Lucky Charms guy.
One, two, three, then kick your butt and then bring it back forth.
One, two, three.
[Celtic music]
-Oh my God. -[all laugh]
All the way to your bum. Yes, kick your butt.
-Just pulled my hammy. -That's like…
[Shea] Give Syd the crutches.
[all laugh]
[uplifting music]
Hi, Shea. There you are.
-Hi. -How are you?
I was just trying to clean up real quick before you came over.
I grabbed samples that would be good for Darin and Sarah's school project.
-Yeah. -The house has great history.
It's an old pioneer home.
But the home has definitely been through
several renovations over the years.
And so, we're going updated Little House on the Prairie.
-That's my vision. -Nice.
To me, that show represents
living kind of with the land
and log cabin timbers on the ceiling.
-A slower pace of life. -And no TV.
And no TV.
Sarah was, like, "I want the door here."
They want it in the middle of the windows.
I cannot figure out how you would put the door there
and then fit a sofa.
What I really would like to do is add a third window.
There are currently two large windows in the space.
I want to add a third in the middle,
so we get three large windows across the front of the home
so that they can see to that beautiful lake view.
There's, like, no furniture in there at all.
They have lots of books. They have, like, these big bookshelves.
They're just filled with them.
What I really would like to do is remodel
the living space into a living room-slash-library,
-which I'm excited about that concept. -Fun. Exciting. Yeah.
Library meets living room.
I think that creating this dual-purpose space
is perfect for the Ragozzines and the way they live.
So… library.
In my head, I don't want, like, one wall of built-ins.
To me, a library… Like, built-ins, like, wrap.
-Like more of a immersive area. Okay. -Yes.
We have openings into their kitchen and we have openings into the entryway.
Do you think that we can have the built-ins, like, run over them?
So you walk under the built-ins. I think that that would be beautiful.
We're going to devote half the wall space in this room
to wraparound library shelving,
customized to carry the built-in over the openings to the kitchen and entryway,
giving the overall feeling of being enveloped by books and study.
Let's talk furniture for a second.
They're a family of six.
We need to have, like, seating for the library,
then we need to have seating for the living room.
I would love to do some sort of, like, rich velvet tone
-in the space. -Okay, cool.
[Shea] We'll face the sofa towards the fireplace
and add two accent chairs on either side of it.
And over in the library,
we can have the chairs swivel so they can turn and face the living room.
I pulled this golden kind of tan color, and then the green leaves are so pretty.
Their isolated little entryway that's off to the side would be amazing
if we could do wallpaper there.
Just a small moment that has a lot of impact. Yeah.
I'm feeling great about this direction.
The living room-library is a new one for me.
Cool. I'm excited.
[upbeat music]
[Shea] Hi.
Tyler!
-Hey. -Hi.
-How's it going? -It's so dusty.
-[Tyler] Okay, I'll stop. -Looking better, though.
-We got some extra height on the ceilings. -Yeah, we do.
We got about 16 inches.
So does that mean it's just raised here, or do we get the whole room raised?
[Tyler] All this framing and all this drywall is coming off.
Okay, so we're not just raising the ceiling in here.
-We'll raise it across the whole thing. -Raising it everywhere.
Did we find existing beams, or just a flat ceiling?
-Just a flat ceiling. -But we can add some reclaimed beams.
-[Tyler] Yes. Okay. -[Shea] Sarah's dying for those.
"Pioneer beams," she said.
I think Sarah's going to be disappointed that we did not find her pioneer beams.
Well, the house already knew that it didn't have beams inside.
The house knew, "I just don't got that inside me."
You know? "I just don't have it inside me."
But we can find reclaimed beams and add them to the ceiling.
What's happening with the floor?
We're gonna refinish it.
-[Shea] This is not refinishable. -[Tyler] No, we're gonna pop this out.
We found existing floor?
We can actually pull some out now.
I would love to see what we're working with.
Derek, do you want to help me pull up some of this?
-Whoo! -[Tyler] There you go.
It's in, like, pretty good condition.
[Tyler] Yeah. Looks good.
[Shea] Why in the world did they cover this up?
I am so excited that we have original hardwood floors.
They are going to add so much character.
Something we could never buy off of the shelf is already there for us.
-I want to work on stains. -Okay.
And let me know when we've got a clear floor.
I want to get out of here because it's super dusty.
So, yeah. Good to see you.
-Thanks. See you. -Thanks, Shea.
[uplifting music]
[Shea] Look at that.
-Are you guys ready? -[kids] Yeah!
Being at Darin and Sarah's house reminds me how cool this area is,
and we always come out here, and the kids always see the train.
-I think this is where we get on. -Okay. Right here.
And they're always like, "Can we go on the train?"
We always promise them we will.
And then we always think about it too late.
-This year we're making dreams come true. -The Polar Express.
-The Christmas-themed… -Train ride.
[Syd] There's hot cocoa and cookies.
-Can I try a piece? -Yeah, if I could try a little piece.
-This is a peppermint. -Peppermint looks pretty good.
Mmm.
Oh man. That's good.
-You want a bite, Margot? -No way.
You can't even help yourself.
Sometimes it's like I have four kids, you know?
I love cookie time.
[Shea laughs]
Here we go.
It's your first train ride, and your first train ride, and your first train ride.
[Wren laughs]
[Wren] Oh my goodness, it's moving.
It really is.
[Syd] This is so awesome, you guys.
[Shea] And we just got snow.
It's so magical.
[gasps] Look at the deer.
-Wow. -[Wren] Look!
-[Syd] Oh. They're racing us. -[Wren] Whoa!
[Ivy, laughing] They're racing.
I think they're racing each other.
[Shea] How cool.
[Syd] Well, there was reindeers, so maybe those were Santa's…
How many does he have?
[Ivy] Sixty-one.
Sixty-one?
-[Shea laughs] -Wow, that's quite the fleet.
There's Donner and Blitzen.
-And Connor and Cupid. -[Shea] Not Connor.
Comet.
[all laugh]
-Hector, and Joey, and Stephen, and Billy. -Hector? Why did you say that?
[laughing]
[Shea] Do you guys see across the lake?
Mom has a project that she's working on right over there.
-Really? -Isn't that cool? Yeah.
[Syd] It's really cool.
[gasps] I see Santa! I see Santa!
-[Ivy] Santa! -[Syd] No way.
Yes, I did. Look!
No way.
[Shea] I see him!
[Syd] He's a cool Santa. He's got sunglasses.
[Shea] Santa.
[Syd] What's up, Santa?
[Ivy] Santa!
[Syd] Oh my gosh.
[Wren] So cool!
[Shea] Syd, you got red sprinkle in your beard.
-[Syd] My gosh. -[Shea] You got it.
[uplifting music]
Hey, Shea.
Look at this pile of reclaimed beams.
[laughs] I know.
Welcome to the farm.
What are we farming here?
This was a barn that fell down that we couldn't save.
Okay.
-These'll look really, really great. -[Tyler] Yeah.
So they've been sun-bleached quite a bit.
-This color looks nice through here. -[Tyler] Mm-hmm.
I like the bleach.
I was looking right here.
-Watch out for nails. -[Shea] Oh.
I didn't bring my work boots.
Like here?
Yeah. The beam needs to be larger, but the tone of it looks nice.
-[Syd] What are you looking for in a beam? -[chuckles]
How do you know if you found the right beam?
For the-- [chuckles]
Lots of beams out there, but what's the right beam for you?
[Shea] Kind of like a cross between a brown and a gray tone.
Coordinates with the floors.
We still need to look for the larger beams,
but some of these flat pieces look like they could be good for trim.
I want it to look really old.
Also, the size needs to work.
See, this one's nice.
-[Tyler] Yeah, I like it. -[Shea] It's really tall.
It's really tall, so we could actually cut it in half.
We only need two beams.
Does the length work?
I'm gonna guess yes.
-I don't have my tape on me. -Okay.
Well, this is the one that I want. This is our beam.
This is our winner.
-It's beautiful. -Yeah.
Okay. I'm excited to see them installed.
-Okay. -Thanks so much, Tyler.
[upbeat music]
[Tyler] Pull up, Rusty.
Put it in the pocket. Okay.
You got it?
What's great about the beams is that they go across the entire ceiling.
So even though we're dividing this long room into two spaces,
the library and the living room,
the beams are what connects each space.
I mean, if we get a two-by-four and hammer it in, it might help.
Yeah, we can tighten that up.
[Shea] Hi, Tyler. It looks so much better.
I can see it start to come together.
At the beginning,
I was kind of overwhelmed with the whole, like, door moving
and trying to convince Sarah to keep it where it was.
The third window looks like it was supposed to be there all along.
-Yeah, I really like it. Looks good. -It makes sense for their farmhouse here.
Now we see that third window,
I can see the vision and that we're headed in the right direction.
Okay, the beams look so good.
-[Tyler] Yes. -[Shea] They're pretty.
And it feels so much taller in here.
They have so much more room, even though they don't have more room.
Now there's more room to dance in there. More room to party.
Since you raised the roof, there's more room to raise the roof.
-Nice job. -[laughs]
Fireplace scale looks good.
And we'll still get
-wood-burning capabilities or… -Uh-huh.
I just want to keep it as true to the original as possible.
So is this the stripped floor over here?
We did some samples.
In pictures, I liked number two and number five here.
-So this one and this one. -[Tyler] Okay.
I'm really liking number five.
I think this looks like what the hardwood floors in the original home would have…
Like, just with a nice kind of, like…
-Yeah, I like that one. -…golden tone.
We need to go as true to the original character of the home as possible.
And to me, going with this warm brown color,
it adds richness and warmth and feels really historical.
I need to figure out the cabinet color.
And this really pretty wallpaper in the entryway.
And then our library built-ins that wrap around the corner,
go up and over these openings.
I have a range of, like, neutrals and greens.
So this is neutral.
Always pretty.
I just can't seem to get green out of my head.
-[Tyler] I'm a pretty big fan of green. -[Shea] I like green too.
Originally, we were thinking maybe a little bit more neutral,
but I want it to be dramatic.
Having that much color on these built-ins really helps you feel
completely enveloped in this library.
Do you know what tone I'm gonna pick? The darker one.
-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.
-[laughs] -Yeah.
I feel like the darker color ties in with the darker part of the leaf.
This is nice. It is a nice color, but, like…
I don't know. Hold them in different spots before I make that decision.
I like the one on the right.
I thought I liked the darker one, but I like the one on the right.
-It's really pretty. -It is.
I hope they like green.
They Irish dance, so green.
-Oh great. It's perfect. -Perfect.
[Shea laughs]
[uplifting music]
All right, Margs.
You ready for your first bike ride?
-Yeah, buddy. -Yeah?
Where are we going?
-Just let me pump the tires real quick. -Oh yeah.
Oh my gosh, can you handle her cheeks?
-[Syd] Oh my gosh. -In that helmet!
[Syd] Looking good.
-[chuckles] -[Syd] It's your first time.
We'll let you go with Mom this time. Next time, you can pop some wheelies.
Do you remember the bike ride where I told you I was pregnant with Wren?
-That's not happening again, is it? -[laughing] No.
-Just like-- -We are done.
[Syd] Let's clip you in, buddy.
-[cries] -[Shea] Aw.
[Syd] It's really not that bad.
[Shea] Once we get going, you'll like it. I promise, Margs.
I'm taking her because I'm the safer cyclist.
As we, like, pushed our kids into activities,
mine have been a little bit more on the edge.
-The bleeding edge. -You love an adventure.
I'm more concerned about safety.
[Syd] Whoo!
Mom, ding your bell.
[bicycle bell rings]
[Shea] Is she smiling? I can't see.
[Syd] She's just deadpan.
[Shea laughs]
[Syd] She's so serious.
So serious right now.
I'm not sure how she's liking it.
Well, you're gonna like it. We'll go on bike rides until you love it.
-[Syd] You're gonna like it. -You're gonna like it.
That's the only trick I can do.
We probably would've tried to do a little wheelie.
-Remember we did that with Ivy? -Syd cannot help himself.
Come with me if you want a good time.
You might get hurt, but we'll have fun.
[Shea laughing]
Oh.
Be really good if I crashed.
I'm not gonna attempt that.
[upbeat music]
[hawk shrieks]
[caws]
-[Danielle] Oh Jesus. -[Alana] Did he fly?
[Danielle] I don't know.
-[Sierra] Hey! -Oh my goodness.
-It's looking so good. -Yeah, it's coming together.
We've done a lot of home installs before,
but never one with a territorial rooster at the front door.
[cawing]
-He tried to fight everybody. -Yes.
He was mean.
[woman] We need to be able to come this way.
[rooster clucking]
We're not gonna have a rooster, ever.
-[cawing] -[yelps]
-Mm-mm. -[laughs]
-Mm-mm. -Just go this way, bud. Just go this way.
[Shea] Okay, so we got the rug in.
Chairs?
-I just did the rugs, I'm pretty smoked. -You're good?
[laughs]
-Come on. -I'm pretty tapped.
[Shea] I feel like we're ready for furniture.
Okay, so this chair goes in this corner, kind of at an angle.
-Pretty tree. -Yeah.
[Shea] Looks good.
Make sure the chicken doesn't…
-Oh. -[Danielle] Be careful.
[Danielle laughs]
Oh.
[Shea] Oh my gosh. Perfect fit.
The yellow velvet chairs look amazing!
[cawing]
I mean, does that look prairie chic?
-[Sierra] Prairie chic? -That's what we're going for.
-I wore my prairie chic outfit. -[Sierra] It's perfect.
To give it that prairie chic finishing touch,
we're adding accessories like vintage cowbells, crocks, books.
But not like the Crocs that all the kids wear nowadays.
[Shea] Like, crocks for butter or things like that.
But now we just use them for vases.
But I'm just saying if you spend all your time on the prairie
and you came home to a nice pair of Crocs to slip on,
that would be amazing.
Oh, so much better.
I don't want any problems, okay? Just get out of here.
[man] Oh!
[Syd laughs]
This rooster woke up on the wrong side of the henhouse.
-[laughs] -He's mad.
Let's go.
I feel like, out of spite, he would get up at 5:00 and wake you up.
[Danielle] Wait, wait.
[cawing]
[Shea] I think it looks great.
Yeah, it does look so good. And so beautiful.
-It's crazy to think what this was before. -I know.
-Come a long way. -[chuckles]
All right, go team. Let's clean up and get them here.
[upbeat music]
-[Shea] Hello! -Hello.
Come on over here. Let's admire this view.
-[Sarah] Yeah, let's. -[Shea] The steps went up to a flat wall.
And so we carried the railing all the way across
and then just redirected the pathway
to the old front door that now is a new Dutch door.
-Oh, I love it. -Yes, love that.
-We did the third window, and I-- -[Sarah] Totally the right call.
-I'm glad you like it from the outside. -It's like she was meant to be that way.
[Shea] Good!
-We are so excited to see our space. -So excited.
-I want you to lead the way. You first. -[Darin] Sure.
It's been something we've dreamed about, to have our forever home.
We've been in so many different homes and so many places and rentals.
We're ready.
-Oh my heck, you guys. I love it. -Oh my goodness. [chuckles]
[Sarah] What?
[gasps] Stop it.
You guys!
This doesn't even look like our room, or even our house.
You guys, it's incredible.
This is amazing.
Aah! It's all the things, Shea, Syd.
-Oh my gosh! -Oh my gosh.
We've tried to divide the space into two, but then have them feel connected.
And so over here, we've got our reading nook.
So these chairs swivel.
-You guys, it's incredible. -And the view.
-[Shea] It's pretty dramatic. -[Sarah] It is so dramatic.
It's not even a little dramatic.
[Shea] That third window makes a huge difference.
Huge difference.
I think it's perfection.
[Darin] That's Shea's gift,
that balance between old-fashioned, which we love,
but also updating things, which we also love.
[Shea] Peek at your entryway.
This wallpaper is by one of my favorite British textile designers.
And then we were pulling out colors and thinking we wanted to do the neutral.
And then I was like, "Nope, she wants to be dark green."
[laughs] I love it! I love it.
A library needs multiple walls of books, right? Not just one.
So we went big, and we wrapped the whole corner floor to ceiling.
[Sarah] Genius. It's incredible.
You had that piano over here before.
Having just a little spot where she belongs is exactly what this needed.
It really looks like the piano was designed for that space,
-and the space for the piano. -[Sarah] It does.
And I love that it's a piece of our personal family history honored.
[Shea] We opened up the ceiling,
picked out these beautiful beams from Tyler's farm--
Guys, that is so special.
Instead of a traditional crown molding,
we did the reclaimed pieces around the edge.
Shea, you made all my dreams come true.
And then one of my favorite things to do in long rooms
is to do repeated light fixtures.
[Sarah] Is this what I think it is?
-Shea! -Your original hardwood floors!
[Sarah] It's amazing.
The color is incredible.
[Syd] This is your living room.
-And now you actually have a sofa! -Guys, we have a couch!
So this is a couch. I know you haven't seen one for a while.
[Sarah] We haven't had couches in, like, two years.
-A couch is an important part of a home. -[both laugh]
-Well, I mean-- -One we've missed.
[Darin] There's definitely gonna be naps.
There's going to be snuggles with kids and wives.
Knowing that it was a dairy farm, these are old cowbells.
[Sarah] I love it, and those old-fashioned nails.
I just love the nod,
how they thought of the history of the old pioneer home.
The house is so happy. [laughs]
This is, like, blowing me away.
I don't think she even knew that she had the capability.
She's a little demanding, but we got--
Who are you talking about, the house or me?
[all laugh]
[Shea] So we were picking places to add in the old and the new.
We kept the firebox location the same, but we changed everything around
so you'd have some historical details, like these little corbels,
and did the surround in an over-grouted river rock which could be sourced locally.
To give the fireplace a historical but updated look, we did a hearth.
That gave them extra seating,
but I also think it lent to that historical feel of,
you know, kids gathered around the fireplace.
You ready to take a peek?
-Oh… -[Chloe] Oh my gosh.
-What do you guys think? -My…
-This isn't the same room. -What do you think?
[all laugh]
-Oh my. -Oh. Oh my.
I am very excited about this couch.
[laughs]
Oh, I love it.
I feel like she was a fairy godmother. I feel like it just, like… poof.
-Just made these magical moments happen. -There was a lot of work too.
There is a lot of work.
-[Syd] Enjoy your space. -[Sarah] Bye, guys.
-Thank you so much for coming. -[Nathan] Bye!
-[Sarah] We love you. -[Syd] Bye. Thank you.
I was worried that when Shea left, like, the room would disappear
and go back to its old--
At midnight, it expires.
It's just incredible.
Dream come true.
[Shea] The Ragozzines are committed to learning and to living,
to studying and having fun together.
This historic house is their school, their dance hall, and their home.
I'm thrilled we were able to take a cold, empty room
and transform it into a space that reflects the great warmth
and the many different aspects of the Ragozzines.
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