Home, to me, is a lot of noise, and people, and food,
and laughter, somewhere you can shut all the blinds
and feel really cozy, somewhere that you can
celebrate life with your friends.
I'm Oliva Munn, and this is My Houzz.
My family is definitely not the perfect,
magazine cover family at all.
We're very blunt and sarcastic.
We tell each other what we think, we joke around a lot.
At my house, there's a lot of screaming going on
and my mom just goes, "we're not screaming,
it's how we talk."
I mean, that's my mom.
She's gonna be her no matter where you are,
and I think that's what's made us so close.
My mom was born and raised in Vietnam,
and in 1975, in the final days of Saigon,
my family was lucky enough to escape
and make their way to Oklahoma.
My mother and all of her uniqueness has
definitely shaped who I am today.
I think the thing that I learned the most from my mother
is how to be strong, how to stand up for myself,
and how to stand up for the people that I love.
So looking back now, I just think, thank god
my mom always instilled this feeling of self worth in me
and that I knew that my dreams mattered,
even if they were close to impossible.
Without that, I never would've tried it in Hollywood.
The things that my mom and I have
really bonded over is cooking.
She'll say, oh, it's this much salt,
and this much flour, and this much pepper,
and you're like, what is this much?
So I literally have sheets of paper with her recipes on it
with a picture of a hand going like, this much.
It'd be like, this much pepper, and I have to remember
what that looked like in her tiny Asian hands.
Those memories of learning how to cook with her
and how obnoxious she was at her measurements,
those are the memories that I really love with my mother.
My mom thinks that cooking is the most important thing,
has everybody at the house for every holiday.
There's just always this open-door policy for dinner.
I wanna give this renovation to my mother
because if there's anybody in the world
that I think deserves it, it's her.
She lives in this house that means so much to all of us.
That's basically where we kinda grew up.
The dining room, TV room, and kitchen, it's all one room.
She's making it work, but it's just not optimal.
She's really short, so she can't reach the high shelves,
and there's not enough storage for all
the pots and pans that she needs.
Right now they have this great island,
but no one really sits at it, and then the dining room area,
it's small and they have to eat in shifts.
It's next to this fireplace that they never use.
Things just kind of end up there and it
just becomes a catch-all.
So I wanna try to turn this whole space into a place
where everybody can come and hang out.
I live in LA, but my mother lives in Oklahoma City,
so I went onto Houzz and I looked for designers
and contractors in the Oklahoma City area.
I found Travis' profile and he had a lot of really great
reviews, and I loved his whole portfolio,
so I just gave him a call.
- So good to meet you-- - I know, so nice to--
- --in real life! - --meet you in person!
I know, we've been on the phone so much.
This is so exciting!
- It's exciting for me too!
So tell me a little bit about what your vision is
for what you'd like to do for your mom.
- My mom's ridiculously short.
She is a hobbit.
A hobbit that cooks.
She's a hobbit that loves to cook.
So functionality is super important because I'm really
wanting to just give her somewhere that she can just
cook as much as she loves to cook
and make it really easy for her.
- I think we could make it work for her.
- Okay, awesome.
- Tell me a little bit about your mom's style.
- As long as it's comfortable and working,
she's not very particular, and that's what I think
would be so great is to do things that help keep things
looking organized and clean, but that
are still really easy to access.
So even though there's three living spaces
in this one room, it is pretty small.
Is there anything that we can do just
make it feel more open?
- So one of the things that we can do
is to raise the ceiling.
I think that that eight foot ceiling height
is making that whole space feel a little bit closed in.
- It's eight feet?
- It's eight foot.
Maybe utilizing some of the attic space
that is right above there.
- We have an attic?
- Well, not for long.
By giving it volume and allowing your eye to look up,
we can really make the space feel huge.
So on our ideabook, I've actually
selected different looks.
- Ideabooks are great, because as I'm on Houzz
and I'm finding different things that inspire me
or elements that I like, I can add it to the ideabook,
and Travis is doing the same thing.
- [Travis] These are similar spaces to yours
and they have cathedral ceilings.
What would you say about something like that?
- I think it just might be a little too modern.
- [Travis] Yeah, I understand.
This is a little bit of a different direction.
It's a little bit more rustic.
We've got that warmth and visual element
to bring your eye up. - Right.
- [Travis] But it also keeps it clean and open.
- That, I love.
- Okay.
So one thing that I noticed, she is
in major need of more storage.
- She needs massive containers to hold rice and pasta.
- We can make sure that she's prepared
to cook for the whole neighborhood.
- Awesome.
There is this TV room that's right next to the kitchen
and there's this one kind of dead space.
I just don't know what you think that may be.
- I think it would be a really good opportunity
to have a walk-in pantry.
- That's a great idea, because there's the really
organized, clean Asians, and then there's
the messy ones and loud ones.
That's my family.
So that would just help keep things
organized and clean, right?
- Yeah.
I noticed how many appliances there are on the countertops,
and it would be great if we could get those out of sight,
but still really usable, so this is one idea.
- Oh, that's a really cool thing.
So they could be plugged in there?
- Yes, so they can-- - Well, that's nice.
- [Travis] --stay back there.
They're plugged in, they're easily accessible.
Whenever this is down, they're out of sight.
- Yay!
I love this.
Right now we have this big rice cooker
that sits on top of the counter, so if we can
find a way of doing the rice cooker built in...
Is that easy to do?
- It's a little bit of a challenge,
but we're totally up for a challenge.
I love that idea and I think that could be really exciting.
- Okay, yay.
I love that, she's gonna love that.
- So one of the things that I wanted to show you
was some incredible different light features
that I think could make a statement above the island.
- I love that, and I love that they
would be at different heights.
- [Travis] Yeah.
- So before we move on, I should tell you
that there is a dining room table that is
a family heirloom of my stepfather's
and that's really important to keep in the house.
- Okay.
So normally we would try to embellish
the fireplace and make that a focal point.
Based on the location that it is in the space,
and unfortunately, because it's been capped off,
it doesn't really work, it's not functional.
I think that it's just visual weight that we don't need.
I think we should take it and reclaim that space
for something interesting and different
and a focal point for the dining room.
- I mean, that's a great idea because nobody's sitting
with the fire behind their back, even if it worked,
which it doesn't work.
- Yeah.
One of the things that I noticed whenever I visited
the house, there are a lot of really cool accessories,
ancient artifacts, whatever you wanna call them,
but I think it would be really neat to incorporate
a bookcase, but that way they don't
end up just scattered everywhere.
- How are you going to stop my mom from cluttering it up?
Are you gonna be coming over?
- Okay, I'm gonna have to do inspections.
- Are you gonna take us on for life?
- I wanna go over some potential seating options
for the living room.
I love this for the space, because it does have those
clean lines, but it's comfortable.
I think it would stand up really well
to a lot of family members.
- I love it, and in gray, too.
- So what do you think about a piece like that?
- I think it looks interesting and unique.
I like it, but just not for them, yeah.
- Let's look at one more option.
- [Oliva] I love this.
- [Travis] Visual Match tool actually
gives you a lot of different potential matches.
- It looks like it can take a lot of
people putting drinks on it and stuff like that.
I would wanna get that now.
- [Travis] Okay.
- [Olivia] Add to cart.
We're gonna buy it.
- [Travis] There you go.
- I should tell you, the person who's helping me
with the surprise is going to be my stepfather, Sam.
This is a very, very, very important renovation
for me and my family because if my mom isn't
cooking for all of us, we'll all go hungry.
- Don't worry, you will not go hungry with me.
- Okay, I appreciate that.
- Got it. - Thank you so much.
I'm so excited! - Thank you!
- Today, Travis and Sam are meeting up to walk through
the space and go over the renovation plans.
- [Sam] Travis.
- Hi, Sam. - Come in here.
- Good to meet you. - Nice to meet you, welcome.
- [Travis] I'm so excited to get started on this.
- Well, welcome.
I have the most difficult job here,
trying to keep both Olivia and Ms. Kim happy.
- Tell me a little bit about the space
as you guys currently use it.
- The countertops are a little bit tall for my wife.
- Okay.
- She's about this tall.
- Everything was built at a standard height.
They make a cabinet lift system where all of the
shelves in the cabinet actually come down
to countertop level where you can use that storage,
push it back up, and it's out of sight, out of mind.
- Wow.
- So obviously, this island size isn't working
for you guys right now.
This ends up being about six chairs.
If we could get a new, larger island to seat six,
do you think that that would work?
Maybe all in one level?
- Absolutely.
- Okay.
Are there any other things about the kitchen
that just aren't working?
- [Sam] I think it's dark.
- Because of the eight foot ceiling height,
it's really keeping it from that light, open feeling,
so what we'll do is give you an extra
three, four feet of height.
- I think that's a great idea.
- Let's take a look at the living room.
How do you currently use this space?
- Right now, if you're over there,
you're watching people watch TV.
It couldn't be more face-to-face.
- Makes perfect sense.
I think opening this up will just
make the space feel bigger.
- I like it.
I'm super excited about this whole project.
I can't wait to see it.
- I think that this is gonna be
an incredible transformation.
- And if Kim doesn't like it, she's gonna blame you.
- That's what I'm worried about.
- [Olivia] Today is demo day, but I can't be there,
so I am leaving everything up to Sam and Travis.
- Looks like you're a professional.
Okay, you ready?
- I was thinking that it'd be really interesting
to see some ceiling come down.
- Interesting is a good word.
Messy is the better one, but I say we tear into it.
Oh!
- [Sam] That's what I wanted to see!
- There you go.
Okay, I think we need to leave some for my guys.
- [Olivia] It's been three weeks since renovations
have started on my mom's house.
And right now, Sam is going to meet up with Travis
to see how it's all going on.
- Hi Travis!
How you doing?
- Hey, great to see you. - Oh, wow.
This is something.
- Yeah.
So this kinda gives you a full view of what
that new ceiling height is gonna be.
- [Sam] I love it.
- Yeah, major improvement.
This is gonna be a much, much bigger
and better kitchen for Kim.
- [Sam] How exciting.
- Since we removed the carpet, we're gonna put
new flooring in this entire great room,
but I think we're gonna need an awesome rug.
I wanna show you this one that I found on Houzz.
With the View in My Room 3D tool in the Houzz app,
you can preview an item before we buy it
to see if it really fits in the room and looks great.
So you can place the rug here and turn it
so it's in the right spot.
- Wow, I really like that.
- Awesome, let's buy it.
All we do is we press list, add to cart.
Okay, and it's on its way.
- [Sam] Wow.
- I think we should call.
Hi Olivia! - Hi!
- Hi!
- How are you?
- I'm doing good, how are you, Travis?
- [Travis] Great!
This is the new area that was your kitchen.
Now we're ready to start fresh.
- Oh my gosh, it looks so good.
Can I see the pantry area?
- [Travis] Yeah, of course.
This right here is your new walk-in pantry area.
- [Olivia] That's really big.
- Yeah, I doubt that it'll take Kim long to fill it,
but we've got plenty of space for her now.
- That's awesome.
- [Travis] And this is the new spot for the refrigerator.
- My mom cooks so much, there's always so many leftovers,
and if you open up our fridge at any moment,
there will be 17 old butter containers
filled with Vietnamese food.
- [Sam] Surprises.
- With surprises.
So we're gonna get the biggest one we can possibly find,
and actually, over here, this is
all of your new living room space.
- Oh, wow.
- [Travis] This is the TV space there.
It's right in the middle of that pantry wall.
- And so then all the furniture
will be facing that direction?
- [Travis] Yes.
The sectional kind of makes an L this way.
- Oh, that's nice.
Is there the wood floor on the ground I can see?
- Yeah, all of it is a wood-look tile,
so you get the warmth of wood, but you actually
still have the durability of the porcelain tile.
- Yeah, we wanted to do real wood, but my family,
they're animals and they don't know how to wipe their feet.
- [Travis] And then this right here is the new fireplace.
- Oh, wow.
- So we've taken out the hearth and the surround
and actually gained quite a few inches.
I was really hoping for you to consider maybe
a wallpaper as an accent there, or a cool paint color?
- I don't know how I feel when
people just do that one wall.
You know what I think would be great?
Is do some kind of built-in there, a built-in shelf
for all my mom's knickknacks and tchotchkes.
- That way we would actually regain the depth
that we have to build out around that fireplace.
- Sam, do you love that?
- [Sam] I love it.
- We've got a lot of work to get done.
- Yeah, thank you so much for all of the hard work.
It looks amazing, you guys.
I'm so excited to see it in person.
- Thank you so much.
We'll talk to you soon.
- Thank you. - Alright, bye, guys.
- Bye.
The ideas that Olivia has had have been awesome,
and so we're really gonna create something special for Kim.
- [Olivia] I'm back in Oklahoma today.
Right now, I'm on my way to go meet up with Sam and Travis
to do the finishing touches so everything is
exactly perfect for her.
- [Travis] Perfect.
- Just like that?
- [Travis] Yeah.
- [Olivia] Hello?
- [Travis] Hey!
- Oh my god!
- [Travis] What do you think?
- This looks unreal, oh my god.
Walking and seeing how amazing everything looked...
I mean, it doesn't look anything like
the way the house used to be.
It's just so crazy that it came together so perfectly.
Sam, what do you think?
- [Sam] I love it.
- [Olivia] Oh my gosh.
- [Travis] Do you think your mom will like it?
- I think she's gonna be floored.
I mean, Sam, you're tearing up.
Isn't it amazing?
Aw.
- We're not done yet.
There's still a ton to put together.
- [Olivia] Let me help you.
Okay.
- Yes, put this right here for now.
- Okay.
Travis, is this the coffee table that we saw on Houzz?
- Yes!
Isn't it beautiful in real life?
- It is amazing.
It literally looks exactly how it looked online,
which is really exciting.
- [Sam] Beautiful.
- [Travis] Yeah, it's perfect.
- And it's so durable, right?
- [Travis] Yes.
I thought this was really cool, a little pop of white.
- [Olivia] Elephants are good luck.
- [Travis] That's awesome.
- [Olivia] Oh my gosh!
I grew up looking at these needlepoints
that my mom would do.
- We had them reframed.
It's a pop of color, it's a little gallery feeling,
so it's really her art.
- This is the fanciest her art has ever looked.
- [Travis] Let me get this.
- That looks great.
This is so pretty, Travis.
- [Travis] We've got some great color.
- [Olivia] Okay, I think we're done.
- Yeah.
- Sam, can you do me a favor?
Can you go get mom for me?
- Okay. - I'm so excited!
- Good luck!
- Alright.
I'm a little nervous because, with my mom,
you can never predict what she's gonna say,
but we added a lot of things that were
her own personal touches that I think
she's really gonna love. (knocking)
Hi!
Okay, don't look, don't look, don't look, don't look.
Hold on, okay.
Hi!
Are you excited?
- Yes, I am!
- I have a big, big surprise for you.
There's nobody else I know that works as hard as you do.
This is my gift to you, and I hope that you love it.
- Thank you so much.
- Just so you know, that's the first time
you've ever thanked me for anything.
I'll be right...
Hold on, okay?
So wait, ready?
- Yeah. - Are you ready?
Okay.
- [Kim] So beautiful, my goodness!
Different than before!
- [Olivia] Doesn't it feel big and open?
- Yes. - Look how high
the ceilings are.
Remember how low they were before?
- [Kim] Oh, I love it.
Thank you so much.
- [Olivia] You're so welcome.
- Big hug.
- Oh, you hit hard when you hug.
- Big hug.
- I know, your big hugger.
- [Kim] It's so beautiful.
- Do you see those, those lights?
How pretty are those?
- [Kim] I love them.
- [Olivia] You do?
- Yes! - Travis and I
picked that out on Houzz.
- I love this table.
- [Olivia] Do you?
- [Kim] I like the elephant too.
- [Olivia] I know!
You wanna sit on the couch?
- Yeah.
It's a good cushion.
Oh, this rug!
- [Olivia] I know, isn't it nice?
- [Kim] It's a beautiful rug.
- It looks kinda like mine in California, remember?
- Yeah, that one.
I always wanted one like that.
I love them.
Oh, I love over there.
- I know, did you see?
We took out the fireplace and you have
so much stuff that I wanted to display some of it.
- Oh, I love it. - It can sit here without...
- I love so much.
It's beautiful.
I like floor.
- [Olivia] I know, isn't that pretty?
- [Kim] They look like wood, but they not.
- [Olivia] Look at the chairs.
Travis and I picked these out on Houzz.
Do you like them?
- I love them.
- This is the kitchen, right?
And it's really, really special to me
because I wanted it to work for you,
so all the functionality is custom-made
to fit your tiny height, but also,
it's all commercial-grade.
- All my height.
- [Olivia] Yeah, it's all your height.
- I don't gotta tip-toe.
- No.
Wait, mom, how tall are you?
- 5'2".
- Ish.
- 5'1" now.
- Do you keep shrinking?
So it's always been hard for you to reach the cabinets.
These are specially made for you, so you get to use
way up there and not have to worry about it.
And then pull it down and it'll go all the way down,
and it makes it--
- Oh, wow, I don't have to climb or stand on the stool.
- And it goes up.
- I cannot believe it. - Isn't that cool?
- Yeah!
- [Olivia] I put a rice cooker into your counter.
You know, you always--
- That's a rice cooker?
- Yeah.
- [Kim] Oh, what?
- And you can steam other things in here.
It's not just a rice cooker but...
- Oh, man, I didn't know that rice cooker...
- Isn't that cool?
So now you have this whole thing of just rice all the time.
- [Kim] And it'll be warm!
- Here, open that door.
- Can I open it?
- Yeah.
We decided to give you a full walk-in pantry.
- Oh, man!
Oh, that's beautiful, I needed--
- I know, isn't it?
- I like it all. - I know,
you can put everything--
- [Kim] I like it, a walk-in pantry.
- [Olivia] I know!
- [Kim] Oh, man, that's good.
I can keep everything in here.
- Yeah, and you can live here.
We can put-- - I can live here.
- --a bed in here for you.
- I can put a futon here.
- You can live here forever.
- Oh, I love the pantry.
I'm very happy and I cannot wait to cook
and I want to invite a lot of people
to come by to see my new house.
I never think white it before, but now I love them.
- I know, it's so pretty.
Well, white with the wood makes it really warm.
(knocking)
There's actually somebody I want you to meet
who helped me out a lot with this.
- [Kim] Oh?
- Hey guys.
Sam.
- [Kim] It's beautiful.
- Come.
Mom, this is Travis.
He's the interior designer.
- Hi!
Good to meet you! - Nice to meet you!
Oh my goodness.
- He made this whole thing happen for you,
and you should say thank you--
- Thank you! - --to Sam too,
'cause he worked really hard.
- [Kim] He did?
- He worked really hard, give him a hug too.
- Oh, thank you!
This is my husband.
- I'm deeply appreciative to Olivia
for doing this for her mother and for me.
- How did like to work with my husband Sam?
- He was great and tore up the ceiling!
- He is showoff.
- He's a showoff
- Hi! - Hi!
- [Olivia] Hi guys!
- I'm so excited.
- [Olivia] Andy, I didn't know you were coming.
- [Kim] Did you see the table?
- [Olivia] You have a lot of dolls
for a grown woman, just so you know.
- [Kim] Yes.
- But it's nice, 'cause you don't have to have
all the mess right there on top of the fireplace.
- Sam's mess.
- [Olivia] It's your mess too.
You can't blame Sam for everything.
You're pretty messy yourself.
- [Kim] Come see this one.
- At her height so she can...
- [Olivia] And it's already plugged in.
- [Kim] It's my size.
I like it a lot.
- Built-in rice cooker?
- Yeah. - And a steamer too.
You know, I'm very, very grateful
and I know she love me a lot.
- We made a walk-in pantry.
- Oh, yeah. - That's a walk-in?
Alright, kinda keep going in.
Try to keep going in, keep going in.
Alright, the whole Asian family fits in here.
- [Male] There's a guest room.
- I'm just ecstatic that it all came together
exactly how we had talked about it.
Thanks for letting us come in
and completely redo your place.
We hope you guys love it.
Thank you so much, cheers.
Everything is at her height.
She's not gonna have to get on a stepstool.
Everything has a place.
I think it's obviously going to make her life
so much better, and I'm really excited
that she loves it so much.
Now you have to start cooking for us.
- [Kim] I'm retired.
- [Olivia] Now you're retied?
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