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While You Were Out
Susanna wants to treat her best friend, and co-store owner, Gina to a sidewalk café of her very own. But this is no ordinary store, or café. This one is for pets!
Marie is an amazing mother and grandmother. She came to the rescue for her daughter Lisa, who has two daughters, when Lisa fell ill. Now they're all roomies! To show her love and appreciation, Lisa wants to give Marie's basement a complete makeover. Chayse decides to add another element to this episode: it's all a surprise! She decides to keep the entire theme a secret until the actual reveal.
Kristin and Gideon have recently purchased a home that needs a lot of work. Because Gideon is an artist, Kristin wants to give the outdated dining room an updated redo. Things get really interesting when Gideon finds out what's really going on. Thanks to some quick thinking - and action - by Evan, Gideon actually believes that WYWO is doing a makeover in the backyard - for $50 !
Remembering some of the designs from the '70s is scary enough, but Mary and Jim are living it! Jennifer, their daughter, thinks it's time to update her parents' outdated bedroom. Jennifer's dad, Jim, is in on the surprise for Mary, and has several specific requests. But with Mark's design, it looks like Mary isn't the only one in for a surprise!
Jackie wants to create a hangout haven for her husband and his young sons, her stepsons. She would like to turn their basement into a boys' bonding room where they can goof off, play, and just spend time together. There's a special twist to this episode: Our host, Evan, is now the designer. That gives John Bruce the opportunity to host - and see if Evan can take it as well as he dishes it out.
Audrey wants to give a beach house a much-needed facelift for her husband, Mark. The cottage has been in Mark's family for generations, and holds a lot of family history and memories. Nadia and the WYWO team are careful to respect the history and integrity of the house, yet still manage to turn it into a nautical paradise.
Angelina wants to make a special master bedroom for her ex-husband, John. After 15 years of marriage and 5 years apart, Angelina and John have rekindled their relationship. Now Angelina is ready to invite John to come back home. To welcome John back home, Nadia decides to turn the master bedroom into a cozy, welcoming room straight out of a photograph of Tuscany. A word of caution: You'll need a tissue for this reveal!
Jayne is a survivor of the best kind. Jayne conquered brain surgery, which included surgery twice. A single mom, Jayne also raised her daughter, Megan, through the ordeal. To relax, Jayne loves to spend time in her backyard patio area. Unfortunately, it's far from welcoming. Jayne's friend Cindy wants to change that and give her a peaceful, tranquil space, which she calls a ""Healing Oasis"". With Mark Montano's inspiration, the WYWO team transforms the gloomy patio into a beautiful, serene sanctuary.
April wants to give her parents a special room because of all they've given to so many others. April's dad, Colonel Mundie, is loved by his West Point cadet students. As is the custom with West Point families, the Colonel and Jenny, his wife, sponsor cadets. While most families sponsor one or two, the Mundies sponsor 40 or more cadets - each year! The third floor of the Mundie's home is the ""common room"" where the cadets hang out on weekends, but it needs a serious upgrade. Mark Montano sticks with the military theme and goes patriotic with his design in this room, and the results will surely make you stand at attention!
Tom is an American hero who works for the Fire Department of New York. He spends much of his free time fixing up what his wife, Deborah, refers to as ""the money pit"" - their home. To say thank you, Deborah wants to convert a garage game room into a home-at-home retreat for Tom and his buddies.
Emily is a writer living in New York City. Her husband, David, wants to give her a quiet space to escape from the busy New York hubbub. Creating the space, however, is a bit of a challenge. It's also far from quiet - or relaxing!
A show of firsts, WYWO has another one - making over a house boat?! Vicki and Tony live aboard ""Lifestyles"", a pleasure cruiser that Tony owned long before he and Vicki were married. Vicki wants to convert a bachelor-style living room, the ""saloon"" as seafarers call it, into a room more fit for a couple.
Ed wants to liven up an uninspired great room for his wife, Dianne. The room has a fireplace that seems to take over, so she doesn't know what to do with it. Chayse decides to cozy up the room with a beachy cottage design. Unfortunately, the projects associated with the theme cause some serious waves with the WYWO team.
Kerri and Kristen are sisters and roommates in Kristen's townhouse. After Kerri was in a car accident, Kristen had to use her savings account and put a hold on her plans to create a garden. So Kerri wants to say thank you to Kristen by giving her the beautiful garden area, and more. Paybacks are a sis.
WYWO has had many firsts, but this episode is a first first! Sarah wants to create a special outdoor space for her husband, Ted. Not just any space, a tree house! Sarah and Ted home-school their children, so she thought it would be an exciting extension of their normal classroom to help make learning a bit more fun. This massive construction job even required extra help from Andrew Dan-Jumbo's brother, Raymond.
Bayview is a community on the eastern shore of Virginia, with a population of approximately 100. Folks in Bayview were accustomed to living in small shacks without electricity or plumbing until Cozzie (pronounced Cozy) Lockwood rallied Bayview's residents to get the community back on its feet. Wanting to give Cozzie the recognition she so richly deserves, Alice and Nikita want to create a community center to further enrich the lives and futures of the Bayview's citizens. With Nadia's vision and the crew's hard work, Bayview gets more than just a social hall. They receive a development center complete with books, a children's book nook, a meeting table which also breaks apart into individual desks, and a computer learning center.
Childhood sweethearts Harold and Teresa have struggled, but their love has seen them through the tough times. Now, they find themselves the proud owners of a new home. Unfortunately, it's an empty home. To help them start off on the right foot, Harold wants to give Teresa a beautiful design - whatever Nadia and the WYWO team deem appropriate.
SOS, Share Our Strength, is an anti-hunger organization that has been in ""business"" for 20 years. Their purpose is to allocate money to different organizations around the world to help fight hunger. Ivy works at the SOS branch in Washington, DC, but their offices are bland and uninspiring. She would like to give the conference room a makeover for the Associate Director, Cathy, who, in addition to having been with SOS for 17 years, founded the DC branch. Mark Montano takes the ""SOS"" theme and runs with it - in the form of Morse Code. He also uses red to bring out creativity in the new SOS think tank.
It's been a tough few years for Carolyn and her sons Matt, Marshall and Shane, following the death of the boys' father, Carolyn's husband. To help cheer her up, the boys want to update the living room and bring it into the 21st century.
Tehilla wants to turn a boring dining room into a royal banquet chamber for her Rabbi husband, Sholom. Sholom oversees all of the kosher food distribution in the Virginia area, and he always puts others first. Tehilla thinks it's time for Sholom to have something done for him.
