Honest Renovations

Let's get started.

This is Honest Renovations season two.

We want exciting. We want sunshine. I'm Jessica.

Sashay. Shantay. I'm Lizzy.

Woo, woo!

We've been friends for years,

and we've really bonded over our love of design.

Boom.

We're both parents, and one thing that we know for sure

is that raising a family is hard enough as it is.

There is definitely not an adult space.

Your home shouldn't make it harder.

So, you cannot keep your eye on the kids

-when you're doing laundry in here. -While you're in here, yeah.

That's a problem.

As your family grows, your needs change.

Oh, my gosh. Come on. Okay.

Yolanda is sharing the restroom with our three kids.

Ow, you stepped on my toe.

I'm on tons of medications. Water eases pain.

I take a lot of baths.

This tub is tiny. So small. Yeah.

-Let's get up to your waist or something. (laughs) Yeah.

And your home should change with you.

I just don't know where to start.

That room is out of control.

I know it's best that I get the space cleared out for me and the baby.

We're here to make the good change.

-I'm ready. Good.

We're good at coming in

and giving you things that you don't even know you need.

Demo day.

That means we get to tear it up!

With a little design help.

This is a game changer.

We can not only change homes.

The cloud is moving. I can see the light.

-Damn, that's deep. -(laughing)

We can change their lives.

-What? -Oh, my God.

Your home should be your sanctuary.

This is so beautiful.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

I can't believe this is our house.

-I feel like grown-ups for the first time. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

It's a whole new start.

Thank you so much.

We are going to see the Carpenter family.

The Carpenters are a big family.

Big family. There are four kids

under the age of six.

And there's

three of them that are the same age,

-which is wild. -Triplets!

Can you play with me, Mommy?

One sec, okay?

Can you ask Gray and Ellie if they're gonna have pizza lunch at school?

Hey, Gray and Ellie...

-Pizza. -Pizza?

-Yeah. -Okay.

-I'm Kristen Carpenter. -And I'm Erik Carpenter.

And we live in beautiful Santa Clarita, California.

We live with our four kids,

our triplet six-year-olds, Gray, Tate and Ellie

and Ivy, who's two.

We had a long fertility journey.

We lost five pregnancies.

And when we found out we were pregnant with the triplets,

we just thought we might get one take-home baby.

We never, ever thought that we would have three take-home babies.

This is the first time...

we're sitting together as a family, all five of us.

And then, of course, we had Ivy.

Ivy!

Bonus baby. Surprise!

-What's a lion say? -(roars)

We haven't slept for six years.

We're tired, but...

-It's all worth it. -Yes. (laughs)

The kids are so unique. We just try and foster their individualism.

Ivy, she just came out smiling.

Yay. I did it.

-And she's kind of in charge of everybody. -Yeah.

She tells them all what to do.

She's a comedian.

Everything she does is to get us to laugh.

What's inside there?

Mad spiders in my ears?

Gray wants to be an army dude,

and he takes his spot very seriously as the eldest.

This is the attack battle.

Ellie, uh, was the second born.

Ellie, what shoes are you gonna wear today?

-Can I wear my white ones? Yes. Yes, you may.

She loves to dress up.

She acts like she's a teenager already.

Here is chocolate milk, Daddy.

And third born of the triplets is Tate.

-That is not real chocolate milk. -Yeah, it's paint water.

I've never seen a kid his age

create art the way he does

and be so serious about it.

Learn how to draw.

Tate was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

His brain works differently, and it's perfect the way

-it works. -Yeah, we wouldn't change anything about him.

Yeah. I don't think it's a disorder.

I think it's something that makes him unique,

-Yeah. -and he takes special care sometimes.

Mommy?

Yes, Tate. I'm in the kitchen.

It's really hard

to operate in the house the way it is.

Yeah, this is him.

One sec.

There is definitely not an adult space for us.

The kitchen's been kind of cut off from the other room.

-The playroom, especially. Definitely causes issues

when we're trying to get stuff done

and the kids are in there fighting or playing.

Hey, guys. What's happening in there?

And it's not ideal for Tate's situation.

Mommy.

He's extremely upset when he can't

see any of his family members.

Mommy, where are you?

Probably the most inconvenient thing

is the laundry situation, which is in the garage.

Just leaving four young kids by themselves in the house...

Ivy, what are you doing?

...isn't ideal.

Please help us, Jessica and Lizzy.

-(speaks indistinctly) Who's gonna go get it? Who is it?

Oh.

Oh.

Yes.

We did it!

Hi.

Open the door. Can we come in?

Hi. -Hi. -Hi.

Come on in.

-I'm Lizzy. Hi. Thanks for coming.

Nice to meet you.

Having Jessica and Lizzy come kind of remodel it,

help us organize, is thrilling.

Ooh, that was good.

The fact that they're both mothers

is so amazing because they know what a family needs

to be successful in

every aspect of our lives.

Who wants to sit in between me and Jessica?

I do. -You do? Come on.

-Everybody... Oh, let's get everybody. -Oh, whoa, whoa.

-Wow. Four kids. -Four

little kids, all talking

on top of each other.

Oh, my goodness. You took off your socks.

And I can see these little toes.

They're all so sweet, but I've got to say,

it's kind of overwhelming.

And we're just visiting.

It seems like it went from, like, no kids to all the kids.

Yes.

Yeah, three at once, yeah. -Because they're all really close in age.

Yeah, we had four in three and a half years.

-Wow. And when we bought this house,

we only had the three, the triplets,

and we didn't have another child in the plans.

-Surprise! Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean, even three at once

-is a-is a situation. -It's a lot. It's a lot.

How much adult time do you guys get?

-Zero. -(laughing)

Mommy, I'm in charge of my lunch.

Mommy!

-What are you doing? -(laughs)

We've given up

everything for our children.

We feel like we want them to have a happy life and be comfortable.

-(shouting) Shh.

We have to be quiet. Daddy's working.

There's a lot happening because you guys have four kids.

You have four kids. Under the age of six.

And which one of your kids needs a little more attention?

-Tate. Tate. Tate.

We call him Baby C. He's the third triplet.

-Okay. -The third triplet. Yeah.

He's also, like, really intelligent

and he's really thoughtful and sweet.

He's overly aware of situations as well. Yeah.

Parenting them, you know, they're triplets, so...

-But they all have different needs. But they have diff...

-Yes. Very much so. -Right.

And some of them don't understand, like, why do we have...

does Tate do certain things...

That are different? -Yeah.

Interesting. Okay. He has different rules.

-Right. -Yes.