Here’s What It’s Like To Be Neighbors With Jasmine Roth of ‘Help! I Wrecked My House’

Here’s What It’s Like To Be Neighbors With Jasmine Roth of ‘Help! I Wrecked My House’

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Who wouldn’t adore having an HGTV-famous designer as their neighbor, happy to pop over and lend a helping hand? That’s what happens to Jasmine Roth on the latest episode of her series “Help! I Wrecked My House.”

In the “He Said, She Said, Call Jasmine” episode, Roth learns that Avery and Leigh-Ann reside right around the corner from her own palatial property in Huntington Beach, CA. So she visits their quaint beach cottage to find out where these DIY renovators have gone awry. She discovers dangerous holes in the walls, floors, and ceilings, and myriad projects left halfway done.

“We called Jasmine because we were in over our heads and we wanted to move forward,” says Leigh-Ann. And it’s about time! They’d been working on it since they moved in two years earlier.

They have $150,000 to redo the kitchen, living room, dining area, and primary bed and bath upstairs. It’s a lot of money, but it still might be a stretch, according to Roth.

Roth sees that there’s no time to waste, with so many dangerous features hanging right out in the open. So she rolls up her sleeves and gets started immediately on making the home the dream house the couple had hoped for when they bought it. In the process, she teaches us smart tips that we all might be inspired to try around our own abodes, too.

Holes in walls can be dangerous

One of the scariest things we’ve ever seen on a renovation reality show is the couple’s two adorable little pups investigating a hole Avery has ripped in the wall. It looks like they were licking the exposed pipes and chewing on the exposed wires. Avery admits they were eating the drywall!

He had ripped the hole in the side of a pillar in hopes of being able to remove the pillar entirely. But once he got inside, he found there were plumbing, electrical, and support beams, so he just left it open.

He did put a dog gate in front of the hole once he discovered the dogs were showing interest in it.

Roth is horrified and says she’s glad he didn’t do more—the whole house could have fallen down! She makes sure to have her general contractor, Scott Cross, take a look at it ASAP.

Plumbing and electrical wiring are not for beginners (or small dogs), she cautions the couple.

Never block windows for the sake of a TV

Most rooms need as much natural light as they can possibly get, so why not take advantage of every window in the house?

Roth is incredulous when she sees Avery has built a (removable) wood treatment wall over a large window in the living room, so he can hang their TV on it. He says that’s the best place to watch TV from the couch. He didn’t think of moving the couch!

“In order to bring more light into the room, we’ll remove that wall and rearrange the furniture,” Roth says.

To ensure there are no bad angles for watching TV, she’ll find a curved sofa.

Shaker cabinets will never go out of style

Apparently, Shaker cabinets are the little black dress of kitchens. They go with everything and never go out of style.

“Shaker cabinets are timeless,” says Roth. “They are the cabinets that I put into 99% of my projects. They pair with everything. So, for example, in this project I wanted to go with this beachy vibe; the Shaker cabinets were perfect.”

Bathroom tile keeps water from seeping into the floor

Avery wanted to lay better tile on the bathroom floor, so he began ripping out the existing tile. Then he got caught up in other projects and just left portions of the floor exposed.

“This is the waterproofing,” exclaims Roth when she sees a big chunk of tile missing.

“In the bathroom, the reason we have tile is not just for wet feet. It’s for if you have a leak or if your tub overflows, at least this floor will hopefully hold the water long enough for you to realize it.”

With “something like this,” she continues, “the water would just seep right through, and suddenly downstairs is ruined as well. Luckily you didn’t have any sort of a leak.”

Install a doggie drawer as a hideaway pet bed

In the primary suite, Roth installs new built-in cabinets and comes up with the sweet idea of putting a pull-out dog bed in one of them.

“They have these two little dogs, and they’re, like, obsessed with these dogs, and they’re really, really cute, and they run the house,” Roth explains. “So what if on this dresser over here, we have three drawers, and then the toe-kick popped out, and that was the dog bed, and the dogs could cuddle and hang out, and when they’re not using it, they could just push it back under?”

Genius! It sure beats the dogs eating drywall.

Does Jasmine Roth rescue this wrecked house?

Not only were the owners blown away by the outcome, but they also learned an important lesson.

“The biggest thing I learned in this process is that we should leave some things to the professionals,” says Leigh-Ann.

And what better professional to have on speed dial than a friendly neighbor who lives next door?

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