Clive Flynn announces that Danny Appleseed and Tone will have 44 work hours and four days to complete this challenge. The designers will have the assistance of a team of carpenters and corporate sponsor A & B to provide all the appliances, electronics and the hardwood floors. With that Appleseed and Tone are ushered into a limo and are off to meet their families.

Antonio walks into his family's house and meets the Starr family, a young couple with a young son.

They would like a design that will lighten up the space, they're open to ideas and they like splashes of color in their design.

Their kitchen is very dated, like Brady kitchen dated... and the Starrs would like the new design to be light and airy, more specifically, they would like light cabinets and dark countertops.

Dan walks in to meet the Goldberg family, a cougar and her cub. Momma Goldberg is a recently separated woman who is looking for a new beginning with her daughter-- it's all very lower-middle class Gilmore Girls.

Dan is given a tour of their home, their living room is small-ish and drab, but Jackie like to practice dancing in there nonetheless.

Their kitchen is also small, further stressing the space, it's also their laundry room.

Jackie's room is a little's girl's room that has to be brought up to a Jonas Brothers' level of sophistication. The master bedroom is equally sad. Momma Gail has a large bed oddly situated in a small room, accented by a large industrial vent looking window on one wall. Both rooms need to be updated.

Dan notices shades of lilac in the house and asks the Goldcats if they share a love of purple. In fact, they do. Prince is never wrong.

Danny Appleseed is going to run with purple and make a feminine design for their new beginning.

Tone's family takes him through their house and they show him the master bedroom next. It's a large room, where they have a seating area and a bedroom area, and a bizarre entrance to the bathroom.

Tone will also have to design a room for baby Miles, whose room is currently bare, aside from a crib and a lingering sense that no one threw this woman a proper baby shower.

Tone like the eclectic vibe, and is going to open up their floor plan and inject fresh color and ideas. No needles or ink involved.

Day 1, 12 hours:

Dan is planning a Spring inspired design to usher the Goldcats into their new life. He is going to inspire them solely through the use of throw pillows and mirrored walls. It's the Nate Berkus school of pyschology.

The crew arrives and Danny Appleseed and the Dannettes get straight to the plan for the space. Dan walks his crew through the house and tells them he wants to unify the kitchen. He wants to hide the laundry space and install deeper cabinets, reposition the fridge and update the space.

In the master bedroom he plans to reorient the bed and lose the window that the cougar never uses. Then he can create built ins around the bed. To give her extra storage for her single lady toys.

In the Starr house Tone meets his crew and says he feels bonded to his crew immediately. He walks the crew through the house and explains how he's going to change the layout.

In the kitchen he's going to do an "old school kitchen, but you know modernize it." Because actual 1960s asbestos tiles are hard to come by these days. He's going to make the space look modern with lots of stainless steel.

In the master bedroom, he's going to keep the two functions, a lounge area and a bedroom area, so the family can still hang out together in the room.

He finishes the tour in Miles room. He's planning a star graphic for the wall.

Tone's excited about his crew and the project.

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