Pooling Together
While the Scoonover sisters were putting together this unforgettable surprise for their parents, their main goal was to update the house as much as possible. To do this they needed to do more than paint and renovate, they had also saved money to buy some new living room furniture.
They soon found out that getting the new furniture in was much easier than getting the old furniture out. As documented in their video, all their strength was barely enough to push their old couch from the porch into the backyard, and their efforts were quite entertaining.
A Clean Slate
As the sisters moved on from cleaning and sorting to the actual fixing up, they soon found out that real renovation tasks are hard work. Hollie may have gotten cold feet about their grand plan at this point, but they decided to keep going, and ripped out all the old carpeting in the house.
While steadily working their way through the house to the bigger tasks, the girls learned a DIY tip, the best way to get the old carpeting out of the house was to throw it out a window.
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
Maybe the sisters got their inspiration from one of the many home make-over shows on TV in which family homes are fixed up in one quick hour, hold the commercials, but they quickly realized that there was lot more work then they thought and that they would be hard pressed to finish everything in time.
That’s when they decided they needed more hands-on deck, and they had the perfect guys in mind. They just had to cross their fingers that help would be there when they needed it.
Flexing Their Abilities
Although the sisters soon learned the sheer amount of physical labor required for the big job, they were not all unfamiliar with physical fitness.
Heather, the oldest, helps others achieve their health and fitness goals and keeps them on the right track by hosting working accountability groups. Halice also knows a thing or two about keeping fit, because she was in the midst of getting her degree in exercise and sports science while the renovation was taking place.
Playing To Their Strengths
The fact that the sisters were so close in age was also a big advantage because they were used to working together as a team. The enormous undertaking of renovating an entire house in only a week would not have been possible if the Schoonover girls did not know how to cooperate with each other and play to each other’s strengths.
When the girls were growing up, the family used to pursue geocaching, another activity in which they had to cooperate in order to succeed.