20+ Facts About The Home Reno Show

In Season 2, Episode 4 of "Bargain Block," called "Minimalist and Dollhouse Completed," Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas purchase a small house they name the "minimalist house" — with the intention to stick to a minimalist design to make the house appear larger. With the help of their realtor friend Shea Hicks-Whitfield, they get the house for $25,000 — $10,000 under its $35,000 asking price. While only 1,128 square feet, the two-bedroom, one-bath house (per Realtor) was in better condition than most of the duo's houses.

While Bynum had a hard time not going all out on design for this one, the strategy appears to have worked. "Light wood, neutral colors, soft textures, and tone-on-tone design elements will be perfect for this space, but a struggle for me," Bynum says during the episode (via Realtor). "I'm trying to keep it very simple, elegant, clean." Realtor agrees that his design instinct was on par, as the house, in the end, looks clean and uncluttered.

As the Manistee News Advocate noted in July 2022, the house was temporarily back on the market for $110,000 after originally being listed in March 2022 for $119,000. The house apparently has found the right buyer, though, since the listing, at the time of publication, is off the market.