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For their own home, the Property Brothers pulled out all the stops, including an infinity pool and an attached pool house. Reality TV can get intense when there are hammers involved. Renovating your home is a huge undertaking, both financially and emotionally. It's one of the most anxiety-producing things you'll ever do—because you'll literally have to live with the consequences, and bad decisions can lower the home's resale value and thus your net worth. So imagine renovating your home with the added stress of doing it alongside your strong-willed identical twin brother, who also happens to be your business partner. And imagine the whole process being filmed for a national audience. "We're used to giving people their dream homes all the time," says Jonathan Scott, one half of HGTV's breakout stars the Property Brothers. "It can be hard when the camera is turned back on you. We made a rule that we would never turn off the cameras." He's referring to the massive renovation that he and brother Drew completed on their own Las Vegas home last year, a five-month process that was filmed for the series Property Brothers: At Home. The Scotts quickly realized that working on their own home would be much more difficult than any of the hundreds of properties they had made over for clients. With a 5,000 -square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom main house and a 1,000 -square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath guesthouse, all on a half-acre Spring Valley lot, there was a lot to plan. This renovation was something that had been swirling in the brothers' minds for years. They purchased the property out of foreclosure in late 2010 and had been living in it as-is when they weren't busy filming. The fact that their own home didn't live up to their standards Personal ProPerty They've renovaTed and sold sTrangers' homes, and now the ProPerty Brothers' own las vegas abode Takes cenTer sTage. by andy wang photography by larry hanna continued on PAge 96 vegasmagazine.com 95 Haute ProPerty