Farr was moved by the experiences of the Ukrainian teenagers, feeling compassion for their unfamiliar circumstances.

“[Sofiia] was just 16, and she’d been through a pandemic, and then this.

It tore me apart,” she said.

Hilary Farr sitting with a patterned throw pillow

Given the circumstances of the family, the renovation was especially significant to Farr.

“It was a really difficult thing to manage.

Hilary Farr looking at tile samples in a still from “Tough Love with Hilary Farr”