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Upcycled Oil Drum Planters

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As we continue to dress up different areas of our new place we find ourselves jumping around from one project to another (which probably has something to do with why we don’t have more completed project blog entries yet, haha!). Anyway, since we ripped out 5 billion shrubs in the backyard we had an empty corner to fill and we weren’t sure what to do with it. Then it popped in our heads we should incorporate some old oil drums some way some how. A quick search on Craigslist and we found a seller, picked up some various sizes, cut the tops off ‘em with the sawzall and slapped on a vibrant pop of color. Then we loaded them up with some plants that only need partial sun/shade (since that’s what that corner area gets) and there ya’ go! Now we just have to wait for the plants to fill in some more. Not too shabby!

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More stuff coming soon here and here, stay tuned!

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Mid-Century Stereos

Posted in Furniture

Today we took a trip up to Silverado Warehouse in Rainbow, California to buy some old wood for a backyard project we had in mind. They’re moving to LA soon so they’re having a pretty crazy sale right now. You can get anything on the property for pretty cheap. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of crap that’s just simply rusted out worthless junk but if you poke around you might just find a little diamond in the rough. We started looking through what was left of the salvaged wood but we weren’t really feelin’ it so we started to head out. As we were leaving caught a glimpse of a couple mid-century pieces. You should know, everything at Silverado is left outside and is pretty weathered. Some of it is under pop-up tents but it’s still outside nonetheless and most of the stuff has seen better days. Anyway, we started examining these mid-century pieces and found out they were actually stereos with record players inside. We really had no interest in whether or not the stereos still worked because we were sure they were toasted, but even though the bodies of the pieces were in pretty rough shape they still looked like they could still have a shot at a second life……with us.

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As far as mid-century stereos go we’re pretty sure these aren’t any fantastic or rare models, but they have a great look and for $70 for the pair, it was pretty hard to pass them by. We’ve got some before & after ideas for these pieces which we’ll get to eventually and of course we’ll post them here when they’re complete.

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There’s nothing like a couple more projects to keep us busy and pumped up! See you soon!

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One Small Step For Mankind….One Giant Leap For Us

Posted in Home

Well, after looking at several houses that could potentially be our first home we came across one in particular that I (seth) was ready to disqualify because of it’s super old folks 1970′s interior. But then as we stood on it’s porch and looked out over the front yard and off into the distance and the pretty sweet view of greenery, trees and mountain tops, Dez said something like “see….this is the kind of place I’ve always seen us living in“. At that moment I decided I was in, and we had our realtor, Brian Williams grab the key card and let us in to check it out in further detail. Right away we started to see the potential this place had and we decided to get moving on it.

We finally got to the point of submitting our first offer on the house only to find out the house had just gone from short sale status to foreclosure status a couple days prior to our first offer which Brian wasn’t even aware of. Dang! So now what? We wait for it to get officially relisted as a foreclosure.

We wait.

We wait some more.

And we wait some more.

We would drive by the house every couple days to see if the sign was up yet and finally one day it happened! We immediately jumped on the horn with Brian and got the paperwork rolling again. Unfortunately this was a HUD home. If you’re ever going to buy a HUD home be prepared to put up with a bunch of stupid HUD crap, and be prepared for HUD to not budge on anything. HUD sucks. Fortunately for us, this house did not. Anyway, fast forward through all the boring paperwork, an awesome and extremely informative home inspection by Jim Huff Home Inspections, and plenty of waiting……it was ours!!

We are truly, truly blessed. We got a great solid house at a great price that has only had 1 owner (the previous owners bought the house new back in 1972/73 and lived there ever since……..till they died). We’ve already tackled a bunch of projects and we’ve got plenty of new entries on the horizon so stay tuned!!

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