A lot of people when they
walk into the house, they say,
where's all your--
where's all your junk?
Like, where's all your stuff?
Yeah.
And then I just say, just
don't look in the closets.
Right.
No, that's probably not
a good thing to say.
We have junk drawers,
just like anybody else.
It's like the cartoon.
You open the closet,
and it's like--
Everything falls?
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We're not perfect, you know?
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Hi, I'm Stacy.
And I'm Jarrod.
And welcome to our
"Handmade Home."
In Birmingham, Alabama.
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This crazy tornado outbreak
happened in the state,
and I was actually
driving around looking
at the-- the damage.
But then I drove
past this house,
and it had a little "for
sale" sign out front,
and it was basically the only
untouched home on the street.
So when I saw the house, I kind
of knew it was meant to be.
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We actually hosted Thanksgiving,
and we were so proud because we
had gotten the house so clean.
And we were going
to carve the turkey,
and I think your mom said,
wow, your kitchen is very dim.
It was.
Really, we lived with
that kitchen for years,
and it was horrible.
We lived with the vinyl floor.
We lived with cabinets
that didn't close,
very limited storage.
No pantry.
Very dark, the
kitchen was so dark.
The reason why we went
with the all white kitchen
was because when you were
in the space, it was--
it never felt clean.
And so I think the main
goal for the new kitchen
was for it to feel clean.
I think maybe that's why
we went with all white.
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I'm a photographer, and I do
a lot of shooting in here.
I love to shoot food.
And the space felt dirty and
dingy and dark for a long time,
and we wanted something
light and bright.
We love the way it works here.
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So this is a really basic hood.
It's-- it's super standard,
very cheap, 100-- $100.
But we built-- we
framed out all around it
and then clod it with some
tongue-and-groove to tie it
into the rest of
the kitchen to make
it look a little
more intentional
and integrated to the space.
I painted it.
That's about all I did.
I'm good at painting.
You were great.
I guess I'm a little
bit of the visionary.
I'm a very visual person.
I'm a photographer.
So I'll have an idea,
and I'll bring it to him.
And usually when he starts
drawing and making plans,
he gets excited.
But there have
been a few projects
that he has kind of not
been super excited about,
and that was maybe
our office renovation.
Hmm.
And I just started demoing
the room when he was at work.
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And so when he came
home, he was like, well,
I guess we're doing this thing.
So this is our office.
We took the old '70s paneling
off all of the walls,
and then we added
this vertical shiplap
just kind of like as a--
kind of like a nod to,
like, what it was before.
Our goal for this space was to--
for us to walk in and our
minds not feel cluttered.
I feel like we've always
been minimalists in a way.
I believe that a small
home can feel quite
big if you don't clutter it up.
The tendency is to buy and to
fill and to populate your space
just because it's there.
And what we believe,
what-- what our ethos
is to try to populate it
with things that really
want to be there
and need to be there
to serve the right purpose.
So we really have to make
conscious decisions about what
we bring into the home,
and I kind of want
our house to be like an escape.
Like, you walk in and
you have everything
you need, nothing more.
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This is our most
recent DIY project,
our master bedroom headboard.
I guess-- I don't know if you
would call it a headboard.
It's more kind of just
a part of the room now,
which is kind of like
what we wanted it to be.
Actually showed Jarrod a picture
of this discontinued headboard,
and I really wanted to kind
of create the same look,
but kind of like--
Elevate it.
Elevate it.
Elevate it.
There you go.
Say that.
Elevate it.
We wanted to make sure
you didn't see wires going
everywhere, so one of the
things we did to hide the wires
was to embed a Qi
charger inside the shelf.
So when it's time to
charge your phone at night,
just lay it down right
there on the charger.
And when we want to turn
off our lights at night,
all we have to do
is say, "Goodnight."
The scene is set.
Goodnight.
[LAUGHTER]
Feel so cool doing that.
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And here is our master bath.
This is the one portion of
our house that is an addition.
Yeah, I'm really
proud of that bathroom
because we were able
to start from nothing.
We really weren't confined
by what was previously there,
so being able to make some
aesthetic decisions in the
construction was really fun.
There's a lot of mirrors
you can find all, you know,
ready to go off the
shelf, but we wanted
something that fit the space.
So the only option
to pull that off
was to have
something fabricated.
I think whenever you
can fabricate something,
you add something really special
because it's not something
that you could go buy.
It's so fitting to the space.
Like, the breakfast bar is
very integrated to where--
where we live.
The shower panel is
really integrated.
The headboard is
really integrated.
So yeah, I think--
I think fabrication
of little pieces here
and there add something
really special.
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A lot of people come up
to me and say, well, tell
me the easy way to do this.
And a lot of times there really
isn't an easy way to do it.
I think that just because
something appears to be minimal
doesn't mean that it's easy.
It's going to hurt
more than you think.
Yeah.
It's going to cost
more than you budget.
It's going to take
longer than you planned.
And that sounds terrible, but
after I say that, I'd say,
do it.
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