-Oh, Dash. -Yeah, that was a bad fart.
-Oh! -Getting ready to walk away.
-[ Sniffs ] Oh, he just -- Oh, he carpet-bombed us!
-[ Laughs ]
-Hey, guys, this is Ryan and Winston.
-And I'm Jess, and this is Dash.
-And welcome to our sweet digs in Tempe, Arizona.
-Our house is 1,900 square feet
with three beds, two baths, and a backyard with a pool.
-We bought our home for about $313,000,
which, honestly, for this area, it's a really good price.
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So, after I graduated from grad school,
we were looking for a house here, back home in Arizona,
and it just so happened that my cousin was moving to Georgia
at the exact same time we were coming home,
and we needed a home, and it was in a great location,
at the perfect price for us.
So when we bought the home from my cousin,
the only thing we wanted to change is the interior
because it was what
I like to affectionately call Arizona chic.
A lot of brown tile, a lot of brown tones.
The walls were brown. Just a lot of those colors.
But that's not what we were going for.
The cool thing was we didn't have a whole lot of money,
but our community from our church and family
stepped up big time.
The friend that set us up on our first date, he's a painter,
and he painted our entire house for free.
My aunt helped us get our floors at cost.
Another family at the church saw that we were renovating
and knew that Jess liked to host,
and so they bought us our entire kitchen.
It was crazy generous of them.
And there are so many more
that made this whole thing come together.
Thank you. You guys are our heroes.
When you walk into our house,
it's a fairly open concept
with a giant U for our entertaining space.
In our front room of our house,
there's a couple pieces of furniture
that are pretty special to me.
One of them is our couch.
I've had it since I was a sophomore in college.
And then the chair in that room is my recliner,
and I got it from my dad.
-Our main media room with our TV and our couch,
we definitely wanted to get a comfy couch
'cause we watch probably too much television.
-Way too much.
-I also love the bookshelves in that room.
I spent a lot of time doing the gradient of color
and making sure that everything faded correctly color wise.
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When we moved in, some of the other things
that we did to kind of upgrade the space
was painting our fireplace white,
and then we also added a really cool chandelier
over the dining room table.
So, we lived in Chicago for two years,
and they were some of our sweetest memories,
and so we wanted to bring back some of those things to Arizona.
So one of the things we have is a dining room table
from a cool boutique in Chicago.
It is a live-edge wood table,
and it just has so many memories with it.
And the other thing is we have a really beautiful
wrought-iron outline of the Chicago city lights.
We just love to have those pieces of Chicago
in our Arizona home.
-So, when we were laying out our home,
we really wanted it to be one large flow.
So as you walk in, you have an area
to sit and gather and talk and just hang out.
The layout of our home allows us
to have a lot of functionality as we have fun.
-My favorite part of our home is our kitchen.
I love cooking and I love hosting.
And so the kitchen is where I spend the most of my time.
-I tend to think I have a decent eye for design,
but Jess was actually the one
that came up with the colors in our kitchen,
having the white cabinets and blue cabinets on the bottom.
-One of the other things about our kitchen
that's special to us is how big it is,
because, in Chicago, our apartment was 450 square feet.
So now we have a big, long 10x10 island.
We also have a lot of space for my KitchenAid
because I love to bake.
We also chose a really cool
herringbone style backsplash tile.
So, it's white, but it's got a little bit of a shimmer to it.
We just love being in our kitchen.
So, when we first did the walkthrough of the house
when we bought it, there were a bunch of hall closets.
We decided to kind of close off some of those hall closets
and then turn it into a walk-in pantry.
So, I know the home looks perfect and spotless,
and I worked very hard for it to look that way.
But we all have that one room. I know you do.
And for us, it's our office.
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The office has a desk in it that we sometimes work in,
but also that's just where we put all of our extra things.
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-It's really great that we have a guest room.
One of the fun parts about that room
is it was all donated to us.
Just great to have people come visit us
from around the United States.
-Our bedroom is a little bit more on the simple side.
We're probably going to decorate it in the next year or so,
but we've spent most of our time
decorating the rest of our spaces in our home.
But one of my favorite parts about our bedroom
is our king-size bed.
We joke that it's big enough
that if we wanted to go visit the other person
in the middle of the night, we'd need a passport.
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-This is our "master bathroom."
-It's got a sink and a standing shower,
and it's perfect for what we need.
-It's Arizona chic. -We do not love our bathrooms.
They are both functional,
but they are just not our style or anything.
For our backyard, we have a pool.
We have a little grassy area.
We have my little space where I have a garden.
I've got some, like, fruits and veggies and some herbs.
And it's really fun for me to just, on the weekends,
get to plant some things.
And we've got a great grill
where Ryan spends his time grilling chicken
in the summertime. -Oh, yeah.
So, we have a pool, and we love it.
Because it's a diving pool,
it goes down to about 12 feet at the deep end.
And it's just great to have family over.
During quarantine, like the rest of you,
I had to figure out what to do with my life.
I took up woodworking.
That's what the table outside is all about.
And then inside, we got what is called a Tonal.
It's now our home gym.
I mean, with the quarantine and everything,
we can't go to the gym,
and so we actually went and bought one.
And it is the most fun you can have while working out.
It's our splurge.
We're not currently sponsored by Tonal,
but, Tonal, if you're out there, call me.
-So, something that's really important to Ryan and I is
doing life with people, having the ups and downs,
with strong relationships with friends and family.
Our home is a place to do that.
We love hosting, and we love having people over.
And that's just what's been the biggest influence for our home.
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