**A Home Filled with Original Artwork**

Every home needs original artwork, whether it's created by yourself, your kids, friends, or bought at local fairs. For me, I work in the world of mass-produced artwork and I love going into a home and seeing something super original. My aunt painted this beautiful piece in 1975, which is also the year I was born. She gave it to me as a gift when I turned 18 after having every Christmas photo taken in front of this painting my whole life.

**A Collection of Unique Finds**

I have a little bit of an obsession with mid-century lighting. I just can't get enough of adjustable lamps, and whenever I find one, I buy it up. This pair of sconces were actually part of my collection from really early on. They're so cool that I was excited to find them, and my uncle gave them to me as a gift. The two chairs in the room are also a favorite of mine. I drove two hours to get them because they were only $60 for the pair.

**Black and White Everything**

My favorite paint color combination is definitely black and white. My wife and I have a black and white parade crew called "The Crew of Optical Delusions," where we all dress in black and white stripes. We even try to use black and white as often as possible in our house, with the exception of our dog, who has his own unique black and white theme.

**A Mural that Transforms a Hallway**

One of the boldest ways we've used black and white in our home is definitely the hallway. The hallway was kind of an uninviting space, but we wanted to do something to make it more eye-catching. So, we spent about a weekend hand-painting this beautiful mural. We didn't want any full patterns, so we decided to jump up and go over the attic door. My favorite part of this room is that we continued the mural into the doorway.

**Maximizing Creativity in Our Home**

We love to maximize on creativity in our house. That's why we even swapped out all of the light switch plates. I wanted a very 50s-style Starburst look in our bathroom, so I came up with this simple idea and hand-painted it using a ruler and a paint pin. It took about two weekends and another two and a half years to complete.

**The Crown Jewel: A Rare Art Piece**

My favorite piece in the home is actually the Jean Pierre Renal that's hanging over our toilet. We found this beautiful ceramic tile piece at Scott's Antique Market for $25. But, what we didn't know was that it was an original artwork from 1974! The seller even guaranteed us that it would sell for $5,000 or more if we sold it with them.

**Personal Touches**

My bedside table lamps are just the coolest lamps I've ever seen. I've never seen anything else like them. They're a piece I framed myself, and you can see there's a double mat on it of pink and orange. I really like the set of matte that I did here with the narrow sides and the wide top and wider bottom. It's a very mid-century style.

**The Art of Picture Framing**

I've been picture framing for almost 27 years now, so framing has become part of the house because we collect art I love so much. What we've done with this home is truly special. People love this house so much that it's become our pride and joy. We'll probably never sell it if you like this video, give it a thumbs up, and subscribe to Handmade for more home tours like this.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Gina and this is Minnie and I'm JP and this is Mikey and this is our handmade home in Atlanta Georgia so when I was looking at houses um one of the things that was really important to me was that it was near the East Atlanta Village I really wanted to stay in this neighborhood but when I saw this one I knew it had good bones it had brick hardwood floors a full basement a big yard it it was the least scary opt that I saw when people walk into our house I really want them to have a wow factor and I I want them to look around and just be in amazement for a minute and have to gaze upon all of the things here because we've curated so many pieces so I'm an interior designer for Home Depot I work on the catalog um so my job is pulling products together that we're going to then shoot in the catalog photography I get accused all the time of making it too busy but in my house I can put patterns wherever I want my side also is Antiques and vintage collectibles so since both of us work in the creative field it's just natural for us to want to have like an experimental fun creative home our house is very unassuming from the outside and then when you come in and you're not expecting to see all this pattern and color and people really have that explosion you know like wao I wasn't expecting okay this is our kitchen where we love to entertain this is like where all of our patterns kind of come together um we have green cabinets we also have curtains that um I made to go with the cabinets that have like a mod print to bring in the green and then this is our collection of vintage glasswar so uh I started collecting barware at least in the last 15 to 20 years and I mean it's really an easy thing to find at a estate sales you can find some pretty unique ones at times I mean this one for example I do love this is this is a Georgia own these are peanut quartet there's so many interesting things you could find through glassware honestly so when we were designing the kitchen uh we had like a makeshift kitchen here for a while and anytime we would entertain people would just kind of congregate in this area so we knew that we wanted to make this like the bar area we knew we wanted to do the black and white floor and I thought it would be a nice compliment to do a white and black tile backsplash so we actually got these two tiles from two different companies because this one didn't make white with black and this one didn't make black with white but we decided to do the tile all the way to the ceiling to create kind of a focal point behind all of the glass wear we really wanted that view from from the front door looking into the kitchen to have that wow so that's why we went with this really really busy pattern on the island just as that little bit of icing on the cake so the green cabinets I actually recovered from a demolition of a home they told me that they were just going to throw them away I kind of freaked out so the dumpster showed up to the house coincidentally I was driving around looking for yard sales and I saw the dumpster back into the driveway and I pulled right in and asked what's going on with the kitchen and they're like it's going in the dumpster so I immediately was like nope let me please take this out and they were they said okay so we were able to pull it all out and we stored it for a minute and waited for the right time to get it into the house my reaction to the cabinets at first was no not green he really had to kind of talk me into it um but when we started laying out the space for the kitchen they fit perfectly I think we ended up using every single piece that you brought home that day when we got to do the lights for this room we were looking at all different kinds of chandeliers and I knew I wanted something really big but we decided that it would be nice to do a collection of chandeliers since we have a collection of everything else and all three of these were made by the same person in Palm Springs and we had them do three totally different ones for us so that we could closer them together to create one big piece so the tattoo on my arm is a George Nelson clock I've always been a fan of the story of The George Nelson clock all the designers got together and drank a bunch of tequila and the next day no one really knew who designed the clock we actually have the George Nelson clock over here along with lots of other clocks what are these 50s to 7s yes this clock is all about the zodiac so it's got like all the different zodiac signs some of the little ones are more from the 50s this one came out of my dad's house is this collection complete there's a little room here yeah I might have a a message out on Marketplace for one right now so our favorite place to entertain in our house is our backyard because we have the best patio let me show you come on out we wanted a space with a hot tub JP always wanted a sunken hot tub and we wanted to create a space that had a little bit of privacy but didn't completely block The View because we get lots of deer in the backyard here and the trees are really beautiful so we decided to go with this like triangular shape which partially blocks the neighbors and then we added a bar I mean we are living our best Palm Spring life here normally when we entertain we keep that door open and this whole patio will be full of people and people just go in and out so we have a nice vintage sign back here that actually is a bit of Atlanta History this is from the stories 885 Twin Drive-In and this actually was the sign that stood above the highway all of the furniture out here um we have several pieces of fiberglass when he got this one the fiberglass was actually like poking out and he had to actually like finish it the tiki to torches are also vintage um JP had those in the attic for years and we finally pulled them out for a party and then forgot to light them we're in the radio room now so we call it because obviously we've got a wall of radios here I've been collecting radios for well over 20 years now it's kind of my first thing I ever collected they're just so unique and individual I think it you know it's it's beyond what we do today as far as entertainment they're all a piece of art so yeah this is probably one of the greatest even though this is just a little a' 7s little uh am Panasonic but just I mean look look at where we've come from you know even I mean the comparison of any of this to this it's so crazy I mean we just went everywhere with the design of radio I've had to give him space requirements like you get this wall of radios if you want to keep something you have to let something go we call it upgrading here he's always trying to sneak in a new shelf what if I put a shelf above the window he's even started adding tiny ones to the cabinets oh here's here's one of the best actually I bought this for Gina when we first started dating even though it was really for me who who are we kidding I know right it was like my first birthday gift from him I'm like but look it's like a miniature version retro but still like it has like a little record and everything why don't we design things like this this anymore and we also have to talk about your bar oh yeah so this was a a roadside find here literally just in someone's trash and I saw the purpose that it could do in another life this is also uh another cheap find we I didn't even know if it worked but I just thought it had such a classic look to it did a little touchup on it and powered it up and it worked just fine now it's our main source of entertainment uh I've actually got it powered up throughout the house and it it's actually generating other antique speakers such as the one behind Gina it's been really just a focal point of our house so this is our living room obviously one of our favorite pieces is the sofa JP had the sofa when I met him the cushions on it were disintegrating the foam had diminished so much that they were like an inch thin and they were wrapped in plastic bags to keep them from like shedding so I tried to get a quote to have cushions made and it was astronomical so I just decided to do it myself and I watched some YouTube tutorials and I picked up a book on Upholstery and I remade all of the cushions um and the pillows for this couch along with the curtains um that you see here I think every home needs original artwork be it made by yourself made by your kids friends bought at local fairs I work in the world of mass-produced artwork and I I love going into a home and seeing something super original So my aunt painted this in 1975 uh which is the year I was born and then when I turned 18 after having every Christmas photo of me taken in front of this painting my whole life um my uncle gave it to me these two sconces were actually part of my collection from from really early on I just was so excited to find these anytime I can find any sort of adjustable lamps I will buy them up I do have a little bit of an obsession with mid-century lighting I said yeah said it actually will slide up and they have weights on them that I love these chairs I might have drove two hours for them just because I think she only wanted $60 for the pair yeah you can see the Alexander Calder mobiles in the in the pattern which is kind of awesome and then these Joan Meo sort of suns in the background and we have the black and white exactly throughout our favorite paint color combo is definitely black and white definitely black and white um we have a black and white parade crew called the crew of optical delusions where we all dress and black and white stripes and we try to use black and white as often as possible in our house or white and black black white with black black with white it comes in so many forms even your dog even the dog we're all on brand here well one of the boldest ways we've used black and white in in our house is definitely the hallway hallway was kind of an uninviting Place really we were you know trying to figure out what we could do and we just wanted to be some do something that made it a little little more eye-catching so this is all hand done we spent about a weekend really a lot of fun we knew that we didn't want want it to be full pattern everywhere we definitely wanted some breakes so you see the pattern kind of jump up and go over the attic door and then you don't see any paint for a little while my favorite part of this room is that we decided to continue the mural into the doorway so when you walk in our front door and you kind of look this direction you really catch this edge of the painted wall and it it's sort of like what's happening back there we really like to maximize on the creativity in our house so we even swapped out all of the light switch plates I think every room has a different light switch plate yeah I went ahead and decided I wanted a very 50 Starburst look in uh our bathroom and wallpaper really doesn't go well in bathrooms due to moisture so I decided I could hand paint something like that so I came up with this simple little Starburst idea and uh went from one one and to four and 400 he did all of those little Starbursts with a ruler and a paint pin took about a weekend and then another two and a half years actually complet it so I think our favorite piece in the home or mine is the Jean Pierre renal that's hanging over our toilet we went to Scott's Antique Market one Saturday we were looking for something that we could use as a countertop temporarily and we found this piece and it's like ceramic tile and grouted and it was exactly the right size we asked the guy how much it was and he says $25 we're like perfect we'll take it and as we're um putting it in the car we realized that there's saabe stickers on the back of it uh so we reached out to S bees and they said it's an original artwork from 1974 and that it they would guarantee us $5,000 or more if we would sell it with them ironically it is above toilet now which is funny because it is the most expensive piece of art we have in our home so this is our primary bedroom JP had these amazing baroth curtains our bedside table lamps are just the coolest lamps I've ever seen I've never seen anything else like these this is a piece I framed myself and you can see there's a double mat on it of pink and orange I really like the set of matte that I did here with the narrow sides and the wide top and wider bottom it's a very mid-century style well I've been picture framing for almost 27 years now so framing has become part of the house because we collect art I love so much what we've done with this home it's so beautiful and people love this house so much it's very special house we'll probably never sell it if you like this video give it a thumbs up and subscribe to handmade for more home tours like thishi I'm Gina and this is Minnie and I'm JP and this is Mikey and this is our handmade home in Atlanta Georgia so when I was looking at houses um one of the things that was really important to me was that it was near the East Atlanta Village I really wanted to stay in this neighborhood but when I saw this one I knew it had good bones it had brick hardwood floors a full basement a big yard it it was the least scary opt that I saw when people walk into our house I really want them to have a wow factor and I I want them to look around and just be in amazement for a minute and have to gaze upon all of the things here because we've curated so many pieces so I'm an interior designer for Home Depot I work on the catalog um so my job is pulling products together that we're going to then shoot in the catalog photography I get accused all the time of making it too busy but in my house I can put patterns wherever I want my side also is Antiques and vintage collectibles so since both of us work in the creative field it's just natural for us to want to have like an experimental fun creative home our house is very unassuming from the outside and then when you come in and you're not expecting to see all this pattern and color and people really have that explosion you know like wao I wasn't expecting okay this is our kitchen where we love to entertain this is like where all of our patterns kind of come together um we have green cabinets we also have curtains that um I made to go with the cabinets that have like a mod print to bring in the green and then this is our collection of vintage glasswar so uh I started collecting barware at least in the last 15 to 20 years and I mean it's really an easy thing to find at a estate sales you can find some pretty unique ones at times I mean this one for example I do love this is this is a Georgia own these are peanut quartet there's so many interesting things you could find through glassware honestly so when we were designing the kitchen uh we had like a makeshift kitchen here for a while and anytime we would entertain people would just kind of congregate in this area so we knew that we wanted to make this like the bar area we knew we wanted to do the black and white floor and I thought it would be a nice compliment to do a white and black tile backsplash so we actually got these two tiles from two different companies because this one didn't make white with black and this one didn't make black with white but we decided to do the tile all the way to the ceiling to create kind of a focal point behind all of the glass wear we really wanted that view from from the front door looking into the kitchen to have that wow so that's why we went with this really really busy pattern on the island just as that little bit of icing on the cake so the green cabinets I actually recovered from a demolition of a home they told me that they were just going to throw them away I kind of freaked out so the dumpster showed up to the house coincidentally I was driving around looking for yard sales and I saw the dumpster back into the driveway and I pulled right in and asked what's going on with the kitchen and they're like it's going in the dumpster so I immediately was like nope let me please take this out and they were they said okay so we were able to pull it all out and we stored it for a minute and waited for the right time to get it into the house my reaction to the cabinets at first was no not green he really had to kind of talk me into it um but when we started laying out the space for the kitchen they fit perfectly I think we ended up using every single piece that you brought home that day when we got to do the lights for this room we were looking at all different kinds of chandeliers and I knew I wanted something really big but we decided that it would be nice to do a collection of chandeliers since we have a collection of everything else and all three of these were made by the same person in Palm Springs and we had them do three totally different ones for us so that we could closer them together to create one big piece so the tattoo on my arm is a George Nelson clock I've always been a fan of the story of The George Nelson clock all the designers got together and drank a bunch of tequila and the next day no one really knew who designed the clock we actually have the George Nelson clock over here along with lots of other clocks what are these 50s to 7s yes this clock is all about the zodiac so it's got like all the different zodiac signs some of the little ones are more from the 50s this one came out of my dad's house is this collection complete there's a little room here yeah I might have a a message out on Marketplace for one right now so our favorite place to entertain in our house is our backyard because we have the best patio let me show you come on out we wanted a space with a hot tub JP always wanted a sunken hot tub and we wanted to create a space that had a little bit of privacy but didn't completely block The View because we get lots of deer in the backyard here and the trees are really beautiful so we decided to go with this like triangular shape which partially blocks the neighbors and then we added a bar I mean we are living our best Palm Spring life here normally when we entertain we keep that door open and this whole patio will be full of people and people just go in and out so we have a nice vintage sign back here that actually is a bit of Atlanta History this is from the stories 885 Twin Drive-In and this actually was the sign that stood above the highway all of the furniture out here um we have several pieces of fiberglass when he got this one the fiberglass was actually like poking out and he had to actually like finish it the tiki to torches are also vintage um JP had those in the attic for years and we finally pulled them out for a party and then forgot to light them we're in the radio room now so we call it because obviously we've got a wall of radios here I've been collecting radios for well over 20 years now it's kind of my first thing I ever collected they're just so unique and individual I think it you know it's it's beyond what we do today as far as entertainment they're all a piece of art so yeah this is probably one of the greatest even though this is just a little a' 7s little uh am Panasonic but just I mean look look at where we've come from you know even I mean the comparison of any of this to this it's so crazy I mean we just went everywhere with the design of radio I've had to give him space requirements like you get this wall of radios if you want to keep something you have to let something go we call it upgrading here he's always trying to sneak in a new shelf what if I put a shelf above the window he's even started adding tiny ones to the cabinets oh here's here's one of the best actually I bought this for Gina when we first started dating even though it was really for me who who are we kidding I know right it was like my first birthday gift from him I'm like but look it's like a miniature version retro but still like it has like a little record and everything why don't we design things like this this anymore and we also have to talk about your bar oh yeah so this was a a roadside find here literally just in someone's trash and I saw the purpose that it could do in another life this is also uh another cheap find we I didn't even know if it worked but I just thought it had such a classic look to it did a little touchup on it and powered it up and it worked just fine now it's our main source of entertainment uh I've actually got it powered up throughout the house and it it's actually generating other antique speakers such as the one behind Gina it's been really just a focal point of our house so this is our living room obviously one of our favorite pieces is the sofa JP had the sofa when I met him the cushions on it were disintegrating the foam had diminished so much that they were like an inch thin and they were wrapped in plastic bags to keep them from like shedding so I tried to get a quote to have cushions made and it was astronomical so I just decided to do it myself and I watched some YouTube tutorials and I picked up a book on Upholstery and I remade all of the cushions um and the pillows for this couch along with the curtains um that you see here I think every home needs original artwork be it made by yourself made by your kids friends bought at local fairs I work in the world of mass-produced artwork and I I love going into a home and seeing something super original So my aunt painted this in 1975 uh which is the year I was born and then when I turned 18 after having every Christmas photo of me taken in front of this painting my whole life um my uncle gave it to me these two sconces were actually part of my collection from from really early on I just was so excited to find these anytime I can find any sort of adjustable lamps I will buy them up I do have a little bit of an obsession with mid-century lighting I said yeah said it actually will slide up and they have weights on them that I love these chairs I might have drove two hours for them just because I think she only wanted $60 for the pair yeah you can see the Alexander Calder mobiles in the in the pattern which is kind of awesome and then these Joan Meo sort of suns in the background and we have the black and white exactly throughout our favorite paint color combo is definitely black and white definitely black and white um we have a black and white parade crew called the crew of optical delusions where we all dress and black and white stripes and we try to use black and white as often as possible in our house or white and black black white with black black with white it comes in so many forms even your dog even the dog we're all on brand here well one of the boldest ways we've used black and white in in our house is definitely the hallway hallway was kind of an uninviting Place really we were you know trying to figure out what we could do and we just wanted to be some do something that made it a little little more eye-catching so this is all hand done we spent about a weekend really a lot of fun we knew that we didn't want want it to be full pattern everywhere we definitely wanted some breakes so you see the pattern kind of jump up and go over the attic door and then you don't see any paint for a little while my favorite part of this room is that we decided to continue the mural into the doorway so when you walk in our front door and you kind of look this direction you really catch this edge of the painted wall and it it's sort of like what's happening back there we really like to maximize on the creativity in our house so we even swapped out all of the light switch plates I think every room has a different light switch plate yeah I went ahead and decided I wanted a very 50 Starburst look in uh our bathroom and wallpaper really doesn't go well in bathrooms due to moisture so I decided I could hand paint something like that so I came up with this simple little Starburst idea and uh went from one one and to four and 400 he did all of those little Starbursts with a ruler and a paint pin took about a weekend and then another two and a half years actually complet it so I think our favorite piece in the home or mine is the Jean Pierre renal that's hanging over our toilet we went to Scott's Antique Market one Saturday we were looking for something that we could use as a countertop temporarily and we found this piece and it's like ceramic tile and grouted and it was exactly the right size we asked the guy how much it was and he says $25 we're like perfect we'll take it and as we're um putting it in the car we realized that there's saabe stickers on the back of it uh so we reached out to S bees and they said it's an original artwork from 1974 and that it they would guarantee us $5,000 or more if we would sell it with them ironically it is above toilet now which is funny because it is the most expensive piece of art we have in our home so this is our primary bedroom JP had these amazing baroth curtains our bedside table lamps are just the coolest lamps I've ever seen I've never seen anything else like these this is a piece I framed myself and you can see there's a double mat on it of pink and orange I really like the set of matte that I did here with the narrow sides and the wide top and wider bottom it's a very mid-century style well I've been picture framing for almost 27 years now so framing has become part of the house because we collect art I love so much what we've done with this home it's so beautiful and people love this house so much it's very special house we'll probably never sell it if you like this video give it a thumbs up and subscribe to handmade for more home tours like this\n"