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When the pandemic brought his design agency work to a halt, Brian Ware decided to try his hand at home flipping in Yucca Valley’s booming housing market.
Joshua Tree has long been a bargain market for anyone priced out of buying a home in the greater Los Angeles area. When the pandemic hit, it supercharged a buying spree in and around the town by outsiders: Some were first-time homeowners wanting a full-time residence, while others wanted vacation homes they could list as short-term rentals. With the sudden surge in popularity, another set started scooping up homes there to renovate and resell outright.
When the pandemic hit, Brian Ware shifted his focus away from his creative agency, One Trick Pony, to flip houses in the Joshua Tree area. He purchased this Yucca Valley midcentury for $337,500 in 2021, completed a renovation in June of this year with around $400,000, and is now asking $995,000 for the home.
Photo by Elizabeth Carababas
That was Los Angeleno Brian Ware, a designer at creative agency One Trick Pony. When he suddenly couldn’t travel abroad anymore for work during Covid, he decided to apply his aesthetic sensibilities elsewhere and pivoted to the home renovation business, starting with a fixer-upper in Yucca Valley. "I was going to Seoul once a month, but with the pandemic, it all kind of came crashing down," he recalls. "I bought some properties in the desert, thinking that I could employ myself and give myself something to do. I knew I couldn’t afford Los Angeles, but I could afford something out in the desert."
Brian painted the exterior using Private Black from Behr, which has a charcoal-esque, matte finish and brown tones.
Photo by Elizabeth Carababas
Brian tore out wall-to-wall carpeting to reveal the home’s original concrete floors, which were cracked in multiple places, and then ground them down and applied a sealant.
Photo by Elizabeth Carababas
See the full story on Dwell.com: Budget Breakdown: For $404K, a First-Time Renovator Revives a Joshua Tree Midcentury
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By: Grace Bernard
Title: Budget Breakdown: For $404K, a First-Time Renovator Revives a Joshua Tree Midcentury
Sourced From: www.dwell.com/article/la-vina-house-brian-ware-joshua-tree-midcentury-renovation-ac793968
Published Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:51:53 GMT
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