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TESSA FRENCH: I had a really,
really vivid dream of Zeb
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and I living in an
A-frame in the woods.
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It was so far from the
lives that we were living.
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And when we came to look
at this and check it out,
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it was like, it was shocking.
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Like, the house was
oriented the same way
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as the A-frame in my dream.
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This A-frame has huge
white pines out front
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and a carpet of needles on the
ground, similar to the dream.
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There's a lot of indicators
that this was the one.
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We're in Boyne Falls,
Michigan, at our A-frame.
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We live at the A-frame
with my daughter Zia.
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So we met while I was
living in New York City,
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and he was living in California.
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But we were working for the
same development company.
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Zeb was running new builds
on the construction side,
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and I was doing the design work.
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Yeah, we were just really
good friends for 10 years
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until we weren't
just friends anymore.
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ZEB BURGE: Eventually,
when we started dating,
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it just-- it just made
more sense for me to move
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to New York at the time.
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TESSA FRENCH: Life in
Brooklyn was great.
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ZEB BURGE: We had
a cool place there
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and we were doing a lot
of renovations to it.
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And it was kind of one of
the first, like, projects
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that we got to work on together.
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Both of us were working
remotely at the time.
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Zia's school was remote.
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So we were kind of at a
point where we were just
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there and going stir crazy.
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And
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Tessa's family has this
property in northern Michigan.
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And we were like, well,
let's just jump in the car,
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and we'll go hang out
there for a while.
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We were doing, like, these,
like, kind of just fun
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outdoorsy projects, and
like had time to do it.
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And I think we both were like,
wait a second this is, like,
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a different quality of life.
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So that's when I think we got
really serious about, like,
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kind of designing a small
house to build in Michigan.
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And we came here
with her mother.
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And like, I could see
the horror on her face.
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Like, she was looking at
this place like, oh, my god.
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What kind of thing is that?
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TESSA FRENCH: Zia came too.
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And I think Zia was most
horrified out of anyone.
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ZEB BURGE: Yeah.
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TESSA FRENCH: She didn't
want to touch anything.
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ZEB BURGE: No.
But I don't know.
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We looked at it and
we're like, no, we
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could do something with this.
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This is going to be great.
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Like, this is perfect.
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Yeah, this is excellent.
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When it came to, like,
construction and demo,
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it was just the two of us.
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You know, Tessa
knew what colors,
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and we knew what flooring
we were going to use
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and things like that.
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I mean, we had the
freedom to, kind of,
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we'd rip something out that we
didn't anticipate ripping out.
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And we were like,
well, it's out now.
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Let's just design this.
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TESSA FRENCH: The design vision
was kind of a modern A-frame.
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Injecting this
thing with color was
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very important and
in a way that's still
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would feel fresh and airy.
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The first thing that I
bought for this A-frame
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was the living room rug, which
incorporates a ton of colors.
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So it was really important to
us to celebrate the A-frame
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and bring it a new fresh life.
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And we did that through
incorporating the lighting
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on the beams and really
lighting the peak
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and celebrating the height.
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ZEB BURGE: You can kind
of see our A-frame off
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to the left hand side
as you're pulling up.
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We've painted it like a darker
color, so it kind of blends
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in with the surroundings
a little bit.
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We left all those, like, bright
colors and, like, the happiness
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and the color explosion
for the inside.
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TESSA FRENCH: When you walk in
the lower level of the A-frame,
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on the left, there's
a little bench.
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You can sit down,
take your shoes off.
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Go down a hall, and on the
left hand side is Zia's room.
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Zia's room is the
real color explosion.
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She has a big window that has a
bench seat, where actually when
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we bought the house, it was--
those were two double doors
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that entered into the space.
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And we decided when we kind
of relayed out the lower level
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that we would relocate
the entry door
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into what's now the hallway.
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And what was kind of cool is
when we ripped open the walls,
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we found that actually,
the original entry door
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to the A-frame when it was
built was in the hallway
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exactly where we put it back.
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ZEB BURGE: So we ended up
putting our door right back
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where the original door went.
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TESSA FRENCH: When you wind
up the stairs from the entry
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level, you land in the kitchen.
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Kitchen kind of opens up
on your right hand side.
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The stove backs up to the
back of the fireplace.
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And all of the cabinetry and all
of the brick of the fireplace
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is painted what we
refer to as Zeb green.
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ZEB BURGE: I mean, I'm not--
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I'm not wearing it today,
but like, a lot of times,
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a lot of my clothing
is some very
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close variation of that color.
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TESSA FRENCH: He
frequently gets dressed
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and he is camouflaged
in the kitchen.
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The kitchen kind of leads you
out into the living space.
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It's the first time through that
whole journey through the house
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that you get to
experience the grandness
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of the A-frame itself.
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It's kind of magical
moment leaving the kitchen.
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There's a large seating
area with a big couch
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and the colorful rug
and some fun chairs,
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and all just a really
kind of cozy place
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that we spend most of our
time hanging out together.
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The fireplace is situated in
one corner of the living space.
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We have flat files
that we've built in.
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And those flat files hold
a lot of the finishes
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and design materials that we
work with on a daily basis.
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So it was nice to
incorporate such
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a functional kind of
industrial element
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in a really residential way.
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When you're standing in the
living room and looking up,
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you can see into the loft
with the glass railing.
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And there's a little
what we call the nest.
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And it's a little seating
area with a pendant lamp
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and some bookshelves
and a place that Zia
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spends a lot of time reading
when we're in the living room.
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ZEB BURGE: After you
kind of walk through
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the little nest area that's--
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that overlooks the living space,
you go in the loft bedroom.
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It's just really a quiet,
cozy private space.
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Tessa was like, I
want, like, shelves
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that we can put sneakers on.
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We have an embarrassingly
large amount of sneakers.
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You know, some of them
are really cool-looking.
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TESSA FRENCH: It's hard to put
art on a not straight wall.
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And being able to create
these flat shelves
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and kind of arrange the
sneakers in an artistic way
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and bring color into that
space was really the intention.
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And it feels like artwork.
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We moved in two days
before Thanksgiving.
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We had chicken pot pies
that Zeb made on a blanket
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in the living room.
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I think there was a
moment during that meal
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where it was like, OK, I don't
know if we can give this up.
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But-- but, I don't know,
we were still going
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back to New York at that point.
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But I think it
really turned then.
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I mean, this really
ended up being our dream
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and inspired us to be able
to create what we think
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our dream jobs are
and create our design
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build company Spot Lab.
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ZEB BURGE: And my
son Riley joined us.
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TESSA FRENCH: Yeah, the
A-frame gave us the freedom
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to express our own
aesthetic and really
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figure out what that was.
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And we do feel like we
built the dream home.
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I mean, this really
ended up being our dream.
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