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Inside Joshua Weissman's Minimalist Texas Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Original YouTube Video | Archdigest Published on 2024-03-28 Level：1 Speed：96 maxwordlevel：4

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Oh, A.D.

A little early, but come on in.

Hello, welcome to my home.

I obviously don't live in a kitchen.

This is where I actually live.

The kitchen is over there

but we'll get to that after we get to know each other.

This house is really interesting.

It was custom built by Matt Ficus

very cool architecture firm in Austin.

It is a modern interpretation of an AD Stanger home.

If you don't know AD Stanger,

You don't know architecture.

I'm just kidding.

I actually don't know that much about architecture

but I did learn about A.D.

Stanger.

He's actually responsible for a lot of really interesting homes in the Austin area,

If you like Austin, Texas

you like those Austin vibes

you can thank Mr. Stanger.

What really struck me

and made this feel like a home

is the wood ceilings,

This is all natural Brazilian hardwood.

I think it brings a lot of warmth into the room, right?

If that ceiling was just a white ceiling

it wouldn't be as welcoming

as inviting, you know?

I like that.

Let's talk about the living room for a second.

I'm a big couch guy.

When you sit on this couch

oh, sorry, let me go put this away.

One second.

I'll just leave that over there.

I have one rule about the couch.

No work is to be done on the couch.

This one, I do allow work in.

This one is allowed, just only phone work.

Look at this, look how natural this is.

I'm texting, I'm making phone calls

I'm taking Google Meets.

So this is my sort of like warm up.

If it's really cold outside, I'll pop the fireplace on.

What I would recommend is

if you do have a fireplace like this

do yourself a favor, and don't lose the remote,

For example, I lost the remote.

I did manage to turn it on, but it was not easy, okay?

This is less about heating up the room and more about heating up the vibes,

Let's move on to the kitchen.

All right, I know you wanna see my kitchen.

Let's take a gander.

So let me show you some of my favorite things.

This used to just be like typical white courts.

And then, I felt like this house is too nice to just have plain white countertops,

And so I decided to invest a little bit of money

and I got these really great Carrara marble countertops,

And I think it looks good.

You tell me, you think it looks good?

If you don't like it, you can tell me, it's fine.

It's not gonna hurt my feelings.

I like it.

This is a Countach.

This is a Lamborghini Countach.

I'm a Lamborghini fan boy.

What do you want from me?

Okay, I love that brand.

I actually got a chance to go to the

Lamborghini Lounge, when I went in there

they have all these little cars that are on the wall to represent all the colors that they make

and they make a lot of colors,

And the guy that let me in there was so kind to let me

I don't want to say steal

but permanently borrow this.

Now, I know people get really

really up in arms about what kind of stove should you use

Josh.

I'm going to help you out.

I got you on this one, okay?

Listen, you can go the more architectural route

and get a La Cornue, and spend a ton of money

but you know what,

It's never gonna have the performance of a wolf.

It just won't.

It's little baby burners that look beautiful.

Now La Cornue is never gonna sponsor me, but whatever.

To me, La Cornue is more of like a sheep in wolf's clothing.

This is a wolf in wolf's clothing.

I got a problem with knives.

This is one tenth of my knife collection.

I love kitchen knives.

All of them feel different.

All of them work differently, right?

These are like my prize possessions.

These knives, though, are one of a kind.

Look, you can get them from somewhere, but not from a store.

This comes from a guy

one of my buddies, actually

Jody Hale.

He owns a company called Pie Cutlery

and he makes all of these by hand.

I mean, this man is an artist.

Look at this.

That's art.

Look, obviously I love this kitchen.

This is a really nice kitchen

but the number one thing that's important about a great kitchen is not its size or how nice it is,

It is about the way you organize yourself

and how you operate in that kitchen,

To organize where everything is

is gonna take your mind off the process of

oh, where's this?

Oh, where's that?

I'm running around the kitchen.

So that you can actually enjoy the process of cooking

and make a meal that you're proud of

or make a meal for your friends

and actually have fun cooking

because that ultimately is what really matters when it comes to a great kitchen,

Anybody can organize like this.

You just need some airtight containers

some stickers, and a couple hours.

But, I promise you, it is the best time investment

I can imagine,

The main benefit is that I can see everything I need to use.

So, instead of having to think so much

I can think with my eyes

and make a decision quickly

while I'm cooking,

And also, look, let's be honest.

Clean workstation, clean mind.

Dirty workstation, dirty mind.

This feels so clean, I think it might even be dirty.

And always in the kitchen, you should have a med kit.

Big, small, doesn't matter.

Just be prepared, okay?

You never know.

Maybe you nick yourself with a knife, you get a burn.

You gotta take care of yourself.

Bandages, some cotton swabs, burn kits.

This isn't what you think it is.

Okay, you get a cut, you put this on, you can keep working.

Keep chopping.

Keeps you from getting blood everywhere.

Here's your meme.

There you go.

Here's your meme.

And then obviously on my bigger

boom, got all my stuff in here.

Another big thing that was very important to me about why I chose this house

and why I love this house

is the big scaling windows,

I love natural light.

I love feeling like kind of mixed with the outdoor

a little bit of the indoor put together.

It's a whole experiential thing

because then your backyard kind of becomes a part of the whole house,

It's not just

You know, here's the inside living room

and here's the backyard

it's more, so it's all one space,

So, I feel like I'm simultaneously in the backyard

while I'm comfortably in the air conditioning,

In the mornings, the natural light in here is insane.

I mean, you've got like these big beams of light that almost run the entire length of the living room,

It just, it feels good and you know

vitamin D is good for you also

by the way.

All right, now that you've been in my kitchen

you've basically been in my bedroom.

So let's go to the primary.

So we've made it to the bedroom.

Welcome.

Kind of like my kitchen

I like my bedroom space to be clean and to be minimalist and not have a ton of stuff

but feel livable,

I didn't want a ton of stuff on the walls.

I thought, why put fifty little things on the wall in the bedroom when we could just put like one real big fun thing,

And I actually found this on Etsy.

They make this by hand.

It's hand tufted.

They dyed all these different colors

and make it into this funky shape,

I just thought it looked cool.

It brought color into the room.

This room is very just like,

one color.

So, I thought, well, let's bring a little bit of nature into it,

And speaking of nature

this kind of helps with the nature element too.

When we have these big sort of like sliding doors

the jacuzzi is right there

the bed is here, we go from in here to out there

we close this, the cat can stay in and watch us have fun.

When you wake up in the morning and you press the little clicker button

and the knees roll up

and the sun's rising, and you've got like your backyard

and the pizza, and you see

I could probably see Kate over there like eating a bagel,

It's nice to connect to the outside

and have that indoor outdoor experience,

I like feeling openness.

And this room isn't huge

but this window makes it feel as big as a backyard.

This was one of the last changes that I made.

The countertops.

We brought exactly the same Italian Carrara marble from in the kitchen

to in here,

So I have a problem.

I love, I feel like it makes sense, right?

I love flavor, I love scents, I love cooking, right?

So naturally, I'm pretty into fragrances.

I like to have a nice collection.

This is probably a quarter of my collection.

So I've gotten really into collecting different fragrances.

It seems like such a silly thing

but it's nice to have something for every different occasion,.

This is the bathtub.

I never use this.

Actually, I've never used it.

I'm a shower person, okay?

I want to stand up and get out.

I don't have time to sit in the bathtub.

I love this shower because I have all this space.

If I want to do this, I mean

I don't know why you would

but I could.

Okay, so now we're in the bar slash library area.

That's what I'm calling it.

See, this might not look like a panel

I would, but this is something special.

I'm gonna give you a little story.

When I was a kid, in an interview somewhere

in like a magazine, Matthew McConaughey said

he goes, well,

I knew I was doing something good when I got myself an ice machine from Sonic,

And I remember seeing that

and I'm like, well dang

I really need to start working hard if I want to get a Sonic ice machine,

Well, I have a Sonic ice machine now.

Really, the terminology for it is actually a pebble ice maker,

That's the type of ice that they have, right?

But you open this guy up

got a little sweet little shovel

and we have our Sonic Ice.

I love Sonic Ice.

It is the filet mignon of ice, okay?

You take a little piece of this ice

and chew on it, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about,

This little pebble here

there's nothing better than this in your drink.

Now, a lot of people think I hired an interior designer.

It was all, I mean, not to take the credit

but it was really me and my contractor that designed it

and my wife also, who had a lot of input

I should add,

Originally, it was just like plain

white, compressed wood cabinetry

and a little white desk,

That was it.

And so it was like this entire quadrant of the house

that I never wanted to be in,

There's nothing to do there.

So I made it into a space where

There's something to do.

I'm kidding.

It's not always about drinking.

It's just, it's more about entertaining.

Even if you don't drink alcohol

we have zero proof stuff for our friends

who don't drink alcohol,

We have coffee, cold brew, sodas.

Now, transitioning from the bar to what I'm calling the library,

We don't have a ton of books.

Maybe we need to read more, okay?

Most of our books are here.

A lot of them are cookbook related.

If you're into cooking

and you don't have the Modernist Collection

I'm telling you, it is very expensive,

It is very worth it.

There's a lot of really cool techniques and stuff in here.

This area isn't just for reading or being a library.

It's kind of a chill area.

It's like a second living room.

I wanted something that was like cool and relaxing

so you can grab a quick drink,

You can come sit down here

or you can sit down on this cool chair,

There's nothing better than being in a cool chair.

This chair is cool.

All right, so now we're gonna move into my office.

Come on in.

This wall is a work in progress.

Every letter, every note

every recipe, everything that has ever been given to me by another person

that watches my videos or likes my recipes or my books

I keep and I hang up,

So, I have only a small amount of them here

hung up on the wall,

But, just to give you an idea on some of these

like, you know, I can't show you this because they told me not to share this family recipe

but it is someone's family recipe for red bean gumbo from Ryan Rojas,

Hey Ryan, how you doing, buddy?

Some of them have really cool drawings.

Like this is the old kitchen that we used to shoot in.

You can actually, literally

still see the grease from cooking next to the stove on here,

I mean literally there's grease on it.

They did like a sort of this three dimensional art piece of it,

This is one of my favorite things.

I keep it here, as an homage to that kitchen where a lot of great things started,

I mean, it's just, it's cool because every time I walk into this room

I kind of get a chance to constantly remind myself

and reflect on why we're doing this

and how much it means to people,

I like cars a lot, you know?

So I've got like Lamborghini supercars.

We've got, this is like a Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica.

I got my Lamborghini hats.

And this is, I bought this at a antique shop

and I just saw it, and I was like

oh, that's cool,

I can like hide stuff in here.

Not that I have anything to hide.

That's where I put that.

Well, A.D., you know, you had a great time.

You saw my home, my kitchen, my bedroom.

Maybe go enjoy the Austin area.

Do some stand up paddleboarding.

Grab a breakfast taco.

I don't know.

Enjoy yourselves.

Eat something good, okay?

Just don't make me cook it, okay?

All right.

Love you.

Bye.