1 00:00:01,069 --> 00:00:03,337 [water rushing] 2 00:00:06,874 --> 00:00:07,775 [music playing] 3 00:00:07,775 --> 00:00:08,776 MAEVE: Wow. 4 00:00:08,776 --> 00:00:10,078 CLEO: I see. 5 00:00:10,078 --> 00:00:11,479 MAEVE: Get the little pink ones. 6 00:00:11,479 --> 00:00:13,081 CLEO: Where do you see pink ones? 7 00:00:13,147 --> 00:00:14,082 MAEVE: Wow. 8 00:00:14,082 --> 00:00:17,551 [music playing] 9 00:00:18,486 --> 00:00:19,987 Whoa, look at this guy. 10 00:00:19,987 --> 00:00:21,089 It's all the stuff on it. 11 00:00:21,089 --> 00:00:22,490 JAMIE: That's cool. 12 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:24,492 MAEVE: I'm just starting going there. 13 00:00:24,558 --> 00:00:26,294 CLEO: There's so many memories that we're 14 00:00:26,294 --> 00:00:29,897 having watching our children now that remind 15 00:00:29,897 --> 00:00:31,799 us of when we were kids here. 16 00:00:31,865 --> 00:00:35,369 [laughter] 17 00:00:37,138 --> 00:00:39,207 We're now kind of making our own memories up 18 00:00:39,207 --> 00:00:40,808 here as a family. 19 00:00:40,808 --> 00:00:43,010 And you just can't replicate that, in my opinion. 20 00:00:43,077 --> 00:00:46,414 [music playing] 21 00:00:47,815 --> 00:00:49,617 It's important for us to continue to have this 22 00:00:49,617 --> 00:00:51,152 be a family gathering spot. 23 00:00:51,152 --> 00:00:53,221 CLEO: Because this place is so special to us. 24 00:00:53,221 --> 00:00:56,624 [water rushing] 25 00:00:56,624 --> 00:01:00,128 [music playing] 26 00:01:00,128 --> 00:01:03,697 [chirping] 27 00:01:11,739 --> 00:01:12,740 JAMIE: Morning, Violet. 28 00:01:12,740 --> 00:01:13,507 VIOLET: Morning. 29 00:01:16,744 --> 00:01:17,645 JAMIE: You want toast? 30 00:01:17,645 --> 00:01:18,512 VIOLET: No. 31 00:01:20,848 --> 00:01:24,152 [music playing] 32 00:01:24,152 --> 00:01:26,354 JAMIE: We're located in Neskowin, 33 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:31,859 Oregon, which is about 80, 90 miles southwest of Portland. 34 00:01:31,859 --> 00:01:34,862 It's the kind of place where the air is really cool, 35 00:01:34,862 --> 00:01:36,564 but the sun is warm. 36 00:01:36,564 --> 00:01:40,468 So you will go from wearing a sweater to a swimsuit 37 00:01:40,468 --> 00:01:42,370 and then back into a sweater by the end of the day. 38 00:01:42,370 --> 00:01:43,670 And you never know what the weather 39 00:01:43,737 --> 00:01:45,173 is going to turn out to be. 40 00:01:45,173 --> 00:01:47,475 If it's an overcast day, we'll go for a hike. 41 00:01:47,475 --> 00:01:49,977 If it's a beautiful day, we definitely head down 42 00:01:50,043 --> 00:01:52,380 to the beach to take full advantage of it. 43 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:53,881 JAMIE: CLEO: Cleo and I have three kids. 44 00:01:53,881 --> 00:01:56,684 We've got Violet, Teddy, and Maeve. 45 00:01:56,750 --> 00:01:58,219 This is a place that I've been coming 46 00:01:58,219 --> 00:02:00,788 since I was my kids' age. 47 00:02:00,788 --> 00:02:04,091 And Cleo and I actually met here when we 48 00:02:04,091 --> 00:02:06,194 were our oldest daughter's age. 49 00:02:06,194 --> 00:02:08,696 And so Cleo came up here from Napa, 50 00:02:08,762 --> 00:02:10,898 and I came down here from the Puget Sound. 51 00:02:14,502 --> 00:02:18,606 CLEO: - We live in Napa, so the drive is 10 hours. 52 00:02:18,606 --> 00:02:23,311 By the time we get here, we are just so excited to be here. 53 00:02:23,311 --> 00:02:24,812 We roll down the windows on the way 54 00:02:24,812 --> 00:02:27,815 into Neskowin to smell in the ocean air 55 00:02:27,815 --> 00:02:29,817 and the forest air mixing together. 56 00:02:29,817 --> 00:02:32,220 It's my favorite smell in the world. 57 00:02:32,220 --> 00:02:33,921 JAMIE: You can also feel the stress 58 00:02:33,921 --> 00:02:35,723 kind of leave the body a little bit when you get here, 59 00:02:35,789 --> 00:02:36,624 you know? 60 00:02:36,624 --> 00:02:37,625 [laughter] 61 00:02:37,625 --> 00:02:41,128 [music playing] 62 00:02:45,433 --> 00:02:47,335 CLEO: The house is about 1,400 square feet, 63 00:02:47,401 --> 00:02:50,638 with one large living area that includes a dining 64 00:02:50,704 --> 00:02:54,041 room and living room, kitchen, two 65 00:02:54,041 --> 00:02:57,911 bathrooms, and three bedrooms. 66 00:03:01,582 --> 00:03:05,118 [chirping] 67 00:03:07,355 --> 00:03:12,360 JAMIE: My grandfather moved out to Oregon in the late '40s. 68 00:03:12,426 --> 00:03:15,863 And he had a young daughter, my mother. 69 00:03:15,929 --> 00:03:18,466 And they bought this house early '50s, 70 00:03:18,466 --> 00:03:20,668 and it's been in the family ever since. 71 00:03:20,668 --> 00:03:24,272 I'm one of eight kids kind of a "Brady Bunch" blended family. 72 00:03:24,272 --> 00:03:25,673 2015 rolled around. 73 00:03:25,673 --> 00:03:27,575 My dad and mom said, well, what do you 74 00:03:27,575 --> 00:03:29,377 guys want to do with the house? We think we're going to sell it. 75 00:03:29,443 --> 00:03:30,478 And Cleo and I stuck our hands up and said, no, you're not. 76 00:03:30,478 --> 00:03:32,079 We're going to buy it. 77 00:03:32,145 --> 00:03:34,081 And so we bought it from my parents in 2015. 78 00:03:34,081 --> 00:03:36,384 The whole idea was to keep it in the family 79 00:03:36,384 --> 00:03:41,289 and have it go on beyond our generation to our children 80 00:03:41,289 --> 00:03:43,891 and maybe someday to their kids. 81 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:47,295 [chirping] 82 00:03:47,361 --> 00:03:49,096 When this flag is out, that means 83 00:03:49,096 --> 00:03:53,000 cocktail hour is almost about to start, just so you know that. 84 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,001 [laughs] 85 00:03:54,001 --> 00:03:56,304 [music playing] 86 00:03:56,370 --> 00:03:57,905 CLEO: When you come into the house, 87 00:03:57,971 --> 00:04:01,309 there's not a formal foyer or anything like that. 88 00:04:01,375 --> 00:04:03,110 You're just immediately, you know, 89 00:04:03,176 --> 00:04:06,179 part of the home in the main room, where everybody gathers. 90 00:04:08,716 --> 00:04:11,118 This space is the dining room, living 91 00:04:11,118 --> 00:04:14,522 room, kitchen, and also bar. 92 00:04:14,522 --> 00:04:16,624 So this room was once very dark. 93 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:18,024 There was no overhead lighting. 94 00:04:18,024 --> 00:04:20,928 The ceiling had years of cigarette smoke 95 00:04:20,928 --> 00:04:23,531 and dark-wood paneled walls. 96 00:04:23,531 --> 00:04:26,834 JAMIE: Before that, there was an orange shag carpet, 97 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:29,837 so that was, like, a previous iteration. 98 00:04:29,837 --> 00:04:32,540 We came up here, and I realized I 99 00:04:32,606 --> 00:04:34,642 was banging around, not relaxing, and trying 100 00:04:34,707 --> 00:04:36,377 to fix all the stuff. 101 00:04:36,377 --> 00:04:37,645 And then at that point, we said, we've got to do something. 102 00:04:37,645 --> 00:04:39,146 CLEO: And the roof was leaking. 103 00:04:39,212 --> 00:04:40,047 JAMIE: Roof was leaking, the whole thing. 104 00:04:40,047 --> 00:04:41,248 CLEO: Yeah. 105 00:04:41,349 --> 00:04:42,550 Foundation was slipping. 106 00:04:42,550 --> 00:04:43,951 JAMIE: Then it kind of turned into 107 00:04:43,951 --> 00:04:46,153 a full architectural remodel. 108 00:04:46,153 --> 00:04:47,855 When this house was originally built, 109 00:04:47,921 --> 00:04:49,156 it wasn't built with a footing. 110 00:04:49,156 --> 00:04:50,658 So it was built on a slab. 111 00:04:50,658 --> 00:04:54,362 The east side of the house, that entire slab 112 00:04:54,362 --> 00:04:57,264 was 8 inches lower than the front of the house. 113 00:04:57,365 --> 00:05:00,668 And so one of the major things we had to do 114 00:05:00,668 --> 00:05:02,870 was to bring that back up to grade. 115 00:05:02,870 --> 00:05:04,472 So, I mean, that was one of the biggest, 116 00:05:04,472 --> 00:05:07,074 like, construction challenges that we faced. 117 00:05:07,074 --> 00:05:08,776 [chirping] 118 00:05:08,842 --> 00:05:10,878 There were so many memories, so many Christmases, so 119 00:05:10,878 --> 00:05:13,080 many holidays we'd spent here. 120 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,982 Like, all that stuff kind of seeps into the bones 121 00:05:14,982 --> 00:05:16,484 of a place, you know? 122 00:05:16,550 --> 00:05:18,085 And you can feel it when you come in. 123 00:05:18,085 --> 00:05:20,187 And even though I definitely wanted to refresh it, 124 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:22,189 like, how do we still capture that? 125 00:05:22,189 --> 00:05:24,392 We really wanted to preserve some 126 00:05:24,392 --> 00:05:29,497 of the feeling of the original home and enhance it. 127 00:05:29,497 --> 00:05:33,300 The kitchen used to be basically here, 128 00:05:33,401 --> 00:05:35,903 and it was just a similar setup in terms of the kitchen. 129 00:05:35,903 --> 00:05:39,407 It was a shotgun-style kitchen, but it was really cramped. 130 00:05:39,407 --> 00:05:42,710 And so just this open concept didn't exist previously. 131 00:05:42,776 --> 00:05:46,079 [music playing] 132 00:05:49,717 --> 00:05:51,885 [side conversation] 133 00:05:56,256 --> 00:05:57,825 CLEO: This is one of my favorite spots here. 134 00:05:57,825 --> 00:05:59,727 Here, you have the mountains and the wetlands. 135 00:05:59,793 --> 00:06:02,896 And then out the other way is the ocean. 136 00:06:08,636 --> 00:06:10,337 The biggest design feature in here that 137 00:06:10,337 --> 00:06:12,339 mattered the most to us was these gorgeous 138 00:06:12,339 --> 00:06:13,841 floor-to-ceiling windows. 139 00:06:13,907 --> 00:06:15,543 So, I mean, the whole reason we come out 140 00:06:15,609 --> 00:06:17,845 here is to have a view of the Pacific Ocean 141 00:06:17,845 --> 00:06:20,848 and a view of these beautiful dunes and really enjoy that. 142 00:06:20,848 --> 00:06:24,251 [music playing] 143 00:06:29,457 --> 00:06:33,260 All this wood paneling is all reclaimed 144 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:35,362 wood from the original house. 145 00:06:35,463 --> 00:06:37,064 CLEO: We had a great contractor. 146 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:39,366 And they took everything down to the studs, 147 00:06:39,366 --> 00:06:41,769 kept all of the original wood paneling, 148 00:06:41,769 --> 00:06:44,972 planed it and refreshed it, and then put it all back up. 149 00:06:44,972 --> 00:06:48,175 It brings all the warmth back into the home. 150 00:06:48,175 --> 00:06:50,277 You know, I love just how the line, 151 00:06:50,277 --> 00:06:53,080 it kind of continues throughout this room. 152 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:55,582 JAMIE: It's just such a gorgeous design feature. 153 00:06:55,582 --> 00:07:00,187 CLEO: We definitely host a lot, so having a huge dining area 154 00:07:00,187 --> 00:07:02,189 was really important to us. 155 00:07:02,255 --> 00:07:04,091 Our family is lively, spirited. 156 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:05,526 [laughter] 157 00:07:05,526 --> 00:07:06,794 There's no shortage of action. 158 00:07:06,794 --> 00:07:08,095 CLEO: [laughs] I love it. 159 00:07:08,095 --> 00:07:09,196 That's my grandfather. 160 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:10,698 [music playing] 161 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:12,700 Kind of the life of the party, just a really 162 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:14,401 gregarious, outgoing guy. 163 00:07:14,401 --> 00:07:17,505 And his spirit very much is still a part of this house. 164 00:07:17,505 --> 00:07:19,006 CLEO: We love wine. 165 00:07:19,006 --> 00:07:21,008 Our connection to wine comes from my family. 166 00:07:21,074 --> 00:07:23,544 My dad started a winery in Napa in the '80s. 167 00:07:23,544 --> 00:07:27,080 And now, I run a winery from a vineyard that my dad planted. 168 00:07:32,219 --> 00:07:34,722 So here's the primary bedroom. 169 00:07:34,788 --> 00:07:36,323 JAMIE: For the most part, we kept 170 00:07:36,389 --> 00:07:38,225 the same layout of the room, with the exception 171 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:39,927 of this area over here. 172 00:07:39,927 --> 00:07:43,531 I think this is just such a gorgeous cantilevered window. 173 00:07:43,531 --> 00:07:45,633 To be able to open up the curtain in the morning 174 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:49,236 and have this view is just incredible. 175 00:07:49,236 --> 00:07:51,238 JAMIE: The window really frames the beach. 176 00:07:51,238 --> 00:07:54,942 I mean, really, it looks like a painting or a photograph. 177 00:07:54,942 --> 00:07:56,844 It really is pretty special. 178 00:07:56,844 --> 00:07:57,845 [chirping] 179 00:07:57,845 --> 00:08:00,347 [music playing] 180 00:08:00,548 --> 00:08:02,349 You know, so my grandfather would come down. 181 00:08:02,349 --> 00:08:03,851 Other people would use the house. 182 00:08:03,917 --> 00:08:05,452 They would always drink his booze, 183 00:08:05,553 --> 00:08:07,154 and they wouldn't replace it. 184 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:08,656 So he had this put in. 185 00:08:08,656 --> 00:08:10,658 He got the hidden liquor cabinet back there. 186 00:08:10,658 --> 00:08:12,259 Now, I suppose everybody will know where it is, 187 00:08:12,259 --> 00:08:13,160 but that's OK. 188 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,161 [chuckles] 189 00:08:14,227 --> 00:08:15,162 [laughter] 190 00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:18,265 [music playing] 191 00:08:22,369 --> 00:08:24,872 CLEO: So this is the kids' bunk room. 192 00:08:24,938 --> 00:08:26,774 JAMIE: This used to be my room when I was 193 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,676 a kid when I'd come down here. 194 00:08:28,742 --> 00:08:30,678 My older sister always says it was her room, 195 00:08:30,678 --> 00:08:32,279 but as far as I'm concerned, it was my room. 196 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:33,246 But-- 197 00:08:37,183 --> 00:08:38,786 CLEO: We can just keep it simple. 198 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:40,386 I think we should do that or climb right over. 199 00:08:40,453 --> 00:08:41,789 Oh, OK, I see. 200 00:08:41,789 --> 00:08:43,390 I have to say, when we first moved in 201 00:08:43,390 --> 00:08:46,894 before we had moved all of our stuff back in, 202 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,295 I was a little worried. 203 00:08:48,295 --> 00:08:49,697 I mean, it was gorgeous, but I was like, 204 00:08:49,697 --> 00:08:53,000 oh, gosh, it doesn't feel quite right. 205 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,004 But then once we had the last box unpacked, [laughs] 206 00:08:57,004 --> 00:08:59,807 my concerns were gone. 207 00:08:59,807 --> 00:09:02,810 You know, putting all these things back into the home, 208 00:09:02,810 --> 00:09:05,613 it definitely felt like the beach house again. 209 00:09:05,613 --> 00:09:09,016 [music playing] 210 00:09:15,322 --> 00:09:18,826 [chirping] 211 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:22,229 [water rushing] 212 00:09:22,229 --> 00:09:26,834 The way the sun hits the grass and the beautiful coastal pines 213 00:09:26,834 --> 00:09:30,671 out here, it's just such a beautiful landscape to have 214 00:09:30,671 --> 00:09:31,905 right in front of our house. 215 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,843 I proposed to Cleo right up on the ridge up there. 216 00:09:35,843 --> 00:09:38,545 [water rushing] 217 00:09:38,646 --> 00:09:42,115 [chirping] 218 00:09:45,753 --> 00:09:48,155 When I look at the house and think about it 219 00:09:48,221 --> 00:09:49,757 from being out here, I feel really, 220 00:09:49,823 --> 00:09:51,659 really proud to have something that's 221 00:09:51,725 --> 00:09:53,861 so special in our family history and now 222 00:09:53,861 --> 00:09:55,663 our joint family history. 223 00:09:55,729 --> 00:10:01,969 And I think about the thread from my grandfather to my mom 224 00:10:01,969 --> 00:10:03,170 and now to us. 225 00:10:03,170 --> 00:10:04,972 You can't replicate this. 226 00:10:04,972 --> 00:10:08,075 If I had my last dollar, it would be spent here. 227 00:10:08,141 --> 00:10:10,778 CLEO: It'll last for the next 30, 50 years. 228 00:10:10,778 --> 00:10:11,879 Yeah. 229 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:12,780 Let's make it 50. 230 00:10:12,780 --> 00:10:13,881 [laughter] 231 00:10:13,881 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