Bexar County deputies find remains of missing 18-year-old Anthony Luna.They end up putting paneling on the front of the house and painting everything white with a gray trim. Still, El Moussa doesn't hate the idea of some paneling on the exterior, and they reach a compromise. They just can’t decide what to do instead.ĭrenk wants to put shiplap all around the exterior, but El Moussa points out that shiplap would be too expensive-about $10,000. The light brown exterior doesn’t do the home any favors, and El Moussa and Drenk know that it needs to be changed. There’s no arguing that the front of this house looks forgettably plain. HGTV Save money by putting paneling on just the front of the house
Tarek El Moussa took a risk with this tile-and it paid off! “I love how that tile came out,” El Moussa says when looking at the finished bathroom. It certainly is a different look compared with the showers he and Anstead usually do, but once the tile is installed, it looks great. When it comes time to pick out shower tile, El Moussa confesses that there is “something I’ve always wanted to do.” He tells Drenk that he wants to run large white tile halfway up from the shower floor, then finish the shower from the middle to the top with a smaller blue tile. “You walk right through the door, first thing you see is that blue island,” El Moussa says when touring the finished house.ĭrenk also admires the color: “It’s like a beautiful sky blue.” Who wouldn't want a stylish kitchen island like this one? Plus, it gives the kitchen a gorgeous custom look. Once the island is painted, it perfectly complements the backsplash, just as El Moussa said it would. But in the end, El Moussa’s design choice wins him over. He proposes painting the island blue for a little something different.Īt first Drenk is hesitant about the style-and especially wary of its $900 price tag. He wonders if they need another pop of color to bring the kitchen together. With a gorgeous kitchen already taking shape, El Moussa starts to have second thoughts on the white-on-white design. HGTV Don't shy away from a colorful island This backsplash gives the kitchen a true contemporary design. In the end, their choices look perfect in the space-it’s the ideal contemporary look. Immediately, both El Moussa and Drenk gravitate to the contemporary look, choosing white cabinets to make the small space look bigger and a patterned tile to make the backsplash pop. To illustrate this, El Moussa lays kitchen samples on the floor so they can consider the options. While modern designs usually have more clean lines, contemporary homes usually feature more pops of color and even some funky patterns. Though “contemporary” and “modern” sound like the same thing, El Moussa shows the newbie flipper that these two styles are very different. El Moussa knows they can do this with either a contemporary or modern design in the kitchen. So, it’s important to cater to a younger style. contemporary: There's a difference!Įl Moussa tells Drenk that this house, with its small size and low price, is probably going to get snapped up by a younger buyer. Will El Moussa and his rookie flipper friend be able to turn a profit on this hoarder house? Read on to see how they cope with this mess, and the lessons they (and we) can learn from this pricey house flip. "We love what we do, and we love each other."Īround this time, they also welcomed their first child, a girl named Taylor Reese, in September 2010.The house, which was purchased sight unseen, is filled with trash. "We're able to work together because we're best friends," Tarek said in the promo.
That's when the newlyweds turned to what would become their bread and butter: flipping foreclosed and distressed houses around Orange County, California. Just as the El Moussas' relationship was beginning, though, the effects of the housing bubble burst were spreading across the country. In spring 2009, 26-year-old Christina and 28-year-old Tarek married during a wedding in Coronado Island, San Diego, California. "We met at a real estate office, so we started our relationship working together," Christina explained in an old promotional video for their eventual show. Similarly, Christina (then Christina Meursinge Haack) started working in the industry after college.
Having earned his real estate license at the early age of 21, Tarek cut his professional teeth selling mansions, says HGTV. It should come as no surprise that the El Moussas' mutual love of real estate is what brought them together in the first place.