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00:00Keeping tabs on the real estate market.
00:02Getting you down?
00:03There's gotta be a better way!
00:05I'm Jack McBrayer, and we bring you eye-catching,
00:08unique homes on the real estate market
00:10that satisfy a hunger for color!
00:13Yay!
00:14Texture!
00:15Oh!
00:16And outrageous surprises.
00:18That's a rock!
00:19It's an active cave system.
00:21Whoa!
00:21The old owner would wake up in the morning
00:23and pee on the store.
00:24He would pee on it!
00:26One house will be crowned the wildest!
00:30So, join now!
00:37Far out in the remote West Texas town of Terlingua,
00:41you'll find abandoned mercury mines, artistic souls,
00:45and sunsets over Big Bend National Park.
00:48There's also a home for sale that turned desert remnants
00:51into a tranquil retreat.
00:57I see a desert oasis here, deep in the heart of Texas.
01:30Far out in the night.
01:34Hello!
01:34Hello!
01:34and here I am in my spiritual sanctuary.
01:38I love it here, but right now I'm ready to sell.
01:41I've done two-thirds of my life now.
01:43I've got another third to go.
01:44I need to see what else is out there.
01:46Oh, nice.
01:50Oh, this is so peaceful.
01:52It's a very big place.
01:54I have eight structures now.
01:58I may have started with a ruin and a goat pen.
02:01Goat pen?
02:02A goat pen, but I just kept building.
02:05How long have you been here?
02:08I came here in 1996 from New York City.
02:11No, this ain't New York City.
02:13No.
02:14We were in the heart of Manhattan.
02:17I was a debutante, and my parents expected me
02:20being in that same social strata.
02:24I was supposed to marry a rich guy.
02:28No!
02:31I needed to get away from a place
02:33where everything was given to me
02:34and go and see what I could do myself.
02:38I left New York City, and I went to college in Santa Fe,
02:40and I became a whitewater guide.
02:42So I came here to row on the river.
02:45Somebody told me about this ruin,
02:47and so I walked around the ruin for like three weeks going,
02:51I don't know, I don't know, you know?
02:54But there was a little voice that said,
02:56you know, maybe this is right.
02:58So I bought a ruin for $2,500.
03:01What?
03:02Five acres.
03:04Girl.
03:05I know.
03:07Five acres for $2,500 in Los Angeles?
03:11You could get camping equipment, maybe?
03:14$2,500 in New York?
03:16We'll buy you an insult.
03:17Just kidding.
03:18Those are free.
03:21Oh, no.
03:23This is good.
03:26I've been building it for 16 years, just this house.
03:29Oh, my gosh.
03:31So that's the only old wall left.
03:34Okay.
03:35This is fascinating.
03:36So this was a rock ruin built by a Mexican family
03:39who worked in the mine.
03:41Come, let me show you.
03:42You could see the big, heavy rocks that the men would put in
03:46when they weren't at the mine working.
03:47Okay.
03:48Because they wanted to build their houses quickly.
03:50Of course.
03:50So this is old.
03:51And then behind you, I got a mason to help me with that.
03:54Gotcha.
03:55Pulled the rocks out of my property,
03:56and he napped each one with my geology rock hammer
03:59to make them all fit.
04:00And wait, I'm sorry.
04:01Did you say you have your own geology hammer?
04:04Well, I studied geology.
04:06You did.
04:07I love it.
04:08Let me see more.
04:09Come on.
04:10Oh, look at this bathroom.
04:14You know, when you're building a house,
04:15you have to get all your plans in your head
04:17before you even start.
04:18Yeah.
04:19And I knew that I would have a Venus on the half shelf.
04:23Oh, ho, ho!
04:27Please forgive me.
04:28Kids are watching.
04:30We got a lot more to see.
04:31Come on.
04:32All right.
04:36This is like a resort.
04:40Oh, oh, I'm loving this.
04:42OK, now, I haven't seen this promised goat pen.
04:47You're in it.
04:49The walls were only two or three feet high,
04:51and we got rocks from around and built it up
04:54and made it private.
04:56This is so nice.
04:58So you saw a goat pen and thought,
05:00you know what?
05:01Let's have a barbecue.
05:03We don't want to barbecue again.
05:05Come on.
05:05Let me show you.
05:06We got more to see.
05:09Do you need a potty break?
05:11At some point, I'm a human being.
05:13Why don't you just head up there?
05:14Is that a bathroom?
05:18That's the Lou with the view.
05:26That's the Lou with the view.
05:28Oh.
05:29Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho!
05:31Oh, my gosh.
05:32This is pretty spectacular.
05:36Make yourself comfortable and enjoy the view
05:40while you're going number two.
05:46Oh, ho, ho!
05:48That is fantastic.
05:50Come on.
05:51I got another place to show you.
05:52Okay.
05:54Oh, man.
05:57Is this stung?
05:58Oh, my gosh.
05:59I have chairs all over
06:00because I want people to have a conversation.
06:04Yeah.
06:04So I set up 16 different places around here
06:07where you can sit outside and talk.
06:09Wow.
06:09This is just one of my favorite seating areas.
06:12Okay.
06:13Let me take you to the next one.
06:14Okay.
06:15I absolutely love the idea of all these, like, friendship benches.
06:19Oh.
06:23And I just, sometimes I feel like they just don't understand me.
06:27This is like seating nirvana.
06:30Who would you want to own this place?
06:33I would want somebody who appreciates my community,
06:36but also make it their own.
06:38I don't need anybody to keep it my way.
06:41Okay.
06:41I want them to make it their way.
06:44That's how it ought to be.
06:45Oh, that's beautiful.
06:47Cinta, this has been fantastic.
06:48Thank you so much for sharing all of this.
06:50This has been so fun.
06:53Bushkin, it's been so fun playing with you.
06:55Thank you, Jack.
06:56Can Ghost Town Ruins pile up the points
07:00and become the wildest house of the bunch?
07:03Not many homes have a loo with a view,
07:06and that earns some originality credit.
07:10Rebuilding structures to echo the original ruins
07:12shows commitment to its history,
07:14and turning a goat pen into an outdoor hang
07:18is wildly marvelous.
07:23I've hiked up to Mountain Center, California,
07:2625 miles south of Palm Springs,
07:28to tour an architectural passion project for sale.
07:31While most of the homes in the area
07:33blend into the mountain scenery,
07:35here this one's a solid standout.
07:38Just walking down another dirt road like I do.
07:42And today's house is a fortress.
07:54This is bigger than one bedroom, one bath.
07:56Hello, Bruno.
07:57Hello.
07:58Nice to meet you.
07:59You as well.
08:00This is a big old concrete house, yeah?
08:01Yep.
08:03That's it.
08:03I guess I'll see you later.
08:06I'm Bruno,
08:07and I'm selling my concrete bunker in the mountains.
08:09Did you make this?
08:10No, I bought it sort of two-thirds ton.
08:13All the concrete was poured, but that was it.
08:15It's a lot of concrete.
08:16It is a lot of concrete.
08:18Was this intended on being a home?
08:20Yes, it was.
08:21This is a personal project for a local architect,
08:25Charlie Martin.
08:26He was intending to finish it, but he never did.
08:29What was his story?
08:30He was a war veteran, a sniper, and an army ranger.
08:36And an architect.
08:37Yeah.
08:38I'm excited to see more.
08:40May we?
08:40Yes.
08:46Oh, okay.
08:47I get it.
08:48I get it, Bruno.
08:50I love it.
08:51This is big.
08:52It is very austere from the outside.
08:56But when you get in, you're like, this is homie.
09:00Don't judge a house by its concrete.
09:03This is one floor of a three-story building.
09:05And this is the second floor, the main living space.
09:09And then there's another whole, you can almost call it an apartment on the top floor.
09:12How did you find this?
09:14Just online?
09:15No, actually.
09:16It was pandemic.
09:17I was looking for a getaway.
09:18I was living in L.A.
09:19So I drive out every weekend and looked at lots of properties around this neighborhood.
09:23And I kept seeing this place.
09:25Were any of the other houses that you were looking for like this?
09:28No, I was looking for a cabin.
09:31I went off track.
09:32I saw this building and I was just intrigued by it.
09:35It was just amazing.
09:36There shouldn't be a brutalist structure in the middle of the mountainside.
09:40So I found the name of the owner and I sent FedEx letters to everyone in California with that name.
09:46Is that true?
09:47Yeah.
09:47Within about four days, I got a call from the owner.
09:51They had just been talking to their wife about selling it.
09:53When I got it, it was just really the concrete walls were done.
09:56No windows, no electric, no dungeon.
10:00Okay.
10:03This was ambitious.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Why did you buy this?
10:09My parents did something equally insane.
10:12My mom and dad have a stone cottage in the middle of the Yorkshire moors 10 miles from nowhere.
10:17So it kind of runs in the blood.
10:19Did Charlie Martin have an idea of like where the kitchen was going to be, for example?
10:24Or did you have to do that?
10:25Well, the layout was pretty much predetermined because he had the foresight to put all the plumbing in the walls.
10:30Oh, smart.
10:31So let me show you.
10:32Please.
10:33I just built the cabinets around where the outlets were.
10:35Did you do it?
10:36No.
10:37I paid someone.
10:38This one's insane.
10:40Did you do that or did he do that?
10:42No, he did that.
10:44I mean, it is a long space.
10:46It feels kind of like lofty.
10:48It's basically a loft.
10:49Okay.
10:50Let's check out the bathroom.
10:55Oh, bathroom.
10:57Okay.
10:58This is nice.
11:00So because I was putting new plumbing in here, I couldn't exactly bury the plumbing in the walls.
11:04Right.
11:04So I decided to go with copper plumbing and just make it look really industrial and just make it all
11:09visible.
11:10Well, that's good.
11:11Let's go out onto the deck.
11:13Okay, now this I love.
11:16I mean, this is just spectacular.
11:18Why would he not put windows up in there?
11:20The openings are there.
11:22I had to board them up.
11:23I see.
11:23And then the next phase is you take the boards out and you put glass in.
11:25Gotcha.
11:26Is the idea to pass the baton to an owner who might fix this up?
11:31Yeah.
11:32So Charlie started it.
11:33I took it to where it's at now.
11:35Yeah.
11:36Someone else will have the opportunity to complete it.
11:38I have mixed feelings about listing it after putting so much energy into it.
11:41But my career is taking me somewhere else and my relationship is taking me somewhere else.
11:45There's another whole basement level that we should go and have a look at.
11:48You said basement.
11:49Yeah.
11:49I'm holding you to that.
11:50Not dungeon.
11:52Yeah.
11:53Oh, no.
12:01So we're heading outside to access the basement?
12:02Yeah.
12:03Oh, this is big.
12:05So this is my garage and workshop.
12:07I've got a little gym around the corner.
12:08Oh, my gosh.
12:09That's big.
12:10But the original design for this was an armory where Charlie was going to store his military vehicles.
12:17He brought them out here to this, which is a giant turntable for military vehicles.
12:22But it never got finished.
12:23Of course.
12:24Because we're not.
12:25Drive them out here, rotate them around, and then go shopping.
12:29If you were here longer, what would you have done with that?
12:31A giant hot tub.
12:32Boom.
12:37Okay.
12:38So you were looking to sell this.
12:40I am.
12:40And what have some potential buyers said about it?
12:45About 30,000 people love it online.
12:47Wow.
12:48And about 5,000 people absolutely hate it.
12:55Well.
12:55You have an open house coming up?
12:57Yep.
12:57I wish you the best of luck with that, sir.
12:58Thank you very much.
12:59What a delight meeting you, sir.
13:00You too.
13:01You have an incredible story.
13:02So, yeah.
13:03So, yeah.
13:03Fingers crossed.
13:05Into the desert I march.
13:07Does the Wild Dial have solid opinions of concrete castle?
13:12Pulling double duty as a brutalist bunker and a warm, airy loft makes this an unexpectedly fresh home.
13:19Honoring the architect's original design to create a livable space shows real dedication.
13:25The unfinished armor vehicle Lazy Susan slash giant hot tub is just the right touch of wild.
13:39Concrete Castle is hosting a private showing to gauge interest in its bold, brutalist design.
13:45Well, it's pretty surprising with the wood.
13:47You can only live in so much cement.
13:49Exactly.
13:50My name is Matt, and I'm the listing agent for the concrete home.
13:53The showings are selective because there's a process of being able to get to see the home.
13:59First and foremost, we ask for proof of funds that they're actually qualified to purchase a home like this.
14:05What you're looking at there is the third level of the structure.
14:09It's unfinished at this time, but you can add more bedrooms and a bathroom.
14:15The first time I saw it, I thought it looked like a prison.
14:18But the more I see it, the more I see the beauty in it.
14:21It's very unique.
14:22Yeah.
14:22At the end of the day, this is about emotion.
14:26I need one buyer who emotes with this home, and they'll buy it.
14:31It's so peaceful out here.
14:33I love it.
14:34We'll check back in later to see if anyone's made a concrete offer.
14:40West Palm Beach, Florida, is a city full of earth-toned and pastel villas and waterfront estates.
14:46But there's one recently purchased home that dares to break the low-contrast rhythm.
14:51This house got graffitied.
15:06Hello!
15:08Ashley!
15:08Alex!
15:09Thanks, Pete.
15:10I'm Alex.
15:11I'm Ashley.
15:12And we bought the black and white house.
15:14So y'all bought this house, but you bought it as is, yes?
15:19Yeah, we bought it just how it looks right now.
15:21Did you even give it a thought to like, hey, I just want to paint this white?
15:24Nope.
15:25Not going to paint it white.
15:26We love it, and it gives those, like, vacation vibes, which is why we bought it, since we live in
15:32New York full-time.
15:33Okay, so like a vacation spot.
15:36Okay, gotcha.
15:37This is fantastic.
15:38Can we take a look?
15:39Let's do it.
15:54We bought all this, like, fun art.
15:57How did you design all this?
15:59We did not design any of this house.
16:01There was an artist who did it.
16:03Okay, so who was the artist?
16:06So we have a surprise for you.
16:09Ashley was able to track the artist down.
16:11Okay.
16:12Hello.
16:13Hi.
16:14Hi, I'm Anissa.
16:16Nice to meet you.
16:16Anissa, and you're the artist.
16:18Hi.
16:18I'm the artist.
16:19So nice to meet you.
16:19This was your vision, yeah?
16:21Yes, it was.
16:22I was actually contacted by the original owner through Instagram after seeing all of my art online.
16:28He was like, I'd love to fly you out from Chicago.
16:30Come in and just do whatever you want on the house.
16:33Let's start with the exterior.
16:34What inspired that?
16:36How did you do it?
16:37I hand-rolled the house because it's all stucco.
16:40And then I would just paint as high as I could, move my ladder like two, three feet, paint a
16:46little more, make it happen.
16:48Wow.
16:49And y'all didn't know any of this?
16:50No.
16:51This is news to us.
16:52That blew my mind away.
16:54The exterior alone, I have a new appreciation for.
16:56My whole style is improvisational as well.
16:59I would make some kind of shape, and then I would go back down the ladder, and I would go
17:03and I'd see, okay, what needs to be added from here?
17:06Oh my God, this is fascinating to me.
17:07What I loved, she followed intuition.
17:10And that's what we do in, like, improvised comedy is just, like, okay, what's being presented to you?
17:16What can you make of that together?
17:17I've created a variety of lines and trails, almost, to lead you through the house.
17:23So, for example, the staircase right here follows that philosophy.
17:28If you pick one line as you walk up the stairs, you can just follow it.
17:33A treasure hunt.
17:33It is.
17:34If you want to try it, go pick a line and lead us up.
17:36Following a line.
17:38I mean, it's kind of like, it looks like a beanstalk.
17:41It's Jack and the Beanstalk.
17:45Beetlejuice.
17:47Actually, on Zillow Gone Wild, like, the post, people were like, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
17:51You know what I'm saying?
17:52Three times.
17:56Bedroom's in here.
17:57Oh, look at, oh my gosh, you've painted, like, a canopy.
18:06All the way around.
18:07This is so cool.
18:09It really does feel like you're just, like, under hanging vines or something.
18:14Yeah.
18:15Like, yeah.
18:15Mm, a waft of wisteria coming in the breeze.
18:22Anissa.
18:24Okay.
18:26Pick a line.
18:27Whichever one you want.
18:28It'll put you to sleep.
18:29You can just follow it around.
18:31Breathe in.
18:33Breathe out.
18:34I can see a star.
18:36Mm-hmm.
18:36A fish.
18:37Yeah, yeah.
18:38How this dark black-and-white contrast creates a world of absolute certainty,
18:43transcending the moral ambiguities inherent in the human condition?
18:46Yes.
18:47Oh, a tomato.
18:50This is the best first date ever.
18:56And so, do y'all, do y'all stay in this room?
18:58Yeah, I find it very relaxing, almost to your point.
19:01Like, it feels like you're under a canopy, like, you're outside, like, in a garden.
19:05Everything that you're saying makes 100% sense.
19:08I'm loving this.
19:09We're finding so much connectivity here.
19:11Mm-hmm.
19:11Today.
19:12Oh, Zillow gone wild.
19:14We bring people together.
19:15No, we all cuddle.
19:19Okay.
19:21This is nice.
19:23This is, you know, the most expensive piece of art I've ever owned.
19:27Anissa, thank you so much for walking us through all this.
19:30Congratulations, y'all.
19:31Thank you, Jack.
19:32Many years of happy this year.
19:34Come back any time.
19:34I will indeed.
19:35I know where to find you.
19:36Will ink and ivory crank up the wild on the wild dial?
19:41Living in one large art installation that doubles as a home is both original and creative.
19:47Anissa committed herself to just two colors, leaving no corner untouched by the black and white design.
19:54And that clever connective line work creates an unexpected peacefulness in the space.
20:02Before we learn which house will take home the trophy, let's check in on our current listings for any updates.
20:09Ghost Town Ruins and Concrete Castle are still available and continue to have showings, hopeful that the right buyers will
20:15come through.
20:16Now comes my favorite part where I let one homeowner know that they outwilded the others.
20:23Can Ghost Town Ruins carve out a victory?
20:26Did Concrete Castle cement the win?
20:28Or will ink and ivory brush stroke their way to the top?
20:32I don't know.
20:34It's pretty close.
20:38Concrete Castle!
20:40Hello, Bruno!
20:42Hey, Jack.
20:43We sent you a little something in the mail.
20:45Did you get it?
20:45Okay.
20:46Open it up.
20:47What is it?
20:50It's lots of pictures of you, Jack.
20:53Your home was chosen as the wildest of the bunch.
20:58Proving concrete doesn't have to be cold.
21:01Your house flips the script with a relaxed, layered living space.
21:06By honoring the designer's bold vision, it stands out as timeless and wildly unique.
21:12I'm going to have to build a mantelpiece to put it on.
21:15But there's still more wild to come.
21:18I can't wait to see what's next.
21:20We did find horse hair insulation.
21:22This caboose is insulated with horse hair.
21:25One of the reasons he found it is because he caught it on fire.
21:27What?
21:28So many pastels.
21:30Yes.
21:30Like I'm in a beautiful Easter basket.
21:33We did.
21:33We did.
21:33We did.
21:34We did.
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