Open Space | Rancho Estates Cliff May (1954)
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- The Cliff May Rancho Estates, 1954. When you think of California and its rich history of Architecture you may think of Joseph Eihler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Gregory Ain however not many people think of Cliff May. With only a few tracts by May there's no wonder why some folks dont know about him but Vinny and Amy knew exactly what they were getting back in 2019 when they purchased their home. Far from an ideal and traditional Cliff May Rancho they saw what others couldn't, Lots of sleepless nights and months of hard work to get the home up to snuff but they are finally able to call this home. The 700+ home tract in Long Beach is one of the biggest Cliff May tracts and one with such a tight community of enthusiasts that in the past 10 years has seen a renaissance of new owners coming in to preserve these homes and that's exactly what Vinny and Amy did.
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Funny how the algorithm recommended this video to so many of Vins subscribers atm
i was wondering why i kept on getting recommended
Haha me too. Was surprised when I saw it was 2 years old.
Here, here!
Same, i didn’t click until I recognized it from Vin’s videos
Wait what
I clicked on this thinking "that looks like Vin's home"...I was right😂
same lol
Who? Do you all live in long beach
ROFL, exactly what I thought. I wanted to see what style the house was since it "similar" to his
ditto
997 and OG NSX. What an absolute legend.
For real. Not to mention Vin’s house and how amazing it turned out. When I think of California living this is what my mind sees. Not a bazillion dollar mansion, but a chill place to come home to where you know you’ll have some peace and tranquility.
Love when my two interests intersect! So cool o see Vin's house!
Been seeing Vin’s house in his TH-cam vids and really wanted to know more about it and randomly stumbled upon this!
All hail the algorithm 😂
Same!!
Lol same!
I love when you feature people who are into cars. Cars complement this architecture so well!!!
He has great taste overall.
Big money commitment for few creature comforts tho.
I grew up around Eichler homes, so I think Vin & Amy's place, is amazingly cool.
Was always curious about Vin's place, really cool to see this style of house. I wish we had houses like those around here
The first shot told me everything I needed to know.. Him stating he was a car guy later was for everyone else. Beautiful home and NSX ❤
mid century modern dream home. love how cohesive the look is, especially compared to the before pics.
Love the home just as much as I love the car.
OMG that living/kitchen room is amazing.
Excellent Feature and Vin's aesthetics are on-point....
Pretty random coming to watch a video about a mid century home and hearing Vins voice 😅
I live in this neighborhood. One thing he can do when he has the roof redone at some point is to have foam core added before they put on a new roof. It costs extra because the fascia around the perimeter of the house will need to be replaced with wider pieces to now hide the 1 1/2" foam core. It was worth it for the significant drop in temperature as soon as they installed it.
Plywood with a reflective barrier might be worth looking into as well. A lot of the heat coming in from the roof is radiant heat.
having vin talk about his home is so cool. awesome to see this other side of him and his home is way too cool
I like how the owner was honest and transparent about the downsides of the house, many people would just talk about how “great” things.
Fellow NSX owner here!
Actually you are the MOST exciting person to talk about these houses. Why? Because you ARE actually excited about it. It always amazes me how morose and sad most architects sound on these videos. I guess it is part of the culture but if it was me putting together a house like this I too would be as excited as you are. Cheers 🥂!!
don’t worry im sure he’s on the inside like all of la
One of my favourite eras of house, Vin and Amy did an awesome job.
Just had to see the driveway and the shot of the backyard and I had a feeling it was Vin’s spot. Touché algorithm, touché…
If you're not from Long Beach, you may not know the area he's in. But there's some real mid-century modern gems on that end of the city that haven't all been renovated into HGTV junk. Super cool to see that someone in the car space took a similar approach to rebuilding a home like this one and still maintaining why people would want a home like this in the first place.
"Hi I'm Vin and I can only relate experiences to cars, because Hoonigan!" Great house for a great guy :)
We need a follow-up video with the NSX and 997 highlighted!
I keep coming back to this piece. It just gives an awesome feeling that I can't really pinpoint. Perhaps it is accessible - Vin comes across very humble and self-deprecating. He acknowledges he doesn't know what exactly makes it all work so nicely, but his eye for detail works with the modernist principles perfectly. I feel like this is a house that gets lived in and I can imagine some good late night chats happening at that outdoor area. Love the garage and love the street presentation too. Enjoying the vids with car fans - really satisfying.
Vin is a super cool dude. I love seeing how a car person can get into things with a house. Way to go.
More car people homes please!
I like that the home owners in these videos are consistently just as cool as their houses... there's an honesty and a lack of pretension in these interviews that is refreshing especially in this genre...
what an amazing home Vin!
Thank you for this amazing short clip!!! I'm following Vin on social media for a while now and i was always kind of jealous because he lives the perfect california/LA lifestyle (imho). His amazing cars and than that house. The architecture, the way they make that house more modern, all the plants.. i think (especially with the NSX), that house screams californication and i would love to have a house like this, here in germany. 🥰🥰🥰
That was awesome 👏
such a beautiful house
Hands down my favorite episode! Cheers to cars and architecture
Great video! Love the CM Ranchos. We are blessed to have one.
Open Space x Hoonigan 😁🤟
Understandable, have a great day
Whoa, two channels/worlds I follow colliding! Awesome work.
Click on the video because of the NSX - a perfect bookend, closing century modern classic, mixed with mid century modern house is a perfect combo!
Nice to see a different angle of Vin's appreciation of art. I thought the house looked familiar.
I drive through his neighborhood now and then just to see the awesome Cliff May homes. Terrific video. Vin has a great vibe and energy.
This is so odd. I saw this right next to Vin's latest video on my home page.
The major power line in the back may have been another reason why it wasn't selling originally. Beautiful restoration though!
Nice home. Nice production.
Great job on remodeling the house! I have always seen bits and pieces of it in his videos, so it was very cool to see the finished product. Great execution and tasteful furniture and design. All those cars are gone now lol
Anyone else just watch TheSmokingTire podcast with Vin and then have this show up in their recommended 👀
I honestly think of Cliff May 1st.Also that OG NSX is fire!🔥
This was really dope to see Vin.
The Cliff May Rancho Estates, 1954.
When you think of California and its rich history of architecture, you may think of: Joseph Eichler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, or Gregory Ain, to name a few. However, not many people think of Cliff May- with only a few tracts developed under his career, there’s no wonder why some folks aren’t aware of his rich contributions to California midcentury-modernism. The 700+ home tract of Rancho Estates in Long Beach is one of the biggest Cliff May tracts, and one with such a tight community of enthusiasts, that in the past 10 years, a renaissance of new owners have come in to preserve these homes- and that’s exactly what Vinny and Amy did.
Unlike most others, Vinny and Amy knew exactly what they were getting when they purchased their home back in 2019. Far from an ideal and traditional Cliff May home, they saw what others couldn’t despite the home’s numerous renovations and uncharacteristic presence in the neighborhood. And now, after spending many sleepless nights and months of hard work to get this home up to snuff, they’re finally able to call this place home.
everything else about the video is great quality, but the grammar in the description really wasn’t really up to par with the rest. kind of took me out of the fantasy and made the work presented seem more like an amateur operation, if you get me. so here’s my attempt at revising the description to better reflect the otherwise fantastic work you’re doing! i hope i’m not being too pretentious lmao. oh well if i am, it needs to be said if you’re serious about your craft. and if you are, i hope you receive this message well haha. with love, someone who wants to see this channel succeed!!
Such a beautiful house RAHHHH
such a cool house loved hearing about it!!!
Beautiful restoration!
Always admired Vins house in his vlogs and when i saw the thumbnail I knew exactly who’s it was 😄 awesome.
I knew it was Vin's house from the thumbnail. Love it
Great video! Thank you for making it. Great to see what Vin did to this Cliff May.
Vin! This guys house is as cool if not cooler than his cars.
another great video from you guys. love it.
Glad you posted a new video! I was just recently looking at your old ones as I’m getting ready to build a house and want the mid century modern style. This house is fabulous. They did a wonderful job on the restoration.
Great share!
I have always loved this style of home, wish we could revert back to this smaller more minimalist style rather then the gigantic homes they build nowadays
“Stumbled into it”, now a convert though 😊
please make more videos, great work
Beautiful house Vin. Great taste
In palm springs this style is called Alexandrian - after the developer. I grew up in Orange Ca in this same style, exposed underside of roof, window arches, no ac, wall heater in the center hallway. But we had the pool = loved the pool. Shoot on our block I could count 10 pools. My neighbor was an original buyer in 1955 - she paid $5000.00, 3br, 2 bath - Mrs. Dirking. now there close to a mill for a 1200 sf home on 3600 sf lot. Cheers. Thanks for sharing your story bro,
not me taking a screenshot of everything so i can keep them somewhere for inspiration. this place is to die for, ugh. also, i wish you guys had a website i could scroll through for pictures of the house you feature
Here you go :) openspaceseries.com/
I love the aesthetic. You had me right up until the point of no AC. In Socal this is just the kiss of death. Other than that; love the vibes. Looks like a home inspired by Race Service.
I’ve owned and lived in a larger Cliff May in Thousand Oaks for the last 20 years. It was in bad bad shape when we bought it but it was such a cool house that we couldn’t pass it up. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize all the work we needed to put into it and while it is a great conversation piece and the indoor/outdoor living aspect and overall vibe are awesome, I don’t think I would do it again. Just not worth being able to talk about how cool your house is when nobody really cares. They are not very practical from a comfortable living standpoint and are very hard to cool and heat. Putting solar on the roof helped so at least when it’s hot 3 months out of the year we can run the AC all day to keep it somewhat comfortable and it won’t cost a lot. We will be putting mini splits in soon because standard central AC just doesn’t cut it. There’s no workaround for heating it though. It’s expensive and because of the floor to ceiling windows that make up the entire back wall of the house it’s extremely inefficient. We actually built an addition onto the main house to make it more comfortable while keeping the main house as it was intended to be. Still, I’ve gotta say, when people walk in it takes their breath away.
windows and doors are so important
I want those style fences and gate so bad. My dog is a monster and its no fun with him outside on-leash at all times, that I'm 6 years in and literally have never got to enjoy my yard.
It’s funny you mention the wall ac units; first home I bought had a giant one in the wall for probably 15 years. I immediately the day we got keys ripped it out. A couple years later a beautiful window took it place but I couldn’t stand the unit. Would rather look at my wall patch. And in the end setting a goal and focus on that goal.
Vin should definitely do a tour of car guys home and garages, show how todo classy car guy stuff
Foam roofing will improve the comfort a lot. Mini splits that look like big picture frames will cool and heat the space too and not look like a wall ac
Nice NSX
Love the house and the fact Vin's a car guy. This is the second or third video I've watched of cool MCM homes in the SoCal area that have a backdrop of the most wretchedly ugly transmission towers that look like they're in the backyard. For a State that loves nothing more than virtue signalling how they impose an oppressive, costly, and mindless bureaucracy upon property owners, its shocking to see them allow those mega EMF emitting, cancer causing towers so close to peple's homes. Love your home and your cars, Vin, but dont stay too long. Oh, and keep up the good work, State of California.
even walled off you’re still not missing the aesthetic of the mega sized electric towers and lines all around.
I was going to make a joke about the car not being a 911 but then I saw that it was Vin's house and of course there is one. The 911 is the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair of cars. Every features architecture house has one.
That NSX is looking absolutely #GnarlyDavidson
first! love your videos
or not, first to comment at least
I find really funny how Vinnie being a "douchebag" as he presents himself and the other HOONIGAN staff (huge fan) and has the least care for cars on yt has the cleanest style in terms of cars and houses. And it's really cool seeing something so old turned into this match of futuristic yet retro house. Great work Vin!
Also, 700k HOLY FUCK LA is expensive
That's really cheap now, most of those sell for 1.5m.
That NSX tho
No wonder the house in the thumbnail looked familiar
685k for MC home that really has never been very desirable. Requires a full reno and on top of that, located right under those awful powerlines. California, am I right?
Fences make for good neighbours. @5:07, I would not want to be that close to the electricity pylon and power lines. The makeover is an improvement on what was there, but I don't care for open plan and the island is a waste of space that could have been put to better use.
The algorithm just knows too mucb
you know its a car guy when he calls them "house modifications" lol
How the hell does Vin afford a $685,000 house plus a porsche gt3, a new bmw, an f150 or raptor, and an nsx from working at hoonigan? The other hoonigans don’t seem to have as much money at all…
Drug dealers and other grifters.
Does anyone know where those modern Adirondack chairs are from?
They really put Vin's address out there, not sure I'd like that.
NSX👀☝🏻
Garage door is silly
He mentions that someone had modernized the windows and doors, but these look like the originals - did he recreate the originals? I'm trying to solve a Cliff May house window problem right now!
hoonigan :)))))
here for the nsx
Yeah but how many horsepower does the house have?
bro said he modified his house
Screw the esthetic roof look, I'd put Duck Coating in bright white on the roof, keep it clean and that will cool it down alot.
The elephant in the room are those gigantic electrical pylons looming just outside the property.
vinny selling the crib
Wow lol. Can't believe California allows houses like this that sounds VERY inefficient heating/cooling/energy wise. Construction and building science have a way bigger impact on energy consumption than cars ever will. Maybe its just retro building code and it's more strict now?
Just like riding a Harley because it looks cool not for comfort
As a LB resident, The homes and architecture were based on post WW2 futurist but simple Cottage style homes. They are still a big deal throughout long beach and you drive around the older neighborhoods you still find them. They really are basic in amenities but that also in the Socal we don't really need to worry about running AC hard until peak summer otherwise its off and we don't run heating hard til peak winter otherwise its off. But infrastructure in LB is taking a turn for the worse IMO.
Too bad affordable homes dont exist anymore. 😂😂
But well done on the video and rad nsx🎉 I like the house a lot, though I'll never move back to California. I escaped twice and this time it's for real❤