One of Johnny and Marissa’s closets is the perfect picture of organization and order featuring IKEA cabinets.
Before and After: When we first shot Johnny and Marissa’s house. the room next to their bedroom looked like the above image. When we came back, the view from the bedroom was completely different, with a door removed and IKEA closet cabinets that Johnny installed himself.
Through the kitchen and out the back door, the backyard used to be home to a few dirt mounds and over-grown weeds. Marissa put her green- thumb to good use and built planter beds for some home-grown veggies. In the back stands a custom-built storage shed made out of material from the local Habitat for Humanity Restore. Inside Johnny’s so-called “man cave” sits a few more of Johnny’s vintage-inspired col- lections: mid-century Italian motor-scooters, no, not mopeds, scooters. Johnny started to collect scooters at the age of 18. His love of them stemmed from his endearment of the 1960s “mod” culture, where young men who couldn’t afford Italian sports cars often drove Italian scooters instead. At one time, Johnny owned almost 30 Italian scooters he wanted to refurbish. But, once he met Marissa, a few had to go. He said these scooters were common
22 vintagekc summer 2015
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