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One Man’s Junk,

The Same Man’s Treasure

Meet the Junk Brothers: they filch people’s curbside castoffs, transform them, and give them back.

By Rick Polito

IF STEVE AND JIM KELLEY HAD A TREASURE map, it would probably be scrawled on the back of the garbage pickup schedule. The power tool-toting stars of The Junk Brothers aren’t looking for diamonds in the rough, they’re digging through castoffs at the curb.

Their HGTV show has the Kelleys prowling nocturnal neighborhoods in their pickup, scooping furniture and flotsam off the curb and carting it back to their workshop where they turn trash into treasure, or at least into unexpected reinterpretations ...

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