EP97 Before & After , Transforming This Neglected Place into a Luxury Home

[Music] this is what the place was like [Music] do [Music] hello ed ayana can we come in for a tour yes please come in let's go and have a look around of what well all the work that you've been doing well well we're up to yeah yeah and possibly at the end of it maybe we can say what we're gonna do next what do you think i mean what are we gonna do the royal week yeah well i will help you a bit but cyril will help you a bit more and hopefully we'll get advanced until he goes next week yes come on let's get in and show the tour and then we can talk about what we're going to do but we're getting there every day it's better by better but we will be taking a bit of time off let's go and have a look at come on in it's warmer outside today than inside this is what it looked like the first time we saw the entrance hall [Music] just close the door because everything is nice and clean so you come into the hall yeah on the left hand side no i mean just left when i was passing my driving test i had to keep on reminding myself left left right right yeah it was that bad was that was that the first second third fourth fifth time you took it cheeky thing the first guy he just divorced with his wife there was no way i was gonna pass my test oh there was but no well you passed it in two times didn't he oh yes so the on my right hand side we have the timing room yeah which obviously we did yeah i'm in here so we're in the dining room oh yes would anybody like to eat in our dining room uh no we we're we're just getting started so basically the first thing is move all the tools and move the furniture sounds good i'm not gonna lie to it i am pulling with all my weight i think it's it's clean enough i'm not gonna i don't we don't want to get every anything dirty so obviously the danube is all finished well we do need a table and chairs but it's mainly to show what it could be that's why we haven't added more things and we might change a few little things here the curtains we had so we didn't we didn't make them just for this room it's what we had already but it's a nice piece are those curtains leopard print no they're not what are they doing and it's a setup anna it's a question set up because people are saying oh they look like leopard print no they're kind of yeah little mulberries yeah i think you've got a beautiful bordeaux red color yeah goes well with the walls just doesn't come out right on the uh on the uh vlog does it as soon as you get a bit further away it does start looking like but they weren't i mean there are curtains we just put them here so it would like show the bedroom yeah i think we did a great job bringing these this coving back to uh back to life really didn't we that was yes it's looking beautiful and people were talking about this mirror here and how it didn't look right for the room and um and uh and basically we should take it out the problem is it's actually set into the molding so the molding's been kind of like chopped up to get the mirror in so that was the first problem um but then it actually looks alright now doesn't it it does it looks really really good but you know what anna it's not my tour is it it's your tour no it's both of ours okay so does that mean you're staying behind camera for a bit we can switch around okay we can we can do it room by room and yes you have walked there it could have been cereal uh very much could have been cyril i think it was probably here but it doesn't matter we're gonna do it shall we do the kitchen at the end okay yeah we'll do all the bits that are all the bits that are renovated first and then go on to the bits that aren't yeah because i don't want to walk dirt back in no okay we'll close this door off though for the time being shall we do the other i mean the setting room or shall we do that [Music] yeah we'll go through here all downstairs first i mean this isn't really uh anything new recently you know for people who are watching recently it's nothing new for them um but yeah this is now finished too um you're thinking that maybe moving this aren't you yes i am and of course we'll attach it to the wall um but until we get exactly where we want it then we'll leave it here for the time being but this won't be steady i think we should do the rest of the log in here anna because the heating's on come through into here this is where it's going to be kind of uh a uh a kind of used a lot more in summer and and i think that's going to be more a formal yes and then this is kind of like where you have your tv and everything like that yeah the easy like the lounge yeah the lounge room and then relaxing and you're looking at the workout now we said work at the end i'm just admiring my pool so at the end of here uh we're gonna put in a summer kitchen um so this area here is all gonna have kitcheny stuff with a fridge dishwasher um what's plaque hot uh hot plate uh yes and then you're gonna be able to pass food through from here through to an outdoor kitchen area with um with an outdoor kind of big barbecue like a um like a chimney style barbecue so you know we can't do that until we've done the concrete and can we so that's what i'm waiting for on that but yeah it should be great and then in here we are well we've finished a kind of changing room and uh and bathroom for when the pool's in use so if you've got friends over or something or you don't want to go up to the bedroom you've got this one here that you can yeah there's a shower here there's a toilet and then here you've got a bit of room where you can kind of get changed yes with a bench or something maybe some hooks here and stuff yeah yeah that's going to be really nice so that's that side um yeah we've got the double flux system down here again to get fresh air in all the time so real healthy house as and then over such where you have the two cables hanging that's where you're gonna put chandeliers is that still yeah yeah we're still gonna have some chandeliers obviously all the lights are done i don't know why i stopped oh i know the the um the furniture was in the way to get those last two spots on but all the spots work um so yeah i mean there's not much more to do there more than anything we've got a lot of cleaning to do again yes so well until all the like work is finished like all this dust work and timing and plastering there will always be a bit of dirt yeah i think um it's going to be um the kitchen really that's all that's left to do in the main house so okay uh so here if people are wondering what's behind these doors um wait you're going one way with your phone and go in the other way again yeah let's go let's so everyone can see so we both have around and the good thing is hello ed all right well it's going to be a good place to um to kind of put all the cleaning stuff yeah oh hoover and things yes good idea i didn't think of that i don't know what i'll do with the pipe i don't know whether that even needs attention just maybe leave it there um and uh these are all for these are all um the heating pipes so it's gonna be a nice warm little room in here heating pads yeah look at this though we have something oh it goes on the other yeah so people people were asking you know what what about the back garden well there isn't a back garden um but it works quite well and i quite like the idea of not having a back garden to be fair it means everything's all on one side and you kind of using the whole garden all the time so so yeah this is the heating we're just probably going to do some double glazing on the other side of that i do have access back there we have uh yeah no i think we own like uh half a meter or something so we can go back there so i'll probably put some double glazing fixed units in there in all of them along the back but this this is going to be really useful little kind of room like i said yeah but it's nice to have a bit of an area where you can yeah like you said the hoover and the map and again um for completion we'll show you in here but i'm sure everybody knows where we're going this is what the cinema room was like before ed started the work so yeah it's ready to be carpeted isn't it and that's gonna be in january and the day that the gentleman comes to do the carpet we'll ask him if we're allowed to fail if that will show you what it will be and yeah i don't think because of certain current climate i don't think we're allowed in the same room as him but we could always have a tripod there maybe do a time lapse of him doing and i'll be quite cool if he allows us we'll replace it before and then yeah speaking of private i've got the tripod because i thought we could show some of them together [Music] so it won't be just me or just you i'll go first now because which bedroom shall we start from the first one we ever did i'm all confused now okay now let's go in here oh it's nice and warm here okay uh yeah the aircon is actually all in here but it's silent isn't it it is very sound but it's i mean it's a beautiful white bedroom and it's like it's nice i i like everything about this room i like the floor mm-hmm so there's a view out over the roof you can check out the beautifully tiled roof and of course the the garden of the neighbors but uh that's fine you high up to not like disturb them and for them not to see anything we do have a bit of repair here yeah we've got to super glue that back on maybe it's just yeah so this one was the first one and then we have the bathroom because they all have their own bathrooms and all the same style of bathroom as well well it was very modern and easier to just choose the same because we otherwise would have to choose oh i need to get some paint off here all the eagle eye i only just well you could i only just saw it because i didn't see it before but there's we can still there's a lot to finish so people are always saying if you're going to be selling why are you putting furniture in well it's to stage the house we'd already bought like 90 percent of the furniture we have now yeah there's nothing that i mean the only thing new it's those two three chats two chairs three chairs three chairs yes three chests i think oh no we did buy that well you did buy that cheap chandelier for 150 euros yep and that piece of yours but that's not going to stay here that's not going to be for sale a little dressing table and but also if we are selling and uh people come around and they they decide to buy well then we could try selling some of the furniture too yeah if they like it yeah because you never know they might i mean some of the things they are like there like that cabinet that you got me there [Music] yeah i mean the thing is there's certain things we're going to say not for sale but everything else we might actually anna be able to make money on because they're here they're here people are going to have to pay otherwise to to get things in um so things things have gone up in value as well like the chandeliers yes we couldn't believe like when we were looking for one because we wanted something simple and easy and the prices were extortionate for what was three times less well three well three four years ago but i think everyone is i mean everyone is after antiques now now yeah so room one then bedroom two two with a beautiful tuna but we still need to decide whether it goes here or somewhere else bedroom number one was above the cinema room so that kind of puts it in perspective of where it is here we are above the salon so we're looking out through to the garden where the pool is for example um and this this room this is the room i was talking about a few vlogs ago um where um that had a fire and so we can see the difference in parque in this room so you've got the older wider boards on this side and then you've got the newer boards there but they they go together quite well you can see where i had to take the older boards back a bit because there were two there was a step um and so i just smoothed them back off a bit you know what though anna you know when we were looking at this bed set up and i said these go underneath the beds yes they don't go underneath the bed where do they go underneath the two things to lift it up so you know yeah you know what you want to put it on i'm going to take those little pieces of skirting off each side we're going to give it a go and put it up i don't know you can try it that doesn't mean no yeah don't forget to fix the ring well yeah and then we've got the truma we need to put that on instead of that one yeah this room as well has a uh similar bathroom to the last one slightly let me just longer the other mirror which is really nice here and then at the same time we kind of walked past all these fireplaces because nobody ever uses a fireplace but they're beautiful need to clean again but yeah it's i think this is all painted you know oh blended marble it's not real i think it's a different color underneath all right oh it's probably what's nice and green just leave it like that clean it up and leave it you know yes have you seen the bathroom in this one yeah oh i've got another plug socket there that i need to put a piece of plastic on oh see never ending when you buy these from the professional store rather than like your diy you get these covers so that when you're painting you don't get your paint on the bit that matters that's actually really good so yeah we're just going to switch the mirrors around and use he looks like he's wearing lipstick right come on next room get your trusty tripod been the best till last let's go in now [Music] okay so when we're saying about buying furniture if they wanted to buy this magnificent bed just 1099 euros 99 cents yeah now that that was important to show where the bed could go i thought yes so i can't remember how much the bed was it wasn't particularly expensive wasn't it but but you know what it's not bad yeah i think once it has the mattress and it's all made up yeah it'd be all right yes and it's good i mean i love the rosettes you've chosen here so here we have the dressing area and two sides so they can share and there's no fighting for space and egg where are you hello so the good thing is there's a door here and then you open it and you can go like say you're having a shower you can get dressed go back in the bedroom so you'd have to get water in the bathroom so you know what the bath was called when i went and bought it from her lan what was it anna anna what anna what do you want no the bath was called on here okay okay i didn't know that like what other things so yeah we did have a slight issue in this room because you don't want to be on this side because you'd be sat on the toilet like waving to people in the garden now don't get me wrong i don't mind you having a bath and waving to me in the garden but not sat on the toilet waving to me so yeah i wanted the toilet here because of that reason but that meant that we had to get the soil pipe from here over to wherever we could get it to on that back side because the soil pipes were on that back side didn't want to go out the front because the front's nice and neat so we had to go along the floor then drop down into the ceiling above so we had to raise all the rest of it so we could have a toilet in this corner i think it worked out all right i think it's really nice but along with that came another problem but once we'd raised it we had to have a step down to get out of the room and we needed two steps so we ended up having to have the floor at that level a step at this height so you could get another step that way and another step that way so it's a bit complicated but it ended up working out wouldn't it it's perfect i just think the electrician needs to finish his work yeah wow the electrician's stuck finishing off a pool at the moment so don't worry but i still see some more cleaning for me so yeah right that's the main bedroom done we have juliet on our balcony oh have you finished filming in there now not just a bit but yeah this is obviously one of the main features of the house and uh i think once once it's all landscaped it'll be magnificent and also get some um some greenery in to give a bit of privacy it'll be it'll be really nice once the hedges grow up a bit and that wall and that pool yeah once the pool is yeah nearly there but it's just not yet yeah that's where i got stuck yesterday and i couldn't get in one side couldn't get in the other side so i just pushed a bit of soil that i had to get that all um filled back in on that side but yeah still got to get around and get the other stuff done but yeah i'm going to get a big guy a big some a guy with a big machine in and he's just going to absolutely nuke the garden he's just going to get it done like in a day it'll all be leveled off and perfect so it's going to be fun to see the progress let's carry on yes oh one last thing to show is the date when the facade was made um it was 1874. so before here there was a kind of noble house already and then the family must have come into a lot of money and decided to put this fancy facade on the front so this section here really and they did a lot of work inside um you know building it up and making the the ceilings higher the next one we're gonna see the cutest little room that's above the kitchen so yeah we have to get some steps you had down make some steps and then you did put all this park here which is beautiful because there was no there's no floor or there was something it was rotten yeah there was something wrong with it this is where the attic where i found those chairs for the dining room but they were they're a bit rotten as well i'm going to get into that corner so from here you can see over the roof through to the church and it is a beautiful church yeah it's still a good size the bathroom is still nice and big that's a that's hold on that's an interesting thing that you just did because the whole there's always a question do you put a light switch on the outside of the bathroom or on the inside of the bathroom and people just have their own opinion on it i always say it's safer to have it on the outside the least amount of electricity kind of electrical kind of switches plugs you can have in a bathroom the better i think i know that it matters i just as long as you know where it is that's fine it's just you need a switch so yeah i mean it all it gets a bit boring in these bathrooms because they're all the same they're all unique in their own way because they have their own like some have slightly different like double sinks some have single sinks and it's but it's all the same style it's like minimalist but i think it suits it okay okey-dokey turn the lights off because nobody's going to be here for a few days yeah i've not put the spots in along here so this is going to have some spots along here too okay so this is it this is a special double floating system that's all i know it's circulation what does it do yeah what does it do then anna it takes out the air from the inside and brings other air from the outside that i don't know more yeah but whatever like what does the double flux do i haven't got a clue well well marty in in back to the future it takes you to the future and stuff double flux capacitor now um no it what it does it um it stops you losing any calories so in summer you don't get hot air in and in winter you don't get cold air in 98 99.8 percent i'm convinced wow okay so this is still going to put the spot out yeah yeah yeah tell you what it was nice and light even before you put that light on wasn't it so this is again above the kitchen isn't it and the game views out onto the garden tree which is massive yeah i like the way we've got two of these mirrors and they're exactly the same aren't they yes but it's just it was the lady we we asked her to leave those didn't we yes she said yes and another fireplace and this one has an adorable bathroom again so the bed's gonna go between these two cabinets obviously and then through into anna's bathroom which you put in a nice shower and then we have the what i love about this one is the floor tiles that you've chosen but there's still a window even up there so it's still nice and light bathroom when there's another one here but yeah basically these windows there was some along the corridor they're above um another roof that goes above the last bedroom um and so they were quirky little windows and when we came to replace all the windows i decided to that we should order double glazing for those two but here's the view again and obviously this is going to need i mean because imagine having a shower oh yeah i could be a crossing that i could be across in that uh restaurant there having a beer checking you out that could be me in that restaurant they're having a beer yeah let's just check what kind of yeah yeah you can check your way to some i don't think i don't think come on girl let's see let's see it if i was up so i'll be like that hi emma can you get me a beer in i'm not so sure you'd spot anything no no but it's like maybe like the what this is like yes of course some kids at least yeah maybe some curtains i don't like the stuff stuck on the windows that's a good idea okay well that's everything that we've renovated so far so let's go have a look at the kitchen which is below us and uh and what we're gonna do in the extension all today it's gonna be a very long vlog shall we shall we see when i'm putting it together because i'm worried that it's too long okay well let's have if it's not too long we'll put it all together it's too long we'll next one yeah come on anna i'll tell you what we're going to do once the light stops flickering we're going to keep all of the uh all of the work still to come for another vlog [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 30min 59sec (1859 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 24 2021