Move-In Update of our LeHigh by Ryan Homes

all right hello everyone today is saturday may 29th we are 37 days into our new house and we have no grass no landscaping package those flowers we just did ourselves but uh we're happy we're excited and we are still moving in but we're gonna show you just a little bit of what we got going on and uh hopefully you like what you see so but first we're just going to do a quick walk around because we want to highlight our rock garden and how amazing it is um so i i built that trash enclosure there did that my myself i'm really proud of that it's not the best in the world but it's some of my best work now our hoa requires us to hide our trash enclosures so you know if you don't want to have to keep it in the garage you know you got to figure out something so i built that a couple days ago and it came out really good so sunk this stuff four by fours in the ground and so there we go all right so moving on i'm gonna walk you guys around the side i want you to see my uh plants i got going on since i haven't been able to get any sod yet i went ahead and installed like a diy sprinkler system and i put flags in the ground to mark the heads so when the saw guys come they know screw it with the heads here's my little valve box and i also planted a couple of shrubs i got some more in the house i gotta put the ground they look like sticks now but give them a few years they're gonna be gorgeous when we get the rest of our yard done and i'm gonna bring you guys inside i'm just trying not to step on the mud because i'll track it all into the house okay so hey i'm gonna take them inside now is that one of the neighbors from down the street all right so onward with the tour sorry to bore you guys with my landscaping crap that's right yeah it's the best we could do with what we got all right so welcome to our house uh and all right so keep in mind we've only been in here 37 days we're still unpacking i'll put this in a wider let me widen the lens a little bit okay so here's my office space it's again you know we're we're working through it all so it's a hot mess right now but i do have a workable working space i got stuff everywhere but it's together do you want to say something we want to highlight the french door oh right yeah yeah so if you're building a lehigh the french doors are a really nice upgrade and you close it in it's really cool one bad thing though i just want to be straight up with you guys you got a a light fixture in there or a roughing but the switch for it is actually out here so to turn that light on in there you have to operate the switch from outside the room which is a little bit of a an annoyance but yeah just a and there there's our little shoe situation again we have no decorations up this is very temporary it's the rest of my shrubs here's our kitchen we love our kitchen we do um so we cleaned up most of what was all over the place so still a little bit messy but uh so one thing i want to highlight about the island so it's big we love how big it is but because of its location and its size it tends to just get filled with stuff like just by the end of the day this thing is littered with just any and everything everyone didn't have any place to put so that's a bad thing about it is that it just becomes a big storage spot so but other than that it's amazing right we love our pendant lights we'll probably switch those out we've been looking just to highlight um i don't know where you are in the country but we had to purchase our own refrigerator yeah so um we got the refrigerator from um best buy yeah yeah this was the best buy buy we got the uh microwave and uh oven wall oven package as opposed to another counter yeah so we lost some counter space but we picked up a second oven we decided to go with the grill uh stove the gas grill stove as opposed to the electric um well we love the gas it seems to cook a lot better than electric in my opinion but um yeah so again i'm i'm always the pessimist so let me just point out the negative about this so the wall oven is nice i love the aesthetics but compared to the gas oven it's a total piece of crap it's super slow it takes forever to heat up and then after you finish using it it spends like an hour with the fans still blowing to cool off so i'm like afraid to use the dagger thing for kind of but in any case it's a good oven good microwave is really cool above it it's like an 1100 water so if you're thinking about that package i think it's really it's worth the upgrade if you if you want the wall oven and if you even if you just want the aesthetic so but the gas oven is really cool i haven't had gas since i was a kid and it's like super fast it's it's a lot of it's really efficient it's it's a lot of fun to cook with so you love it yeah you've been cooking with electric for a long time yo you'll love guys middle grill is such a nice feature for pancakes burgers since we don't have like a patio right now so uh just for anybody who's interested to know right all right so uh just highlight the curtains real quick so we uh well i think we picked these up pick that bath and beyond maybe it's 95 uh yeah the curtains are 95 inches 94 and a half i think if you hang them about a foot from the ceiling a foot above the window you'll get an inch or so off the floor so if you want them to spill out onto the floor you have to come down lower um most places don't carry 96-inch curtains but anyone who's been buying or shopping for them probably already knows that there's our table we love our our table and our chairs we just need a rug for this area we don't have small kids so we could easily do a rug under the dining room table don't mind my mess of over there with the computers um and what else oh so the living room right yes so same thing so have the two uh windows and flank the the tv or the um mantle area um we probably are going to get a bigger tv for that space because we currently have it's not doesn't really fill that space um still working on the decor for it got a couple ideas now just to let you know that um our lehigh came with uh white walls and so it's very white and um we got these nice couches that are kind of a gray tone so we're looking to do an accent wall on the uh right here that's a 194 inch long wall yes again for anyone who's thinking about building a liaison it's a big big wall space gotta figure out what we're gonna put on that wall so we think about an accent wall here and potentially an accent wall over here i think that's too much but yeah he said you can you know i'll let you figure that out we got some samples so we're going to try them out and uh we'll see who wins so we got most of our furniture we're still waiting on one more chair to go with the living room set so we only got we have one of two second one will be here one day when the furniture manufacturer figures it all out the mantle slash tv stand we got off wayfair that was a really good buy uh for size and for school or for scale that's a 55-inch television and we could easily do like a 80-incher there so i think we're gonna upgrade um and then uh we're gonna switch out our table so the coffee table and the end tables we think are kind of blah so those will get swapped out um the rug is 11 by 16. i wish it was more of a 12 by 15. it'd be a little a little easier to work with i think it just comes out a little too far but an 11 by 16 easily fits the space any bigger than that i think you'd be you'd be overdoing it in my opinion and we picked that up from home to home so you don't have to you know take out a loan or anything to get a nice rug so yeah yeah yeah it was it was all this stuff is affordable yes yes um what are these uh the bars uh counter stools counter stools not bar stool because bar stools will be too high um we got those weird was that these are from ashley okay they're counter height so you have to google what counter height is but they're not if you put them in front of a bar table it'll be way too short but they're perfect for a counter and they swivel yeah they're really sturdy we really like the look and um we thought maybe they would clash with the other furniture but it ended up working really well so we're proud of the the counter stools i think that's it for oh another another negative so more with the negatives um it's bright as hell in here uh-huh these led lights holy cow i mean it's either off or like on there's no in-between it's hard to make it soft in here you do the the pendant lights but you know some it kind of only highlights the kitchen so we've been using those in the evening to kind of soften the room a bit same with the living room lights if you do the leds up top it's just really bright i like it but you know you kind of kind of find alternatives so if you want to use lamps maybe or throw a ceiling fan up in there that might you might be able to get a softer light from that i know you can also put dimmers on i haven't tried it yet but we're thinking about just dimming putting dimmer switches on some of these because it's it's really bright at night so maybe part of that is because the walls are so white yeah probably yeah it's ridiculously bright we we use those pendant lights a lot and the oven light kind of just oh yeah yeah and believe it or not we don't use our hallway entryway like that i don't think we've used it don't use that a lot and we went with the under cabinet lighting i like it but here's the negative in case you're thinking about it they're great when you're standing or sitting at the counter but if you're at the in the living room on the sofa it's like the because of the height of the sofa maybe it's just they shine like right in your eyes so it's i don't like that when you turn them off if you turn them on and you're in the living room it's almost like a distraction so there's a negative about the under cabinet lighting just to you know just keep you informed um all right so on to the uh mudroom foyer area right here's mine i love my gumball machine um before we go in the guest room this is our soon to be whole tree space right now it's just boxes and emptiness floor is a little dirty because we have no size so there's constantly modern dust being tracked into the house but that's the beginning of what's gonna be like a full up poultry this space is like 107 inches so you can do you can kind of go crazy with that space you can fit almost anything in that space there all right so guess wrong i don't have the ceiling fan installed yet but i am working on it but we are proud of our guest room we don't have any pillowcases on the pillows but so excuse us but everything else is mostly done and no blinds or curtains either so yeah we're still working on it but um uh nice closet space um dresser is a refurb i picked up at the goodwill sanded stripped it repainted it refinished it so i'm proud of my dresser there nightstands are ikea rast hacks i just added some drawer handles and uh these are just glued together one by fours uh and then i just you know i stained them and sanded them or sanded them and then stained them um the bed if anyone is interested if i'm in love with it but you know you guys may think it's terrible but if you love it too this is from white.com so i stole i didn't steal it but this is one of her bed plans and it's it's really easy if you're if you work with wood in any way shape formal fashion is it's pretty simple um yeah so it just it fills up the space really nice really cost effective and i think is that it for the guest room all right good good good all right and don't let him fool you he did such a good job such a good drink so we'll be headed to next all right i think we're done with downstairs so we're going to go ahead and head upstairs and bugger our kids so don't mind the wall we marked the hell out of it dragon furniture up here so this is a bit of a tight space if you move a washer and dryer up here i would recommend using those those back straps yes do like a two man with the back straps don't put it on a dolly because it will just tear up the freaking wall i had to learn that the hard way so if you have lighter carpet make sure you grab something from u-haul to put down when you're moving yeah yeah hang on i gotta take one all right cool cool all right so um we'll start with the laundry room then we'll disturb the kids so laundry room is uh well if you've been looking at models right then you know what the laundry room looks like two cabinets the ones that match the same ones that match downstairs you can easily fit a washer and dryer in here if you go with the sink option you got plenty of space here i mean huge amount of space if you want to put an extra cabinet here i say go for it that's probably what i'm gonna do um one bad thing for anyone who's interested the drive vent is back there but instead of shooting out the front of the house it actually goes right under the floor and out the side so if you ever wanted to try to clean it you got a snake like 20 feet which i'm kind of disappointed about that but you know all right so whose room were we starting with jb's all right so bonus room this was a bonus room if you're getting a bonus room this is what the banister looks like as you come up to the closed off bonus room if you do the loft this is all open and you get a it's a whole totally different concept but so bonus room what up jb we won't be long we're just showing showing the room all right so we're using this space as a bedroom so there's no closet so we we did uh an armoire this is just from ikea uh desk is a refurb uh and then there's the anna white bed again this one's slightly bigger oh no same size as the guest bed different color um and then again with the ikea rast nightstand so same hack i did different knobs but same top um we're gonna put some valances or baylances in here uh the hotel style you know it's uh plywood boards and um probably won't do curtains jb doesn't care about curtains yeah yeah yeah so as you can see if you use it as a bedroom which most of you probably won't um you can easily fit plenty of furniture in here and this huge amount of space this is a queen sized bed so again plenty of room in here but i doubt anyone's going to use this for better uh yeah if you do the bonus room you get the pendant lights automatically we didn't know that so there's a there's a ceiling fan roughing but we also have these four lights in here it does get warm in here in the summer is what we've noticed so and this is right above the garage so it's going to be tough to make this a bedroom but the floor underneath is insulated we confirmed that during the build but there's only one heat register in here or air register in here so it's going to be a challenge i think in the winter and the summer to kind of regulate temperature but we're going to work on that we may have to put a second air vent in here but we'll we'll see how that goes any bedroom or garage is tough right all right who is next let's go across the hall this is the bedroom across the hall from the bonus room the other drawer the other jay all right we're we're going to turn your light on just for a second so this this is jordan's room this is the other bedroom as you can see no curtains but we're working on that we're probably going to put valances in here as well same a white bed frame guys it's so simple you can just build it's like the build-a-bear factory with these beds okay so this one's blue but and this is only a full size so it's a little smaller so this room so as you can see this room can accommodate a full-size bed two night stands those are ikea rast nightstands i think they're like 26 inches tall um nice sized closet and then i don't know if he cleaned his closet but there's no light in here i wish there was a light but we fit a dresser in there that's the ikea no we we're gonna do a tarva but it's like the brimnez or something oh yeah yeah so it's like it's it's 59 inches long so a 59 inch by 19 inch dresser will fit in here if anyone is interested bookcase is an old build i did from many many years ago i just kind of refurbed it fitted in this room and then he's got a desk and we'll get his wire situation together here this is a little messy but like i said we're only 37 days in so i got to keep telling myself we're not not ready we're not done right oh hang on i wanted to show them just because i'm proud we did get a ceiling fan in here so i i did that myself that and it works nothing we haven't burned the house down yet so we're working working on the other rooms this is a smaller bedroom now okay here's mike this is the smallest room i think upstairs and mike yeah we're really working on his room so we went with smaller nightstands in here these are ikea nightstands they're not hacks they're actually nightstands and then but we did go with the anna white beds same size as jordan's full size uh black instead of blue again we'll put a valence in here and you can see it will fit a full size bed two small nightstands full-on dresser and a desk and um well you know we're working through all his furniture we'll figure out how to get these wires under control and get some more uh decorations in there he's missing a box spring so his bed is kind of low so i apologize but we're working on it so thank you michael all right all right who's next so we're gonna go to the last bedroom which is going to actually be my office and it's the coolest place in the house because you like this space is just beautiful i mean she won't let me put blinds in here once i have my space all together this will be my office and i think it's the best spot because this is the second best spot okay [Laughter] um it also has it a lot of people do use it as a bedroom or a nursery it's great for a nursery because it's adjacent yes to the masters same nice big right so this closet is smaller than the other bedroom with there with the double door with the front door closet so they look like they're the same size but this one is actually uh narrow it does it's not as deep i i don't know if it's wider or not but it's definitely not as deep so yeah it's not the same size as the other closet just just so you know in case anyone cares but this is a good size room attic access is here i noticed down south some people get like finished attics but up here in the north yeah they don't they don't do that yeah you can maybe use it for storage but it's just trusses and uh ceiling joists no no no floor to step on nothing that could support any real weight um all right so this is here we are in the master or owner's bedroom um you know we're trying to get it together guys no curtains yet but we do have rods so we're working on the rods and we do have curtains yeah they're just on the floor um uh what is this the core lane bedroom set so if anyone's interested in the core lane we like our coral lane it's it's a really cool set it's kind of barbie dream house like but you know so if some of you guys may not like this but i can deal with it it's cool it's really shiny but we like it it's it's not good yeah it's no it's it's not it's not he got a nice cool dresser out of it so yeah you know um i mean i don't know i'll kind of cover some of the basics so there it's a really heavy furniture yeah set you know the the nightstands are rock-solid three full-size drawers i think they can each hold like 40 50 pounds so the drawer slides are really really robust um you get your you get what you pay for with it you know what i mean a headboard is really heavy bed is solid no creaks no cracks um dressers are just for a bear to get up the stairs holy cow once we get this tv mounted we'll get some space up there to kind of work um and then this this was mine here and it's it's another beast it was just a just a pain to get up here legs come off from the bottom they screw off but it was still really tough because they're heavy but all of the drawer slides are really heavy-duty yeah i guess that's more info for the guys right um uh yeah so we didn't get any kind of vaulted ceiling in here or uh not vaulted but a tray ceiling we would have loved that but they didn't offer it here so yeah we got a roughing so we'll get a nice chandelier setup going but no tray so if you got a tray ceiling we're jealous because i think it would make the room even nicer you know but it's a good size room here's my closet i won't open the door because if i do i'll probably be crushed by the hot mess that is my closet um bathroom yeah bathroom is here so we got some cool hissing her rugs uh my mirror is dirty so i'm not gonna hide like that right now um yeah so shower setup is really cool ceiling the um i guess again more for the guys or for anyone that cares i guess really but the the ceiling uh the exhaust fan in here is really really elaborate it's got like an auto sensor on it and it moves a huge volume of air so you don't have to worry about or as much about mold and moisture build up in here we're really big on keeping that under control so they gave us a really nice fan i don't know if that's standard everywhere but here it was standard so we're really glad for that it has uh my closets there i'm not going to open it because it's still on a poor work in progress so we are saying we are the master of course is for those lehighs uh it comes with a linen closet yeah yeah the linen closet is really cool it's small it's teeny tiny but you can you can you can put a any kind of yeah plenty of stuff in there but it's not very deep that's probably a foot less than a foot deep so still working on getting a whole bunch of stuff we have nothing right now but if you divinity we are in love with if you do the tub with the shower i think the vanity shrinks and everything gets rearranged so if you want this vanity i think you have to get like the shower set up with no tub but don't quote me on that but um yeah i love it it's got two working drawers on each side top ones don't work and then a full cabinet so you get a lot of room both of these drawers work which is great um so i just it's a really good setup i like the bathroom and to the right is the water closet nothing exciting about that okay oh kids bath right yeah so can i can i turn the light on is it like okay um so it's standard bathroom right uh trash can his and her sinks yeah i think the kids unscrew two of the light bulbs because they claim it's too bright [Music] we'll get that fixed but again with the exhaust fans you know we're big proponents of keeping moisture out of your house so exhaust fans all work really well so we're happy about that um yeah so that there's the the upstairs bathroom and i think is that everything so far i think we're happy with our lehigh [Music] um just want to shout out my hubby who played because the beast came in here moved everything and got us all set set up and situated so um it is possible to uh have some sort of semblance of normalcy in 30 days we're giant you're right well we lucked out because we you know i i don't know if neurotic is the right word but we're a little bit crazy so you know we started buying stuff like eight nine months out yeah like so you know we had the couches in the in our living room at the old place like wrapped packaged table was in a box all the chairs were purchased months ago the chair here did we got that after the fact so like that just came and then the other one is probably next month maybe yeah right at this rate and then yeah the nights the tv stand i bought like last october that's been sitting at the old place so we bought a lot of stuff in advance we we it was risky to do that but we knew the size we went through the model a dozen times so we knew exactly what we were working with if you're not familiar with the space i think you know it's probably not a good idea to pre-purchase stuff but we kind of knew our space still still ran into some issues upstairs though our bedrooms were not quite the size that we thought so again pre-purchasing and and uh is risky so we ended up with not as much space as we thought we would have in the middle bedroom so anyway just to let you know this lehigh does come with a basement we did not oh yeah that's right um so yeah it's a big space yeah yeah you probably saw it if you watched any of our other videos you've seen our basement it's unfinished there's a dehumidifier down there again you know to keep moisture down keep the humidity level if below 50 or below um it's it's a good size um i think it might be like a thousand and six square feet or something like that a finishable space and then there's a good size unfinished area um uh oh i just wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented on our other video uh we're really grateful and we glad you guys like our place and hopefully it helps anyone anyone who's looking to build a lehigh or just orion home we hope it it helps you guys we watched a million videos ourselves and there's some real pros out there so anyone who's looking at this who does their own videos and is a pro thank you because we watched a ton of cool videos on first-time homebuyers and just you know walk-throughs and whatnot so and if you like this video please hit like yeah yeah yeah feel free to like this video and so that more and more people can can find it when they're looking you know and just you know thanks again and uh we'll we'll try to keep you guys posted we are absolutely exhausted just finished cleaning out the old place and locking it up so we're we're just we're tired we need like a like a month off but we got so much work to do so but thank you again guys and we will we'll see you next time so bye bye

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Published: Sat May 29 2021