Hello! So let's get straight to the point.
This room is the room of my house where I need to make the most improvements and
the one that we really haven't done much to. We've lived in this house for like
three years now I think and we have done work on most of the house except for
this room. I've always had big plans for the sunroom but I just never really
spent the time to get everything put together. So that's what I'm gonna do, I'm
gonna spend the next week fixing up this damn room. Now you may be thinking, "Wow, it
looks great, it looks so elegant but that I can assure you is just a trick of a
good camera angle, cuz when I zoom it out it is a garbage dump in here. Quite literally there are garbage bags Like I said this room is just so neglected and
we just put shit in here Right? My inspiration and my main goal for this
room is to turn it into a sort of jungle treehouse Swiss Family Robinson kind of
vibe Minus the small child who insists on befriending every single wild animal for
some reason the family's okay with it So my plan. Now unfortunately right now
is not the best time to do a room remodel, especially one where you need
new furniture to replace the old furniture. Normally I would just run to
Target or run to a thrift store to get items that would work for my theme but
that is not an option right now What I've done is I have ordered a few things
online. Hopefully they come in time, shipping times are also just very unexpected
right now. We do have some furniture like this chest and such that I have
collected over the past year or so in plans for making this room over. For now
and I think my first plan is to just clean this room like there's just so
much crap in here and then you can barely even walk and it's just - I've had it up to here So I quickly sketched up this, quite obviously is kind of hard to
tell what's going on to anyone besides me the Victorian love seat and as the
coffee table I'm going to use the dressing trunk that I have. Originally I
wanted to find kind of a Papasan loveseat papasan.. pap.. pop.. papo-gigio but those are kind of really hard to find right now so I don't think that's
actually gonna happen. For the flooring hopefully get rid of this carpet do some
wood vinyling myself. As far as the ceiling fan there is a really really
cute tree house rustic looking ceiling lights slash fan at one of the home
improvement stores around us I think I'll set up a sort of a pickup order for everything
that I need from there I'm hoping to get a lot of hanging plants and just PLANTS IN GENERAL I want this to look like this meme that I came across on Facebook the
other day Ordered a bookcase to go here and a fake gramophone General idea, general vision it's gonna be nice to actually have a usable room that we
don't have to hide away from every guest that comes over our house First things first I need to clean... this bitch Cuz it's gross in here and it smells bad... Okay, so what I'm doing today is flooring I have no idea what I'm doing This laminate planking that it's supposed to just kind
of like hook into each other, I watched a few videos on it
so that means that I'm an expert I actually have a lot to do before I can
even start doing that, I have to move everything I think what I'm gonna do is
do the room half in half so that I don't have to clear out the whole room You gonna help me? Let's get started Okay so Nick convinced me what I was
doing was silly So what we're gonna try to do is empty this whole room first so
that I have a complete empty room to do the flooring because otherwise the vinyl
floor would be loose in certain areas and it just wouldn't be great I'm just gonna sit here and kind of
talk about the process just because I don't want this to all to be voiceover So initially when we were doing this we were just using the boards as they were
but then we started to realize after the first couple rows, the seam was in the
same spot and it looked kind of bad so we decided to cut the boards in
different places so that on each row we could start with a different length of
plank so that the seams ended up falling in different places in each row If that makes any sense Towards the end, had to measure, mark,
bring it down to our little saw setup saw it, bring it back, hammer in place,
next row so I think that's probably what took the most time was measuring and
figuring out where the end pieces were gonna go Other than that it wasn't too bad I
think it took us three to four hours in total I say" us" very liberally here... it was mostly Nick I'm not a very helpful but I was there for moral support Why did I do that? But yeah, I think
it came out pretty darn good There's a little part where we have like a little sliver
of empty space because we didn't really know how to fix that so Nick did end up
going out and buying kind of trim to put around the entire room Wow.. I feel like the
longer this process goes on the more I'm just gonna look like the ALIENS guy So yes! We finished the flooring yesterday last night So much better in here it's
very echoey as you can tell Aaaaaalllrightyy theeeeeeeen Really? So today's plan, I am going to
clean a little bit more Gonna take the magic eraser to a lot of this because a
lot of it is kind of dingy Clean the windowsills and such and then I
think I'm going to start moving some of the furniture back in here It is such an
exciting prospect that I will be able to actually use this room and hopefully it
won't be so ECHOEY I can do my favorite voice without actually adding uh, echo in post FAVORITE VOICE *echo* It's kind of hard to tell what its gonna look like right now just
because obviously it's an empty room doesn't have a lot of personality right
now but I'm hoping once I start adding all the furniture that it will start to
resemble what I'm picturing but you know we won't know that until we start
populating this room You, and me, and Mr. Clean get down to business MISTER CLEAN *echo* So this day was mostly filled with
decorating the room and moving everything that we moved out of the room,
back into the room Like I said it's kind of a weird time to put together a room
right now so some of the furniture I did order online so some of this day was
putting that together like this reproduction gramophone that I got It is
super cheap not the best quality but I just kind of needed it for **aesthetic** purposes The actual cone itself came dented so I did my best to kind of
wobble it back into place it's still very denty, pffftt it's fine From far away it
looks fine, and this is just kind of a placeholder for maybe in the future when
I decide that I want to spend money on a real one I had read reviews that it
actually worked with the little shellac record that was included with it so I
gave it a try, it has like mechanisms on the inside and you kind of crank it and
at first it wasn't working and then it started working, which was surprising and
pretty cool to think that it's just basically a big ol music box So the first side of the record's really really cute instrumental song *Really cute instrumental song* and then I flipped it around *Terrifying laughing* I think I might be cursed Good morning! Quite obviously, progress has been
made Today I think mostly it's just gonna be finishing touches for example the
wicker chairs that I got They included these pillows and so I will probably be
making my own pillowcases out of scrap fabric because these are lovely but
don't quite go with the theme that I have in mind here Gonna try to make a
curtain rod out of a wooden dowel that I have lying around from when I did my Joan of Arc look Literally still sitting in my basement with the flag on it Don't think
I'm gonna march into battle anytime soon so I think it's safe to say I can use
that for a curtain rod A nd then as far as the actual curtain I think I'm gonna
use my left over tobacco cloth because I think that it has like a nice, easy
breezy beautiful kind of vibe I set up a pickup order for some lights to go
around here so I have to go pick those up Excuse me? So to make the pillowcases I took some scrap fabric that I have lying around
from downstairs you may recognize it from my Coraline video Very quickly I just kind of measured out the existing pillowcase on the fabric that I wanted
to transfer it to, cut out two pieces Put them back to back, sewed around leaving a hole enough space to turn it inside out turned it inside out, put the pillow in and
then hand-sewed the opening shut Not sure if this is correct procedure with
pillowcases obviously it would make more sense to leave an opening that you can
slide the pillow in and out but - I think that's about all the
explaining I need to do so I think now it is time for the reveal So here is the
"Cribs" version of my sunroom Welcome to my crib okay The sunroom! Come on in Start over here this little corner used to be the trash
and recycling corner now upgraded to: "Get Trashed Corner" *pause for laughter* This feels a little empty
to me but I'm gonna leave it be so it doesn't get too crowded in here cuz I
have a tendency to do that when in doubt, add more things This little bookcase full of different little knickknacks some that me and Nick bought
and then some that were my grandmother's like this stuff that's my
great-grandmother in the picture This is one of my majesty palms the other one is over there that is Majesty it is very very clever
of me but you know I figured I would name it like like a house cat and so this is Duchess And then underneath get on in there cameraman Is a terrarium
that I made and used for our wedding so it's kind of like a little hidden easter
egg This is some plant I don't recall the name of but I'm pretty sure it's not
very easy to kill which is good for me Some more plants
that's Majesty she's not doing too great right now She's a little crispy I'm
gonna pretend like that's not my fault and it's Massachusetts' fault for being
40 degrees at night in springtime And then this trunk that we picked up at an
antique store These wicker chairs that I picked up and also the pillow cases that
I made Dressing trunk that we also picked up at an antique store it still
says the name on it, Mildred And initials are very relatable "Meh" This obviously you have probably seen in some of my other videos but it is my prized
possession Glorious and Elegant Nick actually set this up the first time and
I liked it, it's like you know an old like washing area You know you just got
done exploring the jungle so you come in here and wash up I don't
know Why am I out of breath?? I just printed this out yesterday it's kind of like my own
little nod to Disneyland because if you go to Disneyland, the Gibson Girl ice
cream boutique has this same picture I believe hanging in their window so it's
kind of like a little nod to that And then... LIGHTS Which look kind of ugly during the
day but I swear at night they look pretty The amazing Nick installed this baby Whoa oh you did that That's it! I was gonna do my exit "Crib" line "I didn't watch Cribs so I don't.." What?? You don't have to go home but you gotta get the hell out of here Eh? right? That's it! So happy to have this room
actually usable because like I said for the longest time this had such wasted
potential where we just didn't go in here and even on really nice days it was
like we wanted to come in here and have coffee in the morning or come in here at
night and have dinner, but we just didn't because it wasn't nice and it was
stressful just even look at it So most of time we just kept those blinds shut A lot of you may know that this was my grandmother's house so it means a lot to
me to come back here and hang out here because I have some fond memories of
playing out here when I was little sitting in the kid's table at
holidays Oh it's so nice It's pretty much what I pictured I think my initial plan was I
wanted to paint this room like a Victorian color I think a Victorian
parlor or green house would definitely be a darker color than this and then let
the light do its job but Nick wasn't a huge fan of that idea and then the more
I thought about it the more I realized it was probably a bad idea I'm not
actually sure how I would paint windowsills We just left it white for
now anyways we might go in and add some ceiling panels that are wood later but
we will see I know I don't usually do a lot of house renovation videos just
because it's been such a process but this was a lot easier for me to
compartmentalize and just focus on one room That's it I hope that you guys like
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