Previously on journey to home
Everyone today is Sunday and my parents and I just finished doing the floors here in the den
the family
The family room. I guess you can call it. So I just wanted to give you guys some updates on what we've done so far
So I'm gonna start with the front door and then I'll work my way into this area
So behind me damage for you guys this but behind me we painted the doors blue
We're gonna have a pop of blue in this room
Like for example, the throw is gonna be blue. The pillows are gonna be blue
What else is gonna be blue some like pictures on the walls stuff like that?
So Papa blue in this room quick little update for my dad went around and he was filling some holes in this hallway
And
I know if you guys can see it. But like I said, he was filling some holes and stuff
Any areas that were kind of damaged he filled
Something that is new is this little
Handle, I went ahead and changed it before it was like a gold color and I changed it to this really pretty
Sober knob I got this from Home Depot and I think it was around two to three dollars
So it's really cute looks way better. The other one was really really tiny. So I went ahead
Removed the old one and put on this new one
Still the merit is in the high side here. We have him put it back up
It's a really thin mirror so we might get something that's a little bit wider. I think you guys know the carpet is gone
I'm trying remember what I showed you guys already and carpet is gone. My dad needs to rip off the baseboards here and
Put down tiles in this area. The tiles will stop right here so from
The front door
all the way
to right here the tiles will end and then over here back here and into the Dead will be
Laminate floors closet door is also blue. So then we get into the family room and the floors are almost done
You can see we now have white baseboards and no long brown ones and I ripped all of this off in
The previous footage I think it was yesterday and he did that or was it today can remember?
Still need to get the cushions made for this and this
I did order a couch for here. It's a really pretty couch
I'm looking for a rug and a center table
Currently looking for a TV console and a TV. You want to go with a
55 inch nothing too big nothing too small something. I'll fit perfectly right here and a nice console
table that can hold like board games cards dominoes
stuff like that
You know on this side
Not too sure what we're gonna put on the wall. Yeah, but I was thinking a nice plant would to go there
something on the wall here and
Whatever goes there will match on
This side no
On this side of the room. I was thinking to put a large mirror right here
So if you guys have any ideas at all on what we can do to decorate this basement
Definitely. Let me know down below. I'm always interested in hearing you guys ideas. A lot of you guys have really great ideas
so now on this side we have a little bit more of the flooring to do just a bit here a
bit here and
Behind the bar. So let's go behind the bar
Well, it's pretty junky back here, but you guys can kind of see that it still needs flooring back here
We have three stools that came with the home they match with the bar
Once the room is complete these three chairs will come over onto this side. So update
I did return the other two lamps that I bought this is the original lamb listen to Virgil lamp that I wanted
But unfortunately, they don't have this bendy
Lamp anymore. So I returned them and I didn't get anything else and then we have this little leather couch here
That my brother's friend's mom gave to my brother
we're gonna put a throw in it a nice little pillow and
We got to wipe it up because there is some paint splatters on it
so we just need to clean it up and then decorate it and
I think that's it. I have to update you guys on
Still waiting for the couch. It's supposed to come September 6th
My tenants upstairs the last few of them should be out September 1st. So
Once they're out we can go upstairs
so
Ask for fireplace I
Feel like the fireplace looks a lot better now with these floors
It was looking kind of dull before with the brown floors
I mean other Brown floors with the tiles, but it looks a lot better now. We will refresh
This part maybe spurt paint it in maybe silver or something. I don't know
This I don't think we'll touch because this is real brass
Probably just clean it and shine it and just make it look
a little bit better and
ask for actual fireplace
We are going to clean it because it is very very dusty
Probably put some pictures up here
Some more pictures there
I was thinking of plants in this corner with maybe a picture here
Yeah, Oh some really nice curtains we already got them for right here and
Curtains for here. We already got them curtains that are gonna reach the floor
So already got them
and
I think that's it
Then we need 2 new outlet covers and like switches
Because the ones that were on before our old and broke and we threw them away
Also, we need some vent covers
For in here, I think there's one more
Ok, no I lied. There's no more. Oh, yeah right here one right there. Give me some new bed covers and yeah
So since the basement is
kind of dark the floor is appear to be more of a brown but if you guys were to see this in
natural lighting like outside you would see that this is actually very very light, but in here is pretty dark, so it appears to be
Dark, but it's not
But it still goes
So I can't wait to get these changed
like I told you guys before we're keeping the actual wooden part, but we're changing the
Cushions to may be a gray a light gray or blue
Something like I don't know. I'm not too sure yet
So yeah, that's pretty much it. That's all I had to update you guys on everyone. Today is Monday
got myself a lemonade from well frozen lemonade from
Tim Hortons
My dad is currently over at the house and this is bright. So yeah, I woke up with this crazy idea that I
Wanted to make my own coffee table and my own TV console because last night me my mom were on overstock Wayfair
Pinterest for the basement because down there has a farmhouse theme so I like the wooden
Barn, look if you know what I mean
I'll try and insert a photo so you guys can kind of get an idea of what I'm talking about
but then when you look online for those types of
Furniture. It's like three four five six even like a thousand dollars
so this morning I
Woke up, and I was thinking to myself
I've seen people use
stuff from Ikea and just
Completely transform it. I've seen people start from scratch
So I was like, maybe I can get my dad to make those items for me
But then I was like, you know what he's doing so much work already. Let me not do that
Let me not put more load on him. So I went on Pinterest and I started googling or
Pinterest thing whatever like for example, I was typing in do-it-yourself
Coffee table IKEA. So I typed in that something random and
This IKEA hack came up for a coffee table
Another one came up for a TV console and it was just perfect. So pretty much you buy a
IKEA coffee table just to play simple unfinished wood coffee table and
what you do is you go to Home Depot and you get some plywood and
It's a plywood. I'm not sure the correct word, but you get some wood
I guess it's like two by fours and
You get maybe about six of them to cover the top of the coffee table?
and
then you you nail it down you stain it you satin it you stain it the color that you want and then voila there's your
Coffee table that looks like a farmhouse coffee table, which is exactly what I was looking for online
that was like three four hundred dollars, but instead it would only cost about sixty so
That's what I'm gonna do
then
So same thing with the what's called?
the TV console
So now on printer s I looked up TV console hack IKEA and I came across
This dresser hack for your TV. So
originally, I was actually looking for a
TV console that would be tall and
Wide enough for a 55 inch TV because we have wood paneling downstairs
Trying to mount a heavy TV onto the wall. It's probably not a good idea because what paddling isn't like super strong or anything
It's really hollow. It's not very thick at all. So putting up a TV on the wall
Rocks in for trouble. So I
Figured you know what? I need something nice and wise I can put a TV directly on the stand
I came across this IKEA hack where you pretty much take an unfinished dresser. You remove the top drawers
so it kind of creates like a cubby and
you leave the two bottom drawers if you want to and
You stand and you paint and you whatever you stain if you want and it turns into a really nice TV
Console so that is what I'm going to do instead of get my dad to do it
I'm just gonna buy a really cheap coffee table a really cheap
Dresser from Ikea and turn it into what I need it for then I had this other idea
Sorry about the rambling, but then I had this other idea. Why don't I just go to
Salvation Army so
There wasn't any Salvation Army nearby but there's a volume village and
I found a lot of things. I'm going to show it to you guys later. I found a lot of things about the village
board games
Some books some books that I can use to decorate the tables and stuff
So you pretty much take off the outer cover and then you leave the hard cover underneath and you use it to decorate your table
I know it's not supposed to be used as decor, but it looks really nice
So whatever and some other stuff, I'll show you guys later. So I went down to the very back where they have all these dressers
tables
Desks chairs all kinds of stuff still steps tools all kinds of stuff all types of furniture
I should say and I came across
this
unfinished
table and
I was like all this perfect. I was looking for a coffee table
Like I was telling you guys I was gonna gonna IKEA buy this little coffee table and turn it into something crazy
Well something nice so I went ahead
Took off the legs popped it into my shopping cart went up to the front and as I'm getting ready to cash out
I look underneath the table and it says IKEA lack
And that is the exact table that I was going to buy
My new this table was ten dollars
The one on IKEA was about fifty something so it would have been up to maybe 65 after tax and everything
You know Canadian tax. So this one this one was only $9.99
The only thing about this table is that it's missing its second level. So it's a two level
Coffee table it was missing the second one, but no big deal. No big deal. Only ten bucks
So my plan for this one that I found at Value Village is to use it as a game table
So my family loves to play dominoes
We love to play cards board games. So I'm planning to use that one as a game table
I'm going to do everything that I mentioned before we are going to send it down. Stain it paint it
Whatever make it look nice and use it as our game table
I thought that was really funny that I was going to buy the exact same table
For sixty something dollars and I got it for ten at Valley Village. So I thought I would share that with you guys
So yeah, I will show you guys everything I got
I'm really really
Surprised like I've seen people go to Salvation Army goodwill and that stuff and buy stuff, but I always said to myself
I'm never gonna find that stuff
People find really really amazing things and then like transform it into something even more
Amazing. So I'm really surprised that I was able to find that table and
Yeah, I did see some dressers, but unfortunately I could not carry those by myself
They're really really big and I think they were a little bit too big for the space
The one that I saw in Ikea is going for about 124 and it's a good size. Good height good everything
so I'm just gonna grab it and
Transform it change the knobs on it. Maybe paint them silver or something and just
You know make it into what I want
And yeah, so I saved a lot of money on a coffee table, which is awesome
All right, so enough with the talking, hopefully that wasn't too much what's happening right now
My dad is finishing up the floors. You guys saw that in a previous vlog or previous footage
He's finishing up the floors by the bar. He has to do in front of the bar and then behind and
Then he has to make his way to the hallway and then we gotta get tiles for the rest of the way
which would be the mudroom and
Yeah, so that's pretty much that so let me go over to the car. I still have the IKEA nykeya
I still have the Value Village stuff in the car because I was tired
There was a lot of stuff that I bought today from
Value Village and I just wanted a nice drink so I came home and left everything in the car and sat down
So I'm gonna show you guys what I got
More like a sneak peek. I won't show everything
Just because everything's wrapped up
And packaged because I did get some glassware
So the cashier had brought them out for me, but I'm just gonna show you guys what I got
Let's head over to the car. Oh my gosh. It's so bright and my dad is out cutting wood
All right, so I'm in the back of the car. So this is a table but as you can see it is kind of dusty
Which is fine it's everything in that store was really dusty
I'm guessing they've been in there for a little while. So you're starting to collect dust. This is the exact same one
I was looking at it that the one I was looking at was in the color white and this one is in a birch color
So I took off I screw it off the legs because it couldn't fit into my cart
Because of course, so let's go to D wide or too long so it can fit in my cart
So I screwed them off. There's lady beside me with staring at me
I think she thought I was taking the legs and gonna leave
But now I just screwed them off so it can fit into the cart. This is the bottom of it
So it looks really weird, but if I flip it over
Struggling, but if I flip it over
It does have a little bit of like damage marks
But like I told you guys we are going to pretty much that send us down and stain it
I'm gonna wipe down everything make sure it's nice and clean
sanitized and then
Design the top and of course staying this because the color is a little bit too
Yellowy the camera is not really picking it up. And we said I can darken it. It's like this blonde color
Kind of like that if that looks okay. I don't know what you guys understand. It's like a blonde brown color and
Yeah, it's not really the color that I want now
Let me show you guys I got some board games. I honestly don't know if it's missing pieces, but I'm pretty sure I can find
the matching pieces on eBay or Amazon they usually have like
Board game pieces that you can use so I got connect for this was like two dollars I got
Sorry, and I don't know if it has all the pieces. But again, I will check online. I got some books
I got
Some novels that I'm gonna use to decorate my coffee table
so pretty much what you do you take off this outer layer and you use
the hardcover as your decorative piece, so this one has a
Is this the one that I wanted I don't like I picked up the wrong one
So it's like a black navy color
And
That's what it looks like I'm gonna take off this piece and then I have some other ones in here
I think one is like a soft cream and one is like a bright blue which goes with the theme for the basement
So that's that
And then over here we have some my dad is cutting wood right now
but if you can hear me I
like some ceramic bowls
In here that I'm gonna use for decorations
I got another book in here and
Then some more books and then here's the legs that I screwed off
So yeah, that's from which what I got
So this was ten bucks and here's a little sign that I saw
When I got to the cash desk and it says IKEA lack and this is exact in one I was looking for on
IKEA so
Yeah
It's crazy how things are
So I'm gonna take this into the house
- basically like this this line lining it up with this
No, not this line this one I know
You can
Do anything but ah, so yeah, let's take it in
1713 by
That's before this is going to be the mudroom so we're gonna be entering from
this store in the wintertime that's gonna like a bench right here and
probably here so you can sit down took off our boots and
We're also going to putting tiles to right there so all of us will be tile and the rest will be
Go over to Home Depot and get Tyler I'm gonna head over to the back yard
because I do have some vegetables back there and I want to make sure that I'm picking them and they're not falling off and
Rotting, so let's head over there. All right, so we do have some tomatoes that are ready to be picked
Even if you do pick them when they're still orange, they will still turn red once they're inside
So I'm gonna go ahead and pick these. Well not this one. It's a little bit too yellow
All right. Let's go on this one
These ones are still a little bit too yellow. This one's good. These ones are too yellow
So I'm gonna go ahead and pick these I probably have some peppers that need to be picked as well
I'll go and check those out in a second. So I was right I do have some peppers that are ready to be picked
These are sweet peppers. I thought they were spicy. But no my dad said they're sweet
So this one's a little bit too young. I'll leave that one. This one looks kind of young
This one looks pretty good. I
Have some bigger Tomatoes over here, but they're not ready
And we got a pepper on the ground that's I want to come over here because
When they get really ripe they just fall right off
And we have an tomato that's coming in it's not ready though. I
Think we had a zucchini here. My dad picked it and he said it was a really big one
They picked it and they ate it
When I was in here
Unfortunately, I don't know my beans are not doing very well I only got one beam off it off my tree our plant
My scallions are coming back
aka onions
It used to be super full it was like this huge bunch, but now it's my dad cut it down
So now they're going back
This is all that I picked from the garden about I want to see what every week
I get about a handful of each handful of peppers and a handful of
Tomatoes this one kind of popped on me. So I might just throw this one in the garbage because it's gonna rot
So just start out wanting no garbage
But yeah, these will turn red in a few days. I'm just going to add them to our little veggie Bowl
And then these ones were 4d but he forgot to take them the last time he was here
so
Some of them are probably going bad. I gotta take notes on them
Sitting here for a few days and these are baby cucumbers
Totally funny-looking and they're really tiny
Cute
either cucumbers or zucchini a comer but they're really small and
These ones are from I think my parents backyard
These ones are going beds and when it dump these
Came back home to charge my phone. I haven't had a full battery
in like weeks, so
hopefully it charges so I'm gonna head back over to the house and
Start taking down some more wallpaper because we have a lot of it. We have a lot of wallpapers
so I'm gonna try my best to
Get a good chunk of it done
now, I don't think I showed you guys the before but if you check back in the original house tour video you would have
Seen that we had like this 12-foot wall with tons of wallpaper. So I took down
Probably 50% of it I can't reach
Super high I mone five six so I can only reach up to about maybe six feet
the rest of it we definitely need a ladder and
Probably need to make some type of platform so you can get up high to get the rest
But I got about 50% of it. I still need to get the rest. So I'm gonna do that right now
So I just came back over to the house and my dad is almost done
He only has this piece to do he finished all behind the bar
He was also telling you that we can make a hole in the
Paneling and fit these wires behind the wall, so that way they're not exposed and just hanging out. So we're gonna do that
Yeah, it's coming together
And he's outside cutting some wood right now making all little pieces
Next on journey to whom he hasn't seen the house since we put down the floor
So he's gonna see for the first time in so I'm gonna give his reaction
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