Renovation Day 27: IT'S ALMOST DONE!!

What's up you guys? It's Graham here. So I actually had somebody filming for me, which is pretty much the first time in ever. It's a little weird for me not to be like holding a camera. But anyway, public thank you so much for filming behind me.

So I figured this is a perfect opportunity to do an update video, so let's do it because you guys have been requesting it. My reason for not doing videos earlier and like not getting around to it, you can see my hands here, they're disgusting and they're filled with paint because I've spent the last seven days painting this place from pretty much 7:30 in the morning to about 8 or so at night.

It started off with me getting a few quotes for painting and the quotes were pretty high, like over 5 grand. I thought, you know what, it's a pretty slow time for me at work right now. I could take a week off, so I figured, okay, I'll do two days of prep, two days of paint. I can save like five grand with four days' worth of work.

Didn’t turn out like that. It was two days straight of prepping, 12 hours a day of prep work, doing like stuff over a parent and stuff like that. I learned a lot by doing that, I'm like looking at a lot of YouTube videos and stuff like that. Then it turned into basically five days straight of the paint and it was a pain in the ass.

Doing all the little trim pieces was a nightmare, and it looks really easy. You would think painting some iron bars out front of a house would be simple, but it's actually the most painstaking, nightmarish hellhole you would ever imagine. It's a real test of your patience; if you think you have patience, try painting like 20 bars out front of the window black with this enamel that just doesn't come off. You have to use paint thinner to rub on your body to get this off. It is disgusting.

But anyway, that's what it is. I'll cut some clips of all the bastard stuff but the good news painting the place, we got the walls painted now. I hope this is a really cool color; it's called spun wool. I like it because it's kind of like a warm gray.

It's telling something a hundred percent gray is like a yellowy grayish color. They also painted the trim ultra bear white, which is just like the standard white, gives you a little bit of contrast between the two. If you guys follow me on Snapchat, you know damn well what these lights look like.

So I posted a few lights on Snapchat and I asked you guys which one you prefer. I think I picked like five lights and I told everyone to screenshot the ones they like the most. So if you're not following me on Snapchat, this is her cute right here: bonia septum because you get to decide some of this cool stuff here.

So anyway, this was the most popular light on Snapchat and I ended up going with it, and it actually looks pretty dope, so I'm super happy with this. There's still working on the fireplace, so that’s still gonna be done in base. I realized too that the tile one was going to be about six hundred dollars to do the outside of this, like some hand-painted Spanish tile; I'm not doing that.

So I gotta find some other alternative that's not going to be six hundred dollars even though that would look really cool. I think I'm going to go on Etsy and try to find something on there that’s kind of similar for maybe like a tenth of the price. So I'll show you over to the dining room; so far as an excuse to address this, is always like practically.

We just did the recessed lighting, did the paint; all of this is coming along pretty well, and as you can see we've started to build out the kitchen. Check out this tile: these took seven days to come in! I don't know from where, but anyway this tile took a long time and that was pretty much what delayed this kitchen.

It's this tile and I didn’t wait to put everything else in until the tile, and so now the tile is in. I love it; it's like this cool 12-inch hexagon shape tile. I'm in love with this top! If I haven't talked about the panel, the countertops are going to be going in probably sometime tomorrow.

I got a 9-inch overhang on this side, so this would be pretty cool to like do my bar idea that I wanted to do originally. But now I had like a bit of a teaching, so it's not like totally open but I think it's a good separation.

Then this other language I also posted on Snapchat, that guy would end so I’m pretty excited about that. We also got recessed lighting, so I'll take you to the hallway. Painted all of this; we’re going to do like the baseboards and this crap here, but no lights in here.

But anyway, the background might quite enjoy bathroom, but with the 1920s kind of cool look. Then I found this really cool hand-painted Spanish tile I got. Some ways while being pregnant, it's like you know just a cool accent -- that's the window that are in place.

I was not expecting a place, my favorite, to place the window. This I gotta fix the showerhead; I don't like the way it's going to angle the outside, so be it. And then in Ben's room, not much is going on here. Oh sink! So this is the CGI word. I love this.

The only thing is that sometimes you measure these things and you think like, okay, it's gonna be cool. So then you realize the sink is massive. I ordered a 30-inch sink and you measure in the bathroom, it comes out pretty tight to show that at 24, but it's here. I spent way too much on this; it'll look cool, it'll just be massive.

Then my drawers open out, cement staircase, which is pretty neat. I'll take you out the back; I don't know how this thing keeps growing. Like they removed one with this stuff, I don't know, a week and a half ago. Then I thought like that’s all the junk sitting in there.

No, they continue to pile more stuff here, so it’s turned into like a breeding ground of flies at this point. I'm not super happy about that, but it's going to be removed at some point. I didn't know this actually had a name; it's called a port colline. This thing here, which I'm really excited about.

So it's like this one-piece for shade built off the garage, putting some like wisteria bunnies behind it. You're gonna probably grow up onto this, allowing for a little bit of shade to back walls. They have a friend do something cool art like a cool mural on that, but yeah, he's got a crime and painted like all the paint is peeling.

I don't know who owned this last, but they didn't do anything; this place she pretty much just like deferred all the maintenance and left it to me, so it's quite the project.

So one other thing I forgot to mention is the garage door. I originally wanted a glass garage door and that was gonna be my centerpiece for the backyard. I was so excited about that. Then I got a quote for how much it's gonna be to do a glass garage door, and I didn't realize first of all how much they weigh.

There’s so much structural stuff that they have to do to this garage because it's got like this weird overhang. It basically added on like an extra three feet to this garage that slopes down, and then it actually goes up to like the normal garage after that. So they had to put all these reinforcements in there, and having a garage door would be super heavy and super difficult to open up.

What's the first thing? The other thing, because I can get over that; the other thing was it's seven thousand dollars to do that, and I was like hell nah, I am NOT spending seven thousand dollars for a glass garage door.

So I ended up getting one that's like this imitation wood. It's not quite a teak, but it's like an imitation wood-looking thing, with windows at the very top. Close enough, it'll still look pretty good for 2850. So right there, saving money.

I think that's pretty much it for right now. I promise I'm gonna make a lot more videos coming up soon. I'm just like, I want this to be done first and then I could really focus my time on other things because one of the biggest things for me too is like I can't focus if something is unfinished.

A lot of this is unfinished, so like I can't focus on something else until like I finish all the painting, and that is taking forever. I'm gonna go to bed at night and I'm like, like the little iron bars haven't been painted and that bothers me, so got to finish all of that.

So anyway, I will do as much as I can and promise. Thank you so much for watching, and feel free to add me on Snapchat and Instagram. Click that subscribe button, make sure to do all that good stuff. Thank you again, and until next time!