hey guys welcome back to slow travel chronicles my name is stephanie and we are coming to you
from cuenca ecuador we are actually leaving tomorrow and i wanted to share with you i
think it's our third or fourth installment of what would i do to take this airbnb to the next level
before we get into that though i want to say this is probably my favorite airbnb we've stayed at in
all of our travels so far um garris behind the camera gear do you agree with that sure
he sounds convincing doesn't he anyway um i like this place a lot i would definitely come back
and there's really not much that actually needs to be done it's me just like fine-tuning things and
if you haven't already seen the video uh from our time in valencia where i kicked off this
series which is actually my favorite series that i do it kind of gives you a little bit
of background why i think i'm qualified to share this type of information anyway i'll link that in
the description box below so check that out if you haven't seen it already so let's start here in the
dining room area and then after that we'll move into the living room so in the dining room area
there's really not much that needs to be done the only thing i would say would be to move
this painting and i would move that into the master bedroom and put it over the bed
because it really just is too much on this wall and it's kind of distracting so that's
all i would do so that's free to the homeowner now let's move into the living room so i took
the two short steps to get into the living room and what you can't see in front of me
and it's too sunny out there's two huge sliding glass doors and we've only been using one and the
way this is set up we actually have turned the tv so that we can view it easily from the couch but
when we first got here it was like flat against the wall and i don't like the way that this
couch is arranged i don't like looking out a window to watch tv so what i would actually do
here would be rotate this couch and humor me here this corner here i would move all the way around
so that corner is here and this back is actually against the sliding glass door and that would
allow me to move the tv against the wall that's my personal preference on how i like to watch tv
and that's free but what i would actually do is i would pay and buy a bigger tv for
that area and so i budgeted about 700 for that i think electronics here in ecuador
are significantly higher than what we pay in the united states and i would actually move that tv
into the master bedroom something else i don't really i'm not a fan of these coffee table and
end table so i would replace those and i budgeted about 250 to do that so for about 950 and this is
the bulk of the money in this airbnb you could really take it to the next level
so we are in the kitchen and there's really not much that needs done in this room the only thing
that i or the first thing i would do which is free is i would actually move these bar
stools we actually have never sat in them and we actually moved them out of the way against a wall
because they kind of like make the room feel more uh squished so i would get rid of those
plus the dining room table seat six so are you really going to have that many people here anyway
the only other thing that i would do in this kitchen is i would buy a garlic press
because we didn't have one of those and possibly some spices so when we got here we did have a
little bit of salt and we had a little bit of pepper and we had a bunch of canola oil but i
would have preferred to have some like olive oil maybe some garlic powder just to name just
basic baked basic stuff so 15 in the kitchen not bad let's move on to the master bedroom
so we are in the master bedroom there's actually a secondary bedroom but actually nothing needs
to be done with that room in this room these lamps are not attractive at all
this screams 1990 maybe even 1989. so i would budget 150 dollars to replace both of those lamps
and then donate those to somebody that could use it i also mentioned that we would bring that art
piece into the room it would go over the bed and behind us here is a wall that already has
all of the plugs you need for tv so you just need to pay you know for a mounting bracket
and somebody to install it if you can't do it yourself so this room about 300 bucks not bad the
only other thing i didn't mention and we're not going to go into the bathrooms because they don't
really need anything but they do need new toilet brushes they're like very flimsy so i would spend
five bucks per bathroom to get new toilet brushes and that's all i can find wrong with this place
and really nothing is wrong it's just what i would do to make it a little bit nicer it's great we
would come back here again and this is just my opinion and you might have different opinions
based on what you've seen if you haven't seen the original tour of this video go check out that i'll
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hey guys we're coming to you from flanking ecuador and pardon all the traffic noise but
we're at a busy avenue section and in case you haven't noticed there's a river right behind me
and in fact we're living by the river not in a van by the river but in this airbnb right up there the
brick building with all the pretty flowers we've really liked our airbnb it's two bedrooms two
baths two patios and it's actually pretty quiet considering all the noise around here i'll put a
link into the video of our airbnb tour so if you haven't seen that already be sure to check it out