hey everyone welcome back to my YouTube channel so we moved we are in my new kitchen right now
I will give you a little sweep of it in a bit and show you what it looks like in here but thank you
so much to Grove Collaborative for sponsoring this video and making this little walk-through possible
I will share more on them later because I have a lot of cleaning to do in here so stay tuned
we moved recently and we're just kind of settling into the space you know how it is right after you
move when you're you know moving your furniture in and trying to make sure it's clean from the last
tenants who lived here this apartment actually has owners who have not lived here for a couple years
so it's been vacant for a little while and we have a lot of cleaning and stuff to do and actually a
lot of the furniture in here including the bed frame and some of the carpets belongs to the
owners and they kept it here for us so I just have some freshening up and tidying up to do
so on moving day when I first got here I had about 10 minutes to walk you through the apartment empty
before the movers came with all the furniture so what you're seeing here is footage of the
walk through I tried to take you through the three bedrooms there's the master bedroom
which has a bathroom and a walk-in closet there's the nursery which is such a cute room and has this
really nice wallpaper I also love the bathroom and the nursery and there's a tub in there which
is perfect for a baby and then there's the office where Michael and I are going to set
up two desks facing each other and have a shared joint office space which is really fun the kitchen
living room and dining room are all together in this big open empty space that I'm in right now
there is a nice little window in the kitchen which I've never I guess I had that in my last
apartment I want to give you a little belly update so as you can see it's bumping out my
belly's definitely coming in and I'm currently wearing these like really comfortable maternity
leggings from hatch which I'm probably gonna be living in for the next few months the space
is coming together but today is cleaning day so today I'm basically going around
and freshening up clean all the toilets clean the kitchen we actually have a garbage disposal
in here which is kind of unheard of in New York so I got to clean the garbage disposal
and I also want to clean and refresh the carpets because it's their carpets so let's get to work
I'm the kind of person who when I move into a new space I really need to give it a deep clean
especially if other people have lived here before and also if it's been vacant for a long time like
I feel like there's a lot of dust and stuff just needs to be cleaned so I did not really waste too
much time I've only been here for a few days and I'm already diving in and doing this clean and
Grove Collaborative was nice enough to send me a lot of their amazing products to help me with
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basically by 2025 they are going to be 100 plastic free as a company every single thing they sell
will not have any plastic in it already right now a lot of their products are plastic free so
a lot of their stuff comes in glass actually my spritz bottle where I put my multi-purpose cleaner
is glass and has a silicone sleeve they also sell a lot of stuff in aluminum bottles so their hand
soap refills come in aluminum bottles I'm just really grateful to grow for sponsoring this video
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here grove dot co slash Lucie think plastic challenge for the queen today I disinfected
all the counters and the tables and the window ledge and then I also took my microfiber cloth
and my multi-purpose spray and I went through the apartment and just like spritzed and cleaned
everywhere next up was the carpets because we actually kept the owners carpets here
for the two years that we'll be living here and so I used this amazing carpet disinfectant that I
had never tried before and you basically just put it on the carpet leave it for 15 minutes and then
vacuum it off and it made the whole place smell really fresh and clean and then I headed to the
toilets because the toilets are like my zone that I need to be clean if I'm gonna live here I can't
live with the dirty toilet so I took the method anti-bacterial toilet liquid what's it called
toilet solution is that what it is so I took the method anti-bacterial toilet cleaner put
it through all the bowls in the apartment and then I got a toilet bowl brush and I just kind of
like brushed out all of the toilets and that also smelled really good and I have to say I absolutely
needed the toilets to be clean because with the pregnancy the toilet has honestly been my best
friend especially in the first trimester when I was throwing up a lot and in the second trimester
where I am now I have not thrown up once except for last night because Michael made me laugh
so hard we decided to do a roast where we were roasting each other and he was roasting me and I
was cracking up and I don't know if anyone's ever experienced this pregnant but like my belly was
jingling around up and down for 15 minutes and as soon as I stopped laughing I went right to
the toilet and puked so if my head is going to be stuck in the bowl it needs to be clean and
anti-bacterialized is that a word not sure all right so now that I cleaned I just want to give
you like a little look around the space this is not my furnished apartment tour we still have a
lot of furniture items coming actually a lot of stuff has been back ordered so we're waiting on
a lot of stuff but I just want to give you a peek at what the space looks like now so here is the
living room and we brought our couch from our last apartment and we bought this new coffee table as
I mentioned the rug belonged to the owners but it kind of works really nicely with the space
and as you can sort of see out the windows we now have a garden view in this apartment so
we no longer are looking at the empire state building we don't have that like classic New York
City look or feel anymore but this neighborhood is so residential and quiet I have not heard
one car horn since we've moved in here and our view is just trees and it's really pretty and
peaceful feels very homey and like family oriented then if you come this way here is the kitchen
and this is probably my favorite space in the apartment I have so many things I'm going to
share about the kitchen as I put it together and organize but I'm obsessed with the gold trim
on the hood of the stove it's just like really pretty and different and then the oven has kind
of a similar situation basically we are working on how we want to organize the kitchen you know
that's like one of my favorite things to do is figuring out where I want to put the pots and pans
what makes the most sense in terms of like where to store the spices and the snacks so I'm really
thinking things through and I will get back to you on what I decide then if we come this way here
is our dining table this was actually the owner's dining table so it was here when we first got here
and the banquette was also here just like built in these were the chairs from our last
apartment that we brought with us and also all the lighting fixtures that you're seeing were
here so the owners installed these and so we're not changing them but they all just add a little
personality and charm to the space do not look behind me because the foyer is a mess with all
of our donation items but if we go this way into the master bedroom now that our bed is
in like the mattress is in it looks really fun in here this is how you sleep on a pregnancy pillow
so it has this little like arm cut out so that you can put your arm here or here and then
go like this and it basically prevents you from rolling onto your back because if you
roll you're like elevated I don't know I always wake up on my back but it's really comfortable
I love it so here's the bedroom the carpet belongs to the owners as I mentioned the bed frame belongs
to the owners and the wallpaper behind the bed was here when we got here so we're leaving it up and
it just makes the room super neutral and kind of like beachy and calming and there's these built-in
closets along the back wall so it's just really functional lots of storage space in here and
then there's this huge walk-in closet which is epic I've gone through my clothes organized and
everything looks pristine in here so still have a little bit more to do but I'm loving the walk-in
closet okay lights off master bathroom is really clean and sleek I love the neutral color of it
it's just really upscale looking in here I feel like there's you know marble looking floors and a
lot of mirrors and this nice chandelier hanging and I love the design of it plus the floors
supposedly heat so I'm very excited for that because my feet are always freezing all right now
to the nursery which is right now basically being used as like a complete storage room here's our
baby's nursery right now you can't see it because it's under a pile of boxes but we actually brought
that retro wave rug from our previous living room and that's probably going to be the rug on the
floor of the nursery and then there's this nice black and white graphic wallpaper that was also
already on the walls as well as on some of the window shades so we're excited because I like
the way the retro rug pairs with that black and white graphic paper the room has three closets
also its own bathroom which has a tub really useful for a baby prepping for my water birth
I'm not having a lot of breath I'm just kidding
remember when I asked you if you were going to do like an at-home all-natural birth
yeah and your answer was no I'm having a birth in a hospital with an epidural
but I will be taking baths with my child right here so I'm just testing it out push
oh my god oh actually I'm starting lamas classes in a few months
for the people who don't know what is lamaze lamaze lamaze is basically a birthing class where
they teach you techniques on breathing and labor and they just give you all the information about
you know all the pain management options you have and just like in general how to give
birth so i'll tell you what I learned once I take it but I think from the movies I know
am I doing a good job if anyone's given birth before let me know if this is the right
position and breathing fact about Lucie she used to watch YouTube c-sections oh yeah I
used to love watching c-section birth videos on YouTube just because it's the goriest surgery
that could ever be done to a human being they literally like cut your belly and then just
rip your fibers open but it's also like you're awake for it so it doesn't seem like it's as
intense as a lot of other surgeries but it's so bloody but it's really cool and then a baby comes
the last room that I haven't shown you yet is the office and Michael might be on a call in there
right now so I don't know if I can go in right this minute but I will get some b-roll of it for
you but our office is a joint office so now that Michael works from home and I obviously work from
home we are putting two of the same desks facing one another with matching chairs and we also
got our beautiful white ladder shelves from our entryway in our last apartment and installed them
in the office behind Michael's desk so everything is looking really good so far it's still not fully
assembled or arranged the way we want to do it we have so many design plans and it's just going to
take a little while of us you know being in the space and figuring out what we think looks good
before we finalize things and order everything in the office my vibe and like hope for the
office is to go with kind of like neutral earthy tones on the shelves and we just want to have
plants all over so right now we put our plants from our old apartment on all the window sills
and they get really great light in this room there's also a third bathroom in the office
as well as a closet that has the washer dryer so that's it for now we are so so excited to be here
I honestly am just like getting comfortable and starting to feel the place out we're exploring the
neighborhood and we're having so much fun thank you so much for coming back to my YouTube channel
I am so excited to do a fully furnished apartment tour if you have any design ideas based on what I
just showed you please drop them down below and let me know you know I'm like always open to
suggestions and cool ideas and because we are only going to be in this apartment for two years
we just want to make the most of our time here and kind of do things as quickly as possible
so that we can reap all the benefits and enjoy this beautiful space
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