- Hello lovely people!
- Hi!
- Welcome, to a half house tour.
The bit of our house that's really
not looking its best right now.
But, we thought it was important to make this video,
so that we have something to look back on
to remind us of the trauma,
drilling. - Yes.
And having to live with it all day every day
and then compare it to a video
we're gonna do when it's done when everything's lovely.
- Before and after's always like, "Yay!"
- Yeah, and so you guys can watch this video
and be just as excited as we are
about things that are going to happen, the future.
- I mean, every day we're like,
"Maybe they've finished their drilling."
And then the next day there's more drilling
I mean like what is there to drill?
- You'd be amazed.
Like they ripped up a floor today
and found, "Oh, it's just pure concrete underneath.
"Time for some more drilling."
- Because they're gonna drill up the concrete floor
because they're putting underfloor heating.
It's gonna be nice and cozy.
Poor Jessica's office, was like really cold in the winter
and really hot in the summer.
And it kind of like, you know,
we were like, yeah it's just like not very good.
Now they ripped out the floor,
we've realized it's because
- It's just pure concrete. - the floor was literally on
like a really thin piece of like insulation
which really wasn't doing anything
on top of concrete, which obviously
then had damp coming up from it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a nice thing about building work as well
is that you know that.
- Yeah, you uncover all the--
- You uncover the damp and then they fix it.
- Yeah, our new flooring is like, what's it called?
- Suspended?
- Yes, suspended.
Which is a--
- Suspended floor.
Claudia's been learning all about
tricks of the trade in building.
It's her new thing.
- Obviously not very good if
I can't remember the word suspended.
- It's all right, I'm here for you,
darling, I'm here for you.
- Thanks, thanks.
- And also, you'd think that being deaf
would make the drilling better, hmm.
- Yeah, hmm.
- Everything vibrates.
- Yeah.
- The walls, my head. - Not in a good way.
- The doors don't close upstairs anymore.
- [Claudia] No, our walls have obviously shifted.
- [Jessica] Cause all the walls have shifted.
- But the doors now are like.
It's all right, they'll fix that.
- Yeah.
- They say they'll make good what damage has been done.
- Which is great, cause there's cracks everywhere.
- And I'm like, I think that just means
going round with a bit of Polyfilla. (laughter)
We still gotta like redecorate the room later.
- Claudia's convinced it will be brown.
She was like, "They'll come with brown plaster and just."
- Isn't it like that brown stuff?
Yeah, maybe it'll be white.
Normally it's brown, isn't it?
Like when you like smooth a crack.
- When they just leave, that's not making good.
- "There you go."
(laughter)
I dunno.
- Yes, yes. - We'll find out.
- So our lockdown has been really fun so far.
Obviously don't wanna underestimate,
undervalue, underplay. - Devalue.
- How privileged we are to actually have a house
and be able to do building work.
- Yeah, I mean at least we have
half a house that we can still go into
and it's not like, you know. - Yeah.
It's just a very unfortunate that lockdown
- Yeah, we're not complaining about the lack of space.
- and building work happened to happen at the same time.
- We're not gonna complain about the, you know,
like limited space, cause it's not limited,
we're just reduced space to what we're used to.
We were actually complaining more about the drilling.
- It's just the drilling.
- And also, a lot of dust. - So much dust.
- Like, our friends told us, "Be prepared for dust."
And I was like, "There won't be that much
"cause like, you lived in a terraced house
"so obviously all the builders had to go through yours
"but like, ours is a semi-detached,
"so they can go round the side."
- Also, social distancing, we can't actually have
contact with our builders.
We lock them apart. - Yeah, we have a door
between us, but you'd be surprised
how that dust just gets through.
- It floats, it's magic.
It's like, you can open a box in the loft
and there'll be dust in it from the kitchen.
- I mean, this camera is dusty.
Look, that's not normally so dusty.
- Yeah.
- Is it?
- Oh.
Segue to a tour of the kitchen.
- [Claudia] This is our boxed up staircase,
just so we have even less light coming into here.
And many boxes of grout that I had to research.
The parquet flooring, our old floorboards.
This is glue for the floor, a radiator cover,
which will look lovely once it's.
Through here.
- Hello, and welcome to the Kellgren-Fozard kitchen.
- [Claudia] Ooh.
- It's delightful, as you can see.
So this is our old kitchen, you may remember it.
White and gray, someone hastily painted
before they sold the house.
They just repainted everything in this house white and gray.
Which is fine, but not really our thing.
We also felt it wasn't a large enough kitchen,
it was a bit of a weird hallway kitchen
cause you had to go through it to go to other places.
And this was the dining room
that was difficult to use, because there was a stupid door
that meant you could only get through half a doorway.
You may remember.
However, we did use this dining room
to film many arty videos.
- We did. - And for that,
we will always remember it.
We're gonna double the space.
- [Claudia] (laughs) Wow.
- Yes, and we created this beauty.
I say, "We created", as if we did it ourselves.
I mean, we lied on Instagram and said that we did,
but we didn't. (laughter)
- [Claudia] Got to play around with some tools.
- You come into our lovely extension
featuring (gasps) the skylight.
It's not there right now, just use your imagination.
A skylight was really, really important for me.
I wanted it to look like an orangery.
It's all I've ever wanted, is an orangery.
- [Claudia] It will, it'll look really nice.
- It will, and this is the space
where our windows and our doors will go.
We didn't wanna go with the normal bi-fold route,
everyone seems to have bi-folds right now,
we were like, it's just not us, just not us.
So they're going to be lovely Georgian sash windows here
and then in the middle, we're going to have,
they're called prairie, prairie doors.
You'll see, they're delightful.
So that we've got lots of glass,
we can look out to the kitchen.
- And be able to see-- - Look out to the garden,
you mean.
- Look out to the garden.
You'll be able to look out to the garden
and you can see straight through from the front door.
I really wanted you to be able to open the front door
and see all the way through.
- [Claudia] Tilly's not sure.
It's like a big obstacle course.
- Let me show you around the kitchen.
We're keeping all as is, obviously.
As you see it now is exactly how it will be.
No, no.
So the electrician has drawn our kitchen on the wall,
which is very helpful for us to show you.
There's an American fridge freezer here,
currently in our living room.
It's got an ice maker because I drink my glasses
with like, just ice up to the top.
I think it's a great idea,
because it makes you drink more water.
So we're gonna have two different tower units
either side of the fridge freezer.
One that pulls out the whole way,
I can't remember whether it's this one or this one.
Anyway, one of them pulls out the whole way.
- [Claudia] They both pull out, they're both the same.
- They're the same?
- [Claudia] Yeah, we decided to go for
the ones that you open
and then you can pull out the individual drawers.
The whole thing that you could pull out
was too heavy for you.
- Oh yeah.
- [Claudia] We were gonna go for one of each
but then we decided, nah.
- I remember now.
And then there's a fridge above the freezer
which, I don't know what the hell we're keeping in that
cause we're never gonna be able to open it.
- [Claudia] You mean the cupboard,
not a fridge above the freezer.
- What?
- [Claudia] You said there's a fridge above the freezer.
- Wow, can you tell that this is the evening now?
You can.
- You mean
there's a cupboard. - There's a cupboard
above the fridge freezer.
- [Claudia] Yeah.
- And then this over here is very special.
Claudia desperately wanted this.
This is the breakfast area.
- [Claudia] Mm-hmm.
- So we've got the surface and it has plugs,
which is where the toaster and the kettle
and other breakfast things are gonna go.
- [Claudia] Cause look, there's the fridge.
You take out the milk. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Claudia] You put that there,
then next to you there is the bin.
- And here's the sink. - And there's the sink.
- I'm pulling out the bin. - So everything you need
to get a cup of tea is in--
- I've pulled out the bin.
- Very good. - There we go,
I've put the bin back.
And now here is our sink, lovely,
and then we've got some little drawers under the sink.
We've got a lot of drawers,
because I hate cupboards, I abhor cupboards.
There's nothing I dislike in a kitchen more than cupboards.
- [Claudia] There will be a little cupboard above the sink.
Again, another sort of like random little cupboard.
- So Claudia does all of the hand washing, hand washing up,
which is very difficult for her right now
because she's washing up everything in the bath.
Which is why I have just bought compostable paper plates.
- [Claudia] Yeah, so I can put them in my compost bin.
- Fine, they're going in the compost bin
because we have a compost bin, we just don't have a kitchen.
So here's the towel unit, it's gorgeous.
If you remember our NEFF oven from the old house,
we loved baking in it, I love it.
It's the one from "Bake Off".
We've still got it, it's currently in the garage waiting.
And then, right where you're standing
right now, is the island.
Yeah, yeah, squeezed in that space, exactly.
This is where in just a few months' time,
I will be making baking videos.
- [Claudia] Yay!
- Slash occasionally live streams, woo.
And I'll be standing here on the island.
- [Claudia] Whisking.
- Yeah.
So in that room, is my office, if you remember.
We did a video doing up the office with cool IKEA stuff.
It's so cute, it's like a little 1930s office.
Anyway, so the door is moving from here to over here.
- [Claudia] Like basically it'll be
a bigger version of that cat door.
- [Jessica] Yeah.
- [Claudia] Because it's for humans.
- I mean, Clara could probably get through there,
but you know, I'm bigger.
This area will be our utility space slash baking.
(laughter)
And then over here we have a cleaning cupboard.
I imagine it will be very interesting to Claudia,
but, cleaning cupboard.
- [Claudia] Yeah, that'll be on my channel.
- And here is where we're gonna have a nice little armchair
probably with a foot rest.
Just so you can sit and watch the garden.
We'll have some kind of free-standing furniture
here right now, but later on,
we may consider something in-built, not sure.
- There will be steps there, Walter, don't worry.
Eventually there will be steps there.
(laughter)
I look awful.
- And welcome back.
Yeah, we're doing well.
We're not really sleeping.
- You sleep longer than I do, darling.
- Do I?
- Yes, of course because we go to bed at the same time,
oh no, but you say you stay up late.
- I stay up for an hour and a half after she goes to sleep.
I just lie there. - Not all the time.
- And I can't sleep.
- Anyway, but I get up an hour and a half earlier than you.
Cause the dogs get me up to go--
- But then you go back to sleep.
It's not a competition. - It's not a competition.
We're both not getting much sleep, okay?
This is why I look like this.
- Yeah, you know, there's like a global pandemic.
- You just still look okay. - And it's quite stressful.
- You don't have big bags under your eyes.
- They're there.
- I mean, you've got, I can see them, yes up close,
but I mean they can see them from here.
(laughter)
- Oh, you mean they can see your bags?
- Yeah, and like, what's up with my hair right now?
Like what is this?
Oh my gosh.
I can't even say we haven't got hot water
because we do.
(laughter)
- We do now, yes.
We're washing everything in the bath.
- Oh, yeah that's a pain.
What do you say, we?
I do all the washing.
- I'm saying we, because earlier today
I tried to fill my cup from the bath,
but oh no, we have a stupid bath shower
and so I turned it on and it went on my head
and it was very stressful and now my hair is straight.
- But that's what happened to me before
and you were like, "Oh, darling, you're so silly,
"you should've just checked the tap first".
I was like, "Yeah", and then you did it.
I was like, "Ha, ha, ha."
(laughter)
No, I wasn't like, "Ha, ha", it was really quite annoying.
It was horrible cause it comes out really freezing cold.
- It was very freaky, I was like,
I didn't know how to respond.
- Well you just screamed.
- I just screamed.
- Yeah, I screamed too, didn't I, when it happened to me.
- Yeah, you don't expect it. - Shocking.
- You don't think it's coming.
It's also quite forceful.
It's like being smacked, you're like "Ooh, wow".
- Anyway, yeah. - So that's fun.
(laughter)
What else is there happening?
Well our living room is currently our
living slash kitchen slash dining.
- Yeah, and then like, we thought that was like
a one room of sanctuary where we could like, you know,
we've moved our kitchen into there,
it's where we kind of try and chill.
But like no, they had to poke a steel beam
through the corner of it.
And they were like, "Sorry, you might notice
"that we're gonna have to like poke through a bit".
And then suddenly like this steel beam
came through the corner of the room.
- There was a hole in the room and we were like.
- They were like, "We'll make good, we'll make good."
I was like, "What does that mean?"
(laughter)
Also, I've noticed cause you know how a square is like,
a room is like, should have 90 degree corners?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, this steel beam comes in like
within that 90 degrees, like it's encroaching.
So like, were they gonna like box it in?
- Oh.
- Or are they just gonna plaster over it
and have a little mound there or?
- Oh, you mean it comes out further than.
- Yeah, so there's the line of wall here isn't it,
and then it kind of sticks out a bit.
(laughter)
- He'll make good, he'll plaster the rest of the wall,
the whole rest of the wall so it
all comes out to the same degree.
- Yeah, what?
That's ridiculous, "We'll make good",
and they just make our room like an inch smaller.
- We'll make your room smaller.
- Just to accommodate the beam.
- Well you can't see it anymore.
Maybe he'll get rid of our awful Airtech ceiling as well.
That'd be good.
Every room, every room.
Why did they do that?
Who thought that was good? - It was fashionable.
- Why?
- I don't know.
- Was it just that they were
really shoddy at plastering ceilings
and they thought, "Hey, let's run with it,
"make it a thing, it's a thing."
- Well how do you even achieve that?
Do you flick paint at it like, flick?
- I think you probably have to like
use a sponge and you slowly pull it down.
I mean, leave answers in the comments.
One of you has to know, surely.
- I mean, we should be thankful
at least our walls our smooth-ish
and they're not like chipboard, like.
- Although we have discovered through
the builders pulling things off the walls,
that every room in our house was
at one point brightly colored.
- Oh yeah.
- And then they whitewashed it to sell it.
- I think so, I think it's all been freshly,
relatively freshly painted.
- So we bought it and we were like, "What a white house".
Every room in this house is bright white.
- Yeah.
- No, because underneath they're all orange or purple.
- Well at least it's paint.
In the old days it would be wallpaper.
- I remember my bedroom was wallpaper,
we had our entire house wallpapered,
the house that I grew up in and then obviously
it became more fashionable to just paint your room.
So I had to like peel back the wallpaper
before I painted my room.
And my God, there was like seven layers of wallpaper.
It's quite interesting, it's like going through the ages
of like what was popular, who's room was this probably,
ooh, it was probably a nursery,
oh it was probably like an old lady's room.
- That is true. - Yeah.
- The house I grew up in, the people
before they sold it to my parents,
re-plastered the entire spiral staircase
that I can't remember the word for now.
It's an open staircase.
- Staircase? - Yeah, no.
There's a word for it.
It's a, I've not been sleeping.
Anyway, center of the house bit,
stairs go round the outside, up and down bit.
Anyway, they plastered it, but they didn't paint it
and my parents were like, "This plaster effect is cool".
So we just kept it plastered.
This is an outro.
- Okay, what's that?
Oh yeah.
(laughter)
- What's an outro?
Yeah, it's what, this year is my
fourth year anniversary on YouTube
of actually making videos.
I know my account says I've been here
since 2011, it's not true.
- Yeah, because you started like a year after we.
- No, no I started when we got married.
- Oh yeah, so two.
- 2016.
- Two years then, two and a half years
after we started dating.
So how can it be four years anniversary?
Oh, you mean because September 2016.
What?
I'm really confused.
February. (laughter)
- Maths.
- We got married in September 2016.
- Yeah, and I started making YouTube videos
like May, June 2016.
- Oh, okay, I thought you said after we got married.
- Yeah, but then it became my full time job
after we got married.
- Okay, anyway.
- Because I got fired. (laughs)
Unrelated to my work performance.
- They just ran out of money.
- Yeah.
- I don't think you really got fired.
- Yeah, I think I got asked to leave.
(laughter)
I don't think that's the same.
I mean I wasn't coping well, it wasn't a great idea
to have a job that I couldn't control when I was ill.
- Yeah, they used to make you go
and you'd have to stand for like
four hours at a time, recording.
- Yeah, and I'd like vomit in a bucket
on the side of the stage
and then just straight back to what we were doing.
- Anyway, we're really going on a bit of a rant,
this is not an outro, outro take two.
- Thank you so much for watching,
I hope you have enjoyed this tour of our kind of house
slash barn where the unicorns live.
See you in our next video, bye.
- Bye.
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