Hey welcome back! Welcome to my new flat, come on in
This apartment tour has been long overdue, we've actually lived here for
seven months now and that's because it's literally taken
that long for us to be completely happy with how things are, particularly this
room that you see in the back which is the room that we'll finish the tour in
Right now I'm standing in the main hallway of the apartment so behind you is the front
door, over here's the kitchen and over here is my roommate's bedroom. Coming
backwards we have a little cupboard here, coming backwards we have the bathroom, my
room and then back here is our little living room-slash-studio. So we've kind
of rearranged the apartment from how it was supposed to be laid out and I'll
explain more about that later so let's visit one of our first rooms
and we will go check out the kitchen. When we were looking around at this
place we found out that this had been just refurbished so when the last
tenants have moved out the landlords came in and basically ripped out the
whole thing and put everything in new. It is just big enough if two of us want to
cook here at the same time, if you want to get past each other it can be
interesting but you just have to coordinate and my roommate and I are
pretty solid at that by now. The interesting thing though was that we
arrived and there was only a fridge no freezer so we had to come up with a
clever idea for the freezer situation which I'll
show you in a bit. Also this is amazing are you ready? Are you ready?
A dishwasher
and not just a dishwasher - a full-size dishwasher which is just unbelievable
and weird that the landlord would choose to put in the dishwasher and not a
freezer... I think I'm gonna turn you around and next we're going to look at
my roommate's bedroom. So this is the lovely Aaron's bedroom it was supposed
to be the living room and would have been a really nice-sized living room but
because the bedroom - the second bedroom - was so small it didn't really make sense
and wouldn't have been fair for one of us so we turned the living room into a
bedroom. The added bonus of having a small living room is that because this
place came completely unfurnished we'd have
had to have filled this gigantic living room It is honestly just huge
look, running, and that would have meant us both splurging a lot of money on
co-owning things when eventually we're not going to live together
so this was great because he could spend all of his money on his bedroom, I could
spend all my money in my bedroom and then in the living room we just needed
to get a couple of things. So Aaron has brought a few things with him so bedside
table, bed, chairs, kallax, he had these things already but he just
sort of packaged them up because they were all IKEA basically and hid them
away while we had the landlord's belongings. He has this absolutely
massive window, it's huge, and he has a Juliet balcony as well. He's able to
store all of his lighting and video and mic equipment which is fantastic
he makes YouTube videos the same way I do. Has a big old Kallax like I now have
a mirror and the really big wardrobe Then on this side he has his desk
the desk chair, the Peace Lily that used to be in our living room and a keyboard because
he is very musical. It's quite interesting when you look through our
apartment because he's got a lot of black furniture and then my room is
white and colourful so we've got very contrasting design aesthetics going on
so let's go on to the bathroom. Just before we hit the bathroom this was our
solution for the fact that we don't have a freezer
We instead bought one and put it in here there was actually already a plug in
here so I think the landlord had some foresight and thought they're going to
probably want to do something like this I'm gonna have to hold the door because
it really wants to shut, and then it's just you know your usual. Sink, toilet
we've got some storage up here, we've also got our boxes that sit on the
windowsill and it's just how we operate our bathroom. And there's no mould! And if
you've ever looked around London apartments that is a really really big deal, so A++
All right so now you've had a quick look
at our bathroom let's go to my bedroom
So just before we enter my room
which is over here, this is the little living room, I have this little
shoe rack storage... thing I have my keys and a little mug so
that I never forget them when I'm going in and out and I've always got somewhere
to put them and then I've also got a diffuser so it, like, smells really great
in the apartment at all times. On this side I also have a full-length mirror
which I didn't buy this was just here in the apartment so I've put it here so
that I can come out when I'm on my way out and make sure I haven't made a fool
of myself with my outfit. All right let's go inside
Welcome to my bedroom, this has
been a work of love for me for, oh my goodness
several months. Again completely unfurnished so I got to plan exactly how
I wanted it because I also didn't have a lot of stuff that I could bring with me
I brought one bedside table and that's it. The first thing to note about this
room is that I split it into two and so on this side I have my bed obviously and
so this is my sleeping, chilling, relaxing, do no work whatsoever on this side of
the room and then on the other side of the room I've kind of got a living room
within a room. This is a bed frame that's a rose gold bed frame from The Range. I'm
not gonna lie this was one of the most horrendously annoying pieces that I ever
purchased because I was sleeping on a mattress for a month on the floor
because there were so many problems but anyway it got here and I'm really
pleased with it, and I've got my really colourful John Lewis duvet cover on. Now I
acknowledge the fact that there is a very Pinterest worthy cascading
waterfall light system going on behind my bed, I bought everything off of Amazon
Argos, B&Q, and put it all up and together myself. It's great of an evening when you
turn off all the other lights and you're just lying in bed with those on it's
really magical. On the other side of my bed I have my wardrobe, luckily it came
with a built-in wardrobe because this was supposed to be the main bedroom so
it means I didn't have to buy a wardrobe and it's honestly chock-a-block full of
stuff... yeah. I do have storage, I have this top shelf storage thing which
is great but it turns out I do have a lot of stuff so I've already filled that
I have a little mirror up here just because it was kind of a blank space and
I bought this mirror and then wasn't sure where I was gonna put it because I
hadn't planned properly. Looking back at this side of the room
this is my white Kallax which is again from IKEA and is similar to Aaron's, in fact
completely identical. I've put in my books that I have that I use and refer to
for London things or if I just want a bit of a read in bed and then I've used
it for picture frames bits and bobs and I've got some boxes to again put things
in but hide it from view, I have some fake ivy that is trailing off down into
my bed because I was a little bit worried if it was real that I was
probably gonna damage it. Before we properly get into this side of the room I
just wanted to point out this. When I was at university I just sort of stuck up
photographs with blue tack on the wall and that's how I created a bit of a
collage on my wall. I wanted to do something more grown-up so I bought a
bunch of black IKEA frames and took posters that I've collected over the
years a drawing that someone did of me way back when. When I was arranging this
I literally had the frames on the floor and was texting my sister who's very
good at design with a good design eye going "does this formation work? Does this
formation work?" and eventually we decided on this one. Yes! So for this next bit I
am gonna do this handheld because there's no angle that my tripod can get
to really give you an idea of what's going on so you do have this kind of
entryway between the wall and my bed and the Kallax frame that you move into the
lounge area
This is a swivel cuddle chair. It was probably about £330 I think and I
purchased it through a store that was on Amazon. In terms of flooring it's not
hardwood floor that's for definite but it's sort of wood recreated. I've
covered it in rugs so this IKEA rug that I have had forever
and then this rug in my living room area which my parents have donated to me it's
a Persian rug that they think... I think they got it when we were living in Dubai
So this is the other side of my living area where I do a lot of my work and
I've put things on this side as well so that things not only face the bed but
they also face me on this side when I'm on here so I'm not looking at the backs
of objects. I got this desk from Amazon the chair came as a pair we've actually
bought them for our studio-slash-living room but I'm using one of them as my
desk chair because it's so comfy, again got it from Amazon. So on it I have my
laptop, my speaker system, and my monitor because with video editing having a
monitor just makes it a ton easier. I also do some website building for a few
clients so freelancing on the monitor so much easier, and then this is probably
the most recent addition these two cork boards. I just figured it would help me
with my organization to have these I've just got different sections and areas
and my calendar and then this one is just going to be like a mood board-esque
thing. Down here I have the only piece of furniture that I brought with
me for this room and it is a bedside table which I now use as kind of like a
filing system. On top of it I have my jewelry and my makeup because I sit at
my desk and do it. We've got one more room to go, let's go and show you the
living room-slash-studio. So this is what was supposed to be a bedroom but now it
serves as our living room-slash-studio, one of the things that we really wanted
to do was to paint the walls colour. In videos that will feature on my channel
but also on Aaron's channel and also on our joint channel The Weekly Try we can
now have a blue background and a grey background so
in here we can watch some TV, we can watch some Netflix, we can play some
games or we can move things around a little bit and then turn it into a
studio where we have our lights on and our cameras and tripods and everything
We have a sofa here which is also a sofa bed, I got this as a really good deal
because it used to be my sister's and I had it driven down so that we could have
it instead so if we ever have guests stay over they can stay on this sofa bed
because it lies flat. This is our watching and game station we've got the
Wii, we've got Nintendo Switch and you can kind of see why it would have been
absolutely tiny as a bedroom but it works quite well as a little living room
considering that both of us have always spent quite a lot of time in our own
rooms. The flat is about six or seven minutes from the nearest train station
and also six or seven minutes from the nearest little Sainsbury's and some
restaurants, the gym, another Tesco is about eight minutes away, the rest of the
high street is about eight to ten minutes away so it's all really really
convenient and we live on the quieter side of town so it's great in the
evenings apart from the screaming foxes there are a lot of foxes around here
It's at £625 per month and that doesn't include anything else that is just the
rent so all bills are on top of that as well including council tax. Also because
I'm quite nosy about other people's places I've started filming other
people's house tours so you get to see the insides of more apartments than just
mine so look forward to that as well and I will see you very soon goodbye