- Hi, welcome to our bedroom.
- Yay.
- It doesn't look great.
- After almost a year of renovations.
This is what we chose.
(Jessica chuckles)
- No.
- We're getting wardrobe.
- Yay!
So, it's been a whole year,
we've renovated our entire house.
Our loft is no longer a loft.
It is now a beautiful master bedroom,
but it's kind of a just a blank room, really.
- Yeah, it's a blank canvas still.
- Yes, that we are now going to construct
into something fabulous for the next two months.
The two of us are going to share,
- Alone.
- Blissfully, alone.
And then for the six months..
- We're not really alone
because when we cuddle now, the baby kicks.
- Yeah.
So our favorite way to lie in bed is like this.
- I don't think people need to know this.
- And so we're like...
(harp plays)
But then I get woken up in the morning with like, boop!
- Sorry. How do you think it feels for me?
That's just through my skin as a barrier as well.
(Jessica laughs)
- It's just a request for orange juice.
- Yeah
- He's like, yo, lady, get up, go downstairs.
Get me my orange juice.
And I'm like, you're not even here yet,
and you're so demanding.
- I have craved a lot of orange juice.
- Gosh!
- Anyway, but the one nice thing
in this room that we're kind of,
that we've kind of planned the room around
is this dressing table.
it's like, it's like a type of Ash Wood.
- It's beautiful!
- It's like a, bit paler than an Oak, and...
- It's sustainable Mindi Wood.
I remember that from the box, it's from Indonesia.
- Sustainable Mindi Wood.
So we bought a better king size bed that matches.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's coming with matching bedside tables.
- Yup. Yeah.
- We're going to have a wardrobe that's been custom made
to sort of be similar to style.
- Yes, so we decided that we were going to make a video
basically exposing how many clothes that I have
and throwing out far a lot of them
in order to put them into the beautiful new wardrobes
because it's time for some organization.
- Jessica doesn't really own any clothes
that need like folding and putting in drawers.
So we needed a custom made wardrobe
because we need majority hanging space.
Unlike two drawers, like one drawer for me,
one drawer for her, for her tights or something.
(Jessica laughing)
- I have knickers.
- Whereas I don't really have any clothes that need hanging,
apart from maybe like two blazers.
- Wait, you have... Those two blazers though,
right behind you.
- Yeah. I literally have like two blazers.
- So this is mine. Also this...
- This one suitcase, and this is mine.
- Also. I have two boxes that are
in the hidden cupboard up here.
- Also, she has shoved multiple petticoats
behind my suitcase.
- I think there might be another bag in the garage
that we've not yet uncovered.
So yeah. It's time for a clean-out.
It's time to get rid of some stuff.
And then it's time to beautifully organize things
in the lovely new wardrobes.
So to make that all happen,
we have partnered with Wood Works Brighton
who are going to custom make us delightful wardrobes
- Our dream wardrobe.
- Perfect for not only my vintage style,
but also Claudia's very practical needs.
- I just need a drawer, darling, like, like
- See? Practical.
- I basically told Jessica all along
was that she could have whatever wardrobes she likes
as long as there's a good drawer section for me.
- Yeah.
- Tiny bit of hanging space.
I like everything to be tidy and put away like,
this, like horrifies me, all these clothes just out
like this.
- Same.
- I've been living out of a suitcase for how long now?
Like two months.
So anyway, I'd like to not live out of a suitcase.
I don't really mind too much about the wardrobe interior.
I just want a drawer, maybe a couple of drawers,
if you're generous enough to give me that much space.
Everything to be just like tucked away.
So you just shut the doors, and it looks beautiful.
And like when guests come around...
To just show them the grand tour of the house,
you just have it all shut away.
- Things are important to me.
Good hanging space, pull out drawers for accessories
in little compartments.
I'd like to be able to see my handbags.
- Yeah. A nice little finishing touches.
- Yeah, so let's make it happen.
- Yay!
- Wooh!
- Well, I mean... We won't.
- We're not doing anything.
We're cheering them on.
(Jessica clapping)
We're really, really excited to have teamed up
with Wood Works Brighton to make our wardrobes happen
because they're a small independent carpentry company
here in Brighton.
Now they do bigger jobs and stuff,
but the joy is that they can really be hand-in-hand
with us in making something that's super customizable
and exactly to our requirements.
And we do like very different things,
but also helping us to bring our ideas together
and mold them and helping us to choose things like woods
that aren't just what we think,
oh, it looks pretty.
But also using their actual expertise
to what's what's actually the best thing for the job.
Also, they're letting us go
to the workshop to try our hand at some various techniques.
All COVID safe, of course.
Don't worry,
but it does mean that we get to actually have a hand
in helping to make
a little bit of our wardrobe dreams come true.
So yes we are, indeed, building our dream wardrobe.
Maybe they're doing it.
I, I might like oil a shelf, but still,
I built it.
It was all me.
(piano music)
(electronic piano music)
And I'm going to be trying my own hand,
at actually making some stuff,
with woodworking.
(jazz music)
- Okay. It's done. It's finally finished.
The wardrobe is ready for a wardrobe reveal.
But, before that happens, we have something else to reveal.
It's not that.
(Claudia singing incremental scale)
It's not that.
- No, I haven't given birth yet.
- So no, the exciting thing,
and I'm actually,
I'm actually really quite excited about this.
Really genuinely very, very excited
that we have a brand new pin!
- Ta-da!
- In honor of our little one
who is going to be born in pride month this year.
- Yay!
- We have a brand new enamel pin
that is coming to my merch shop at DFTBA,
which says baby's first pride.
Obviously does not actually need to be a purchased
for a real baby.
- No.
But you could purchase it for a number of reasons.
It could be like,
you've just come out and it's your first pride,
so you're like a baby gay.
- A gayby.
Or you could, it could be
for like queer parents expecting their first baby.
- Aww.
- Or have had their first baby, like us.
- Yeah, or, you know,
even for your like cis straight friends
who've just never been to a pride before.
- Or you could just wear it in honor of like our baby.
- That's very true.
(Jessica and Claudia laughing)
- Hey, just, you know, I think it's a fun pin for everyone.
Even if you've been to pride 10 times before.
- Your name could be baby.
(Jessica gasping)
- Yes!
We actually have a nephew who is only referred to as baby.
- No, sometimes, people are called baby. Their name.
- Yeah. Oh, sorry, yes.
That could be your legal name.
- Yes.
- We're not talking about baby names,
that's not what this video is about.
So the point is, this pen is special, limited edition.
There are only a few of them.
So if you want one, they're available
from the first of June,
so you've got to be there, you've got to jump on it,
you've got to buy one, and then you'll have one,
and you can wear it.
You can think of us and our baby,
and send it good wishes.
- Yay!
I'm so excited for you.
- We're obviously going to give one to the baby as well.
- No, I'm talking to the pin and not the actual baby.
I'm so excited for you.
- But now, let's reveal...
- The wardrobe!
- The wardrobe...
(upbeat music)
- Ta-da!
- Wardrobe.
It's a full working wardrobe.
It has our clothes in and everything.
Not fully sorted because IKEA won't deliver me
my organizational things.
- Yeah. This pandemic for you.
- This is not an IKEA wardrobe video.
However, they do make some
really good interior organizational things,
and I really do like to fold stuff.
- Mm. But they wouldn't have been able to do
all this nice finishing
and the exciting stuff that's inside.
- Ooh!
- So let's find out!
(upbeat music)
- And this is my bit of the wardrobe.
I'm allowed these two doors, three drawers, two whole doors
out of the, how many other?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
So I've got two out of eight.
I mean, it's not bad.
And inside of these two doors, I have three drawers.
I don't even mind.
- These are my dresses.
(Jessica laughing)
They're fancy dresses.
- Mm-hmm.
So yeah, come a bit closer.
The top drawer I have t-shirts and vests.
Currently, mainly, nursing and maternity t-shirts,
- [Jessica] Yeah, yeah.
- and then I have a jumpers.
More t-shirts because I wear a lot of t-shirts
- [Jessica] All in delightful shades of gray.
- And then at the bottom here, I've got my, you know,
jeans, trousers, dungarees...
- [Jessica] Ahh...
- And then up here is Jessica's stuff,
so we don't need to see that.
And then my other bit of my drawer drobe that I'm allowed
is in this single one, where I have some hanging stuff.
- [Jessica] Whoo!
So I have like my, you know, blazers, jackets, shirts,
my one maternity dress because I felt obliged
to get that stereotypical polka dot maternity dress.
(Jessica and Claudia laughing)
I actually quite like it.
And, then, in here, I've got my, you know,
socks and knickers.
And that's it! That's all I need to live.
(Jessica laughing)
- So as she was saying, these are my dresses.
(Claudia laughing)
These are the dresses I consider fancy.
So a lot of people would think that, say,
for example, this is a fancy dress.
And that's a very fair thing to say,
but I think this isn't a fancy
and that's because it's comfortable to wear.
So any dress that I say is fancy
is one that is uncomfortable to wear,
or because I have to wear uncomfortable underwear
to put it on.
That's a fancy dress in my mind.
So this is the fancy section.
But before we talk about day dresses,
let's talk about why having custom-built wardrobe
is really important to us and the functionality of it,
and how it works for me as a disabled person,
and why we just didn't go to like an IKEA,
PAX Wardrobe, super easy thing.
And that is, dun-dun-dun-dun,
(high-pitch chime)
accessibility. Hi.
So all of the hanging bars in our wardrobe,
except for Claudia's bar
because she could get her own stuff down,
come on these pull-down bars,
which for me are really, really useful and handy
because I don't have a lot of strength,
and these actually make it really easy for me to pull down.
I know you think, isn't it really heavy?
But no, because the weight of the dresses
actually aid in pulling it down.
It's a hydraulic thing.
I don't know.
Someone in the comments is going to explain this really well
because they're good at physics, and I'm not.
But it makes my life so much easier.
I can very easily just come here and take something off.
Ooh, so simple.
And even if I'm having one of my days,
where I have to sit down, and I can't stand up
because it comes quite low down,
I'll be able to take it off even from a sitting position.
And this side's my day dresses.
♪ Ding! ♪
They're a lot lighter. As you can tell, more colorful.
How are you doing today?
Looking stunning as always.
(jazz piano music)
And the drawers, even though they're made of all solid wood,
really nicely weighted, in that they're not very heavy
to open at all.
They're really easy to use.
And they close very easily as well.
Here we have, [Inaudible 00:14:06]
my cardigan collection.
Ooh! So light.
Okay, before I open this drawer, don't judge it.
As I said, the organizational things have not arrived yet.
And I, I'm not feeling happy with it.
This is going to be my hair accessories drawer.
Yes. I own a lot of hair bows.
This will be my shoe drawer,
but my shoes are all downstairs in packagery.
And finally, we have this door which opens to
my hanging tops and hanging skirts.
Hey, you tops here.
This is, as you all remember, I'm sure,
from the unique vintage Barbie collection.
Then, at the bottom, we have a number of delightful skirts.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking Jessica,
I've definitely seen you wearing things
that I haven't yet seen in this wardrobe.
And yes, you are correct.
That's because my wardrobe is seasonal,
and we pack away things that are like Christmas
and autumnal, and they are in storage in the house.
Keep your wardrobe seasonal.
And therefore you don't feel overwhelmed
when you open the doors of your wardrobe.
And then at the bottom, we have pajamas,
and this is where I keep my petticoats.
And if you're wondering how we look at ourselves
in the mirror, ta-da!
(high-pitched chime)
Hello. We have mirrors that are inside.
(soft piano music)
So there you go. That is our beautiful wardrobe.
- Yay!
- Thank you so much to Wood Works
for putting this together with us.
It was an amazing process.
It was just incredible that they really worked my needs
into the wardrobe and what works for us as a couple,
just a little growing family.
- And I really liked looking at all the machinery
at the workshop and getting nice B-Roll footage of it.
- Looking at wood.
- Touching wood.
That is actually one of the nicest things
about the wardrobe, is just,
touching the wood.
(Jessica and Claudia laughing)
Pull open the drawers, there's just this lovely feeling.
- Mm.
I mean, I wouldn't know,
I've only had three drawers to touch so far,
but I probably need to be using
the wardrobe for a good month
before I get the same sensory feedback that you've had.
Love you!
(Jessica laughing)
- Love you too, baby.
Thank you so much to the members
of the Kellgren-Fozard club
and all the amazing new people
who have been signing up recently.
You guys are going to be my maternity leave from YouTube,
whilst I'm taking care of my wonderful wife
and our lovely little one.
- Yay!
- For the next few months. So thank you guys,
I do really, really appreciate it.
If you're interested in getting your hands
on one of the baby's first pride enamel badges,
you can find a link in the description,
or you'll find it on the YouTube merch shop,
which is available in various countries.
You'll see it and our videos
and also on a special tab on my YouTube channel.
Once again, thank you so much for watching this video,
and I will see you very soon.
(upbeat retro music)
- Today's Kellgren-Fozard club member question
comes from Sadie Hobson,
what is your go-to comfort food?
This is a toss up between sweet potato,
rice pudding and jelly and ice cream.
I just, I can't say no to jelly
and ice cream except for sweet potato.
Obviously not together.
That would be horrendous.