we're here at the vilma site where there's two modern homes being built by element modern
dwellings and i thought it was important to share with you guys a lot of these houses
don't even get to hit the market they sell before they actually are completed so i did reach out to
helder to see if he could actually join us here at the property to talk about some of the crazy
details that they actually implement in some of these projects so i'm super excited to share with
you those details and how they actually are able to execute on them so let's go inside and meet
with helder guys i think helder's upstairs but i just noticed something i got to point out here
but when i look here uh at just the stairs this is crazy it was like if you look at these stairs this
is a temporary guard right now that stringer is going to be come off there but you can see
these metal pieces projecting out of the wall it's because all the infrastructure supporting
those stairs is actually inside the wall but this is what's crazy if you look at the way
the drywall is inserted you're gonna actually see that the drywall is individually cut around
each individual piece and then that sheet of drywall is like literally lifted and slid
right in and the reason for that is so that now when they actually clad the stair they're going
to insert basically a sleeve over that metal piece and you're going to have this super clean finish
on the drywall so just that that the time and care to stencil that and put that in it's just crazy
the man who needs no introduction little chicken wing yeah how you doing good
so uh again i just want to thank elder for meeting us here at vilma uh there's a ton of
details in here we'd love to cover with you but in the interest of time we're just going to hit
a few today and then what we're going to do is continue to put out more content and continue
to use more but i guess i can't touch you for more of helder's time uh but we'll do that later
but right now we are in the second floor in the master's in the master bedroom and in the ensuite
and i walk in here and i i could notice a ton of crazy details but what i'm gonna have to do is
i'm just uh i'm just going to ask a couple questions to help her because i don't know
yeah exactly so um basically very first thing is i normally see people start with a full tile
here in the front you try to yes yeah and i notice here that it's not a full tile and i can see the
tile detail but is there any reason why you didn't start with the full tile here you basically have
to consider all aspects of the room in terms of how you're going to lay out the tile and the key
in the end the key was to have a full tile and in terms of this joint line line up right to the
center of the drain and everything else played off of that starting point and and i could see that
that's going to be the focal point so what you're saying is is that that center point of that drain
that's that dictated where this tile started and that's your full first full tile and you
kind of work from a full tile back that way yeah and you analyze that or assess that and if it's
if it's too small of a sliver start again got it but because that was uh just over a foot we
were okay with that got it and then i also noticed that you already have like the the
tracks buried in here where typically how would that normally be done well it's a lot of times
guys rely on just silicone this is mechanically fastened there's going to be a secondary track
that's also with the ceiling that's oversized you slip the glass up down now you have a complete
solid mechanically fastened unit and then the nice thing too is i guess you're not going to see that
separate use that you channel above the towel on the floor it's going to look like the glass
is sitting right on top of the tile yeah this is the same intent that we do with staircases
and we bury the the glass in the same manner we do it in the shower yeah so i love that detail
because it gives you that whole frameless look the other thing too is just looking at this corner so
generally i normally see on a tile you're normally having that that l shape that stainless steel or
black trim here i don't see that no and the idea or the thought behind that is you want a more
monolithic experience so the the tile looks like it wraps and gets out of one piece of stone so we
use a half inch tile which allows this miter to be a lot cleaner yeah i did notice that the thickness
of this pile is crazy because typically how thick is a three-eighths three-fourths on top right and
this is a half-inch right yeah um another crazy detail is the fact that obviously i see you've got
the wall mounted um fixtures that are coming off the wall but it's the way you were able to kind
of capture and keep a solid full tile that lines up directly with the shower so i'm guessing that
you did that as well that wasn't just by flute the the tiles and where you started the heights
the niche is where you reach in so that you can get your your shower warming up before you
actually step into it the positioning of those um where the niches are located centered on the
tile as well all of those things are considered and then all that being said when i look and i
come right in the very uh at the entrance here i see this posted up here on the wall
so this is something i guess your design studio does is that after you've kind of figured out
what this is going to look like just tell me a little bit what that's all about well it
protects the design intent so we lay that all out in the studio uh grout thicknesses tile layouts
maximizing the use of each tile it makes it super easy for the contractor the tile guy in this case
to price it yeah and then there's no room for air in terms of expectations with installation
yeah because i get people call me all the time it's like hey where should i start the tile
where should it end where should i wrap it how do i finish it on the end so all that stuff's already
figured out for them so before they even get here that's awesome so elder actually got stolen away
some of the trades are here and had some questions for him so i'm going to take you through some of
the other details that he had shared with me earlier so right now this platform here is here
temporarily this is going to be an open two-story in the family room but if you look back here
that's going to be the exterior wall and what they're going to be doing is taking that very
large towel that happiness tile and they're going to clad the outside of the exterior and that same
tile is going to wrap in in this two-story area that is basically the focal point where the
fireplace and the tv is going to be downstairs but here's the level of detail i want to show you so
when that top gets wrapped in around here it's the way it's going to come into this corner
and then wrap back so it actually looks like it's an exterior wall meanwhile this is an interior
interior wall that's fully insulated but that's that's going to look absolutely crazy actually in
the house next door they've already completed that uh hopefully we'll get in there sometime soon and
be able to show you that as well one of those on the windows what i really like what they've done
is they basically have these oversized windows but they in some rooms they don't carry them
right to the bottom especially if there's going to be a transition where there's a roof on the
outside because you really don't want to see the roof so everything's very strategic of where the
window stops so that the sight lines you're not seeing the outside of a roof on the lower level
the other thing here too is everywhere in this house they've actually created these pockets
for the actual blinds so that um you do have the automated blinds when you click on them
they'll come down you really don't see them when they're in an up position
now pretty easy to do when your joists are running this way very difficult to do when your joists are
running the opposite direction but they were able to manage to do that by building those
actually framing that in early on okay so we're going to head downstairs because there's
something i want to show you really interesting downstairs in the basement as well as we come into
the basement this back section here is going to be such a focal point because it is open
from above so this is going to be your wine cellar feature but what's really important is when you're
working with smaller spaces and again the cost of landing so much the cost of construction means so
much it's to utilize as much space as possible underneath here this is actually underneath
the garage this is a great area and how we're utilizing it on this section is for home theater
um this way it's fully insulated it's like a concrete bunker and then you have the ceilings are
a little bit lower but at the end of the day it's a very cozy home here can't wait to see this stuff
guys that's a wrap today here at vilma um so again a special thanks to elder from element modern
dwellings to letting us go through the property and sharing some of his time with us but again i
just want to remind you guys a lot of these houses will actually sell before they ever get listed
so if there is some interest or you guys have some questions feel free to reach out to us directly
and as we continue to post more content as the houses get further along if you guys don't want
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