- Look, the studio is no longer yellow.
I know this is a shocking development in life.
What will happen next?
Will the floor also not be ugly carpet?
That is a high likelihood of possibility right there.
Indeed, the studio has been remodeled.
If you guys follow me on Instagram,
then you're probably familiar with the fact
that the remodeling the studio,
seeing how I've posted like a million
I am eternally painting updates.
But today's video I'm going to go into the seven steps
I took to remodel the studio.
So if you would like to see the remodeled studio,
then definitely stay tuned for today's video.
First up though, I just wanna to thank you guys
so, so much for making this possible.
It is because of great to viewers like you.
I sound like PBS now.
Thanks to viewers like you we can have Sesame Street.
No, thanks to viewers like you
I got to make my studio not yellow.
So thank you so much.
And also I do not want this video to come across like,
oh, that's Ellie talking about a bunch of stuff she bought
because first of all, that would be a weird video.
And second of all, I know a lot of people are having
hard financial time right now,
and I'm mostly making this video
because several of you guys have requested it.
And also when I watch other YouTubers I'm like,
what is behind them?
I wanna know about their room.
That is why this video is currently happening.
But I just wanna say thank you so much, guys,
and you are the awesomest community on YouTube.
Now we can have more videos with less yellow
and let's talk about that.
So I've broken this process down into seven steps.
And the first step,
step one was essential for me apparently,
because it is have a panic attack.
That is what ultimately caused the studio remodel.
Okay, so like a couple months ago
I had this thing happened on my channel
that I super stressed out about,
technical difficulties, one of my videos being delayed,
which ultimately is not that big of an issue in the world,
but it resulted in me not eating all day,
being super anxious, overworking,
and then going to go exercise.
Guys, I'm so sorry that my video is that late today.
And while walking along the road,
I nearly passed out into the road.
That sounds super dramatic.
Like I should be a starving orphan
in an 1850s novel or something.
But alas, no, I was just a girl
experiencing YouTube problems.
I don't know.
Anyway, the next day I coped with my stress
by doing what I normally do,
which is either rearrange furniture, organize stuff,
or in this case, go to Home Depot and buy paint samples.
And that resulted in me taking step two
of the studio remodel, which was painting.
So if you've watched my videos for a while,
then you know that this room used to be
this really ugly yellow color
that was impossible to color correct.
Half the time it looked the same color as my skin,
which was weird and it made everything yellow
because you know how like light bounces off
and then it just makes everything else yellow.
So my sister called this color the urine sample color,
which is very gross.
I already apologize for sharing that with you,
but basically the whole house was that color
when we originally got it.
And obviously we've painted my bedroom
as you guys have seen, and the living room.
But this room was still the original yellow color.
So I went down to Home Depot and I looked at all the paints
dramatically and I've settled on three colors.
So the ceiling of this room is actually cameo white,
but the main wall color though
is BEHR MARQUEE color called ginger sugar.
My whole family teases me that I picked this color
because of Suga, my favorite member of BTS.
Now, admittedly, that is a bonus,
but I also liked the color just
because it was a pretty greige color,
which I recently learned is the word
when you combine gray with beige, it becomes greige.
I'm sure everyone else knows that, but that was news to me.
Anyway, the accent wall is a color called grey mist
and these are all BEHR MARQUEE colors.
I got them from home Depot.
This video is not sponsored,
but I will be linking to all the stuff down below
so you guys can check it out.
Some of them will be affiliate links.
Some of them will just be normal links.
All the links.
Anyway, the trim and the doors are also cameo white.
I'm gonna tell you this much about painting guys.
It takes forever.
It's so much work to paint.
Painting, not necessarily recommended,
but apparently essential.
But also a huge shout out here to my mom
for helping with the painting,
and by helping, I mean probably doing most of it, honestly.
Yeah, now it's time for step three,
because step one was a panic attack.
Step two was painting.
Step three is the floors.
Look at the floor.
It's not ugly brown carpet anymore.
So now it's pretty brown vinyl planks.
They're just so planky and fake woodish.
So carpet gets gross and full of allergens.
So we replaced it with this dark vinyl planking
that we've used in other rooms of the house.
And by we, I mean the flooring guy came
and there's actually three of them.
Felt bad for them cause they,
A, had to tear out the ugly carpet,
and then they had to install the pretty fake wood stuff.
So that was a lot of work.
And so thanks local flooring guys
for your many hours of labor.
I think it turned out really well.
My favorite part of this flooring is the fact that
when my cats run when they're scared,
like if the UPS guy knocks on the door
and then they have to terrifiedly run to hide,
when they run their nails...
(scratches floor)
Sound better than that.
But they sound like an old DJ scratching vinyl,
and I think it's so funny.
That wasn't exactly the deciding factor on the floors.
It's a bonus, added cat bonus.
Meanwhile, the carpet was dying at death at the hands
of the flooring guys,
I was doing step number four, which was buying books.
Okay, so did I use the fact that I'm a classic literature
YouTuber as an excuse to be like
I need to buy more books for my studio?
That's a completely legitimate excuse. Yes, yes I did.
And in some fashions I do think it's kind of legitimate
when I buy books I actually need and will use.
So I bought several Oxford World Classic editions
because those are my study editions
I like to always have at hand.
I underline them, highlight them, write in them,
put page flags on them.
But I have this total confession to make to you guys.
I fell into the Instagram Bookstagram trap
because I bought the Bronte's Penguin Clothbound Classics.
I know.
I feel like I need to apologize to humanity for this.
I will tell you why.
Okay, so first of all, these are super pretty.
I'm not gonna say that they're not pretty.
Like let's see if it'll focus.
Focus. See, look how pretty they are.
They're all great books.
Like here's Jane Eyre and the inside is pretty.
And I really do plan on doing more Bronte based videos
in this upcoming year.
So for all you Bronte fans, that's coming up.
I saw these and they were on sale on Black Friday
and I was like, I need those.
They look pretty,
but then I felt bad after I bought them because I genuinely
do believe that buying multiple copies
of the same book simply for their aesthetics
is not a great idea.
I constantly see her on Instagram where people
buy like seven editions of the same book
just for the different looks.
I do feel like it's just fueling consumerism and materialism
in the Bookstagram and book community in general.
And it's a waste of money, it's a waste of space.
And I do not wanna sound like I'm attacking anybody,
and I don't wanna insult anybody that does this,
but I just personally think
that it's way too much consumerism,
and I don't wanna be a part of that.
And that is generally why I don't have a lot
of super fancy copies of books.
And yet there is this subtle pressure in the community
to buy all these fancy copies,
and that is partially what is responsible for this.
So I bought them, I regretted it.
But then after they got here I was like,
they are pretty and I'm going to doubtlessly use them
in my videos like I use my books,
but I don't think I'm gonna do it again.
Let's move on to step five, which is my art wall.
And so I really wanted my studio both to capture my love
of literature and also my love of art.
And I really dreamed of having this art wall,
but it was one of those dreams where in my head
I wanted it to be like light and constantly able to evolve
and change over time.
But at the same time, I didn't know how to achieve that.
It was a dream that wasn't concrete enough
for me to bring it to life.
But then I was watching Korean drama as I do,
and I think it's called A Love So Beautiful.
It's currently up on Netflix. I'll try to link to it.
Anyway, later in the series,
she has this cute art studio and the art wall,
and it finally helped me realize
this is what I wanna do.
So thank you, Korean drama, for helping inspire my vision.
Anyway, after that I decided on this method of where I have
the bigger statement pieces are hung up with
these magnetic poster frames that I got from Amazon.
They're actually really nice.
I remember trying to use poster frames as a teenager
and they were these like weird plastic things
that always bent.
These ones, they're wood colored
and they're really, really nice.
The magnets are also surprisingly powerful.
So I have three of those to sort of like
be the main grounding pieces of my art wall.
And then I hung everything else up
with white Japanese washi tape.
So washi tape is originally from Japan,
I also bought a Japanese brand just to be like extra cool.
Yeah.
So a lot of the art on this wall is actually from my
'I want to be a fine art photographer' phase of life.
Such as this.
This is actually me wearing the dress I made out
of two old paperback books I got at the thrift store.
I'm wearing quite literally The Scarlet Letter
and The Red Badge of Courage.
I'm going to tell you this much about making a dress
out of book pages, it tears.
Like it took me hours to make this dress with hot glue
and the masking tape and you know, tearing up some books.
But once I got it on, it was cool.
But every time I moved, I could just hear it tearing apart.
So I'm not saying that this is a wearable
and/or good idea for a dress.
Meanwhile, other pieces on the wall are also from my
'I want to be a digital painter' era of life.
So many era's on one wall.
With that being said, let's move on to step six,
which was buying stuff I felt was pretty,
but really didn't need other than the Bronte books.
Most of you guys are probably familiar with
these cherry blossoms have been behind me in most videos
since the start of my channel.
I absolutely love cherry blossoms.
My ultimate dream is to go to Japan and Korea.
And until that happens,
I'm just gonna have to continue in my love
of fake sakura.
Sakura? I always say it. Don't know.
They used to be in this giant glass vase,
but then my cats knock that over and shattered it.
And that's why they are now in this
very indestructible white thing.
I don't even know what you call that.
It's something I got at TJ Max a long time ago,
but that thing was dropped to the floor many times
and has never broken.
That's not actually relevant to what
I was about to tell you,
which is when I was shopping for stuff online,
I was like I need more fake plantery,
because I can't have real plants
because they have allergens.
It had to be cherry blossoms.
And that all resulted in me getting this giant tree.
It's giant. I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm like backwards hugging a tree.
Anyway, it is nice. I got it from Home Depot.
They also seem to carry the same exact tree on Overstock.
I just got it at Home Depot cause they were having
a sale on it at the time.
But yes, it's five and a half foot tall.
I have it on a plant stand and in a vase.
So it makes it even taller
and it brings it up by like another foot.
But I really, really like it.
So now I have even more pink blossoms behind me in videos
and I'm so excited about it.
The next thing I bought was the blanket basket.
A baskety home for my blankets,
also known as blankie baskie.
Anyway, I'm searching for one
because I thought my blankets needed a prettier home.
And I came across this one on Target.
It's like this cool rope design, and I was in love with it.
I was like, this is the blankie baskie for me.
Anyway, I held off buying it though
because I was like I should search the world over
for the blanket basket that could arrival this one,
and yet I couldn't find it.
So I returned to target.com and bought this one.
I really, really do love it.
I think it's prettier in person
than I even imagined it was going to be.
And it does sufficiently fulfill its jobs of holding
blankets and being pretty.
So good job, blankie baskie.
I also bought some new throw pillows to go
with the overall theme of my studio.
And I got some smart friends for A-L-E-X-A,
because I have to spell her name
otherwise she will start speaking to me.
She's been turning on and off my lights for a while,
but I also put my blue air purifier
on a smart plug
so she can turn that on and off.
And also I got a smart room heater because this room does
get freezing cold at times,
which is another reason I have a basket
of fuzzy blankets in here.
I'm trying to think if there's anything else in my studio
that if you guys were watching my videos,
you'd just be like what on earth is that?
Here's something.
I present to you my truck from See's Candy.
So again, this was not sponsored by See's.
Story of this truck is years ago when our local See's Candy
was having its grand opening,
I went and they have this giant wheel where you could spin
it and you could possibly win something.
And everybody else was winning boxes of chocolates
or bags of chocolates or lollipops,
and I spun it and I won this.
And guys, I have to say at the time
I was really disappointed because I was like,
I came here for the chocolate.
I don't want a fake truck,
but actually now I am very thankful for the fact that I have
a fake truck that looks old
because it sits well on my shelf.
And had I had chocolate, it would be gone already.
But look, years later, I still have the See's camping truck.
So there's that.
I think the only other semi-interesting thing in here
that I haven't already shown you guys
is my Japanese drawing figures.
These came from Japan.
They were like Body-Kun and Body-Chan.
I probably said those wrong.
My anime watching is limited to Haikyuu!!,
which I'm still very excited that they have not
put out the next season of that yet.
I'm a big Bokuto, Akaashi shipper,
and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one on the planet,
but I think Bokuto and Akaashi are meant for each other.
Anyway, these are like my drawing figures
and I think it's funny
because they have two female body types.
But if you are a guy, you are stuck looking like this.
Also he has a sword, which I think is funny.
And they have like, I think old school cell phones also.
It's like you can change out their hands.
Anyway, these actually do help.
They are a lot better to draw with than this guy.
This guy just hangs out in my studio and waves at people.
That is his main job in life.
Anyway, other than that,
I think everything else in my studio is basic.
It's like books or teacups or lamps.
I know that's not exciting.
Anyway, that's all the interesting stuff in my studio.
It is now have time for the seventh and final step
of my studio remodel, which I will demonstrate for you.
It's so exciting.
(fireworks exploding)
Yes, indeed.
Step seven for me at least is to be excited.
Being excited that the studio is done.
Anyway, so I'm super happy that it's done
and I'm looking forward to shooting new videos in here.
One of my upcoming videos is in assumptions about me video.
I got your guys' assumptions probably like a week ago
on Instagram and I am working on that video.
Don't think I read all those assumptions you guys had about
me and I'm just gonna ignore them.
All of these claims against me.
Anyway, so that video will be coming out at some point
in the near future.
And if you wanna go follow me on Instagram @elliedashie,
you can, it is allowed in life.
I also have to say that the step seven of being excited
is way better than step one of having a panic attack.
Also, my name is Ellie Dashwood and this is my channel.
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please subscribe and keep having an awesome day
because you are awesome.
Bye.
♪ Life goes up and it goes down. ♪
♪ I know my mom taught me that ♪
♪ I figured why we fool around so little ♪
♪ And we keep track of time being so serious ♪
♪ Idiots thinking it will matter ♪
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