- We are kicking around the idea of potentially
building again.
Explain to me why we didn't get central vacuum?
Lasers.
New video.
We have been in our house for one year,
Leslie, I think it's time to do an update video.
We made 40 YouTube videos on it
and we brought you guys along for the process.
- Tons of people want to know what things would we change?
What things do we like?
Did we go over budget?
And do we plan to move?
- And do we still like our builder?
- Do we like our builder?
- Today's video is sponsored by Dyson.
So yeah welcome back to our home after a year
and let's show you what things we love,
what things we don't love.
- So the first question is, do we still love our home?
The answer is a big huge yes.
- Yeah. I still love the home.
And I think I love it more than when we first got into it.
And one of the things that I'm surprised by is the view.
I really liked the view we bought
in kind of like a low land area.
But if you look at our backyard, it's super great.
Of course, we have like the wall of windows
which was a very good decision.
And when you open them up or even when they're closed,
you have a beautiful view of this mountain
called Pine Valley mountain.
You have these trees right behind me.
Let's step into the sun. There we go.
We have sunshine that's never going directly into our house.
We have the pool back here.
So the view is amazing.
And then what's also cool about is that
at nighttime it's incredibly silent,
during the daytime, we have excavators running over here.
Our next door neighbors have been working
on their house for over a year
and it's just like, you hear the pounding,
you hear the stucco.
The ones on front of us have been working on their house
for about a year also.
And they have their music playing.
So during the daytime, it's kind of madness out here.
I can hear it on every single speaker
and the bass sounds good.
- People always ask me what is my favorite room in the home
and I always say the studio
and people are surprised
because obviously I don't work in the studio.
I'm hardly ever out there
but it's the entire reason why we built this home
is so that Dan and Lincoln have a space
to do what they need to do.
- That's really nice of you to like the studio
because my favorite room is the master bathroom
but it's actually the shower.
I love the shower.
It's massive and it's so comfortable.
And then she likes the studio.
It seems like it should be flipped
around a little bit, but okay she likes the studio,
well, I do like the studio too.
It is really nice to be able to work from home,
especially with this last year
a lot of people have been working from home
and we haven't been traveling as much.
And so for me to be able to just go into my little office
or come back in and get some food, it's so helpful.
We decided to buy this lot a little closer to town
which is really, really helpful.
The schools are great,
restaurants and shopping and everything is really close by.
It really does feel like it's our home
and for a home to feel like a home,
it needs to be someplace that's happy
where everybody has their rooms, their space.
It's organized and it just feels happier.
Like when I do travel and I come back
I walk in and I smell the house
and like it just feels like home.
When we built our home,
the thing that was the scariest was
it's gonna cost a lot of money,
we're getting a loan from the bank, yes
and financially we're putting enough down
that it's not putting us in a dangerous financial situation
but still we've never built our home before.
And so one of the big questions is always like
did you stay under budget?
Did you hit your budget?
Like I was terrified looking at the budget
going I don't know, is the lumber gonna cost more,
is concrete gonna cost more
or are other things going to cost us more?
Did we go over budget?
The answer is yes but it's also no.
Let me bring you in behind the scenes
and show you what things we spent more on,
what things we spent less on and how we made the decisions.
There are a few things in this house that I really wanted
that we ended up just cutting out.
This is, on the other side of this is the roof tiles
and solar panels right there.
But if we would have done the spray foam insulation,
we would have had like six inches
of just like, almost like styrofoam right here,
where they spray it all on there,
it expands and fills in the cracks
and it creates this like cocoon around your entire house.
It becomes much more energy efficient
but it does cost more to do it.
I just decided that we needed some
of that money for other things.
In hindsight, I kind of regret the decision.
It would have been worth it to pay the money
over the long-term over the next five to 10 years,
we would have saved a lot more money
on our energy bill by having the house more efficient.
So now we're gonna pay for it for the years to come.
- Initially, my inspiration board had a ton of photos
of this being completely filled with glass
like a glass wall.
And it had a door right here
and it was similar, kind of mimicked our front doors
with the paneling.
- I was really sad about it at first
because I really wanted it to look pretty.
- It was pretty. It had more of like a modern feel to it
and it cost eight grand.
- What did we spend $8,000 on?
- A few things.
- [Dan] Another area that we cut cost, Leslie
is we did get central vac,
explain to me why we didn't get central vacuum.
- I went through the budget when we first got it
and I was like, where are some areas we can cut out?
And I've never really used the central vac,
like Dan gets super bugged by the hoses that go everywhere.
- Yes, our builder and many other people are like,
come on, this is a nice custom home.
You have to have central vacuum
which I'm sure for some people they love central vacuum.
We had it in our other house
where we started our YouTube channel.
We had central vacuum.
We rarely ever use the thing.
And like Leslie said, it was a pain for me
to get all the cables and the snake thing
and drag it all in the house.
- It was a thousand dollars just to get it like wired for
and then a couple extra thousand dollars
to actually put it in the system.
So that's thousands of dollars
we can apply to something else.
So instead we've just use normal vacuum.
- If you remember, we did a sponsored video
with Dyson a few years ago
and we got this vac,
the Dyson cyclone version 10.
This is the vacuum that we've been using since
we did that sponsor video.
I'll put the date on here right now.
So this worked really well for our last house
but our last house was a lot smaller.
Our house is how big?
- [Leslie] 7,800 square feet with a studio.
- 7800 square feet.
That is a lot of space for one little vacuum.
Check out the bucket right now.
- [Leslie] It's embarrassing.
- It's embarrassing, but this is just--
- [Leslie] It's so clean.
- This is just from like one day of vacuuming
all of this stuff inside of here.
But overall getting rid of central vac
was such a good decision
because this vacuum has held up so well.
As much as I've loved this vacuum that we've had for years
Dyson decided to sponsor this video
and hook us up with the brand new Dyson V15 detect
and this vacuum while it looks pretty similar to our old one
has some incredible features that I'm really pumped about.
First of all lasers.
There's lasers inside the vacuum
if you ever had a vacuum with lasers.
It lights up the dust that you normally don't see.
Look how clean it is.
The laser is shining in the perfect angle.
Well, if we cut our first Dyson
and we could see through
and see how much stuff we're actually picking up,
it was quite shocking to go,
Oh my gosh, how was that much stuff on the floor?
But on the Dyson V 15 it actually adds scientific proof
to tell you a little bit more of the story
about what's inside of your garbage bin.
There's an LCD screen right here on the top
that displays your runtime that you have left
which let me tell you is super helpful
instead of just your vacuum
just like all of a sudden just stopping.
And you're like, Oh, I want him to finish this room.
But if you know how much time you have left
you know how many rooms you can do
it will show you your runtime
and then you see all these numbers
that are into the millions right here
and how many particles we actually picked up.
So what I learned is that there's a sensor inside of here
that tracks the flow of all of the dirt particles.
The super small micro particles to the much bigger particles
or fabrics that come up.
And then it'll rev up the suction power
and give you more power for the bigger pieces.
Super smart. Who would have thought?
We have a really smart home,
I didn't think we'd have such a smart vacuum to go with it.
This is the high torque cleaning head
and this one's pretty awesome.
This is for carpet.
And it also has these detangling things.
It will take all of the hair
and it'll go through and cut it
and then pull the hair particles up into the bin.
That's pretty fancy instead of having just hair all over
and you have to take a knife and cut that.
Have you ever--
- [Leslie] That's what I have to do.
It's the worst.
- So this one has a very strange name,
Dyson the slim fluffy.
But it is the coolest of all of them.
Because the thing I like about this is I showed you earlier
it does have a laser right here in this section
so that when you do turn it on.
(vacuum whirring)
A lot of people have always had lights on their vacuum.
And they're like, yay, I've got a light
and it shows me all the dust particles
but that is up higher,
it's not angled the proper way.
This is angled perfectly at the right angle
so it doesn't really show the floor as much.
It just shows the angle of the dust.
It does easily transform into a handout.
This one's called the anti tangle screw
because it's on an angle and it pushes it all down one way
and after it breaks, it sucks it up into here
and goes up in there.
So this is really helpful for our car.
I feel like some kind of chimney sweep from England
or something in the old days
but instead I've got this fancy tech.
Check out the Dyson V 15 detect on dyson.com
or you can click on the link in the description.
Thank you to Dyson for sponsoring this video.
Now, the fun question, when we built this house a year ago
what did we spend over budget
and was it worth it?
So I guess there's two questions.
So first of all, one of the things we didn't have
on our original plans that we ended up getting
was right in the backyard, a slide.
- Dan really, really wanted this slide
and it was pretty costly.
And I went back and forth and like, we don't need a slide.
We have a swimming pool,
they can jump off the side and that's good enough.
And I was completely wrong because they loved the slide.
It was so worth it to do it.
- Yes, how much was the slide?
- 20,000.
- $20,000 for a slide. - It's awful.
It's embarrassing to say but it's so much fun.
- It is fun.
And you know what, some of these things with this house
I feel like for resale value, we're gonna get it back.
Bless you dog, wow. - Bless you.
Another area we went over in is lighting and flooring.
- How do we not plan in flooring and lights to our house?
- Well, we planned it but we upgraded.
So we had like porcelain tiles throughout the bathrooms
and we decided to do marble throughout--
- I do like the marble floor.
Super fancy. - It's pretty.
It's so pretty and it just like,
well, we chose the herringbone wood flooring,
which costs more to install.
- Herringbone is this.
Instead of just putting your board like this
you have them on the angles, the cute little angles.
- It's a very like French style application
and not very many homes do it.
- We barely have any carpet inside of our house.
It's just like the marble and then the wood floors.
- And when you look at how tall our ceilings are
we needed really large kind of chandeliers
and those sorts of things that fill the space
and lighting's just beautiful.
It can completely change a room.
So I spent a good amount on that
and I love every single light.
- We also have one that we didn't want
and it was our builder's wife, Susan,
she's an interior designer.
And she put inside the laundry room--
- Oh, it's over the top.
- This incredibly over the top chandelier.
- I saw this and I was just like, we cannot have that.
It's the laundry room.
I have this little tiny smile that comes over my face
when I see the marble on the ground
and I see that chandelier.
- Yeah, it's still there.
So we still have it.
So Susan, we're gonna keep it.
So I know you're waiting for us to return it
but it's staying.
I don't even know if this counts within the budget
but we did get solar in the last couple of months.
And so it is within the first year,
we put solar on the roof
maybe we wouldn't have needed as much solar
if we would've had better insulation.
But if this is a larger home
it's basically like a commercial building
because we do have our office here also.
We have four electric cars that we're charging.
We live in a place that very rarely ever rains.
And it very rarely is cloudy.
Like right now I'm looking out
there's one little tiny cloud over the mountain.
The rest of it is just blue sky.
So if you do the math
we're gonna do a full breakdown video of this.
But I think within 10 years
we'll be able to pay off the entire solar.
Another thing that was unplanned, that cost us $40,000,
that's a lot over budget,
it is the golf simulator.
Was it worth the 40,000?
- Yes, I love the golf simulator.
It's probably my favorite room inside the house.
- Really? - How often do you
think you use it?
- If there's Turmans going on or if it's bad weather
I use it a ton.
- A lot of his friends are golfers also
and then they all come over and like play games
and just like hang out.
- Yeah, it's really fun.
- Okay, two thumbs up for Lincoln, that was worth the money.
And the speakers, you know we went crazy on speakers.
This is a $5,000 subwoofer that is super heavy.
We dropped it onto a Tesla.
There's a 12 inch speaker on this side and on this side.
We have lots of speakers in the backyard,
all around the house.
And it is definitely something that I love
and I'm grateful that we upgraded on that.
We spent a lot of extra money on the pavers
instead of just doing concrete
like we were planning on doing right here.
It did cost a few thousand dollars extra
but it does add really nicely to the aesthetic
of this side of the house.
It looks beautiful.
This isn't for everybody and every home
but for a custom home like this
and the neighborhood that it's in,
I do think this will add to the resale value.
- [Leslie] And I love that it doesn't crack.
- I've heard horror stories of people building houses
and at the end they hate their builders.
Did we end on good terms with our builders?
- We ended on great terms.
They've become some of our very best friends.
We go on vacations with them. We're so lucky.
- Do they think the same thing about us?
Hey.
- Hey.
- Hi. - What's up?
- How are ya?
- Good, you're on video right now to the world.
- You don't look like you're working today.
- Oh, I just came home to shower
I haven't had a shower yet.
- See Luke, we got the camera filming you right now.
Emma's been recording this.
Okay, so we got a quick question for you.
After building with us, do you hate working with us?
- No, I loved working with you guys.
- Good answer. - Did we pay you to say that?
- Nope, not one cent.
- There's confirmation our builder still likes us.
- Out of all your other people, are we your favorites?
- You don't have to answer.
- Answer that. - No that's a loaded question.
That's a loaded question.
- You were our favorite.
- I knew it.
- The last question is,
are we here to stay or are we moving?
Are we moving?
Big surprise time.
- I mean, not right now, we're not moving.
- We might be thinking about it.
So overall, we love this home.
We're super grateful for it.
We can't believe that we're fortunate enough to live here
and we have loved sharing it with you guys.
And I hope that it doesn't come off as
we're trying to brag or boast
and say, look, how much money we have.
We're buying this thing.
We're letting you into our lives.
We would be building this thing no matter what,
whether we were filming it on YouTube or not.
I've been a YouTuber for years now
and a lot of being a YouTuber
has helped pay for this beautiful home.
And so one of the questions though is
are we going to stay here for ever?
This last week we found a lot that is not far from here.
So it has the same schools.
It's the same size.
And we could build the exact same house
with a few modifications.
Like maybe you get that spray foam,
maybe do a few things that'll be better.
And there's a few reasons why we're actually considering it.
While we love our neighborhood,
we love where we live,
this other lot that's the same size
is on one street,
there's only eight houses on the street and it has a gate.
So it's a gated. - It's huge.
It's nice to have that extra security.
- It is. Like we live on a street that's really busy
people are always driving by and they're doing construction
or just driving by looking at our house.
And sometimes we do get people that come
to our house and knock on the door.
And as much as I love you guys, it's really uncomfortable
'cause we don't know when it's safe or not safe
when somebody knocks on our door
and so we'd rather not even answer it.
And you can also say we did to ourselves
by showing the videos to the world and that's fair too
but it could be nice that this new lot
to be able to have a gate on the street.
And the great thing is Jonathan, who you just saw.
He's the one in charge of the entire street
of who gets to move there
and they're thinking about moving there
and if they move to there,
they could hand pick their neighbors.
And the eight people that we live by on our private street
would be really cool people.
So again, that would be crazy if we actually moved
and went somewhere else
but I don't think it's as likely,
we love the house that we're in
and thank you guys for watching all of our videos
about our house updates.
It's been fun sharing this
and for us to be able to go back and watch the videos
and see the process
but then also to share with you guys
'cause you guys are a big part of our lives
and all that we do.
I'm curious to know your comments.
Did we make good decisions on some of the things
that we cut out, that we put in?
And what other questions do you have?
I think it would be good to do another Q and A
based off of some of the questions
that you put in the comments below.
So let us know what you guys think.
Thanks a ton for watching
and thank you to Dyson for sponsoring this video.
- [Dan] So do you like our builder still?
- I love my builder.
- Slim, fluffy for the wind
maybe not for the name but for the use of it.
It's so weird that he never turns his truck off.
A little sneezer.
- You're cute, you're so cute.
It's so shiny.
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