hey guys it's Jen and as you can see I'm in a very different location it has been one heck of a last
month we have had some major changes in our lives the biggest of which is that we moved this is our
new house before we get into that I just want to say a huge shout out and thank you to my sponsor
fabletics which we will go into showing you a few of their pieces a little bit later on in
this video but I did want to give you guys a sneak peek at what we're living with and dealing with
lately I will have a full house tour coming soon but yeah I hope you guys really enjoy and let me
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on notifications so you don't miss my next video let's go ahead and hop right into it hey guys we
are at our new house I wanted to show you guys a little bit basically you can see we moved in our
stuff but we are not currently living here we're in a little air B&B in the next city over cuz we
couldn't find any in our actual city so it's been a little bit crazy the reason that we did
not move straight in and just live here during the renovations first of all it's just not super good
for the health of little kids like toddlers for instance a one and three year old like
what I've got to be in the house with all of the construction dust going on no matter what kind of
construction is however we ran into a little road bump and that road bump is asbestos I feel like
asbestos is such a scary word for so many people myself included my friend recently moved into her
house she had popcorn ceilings scraped off of one area and they did not check for asbestos
before they did that unfortunately the company ended up contaminating her entire house and she
was pregnant at the time she basically had to get rid of all of her furniture and things within the
house that had been contaminated including quite a bit of baby stuff had to start from scratch
spent I think ten grand to get everything cleared out and healthy which is so frightening and so I
really have never dealt with an asbestos problem before but because of what happened to her I knew
it was a lot more expensive to try to fix the problem once it's already out there so I decided
before our renovation this time to do a little bit of asbestos testing unfortunately our kitchen
which is back here the mastic in between the floor tiles ended up being positive for us Bustos the
bad news is that we had to get it professionally abated the good news is that even though it costs
a couple thousand dollars that's still cheaper than having all of that asbestos in the air and
having health problems or also cheaper than having to fix the problem throughout the house if we were
to just do the renovation and then have things positive for asbestos so not the ten grand that
my friend dealt with but still a little bit of an extra expense and kind of scary to deal with so
I'm walking through the living room as you guys can see there's just boxes everywhere it's kind
of insane here's the dining room let's just walk through here and get to the kitchen here is the
floor I think they put this light white coating down on top of everything after they finished
this is just basically the subfloor that I am squatting on right now we basically don't have
a floor there were a couple layers of tile there is a subfloor and then there was a vinyl tile and
then the knotty mastic and then the people who lived here before we moved in had a secondary
type of tile so actually the flooring when it came to the change from the hardwoods to the tile it
actually went up about an inch and a half which I thought was kind of dangerous to begin with I
really wanted to level out the flooring especially because my mom has rheumatoid arthritis and I do
want her to trip on anything and also the kids of course it's just much better to have even flooring
but with the asbestos had to scrape it all down anyway so this is what we're dealing with it goes
all the way into this laundry room here but what we're planning for our renovation is to hopefully
knock out this wall and then all this whole back wall in the laundry room to make this one really
large kitchen space so if you can just imagine if this whole thing were gone this would be really
great really open up the windows in here would just go all the way throughout the rest of the
house anyone it's so beautiful this is so ankles sorry every little step of the process is just
adding tons of more time which means more money because if we're staying in an Airbnb it costs
a lot of money every single day that we're not actually living in our own house so it's
kind of like we're carrying two mortgages at the same time yo bird outside you're being very loud
yes thank you I hear you sir we actually have a pole before we moved in house tour that I filmed
but basically the reason we wanted to redo this kitchen space was because there were three tiny
little rooms here right like kind of what I showed you there's the laundry room the smallish kitchen
and then there's a little breakfast room the way that we live in function we've never really had
like a separate breakfast room we just always sort of ate and hung out and everything in our dining
room so we just thought the space would be a lot more usable to be broad open wide so that if we're
cooking in the kitchen we can still talk to people and see all the way through the front of the house
it would just be a lot lighter and brighter and work better with our lifestyle this house was
built in the 1920s so it's almost a hundred years old which I mean I feel like the cabinets are in
pretty good condition for being a hundred years old however with these scalloped edges and some
of these like lights that don't quite work that are built into the walls it's just not necessarily
our style so we definitely want to modernize it a little bit and make it our touch me show you guys
the rest of where we are right now like I said things are a little bit crazy this is for instance
our bedroom there's just the empty mattress on the floor there are boxes everywhere huh sheets all
over the floor just to protect them we've been basically coming here during the day every day
to work because we set up our little office it's just a lot easier mentally I think to not try to
squeeze all of our work stuff in our little Airbnb it's already super cramped as it is here you can
see I just did a little makeup tutorial so I have my box of makeup on the floor this little station
I was sitting right there and then on the couch you can see I just got some workout clothes in
which I'm actually really excited about I think I'm gonna do a little fashion show for you guys
I'll put it on and show you guys how it looks yes I'm gonna pretend like we're not hanging out
unpacked craziness and the fact that I'm wearing these super cool house slippers my feet are cold
alright so here is outfit one these are of course from fabletics they're such an amazing sponsor
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how cute is this one this is the seamless kind so I'm actually wearing extra small most things
I wear extra extra small it's a little bit sporty with stripe down the side I also really love
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which are so necessary for me I just like having a little bit extra chest covering it's almost
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everything is getting so dark here's our office up here I think Ben is still working on the computers
hello hi hi e oh I don't know Ben I think this renovation is gonna take a crazy long amount of
time I think it's at least going to take two Me's oh I hope so no it might start in two weeks it
would be really honest but it's about time for us to go pick up the kids so I should probably stop
vlogging for now hope you guys enjoyed the little update and I will try to keep you guys updated on
all of our renovation and new house and moving stuff in the future too see you guys soon bye