- Dining, (indistinct), light in the shot,
back to one, (gentle upbeat music)
back to one,
dining room (chuckling).
(upbeat music)
Hey everyone, I'm Hallease
endeavoring to persevere as always.
If you're new here,
I make videos about my chaotic, good life,
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Welcome to my Downtown, San Antonio, Texas apartment,
Mr. Hallease and I moved into this apartment
in June of 2021.
So far so good, we really like it,
it is a two bedroom, two bath.
I can't remember what the square footage is,
but we pay around $1,700 a month for this two bedroom,
two bath apartment in Downtown, San Antonio.
Our previous apartment was a concrete jungle
where dreams are made of,
and I really enjoyed that aesthetic, actually,
it worked really well.
I think it gave my videos here on this channel,
a really interesting vibe, an interesting look,
which I really liked.
It also got really good light
this apartment as you can see,
I am constantly fighting
the southward facing window (chuckling).
It gets really, really good light
and my plants love this apartment
they are surviving and thriving here.
This apartment is bigger than my last apartment.
We were in a one bedroom, one bath,
closet space was non-existent in that space, as well.
So it's been really nice to actually get back
into more of a traditional apartment vibe layout,
tons of closet space.
Y'all fin to be like, wow,
Hallease look at all these closets, though.
Anyway, without further ado,
let's really get into this apartment tour.
Let's do the kitchen first, how about that?
Let's do the kitchen.
(upbeat music)
Hey, all right, so we'll do the kitchen in a second,
but I just wanted to show this little area right here,
right at the front door as soon as you come in,
I have added some cute, little key hangers
(keys jingling) here for our keys.
These are just simple command hooks that you can buy
and you can literally take them off.
Right here, as well, this is actually a find
that I got on Amazon for pretty inexpensive
and it holds six pairs of shoes.
So his shoes are on a top row,
my shoes were on the bottom row and I just really enjoy
having just a little bench.
I don't know what it is about just having,
it's a little bit of that.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what that is?
This pinkies up, you start off with a bench and a foyer.
Next thing you know, you got a mud room.
Know what I'm saying?
Directly behind me is the washer dryer,
comes with the unit full size washer dryers
at this apartment.
So game, game, game, game, game,
do y'all understand how easy it is to (indistinct)?
Like what?
Full-size washer, dryers, what?
Hold up, let me, I'll be with y'all in a second.
I just need to set up this light.
Kitchen, so this is Mr. Hallease's, real house domain vibe.
I cook too, I know how to cook.
My parents raised me, right, or whatever,
but Mr. Hallease does the bulk of the cooking
that is his love language.
I want someone to come into my apartment and say,
I know who lives here.
So in our kitchen there's a ton of photos
of family and friends everywhere.
A lot family and friends
will send Christmas cards, birthday cards.
Another thing I really, really enjoy
about this kitchen though, actually, let's change angles
for this one, hold on.
So another thing I really enjoy about this kitchen
is this island, yo, this island is massive (chuckling).
It takes up like so much space.
And as you can see we utilize all of the space
that is available on this island.
Most of the places we go, have lived now,
have all been sort of the big, what do they call it?
Farm sink situation vibe?
Y'all know what I'm talking about, but this one has it.
This one also has that,
(water tap squeaking)
amazing.
(water splashing) We got buttons y'all.
The other thing I really enjoy about this kitchen
is the back splash, I just really enjoy the color.
It's this sort of deep Navy with like a hint,
just like a scosh of green in it.
I really enjoy the back splash I love just like
that the apartment has a little bit more attention to detail
than I am used to at all.
Now let us move to the dining room,
which it's not really a dining room
it's really just an extension of the living room
because apartment, but, let's do it, let's do it.
Dining, (indistinct), light in the shot,
back to one, back to one, dining room (chuckling).
If you've watched my last apartment tour video,
this table has grown with us
as we have grown, the table has grown.
I really love the design of this table
because whether you're in a smaller unit
or you start to stretch out
and have a little bit more space,
this table can grow with you.
It goes from being a table that can seat two people
to a table that can seat four people.
And now I'm going to literally walk further
into the living room to show you that.
So here we are, ooh are we blown out though?
Are we blown out?
So this is the struggle, y'all,
this is the struggle of being in this apartment.
Really great light from these French doors.
We also are facing the south.
So really great light, however comma, for filming,
it can be quite difficult because you're just kind of like,
all right, I am blown out again.
So let's calm it down, bring it down a little bit.
I'm filming more with just a variable indie filter
on my camera all the time now,
if I do film in this apartment,
there we go that's more or less it,
this couch is from IKEA.
It's a couch from IKEA, I don't know
if you've been watching the "Trying To Be Somebody" podcast,
you'll notice that I usually film the intros and outros
kind of to the side over here
and the couch is in the background,
along with my fiddle fig, yo,
I know this is not a houseplant tour.
I should just straight up do a video on that
in the comments below, let me know
if you wanna update a house plant tour for 2022.
One thing I did do going into decorating or designing
this apartment was I did kind of pick a color scheme
that I felt worked for who Mr. Hallease is and who I am.
Mr. Hallease is really into navy gray, silver,
so on and so forth, so I ended up deciding, okay,
the color scheme for this apartment
will be gray, gold, navy.
And if I really want to touch a color, I'll try to pick red.
And that was the sort of color palette I chose
for the most part when I was making new purchases
for this apartment.
And what colors do I already have
that I know are gonna be prevalent in the space?
And then how can I just build on that
with any future purchases I make for the space?
So that is the color scheme of the apartment
and probably indefinitely
until I'm like really pinky's upswing,
right now, I'm just like, wow,
I make a livable wage from my art?
We out here (chuckling).
The other thing I did is similar to the kitchen area,
you see, I bought two more of these IKEA shelving units,
these gold, again, gold, to add
and threw some more plants up here.
A couple of cameras, these are family photos as well.
Similarly to before, I usually try to find the highest perch
in our apartment, and then I put cameras on it.
TV holder space thing, I believe my parents,
I think my parents gave me that years ago
because they got a new credenza thing to hold their TV,
and they were like, you want this?
And I was like, free furniture.
I'll figure out how to make it work, thanks.
I have the OG monstera.
If y'all have watched my intro to (indistinct) video,
in the past, what?
Year, year and a half now?
then you saw this monstera back when it was two leaves.
But if you ended up watching that video,
that monstera is now this monstera, (chuckling)
new year, new leaf.
Let us now move to the office,
which is thusly this way.
(upbeat music) Okay,
so the hardest part of this office, for me, it was one,
the layout, it needed to be an office,
but also double as a guest bedroom.
I am a veteran of working from home though.
I know a lot of people now are getting into that work
from home grind, but I am a veteran of working from home.
I've been doing it for years and years and years.
So having a designated space to work at
that is not in your living space, as well
is something that I think everyone should try to strive for,
if you can, even if it is space
that you turn into your working space
and then put things away and it becomes your living space,
figuring out ways to compartmentalize and separate yourself
from your work, if you do have to work from home,
I think is just so important.
The other struggle was how to find a bed
that could fit couples
because a lot of our friends are Buddha.
We ended up finding this IKEA day bed
and I actually am pretty happy with it.
And this is actually two mattresses on top of each other,
but the bottom part comes all the way out
and it ends up being two twin beds next to each other.
So it's a really nice space.
And then of course, again, similar to the other rooms,
I'm really big on trying to showcase who I am, my family,
my skin folk, and my kinfolk, if you will,
my grandfather was a Marine and he also owned a repair shop
in Portsmouth, Virginia, and that is his business card.
And so I keep it up there just to remind myself
that this entrepreneurial life, this working for yourself,
life that I've created for myself, it's not impossible.
I come from people who have done this for themselves.
And then similarly, again,
this is an enlarged version of the newspaper
in Portsmouth, Virginia.
So my grandmother was a cleaning woman
at a Portsmouth, Virginia hospital for her entire career,
I wanna say.
And yeah, they gave her employee of the year for that.
And yeah, I just have it really big on my wall.
I am my ancestors dreams realized,
I am descendant of a cleaning lady at a hospital.
And then on this side, Bean Annex,
from Fantastic Mr. Fox, I am a Wes Anderson fan.
With that being said, let's flip it and reverse it
to my desk, one second, let me make it look cool.
let me put like a cool premiere pro project
or something on here, so it looks like I'm serious,
like I'm a cool kid.
Alright, here we go.
My desk, this is what they'd be doing, right?
With the RGB colors?
You see little pop of color there?
That's how they roll, right?
Anyway, I'm not cool, anyway, (chuckling), here's my desk.
It's a desk.
This is where I spend most of my time,
I actually just recently got this new chair.
It's assertive, again, moving up,
slowly, but surely we is moving up.
All right, I have my hard drives, laptop right here.
I'm not going to like meditate on the desk,
set up too much because then I feel
like I might as well just do a desk video
if y'all would like a desk video, let me know,
but this is my desk, this is where I work.
This is where the magic happens.
Guest bathroom's, a guest bathroom.
I feel like the guest bathroom is a guest bathroom.
It's got great storage once again, really good storage,
standing shower, snazzy, toilet need one of those.
(upbeat music)
Color
♪ Got to have the right color. ♪
That's a video idea,
(container snapping) right there.
Five things that I use that are kind of basic,
but worth it.
Bedroom, so as you can see, I am in the bedroom now.
This I think is the, how do I put this?
This is probably the biggest, most happiest upgrade
(chuckling) from the last place.
Because if you recall,
our bedroom did not have a closet
and it fits a king size bed, which is really cool.
We still have our same in tables from IKEA.
I have upgraded our bed, actually.
So our bed is from, I forgot what the company's called.
It's one of them online ones though,
Jasper?
hey, love,
(indistinct)
Our bed is from (chuckling), thank you, love,
our bed is from Tuft and needle.
So now we do have a back board, which I think is just nice.
It just adds a little more of an accent to any room,
having a bed with a back board.
I didn't have to go all ham
and actually get a whole bed frame with backboard, though.
I could have just got a back board.
You can find some pretty decent back boards
at Ross Tj Maxx for around 100 bucks,
depending on the size of your bed, so check that out,
added some more of our photography
from when we were in Ireland, many years ago,
that video also helped me
kind of get my YouTube thing going on.
So those videos are old, but check them out,
if you want.
(chuckling) Super old Samsung TV here
that we may or may not upgrade again
one of these days.
Yeah, we just have like the Roku streaming stick in it.
That's it, we don't have cable.
We have able, all the channels you're able to get
from an antenna in this room,
just to give it a little bit more character.
Two of my plants live in here, the ZZ plant,
and then one of my corn plants lives in here, as well.
This corner over here
is kind of like a little meditation corner.
I have a little meditation pillow
because sometimes before I go to bed,
I will sit and do like five minutes of,
and then I also have my electric piano.
I, like many,
(gentle upbeat music) picked up,
not even necessarily picked up a new hobby,
but reengaged with a new hobby.
Oh, and then this dresser,
this dresser is also an IKEA purchase.
I wanted to get a dresser that wasn't so high up.
I don't know why, I can't remember why.
And then bathroom, they, them, sinks, which is really cool.
And then the closet is actually where Mr. Hallease records
the, "How Does This End" podcast.
He actually records in the closet.
When I'm doing voiceover,
if I have to do any voiceover work, as well,
I do it in that closet.
As we conclude, the only bummer about this apartment,
I would say isn't necessarily the apartment itself,
but more of its location within the complex
and relative to the street outside.
This apartment is insulated really well for like heat.
You know what I'm saying?
But it is not insulated for noise at all
because we're right next to a busy street
and the windows themselves just, there's a lot of cracks.
Like they're just not sealed very well.
And you can't really do anything about it
unless you replace the whole window.
Homeowners know what I'm talking about?
Homeowners know what's up.
So (chuckling) yeah,
this apartment's just super duper, duper, duper, duper loud.
And again, we're in Downtown, San Antonio.
So (indistinct), San Antonio.
We've got folks that have, what's a muffler, you know?
We are not on the top floor of this unit.
So we have super, I don't know what they're doing up there.
Are they just passing out for fun constantly
and just dropping?
I think there may be dropping just bowling balls down
just to check, you know what I mean?
Just to do it.
Is gravity still a thing?
Let's check, and then they...
I don't know, anyway, we call them stompy.
That is a tour of my apartment
here in Downtown San Antonio, Texas.
Again, I am Hallease, endeavoring to persevere as always.
If you're new here and made it this far in the video,
obviously, there's something about me
that's (indistinct) with you so make sure you subscribe,
much appreciated, big shout out to my Patreon producers,
patreon.com/halllease,
there you get early access to these videos,
as well as private, weekly blogs from me,
it's a good time, check it out, if the spirit moves you,
again, I'm Hallease and I will see you when I see you.
Oh yeah, let me know if y'all want an actual desk tour.
Like I'm not a cool kid, but here's my desk
(chuckling) tour.