okay well this aesthetic is a surprise
this is not our house this is actually a cottage we're staying at i think i packed
everything i need the battery is running dangerously low on this camera though
don't die please and now the story of a family who bought
a 100 year old home and the choices they made to make it their own it's the shape of home
if you're just tuning in now to my little series previously i gave a tour of our entire home before
it went through renovation good old empty tour we love it on youtube and then the last episode
began the demolition of our entire main floor as well as this closet area that separated
two of our bedrooms obviously had to indulge myself in a little walk-through closet joke
and in the previous episode we covered some of the surprises like we wanted the stairs
to be completely open but we found out that there were some load-bearing studs beside
them and the subsequent problem solving a lot of what's been done so far is more structural
the bones of the project if you will but today we are getting into the more surface things
aka the things everyone will see when they come over to our house
having a few finishing touches today we just selected our carpet for the stairs
and we are here now in some industrial area to choose our countertop
oh this is what i was excited to see the exposed staircase oh my goodness we really
did not know what to expect once the old carpet was removed wooden stairs with a little bit of
uh tracings of a runner that used to go up the stairs are relatively steep so i think for safety
we are going to stick to carpeting them just to give us a little bit more grip actually
this whole renovation i had been very very eager to see the carpet off the stairs because i have
i have dreams i have things i would love to do at the stairs but it depended really on
what was there existing and turned out the wood was a bit old a bit cracked
some gaps here and there and also some of the steps were a bit rickety and loose
we were just relieved that it was in good enough condition that we could just put a fresh carpet
on it feel like that's just a little bit better for our baby to learn how to navigate the stairs
and then later maybe when i have more funds saved perhaps the stairs can evolve into something even
more fanciful so the day the carpet installers came for the stairs it actually was the same day
as the wallpaper people coming if you recall last episode i shared this inspo image for our
powder room and to make it happen we got one full wall mirror part of that is to make the room feel
bigger and the other part is that i had decision fatigue and i didn't want to browse through any
more mirrors and i just said if the mirror is the whole wall i don't have to make any decision
and then the other thing we got is this custom mural before i chose this mural as the complete
theme of our powder room i thought i should at least know more about the print so if you will
allow me to put on my museum curator glasses this print is part of a 1909 piece called momoyoguza
by japanese artist kamisaka aseka it depicts three red crown cranes known as such because
of that lovely patch of bare red skin on their crowns they are among the rarest cranes in the
world and have come to symbolize love longevity fidelity dude in part to their own characteristics
such as having a relatively long lifespan and also monogamous tendencies so these these are faithful
birds across all the countries in its migratory path it is a revered bird it appears in chinese
japanese and korean relics and even now as the official logo of japan airlines actually i found
this one fact to be so interestingly petty which is it was once a candidate to be the
national animal of china but it was not selected because of its latin name grues japan what gross
japonensis japanese green i did joke with dan about installing this ourselves but we are so
glad we got the professionals to do it now that i've nerded out over this print i actually am even
more into how this image is basically as old as this house about 100 years old and that the artist
kami sakaseka was known for balancing tradition and modernity and that's something we're trying
to achieve in this home too like feeling refreshed but also lived in like we can't we don't want it
to feel brand spanking new because it's it's not i don't know how many of you are aware of this
but currently on ikea so many things are sold out i think there's supply challenges as well
as an increased demand for people to finally do the little home renovations or updates that
they've been waiting to do anyways there's basically no way in the toronto area to get
a complete pax wardrobe which is just such a affordable wardrobe option compared to so many
other wardrobes so we were very lucky i found one on facebook marketplace locked it in and
the people who sold it to us said that they would do their best to disassemble it in a
preservative way and so i guess we will find out today how well it comes together oh boy here we go
got him organized let us begin
we're back at the house today trying to put marla down for a nap so we can work on these bad boys
okay i know the one room i haven't really talked about much is uh the sewing studio ironically the
room that you're gonna see the most moving forward on this channel when it comes to the sewing studio
we made a mistake we left it out of the original quote with our contractors because i was all
let's demo it ourselves we can learn to drywall right painting it ourselves will be fun and so we
started to take it down ourselves the old kitchen cabinets the appliances moving the laundry unit we
said we can do it and our baby said i guess but it will be much slower with me around so yeah
saving money is nice learning to do something ourselves is nice going months and months without
a sewing area when your youtube channel's core is sewing sounds like regret smells like regret
feels like regret looks like regret tastes like regret anyway so here it is fully emptied we added
it back to the quote the walls are smooth we have some aesthetic issues to tackle like this exposed
laundry vent there's this electrical box we have plumbing coming out of the floor lovely and the
pre-existing laundry fixtures are still on the wall so more creative problem solving will be
necessary nothing new here around this time our main floor kitchen area was finished enough to
start working on a custom glass door here is my attempt at photoshopping the door in place and
this is the design that we worked out with the door company that i found here in toronto i'm
actually very excited about this custom door this is on the main floor between the kitchen and the
background so i'm not trying to give you whiplash going like main floor upper floor main floor upper
floor marla can play there while we're in the kitchen it can provide a little sound protection
if someone wants to work there or we can host an overnight guest and the last big change here was
this window you see her back here she went into a cocoon metamorphosis and became a backdoor which
we love hello this is the most current day wendy greetings i thought i'd wrap up this video with
talking about the money to get a rough idea of the total cost we had three different contractors come
to see our home back when we first bought it we walked them through it showed them all the
things we wanted to do and they gave us kind of their best guess at what the quote would be
keeping in mind there could be surprise things because the house is 100 years old and you could
just find out that stuff was rotting or things needed to be replaced all that jazz from those
quotes and interactions we chose the contractor we would like to proceed with and to get the work
started one of the very first things we paid for was drawings and building permit because we did
not want to be held up by the city trying to bust us for illegally constructing there goes our first
3 200 and then next we had been warned by a few of our friends who did renovations that
home appliances was super back ordered and we knew we needed a fridge a dishwasher and range
hood picked the ones that we were told were in good supply condition and should arrive on time
six thousand dollars there the next thing we need to pick with our contractor so he could order it
and have it arrive on time was flooring for many residential homes to get a durable hardwood look
without the hardwood price tag the popular options are vinyl and engineered hardwoods our contractor
quoted engineered hardwood at roughly twice the cost per square feet then vinyl so roughly
three dollars versus six dollars and we went for the engineered hardwood i guess we just really
felt like we liked the finish and we really hope we don't have to change the floor for any reason
anytime soon then this is really reminding me how quickly we had to make all these decisions
but we also had to shop for all our kitchen and bathroom tiles a completely new world for us
but our contractor did give us a guide with floor tiles a decent price was anywhere between five to
eight dollars per square feet and for backsplash and wall tiles in the range of 10 to 15 dollars
per square feet i'm so glad he said that to us because it really helped a level set we were able
to stay in that range for most of our tiles but we did splurge on two one the powder room floor
was 27 dollars per square feet but we justified it because our powder room is a very small space and
two the ensuite shower wall that one was i think 19 per square feet hence our nervousness that
we bought that one without ever seeing a sample of the tile like literally only viewing it online
so i'm glad it worked out i tried to go through our estimate with our contractor and untangle
the exact cost of all these flooring choices and the labor that would go into installing them and
it's just a little bit hard to parse out but i'm gonna give you the total price of the renovation
at the end um what was next choosing our own hardware or finishing touches so like faucets
handles towel hooks toilet paper holders light fixtures doorknob this was roughly
four thousand dollars and then this custom door for example i wonder if you can guess the price
it's gonna be seven thousand dollars and to this day i still have not seen it in person
i believe maybe yesterday it just finished being manufactured so we are gonna get it installed soon
and i'll finally get to see the look and feel of it irl so to pull back really quickly i want
to show the scope of the renovation to just try to give a sense of things here's a rough
sketch of our main floor before and here it is after you can see there's a new back door
there's quite a few walls removed we tore down and redid the kitchen we relocated a bathroom and we
opened up a staircase there were many other things that happened too but i feel like these were the
biggest bodies of work and on the upper floor taking down that back room kitchen we knocked
out a closet area between two of the bedrooms to create an ensuite not pictured here we also added
a linen closet this sounds like a smaller job on this floor but there was still considerable impact
on the neighboring rooms which meant we still did touch baseboard painting electrical plumbing
all those things still so in total i really don't know if this information is helpful to anyone but
our entire renovation all in is somewhere between 130 and 140 000 and this is not even including
like furniture and decor that i'm trying to be smart about but on that note whoopsies
but on that note decorating the space is going to be the next segment of the shape of home
and there will be a full tour at some point i really hope you guys have enjoyed peeking
into our home and i hope to see you in future episodes if you have any questions because i just
i'm not sure what types of things you guys are interested in pop them in the comments
and i'll see you there love you all bye-bye