hello i hope everything is going super awesome with you it is wednesday today i'm having my
tea in the kitchen and i thought today's a good day to make some progress on the kitchen
i'm going to be honest with you i have a plan for the counters the backsplash and the kitchen island
so far more plans probably to come but i have those plans and i keep putting them off because
the ambiguity of how it's going to turn out is overwhelming to my brain so today i was going to
start with the backsplash and just like start with it and i did do a little test for the backsplash
it's like a couple step process so i did like one step as a little test and i set that aside
so i did that check you know for my adhd brain check but i thought what would be a good idea
to tackle today specifically is the countertop because yesterday i got a package actually i got
a series of packages that i ordered from amazon us delivering to canada because limited availability
of products in canada okay but a little hack for you if you're in canada you can go to the
amazon.com switch to the united states switch to deliver to canada and you'll see different
products anyway i digress i found contact paper i ordered it i ordered a bunch of them and it
arrived yesterday um so i want to open them up and potentially put it on to lighten the countertops
you feel me i think i mentioned a couple videos ago that the countertop color is okay and matches
well with the pine cabinets and previously there were nickel doorknobs cabinet knobs and all of
it matched pretty well together but i don't like that i can't see if there's dirt on the countertop
just because it's this i don't know what you would call this actually brownish greenish
it's not marble i don't know what it is like a terezo kind of thing i don't know but anyway
i'm going to grab the packages from the front door area open them up and then we'll see what
we're working with i hope it's as good as what i'm envisioning we'll just have to see
okay so this is the contact paper that i picked out um it's like a white
faux cords if you will or a white faux granite people said from far it looks like white
quartz but i think maybe like a white kind of granite kind of thing
um they've done a decent good job at making it look dimensional i mean we'll see how this looks
it's definitely going to brighten it up a lot more than what currently is there in my opinion
so i think it'll be good plus i think i might do something with the floor in the kitchen as well
and this will go well with that color combo i think oh these the little rolls were pretty
affordable to my recollection like six dollars per roll so i got a couple of those i did the math
and it was a struggle i did see in some of the reviews that sometimes the color wasn't the same
across rolls so i'm just like praying that they're all the same to me they're looking the same
i think so i ordered two long ones like so so these are substantially bigger than these ones
what i wanted to do with this was make sure that the color that i picked was a neutral
color it wasn't too blue tone and it wasn't too yellow toned and i believe this satisfies that
so shall we i think we shall i've got some more
yesterday just some casual earplugs you know for whenever they're needed a bit creepy
yep oh and this is that greenery arrangement that
i haven't properly set into this or in any base because that's how i go
so i did like the wipe with soap and water and now i'm gonna use the sponge
soap and then wipe away with water then dry it then we'll be good to go
so i did do like a couple other washes just with water to get all the soap off
and now i'm drying it off with paper towel shout out to bounty as usual
my favorite like a claw very absorbent what else can i say
okay so i am going to get started now there is drilling happening next door
and i hope that you can't hear that because i certainly can hopefully it's not too bad
if it is i sincerely apologize and i hope that it will end soon so i am going to start off
on this side of everything of the counter if i can open this and i am a little bit nervous
good morning it is now tomorrow hope you like my dress do you recognize it from yesterday because
it's the same dress but in a different pattern and actually i have the same dress in like
four patterns because that's who i am but anyway i stopped yesterday pretty much at here
i did not proceed with anything more other than like that first bit that we did on the other side
i can't remember if i highlighted fully 100 what was going on with the different types of
contact paper but i noticed that the wider roll of contact paper was a different tone than the
narrower one which i thought was really weird i probably should have stopped but instead i was
like whatever let's just start with the short one on this side and then maybe i can have make
do with like the longer ones till there and the shorter ones still here and i think i ordered like
way more than enough contact paper clearly my measurements that i did late at night
one night were incorrect because i'm probably gonna have too much but i wanted to show you
the weird thing about the counter that i had that i did notice and that concerns me
ever so slightly but when you look at the actual roll of contact paper it looks a little blue toned
but the white looks warm tone so i thought that would be fine because when i actually look at it
it looks great on the roll with the white backing when i put it on the counter though it seems to go
more blue tone or maybe it's just that it's like this darkness underneath it which pulls it for
some reason a little bit more blue i don't know why i don't love that i wish it was a little bit
more warm toned like it looks on the roll do you see how like that's a more yellow tone compared
to this which is more of a blue tone it's a bit odd in my opinion but there's definitely a color
shift difference i i guess it makes sense when i was looking at the pictures on amazon there's like
thousands of reviews for this specific contact paper and some of the photos look super white
and bright with like a more neutral undertone and i would imagine those would be the ones that have
like a base counter that's maybe white yeah with anything dark it's definitely pulling a little bit
blue i think i'm just going to carry on though and apply the rest of it and then
make a call because i have it i already opened the rolls it
applied really nicely so i think that's just what i should do so let's carry on
okay so it is now 3 20.
this is tiring doing this by yourself if you do this get yourself a helping hand to
assist and it will go a lot faster than it's going for me so what i'm going to do next is
finish this side and then i'm going to put everything back or like some stuff back and
i will show you the final final and i'll also give you my final thoughts so last section here we go
so for some reason i cannot explain the inside corner was very hard to do so i
ended up cutting it here this is one piece just this one little strip and then i'm gonna put
one piece here in one piece here and you know what it's in the corner so no one's gonna know
no one's gonna be able to tell and it's okay so i got my little piece here
anyone gonna be able to tell back there no at least i hope not okay last piece
okay
okay it is extremely hot and i am sweating the sun is beating in and it's like creating summer
vibes even though there's snow outside but i can't complain too much i do like that that's
my preference over the alternative of just feeling cold so i have put the last little
piece on the whole countertop area which i'm realizing there's a lot of counter space here
so no wonder it took me as long as it did but it's all done it's ready to go a few things to mention
one if you have a white counter i think the contact paper will show up as a brighter
white and as a more yellowy white because mine are dark i do think it pulls a little bit darker
i overlapped some of the seam lines a little bit and those ones are more obvious than if you just
butted them up against each other perfectly like if you had two people you could probably
butt them up against each other to perfection and then you would have no line literally you
wouldn't be able to see it the pattern does such a good job at camouflaging it it's not the pattern
that makes it so that you can see some of the scenes it's only like the the physical overlap
of the 3d but it's not obvious it doesn't bother me so yeah that's all i can think of right now
let's see the full reveal of the countertops okay are you ready the new counters you guys
look how bright they are i think this is such a nice upgrade to this space and super affordable
to do as well i definitely think that this changes things immensely like it made this area
so much brighter i do think that the tone of it like i mentioned i wanted
it a little bit warmer but it works i also think it's gonna work with the backsplash
and i think it's still gonna work with the floor option that i'm considering in here i hope it
comes across on camera like how much brighter it is in here it just like changed the whole place so
much and now i can at least see if there's a spill on here or whatever there's something i can clean
it it's all good obviously the speckled granite look isn't my favorite just because just because
if i have spilled pepper on the counter will i be able to see that the peppers on the counter
questionable at least i can see like at least a bit of what's going on on the counter so i love
this and this makes me super excited to tackle the next steps for the kitchen so yay very pleased
i actually thought about doing this since before i moved in and i found this exact contact paper
probably six weeks before i actually ordered it just the epitome of indecisiveness i'm just
glad that i trusted the process and that it came through like this and it brightened everything
up and it worked out and all my worries were for nothing so yeah thank you so much
for tuning in i will see you next week in next week's episode i'm not sure what video's going
live next week but whatever it is i'll see you then thank you so much for watching bye