we are going to do an apartment tour so we have both lived here in this victorian house for over
six to seven months and we wanted to talk through some of the pros and cons of living
in this house in particular what it's like to live in san francisco and where we're going
next come on in we're on the second floor and when you first enter you'll notice the super
skinny stairway that may have been converted at one point the stairs are like really skinny
the bedroom is at the front of the house with huge bay windows and tall ceilings we're on a corner
of the street and we have windows facing both west and north it gets amazing natural light during the
day and in terms of color scheme we went with modern grays whites and accents of navy blue
during the day i use the space to film for youtube and at night we close the tall blue velvet
curtains and occasionally have dinner in here we have yet to use the fireplace because honestly i
don't know how to turn it on and i am so scared of burning down the house on the opposite side is my
closet which i just showed in my previous video so if you want to see how i organize my clothes
as a fashion blogger check out the link in the description on top of the mantel i have a glass
base of pompous grass and a gold-foiled map of san francisco and of course a pink chair it's been
over a year of living in a pandemic and we wanted to live in a place with more space and more light
next let's walk over to the second bedroom that we've converted into an office space
and an at-home gym scott installed led lights so he can change the ambiance in here for when
he's gaming it also has a small closet for storage and then look at these shutters so
strange
moving along to the bathroom it's on the smaller end it has
white tile floors marble countertop a tub and shower immediately i knew i wanted to
swap out the curtain with a boho design and beige tassels it really allows the light to
come through another strange thing is the chimney actually sticks out in my bathroom
scott ended up taking the spare room and he converted it into an office and then i work
out of the living room and i really love that i converted this little nook section into an office
space pretty much have the whole place as your office and then i have the office room as my space
i mean welcome to my office space it's located in the living room we have these large yellow velvet
curtains that section off the space my favorite part about my office are the large windows in
my previous apartment it was so dark all the time and this space just makes me super happy to edit
videos and i get super inspired the best part is any time of the day i can see the park and i can
see dogs walking by and it just makes me so happy the living room is very spacious and we have a
large gray sectional sofa table that slides up to allow for eating for when we're watching netflix
here's the doorway that leads to the backyard and laundry room and let me just say it does feel a
little bit haunted there's also a back stairwell that takes you down to the laundry room and then
there's also a tiny backyard but i almost wouldn't even call it that it's the garbage dungeon
connected to our neighbor's backyard so sometimes we see them there
but sometimes we don't i've never seen the neighbors they're like ghosts
onto the kitchen which we used a ton during quarantine the cabinets are a bit dated but it's
a fully functional kitchen with a gas stove island bay window for herbs and here is the pantry in the
kitchen where i store all of my different snacks i personally love to cook and experiment with
different asian recipes the island was perfect for fancy dinners at home with a view of the
city i really wish i had the opportunity to host my friends at this apartment because i think it
would have been the perfect place for gatherings to enjoy food play games and have a good time
there's trade-offs in living while living anywhere but with the victorian house specifically
the main downsides as we were talking about is like it can be kind of noisy if it's not updated
you're probably going to be like a little bit of a funky layout
because they would have upgraded or like modified it over time so it's not like
always super well thought out i think this one's well done but i've seen some where like
the layouts are like i don't know who came up with that freezing during the day and at night
just because these walls are not insulated unless it's been updated which most of them won't be the
old house like creaky floors creaky windows and it's so cold in here the rent here is not cheap
in total we pay four thousand so split between the two of us 2 000 each and that doesn't even include
utilities garbage or internet but you might be able to get it for cheaper now though oh true
because one of the things as well is there's like so many empty apartments like we've constantly
been seeing people move out so i would say if you're looking for a new place now make sure
to negotiate location results so you're paying a premium for that
let's talk through some of the pros of living in this house for me as a full-time content creator
what i was looking for was natural lighting with a lot of giant windows another thing we
loved about this place is it's super walkable to all of like the main streets on fillmore
to japan town it's like less than five minutes away and there's like two different parks in
this neighborhood with tons of dogs i think that was probably one of my highlights of living here
50 dogs sometimes crazy so many they're all so cute too street parking has been pretty good
my old place we used to live near the painted ladies impossible to park there the location it's
great as well so like the noise in that you get used to and then you get all these benefits in our
next place where we're going to move we're heading to san diego so we're staying in california i know
a lot of you were wondering where we were going to go we rented an entire home so that will be fun to
have a backyard a parking spot and just test out living in a new city i hope you learned something
new and helped you decide whether or not you want to live in a victorian house in san francisco