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hey guys and welcome to my first ever
apartment all by myself I am so excited
to live here and I'm even more excited
to finally not have roommates for like
the first time in my life my apartment
is a studio so this is the main room in
the apartment which I would currently
described as having a bit of a hoarder
chic aesthetic I moved into this
apartment two full months ago but I was
way too busy taking finals and then
promptly having a post-grad existential
crisis to properly unpack anyways what
I'm really excited for in this apartment
is this absolutely gorgeous window and
for the first time in my life
hardwood floors now the floor plan of my
apartment is a little bit confusing but
if you'll stick with me through these
double doors in the main living room
area is a walk-in closet which happens
to fit a full-size bed perfectly yes
feel free to insert all of your jokes
about me being in the closet here off
the closet slash soon to be proper
bedroom is a bathroom and this is
honestly looking pretty good so far all
it needs is some more storage for my
kind of tornado of makeup and skincare
products here now if we circle back
through the main living room through
this doorway is a little dining nook
that I'm planning on converting into a
home office where I can do all of my
editing and the kitchen now I'm not a
huge fan of the mix of brown and tan and
black and silver here but never fear my
friends I have a plan to fix it as well
all right without further ado let's get
started with this apartment makeover and
also pray that I don't lose my deposit
because my landlord knows about my
YouTube channel now so haha that's
that's great
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how crazy ages
so the first step in my apartment
makeover was hunting for some dead
people furniture luckily for me turns
out the dead people in my neighborhood
has very good taste so here's why I cook
them first I got this dresser for
thirteen dollars which is so beautiful I
actually can feel kind of bad putting my
period underwear in it I got these
armchairs for $80 each
which kind of look like a taxidermy of
your grandma's carpet but [ __ ] it I like
them I also first did this chair last
year and it is still my favorite piece
of furniture I've ever found so I'm
definitely keeping it despite the fact
that I now I'm outnumbered by armchairs
three two one inside my own apartment
honestly my armchairs could beat me up
in a fight if they wanted to I got this
vanity for $40 I wanted at least one
lighter colored piece of furniture to
help kind of open up the apartment and
make sure it was a two-way down with
dark wood furniture I got this mirror
for ten dollars because I have a kink
for vintage gold mirrors and I don't
know how to stop I picked out a bunch of
vintage Cubs and mugs for like one to
two dollars each and filled them with
some baby plants and last but not least
I got this solid wood desk in the sales
section for one dollar this desk was
literally $1 I kid you not one dollar I
probably already said it in the
voiceover but I will say it again this
desk cost me $1 quite possibly the best
deal since the Louisiana Purchase
branded this desk like pretty much any
furniture that you thrift is gonna come
with a couple scratches and chips in it
so we're gonna give this baby a quick
little facelift so first to fill in the
scratches I bought these wood markers
from Home Depot
they're basically brown markers that you
can use to color over the scratches in
the wood to make them match the stain of
the rest of the desk and make them less
noticeable
then I wiped on a wood finish I like to
think of it as a nail-polish topcoat for
furniture it kind of just makes
everything look shiny and new and
further reduces the texture of the
scratches and there we go she's looking
well not quite brand new but at least a
newer version of old than she was before
now that we have all of my furniture
picked out we have a nice vintage gold
theme going it's time to get started and
making over in this apartment
I feel like an HGTV presenter every
single time I do one of these
transitions hello from my bedroom and a
full month later from when I film the
intro segment of this video because I
never cease to amaze myself with my
ability to use small and insignificant
tasks to indefinitely avoid doing
anything meaningful and challenging so
as I briefly mentioned earlier this is a
super large walk-in closet that also has
been doubling as my sleeping Cave
nephilim we all might be thinking Ashley
why why the hell do you want to sleep in
a closet willingly for this apartment I
wanted to do my best to separate my
workspace from my relaxing personal
space so pretty much the whole rest of
the apartment is gonna be my filming and
editing space but this bedroom is gonna
be my little safe haven where I can
relax and sleep and hopefully for once
in my life escape the constant pressure
to be working all the time
well it is 5:30 7:00 a.m. the night
before I'm putting out this video I have
not slept so turns out that didn't work
but I do have a nice bedroom so here's
how I made that
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as you can tell I am a professional
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oh but we won an old pair of underwear I
forgot I had a condom wrapper David's
friends hat and Miss neck pillow you
never know what you're gonna find kids
now I ask myself Ashley what would make
this bedroom look cute and cozy and like
it's owned by an 80 year old British
grandma who owns ten cats oh that's
right folks
wallpaper in my last bedroom I played it
very safe with like a minimal white
theme and I really liked that look but
this time I wanted to change it up with
something more colorful and kind of push
myself out of my interior design comfort
zone so basically in only a research
about wallpaper I found out that there
are three different types the first is
traditional wallpaper where you soak the
actual paper and then stick it to the
wall and this is the most affordable but
the most labor-intensive to apply and to
remove basically to remove it you have
to like soak it with soap and scrape it
off the wall which did not seem like a
particularly Brent to a friendly
solution secondly there is peel and
stick wallpaper which is basically like
a gigantic sticker it's really easy to
apply and remove but is really really
expensive I calculated how much it would
cost to cover my bedroom and it would be
around $600 so I'm opting for the third
type which is paste to the wall
wallpaper it was still pricey but
definitely less pricey than peel and
stick wallpaper total it cost me around
$200 to cover my entire bedroom
transitions I got this special type of
wallpaper that you still have to apply
with a paste but once I move out of this
apartment because I'm renting I can just
peel it off the wall and it's supposed
to come off cleanly in one piece fingers
crossed it actually works that's an
issue for one year from now Ashley good
luck taking off all this wallpaper I
feel like I'm making a bread starter and
like sprinkling my yeast over the water
except there's just a lot of water and
if I eat this I will die
after a thorough stir my wallpaper snot
was ready to get sneezed all over my
bedroom wall I just brushed it on in a
pretty generous layer and then lined up
the wallpaper with the edge of the wall
and pressed it on huh it actually stuck
I'm so impressed
I used this plastic wallpapering tool
that I bought for like two dollars to
smooth out any air bubbles and to crease
the wallpaper at the bottom right next
to the crown molding then I used
scissors to trim a straight line across
the crease and voila one strip of
wallpaper down about 100 more to go for
my second strip it was pretty much the
same process but I had to take extra
care to match up the pattern between the
two strips so it looked like the
branches just continued seamlessly from
one to the other now in the middle of
this strip there was a circuit breaker
box because this is literally a closet
so I had to use an exacto knife to trim
around the edges so my wallpaper lay
nice and flat against the wall you can
use the same technique if your wallpaper
hang around a power outlet or anything
like that
don't worry though if this awkward white
rectangle is pissing you off I'm going
to go cover it up at the end so just
pulled onto your panties for like a
couple more minutes
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my next wallpapering challenge was this
awkward corner basically there's this
wood panel left over from underwear the
closet shelf used to be and oh boy it is
attached to the wall I tried to pry it
off but I could not for the life of me
so I just had to work around it and
smooth the wallpaper around on one side
and then kind of like cut and origami
the other side together into utley flat
a little bit confusing it's not perfect
but you know what
this wallpaper and share from clueless
would say is like a Monet from far away
it's okay but up close it's a big old
mess
I don't know if you guys can see but up
there he's a spider especially a little
spider but like it's kind of big as far
as spiders go especially compared to me
like absolutely gigantic I don't know
how I'm gonna send it off I have been
waiting for the past half an hour for
this spider to leave I cooked myself
dinner I drank some Lacroix I went to
the bathroom [ __ ] still here not
to be a stereotype but I have never
removed a bug from my own house I used
to get my parents to do it and now I
normally get David or whoever I am
[ __ ] at the moment to do it but today
I'm 21 and I am a grown-ass woman and I
am still [ __ ] terrified but I'm going
to do it because I'm a strong strong
independent woman huh I got it
top 10 most terrified oh no it's moving
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after I finished laying down the final
few wallpaper panels I went back to
cover up that circuit breaker with a
leftover piece of wallpaper trimmed it
to size and smooth it down so it's as
not noticeable as possible it's
definitely still noticeable but like
it's not quite so bad anymore and that's
really all I'm asking for alright eight
hours and a solid ten cans of Lucroy
later yes I have a look Corey addiction
and it is a problem
my soon-to-be bedroom is completely
wallpaper
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now all the Plus is to finally put
together my bed frame because Dave and I
broke it like four months ago
unfortunately it wasn't even in a fun
sexy way we were literally just moving
my bed and we pulled it apart at the
wrong angle so I just to read drill a
hole in my bed and then I'll finally
have a place for this hole to get
drilled get it babe never mind
okay this is the problem child where we
broke off a dowel oh this is what I
bought the drill floor cuz I'm how I had
to drill the out of the hole dad did
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there's actually very soothing to the
inside like being inside the womb
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hey guys it is four [ __ ] months later
I no longer have a boyfriend but I do
have an ear infection so who's the real
winner here so let me backtrack and
explain why it's been taking me so long
first of all there is just my crippling
indecision which is a whole issue in and
of itself
second of all though my original plan
for this wall was to build a giant
wall-to-wall bookshelf from scratch I
held these inspo photos it was gonna be
like very Gatsby chic but then over the
past four months I slowly realized one I
have absolutely no woodworking
experience whatsoever
- I only own one physical book and it's
a cookbook because I am an audiobook
[ __ ] okay and third of all I had this
fun little quarter life crisis where I
realized I don't actually want to live
in LA any longer because it's just
slowly making me more and more
superficial and I want to move out of
this apartment pretty soon all of that
combined I realized it was not the most
practical idea to spend weeks and weeks
and hundreds of dollars building a
gigantic bookshelf I did want to do
something fun with this wall though so I
settled on more wallpaper this apartment
they do very slowly just becoming me
wallpapering various surfaces I promise
there will be some non wallpaper in
content to later in this video so I'm
gonna make this real quick because you
literally just watch me apply wallpaper
for like ten minutes straight so this
time left is gonna be over in three two
one
finish Wow it makes like an hour worth
of work who look so easy when you put it
in like 1,000 times
I feel like I'm on the set of a very
hipster music video and that sees always
my goal with life so I will take it and
those are the doctor now to see whether
I need antibiotics for my ear infection
but I will see you guys in a couple days
to finish up the rest of the apartment
buddy
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hello and welcome to 90 degrees to the
west to my other wall of my living space
it is another two months later but
honestly are we surprised at this point
not really at this point the jury's
still out whether I'm gonna finish this
apartment makeover before we are all
under sea level and humanity no longer
exists they seem to be taking an equally
long time at this point I've gotten rid
of my ear infection and my shitty
attitude about being single so we love
character development vanity because I'm
not actually that good at makeup and I'm
gonna use a sewing desk and say yes I am
finally going to hang up this gold
mirror my friend Damian gave me this
mirror when he moved out of LA two years
ago and it has been sitting on the floor
ever since but I finally went to Home
Depot and I bought drywall anchors which
are this like plastic shell that goes
around her screw that latches onto the
wall and allows you to hang much heavier
objects than just a regular screw and
now we just pray that it doesn't fall
down and completely rip out this wall I
also got a stool to rest my buttocks and
the best thing is I like slides
perfectly underneath the vanity so it
doesn't take up any extra space next I'm
reading the big guns with this double
veterans clothing rack I made a little
video about how I built it you guys want
more detail but to give you guys a quick
version I basically got a bunch of steel
pipes from Home Depot assemble them all
together screw them into a wood base and
then
Wheelan ethics and now I have a giant
rolling closet essentially now through
this archway there is a little closet
that's about three feet wide that holds
most of my clothing but I wanted to
opportunity to have a little bit more
storage especially because like my
actual closet is now my bedroom I also
just find clothing to be like a really
nice and decoration in a way I think
it's just come on up it's a fashion
dirty but I love like curating a little
pallet of clothing and like looking at
the textures and fabrics and that leads
me to the most exciting part for me
which is this cold beer I have always
wanted just like a huge statement mirror
for my room and I'm really happy that I
finally got one we've got our teenage
mir year and then we have our granddaddy
of all mirrors over here also this is
gonna sound like the most la thing ever
but I also wanted a mirror to cover up
my heater because it's a little bit ugly
and I never actually end up using it
aesthetics before thermodynamics hmm
nope nice try actually nice try okay
actually let me see whether this looks
better was like the clothing rack
rotated if you like this composition
with a little bit crouched me
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okay nope that's worse interior
designers PV out at me in the comments
and tell me how to arrange my furniture
better thank you
so anyways speaking of fashion as decor
I have a bunch of handbags to hang up
and I thought what better way to store
them then to just arrange them on the
wall like be pieces of art that they are
so I already went ahead and I screwed
screws into the wall and I'm just gonna
hang these by their panels and last but
not least I wanted a way to cover up the
top of the heater unit so I have a scrap
of the wallpaper I used in my bedroom
and I thought it was too beautiful to go
to waste
so I'm just attaching it with some
magnets onto the top of my heater unit a
word of warning I would not recommend
attaching flammable materials to your
heater if you do actually turn on the
heat okay like you don't live in
Southern California so yeah please do
not start a fire because of me and now
we interrupt your regularly scheduled
programming to indulge Ashley slightly
unhealthy
so my plan for this side of the room
could pretty much be summed up in one
word which is plants over the past year
so I have developed a slightly unhealthy
obsession with plants as a coping
mechanism for my complete lack of other
human interactions I mean not the plants
or humans but um they feel like they
kind of have personalities unlike people
in LA so a couple of months ago I
already went ahead and installed this
curtain rod and some curtains and I did
a really horrible job of filming yet
because most of my clips were out of
focus
anyways I had these curtains now now one
thing I'm weirdly excited about in this
apartment is having a real windowsill
previously I lived in buildings that
were constructed in the 70s or something
they weren't quite as old as this
building so they didn't have this wood
frame around the window and I just love
the look of things resting on a
windowsill one day when I like own house
I want to be able to have a little like
reading nook by my window I think that's
like the cutest thing ever but obviously
this is a little bit too small to hold
my button right now so instead we are
gonna fill it up with plants so I have
been saving up kombucha bottles for the
past several centuries and I figured
they were actually the perfect wig to
fit on this windowsill also a fun fact
about glass is that even though we
associate glass packaging with being
much more environmentally friendly than
plastic it actually takes a lot more
energy to melt down glass and recycle it
than it does plastic so really the best
thing you can do if you buy a product in
a glass jar is to reuse the glass so
basically what I've been doing is
soaking my bottles in a snow pea warm
water bath I leave them in there for
usually like two days and then the label
will slowly deteriorate okay don't judge
me I'm literally just doing this inside
my blender because I don't own a bowl
that's big enough to fit kombucha both
after soaking for a couple days the
label should be bushy enough to just
scrape off and I also cut off the
plastic ring around the top so that it
looks a little bit cleaner and now we
have the perfect container for
propagating plants so in my experience
the easiest plants to propagate is Pozos
this is like the basic house plant she's
very easy to grow she's very
low-maintenance and it's also very easy
to get her to have babies okay this is a
weird metaphor I need to stop calling my
plants anyways
I here is how you propagate plants take
some scissors and
two to four new leaves you want to make
sure you get a clean amputation don't
just like rip the limbs off because that
will kind of traumatize the plant and it
makes you a Me's less likely to sprout
so then I fill up my glass with some
water
you can also optionally add some plant
food or some rooting powder which is
supposed to help roots sprout faster but
in my experience pothos like even in
regular water will start sprouting roots
pretty fast so it's totally not a
necessity and then you just repeat that
process for several months on end until
you have a small army of plants to put
on your windows
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so I know what you're thinking Ashley
that can't possibly be enough plants I
wanted some hanging plants in this
corner because I think it helped to draw
the eye upwards and especially in my
apartment that has pretty tall ceilings
I think it'll help give it like a very
lofty jungle vibe I don't know I like
plants I want more of them if there's
one thing that I have learned through my
years of owning plans it is that plant
hangers and pots can really [ __ ] add
up like the plants themselves are
honestly less expensive than the pots
and all the decorations so I decided to
teach myself to make my own macrame
plant hands to make this plant hanger
you will need macrame rope cut into
eight pieces that are about ten feet
long each a gold ring this is optional
but you can buy them for like $2 at
Joanns and I think it's a nice accent a
bit of tape to hold your ring in place
while you work and optional but
beneficial several years of experience
making friendship bracelets in middle
school and optional but not beneficial
this terrible haircut so first up I'm
looping my rope through the ring and
pulling down the ends until they're even
if you don't have a ring you can just
fold the rope in half and tape it down
here next cut a couple feet of rope and
create a little loop then wrap the long
end around as many times as you can
thread the end through the loop and then
pull the other tail to tighten the loop
until it goes inside it's like a little
old scarf trim off the ends and now we
have a neat little knot next separate
your strands into groups of four so we
can get to braiding
to do a four strand braid you take the
rightmost string pass it over the next
string then under the string after that
then over again
repeat that process with the new
rightmost string you go over under and
over and over and over and over I like
to think of it as moving but it's just a
super tiny four string scale okay once
you've braided a couple feet it's time
to secure it with a square knot to do
this you take one string and loop it
over the middle strings then you take
the other string under the middle
strings and through the loop sorry why
did I say under like that yeah I'm
getting into like tutorial Lafley mode
then pull it tight then you rinse and
repeat just make sure you alternate
which strain you start with one podcast
and or jam session to Harry Styles new
album later you've got yourself four
braided strings next to create this
netted effect that's gonna hold the pot
we're gonna make square knots using two
sets of strings from two different rates
basically we're making like one big
incestuous gameofthrones family tree so
I spaced my knots around five inches
down from where the braids ended and I
knot in each around four times to
complete the net you're gonna need to
bring the two edge strands together and
knot them together so you have this kind
of like full circle that will hold the
bottom
and last week just not all the ends
together and gave your tassel a little
haircut to use the plant hanger you kind
of open one side shimmy the plant in and
then pull everything up so I don't sound
like I'm telling you how to like put on
a condo um you just like pull it up and
it looks like this and here is how the
finished plant hanger looks
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wonderful idea
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hello and welcome to my kitchen home to
many a failed cooking experiment and the
very occasional successful cooking
experiment the first thing we're gonna
tackle are these somewhat mediocre
countertops we're gonna cover them up
with contact paper this is basically
like waterproof wallpaper for your
countertops I promise there will be some
non wallpapering content to later in
this video I promise there will be some
non wallpapering content non wallpaper
in context I thought this giant roll for
around $60 in a black marble color so
hopefully it's gonna make these granite
countertops look a lot more chic and
blend in with all of my black appliances
now given the fact that I have never
applied an iPhone screen protector
without getting bubbles I'm not super
hopeful about covering my entire [ __ ]
countertop seamlessly but we're just
gonna start at one corner roll it out
and see what we can do alright I'm
leaving a little bit of overlap over
here so that I can wrap it around the
edge of the countertop and hide this
like rounded edge so to apply the
contact paper I'm peeling back a little
bit of the backing at a time to expose
the sticky part sticking it down
smoothing it out making sure it is all
air bubble free before I move on to the
next section I found that it really
helps to work in small sections because
if you unveil like too much of the
sticky side and once it gets really
overwhelming and it turns into like one
giant
sticky mess
as you would be able to see here had my
hair not photobombed of a shot I use an
exacto knife to trim around the edges of
the sink now I was originally buried
that kind of in the splash zone here
where water could get onto the contact
paper it would slowly like sink under
and unstick the contact paper from my
counter but by the time I'm editing this
video and recording this voiceover I've
actually been using it for a lot of
months and it has not come unstuck at
all so I'm actually very impressed I cut
my finger with an exacto knife I'm just
gonna wrap it in a pad because I don't
have band-aids in my apartment this is
probably the best DIY in this entire
video now the contact paper was looking
a bit wrinkly around this rounded nub of
my counter so I blasted it with a
hairdryer it's how I got shrinky dink
for those of you who like live through
the glory days of mm as it heated up it
slowly shriveled so the wrinkles look
less noticeable so since you have a
relatively famous strip of granite to
cover I figured to make this process a
little bit more really I'm just gonna
really a word it's it's less unwieldy is
what I'm trying to say I'm gonna
probably cut a thin strip of my contact
paper so I can smooth it over I'm gonna
leave a little bit of extra though so I
can trim it off at the end so here I'm
just continuing that process doing some
more smoothing
some more healing more seriously
considering just becoming a contact
paper ASMR Channel
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at least I wouldn't get copyrighted and
demonetised every other video then here
I kind of [ __ ] up and I accidentally
left a gap so I just patched it up with
a little contact paper band-aid and now
no one except me and two million of you
guys will ever know that I messed up for
real though I was surprised with how
forgiving the contact paper was pretty
much every time I messed up I could just
patch it over with a little piece of
contact paper and it really wasn't that
noticeable hello and welcome to the anus
of my apartment
as you guys can probably tell I am in a
bit denial about how much [ __ ] you can
reasonably fit at the edge of a sink
surprisingly none of my makeup has ever
fallen into the toilet but it does
pretty regularly just fall off the edges
of this thing so the main issue here is
really just that I need more storage I
got this kind of industrial looking
shelf situation as a gift only problem
is this lighter wood color doesn't match
the dark brown cabinets in the bathroom
so here's a quick fix for any wood
furniture thrifted or otherwise that you
want to change the color ground I
started by removing the screws and
separating the wood panels from the rest
of the shelf then I lightly sanded the
wood to remove the smooth layer of
varnish on top and to create a rough
surface that the new stain could really
sink into it's kind of like trying to
watercolor a piece of paper versus
trying to watercolor a piece of packing
tape one is a lot harder than the other
I used some canned vegetables to prop up
this plank so I could easily access the
sides and then rubbed on a dark stain
and palm stain is what color's the wood
and poly is what gives it that shiny
finish normally they're sold separately
but this is kind of a two-in-one like a
two-in-one shampoo and conditioner
except that it actually works and
doesn't leave your hair super greasy
while I waited for the first coat of
stain to dry I installed this pipe near
to match the pipe vibe of the shelf
which in retrospect was actually
completely unnecessary but I warned you
guys up front I have a kink for cool
mirrors and I really like this one and I
also spent an embarrassingly long time
trying to assemble this laundry hamper
are there like 70 different parts it's a
[ __ ] laundry hamper I should
definitely be reading the instruction
manual but huh
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here is the instruction manual huh and
by far the best thing about this hamper
is this a perfect fit for my door
alright now that my shelves are all dry
and nice and stained they honestly
looked so much classier and nicer than
before I'm gonna screw them back onto
the shelf and then we can install the
show alright I guess this is our last
room in the apartment makeover so I'm
gonna take a couple weeks to a couple
months to put the finishing touches on
this place do all the styling shelves
plants I don't know finally [ __ ]
clean my shower so I'll see you guys
then for the apartment tour although I
guess I guess for you technically it's
not a couple months technically it's
coming in three two one hi Architectural
Digest welcome to my Los Angeles studio
where I live with myself my 51 plants
and the voice my head that tells me I'll
never be good enough come on
oh it's not you're not a real camera
person you're just my own hand that I
edited in to make it look like somebody
was knocking on my door let me let me
show you around so right when you walk
through the door you enter into this
entryway as the name would suggest
Ashley believe it or not the word
entryway is actually derived from the
Latin roots entry and way which means
the place where you enter an apartment
this apartment tour is off to a great
start already I of course have a mirror
to check my face before I go out of the
apartment to make sure that I'm not like
covered in boogers or anything like that
and I also have the closet that I didn't
turn into a bedroom this one holds most
of my clothes and my lighting equipment
when I'm not using it and in my
never-ending mission to stuff as much
clothing into this apartment as possible
I hung up some hooks for my most worn
purses and I also have some shoes lining
hallway over here
so in the main living area let's start
off with the living room which is the
physical embodiment of how I socialize
which is to say was a maximum of two
people at a time and preferably at least
two feet apart bonus points if both
people are actually just vintage
armchairs and I don't have to talk to
them at all literally every single
person who comes into this apartment
included the plumber for my building
makes fun of me for these armchairs
because it just makes it so obvious that
I don't have a lot of friends I make fun
of myself for it a lot but in reality I
have come to peace with it and the fact
that I just like interacting with like
one human at a time or just being by
myself so there wasn't a whole lot of
point in spending a lot of money on a
couch and dedicating a lot of space in
the apartment to it and at the end of
the day I do like my little armchair
buddies I think thank you
since the armchairs are so bulky I went
with a really minimal table that's just
large enough to fit a book a cup of
coffee a plate of objects that have
absolutely no purpose whatsoever but
look kind of especially pleased right
next to the living room area are these
double doors which normally I keep
closed during the day so that I have
more of like a clean living room area
but during the next time we open them up
and it leads to my bedroom you can also
enter through this door but I figured
that double doors were more dramatic
also just like look at how many [ __ ]
doors are in this apartment it's absurd
anyway yeah
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welcome to where the magic happens and
by the magic I mean hours of listening
to my next-door neighbor have sex
through this incredibly thin wall sex
noises aside this really has quickly
become my favorite room in the apartment
I have never had a place that feels so
cozy and comforting and like intimate
one of my friends described this room is
a vintage sex dungeon which is really my
entire brand to be honest something
feels really nice about being able to
close the entire world way and just have
a little dreamy space for myself I don't
know I spent a lot of nights like
looking up at the ceiling and tracing
all the wallpaper and it's just a really
nice place to get like reflective to
relax even though this space is really
tiny and it did get like very very
sweaty during the summer and I honestly
think I lost a good number of brain
cells the remaining brain cells that
survived me burning a brick pattern into
styrofoam and inhaling the fumes for my
last apartment makeover I lost some of
those overheating in this incredibly
badly ventilated corner of the apartment
over the summer but then I got some fans
going I got some crosswinds I think I
was able to salvage at least two of my
last few brain cells in this corner
which is literally the only floor space
I have in this closet slash bedroom that
isn't taken up by my bed I added this
dresser that I thrifted I love how the
gold peach shape of the handles kind of
matches with the gold leaf motif a leaf
motif dr. Seuss is quaking the leaf
motif on the wallpaper now figuring out
a lighting setup for this bedroom was a
little bit weird because it's a closet
in case I haven't mentioned that already
so there are no outlets in this room and
the only life that I had was this weird
little bulb that's screwed into the wall
it doesn't even come with a light switch
so the only way you can turn it on and
off is to unscrew and rescrew in the
light bulb every single time you want to
use it so my solution was to sell all of
my data to a device that listens to me
non-stop in my own home in exchange for
a minor convenience of being able to
turn on this light bulb hey Google turn
on my bedroom look at that
totally worth all of my privacy
basically I installed a Philips hue bulb
which you can control over your phone or
a smart device in my case
and more importantly for me you can also
create custom colors on it which is
really exciting because I love like
setting a mood I love a cool lighting
scheme it's been really cool for videos
and also as always for sex an unexpected
bonus on this bedroom has been the fact
that it is the only part of my apartment
that you can't see from the street for
those of you don't know my apartment
like is on ground level so people can
just look into my window and see me here
it's been nice to have a place where I
can have sex without people on the
street hearing and seeing me and instead
it's just this guy who can hear
everything
now through the living room
this section is pretty much the exact
same as you guys saw it last so I really
won't waste too much of your time on it
this of course is my corner for getting
dressed and kicking an egregious number
of mirror selfies this is my grandma's
sewing corner where I try to repair
clothing and not stab myself with too
many sewing needles at a time this is my
window for admiring my plant children
and avoiding eye contact with strangers
walking by now in this corner of the
apartment on the other side of the
window I left it a little bit sparsely
decorated I just have this stepladder
which I stained a darker brown color to
match with the windows granted I did a
really messy job of staining it but at
this point like I have kind of [ __ ]
done spending like 150 hours making over
my apartment and this is also where I
store my fighting a lot of people ask me
like why the hell would I have a bike
inside my apartment and it's because I
don't have a parking spot and I meet my
bike out on the street even if I lock it
up like slowly all the parts of my bike
will get stolen one by one by people in
this neighborhood but anyways what I
need to I can move the bike away get
this out of the way too and in my
Buffa's armchair out of the way I now
have this entire blank wall for me to
shoot book books and outfit videos on
Wii has been really useful because it is
like surprisingly hard to be able to
find a blank surface that you can fold
up out then you can fit a full body
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so this is the corner of my apartment
where I probably spend the most time
although I don't think I've really shown
you it so far in this video I did fill
myself putting together this part of the
apartment but I was a year younger at
that point and just trying way too hard
to be funny I got this faux kal hydro
yes it is faux so vegans don't
unsubscribe why was I like that to give
you guys the quick version though I
painted the edges of this window because
I wanted it to match the wood frame in
the other room I don't care what
Christine from simply me illogical says
this is the realest peel born oh my god
no hey do you have a window fetish after
all I brought in my $1 desk from
Goodwill
I bought a dark brown leather chair -
and I put together this shelf to hold my
camera equipment and would you guess it
more plans the instructions said two
people recommended and I'm is slowly
starting to figure out why that is
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we're in lady's 40th office I went for a
very like old man dark wood type of vibe
I wanted my office to look like it was
owned by the type of man who would call
me oriental you know oh and I was
finally able to buy a desktop computer
which has been an absolute lifesaver
when I'm editing a video that has like
16 hours of footage like this one so
yeah overall it's not a bad place to
spend most of my time and it is
conveniently right next to snacks in the
kitchen speaking of ah at last back in
the kitchen where I belong so last time
you guys saw the kitchen
I had just applied the contact paper but
I decided to add a couple of finishing
touches to make it feel a little bit
more homey
I have this nice rack where I can you
know cook things stab an intruder the
choice is yours
real talk though somebody keeps knocking
on my door at like 3:00 a.m. and they
won't go away for like an hour
so I legitimately have grab this knife
in the middle of the night and just like
stood by my own door waiting for them to
go away hashtag just girly things you
never know when you're gonna die in your
own apartment and you're constantly
afraid that men are gonna kill you great
for some additional storage I added this
industrial kitchen rack and I also just
like the look of my pots and pans
hanging up brenton my pan did look a lot
more aesthetically pleasing when I
originally bought it but now it is just
like completely covered in Burns ooh
it's very uh rustic chic let's call it
oh one huge perk though of this kitchen
is that the refrigerator opens the wrong
way I was not kidding about my liquori
addiction by the way to end on perhaps
the most
anti-climactic note of all time here is
my bathroom it looks like a bathroom
since the last time you saw it I added a
couple plans one of which is absolutely
surviving living her best life one of
which is really struggling this year but
so am I so I don't I don't blame her
maybe 2020 will be your year buddy and
really the creme de la creme of this
entire apartment is this sign that I
found in a trash pile on my street
it says no dumping allowed and yeah I
put it in the bathroom because I have
the humor of a 12 year old boy thank you
so yeah that is my entire apartment at
the risk of ending on a bit of a cheesy
note I wanted to thank you guys were
literally allowing me to pay my rent
I've said it before but I'll say it
again you guys are the best stripper
daddies I could ever ask for
ironically hope that I've spent the past
11 months putting together this
apartment I decided that I'm moving
across the country to New York in like
three weeks because I love to suffer no
in reality it is time for a change but
I've also had a lot of really good
memories in this apartment and I'll miss
it
so thank you guys so much for watching
as always and I will see you in my next
apartment bye
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