Molly is clearly still learning her way around. [laughs] You just missed me falling into the wall and then into this door intro music Hello! And welcome to my new empty apartment. So this is a two bedroom condo It's going to be a lil bit echoey Cause there's nothing in it Note the “Empty Apartment Tour.” Don't worry, there’s gonna be full move in vlogs and unpacking, decorating videos and I’ll definitely do a finished once it's decorated tour. I've done these three apartment tours in the past cause apparently I move a lot! And uh, so I thought I'd do an empty one this time cause I have it empty here for a few days. It is all white, which is exactly what I wanted. I love it so much. So, this is the front door and when you walk in It's to like, a very open concept space. There is a light, just a normal light. The floors throughout are this beautiful, super, light washed wood. Which I am obsessed with. There’s tons of lights everywhere, big windows. It’s just very bright and that is exactly what I was looking for. Right inside the door here, we have the laundry. We love to see it! We love a good in-unit washer dryer moment. What a luxury! So, very happy to have that. And then... I’m still finding my way around. I just got the keys last night. In here, we have a whole built-in closet. So, I’m gonna keep kinda my most needed jackets here and most needed shoes. But then also probably, maybe, some cleaning supplies and I think I'll probably keep Lavender and Gallops food in their bins down here so it’s really easy to grab. Where is the handle? There we go. It’s going to be a learning process. Then, it’s all just living room in front of me here. Uhm, it is so open and spacious I’m obsessed. One thing that I’m really excited about is over here... where is it? In here? We have shelving units. And I’m very excited about this because I love trinkets and décor and so I'm not gonna like overload them or anything cause that would get too busy. But I just am really excited to put some of my favorite décor pieces in here. Like my blush pink and copper globe, Candles, Just things like that through out here. I think will look really fun and just add something special to this. I’m thinking I’m gonna put my couch like right here. If we can fit it in... We literally might not be able to get the couch into the building. So that should be interesting. I might have to get a new couch unfortunately. Fingers crossed I don’t! We'll find out soon. And so, the couch, I'm thinking, is gonna go right here Now... They had it staged not when I was here looking but I'm renting from a private owner like, an owner owns this condo and I'm renting from them and I found the listing when it was being sold and they had it staged in those photos so I had like my mom and dad describe it to me and they had it staged where the chairs and couch were going this way but there's a really beautiful view and although I can't see it, I want people to be able to sit on the couch and, like, see the beautiful view and I don't have a TV, so there's no need to, like, have a couch facing the wall where a TV would be so I think that's what I'm going to do. And then have my coffee table and then, where the window is, like two chairs a nice table in the middle. It'll have to have some floor lamps cause there's no ceiling lighting in this area. But there's this giant window and all the blinds are remote controlled which sounds cool and high tech and modern, however, one of them is broken and we just got the keys yesterday and so they're getting it fixed. But it's kind of annoying cause now the blind is, like, mostly down in the one room and we can't open it cause there's no, like, you know, strings to pull. So that's kind of weird So, this is the den space. This is an old building, its a very old building and so this is like a renovated unit in a very old condo building and so, originally, this did have doors. Which, to be honest, I would have kind of preferred. I know a lot of people love the open concept but this is intended to be an office space and when you're at home on work calls you kind of want some privacy and the rest of the house doesn't want to hear what you're talking about all day. So, I feel like that was, honestly, a bad decision to take the doors out I would've just put clear glass doors or a sliding barn door or something to still give it that open feel without removing the personal privacy of whoever's office space this is but it wasn't my renovation. So there's tons of windows in here but the blind is stuck halfway down at this point. apparently, it's beautiful views but I cant show you that cause I don't want to show you and have creepy people figure out where I live uhm, but there is like overhead lighting in here. I don't know what exactly I'm going to do with this space I think I'm gonna put like Lavender's cat condo in here maybe one of my swing chairs from my balcony cause I don't have a balcony unfortunately here. The light switch for this is over here and it does have a dimmer switch which is nice. So you have some mood lighting. There isn't dimmer switches Throughout the place but there is in some spots and that's one. And then here is where my beautiful, giant marble table will go. I'm so obsessed. My last apartment that I was living in, couldn't fit my giant, rectangular, marble table so i kept it in storage, but this is the perfect spot for it and I think it's gonna look so good with all just the whites and the greys, cause all of... everything here is white and then a lot of my furniture is gray, white and pastel pink, so I think it's just gonna look perfect. So I'll have my big table here with my clear chairs. I personally dont love this light I feel like its very trendy right now to have with these kind of wicker lights. and I get it. It justs not personal - it's a beautiful light - it's just not personally my vibe. So, I might switch that out if the guy lets me, I'll just store this and then buy my own overhead light. Switch it out, so potentially that will happen. and then over here we come into the kitchen. Obviously, this is like a bar area, where you could put two to three chairs. I dont have any bar stools that will fit this. I might pick some up. I might not. I haven't really decided I'm gonna have six chairs to sit at the table. I dont know that this willl be used that much. But who knows? I might move in and be like, "I'm really missing have chairs at my bar". So we'll have to see. And we go left into the kitchen its an all white kitchen. It is a very small like galley kitchen, but I don't cook so, I dont care that its a small kitchen. One cool thing about this fridge though is its smudge proof. So you like leave fingerprints and they disappear. I dont know if it will pick up on camera but I feel like thats kind of nice, you never have to clean it. Also, the dishwasher okay, is like drawers. So there's two drawers instead of like a kind of traditional one that folds down. So I thought that was unique. uhm, and I guess its good in a small tight space like this to have that style. Uhm yeah, so nothing much to say. This is the kitchen. And then in the hallway, we have tons of storage. I think that this built-in is kind of intended to be like your pantry so for people who love cooking and snacks, they would kind of store a lot of their food in here. I don't love cooking or snacks. So I'll probably mostly put my shoes in here. I feel this could be good shoe storage, right Mom? [Mother] Actually I was thinking the same thing myself. So I think perhaps shoes will be going there If there's some overflow, and then here we have more storage. They really did a really good job, at like building in storage to the space. Oh there is not another door. Here I am feeling around to pull another door open. They really did a great job at building in storage and there is a light in there too actually which is kind of nice. I'm impressed with all the built-ins I feel like thats - if you have an old space that you're renovating whether its with the intention to sell, to rent, or to just continue living there yourself, I feel like doing built-in storage and built-in closets is such a wise way to spend your money cause it makes your life so much better and so much easier. And I feel like for resale value, its really big. Across from that last cupboard in the hallway, we have the one bathroom, not one, theres two bathrooms, but this is the first kind of guest bathroom. So there is a bathtub. Unfortuantely, my fellow bath lovers will relate to me on this. A good bathtub has a slanting back, so you can like lean back when you are soaking in the tub. Bad bathtubs have like a rigid edge that you cant get comfortable in. This has one of those. It's like just straight up and down so you can't really like comfortably sit with your back. So I'm gonna try to find like a nice bath pillow or something that might make it better. The floor is so beautiful. I love this tile so much. And its heated flooring. Correct. Its heated flooring. I'll let that soak in. I'm very excited and then I love the sink. I love that they did like an above counter sink because I feel like it frees up a lot of storage space underneath for piping and stuff. Sunken in all the piping then takes up a lot of room. So I feel like it's not only aesthetically nice but its just smart for saving storage. They left Kleenex, which is funny. But I also like that there's again somewhat of like built in storage in here. So products can go in here and they wont like be all over the place in the drawers. and there is another big drawer down here. And then this mirror is cool cause you can see it has like the lighting but you can also like wave your hand under and that turns off. So if you didn't want that lighting, boom, on and off. So I think that's pretty neat. (Record Scratching) Molly is clearly still learning her way around. You just missed me walk into the wall, and then into this door, like [laughing] literally I was like "Ow!" & then I took two more steps and was like "Ow!" so its gonna take a week or so [Mother] Meanwhile, you found my phone. [Molly] Yes, my mom was looking for her phone & I was like, "Oh, I found your phone its in here!" Because this is a built-in closet and I was like feeling all of the built-ins and it was sitting right on here and then she's like, "How did you find my phone?" and then as I'm like triumphantly bringing her the phone, I like walk into two things in the span of three steps. So it'll take me a good week or so to get settled and learn the way around. But its fine, we are doing well. So, this is another built-in. This is in the second bedroom. Now the second bedroom has no overhead light at all, which is too bad, again, if I had bought this condo and renovated it, I would personally put overhead lighting in every room and all of it would have dimmer switches. Personal preference, but it doesnt. So we have one of my filming studio lights on, but this will just have to have lots of lamps. And so yeah, this is the built-in closet. So once my boyfriend is able to live here with me, this is gonna be his office, because, like everyone, he works from home and so this will be his home office. So he'll have his desk. We'll probably keep our workout equipment in here as well and then this will be his closet for all his clothes and shoes and what not. And it's honestly quite spacious. Like they really did a good build in here compared, if you you think, what it probably was before, with just a bar across the top, but its so much more convenient now how they've done it. So really well done. And there's really nothing to say about this room. Its just a square room that's gonna have some work equipment and some workout equipment. Then we have the master bedroom! which is directly across the hall from the second bedroom, which is again, an office. And both the bedrooms have floor to ceiling, wall to wall windows on one side, which is really really nice and it does have those blinds with the remote control. I think in the window I'm gonna put that faux fur white bench that I had in my last apartment in the doorway like in the hallway at the front entrance. I think I'll put that in the window in the bedroom. And then at the end of the bed, there's like almost like a cutout in the wall. And I think there I'm gonna put that photo of the woman's face that used to be in the background a lot in my videos and my vanity. And there here against this wall will be beautiful storage bed with bedside tables and its honestly so spacious. Again, no overhead light though, in the main part of the bedroom so that's a little sad. But we'll just rely on good lamps. And then we come this way. This is where it gets interesting. So the same light above that is in the entrance way and then it's all built-ins and what's interesting here is like its open concept. So, as you see, there's no sliding door. There's nothing here. So all your clothes and shoes are exposed which defintely forces you to keep it organized and clean, because anybody who walks in here can see if its messy. You also just really want to be careful with where you're putting things like bras or underwear. Like, you're gonna have to get, I guess the drawers. There is drawers here. So I guess you wanna make sure you're keeping all personal stuff in the drawers hidden away, but yeah, I think that's pretty interesting. I might film with this as the background somtimes. For like fashion videos I feel like it would be fun to see some of my clothes like hung up behind me and stuff. I dont know. I feel like that would look cool. So this will be my closet space because, like most partnerships, I do have more clothes than my male counterpart. And then over here is another built-in. This ones a little more private. These are all shoe racks which is really great. And then we have coat racks and then some more little space here. Pretty good. And then we come into the master bathroom and it is that same beautiful black and white geometric tile with heated flooring. I'm obsessed. Same exact vanity with the same kind of built-in drawer layout I think. Oh, it's slightly different actually. Huh. Oh, you can move these. Oh my God That's so handy. I love discovering - [Mother] Molly, you must be in heaven. I love discovering new things, okay? and then again, the same lighting situation with that, toilet, and then here is a standing glass shower. Now, it's - it's very narrow, which is fine. What's interesting, and I was talking about this with my mom yesterday when we got the keys and we were touring, I was like, "both this glass shower and the glass shower in my last apartment don't have any shelves for products." No built-in shelves for products. No little, like, cubby in the corner, where you put your products. Nothing! And, I'm like, "Do these people, when they design showers, forget that literally everybody who's ever showered has at least one or two products that they need like soap, shampoo, something. So, that's very strange. So, I'm gonna have to figure something out for that. Uhm... If I had done this shower, personally, I would have added a door here for two reasons, because with it being open, if you move the shower head to point too far out you're gonna potentially get water dripping onto the floor. I know there is this ledge here to help stop that, but I've had this situation happen before. Also, it keeps the heat in. So, when you turn the water off, like, this is all the heat from the shower is still kept in here. So, you can kind of like dry off a little bit before you, like, enter back out to the cold world. Whereas, when it's already open, the cold air is just gonna get immediately to your wet body, and it's not fun. So, that's probably what I would have done. But, it's beautiful. Like, honestly, it's like they did a great job with this renovation. One, two, I've toured five spaces. This was the first I saw and i was like "Yep, that's the one." "That's me." "I need to go back and snatch that up." And, honestly, it feels like such a gift. I feel so grateful that I can live in such a beautiful space, like this, that really makes me so happy. And, I'm so excited to decorate it and show you guys what I do. I love home décor. I know a lot of people don't understand how I can love home décor so much, even though I can't see it. But, it is a real passion of mine. So, I'm really excited. I'm gonna stick with an all gray and white theme in here. So, I don't think we're going to do lavender in the bedroom anymore. I mean the cat Lavender, yes; but, the color no (Laughs), because I think it'll just be nice, especially because that's open concept. And, so, any of the colors of my clothes, you know, I just think keeping it all neutral is going to be nice. Which is the other weird part about an open-concept is, like, if you wanted to paint your bedroom orange, but all your like, blue and green, and purple and red and yellow clothes are showing, it's kinda of like.. clashy? I don't know. But it's gonna be all neutral in here. Uhm, I'm very excited. It really does feel like a gift. Yesterday so this is going up on February 9th... Yesterday, February 8th, was my 27th birthday. It is painful to even say that out loud, because I feel like [sigh] my mid-20s are officially behind me. I can't say I'm in my mid-20s anymore. I am absolutely in my late-20s. I have to say that. But, uhm, it really feels like such a gift to have gotten this and moved in right on time for my birthday. And, I did buy myself one other gift though: These shoes right here! They're Jeffrey Campbell. If you're as obsessed with them as I am, check them out. I just couldn't help myself. For those who can't see, they're like, these beautiful chunky-heel platform, and they're lavender, pastel pink, and periwinkle and I love them. So, that was my birthday gift to myself. Uhm, and, this apartment is certainly feeling like a huge blessing. I've been saving up for a long time to eventually try and hopefully buy my own place, and I'm hoping to do so within the next few years. And, I've been giving it a lot of thought over the last little while, about what I'm looking for, and, uhm, I really think that I want to buy something and renovate it. Like, buy something that's old and needs to be gutted, and just totally re-do it, and bring you guys on that journey with me. Because, as you guys heard me walking through here, I do, uhm, have a lot of opinions about renovations and design, and I think it would be really fun to design my own home to be as comfortable and accessible as it could be for me, and to take you guys on that journey, as well. And, I'm a part of a lot of retinitis pigmentosis support groups on Facebook, and I see a lot of people in the group talking about that, like "Hey, we're renovating our house." "Any ideas for best way to design it to be accessible." and things like that. So, I thought, "Wouldn't it be fun to get to do that for myself and to bring you guys on that journey with me?!" And, so I think that is something that I am hoping to do in the next year or two, so hopefully... Hopefully, this is the last place I have to rent. Who knows? Every time I've said that, I've had to move. So, maybe I shouldn't say that. But, anyways, come this way. I'm gonna kick you out for now. But, I hope you guys have enjoyed seeing this empty apartment tour and are excited for the content that's coming up. Of course, if you're not into those kind of videos, like decor and unpacking; Don't worry, there's gonna be a lot of my other type of content coming out still, too. But, I'm really excited to have shared this with you. I hope you guys love it because you're gonna be seeing a lot of it in my upcoming videos! If you want more Molly, til' then, you can check this video out, or this one over here. And, I'll see you guys next time [kisses] Bye!