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