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 maybe some cleaning supplies
and 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
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 that would get too busy.
But I just am really excited to
Put some of my favorite pieces in here
Like my blush pink and copper globe,
Candles,
Just things like that to throw up 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
Find out soon.
And so, the couch, I'm thinking,
will 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
because 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 because now
the blind is, like, mostly down
in the one room
and we can't open it
because there's no, like, 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 wasnt 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 am going to do with this space
I think I am going to 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
and the light fixture 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 thats one
and in here is where my beautiful
giant marble table will go.
I am 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
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 like
it 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 are 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 lightening, 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 was 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 or 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!