First Look At Our Kitchen Design Renovation Week 10 Vlog / Nishi V

Hello and welcome to renovation week 10. The weeks are just flying by honestly. Today's actually Thursday. Jas and I hadn't been to the house since last Saturday so it feels like forever since we've seen the house. He still hasn't been. I've actually just got back from the house so I had to leave really early this morning first thing. In fact I got to the house before the builder even got there which was quite funny but I had to drop a few bits to him because all the little deliveries that we've had I've been keeping here at the flat just so they don't get lost or misplaced in the house. So I dropped a few bits to him then I had an appointment sort of near the house. I popped out for like 45 minutes and I got back just in time for the guy, the surveyor from Wren Kitchens who came out to basically measure up again now that the walls have been plastered and the house looks so different. I'm actually really glad that I was there because ordinarily the builder just sort of lets him in but obviously the builder cracks on with his work and the guy's just kind of left to his own devices so he wanted to like clarify a couple of bits which I'm really glad that I was there for actually and then the builder was asking me about like the direction of the tiles in the bathroom so again I'm glad that I was there because otherwise I'm not sure what he would have done like I don't know he might have called me or facetimed me like he sometimes does but I'm just I just wanted to see it in person just get it right because this is for the recessed part of the shower where my like statement tiles are gonna go and I just don't want them to cock that up so yeah really productive day it's actually lunchtime now I've just got home I got changed because it's a really hot day outside I've just come home and got changed and as I was driving down I saw Jas walking up to go to Subway to pick us up some lunch so that's what we're having for lunch because we haven't really got time to think about food at the moment and then tonight we need to sort of finalize a few appliances for our kitchen so I think we're actually ordering it tomorrow but yes I'm going to insert a few clips that I took at the house earlier here now okay it's about five hours later still the same day Jas and I just got to the house because we need to basically paint let me show you this wall behind me because the boiler is going up tomorrow and the builder was going to paint it but somebody left the rollers in the car this morning when she came to the house anyway so it's kind of a good thing though so I want to do as much as possible while it's still daylight because obviously there's still no electricity as you can see in here and so it is still quite light it is what time is it so it's quarter to seven now so hopefully we'll get quite a bit done but we're kind of planning to spend Saturday Sunday and Monday in the house painting here I just want to get things moving and just do as much as possible so we're going to paint literally just that wall is what he wants me to do oh yeah he's marked it out this wall this one here yeah by the way this house is so filthy I think they're going to clean up at some point this weekend but it's such a tip look at all this mess and they've done the pipe work for my column radiator that's going to go up here that's for a plug socket look at like all these um all these windows this patio door as well literally every single door is like that including the front door and I think the skylights yep they're exactly the same one thing that I noticed when I came to the house earlier is there's so many flies just in this little bit where the skylights are I don't know what why that is maybe they've just come in in the day then think maybe they can get out this way I don't really know oh my god how funny is this this is literally the only tap that we have because they've shut off the water supply to the tap outside so luckily just just discovered this and this is how we're washing our um roller tray because it's got loads of dust in it from the builders do you want me to hold this yes turn it off it actually looks like I'm peeing if someone wants to look out the window next door this is all so messy can I just clean this up a bit oh god no not there anyway like I was saying because the builders have this patio door open all day and often the front door as well I think all these like flies just come into the house and then they try to escape but they don't know how to so maybe they're like oh where is it gone drawn towards the light and they all kind of just hang out there it's really gross one other thing I've noticed in this house as well there must be like a beehive or something nearby because virtually every day that I'm here there's like a massive bee in the house I don't think it's the same one and yeah they're like absolutely massive like one bee I saw I literally screamed it was so big but to me like it was dying because it wasn't really flying it couldn't really move much but I wasn't going to go anywhere near it and I saw the same bee oh my god it's here it's here oh my god oh my god like look at this don't know if you guys can see it look at that this was here earlier today I don't know where they come from it's so gross why is it my house okay I've just had a cereal bath the builder just called Jas so I think he thinks Jas is here on his own um he says he's going to swing by in about 15 minutes or so to help Jas out with something so he might be here till quite late we haven't had dinner yet um but it's starting to look quite good you can't really see because it's but basically we're just painting this sort of corner because the boiler's going up here tomorrow just so that because once the boiler's on it's going to be very hard to paint around it and you might be able to see the edges obviously if it's just plain plaster so that's what we're doing that bit and I've kind of made a start so I've sanded down the outside of the toilet and not done a very good job of painting the edges with a brush around here because obviously I want to get this all painted before the toilet goes in because the toilet's going to go here and then like towel radiator there's oh is it both in a focus oh okay there we go that's the plumbing for the sink just there and this bit will be tiled up here and yeah so this bit will be painted so that's kind of what I want to crack on and start doing um ASAP before we start tiling but the reason I'm in such a rush to get it done is because I know you can obviously use masking tape and stuff like that to paint and like cover the edges but it's just easier just to do it do you know what I mean and then they just stick the tiles on I thought I knew which color I was going to go for we selected Farrow and Ball London clay and then I saw on a Facebook group some like DIY home decor Facebook group that I'm in somebody like renovated her bathroom and she picked the most gorgeous color it's actually by Rust-Oleum and it's called chalk wash so it's very similar to lime wash which is what I wanted but this is like readily available in B&Q I think and it's just easier to get hold of it's probably a lot cheaper because lime wash paint I think only a couple of brands they come from Germany it's like a powder you have to mix it and I just don't know if I can be honest with all that faff and plus I don't have time to basically buy it and do it this weekend before the builders are ready to like put the toilet and stuff in and yeah also I don't know what the color is going to look like so I'm going to try and go to B&Q at some point tomorrow see if I can get hold of this paint because that'll be quite good and then oh god I'll definitely have to go tomorrow because it's another bank holiday we've had so many bank holidays in the middle of this renovation I feel like I say this in every other video but again it's bank holiday this weekend so it's going to be a nightmare and being here I'm not braving that at the weekend at any point so definitely tomorrow I'm going to have to try and make some time to go there in between coming back here and going to rent and all the rest of it it's just it's all kind of speeding up a little bit it's kind of stressing me out there's loads to still do even once the builders are done but I think we're very slowly getting there so that's quite good. Chas and I have just come upstairs oh god you scared me the neighbour right behind me and we haven't actually been to this room yet I didn't come earlier when I came but this is a radiator that's obviously going to go up on the wall this is what I meant about the windows being so filthy it's very echoey in here they've actually put the radiators up in the other two bedrooms let's have a look oh yeah look there's one there just on the wall right in front of me so much stuff everywhere and there's one there we're really quickly losing daylight let me just open this door to show you something so when I came to the house earlier I'd already told the builder that I really like original features and I wanted to keep these doors but the other builder that was here was like you need to change them they're just going to look so ---- once the whole entire house is plastered these doors are so battered in fact this is probably the one in the best condition but then I had a chat with our actual builder and he was saying that these particular doors are very expensive they're like the Edwardian doors and I really like I think they're called three panel because four panel is where you have two of these at the bottom and two at the top they're the Victorian doors which I don't mind but they're actually the cheapest to buy and they're like literally less than half the price of these and we have five doors to replace it's going to be very costly also apparently door handles are not this height anymore they're a lot lower down and obviously it's not just the cost of the doors we have to buy door handles three hinges these have two apparently newer doors have three and then this surround is called the architrave architrave that's the word and I was like how do you change this because the walls have been plastered surely you damage it and he was like this is quite easy to fix apparently um I didn't tell him about this one though this architrave has got like a massive hole in it I can get round this one's basically just destroyed but apparently you can just use wood filler to fill that so I do think he has a point I know it obviously adds more cost onto these things but I was actually thinking this myself as well I was like I love the fact that these are the original doors that like came with this house I seen when it was built but it's going to look really bad once all these walls are painted now they've been freshly plastered and all the rest of it so oh it's just like this stuff is just never ending is it because there's always just something to do so yeah that's definitely something that we need to think about but it's annoying and oh my god my skirting board's gone up just I didn't notice so I chose this skirting board because I really like that it's a little bit different it has a couple of ridges in it the builder sent me some photos of the standard skirting that they just basically put and he said all new builds have this I was like I'm not trying to go for that new build look and so I basically chose this one which I really like obviously it's very dusty but oh look at that there's holes in it but anyway and then when I came earlier I don't know if I filmed a little clip in here or not but this is obviously the bathroom where and they were asking me where I want the recesses to be and oh yeah so I think this is one recess this is another and I basically wanted them tall enough for tall bottles but also so that we can put a full tile inside I didn't want loads of little bits of tile cut up because that's the whole point of these statement tiles that are going to go all the way down here and then this is the recess so okay I don't think I'm explaining this very well so our shower will start from here out here those are the knobs to turn the water on I wanted them further away from the shower head so that when you step into the shower this way you can turn the water on without getting wet as soon as you get into the shower so that's why we've chosen to have those there then we've got two recesses here for our products and here is where the vanity unit or the sink will be and I've asked for this to be slightly recessed so the sink will stick out from here onwards it won't be flush against this wall and the reason for that is my cabinet's going to go here and so when you're washing your face or whatever you don't hit your head on the bathroom cabinet because that will sit a bit further back so I hope that makes sense obviously you guys will see it when it's all done right now that seems like it's so far away but I'm going to go back downstairs and see what Jas is doing and hopefully we can go home soon because it is I think it's just gone eight o'clock maybe so I'm in B&Q I'm looking at these paints this was the colour I originally wanted but now I've seen this one I think that might be a bit too dark I've just facetimed Jas I don't know whether to risk it and just buy a tin because they haven't got any of the testers just for the one colour that I want which is really annoying but that tins will be far too big anyway so it seems like a bit of a waste buying that and having half a tin of this left over but I suppose you do have to test paint I've seen it online on Instagram and that colour does look perfect so oh my god I don't know what to do this is so annoying oh my god it has been a day so I'm just opening up a parcel so I woke up really early this morning because I had so many missions to do Jas went to collect my new glasses I missed the parcel a few days ago so we had to go to the post office depot thing to pick it up but I hope these are the right ones now because I've been looking for some new glasses my glasses are like more than eight years old which is a bit of a joke my prescription hasn't changed but the glasses are just so battered they're like plastic frames and all the coatings come off all the lenses are scratched they just need to be replaced and I'm very fussy with glasses so I found these online I actually bought them in a black frame took them to the optician to do the lenses and they had this tortoise shell um frame oh I really like these okay so I had to send the black ones back and I reordered these I lost out on all the postage and delivery costs but I think these look really good I love like I never thought round glasses would suit me and I found so many big ones that these are way bands I wasn't actually looking for designer glasses I don't really care because I wear contacts most of the time anyway but anyway I have to go pick these up um this video is not about my glasses but oh I'm liking these I need to drop these off to him tomorrow morning in fact to get the lenses done ASAP anyway I went to B&Q my first trip to B&Q since we got the keys to the house and I kind of prided myself on the fact that I haven't had to step in there because I just really don't like B&Q I think I might have said this maybe on Instagram maybe on here before but there's just something about B&Q I just find that nobody has a clue you ask for help but the staff don't know anything it's just like walking into I don't know like a shoe shop they have the same amount of knowledge and it's just anyway so I went to B&Q found the paint I was looking for I think I filmed a clip and I couldn't get a tester so I really hope it's the right one because I just want to get this ---- over with and then I had a meeting with the kitchen designer who came to the house and we have to rejig a few things tonight we're ordering the kitchen in fact I say tonight oh my god it's 4 30 so we need to have dinner at like 5 because we have to leave at 5 30 to get to Ren to basically finalize the kitchen and I haven't even made dinner yet god okay I need to speed this up so we're ordering the kitchen tonight we've had to rejig a few things and there were so many people in the house today I filmed a few clips because my builder basically told everyone that I do YouTube and he was like oh film this guy so there was a gas engineer there that was installing the boiler but because our builder is training to be a gas engineer or training to be gas certified I don't know what the word is he has to install one more boiler and ours is the one that's going to be his last one so he was kind of training as well and there were two other students there kind of just shadowing this guy or watching what he does and it was just loads of people then I had my meeting with the kitchen dude and everyone's in the kitchen so there's a lot of people in the house um I think we're gonna have to rejig a few things with the kitchen I really wanted a bit more time to shop around for appliances because when we first paid our little deposit to Ren it was a bank holiday again there's so many bank holidays in all my videos um this is how long the work has gone on for we got like a promotional price so we got a sale price but if we paid the deposit that night we got an extra five percent on top which is on the appliances as well so we've kind of shopped around for most of them we're buying half ish from Ren half online ourselves because they're cheaper um I just really wanted to have another look so hopefully I'll get a chance to do that in between now and like 6 30 p.m I don't know so yeah it's a big decision that's happening tonight uh it's been a day tomorrow there's gonna be lots of running around we're gonna go to the house start painting I think we're gonna spend all of bank holiday weekend at the house basically painting so you will see lots of montages of us doing that so you're welcome but for now I'm gonna run and go make some dinner really quickly and just get on with my life and um yeah I might take you to Ren with us actually I hope they let us use their um virtual reality room again because that was really cool we've only done that once but I want to see the final kitchen and the whole layout before we obviously sign up to order the kitchen so that would be really cool actually and I'll definitely take you along with me if we get to do that but for now dinner time at 4 30 so random this is the remote if you look at an empty space and double click the trigger at the empty space treat it like it's a google uh street view that's really good it does you know let's have a look can you also see what I'm saying yeah yeah on the big screen okay now you're in the area now you're standing on one angle one side of the kitchen looks nice oops yeah I don't know what you're doing inside the oven um do you know what I like the five ring hub actually yeah there we are as long as you like it you kind of oops now you somehow you managed to teleport on the other side of the island I think if I double clicking or something yeah I like the five ring because I think it you still got a lot of space actually so look turn around to your right and see the little that's your cabinets there one that there so maybe you can that's it now you're standing there I guess you can walk a little bit I know they look navy oh yeah yeah that's why just a shadow okay oh yeah and obviously because they stick out further than this wall so yeah in reality they'll be you know yeah just don't walk outside the room any changes from you here's a snake it's good doesn't it and actually that cabinet looks quite good as well just without a gap what's the purple thing under the fridge is that just it won't be purple I know there's an interesting bit now the wall bringing it out because you see the cornice at an angle oh yeah you might need to do the wall bigger now oh really or go for the modern cornice on this side that's what I was thinking yeah the modern cornice yeah because it doesn't have to look like the kitchen you still got the shaker style yeah this is what you look like at the moment right because yeah you have this wall exactly and is it still not okay if it overhangs a little bit plus does it not look good no hi guys welcome to my showroom because I thought it'd be a kitchen behind me but it's not we're still at Wren it's been five hours there you go the kitchen has been ordered it's gone midnight we're literally the only people in Wren what a long night we've been here since seven o'clock we can't leave because oh god because the door's locked and the guy's gonna try and figure out how to let us out show us how to lock up we're finally being let out we've been imprisoned in Wren oh there we go we've got a set of keys as well there is a guy in the car park because Wren's near a gym having the time of his life blasting Bollywood music it's like midnight anyway we um I started vlogging but then um yeah the guy came downstairs he's like you can carry on and I was like no it's fine really awkward but now we're going home I should have peed Jess why didn't I pee earlier while we were in there it's like a 40 minute drive home as well what a nightmare can you hear the music what is it with people around here honestly I literally don't know how I'm going to cope tomorrow Jess I've got to go to opticians for nine be at the house for 10 got a tree surgeon coming at 12 my parents coming at one it's gonna be such a long day I thought you were doing a Zumba class it's not like a dance class actually it's quite funny you can mix it here do you want to grab the drill oh is that different speeds I've got it at a lower speed but it's a very good speed so just do it yeah that's it but we've been on our feet and out all day so we're at the house currently we've been here since this morning we had to go to tool station and screw fix and pick up all the stuff and the builder was here for about three or four hours I think just showing us how to like prepare the walls for painting because we have to use cork on the edges now they've been plastered then do a mist coat then do two coats of paint and he was showing us how to um okay there isn't one down here but he was showing us how to fill all the gaps between the walls and the skirting and like basically sanding with all the stuff that we basically have to do so that was really helpful but we literally got into it in 10 minutes later my parents arrived and because they were coming down today to see the house so we've just spent a couple of hours I think with them and then my uncle came down with my cousins my mum had bought his food for them they came to like pick it up and then because I had an appointment with a tree surgeon this afternoon I was talking to my uncle about it because they're currently getting their garden done so he's giving me like loads of helpful advice but do you know what it's now 6 40 p.m and we're just calling it a day we haven't done much but to be honest we're just so shattered we've had so many late nights this week so we're gonna go home and then come back tomorrow and just start fresh I think that's probably the it's sunday we feel a lot more refreshed today and we have another day of painting sanding brushing filling mist coating and all the rest of it but I think we had a bit of a lion this morning actually I say lion I woke up at like 10 to 9 or something like that that's lying for me these days and uh yeah I want to get as much done as possible because I don't want to spend all bank holiday weekend here so that's basically the plan for today first things first though I kind of forgot to have breakfast before we left the house so we have some straws blooms mango nectarines and um some like indian bits that my mum bought for us so that's gonna see us through until dinner time anyway I don't think we'll be here that long but let's see how we get on don't be fooled kids this is not ice cream we haven't even started doing anything yet and um we're having a little garden picnic keeping this for me oh a bit manky doesn't this look like a little cape basically we're using dresses or t-shirt as a rag you just cut it up with a stanley knife but it's like a little cape that you wear over strapless dresses or something it's so funny so we've got these builders lights on because it's very hard to see in this downstairs toilet but am I blocking your light jess okay so jess is caulking all the edges I've sanded all this down I actually um painted in the corners the other day but I don't think I've done a very good job and it's really hard to see because I think the builder was saying there's bits in here that he's not happy with in terms of the finish for the plaster but I really want to get the mist coat done in here today so first step is to sand all the walls down with 180 grit was it sandpaper um wall ceilings everything that's been plastered then you brush off all the dust essentially then you caulk the edges with this stuff that is apparently what the professionals use and then you like do the mist coat right so you do the edges with the brush but obviously you do the rest with a roller or however you're going to do it as you can see it's really dark in here it's very hard to see because obviously there's no natural light so it's fine um probably also quite a good place to start with the painting I think because if you caulk it up once again it's going to be dark in here it's going to be very dark in here actually isn't it jess yeah like imagine the winter because we've got a lot of natural light today it's a sunny day but just in life when there's doors and cabinets and all the rest of it so yeah so when I wait for him to caulk the edges it's actually 1 30 now so that takes about an hour to dry so it'd be good timing we can stop and have some lunch and I've just sanded down like the chimney breast in the living room and just the bits that are free of like clutter where there isn't stuff leaning against the walls and things like that so that's basically the plan oh my god so while jess has been doing the caulking I've been let loose with builders loppers they're called loppers and if I come around here so we have all these trees that really overhang into both our neighbor's gardens all the way onto our neighbor's side on the right these are trees at the back of the garden and this is some of the stuff that the builders have chopped down the grass doesn't grow in this area because it's so shaded because of the trees and then on this side we've got all these other trees in fact that's the cherry blossom and all of it is pretty much on the in the neighbor's garden on the other side and so they all just need to go they're causing a lot of damage to the garage to the floor to the ground to the neighbor's fence like everywhere I've just chopped down it's very hard to see because the grass is also really long but I've just chopped down so much of it with some loppers it's really quite hard to see it on camera but I think all the neighbors are in the garden today because it's such a nice and warm day it doesn't really look any different here from here Joss I absolutely hate painting so much but I've done a mist coat on these walls just the bits I can reach not the ceiling and not the tops but all the bottoms and the middles and now we're gonna have a little break in fact Joss has just run out of the cork he's gonna order some more from screwfix and I get to go pick it up which basically means I get a break from the house which I'm very excited for okay we're calling it a day I've miscoated the downstairs toilet I'm just shutting the windows and Joss is just packing up like cleaning the brushes and the paint rollers and stuff like that but we actually just got chatting to one of our neighbors and he's actually a painter decorator I'm gonna get around here hold on and he's actually a painter decorator so we've just realized that this is gonna take us far too long to paint and even yesterday my parents came around they were like just get someone in to paint and I totally agree it's just gonna take up so much of our time even this professional who does this for a living said it's gonna take him about four weeks to do the entire house so it would take Joss and I about eight weeks I reckon which we do not have that much time so basically we had him um to come in and have a look he was basically telling us we've done a really shoddy job which I think we kind of need anyway um he's not he's not lying it's true we've done a pretty bad job and but to be honest once you get all your walls plastered um and then you start painting the paint is the thing that everyone's gonna see not plaster behind it so you do need a professional to do it and we kind of asked him for a price but his English isn't great there's a bit of a language barrier but we said just think about it and he's gonna get his niece or somebody to try and translate for us um which is fine because there's no rush but he wants to start tomorrow night this guy actually does a lot of work in Chelsea and Fulham the part I thought was really interesting because he mentioned Farrow and Ball and he was like what's your final color gonna be your final like top coat and I was like oh I'm thinking like different colors in every room but I haven't decided yet I just know that one room is going to be Farrow and Ball and he was like yeah definitely go Farrow and Ball it's the best paint he was like Dulux is okay and I just thought that was really interesting because I've been obviously harping on about Farrow and Ball to Joss as well but of course it's very expensive yeah he actually wants to start tomorrow so he is actually doing another job at the moment so in the evenings he's more than happy to do three hours every night I was just like do you know what that's fine um because Joss and I aren't going to do three hours every night anyway so we are taking a bit of a gamble but I think he's going to do a good job I mean this is his full-time job he said he's been doing it for like over 15 years and he's a painter decorator interestingly though some of the products our builder told us to buy he was like oh no don't use that I'll use even better stuff so it's kind of hard to know like who to trust but I think this is his job do you know what I mean the builder obviously knows his ---- when it comes to building materials and that's fine because that's what he specializes in these windows are really stiff so I am kind of more inclined to go with what he thinks and he was it was hard to understand him but I think he was basically saying that he has all of these products in his shed products tools and whatever he needs so he was like they were they're free there's no charge but obviously he's gonna have to charge us for the labor he's not our friend like you know he's not gonna do it for free so hopefully he is an extortionate I mean he was saying obviously this is ideal for him he's literally right next door no traveling costs he can go home for lunch and all the rest of it so yeah um we might just take a bit of a gamble and go with him because honestly I absolutely hate painting with a passion let me just show you something in here really quickly so we had to caulk all of the edges and I did this and it's such a bad job and I was going to ask the builder when they're next in on Tuesday to be like how do I fix this because this was my very first attempt I don't know why I didn't do a more discreet corner and then when I was painting down here I said to Jas I was like oh my god this is perfect then I remember that the builder actually did this bit so that was a bit stupid of me wasn't it but you know like it's a big job he has to like fill between the walls and the wood and he has to like fill these bits and caulk the edges um and then obviously do a mist coat and then the paint and blah blah blah but interestingly he said this was fine to caulk um the caulk that we are using he said wasn't very good but he wants to start in this front bedroom tomorrow so we are gonna have to come back at some point which we were going to do anyway and like move all of this stuff into the center of the room just so that this is done and ready for him to make a start anyway this video is probably going to be about an hour long so I'm going to end it here I'm going to start the next week's renovation tomorrow because it's actually Sunday today tomorrow's bank holiday Monday so thank you so much for watching I really hope you're enjoying this and I will see you next week with a new video bye