HOME RENOVATION VLOG / DORMER LOFT CONVERSION / VICTORIAN TERRACE

Good morning everyone, welcome to my very dark, dingy, autumn day house. My house is dark anyway because it's like a terraced house so in the autumn, winter time it just like turns into like a dungeon really. So today I'm going to do a little bit of a different video. I'm going to do a little house tour, a little renovation update. Whenever I ask you guys what kind of videos you want to see, yeah whenever I ask you loads of people always say they want to see more of my actual life and like a home tour or like just other aspects of my life so I thought as the allotment is kind of, the work on it is drying up a little bit and I can't get there as much as I was getting because of this, I'll explain in a minute. I thought I would do a little update tour because this is the reason why I've not actually been at the allotment as much as I would like to. So a little bit of a background on the house. We bought this house a year ago, it's a Victorian terrace, it needed absolutely everything doing to it because it was just £50,000 under asking price. I mean that tells you pretty much everything about the state it was in. Most of what we've done so far has been kind of like aesthetic, so like making it look nicer so we can kind of live in it. At the moment we're getting a renovation, we're getting a loft conversion done and we've had a bedroom added upstairs which is very architecturally confusing but I'm going to show you. Now the house is in absolute state. This is my hallway at the moment. It's full of building materials. We've got some doors come, these are fireproof doors which we need for building regs. And then this I have absolutely no idea. Loads of wood and stuff. And then in here, this is what I've been living in guys. This is our back room, it's our dining room. We've got like floor over there which is like the floor for the loft and then toys. I've got clothes all over the piano because we have no room for a chest of drawers or a wardrobe at the moment because we're all living in one room. Oh, I didn't get the banana bread out. Excuse me one moment. Welcome to my life guys. This is my home life. It's beautiful. It's made a bit of Saturday morning banana bread. Looks pretty good. It hasn't risen as much as I thought it would. I think I've probably forgotten to add the baking powder but it smells pretty nice. So let's move on. Right, I'm going to take you upstairs and show you what we've done. So here are our stairs. I'm definitely going to have a runner up the middle, keep them painted. It's so dark guys. I don't know what to do about it to be honest. It's just one of those days. But it's always this dark so I'll just carry on. We've had the plastering done now so it all looks a little bit better. So when you come up the stairs, if you go straight left, this is going to be Alice's bedroom. At the moment, it's where we are all living. Look at this. Look at this. So this is the kids rooms and our rooms all packed away into boxes. That's the only chest of drawers I have. The kids have been raiding it this morning. Tommy sleeps down there on a mattress. Alice is sleeping down there on a mattress. That's Dave's work stuff. This is all the kids toys. More toys down here. A random radiator needs to be fitted and our bed. This is what I have been living in for the past three and a half weeks I think. It's just been a bloody nightmare to be honest. But we are one week away from completion and then everyone can go back to their own bloody bedrooms. Right, this is what we've changed. So you come up the stairs and now instead of this whole thing used to be a bedroom, so the door to the bedroom used to be here and then all that was a bedroom. We've now split it up so I'll show you. You come down here. There's our stairs and this is our new corridor. I don't know how good this filming is going to be to be honest. This was my idea. So originally this was going to be a wall. So this is going to be a separate corridor but obviously it's very very dark. So I sort of found this idea on George Clark's Channel 4 thing where he put these beams in instead of a wall to let a little bit of light through. So these are going to continue all the way down to there obviously. Don't want any of my kids falling down. Talking of falling down a hole, we've still got the chimney chute here. I think it's called a chimney chute or is it a flute? A flue? I don't know. Anyway, this all needs to be filled in obviously. And this is going to be Tommy's bedroom. So it's not massive. It's not a massive bedroom but I think because we've kept the original Victorian sash window in here which is massive, the whole bedroom is really bright and it actually feels bigger than it is. So we took the chimney out. This used to be a chimney here and it came right out. It was a really big bulky chimney. So we've taken that out, put a steel beam above obviously, filled it in and this is going to be Tommy's bedroom. So there's his door. That will all be filled in. We're going to sand and paint the floorboards I think and have a nice big comfy rug down. Then over here he'll have his desk and some toy storage there, maybe some shelves. I don't know. And then his bed. Gosh, I'm spinning you everywhere. His bed's going to go over here in this corner because that's where the radiator's going to go I think over here somewhere and a nice chest of drawers. You can't see a bloody thing. I don't know where I'm hanging the camera everywhere but that is Tommy's bedroom. You come down this corridor here which is very dark. We're going to have spotlights. So we've got all the things ready for spotlights to come in here. I'm going to paint it white and put a mirror up. You probably can't see me at the moment. Down there is going to be the bathroom. It's nowhere near done yet and we're not doing that yet because we can't afford it. And then this is the locker room Oh my god, I can't do it. It doesn't bloody work. Oh, there we go. Right, it does work. We've got a sliding door to save space and this is just so that the door doesn't... I can't open it now. I'm stuck. It obviously needs a handle. There we go. And that's just to save space. I absolutely love the way it hides into the wall. I think it's amazing anyway. Little things, eh? So, come up. Welcome to my new bedroom. We've never had a bedroom before, Dave and I. That's nice, that's ours because we've always rented. And our bedroom has always been like a storage room or something. I don't know if yours is like... It was just like a dumping ground where we put stuff and occasionally slept in. But now that we've got a proper room, massive up here, it's beautiful. So we've gone for the dormer loft to give us a little bit more room and it wasn't that much more expensive. We've got this massive, massive window in which lets lots of light in and we can see the train tracks. So you get a nice view of the trains going by in the morning, which is just lovely. And then I'll show you around. This is our new lovely big dormer loft. So we're going to have obviously railings the whole way around, like a banister around there like that, keeping it all open. It's all going to be one big room. And then I'll have the bed over here, I think, where all this junk is. And then Dave's going to have a little office area over there. It's actually bigger than you think it is. So if I scoot over here... Oh my God, what is that? Yeah, you can see it's quite big. It's not that small. So I have a little desk there, a few shelves, plants. I'm sure I will plant it out up here because it's really big and bright. We've got two dormer windows, which are... I can't bloody open them. There you go. But yeah, I'm opening it from the wrong side. Such a twat. Of course you don't open it there, you open it there. There we go. That's a view of the scaffolding. Very nice. Very nice. See lots of rooftops. Can't say it's the fanciest view, but which is nice to have some more light up here, I suppose. Oh dear. Right, so yeah, up here I'll have the bed over there. And then against this wall here, we will have wardrobes, maybe a dressing table, have some nice curtains to go down to the floor. Thought it'd be really nice. And then again, in here we're going to have spotlights as well. So this is why my life has been a little bit crazy because we've just literally been getting this work done for like since July. Because of coronavirus, everything's been delayed and it's not the orders that are delayed, it's like all the things. So the supplies and the materials and the lorry people and lorry people, you know what I mean? And that's the reason it's all just been like the window was like two weeks late because the window company couldn't deliver it or something. And the plaster was like two weeks behind because he couldn't get his hands in any plaster or something. So it's just like, it's all just been a little bit up in the air. And that's why I've sort of been not vlogging as much as I wanted to because there's just been so much going on here. I will show you quickly the garden. I did mow the lawn. You can't see it from up here. Let me show you downstairs actually. Hang on. Right, back in Tommy's room now. So you can sort of see the garden a bit better from here. So I've got this weird construction over the lawn. Hang on a second, it'll focus. There we are. So I put the football goal over there because I've actually sown some more seeds and the birds kept eating it. So I've got that over there. And then I don't know if you can see, I've got trellis and I've got like the white fences at the back. I haven't really got any plants in yet. The point is the garden is kind of ready to like plant up in the spring and like the bulk of it, like the structure of it is done. And I'm quite proud of it because I sort of came up with it all myself and like designed it all which was really fun. So I hope you enjoyed this little video. I hope it's given you a little update as to why I haven't been at the plot as much as I have. Like I said, it should be done within a week and then I can get decorating and we can move into our own rooms again and I can get my house back because it's just been really, really difficult actually not having our own bedroom and stuff and everything's everywhere. And it's all very stressful and anxiety ridden, but it's going to get done and it'll be amazing. So I hope you enjoyed the vlog. Let me know any other kinds of videos you'd like to see. I am going to get back to the plot again this week so I'll have another allotment diary up for you and hopefully I might start doing some cooking videos because to show you what I'm doing with the produce that I'm growing at the plot, I thought that might be quite a nice little time. But let me know, like I said. I hope you had a nice weekend. I will see you next time. Thanks for watching.