I turned an ABANDONED shed into a SMART home

In this video, me and my brother are turning this old, abandoned shed into a luxury smart home. This is probably one of the most extreme transformations you're going to see on YouTube. I hope you enjoy. This video all started when we found this abandoned shed on our property that was filled with trash. Oh my gosh, dude, how long has this been here? It was old, nasty, and it looked like it hadn't been touched in years. Well, we got a lot of work to do, buddy. Oh yeah. Oh! How do you miss that target, dude? Shut up! Most of the stuff left in this shed was oil or paint or just trash. And our first objective was to get all of it out where we can see what we're working with. Well, this is pretty clean in here now. Okay, so obviously this floor isn't the best for a house, so we're going to cover it up. The reason we're putting plastic over the floor is because there's cracks everywhere. It's clean enough to lay on now. So this layer of plastic is going to help keep bugs and moisture out of the building. Next, it was time to put foam board down on top of the plastic. This would help insulate the floor where it doesn't get too cold in the winter and too warm in the summer. And finally, after that, it was time for the wooden subfloor. We made sure to nail and screw this down very good. That's better. But already you can see how much better this shed looks with the new floor. But now it was time to turn our focus to the walls. The problem with turning an old shed into a tiny house is that it was never meant to be lived in. So just like the floor, there's tons of gaps in these walls. So to fix this, I bought like 25 cans of spray foam and sealed every single crack I could possibly find. The next problem with our shed was it didn't have any electricity or water. So Colby and I rented a machine from Home Depot to help us dig this ditch where we put our electric line and then another one for our water line. And to all the DIYers watching this, do not copy what we did because we did it very wrong. Meanwhile, the spray foam on the walls is going very well and there was almost no light poking through anymore. Well that's a lot better and it's actually getting really hot in here which is good because that means there's no air moving through anymore. With the shed looking much less abandoned, Colby and I decided to go ahead and build our bathroom. Then I could go ahead and run all of our water lines for the toilet, the sink, and the bathroom sink. Once that was done, Colby ran all the electric wire to all the plugs and switches. Then he took it up on the ceiling to power our can lights and our smart ceiling fan. Because remember, this old shed is going to be a smart house. Alright so dad is helping us now. What do you have to say to your fans? You've accumulated a lot of fans. That's awesome. The bus video. That's good. Alright now it's time to turn this old shed roof into something super modern and nice with the help of drywall and lots of insulation. After insulating the roof, we grabbed about a thousand pounds of drywall all at once with our new skid steer which has been incredibly helpful to build off camera. You have no idea. Back in the shed, putting up the ceiling was a really exciting step because it was the first thing we did that's going to make something look new in here. So if you look on the walls, it's still an old ugly shed, but the ceiling now looks insane. What I am not is a professional. What I am is done. Wow. I can't believe this is an old abandoned shed and now it's like a house. Now it's time to install a window. This shed needs a window for a couple reasons. The first one is to let in natural light to make it seem bigger inside and the second reason is it's going to give us a place to put our air conditioning unit. Oh nice! And while me and my dad were doing that, Colby was running an internet cable from his house all the way through the woods to the shed. Ok so you probably can't see it but the ethernet cable is right here. I have it running from my bottom floor and now I'm going to go outside and run it through a trench all the way down to the cabin. This ethernet cable will basically carry the internet signal all the way down to our shed where we can plug it into a wifi router to get wifi. That way we really can turn this shed into a smart home. That's pretty good for an abandoned shed. Meanwhile the window was going well. Whoa it looks cool. Wow. Wow it looks really good from out here. With the window in and the internet working, we can finally install our smart AC. This video is actually sponsored by Dreo and they sent this AC along with a bunch of other smart appliances to keep this house perfectly cool in the summertime. This AC unit can be installed anywhere from an 18 inch window to a 53 inch window because they send you all these pieces. But for this window, I only need these two. And not only does this AC and all the other stuff they sent look awesome, these appliances are what's going to turn this abandoned shed into a smart home. Alright so when we're installing this we want to make sure this hole isn't obstructed by this window frame right here. So we're going to take this foam that came with our AC unit and put it in here like that. Then I got the sticky foam that also came with the AC unit and put it on the sides of the window, the top of the window, where I could then insert those plastic pieces. This gives you an airtight seal around the whole thing except for the very top where you would then insert more foam. And then the whole window is sealed up. To get the AC working is super simple. I just had to slide the hose on the back, put it through the hole, plug it in, and turn it on. This AC also has an additional dual hose accessory you can buy on Amazon. But as soon as I turn this unit on and open my Dreo app, it immediately recognized the AC and let me pair with it. The app is also instantaneous. As soon as I press a button to turn it off, adjust the temperature, or anything, the AC immediately responds. And of course it came with a remote and has touch controls so you don't have to use the app. But I really like it. And typically with portable ACs like this, they collect water as they cool and you have to drain that somewhere. But not with Dreo. They have a patented drainage-free system in this thing that automatically evaporates excess water through the back. And if you want to dehumidify a room, you still can by just putting it in dry mode and connecting the drain hose that came with it. Something that I found absolutely insane is Dreo has two patents on this thing to make it quiet. And the result is an AC that's 45 decibels. I then did a test to see how fast the AC could get it cool in here, so I aimed the thermometer at the adjacent wall from the AC, set it on high, started the timer, and in six minutes the room was already at 72 degrees. Alright, after about a week in the dark, we're finally going to take care of the ceiling where we can install our can lights. Putting up these can lights is super easy. All we have to do is snap a straight line with the chalk line and drill an evenly spaced amount of holes on each side. I don't know if I ever told you what kind of can lights we use, but these wafer lights are super easy to put up, and man, they're cheap. I think we paid like 60 bucks for 12 of them. We just buy all this stuff on Amazon. Oh, look at that. The next thing this tiny house needed was a kitchen slash living room. And to make that happen, we had to have a lot of cabinets. And I don't know if you've ever been shopping for cabinets, but they're extremely expensive. If we bought these cabinets straight from Lowe's, it would probably cost around $3,000 to $5,000. That's why we're going to make them. Making cabinets yourself actually isn't that hard. Once you cut a board into a bunch of little slices, you drill pocket holes in those little slices where they can be screwed together. This thing we're making right here is the front of the cabinet, also known as the face frame. See the little drawers up top? And we made a lot of them. Once the face frames are done, then we basically turn them into boxes. And now you'll start to notice they're looking a lot like the cabinets from Lowe's. The difference is, instead of $300, we spent like 25 bucks on this. All right, it's dark now, but we finished all the cabinets. With our cabinets done, we brought them all the way down to the shed where we could finally fill up this empty space and make it start to look like a home. We also installed the second smart appliance in this tiny house, our Dreo ceiling fan. Just like the portable air conditioner, this ceiling fan has its own remote, or I can connect to it through the app and turn it on or off from any location. This is also the easiest ceiling fan I've ever put up. I just started by screwing in the ceiling fan bracket, sliding all the pieces down on top of the fan, which was easy to figure out because of these awesome high quality instructions it came with. Tightening the set screws on the pole, hanging the ceiling fan from the bracket. It just goes up and twists. That's it. No screws. Then to put the pedals in, I just opened the little clips, slid in the pedal, clipped it in. And then we're just going to put our thumb screw in. And once that screw's tight, repeat the process. It also has a RGB light that you can control with the remote, but in the app, you can make it any color you can imagine. You can also adjust the temperature of the main light. The last two products Dreo sent us can't go in until the shed is done, but here we have their tower fan and their turbo poly fan. This fan is insane because it can oscillate to literally circulate the entire room. It can also be changed any way you want on the app. These fans also have sleep mode, which allows you to set a fan speed and it gradually decrease as you fall asleep. Then there's auto mode, which adjusts the fan speed based on the temperature of the room. And finally, my favorite is natural mode, where it actually mimics a breeze. The turbo fan has nine different speed modes to give you the exact airflow you want. And then it has a turbo mode, which was blowing curtains from across the room. And on the lower setting, look how smooth and stable the airflow is. Their tower fan also has nine speed modes, but listen how quiet it is on speed mode one. And look how much air it blows when it's on its fastest speed mode. It had such a nice stream of air, it was able to keep this bag inflated nearly 25 feet away. And it not only blew this balloon across the room, but up as well. Also with the touch of a button, it will oscillate. And by the way, you can control everything I've shown you in the app too. And the turbo poly fan can actually be used with the AC in the app. That means the AC and fan are automatically going to work together to control the temperature in the room. And after all this, you might be thinking these Dreo products are really expensive, but they're not. The ceiling fans price better than most of the ones at Lowe's. And if you use my code CHAY17 before you check out, they're going to give you a 17% discount. So click the link in the description, type in that code, and get yourself a Dreo product. You will love it. This abandoned shed is going to be a smart home. With the ceiling fan installed, it was time to go back to our cabinets to get them ready to paint. Up close, there was tons of nail holes, gaps, and rough edges that needed to be filled in with Bondo. Shout out to our dad because he's taking his lunch break to help us Bondo these cabinets, where we can paint them, hopefully, tonight. Everybody's favorite part is sanding. These cabinets look great now, but they'd look a lot better if they went all the way to the ceiling. So I'm going to make some trim that goes like this on top of the cabins to make them touch the ceiling. I can't help but brag a little bit. Look how good that looks. Part of the coolness of this tiny home is that it still looks like an old shed on the outside, and we wanted to keep it that way. And putting a brand new front door on it would kind of ruin the aesthetic. So earlier in the video, my dad and I got the old front door and made the inside of the door look new, while keeping the outside old. And now, it was finally time to finish that front door by installing the glass panels we made. It's a door! Meanwhile, the cabinets were finally ready for paint. Well, primer. The paint is a different color. For the entirety of this video, there's one room we've kind of neglected, and that's the bathroom. It's been our storage closet. But that's about to change because I just went to the store and bought this beautiful marble tile. All this is going in the bathroom. That's gonna look good, man. Yeah! While my dad was doing most of the tiling for the bathroom, me and Colby were preparing the cabinets for their final coat of paint. For this bathroom, I did not cheap out on the tile. I got enough to go all the way to the ceiling. It was a little extra work to do this, but man, at the end, I promise you it's going to be worth it. Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, we were finally ready to spray these cabinets. Oh, it's gonna look so good! We also coated the inside of the front door the same color to match. And with the bathroom tile done, and looking awesome, it was finally time to start finishing it up by putting the vanity and the sink in. Time to install the sink and a countertop, and the bathroom is pretty much done. You might also be wondering how we're going to cool this bathroom off with it being so far away from the air conditioning. Remember Dreo's tower fan I showed you earlier? Well, that's actually going to sit beside the AC, blowing directly at the bathroom door. The air can come out of this thing at 26 feet per second, which is a pretty strong breeze, so it'll have no problem reaching the bathroom door and going through the cracks. And if you turn it down to low speed, it's silent, 25 decibels to be exact. The fan is on right now. Meanwhile, Colby was cutting out the hole for the bathroom sink. Pretty sick. We also went and got the kitchen countertops. This is actually laminate from Lowe's, and it was pretty cheap compared to granite, right around 300 bucks for all of it. That is really nice. Whoa! Dreo's tower fan can also be disassembled super easily for cleaning. After I remove that one screw, the whole back of it just slides off, where I can loosen the set screw on the fan, pop that out, and clean it off in the sink. Oh, and of course, their tower fan has a timer up to 12 hours. Back in the shed, we cut out a hole for our cooktop, and our sink. Oh, look at that! And now that we have both the kitchen and the bathroom sinks installed, we had to have a place for all that water to drain to. When we built my parents' tiny house, I was the one who got underneath the house and did all the plumbing, and now it's Colby's turn. Oh! Oh, I'd hate to be you right now. I've got to be real careful under here because there's a lot of broken glass, and this joist isn't doing anything anymore thanks to Che's nice drilling skills. Got it. That big hole through the floor right there you're staring at is the toilet drain. What Colby's doing right now is running this big pipe down the hill, where we can tie it together with the sink drains. That's a nice fit. That's the skinny pipe he's connecting right now. I think I got it, dude. Then we're just going to run it all down the hill to a septic tank about 30 feet away. After that, I could hook up the sink to the water supply, and now we have working water. This abandoned shed's come a long way since we first started, and now we're at the exciting part because there's only a couple details left that are going to throw this house over the edge. Starting with the tile backsplash. Then we put up our hood vent, and while we were getting ready to paint the hood vent, we installed this super nice bathroom door that we made for about $150 instead of buying one for $2,000. But just looking at this place, it's unbelievable that this was an abandoned shed. We were then able to install the cabinet doors in the kitchen and in the bathroom, and with all of that done, the last thing to do was the floor. I may have made a mistake, but I bought the best tile in the world. It's huge. The tile I bought for this tiny house was 4x4 feet, the biggest tile I've ever seen, and I didn't want to get this, but it was so pretty, I had to. The reason I didn't want to get this is because each piece cost $100, and several of them had to be cut exactly right, which is a lot of pressure. But we always jump headfirst into things we don't want to do, because usually we're able to figure it out, and if we do fail, at least we'll learn something. With the floor done, the next day I added our refrigerator, the turbo and tower smart fans from Dreo, which I placed in a corner to help circulate the air, and then beside the AC to blow it at the bathroom. And just like I showed you earlier in the video, even on its highest speed setting, it was so nice and quiet. Meanwhile, we installed the fanciest mirror I could find, and finally, our TV. Wow! This is a perfect spot, dude. Without a doubt, my favorite thing about this house is that it still looks like an old shed. And now, on the inside, it's a smart home. You might also be wondering where the bed is. This couch actually just folds out into a bed. And then right here, this area doubles as counter space and a dinner table. And then we have this beautiful door. This was the original shed door, and now it's a really expensive looking door on the back, but on the front, it still looks really old. As you can see, there's plenty of room to use the toilet, and then, when you stand up, super easy access to the sink. And don't forget about Dreo's offer, guys. If you click my link, you get 17% off of your order. Seriously, go check out Dreo, they make amazing stuff. We're super grateful they sent everything to make this a smart home, but we appreciate you watching, guys, and we'll see you in the next video. All done.