So this is the house that I have been building for the past three years.
I designed this house with the help of an architect, and that process took about a year, and then after that I had to get the permits, which also took a year, and then last spring, after the snow melted, I actually started building it.
Um, so it's been about a year of building and today I wanted to bring you inside and kind of show you a layout of the house.
Um, this is the exterior.
There's a old school house down the road about a mile. that I have been driving by for years.
And I think it was built in the early 1900s.
And it is just the cutest little structure.
I just love the way that it looks.
So I actually based the outside design off of that house.
I also like the idea of kind of matching with what's in this area.
Traditionally, I'm also trying to build kind of an old world traditional looking home.
So yeah, this is the outside.
Let's go inside and I'll show you guys the inside.
So this is the main entryway.
This door.
I love this door so much and it's going to be really beautiful when I take this silicone off, these paints of glass, and the light can come through.
They're covered right now because I still have to paint the door.
It came from the factory primed, but it needs to be painted.
But once it's painted and these come off, there'll be some beautiful afternoon light coming in here.
And yeah, this is the entryway.
This is the main like entryway closet.
And then over here is the bathroom on the main floor.
It's just going to be a simple bathroom.
And then you walk through this hallway into the living room.
I love this living room so much.
So this house is not an open concept house.
I really wanted this house to be very cozy.
So that was kind of my inspiration for this house.
Actually, the first inspiration was to situate windows and have the layout be really good for filming was my main concern.
But second concern was to make every room have this feeling of coziness to it.
This wall is going to be a wall of bookshelves and like cabinets kind of built in, and then over here i'm gonna put a wood fireplace and then probably some seating right here.
And then if you walk over here, this is the back door entrance.
I also love these doors.
These doors are so they're so cute.
When I was buying them, the person was like, oh, you're buying them too narrow.
You know people can't fit through one side.
But when I was in Europe, a lot of the doors are kind of narrow like this, and that was kind of my inspiration for that.
I really like small little doors like this and you can open them in this very dramatic way like this.
And yeah, this is the back deck area.
We can go out there later.
And right here, I'm going to put a little built-in kind of like bed reading area.
I think that'll be really cute underneath the stairs.
And then this room is the room I spent probably the most time thinking about and designing, just because this is the kitchen and I'll probably be filming in this kitchen, like most of the time.
And my main idea for this kitchen was to have this kind of cozy, enclosed space and then space behind it so i can set the camera up and i can get this nice point of view shot here in the kitchen.
So this is going to be countertops all along these walls shaped like a u, and then right here in the center i'm gonna have um, a kitchen island so i can stand here and kind of cook and the camera can get this nice like perspective shot of the kitchen.
Um, this is where the stove is going to be and then the sink is going to be over here, and over here is the dining area.
So i think i'm going to put a really big table right here in this room because i want to be able to have my entire family come here and have dinners with them.
Often there's 10 people in my family.
I have a very big family um, so i'm gonna put like a 12 foot, just very large table right here and then over here is going to be more countertops, then this is going to be a hand washing sink and right here will be like a built-in kind of pantry and then the fridge and freezer will be right here.
Um, that was another thing that i wanted to include in these designs is having a space for the fridge and the freezer that was separate from the filming space.
So I'll be filming mostly over there.
So it'll be nice to have the fridge and the freezer separate away from the filming space.
And then over here, this room I'm very excited about.
This is like the mudroom area and also the washer and dryer are going to be here.
There's going to be a sink right here.
And the reason I'm really excited about this room is because, living here in the mountains, you just get so dirty in your daily life.
There's so much dust and mud and just so much dirtiness involved with this life.
And so coming from the outside inside is always a challenge, because your boots are dirty, your clothes are dirty, you're dirty.
So I imagine this is also a door to the outside.
This is the side entrance.
There's like a little cupboard porch here, so i imagine you would walk in and um, you might be holding like some vegetables from the garden and you could wash them off right here and then you could take off your clothes and put them in the washer and dryer.
And another thing that's going in this room is my commercial size bread oven.
So I'm going to start my bakery this year, which I am so excited about.
And this is where the bread oven is going to go.
I've already bought the oven, actually.
So yeah, now that we're doing the wiring right now for the electrical, We're wiring in a dedicated outlet for that, because it requires a lot of power.
The bread oven is huge.
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, this is the mudroom kind of entryway room, side entrance.
And that is the main floor.
So we can go upstairs and yeah.
Yeah.
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So this is the hallway and if you go in here, this is the bathroom for the two bedrooms.
So this house is 1900 square feet and I put three bedrooms in it, which I'm very excited about, because every bedroom has a very specific use.
This bedroom here I think will be for now like my art studio slash sewing room.
I'll probably be filming a lot in this room.
And look at these windows you guys.
These are casement windows and they are so beautiful.
I love these windows.
I just think it's so.
It's like magical to just like open up the windows and be able to see the outside and I don't know something about casement windows makes me feel like a princess.
So yeah, this is the art studio room.
And through this hallway is the second bedroom.
So I'm going to put a couple of beds in here and have guests stay here, which I'm really excited about, because over the past six years living here, I've never really been able to have friends or family come stay.
Because I live In such a small space, it's really challenging hosting people.
So having the ability now to have people come is going to be really nice, because Life here can get very lonely up in the mountains.
I am like an hour away from the town, but like three hours away from like a main city.
So my friends can come and my family will probably be staying here probably my parents honestly, too a lot, because they don't really have a great place to stay when they come here.
So i'm assuming they will stay here for a while.
Um so, and then there's going to be a door here, and This is the bathroom to the master bedroom.
I'm gonna put a huge bathtub right here and I'll be able to open this window and like look out up into the mountains as I take a bath, which I think will be really magical.
Um yeah, i'm very excited about the bathroom.
I have lived without a bathroom for six years, going to the bathroom in the dirt, so now i'm gonna have one and this room.
I actually think that this room is the most beautiful room in the whole house, just because of the cathedral ceilings.
They're like so epic.
When I was designing this house, I did not realize how tall these ceilings were going to be, but I love them.
I think that this room is just extraordinary these windows, so they can just I imagine I want to open them like this and I want to put some curtains up right here and have the curtains like blowing in the breeze.
And Yeah, I'm excited about this room having a bedroom and a closet.
I'm gonna have a closet to hang up my clothes, Which is very exciting.
So right now, the electrical is just getting finished.
The HVAC is done.
The plumbing is done.
The rough-in plumbing is done.
So next is the insulation and then the drywall.
And it's getting close, you guys.
Like it's seriously very close to being done.
I think it'll be probably livable in the summer, maybe the end of summer.
Things always take longer than you think they're going to take.
So yeah, this is the house.
I don't know if I'm missing anything.
I don't think I am.
And yeah, I'm excited to show you guys the process along the way and I just cannot wait to live in this beautiful house.
It's going to be honestly life changing.
Right now I live in I think 180 square feet.
So that is the size of some people's closet.
And so moving into this house, I just, I don't really have words.
It's going to be incredible.
So thank you so much for watching this video.
And yeah, I'll see you all next week.
Okay, bye-bye.
