 Good morning all, my name is Sonali. If you guys are new to my channel and we are back with a new home rental vlog and this one's going to be probably the most transformative. I mean, honestly every little thing like adds up to make this house even better, but we are doing the floors today and I wanted to take you guys through a lot of the process. I am personally not laying down the floors because I just don't trust myself and we spent a lot of money on these floors so I don't want to like waste planks by doing it myself. So we did hire some guys and if you guys are in the Austin area and you want these guys info just DM me on Instagram or something, but it's happening today. I've been waiting for this day literally the day I closed on this house. Probably the day I saw this house. I was like, first thing that we definitely need to do is remove all the carpet, remove all the vinyl planking and put really nice engineered hardwood. I think that's what I got. If you saw my closing day vlog, you already know which one I picked and I feel like you can't really tell much from that small of a sample so I'll show you guys a couple of the planks. First of all, let's just appreciate this light because the past few days it's been so gloomy here and I was worried that when the floors were put in we wouldn't be able to see it in like the sunlight just cause it's so pretty in this house, just all of the natural light. So I'm very excited that today will be hopefully somewhat sunny, but these are the planks that I got. The brand is Malibu Wide Plank and they're sold at Home Depot. They're engineered hardwood flooring. So it says here you can float glue or stable down but my foreign guys said that it's probably best to just glue it down. And transparently that added about 1,000 plus more dollars just by the glue itself. So that was kind of annoying, but obviously I'm gonna do what's best and I don't wanna have them like sliding around if they're not glued down. So we're just gonna do it. And this is what they look like on the floor right here. It's kind of just like this warm, lighter oak vibe. And we're gonna do more of a simple baseboard. I'll try to put a picture in of what the baseboards used to look like. They had a ton of bumps and they just looked very, you know, outdated. So we wanna make it a little bit more modern in here. Sophie, are you excited? It's floor day. So it's this thick and it actually like clicks in. That's why it's called tongue and groove because the other plank will kind of have like this little puzzle piece and just kind of click in there. So again, you can float it but we are going down these bad boys. And also here's the baseboards we went with. I think this is like the inside but basically it's just like flat all around. So it just looks a little bit more updated. It's currently Tuesday and they came on Saturday to self level the floors, which of course that added on an additional amount but they did highly recommend it and I know it's optional. So hopefully you wouldn't have to do that. They're also gonna install the planks on the stairs. So it's just gonna look so freaking pretty and I'm hoping to get some kind of like an outfit near here because I just think stairs in the back looks so cute. I paid for delivery from Home Depot and they put it outside of our house in the rain. So I wasn't even here and like there's a lot of boxes in there. So that was really annoying because there's 67 boxes. Yeah, Ryan and Mimo had to carry them all in and I felt really, really bad. But thank you. Ryan's been putting in some work. You also laid them out and looked good. So yeah, I showed them. You know which way we're gonna go? Oh, that's what we have to decide on because he called me, Ms. Brenda and he asked that which way do you want it to go? Just the right way. That's what I asked. I was like, what do you think? And he was like, it's preference. And I was like, just help me. Just make the decision for me. Well, he said, I think usually people put it door to door. But he was like, if you want, we could do wall to wall. But I don't know. I just want it to be, I want it to look good. So I don't know. Basically what we're talking about is like which way the planks face. So this is our door right here. And the floor guy was like, usually people do like planks to the door like that, right? And then this would be like wall to wall. I feel like that's a big decision. And I just don't know. I wanted to match the stairs upstairs. So it has to go this way. Yeah, it's downstairs, it looks weird to feel this. Almost five right now, but I think they should be leaving soon. So we're gonna go over and check it out. I'm so freaking excited to see it all being done. Like I saw a little part, but I think, you know, obviously to see all of it being done is gonna be so much different. I also just kind of went through my closet and started to declutter because today it really hit me that we're actually moving. I feel like I've been so wrapped up in renovations and decisions that I didn't even think about moving. And I haven't really packed up anything. So I started decluttering my closet and I added some things to my polish mark. And I just wanted to quickly show you guys. This is a wedding guest dress. And I'm very sad to be parting ways with it, but I feel like I've worn it enough. It needs to go to another home, but it's so flattering. I am a size large, size 10, 5'3. So just so you guys know, and then this is a beautiful dress from Fabric. Fabric, I don't know how you say it, but I wore it for Thanksgiving. It's literally a perfect Thanksgiving dress. So is this one because it's so flowy and long and just really pretty like high neck. Then I also have some sweaters and some long sleeves listed. So perfect for fall. It's really cool because Poshmark just joined the Like To Know It family so I can list all my Poshmark listings on my Like To Know It profile. So everything's gonna be linked over there and I'll link it in the description box below. Here is our master bedroom. Pretty much all of the wood floor is in, except for down there in the closet. But guys, look how freaking good this looks. I am so excited to see all of the furniture in here. And now I'm kind of stressing out about what furniture we need, especially in this little area, like the sitting area. I'm really not trying to rush anything because I want to like actually love it. So we're taking it slow, but I have been looking at bed frames and nightstands. Also got, like, is it all done here? Yeah. So that first shipment had about 1500 boxes. No, 1500 square feet of the wood floors. And so they were able to do pretty much this whole like loft area and a little bit in Brian's office and my office. And the other shipment actually just got here like two hours ago. They also need to do the stairs, so. But look how freaking good it looks. This is what it would look like on the stairs. So we're excited for those to be done. And they're coming back tomorrow in the morning to finish up. Lots of stuff is getting done. And Mimo is working on running the cable for the TV because I think we're going to put it here. And we just want it to be like hidden behind the TV. So he ran it from our closet, right? Yep. All the way down. That way it's going to be super nice. No cords hanging out anywhere. It has been so disgusting here in Austin but now we're finally getting some sun. And Sophie has found her new sunspot right there. Even laying there, huh? So we had to cut the plywood open and then fish the wires through all that. It's crazy. It's a good thing they didn't put the wood floors in here just yet. So there was an outlet there. That's how he was able to do this because right down there is the fireplace. Morning y'all. It is Sunday, October 29th. And this weekend we had some visitors come in town. So we had to take a little bit of a break from doing house stuff but we are back in action. It's super early because we had to drop them off at the airport. And we are back at Home Depot once again. I feel like we're either at Home Depot once today or in Lowe's once a day. The floors are officially all done. Today we are going to get some stain for the stairs because we had to put an end cap and the end cap is like raw wood. So we have to stain it to match the stairs. So we have our samples with us to see if they can give us a really good match. And then we are gonna pick up some putty for the baseboards. They're gonna be probably get done today being put down today. We need to pick up paint for the baseboards and a bunch of other random stuff like electrical boxes. I think Mimo's gonna try to get all the electrical done within the next two days which is the recess lighting and like all the outlets because I think I want him to put in new outlets in the bedroom, in the garage and possibly like the butler's pantry area because I was talking to the custom cabinetry people and they were saying like if I want a microwave in there they would have to like run electrical and like put an outlet but I was like okay Mimo's already here doing that. Like I'll just go ahead and have him do that and then I don't know when the butler pantry thing's gonna happen but like we can do that at a later date but just have the outlet ready to go in there. So I think we need to buy like a couple of things for all of that. I'm hoping today's gonna be a very productive day. Obviously it's Sunday so Ryan is off of work and I'm free. So it's all hands on deck meaning we are going to get shit done today. But other than that we had a really good Halloween weekend. My senior year college roommate Tiffany came to visit with her new fiance and we took them to all of our favorite food places and they're such foodies too. So it was really fun. And we went to sushi bar ATX with you guys from Austin and you've been, you know how freaking good it is. And they were like it's probably the best omokase we've had. I'm already dreaming of like when I'll go back next probably or for our anniversary maybe but also we need to try other places cause I feel like we're in like a lull of like the Austin food scene. Like we're just going back to the same places and there's literally a new bar, a new restaurant like almost every day or like if not two a week. So it definitely can be overwhelming especially like you wanna take your visitors to like the best spots but there's so many good spots here so it's hard to choose. So anyways, we're gonna go to Home Depot. Sophie is back at the house. She was very sad she couldn't come to this Home Depot trip. Honestly, sometimes you just gotta make it quick and go in and come back out. So we're gonna get this day started. I'm gonna move the friends back to here. It's been in our little pantry room, laundry room which is already pretty crowded with all the doors. Oh my God, I just realized that he took off the door which is really smart. We'll probably leave it off for now. The floors are done in here so we can finally move it back and I'll be so crowded in there. Oh shoot. There's like a cord underneath it on. Can you pick it up somehow? I don't know. There we go, okay, you're good. Ah, ew, it's the water thing. It's like spilling. Okay, yeah, you just need to pick it up a little because it's like the wood floor is higher. What? Okay, okay, hold on. There we go, there we go. Almost the other side now. Oh my gosh, it sounds. The pantry side. There we go, you're good. Yay. Mimo's working on the baseboards right now but I was thinking it could help fill in the holes or the nails, right? Yeah. I need to stir it. Maybe I can use this one for now for this piece. That's what we're using. This drys white? Yeah, when it's dry, yeah. No, that's right. I'm going to put it in the little hole. All right. I'm going to take a little. You can put it in this little tiny hole. What is that? That's right here. Any tiny hole. Mm-hmm. That one's right here. Put it flat, push. And then you can clean a little bit with a wood rock or something. Paper towel. Oh, I see. So just like clean the rest of it. Yeah, exactly. Okay. That's nice. I want to see. Okay. That's easy enough. Yeah. Look at it. Okay. It's very easy. I can do this. Yeah. An hour and a half, but I'm done putting the putty and the little nail holes all around the first floor. What do you think, Sophie? Did I do a good job? Thank you. All right, Ryan's taking this stair molding off. I just really want it to be like sleek and flat. And honestly, no stair molding would be great. Literally just something to cover this part of the stair, like the top of the stair. I guess you have to do something about this part now. Really just something to cover this part. Just have it sleek. It already looks so much better. With the molding off, like if you back up and just imagine that there's actually sheet rock on top, compare it to this. And our next project is to install these wooden rods and set up these metal rods because I think it'll just look more aesthetic. And so we just took it out of the packaging. We got this at Home Depot, but I think I want to stain it. At first I liked it, but now that I'm seeing it against the floors, I guess you can show. It should probably be stained a little bit. So I think we're going to do that before putting it up and installing it. So it's going to hold this rod and make sure it fits first, actually. Got the cardboard all laid out because I'm going to stain this pole. And I just decided to go with the stain that we're using on the steps to match or the stair noses to match the steps. We're using this one today. And I think I'm just going to try to stain it as light as I can stain it. And then to start from there, I can always build it on. So we'll see how this looks. All right, I don't want to like tilt it too much, but that's what the stain looks like in the container. And Mimo said a paper towel could do the job just to make sure it's dry. We're setting up our ring doorbell, featuring our horribly moldy pumpkins. But we want to change it to like a trick or treat, like message or something. Play us one. Which one do you like? Ready? Trick or treat! I like that one. Tell us what brings you here or we'll put a spell on you. I don't like her voice. You've just awoken the spirits that haunt this house. That's good too. We can leave a message if it's true. Three to park your broom. Which one do you like? I'll be there right there to eat. I mean to greet you. It's cute. You get those in a football too. These are what they give me one because you have to spray jet in the next one. I know, like two days. This is the ring doorbell we got. We got the battery doorbell plus. Ryan is setting up our fireplace thing. Ms. Brenna got this for us at Sam's Club, right? More next year. More? Yeah, it's like $50. $50, what the heck? No, no, no, I could do it. This thing is a very cold day and it's only gonna get colder. So, perfect time to break this thing out inside of that. Good job. Looks so good. It's gonna blow up good. Feels good. It feels good. I wanted to quickly talk about a lot of the costs of all of this stuff, especially the flooring because I just did not think it was gonna be this expensive. I knew going into renovating a house, this would happen that I would think it would just be, you know, this amount of money, but it would be like probably somewhere close to a little under double. And that's kind of what happened with these floors. I think the cost of like the material of the floors totaled up to, I can't remember if it was like 9,000 or 12,000, but also we have like a bunch of empty boxes that we're gonna see if we can return. So it could be a lot less than that. I did get the planks on sale. So I think the original price was some around $6, but they were on sale for like $5.51, I believe. There's a pretty big range of different flooring types you could get, and even within those types, just the range of, you know, the prices there. I decided if I wanted to do the floors, we'll just go back or go home. And I feel like that's definitely gonna be me during every little renovation phase of our house, which is probably not the best, but we're gonna work on it. Now let's talk about labor because this is where I was really shocked. I thought maybe it would cost like 2,000 max 3,000 to get someone to like come and lay the floors down. I was so, so wrong, you guys. It was painful learning that. Let me walk you through a cost breakdown of what I paid for it during the labor. So the floor installation and labor was $4,200. Self-leveling labor was 396. Floor installation was 900. The glue was 1,500. And then we had to pay for miscellaneous material, which was 70 bucks. So the total for just like the labor and materials for laying down the wood was $7,100. So yeah, I was not expecting that. I've seen so many tech talks where, especially that brand of flooring Malbuy planks like you can DIY it, but I personally just did not trust myself to do it and like cut the perfect lines around the doors and all that stuff. I just wanted to get it done right the first time and like not waste any planks. The flooring guys really did a great job. And if you're in the Austin area, I believe they're located a little outside of Austin, but they did in my house. So if you guys want their information, DM me on Instagram. I will also link down below the exact color I got from Malbuy Plank. I definitely recommend checking them out. It was so hard to choose from all the samples I got because they were all really beautiful. I'm really happy that we went with the Victoria French Oak. Now we need to figure out when we're gonna move over there because we have our apartment until like December 6th and we wanna move in by Thanksgiving or like a little before just so that when we go home, we won't have to worry about it when we come back from Thanksgiving. So hopefully in the next few weeks, obviously I will vlog it all and keep you guys updated on Instagram and tech talks. So definitely go follow me over there is at so underscore gnarly without the G on both platforms. I'm not gonna lie, I'm kind of hesitant to move over there even though like I've always wanted a house but something about it like it's just so sad to like leave this apartment and just apartment life and city girl life. Something about being in this different area that we bought the house in is very different. So it's a little bit more of like a suburb obviously but it's really not that much further out. So I don't know why I'm being so dramatic right now. I'm also looking into some bathroom renovations and I did kind of wanna try to get it started before we moved in but I don't think that the timeline's gonna work out the way I want it to and I just don't wanna rush anything because I really don't even know like what the vibe is for the bathroom. Just feel like I need to sit down and like really plan it out. There is just so many decisions that I'm making daily that it's just hard to add something else to my plate and I feel like once all the flooring's done all the baseboards are in I'll want to start the next project. So I don't know if we'll start that in the new year or in December but again, I'll keep you guys updated. If you guys aren't already subscribed to my YouTube channel go ahead and make sure that you subscribe and turn on your post notifications and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.