 Morning guys, I actually edited up this video yesterday and the whole time I was thinking to myself, Drew, you are crazy. So I needed to do a little intro to preface that I'm not crazy, but today's video is going in a bunch of different directions. We're doing some shopping, we're doing some sampling, we're doing some swatching, some construction, some demolition. There's something for everyone in this video, but I don't know if you guys have been able to tell with kind of the content I've been creating lately around the new house, I'm really just vlogging and documenting absolutely everything and then sharing it with you guys in real time. So that's what can cause a little bit of bounce back and forth throughout the video, but let's dive on into this one. Today is the first day of demo, so they're already starting to tape off or protect everything because one of the archways is gonna be going right here. Marie, are you excited for demo day? Demo day. Ha ha ha. You're gonna open this. Yeah. How much you want? I feel like probably as wide as it can go would be better. Yeah, that's totally fine. So let's do this. Let's open the mask you can, the existing opening. Okay. Look how the fireplace is off, it's on the left. Okay. So I actually like the light. So the hook's perfect. The hook's perfect with the fireplace. Yeah. Good. Besides that, it's open right now? No, I think we should go as possible though a little bit this way, because there's nothing behind the wall over here. Right. I think if we could just go a little bit wider. Yeah, maybe like 36. 36 and arch above it, it's moving too high because I want to keep the header. Yeah, so that's fine, you can go a little lower. Like this. Yeah. Okay, done. And off to this. Yes. So. I had to take my pair of glasses with me. Guys, it seems like seven was good. Don, so all this is gone, we're gonna keep this. Yes. I'm just gonna take the door off of this because it's not necessary. The door's off? Okay, we got it. Okay. We're good? Yeah. Beautiful. We're back at St. Vincent de Paul because I'm hoping that this buffet that I saw a couple weeks ago here, which I'll pop up a photo right here, is still here. Oh my God, it is. I literally see the legs of it. I left this here. I'm so sorry I left you here because I left this here for the past probably two weeks and I've been staring at the photo every single day since I took it and I'm like, why didn't I buy that? But I just assumed that it was probably sold out. So I'm gonna get it. It is $3.99, but it is the perfect sink vanity for the large bathroom upstairs. I just met Caitlin at the thrift store. I'm getting this right here. Oh my gosh, I was talking about that one too. Because I think that I want to turn it into a bathroom vanity and then put a sink on top. Yes, I want every single one of your needles. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. Okay, I just pulled the tag off and walked around the corner. Look what I just noticed. Green is 50% off today. Are you kidding? This is green? It'll be 200. I'm so lucky. What is this? Thought I liked it for a second. Okay, be 199. That is such a great deal. You probably can't hear. I just got over here. Look, I know you're a professional. He goes, it's easy for us. I'm like, yeah it is. This is Roberto. He's doing the arch template right now. This is literally the first day. How did they already do this? I'm confused. Whoa, that looks so good. Wow, this is so interesting. Like cause how all the electrical runs through the wall. Stop by the house a couple hours later. They are actually on lunch right now guys. And look, there's so much happening. The tile has been removed from the walls because they are cutting it out. And then let me show you over on this side. They actually already started the opening here. So I believe they've just so far removed the flap doors that were there. But this is going to turn into an arch which you can kind of see the shape of the arch right there forming. And then over here, this is what that's looking like. This of course will come back down and then they'll patch all of this over here. So this won't be a doorway anymore. Since the workers will be here as well this week, I figured I might as well go out and search for a chandelier today because I do want to do something statement in here and I'm okay with splurging in this living room because it's so grand. So I'm thinking we can do a chandelier up to probably three feet, if not up to four. Like definitely will fit up there. And then I'll just hang it probably as high as I can get it and drop it a little bit. Four feet by four feet max. Made it to revival antiques and this one right here was one I was looking at online. It's one of the larger ones. They have a bunch of Spanish style lighting here which is why I ended up opting to come here first. This one looks a little more of a kind of Victorian maybe. I love these Micah shades and thank you guys so much. You guys let me know if these were Micah shades. I love them, but they have this arts and crafts pendant which I'll hop up a photo of it right here. I saw it on their site and I think I might wanna get that one too. It is a little pricey but it fits the era of the home and I was thinking about maybe using it in a laundry room or just another area in the house. I also love this floor lamp here and I will say that this floor lamp has a better price than a lot. I have seen of this particular style. This one's 9.50 which definitely is a lot but floor lamps, like if you were to get a floor lamp from Restoration Hardware it'd be $2,700 and it's new. Hey guys, they brought out the arts and crafts chandelier and I'm obsessed with it. It kind of has this like medieval look to it but then it has arts and crafts stained glass shades but they have to rewire it. So I'm gonna pick this one up later but I am going to grab it. Back in the car and the Lady Marie from Revival Antiques you guys is the sweetest ever. So if you're ever in Pasadena and you're looking for antiques, definitely check out her store. She has like some of the best quality antiques I've seen too, I love it all. And she gave me such a great discount. A couple of you guys came up to me in her store and said hello which was so nice. I got two lights. I ended up getting that arts and crafts pendant and then I also got that floor lamp but I'm checking out another antique store before they close at six just to see if there's anything in there. Wow, look at this light fixture you guys. Ooh, that one's super pretty. This one's quite nice as well. Kind of Spanish-y but a little smaller and they said it was 750, only $750 which I know I'm saying only. These are antique lights like one of a kind. I mean you don't come by that very often. He said he'd do 500 on it though. And I mean it is larger but I feel like I could use it. I don't think in the living room, actually I could. It's beautiful though. I love the scroll work on it and I have a bunch of sconces throughout the house too that have this same exact Aranthus leaf I believe is what I read but I'm not too sure but I think I'm gonna get it because I feel like I could put this in my room or another room. So this light right here is the first option. This is my favorite option. I'm sure you guys might find it next to this one which I also love. I found this. So you guys probably just saw this hanging up at Eric's architectural salvage but now it is sitting on the ground in my apartment because I picked this up you guys. They sold it at such a great price. I am gonna have to get it rewired but the reason I love this light first of all is it has that cast iron. It's Spanish revival, it's vintage or almost antique actually but it has these. Again I might be saying it wrong like around this leafs on it and it also has these floral cuppings on the candle but I wanna show you something. It's a little challenging to see here because there's still some work going on but we have the same exact form in a sconce. It has the cup up here and then the leaf here and there's three of these throughout the home and these are original to the house so I cannot believe I found a light that has like that same exact styling but in like a chandelier form and imagine how beautiful that would be in this lower dining room. I mean I don't know if it's gonna go here. It is pretty comparable in size to this one here and I'm gonna be swapping this one for sure. It's just, it's not my favorite in this space and I wanna play up the Spanish and I love this. How beautiful is it? It's all cast iron. It has some natural kind of rusting to it as well which I think just adds so much character. Good morning guys. We are heading over to the new house. Again checking out updates. This got here and look at the arch. The larger arch is coming along, great. And then over here we have the smaller arch which also they fixed, they're starting to fix the rounded edge that you guys saw the other day. It's looking so, so good but I'm actually, Marie's here too. Hi. You guys saw me pick up that antique lamp from Revival Antiques just because I couldn't pass it up. I loved it and I got it. This is what it looks like. I'm just gonna put it over here for now. Yeah. Okay. Illumination. I think it's so much light. It's so pretty. That's such a pretty light. Mm-hmm. I love it. I also have some paint samples. So I picked up quartz of three different colors. Oxford white, white dove and then one other color that I actually didn't share with you guys. It is called Simply White and I was actually talking to Arvin Alano who is also here on YouTube. I'm sure you guys know who he is. And he used Simply White in his home and I just love the color of his wall. So I got that as a swatch just to test out but I wanna do larger painted swatches as opposed to these like sampleized ones just because I've narrowed it down pretty far, so far. I also definitely wanna swap out the curtains here. This one just isn't my most ideal pattern. I'm probably gonna keep the fabric on this in one of the closets and maybe I can repurpose it somewhere else. Maybe like a throne pillow or something but I do wanna get an idea for a height of curtains because I probably wanna hang them a lot higher than they were. We literally need 108 inch curtains perfectly. Perfectly. So there's something else that I wanna look for while the people are gone at the moment and that is the thickness of the current hardwood. So this is the hardwood here. I feel like it could be sanded down again. It's not too thin yet because basically we were thinking that the hardwood had already been sanded up here about two to three times. So we weren't sure if it could be sanded again but I do think it can because it looks like we have a decent amount of space. It's probably like three eighths of an inch at the moment. Oh, you know, just casually walking up the stairs. I don't even actually go outside. I can just walk right up. Just walking out of the way. Just walking over here. Walking down. We're at my charger down here. Oh my God. At least we don't have to go outside and walk around. Oh my gosh. I don't wanna get something to eat upstairs. The archway downstairs is almost complete as well which is amazing. I think actually I'm not sure if this one is complete because in reality I'm gonna be painting. They're not gonna paint it the same color as the blue of course. I went to lunch with a friend yesterday and when I was driving back home I noticed that there was this store on La Brea that said that they're going out of business when they had antiques and chandeliers. So I just popped by because I do wanna see if they have any large scale lights because I'm still looking for a light. Oh, they look very, very, oh my gosh. This is chandeliers galore. What is this ceiling? This is unreal. I cannot believe this is just on La Brea. Everything's very French though which is not the exact style I'm going for. I love this rug here. This one. So I found this checkerboard rug. I love the colors of it though and I really wanna see it out because it seems to be really fluffy too and she said she'd give me a deal. A wool rug like this on Etsy would be like four or 5,000. It looks like the middle is like more of a tan. It looks so pretty though. It might be perfect. Oh wow, I really like that. It's like 1,500. Yeah. It's really pretty. Okay, so she was saying that this is dark when you look at it from this angle but when you come this way and from this angle it's light, which is very true. This is a six by nine. So here's a eight by 10. Yeah, I did six by nine. Oh, I love the shade on that one. I think this might be perfect for like a gas room or smaller bedroom or this more tonal eight by 10 option. Good morning guys. It is bright and early. I'm actually putting money in the meter right now. I ended up stopping by the house this morning and just kind of did a walk through with Berlin quickly. They still are finishing up the arches today and tomorrow. The thing that's taking a bit is that the plaster takes quite a while to dry between coats. So that's just what's taking like a little bit of time to make sure they're nice and similar to the plaster that's already there. But I'm heading into this store called Country Floors and in here I'm gonna see if they have some terracotta options for the flooring. Wow, you guys look how pretty some of these are. I love the tones of colors that the store uses. Like look at this. These are super pretty too. I love this, this particular tile. So here are some of the terracotta options that they have. We have a square brick up here or a longer felt brick. And I think this is called a leaf shape and then a Paxagon as well. He also showed me this one. These are all reclaimed but I don't know. Not loving the variation. It's a little bit, he did say to you they can vary like even more extreme than this. So look at these dark brown tiles. They're handmade in Italy, but I love these. I'm gonna take a photo of those and add them to my mood board. There are some color variations and I'm loving these here. I also love this dark brown one up here too. I love the way that this looks together and look how these have this like antique glazing on them that gives them this like cracked appearance. Those are so pretty. I just walked into the lower living room. Look what arrived. The guys that are working upstairs actually brought this in for me, which was so kind of them. But this is a buffet and I found this at the thrift store. It was 400 bucks. I got it half off you guys for $199, which I thought was such a great deal. I'm gonna be putting this actually in the upstairs bathroom. So my bathroom is what I'm thinking at the moment. Of course, things could change by the time I get there but I wanna do two sinks on top. So two bowl sinks and then bring the actual plumbing down into here because it's fully open already. So I'm gonna try to rework that DIY that. But I thought this would be such a great vanity and for $199, such a great deal. It's another day at the house. Hi, Marie. We have a ladder here because we have a friend coming over. So Marie from Revival Antiques is actually bringing over a couple chandeliers and we're going to try them in the living room space which is gonna be so much fun. I love that she offered to do that because I was just gonna let you know, grab one and then hope that it worked but we're gonna be able to see I think three different styles in here. Look what has arrived, some lighting. So you guys might have seen some of these in my video. We have this chandelier here, which is the 1920 Spanish. This is the light that I actually purchased that they rewired for me. It's the Arts and Crafts style one. And then we have the larger rod iron chandelier here which is hard to see or cast iron. And then we have another one hanging here. So these are the options that we're gonna try out in the space and let's bring them up. Thank you guys. I think so. It might be a little small, but I can't really tell. He actually has a rope, so he's gonna go get a rope and we're gonna put it on that. Let's see if it's strong. Should I paint from it? Oh my God. I think I should. Oh, it's real sturdy at least though. What do we think? What do we think? So here is one light in here and it's a little bright at the moment. We literally built this little contraption to hold it up but it's super, super pretty. It actually doesn't seem too small in here either. I thought it might. You can see it really good from this angle. So this is option number one, which I love. We're lowering chair. Yeah. That's probably where it would have to go. Yeah. I think we're good with this one. I feel like I'm gonna like the last one. What do you think? I'm hard at work. Or hardly working. All right, so this is my favorite one. This is the one I've been waiting to see and it comes in pieces, which I guess is nice. And I'm gonna clean this piece up first. So pretty. I love it. So much. I am so in love with this, you guys. Look how perfect this fits in the space. Now currently it's not centered. We're gonna have to move the hook over a bit more probably to the left of the hole there. It's just like the most perfect size and it's so large. If you can kind of see in comparison to me how like it is up here. I got some very, very exciting news yesterday. Belin texted me and said they wrapped up a date early which was super exciting. I haven't been able to get over here as much as I wanted to guys. I was planning on like literally coming over and filming so much of the process but I've been working on so much behind the scenes for you guys as well. I'm launching a fall collection on the site soon and it's just been taking up quite a bit of time but I wanna share with you guys the arches. I can see the lower one from here. Look at the arch. This connects up the lower unit with the top unit so now we essentially have one house and something that I am so happy about with this by the way is that it's on the same level as the floor. So I was a little nervous because I don't know if you guys can see. There's a few steps that you actually have to take in order to get up to the top there. So I wasn't sure if the living room was actually going to be level here. So basically as you can see when you walk through here before this was a complete wall. Now you can walk right through and it takes you right up to the stairwell. So realistically there are two front doors. There's this front door here and then there's another front door just right over here and then there's a look at what that arch looks like. There's a little bit of a shadowing that kind of makes it look like it might be like dipping a little there but it's just the lighting I promise. Then we go upstairs. This is so exciting guys. This is my first time ever doing any renovation and then we have this arch that connects up to our breakfast nook here and that is what that one looks like. Oh my gosh, it looks so good. And then we have a pen and I do already know Belin told me that they're gonna be coming in and kind of repairing this corner here. They ran out of the mortar supply that they were using. They had to order a bit more. They're gonna be rounding off this corner the slightest bit. He already told me that on the right side of the larger arch to match up more with this one here. So just to let you guys know but this was not here before. This was a full wall. It actually had a door over on the right side. Here if you guys remember and they patched that they redid the electricals. They moved the outlet over to this side for this entire wall here was fully covered in tile. This entire complete wall covered in tile. Now it's a nice large opening to kind of walk in to the dining space and something else I wanted to show you is that I absolutely love how when you walk through the main doorway here, this is actually centered in the arch. So from this angle here, you can see that the coffee bar area is centered. Now when you're actually kind of straight on, of course it's not, which doesn't bother me. I'm not mad about that at all. But I do love how it's actually centered from this area. So if you shoot in the room like or photograph into the space, this is actually centered which is quite nice. I didn't realize that but I actually do love that because I knew we wouldn't be able to center it with the wall to make it look symmetrical. So I figured this was the best option. And also we got the chandelier which was so exciting. Look how beautiful that looks you guys. I love it so much but I'm going to let you guys go. I am sweating up a storm. It is so hot, probably 90 degrees in the house right now. I'm driving to Arizona and it's gonna be a long one. So I wanna get on the road. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video and just wait for the next one because we are starting the kitchen demo and reno. Bye.