 They can't see the floor so they can't see the what is it like works or something. I think those are cheerios all over the floor That's why I don't get my kids This is this is me with popcorn unlike Well, the house is already messy So yeah, you can have popcorn. I have to vacuum anyway. It will sit clean and a basket for years Or until I get through it and then you're like then you come to the point where like do every wash it Yeah, or like why do I even have dressers? To my channel so today I have my best friend Lexi here and I wasn't really planning it to Do this we were really planning to do this together But she ended up coming earlier and I didn't get a chance to film this question and answer yesterday She does a lot of things that you guys ask questions about that she would have answers to and maybe they would be different than mine So I think it would be really good to get opinions on both sides But I asked you guys on Instagram if you had any questions about kind of like Homemaking and mothering and like DIY Kind of stuff, so I'm going to read some of the questions. I hope this video is not four hours long I was gonna say she didn't prep me with any of the questions. Yeah, I didn't really get them either I mean I scanned over them back. Yeah, I don't know either and if you guys are not familiar Lexi has her own channel. I will link that below And I know like every time we're together people are usually commenting like Seven hours apart which like we talked about I would say like most days are ways out of the day But yeah, so anyways So I'm like see I live in North Carolina. I'm in Addy grew up together I'm a mom of two we're soulmates. We are soulmates. I came trying to convince her to come down and live with me She's not quite there yet. I'm gonna work on her husband today This is a good question to start off with. Yeah, Lexi does a lot of like DIY stuff, too So this that's why this these will be perfect. What was your favorite project you've done in 2019? Like this year like in the last what six months I have I don't have very many completed You know, that's what I was thinking. I was like One that I finished. Yeah Even though I didn't technically do it the thing that probably was the most satisfying was getting the bathroom upstairs done Like the floor. This is how I was projects. I get started and it's fun and then half way through I'm like But I think the most fun and the biggest transformation was painting my backsplash For those of you that don't know it's not Yeah, yeah, she is hilarious because so many of my projects that I've been in the middle of she's arrived in the middle Of yeah, like she helped me put some floor in upstairs All that good stuff But I think the most like the biggest difference I seen was painting the cabinets white and then painting the backsplash on it Just looked a lot different and I have a video on that this year 2019 I would say why my favorite project if you guys don't watch my channel We moved into a very like a fixer upper house and we're just renting it right now But with the intention to buy it And I wanted to run it for a year to make sure it was gonna be worth buying because it might have Some issues that are not worth buying, but I think we are so I've started to kind of renovate something So my favorite one would either be painting Moving the dining room into a room that was not supposed to be a dining room and painting it navy blue It's a big like front room and now it's like my favorite room and it looks amazing Yeah, I should check out her channel to see it. It looks so good Yeah, and I'm gonna be doing something to the tile in the next little bit here So if you have ugly tile and you want to boost it up Yeah, tune in and then my other favorite project. I had these like really ugly sponsors over my Sink and they were like super big and weird and I got this idea that if I could turn them over spray paint them and put Edison bulbs in them. I've got kind of like a Modern farmhouse, but industrial style. It's very similar to mine, but I think hers has a bigger classic Or is that the right word? Classy classy. Yeah. Yeah a little bit more so so I put that in the Edison bulbs and they look so good I actually haven't even revealed them yet. I have to go home and do that So it's the hardest home project you've done and then what's the biggest oops you've ever done? So the hardest I would say that it was a tie between The backsplash and the flooring because I did almost all the flooring by myself Yes, and it was like I was pushing furniture out of the way and ripping up carpet and All of that and I think I wanted it to be done faster than what was happening and that irritated me And then the tediousness of doing this backsplash was I'll never do that again I don't know. I'll never I'll never paint backsplash It was fun and I loved doing it at the time But like I would just rather buy a wallpaper or something for this DIY ever did I had this buffet I actually don't even have it anymore, but I bought it and I stripped the veneer off of it So that was super difficult the payoff Amazing, but that project took to me like months because I get so sick of it And I'd be like, okay, I can't do this anymore But after it was gone it was beautiful and the piece is beautiful And actually I sold it for I think I bought it for 50 bucks and I sold it for 500 You know that it was worth it. Yeah, but I mean I put the hours there people But the hours into that one the biggest oops for me Um, it's probably the flavoring floor Because I which it wasn't really my fault, but I laid a piece of the flooring wrong And now you guys are probably gonna look for it But I've laid a piece of the flooring wrong and with that flooring when you start messing up in one spot It just kind of like the gaps continue Yeah, and it my dad said he actually looking at it He thinks that it was a piece of the flooring that like one of the pieces was bent a little bit or something Ripple effect through it. So that's probably my biggest oops I've had a lot, but one time I tiled the bathroom wrong and had to rip it all out You win Always use a level When you paint furniture with a brush, how do you make it look smooth and my number one tip is get an expensive brush Um, like I think people might think that paint brushes are all the same And this was something my mom taught me like right off the bat when I started painting stuff It is like by by the more expensive brush The reason being is like they're finer, right? You need more fine and when you put paint on it makes it look less streaky the cheaper the brush the less bristles It has the more and the less streaky synthetic like a synthetic bristles compared to natural bristles but my other tip is be Whenever you're not using your brush Don't just set it out in the open put it in a plastic bag So that it preserves it and if you accidentally do like the other day I fell asleep because my kids were exhausting me left my paint brush out and it got all crappy I put it in a cup of Coke like really Aided all off in 15 minutes I brushed it off with an old toothbrush, and it's like brand new again. It works really good I'll have to try that that's a really good tip What takes a room from okay to finished what touches me the stuff the most stylish impact That's such a good question. I know I love that question. I know my hands down and that is plants Like even if they're fake like I like honestly how do you kill plants? Yes, I go all my plans are okay So like once I have our family room done and like my actual furniture pieces purchased That's gonna be my next purchases is like fit a leaf egg trees and stuff like that I feel like it just makes it look more like lived in yeah alive That's a good answer. Mine's actually different mine is for me. I I can see a decor Vision of things and do all this stuff But until I put family pictures on the wall, I don't feel like my house is finished. That's good Yeah, so like I just put pictures actually just put the frames But I have to get pictures for my family dining room and after that's done There's a few other things I want to do to it But that would feel finished to me like lived in and a space that I really I'm not agitated at Yeah, it makes it feel homey the favorite brands of paint and primer to use for walls and trim So this isn't our house I don't invest in expensive paint I just don't because it's not necessary if it was our own house And it was something that I would know would stay that way for years. Maybe I would but I do invest I mean, I always think it's a good idea to have good primer because I feel like then you can kind of get away It was using cheaper paint if you have a really good primer, right? So my go-to is kills all the way I love kills primer. It's thick. It covers stains It's very bonding. So that is my simple answer and then paint. I just buy the cheapest stuff Walmart has And and that's it So I'd love to hear from you because I know you've worked with a little bit more like brand Yeah, so this house too is very different. I'm painting it right now Thinking that we're gonna stay there a long time. So it's a very different mindset. There is my absolute favorite now but for different situations like my Dining room that I do love so much. I used a semi-gloss Bare marquee that's like they're expensive and that's something I will add I I always use semi-gloss Always wash it off. It's almost Yeah, so the house was painted with a flat paint. It was bought as a house to be a renter's house I don't know why anybody in their right mind paint stuff with flat paint on the walls If they have kids because it smudges and like you can see you can see hand prints all kinds of stuff on the wall Even if you don't have kids There's no way to clean it and if you try to clean it it only makes it work. It looks so crazy Yeah, yeah, so I usually do some of us now. This is what I was gonna comment my dining room is Be bored be bored. It's be bored and it's too shiny So I would have in retrospect I'm not gonna redo it again now because I'll probably end up tearing that out and drywalling it But I would have used less gloss on a bead board. It depends on what you're painting So Zinzer one two three is my favorite primer and I do I do okay Um, I use an app actually that I get cash back at home depot And so I get it there. This one's a fine question. So how do you and your husband divided chores domestic duties is it 55? I Think I think that is also a personal preference because I appreciate his help But I also was brought up that like you take care of the home as a life And I know that's not everybody's cup of tea and if that's not your scenario That's perfectly fine. But like I just kind of take is it is it wrong to say I take pride in taking care of No, I do too and here's the thing my husband is amazing actually has my kids right now at home If you don't watch my channel, my mom has cancer That's why I'm up here visiting and so he kept my kids at home And he is doing an amazing job of keeping it that he knows That he will never clean it And he's okay with it because like there's Levi's clean and he's amazing at it And I'm so proud of him and thankful when he does it But then there's the way I clean it and I just prefer the way I clean it So I prefer Levi to actually do what I have if I ever have a list for him But there's certain things that he does like he always takes out the trash I'll do it. But like when we first married I was like, hey, this is just One thing I forget to do it gets full that it gets heavy and stinky like if you could just make this your one thing Right, that's awesome. Yeah, and then other than that I pretty much. I think that's that's actually a really good point Before I go into like how our scenario is I think that having like Communication about it instead of assuming like oh, he should be doing this or he should be doing and I'm frustrated Yeah, it's like coming to your agreements on what you do is really really important But so Corey is a clean freak a major clean freak Like through my pregnancies I get really sick when I get pregnant my whole first time I started sick and he would literally clean the house all the time He did it like honestly, especially my first two pregnancies He did the dishes like every day and like he doesn't fold laundry But he'll put it through that kind of thing and cleans and sweeps and whatever so he's very much like that now I feel like we've kind of had the conversations of like this is what I do and this is what you do and He takes care of the outside he mows like I've never mowed the yard since we've been married But like there's a lot of times if he's home with the kids I'll come home and like the dishes are at least in a neat pile and things are picked up off the floor that kind of stuff So yeah, yeah, I think like yeah, I think in my mind. It's 50 50 to some degree Yeah, I'm not complaining about and no, I was gonna say my when I was first married I had such unrealistic expectations and that only led to frustration and I've been married now for six years and I'm so much happier because if I expect have expectations for myself and Then he does something extra like leave eyes really amazing at folding laundry. I just Wondry despise it will sit clean and a basket Like do I wash it to get the wrinkles out? Yeah, or like why do I even have dressers? I think having a healthy balance like I was we were just talking about having a messy house And I think if I had to guess I'd say like 50 50 my house is probably 50 percent of time clean and 50 percent of the time It's a wreck like right now. It's not anything perfect, but you guys see me do cleaning videos You know what it looks like So like I think also just not putting pressure on yourself and like if your house is a mess It's a mess. I just feel like it makes everybody feel more comfortable whenever Things are just normal and yeah, I have expectations and stuff like that And if anybody on adi's channel thinks that she's like perfect like she's not if she is a real person And she can have a messy house and it's totally cool It makes me feel like a real person Like she went to take a shower. I was like, I'm so sorry my trash cans that we're flying in my bathroom Since we both ordered from grove there's two questions about grove here She asked do you think that the method laundry line does a good job at keeping your clothes from fading? Let's say that method it would be a good one for them not to fade because a lot of times the reason clothing fades Is if you're using a laundry detergent with chemicals in it. Yes, it's going to make your clothing fade So like even though they may market it as though it doesn't um, I know I don't know if it's still this way but I know at one point in time like tie had a form of like a crushed glass like a sand almost in it and It's going to make your it's gonna wear on your clothes a lot faster I'm not saying they do now But I know at one point in time they did and so like I think having a more natural laundry detergent in and of itself Is not as going to keep your clothes a lot nicer looking then yes using a harsh chemical Yes, and I love the way that groves our methods softener and treats my clothes because I don't feel like it leaves a Yeah, it feels like the clothes feel like so long story short. No, I don't think that it fades your clothes And then if you guys don't know what we're talking about Grove is a company that we get our cleaning products from and there'll be a link below you can get a lot of free stuff But um, they have a they have a bunch of different Wanderer detergents and one of them is called method and that's what we were talking about But then somebody asked the question. What is some product? What are your least favorite product from Grove? Which is favorite? Yeah, I thought that was a good question Most everything I get from them and I'm trying to think off the top of my head if there was something that I did That misses my air's lavender room spray not my favorite. It like did it give you a headache or something? Yeah It's just wrong for me. Okay, and it's you know, some people say you know when you come in you smell that like chemical too strong This is the opposite. It's like a like a hippie room To war like it's too much when I'm in there, but I think that's the only thing that I've ever been like I'm seriously trying to think this is Myers has a baking soda paste and a vinegar like gel and I just feel like I don't I don't have both of them But particularly the baking soda one leaves a film and you have to scrub it on Like off of your shower or whatever Yeah, so I don't think I think that would be but honest to goodness like I'm not lying I love this and everything I've ever gotten from them I do I really liked and the Grove themselves brand. Yes, I really like yeah It's really I use a lot of they're like I use their dish soap I use a lot of their stuff. So this question was not written down, but one of my lovely subscribers She's from Australia. She sent me a message and she asked me like if I Grew up doing projects around the house or like how I got into doing it I did and yes, my dad has been a contractor since I was born and so like even the guys in the Hardware shops and stuff like they know who I am like in the area and stuff like that So I didn't just pick up a tool one day and like it's like oh, I can do this I was taught like pretty much everything that I can that I do or else I call my dad and I'm like, how do I do this? What's the best way to do this? So that's where it came from my bug of doing my own projects thing and I am kind of the type of person I'm like a wolf. I messed it up. It's not the end of the world. Yeah, we Moved it from New York early in our marriage to Michigan and one of my best friends passed away and I really struggled with depression and at the same time my husband Got a job that took him away from four in the morning to eight at night and I was all alone and I didn't have a car or anything and To cope with my depression Because I didn't know anybody. I wasn't visited by anybody like hardly ever. I was all alone for many many hours I would watch HGTV. I Would go on the weekends go to old thrift stores or antique shops buy the most Feed-up old things and redo them in my house because it doesn't like to do those kinds of projects It does not take a lot of money. No, you can do it and make something look really cool for a very little And that in that I learned to not only appreciate old things and how well they're built But I also learned many many techniques through trial and error through throwing stuff away through getting contact high because of spray painting But that is how and it really like DIY Saved my life at that time and taught me many valuable things and just took me through a really hard time Yeah, I agree with that. I like I think it's a really therapeutic. That's probably the right word It's really therapeutic to do things like that and it's not as hard as you think it's gonna be and you don't have to grow up with A dad that's a contractor to do things like that and I think a lot of people it's just something They don't even think about did they do and it's something like you can redo something and sell it like when I sold that Huge buffet that I said for like 500 bucks. That person was so happy that it was only 500 dollars Anyway, it's a bit so that this video is not like forever I'm gonna wrap it up and I don't know full film anything else while she's here But I'm sure you'll see Lexi again soon because they're coming back in a couple weeks. Um, anyways But thanks a lot for watching you guys and comment leave lots of comments below I'm sure you guys have a lot of stuff to say about stuff. We've talked about if you're new to my channel Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and go subscribe to Lexi's channel. I'll see you in tomorrow's video. Bye