 Just a little reminder that this Sunday, the 22nd at 10 a.m. is our fourth vintage drop over on loanfox.com. I am so excited, I have been curating and saving these items for months and months and it is time to get them in your home. So mark your calendars. Oh gosh, I can't hold this right now. No! Grab a bucket, grab a bucket, grab a bucket. Woo! I'm so excited. I am! We are in the kitchen and we are going to be working on a new space, which I am so excited about. It's the one right behind me and some of you might know which one it is. I mean, I'm a sure majority based on the title, but we are going to be working on the laundry room, which is actually right through this archway here. And this archway used to be a door separate to the kitchen, which is in front of me and the laundry room. But I really wanted the feel of it to be very fluid and you can just walk right in and I just didn't find the need to have a door on the laundry room. And as we get into this space too, right here, you might be able to tell that there actually used to be another door leading into the bathroom. And I've mentioned a couple of times on the channel that I've been working on another space kind of behind the scenes. It'll be coming out shortly and I promise you it's going to be worked the way. It has just been quite a while to finish up that space. So while that space is getting finished up, we are going to be working on the laundry room, which is right in here. Now I'm on a mission to create the most stunning laundry room that you have ever seen. And that's really what I wanna do. I feel like this space gets such good lighting. It has such good bones as well. There's so many coves throughout the ceiling. It has the original plaster on the walls, which give it so much texture. We even have the original ironing board in the wall as well, which is everything that's said original throughout the laundry room. But of course they did update the tile in here, new countertops, which are just not very pretty. And they also added some cabinetry to the uppers, which I definitely will be keeping. And I painted in the meantime a color from Benjamin Moore, which I'll pop on the screen for you in case you are curious. It is time for the massive overhaul in this space. And I will say that we are going to first start on the flooring in here because it's going to be a transition from the kitchen flooring, which was that square travertine into more of a brick shaped travertine tile, which I ordered at the same time and it has been sitting outside for a solid seven months. So we are gonna get started on tiling today. I wanna start off by actually removing the tile in here because I think we're gonna start with tiling in this space first. It's gonna be the most tedious task. So I kinda wanna get that over with. Now there is this railing that is attached over the top. I don't know if it necessarily fits the vibe of the house. Maybe it was black, it fit a bit better, but I do wanna maybe find something a little more interesting for right here. And I've seen railing as an architectural stores before. So definitely an option. I'm just gonna take this one out for the time being so we can pull out all the time. Now, I need to take these out. Do you think the washer or the dryer is more heavy? I think the washer is probably heavier. I think so too. Can you pull this one up easy? You might need to remove the whole countertop. It smells like baby powder in there. Goodbye, countertop. Some of you are curious as to where these are going and these are actually going in the downstairs unit. The previous owners of the downstairs, they had the, I don't even know, old washers and dryers down there. So we were going to be swapping these downstairs, getting red or donating the ones that are currently downstairs. And then I actually have some new ones coming that are gonna be going upstairs for our main laundry situation. After a solid, like, how long? 45 minutes? Is that the amount? Okay, so something happened that was only captured on sound, not video. What happened, Drew? Oh, I can't even speak of it at the moment. Well, this is a hint I'm completely covered in water. So basically we unscrewed the water pipe, not realizing that it was a pressurized water pipe going into the washer and then tried to turn the water off and the handle broke. So that's what occurred. Now that the washer and dryer are out, we need to remove the baseboard so that we could remove the tile. So I'm going around and using a crowbar just to remove the baseboards. As you can see here, this cabinet door was added over the top, which inside houses the original cutting, or the original ironing board, not cutting board. But I wanna build the frame out a little bit more so it's more so a flush look. When you open it, it just feels a lot better. So I'm gonna pull this trim out. I was just telling Justin after what just occurred with the water that we should clean the floor up first, but then I realized we're just ripping it out. So might as well just start doing that. So I'm gonna start here, right where we ended in the kitchen. As you guys can see, beautiful kitchen. Not as pretty. So as you may be able to see here, these tiles actually pop up quite easy, which is very nice. I'm not sure if they use the right mortar when they put these down or I think just large format tiles kind of pop up easily because they're such a large surface area. I also have no idea. So I did some happy. They came up so easily. So I pulled all of these tiles off and then we also ended up scraping all that grout out from in between all the joints because when you lay your new tile, you want it to be completely flush. We didn't wanna have to scrape the mortar off of this surface because we didn't do it in the kitchen either. It was impossible to get off of anywhere. So I just did it right over the top and it's been totally fine in the kitchen for the past seven months. And for the backsplash, it was the same as the kitchen. This kind of webbed marble tile that has the backing on it. I did damage a little hole or a couple of damaged holes, but I got everything off from the top without creating a hole. So I think we're good there. All right. It has taken us a solid two hours to clean up this space, but this is how it is looking so far. As you can see, it's nice and demoed. The floor, we have been vacuuming and I wanna share with you what I'm thinking for the tile because I wanna do something interesting in here. I think just because it's connected to the kitchen right here, I don't think I want to paint this like some crazy color or anything. I really want it to flow nicely with the kitchen. So with the walls being a little bit more minimal, I thought we could go a little more maximal with our tile pattern. And so I'm gonna be a little daring. I actually wanna do a border along the outside. So as I get here, I started doing some cuts for this border here. And these are six inches. The tile that I ordered is from Clay Tile and I will link it for you. Same one that is in the kitchen. In the kitchen, I used a square shape. I'm now using the rectangle shape. The first and only tile project we've ever done or I've ever done, Justin's done maybe a few. I don't know how many you've done. Two. Two, okay. So I'm gonna be done. I also want the border to come out in front of the washer and dryer. I'm not gonna have it go in the back there because you're not gonna see it. I'd rather have it be in front of the washer and dryer and add a little detail there, which would be really cute. And we have the squares on either corner, which I love that idea. So it's gonna wrap all the way around here. And then I'm going to just worry about the stairs later because this is a project to worry about. Something that I'm doing on the tile saw is I actually have my square tile. I want them to be the exact size of this. So I simply slid it in and then locked the gauge here right where it needed to be locked. Every cut we make can just be consistent. We can just push them through kind of like an assembly. To the lathe level, I decided that I wanted to just go six inches out from the wall and create a line. So I was able to line up all of the border tiles with that line when it came to actually mortaring them down. So I use that laser level, drew with a red sharpie on the ground so it was really easy to see. And then I started to cut more tiles. I brought the tile saw inside at this point because it was nighttime. So we started to lay down these border tiles just to get an idea. And I had to cut so many of these. So cut them, laid every single one down and it looked incredible once they were all laid down. The next step of course was going to be mortaring. And I have mixed mortar many times on this channel so I feel like I didn't need to share that but I got a mortar that was intended for stone. My biggest tip is to always make sure you are using the right mortar when you're using tile because there's different types for different tiles, different sizes of tile and also grout. There's different grout widths, different types of grout you use for different sizes. So just make sure you're always reading your products carefully. And that's what I did here. I used stone mortar that I got from the brand called Maypie. I'll link the one I used below. And I just did the border all the way around adding the squares in the corners. Why hello guys. It is day two of the tiling process in here and we have laid down all of the border. Let me flip it around and share with you. Okay, I didn't fill many clips. I don't know how I missed that but I am going in and adding a line down the center. Now this is going to be our central line that our herringbone is going to follow. When you're doing herringbone, you wanna start with a central line and have your first row follow that because everything else is just gonna branch out from there. And at first I was always set on having a grout that was kind of the same as everywhere else throughout the kitchen and the border. But then I realized I had a bunch of extra tiles. And this is the last area that we're doing with these travertine tiles. And I realized I could do a panel of completely solid herringbone that really to me felt so much more old world and kind of just more authentic to the home. Something about the grout with the herringbone felt a little farmhouse-y to me. And that just was not what I was looking for with this space. And something about this just butted up herringbone just feels so right in here. There's something I love just the way that it feels. When you see it overall, I think you're going to love it as well. So for the mortaring, I actually ended up mixing the mortar just a bit thinner than I did for the border. And that's because I'm butting these up to each other and I didn't want the mortar to be like so goopy and just excess on the actual kind of surface there that would make it flow out of the sides and make a really messy kind of cleanup process. So I actually made the mortar a little thinner so that it laid down a little flatter and then overall it just stuck down so much better. There was no seepage out of the edges. So I definitely recommend that if you're doing a herringbone like this kind of butted up to each other and I worked down my first line. As you could see, I did the whole first line and then you can from there just kind of add onto it. Now, the most complex part of this process is the edge cuts, but to be honest with you with their little trick that I have, it turned out so simple and easy. So I'm just laying down all of these tiles. You don't even have to space them, which is so nice. So this process really does go quite quick and I'm just working along laying down the tile. To do these tricky edge cuts, all I did was we laid out the pattern that just kind of flowed off the edge and used a wooden dowel, the same exact thickness of the grout line. So you're just gonna lay it as if the grout was in that same spot, then trace the cut that you wanna create. And as you could see, we have a line going across there. Then we just cut all the pieces on the tile saw as we needed going all the way down the line, including little tiny cuts like these little triangles which are so simple tile saws. I swear to you guys, do not be scared of them. They are so much more easy to use than just a regular saw. And then once you have all your cuts, you can just bring it back, make sure that it fits. And if it doesn't, you can just put it back in the tile saw, kind of grind down some of the edges, make them a little bit more snug if needed. But this process really wasn't too bad. And also you can use a pencil to just mark the side so you know what you're getting rid of. That way you cut on the right side because the tile saw blade is kind of thick. It does eat up some of the tile. And this process continued for about four hours. I'm sorry for the way I look here. Not that appealing. We finished the tile last night. And I, I'm looking at it right now. I cannot wait to flip this camera around and share it to you. They're jackhammering next door like they were in the last video. I also wanted to mention that if some of the clips sound off where I am filming from behind the camera, pointing like down without me in it, it's because the microphone was forward and I didn't realize I have to flip it around each time. I'm getting used to this new camera but I think it looks pretty good. Let me know what you think in the comments but I have to share this floor. Here is what the floor is looking like this morning. It looks so, so good. So as you can see, it still needs to be cleaned off. We have to sponge it down. But so far it is looking so incredible. I'm just gonna walk around a little bit. Everything, like even all the cuts, all the borders, every little line and detail. I just feel like we just did such a great job. Look at how good. Even the small little section over here, it's like almost centered with how it's done. Like I cannot believe we did this ourselves. And it only took us two days to do this. Now I also wanted to tell you about what's happening back here. So I have a bunch of extra square tiles from the kitchen tile. Now we are gonna be putting them underneath the washer and dryer. Since it's gonna be fully covered, I thought it'd be nice to have no grout lines, especially these thick kind of grout lines that we have. It makes it hard to move appliances around. So we are actually just doing solid square tiles underneath the washer and dryer and that's just gonna make it so much easier to pull it in and out if we ever need to access the backside there. I wanted to share with you the floor and how pretty it turned out. I'm so happy and I kinda wanna give you guys a little bit of the direction that we're going in here. The transition to the kitchen, which is right here, I'm going to be doing a little braid, which is going to kind of just be a herringbone that is singular and then either edge is gonna have grout on it. I'll show that in the next part when we get to grouting, but that's going to be the transition. Now of course we are still needing to patch over this doorway. This used to lead into a small bathroom on the other side. Jackhammering's been happening for an hour so I just want to just share with you my ideas. So once we have this kind of boarded back up, I then wanna have some form of furniture piece here, whether it be like a long hutch or a tall one or a cabinet or just something here that could be used for storage. And I'm kind of picturing it as like a vintage style folk art hand-painted cabinet, which I kind of wanted DIY or am I DIY some sort of furniture piece for this area? But I'm kind of thinking of it as the storage area for the kitchen and the laundry room in terms of paper towels, extra towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, because the kitchen is on the smaller side and also the laundry room just has a couple of uppers now that we can actually utilize it to have a nice piece of furniture here. And I'm picturing something arched like this tall, just pretty and then we'll have new railing right along this edge here, probably some sort of runner across the floor. We have a light fixture right here and I actually love the scale and the shape of the fixture. I don't like the fixture itself, but it gives me an idea for what I wanna kind of find to put there. Here is of course the ironing board which I wanna re-trim out. I don't know if we should do something on either of these walls because they are substantial. I do think maybe like a piece of art here is to cover up this electrical box which is completely screwed down. I think it was just like something that was covered up. If you have any ideas for this area and then of course washer and dryer here and then on top of that I wanna do new countertops and a new backsplash. Whether that be something that I'm kind of thinking about DIYing, I have this idea, but I don't know. Doing stone countertops in here would be expensive and I kind of wanna like just make my own because I don't need a big area. So we shall see. And that's really all of the ideas for the laundry room so far. I also don't know what color to paint this. I'm kind of thinking of maybe taking a couple of neutral colors just from like Benjamin Moore or something and swatching them on this wall and living with them for a few days and just like kind of feeling them out with the tile as well. This white in here definitely is far too stark. It needs to go a little creamier, a little more like gray G in a sense like a gray beige white tone. And once we have it all cleaned up and grounded by next video, I mean, I think this laundry room's gonna start coming together really quickly. So I hope that you guys love it and let me know in the comment section below what you would do in here. Like if you see anything that you would add, if you see anything you would change. Thank you all so much for watching and do not forget that the vintage drop is this Sunday over on the website, 10amsharponlonefox.com and I also gotta say I listed about 70 new holiday items on the site the other day. We're gonna have the biggest Christmas this year on lonefox.com. So if you're shopping for Christmas, it is so beautiful. I've been shooting it and putting it on. A bunch is already active and a bunch is also selling out. And yeah, I will catch you all in my next video. Bye guys.