(messy!) Pantry to guest room makeover

Hello everybody, welcome back to the channel on a beautiful fall day that I'm recording this and I'm just going to jump right into the video showing you this space which is storage as you can see and my parents are coming to visit soon and we've got a couple of friends coming to visit and since we're doing all these renovations we really don't have a guest room so in this video I want to change this room a little bit. It will all be broken down within a year when we start the renovations on this part of the house but I just want to make it look a little more inviting so I can welcome my parents in a proper way. So I've just painted all the walls and the ceiling with some leftover paint that I had and it already makes everything look so much cleaner and fresher and I'm also getting rid finally of the yellow that was here that I've never liked so this is my time to finally get rid of that. All right, I've done most of the wall and then I ran out of paint so I've got a second one there and I just moved some of the furniture in. I've got two rugs that will make it look a little nicer and I think I'm going to paint that blue as well just to have a cozy corner on that end and then the bed will be here and it will all be in a year's time it will all be broken down and this will be a bathroom and bedroom opening too anyway that's I'll show you that when all of that is done it's impossible to explain. You haven't seen me sand anything in here and that's because I haven't filmed it, I haven't done it and there's two important reasons for that. One of course being the fact that this is all going to be torn down when we finally get to renovating this part of the house so I just don't want to waste any energy on that. The second reason which is more important is that this door was put in by the previous owners and they told us that they got these doors from friends in the Netherlands because they were Dutch as well and when you buy a house in France they do a number of what they call diagnostiek and they check the house for asbestos, for lead, they check your electricity and ours came back saying that this door and the other two had lead in them so there's old paint on this and you don't want to sand that off you can protect yourself of course but I think it's better to just not touch it at all and just put another coat of paint over it. It's actually quite okay-ish. Again this is just going to be here for another year or so so I just want it to look a little nicer. I would never paint this way if this was forever and the one other funny thing about that is that we also had our electricity check diagnostiek and it came back okay and then when Olaf looked at it he was like how could this possibly pass? There were so many dangerous elements in how the electricity was wired when we demolished the bedroom that was on the other side of this that the previous owners had made they had somebody like a professional builder make that for them so they had made holes in the walls openings like behind here this is a muurporter so this is a structural wall their builder had created the doorway and when we were demolishing that we realized that their builder hadn't put any iron you know that they put in these structures of iron? Ferraille? I don't know all the words in English and they had not put in any so all this to say if you're looking for a house in France my advice honest advice would be to not get a renovated house every building works that may have been done on your home may have these potential risks. I don't know if you recognize this but this is the same light fixture that I used for our zero budget bedroom makeover that I'll link up below that doesn't exist anymore that bedroom I wanted to hang something else here but Olaf just said that's a little more complicated and we don't want to complicate things so this will be fine it just looks a lot nicer than just having this little thing here all right um we're done painting Olaf fixed that and I'm not even properly dressed um oh the good news is though that Dikad came home just now so this is why I look so miserable because I just I would have never thought that you could feel so miserable when your pet goes missing so now I'm just going to put all of this in its place because it is Thursday and this afternoon probably around four my colleagues from my business in the Netherlands are coming they are coming here tomorrow for lunch so I want to prepare lunch because we have a whole schedule today I won't have time I'll be home late tonight and then going back in the morning to the hotel where they're staying and I need to put on some makeup and get out of my get out of my I'm miserable because my cat's missing mode put some makeup on put some nice clothes on I'm actually going to paint my nails I think if I still have time for that because it's already one so I have about two or three hours only to get everything done it's still a bit I mean the lighting and video looks very harsh and cold it actually feels really warm and cozy in here for real when you're here in real life and I'm quite happy that was a little effort with so it made such a big difference it feels so much more inviting here but now I have to start cooking and I still look you can tell I haven't slept much and let me know what you think down below in the comments gotta run bye bye Olaf is taking to get for a checkup with the vet and that's actually on the way to the hotel where my colleagues are so he's driving me there I didn't get all the cooking finished yesterday so I got up a little earlier to prepare the salad which is very simple you just take couscous you mix it with a little lemon juice and olive oil and then you add diced tomatoes cucumber some almonds some feta cheese some raisins and some fresh mint and it's absolutely delicious really big because you got only 22 000 people living in Chablis and after on the north of no on the south of Dijon oh what can I say it was so good seeing my colleagues here and showing them where I live a lot has changed in my life and business and in my being since we moved here three years ago and it was just so nice to kind of bring those worlds together of what I do in the Netherlands with my business and the life that I live here that is so very different and we had so much fun so I'm closing this video with a lot of gratitude for the life that I live the life that I've created and all the beauty that is in our world and in our connections with other people so this vlog was a little bit of everything I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you next time