NEW BUILD HOUSE TOUR UK | 1 month in!

Welcome to Millie's crib. Hi everyone, welcome to our YouTube channel, welcome back if you've been here before. We thought we'd give you an updated house tour today. We have been in our house now for about a month, I think. Yeah, if you don't know, we've literally just moved in, well we moved in at the beginning of September and we've slowly been getting the pieces of the puzzle put together. If you've been watching our previous videos, then this is going to be quite a big video for you actually, because so much has changed about it. And if you haven't been watching the other videos, then give this one a pause and go back. Yeah, we'll leave a link below to the previous videos and if you want to go back and have a look at the empty house tour, that is the house without any furniture or anything in, so that might be kind of a good one for you guys to watch. That was an even day, that feels like a time ago. It feels ages ago, it's so weird. We do actually have some massive news, but we did something pretty big, didn't we, which is kind of weird for people that buy new things. Fortune favors the brave, I think is a good saying. What? What is that? Fortune favors the brave. Fortune favors the brave? What does that mean? Well, it will make sense when we show everyone what's going on. You're a man though, you should get started. First things first, this is the first bit you see of the house, the hallway. We haven't actually done- Usually a way in the middle. I'm a dog. We haven't actually done a lot to the hallway, because we put this mirror up, which is from Habitat, which we absolutely love. But apart from that, we actually haven't really done a lot to the living room. We haven't really done anything. I planned to get a really nice rug in here, I know exactly what one I want to get, but I just haven't got it yet. So when you come in the house, the first thing on the left is just a little WC. Again, not very exciting. It does get more exciting by the time we're home. There's not going to be much in there, is there? Literally, it's just the toilet at the moment. This is kind of one of our last priorities. We do have a nice little painting of Millie and my foot, just here, which a friend gifted me for my birthday, which I love. And we've got some nice white comforting soap, if you know, you know. But apart from that, we haven't really done anything here. I'm planning to maybe do some paneling on the back wall there, which will make it a little more exciting. But then we'll move on, because obviously that part of the house isn't done. The next part is the kitchen, which is obviously a major part of the house. By the way, if you see any of these sticky tags, they're like scuffs. It's part of the design. It's for the decorator. It's not just that we like sticky tags and put them all over the house. I do like them, though. They look quite cool. Yeah. So coming to the kitchen, this is kind of the kitchen part of the kitchen. It's sectioned into two. The kitchen part of the kitchen. Yeah. So we've got like a kitchen diner. All the cabinets and the worktop is actually like a standard part of buying a new build. We didn't upgrade any of this. It's got the wood effect, doesn't it? So yeah, we've got laminate worktops at the moment, which isn't ideal because they do chip and sag. But we'll get it changed in the future. We just kind of leave it for now. We have actually updated the handles already. For the eagle-eyed viewers that might have spotted that already. Yeah. So these handles were so cheap, weren't they? Yeah. And so easy to do. They're literally from Amazon. I think we paid like 20 pounds. Yeah. And we managed to do the whole kitchen and we've still got some left over. Got some spare ones. I would highly recommend, if you are kind of like bored of your kitchen or you buy a new build and you don't really love the handles, don't upgrade them or anything. Just go on Amazon and you can just switch them in a second. Yeah. So yeah. We've got a new kettle and toaster, which you guys probably won't have seen yet if you've watched previous videos. These are from Swan and I absolutely love them. I love the wood effect on here. Just a little rest for wooden spoons because at the old place, I literally always just put whatever you're cooking with, put it on the side and then you end up having to wipe the side. This is really handy because you can just put it on there. It says, have a rest, which I love. I'll definitely need one of them. Rest of the kitchen. We've just kind of gone for like a wood, gold and creamy white kind of vibe, would you say? We've got this pot. What is it from? HomeSense, I think. HomeSense. That one, yeah. These are from- Sainsbury's. CamelTac again. And these are Le Creuset, which we absolutely love. And they are so good, aren't they? They are good, yeah. I feel like we spent so much money just buying rubbish. But it's actually been worth spending a bit of money on them because they are actually so much better. Obviously, just a little personal water there, which is pretty much just for show. We've got some nice books here, which we 100%- We need to use them, don't we? Need to use. They're from Palmer and Stone, aren't they? They're mum's. They are. They're from Palmer and Stone. And we'll link Palmer and Stone down below because you might notice a bit of a theme. This is actually from Palmer and Stone as well. This vase and these vases are both from Palmer and Stone. We love it. It's like a local shop where we previously lived, so we have a lot from there. And yeah, you can get it online though, so we'll link it below. Obviously, just got a little week-by-week planner, which I got off Etsy. And we just plan all of our meals on there. I'm not even going to lie to you, this is last week's because today has just been crazy. We didn't manage to plan our week, but- We've got HelloFresh this week, though. We do have HelloFresh this week. Sink. We are hoping to change this sink at some point. We just got the stainless steel sink, but to be honest with you, it scratches so easily. It's already scratched. Yeah, it does. It's so easy. And the tap's not the best in the world, so we are probably going to get a butler sink or something in here at some point, maybe when we change the workshops. But that is probably going to be in a future video because we can't really afford to do that now. This sink paddy we literally had delivered today just from Amazon. And I feel like it's just made the sink look so much better. The fact that you can pop those in there. I have this severe obsession with Amazon gadget fun videos at the moment. I don't know if any of you guys have bought a house before. All you can seem to do is go on Amazon. I'm fully Amazon obsessed at the moment. The fruit bowl is actually... Have we spoken about the fruit bowl? I actually love that fruit bowl. I think it's sick. That is so nice. We showed it in Home Central. It's like a gold color with wood on the bottom. It looks a lot better when you take your fruit out of the plastic, but there we go. The blinds we got from 24-7 Blinds. And they're really good actually. Our friend recommended these. This corner, a lot of you guys will already know, we basically created this corner ourselves. There actually was nothing here before. It was just a completely blank space. There was no cupboard, no shelves. We've installed it all ourselves because it literally looked ridiculous. I don't know why they did that in the new build anyway. And also we needed the extra storage. So we put this cupboard in, which we've already filled up with me creating Mike's products because we're obsessed with them. And then we've got a lovely microwave. Joe's mom and dad actually bought this for us and I just love it. It's so nice. We've got a little Amazon Alexa there, vital for any kitchen. Bitchin' swag on a playlist on a Sunday morning. Joe built this coffee station, so I can take absolutely no credit for it. But I think it looks so cool. We've gone for a rustic vibe. We've literally just used, is it scaffold boards? Yeah, it's just a couple of scaffold boards that have been stained with wood stain. Yeah, just stained to be darker. And then we've got these again off of Amazon. And it cost a tenner, I think, on Facebook, them ones. What's that? Them wood boards, yeah. Tenner on Facebook for both of them. Search scaffold board on Facebook if you want to make some shelves. But yeah, we love this little coffee station. That was kind of our dream to have a coffee station, wasn't it? So here we are. I forgot to mention as well that there's a print out for you, which is from one of my friend's online stores. So I'll make sure that I link her store. It's called White Cove Collective. When this looks nice, this looks nice. Now for the next part of the kitchen. This is basically the big news that we wanted to tell you guys. What we've done is so backwards. We've bought a new build and we've started renovating it, which is so ridiculous, but it all makes sense when you see it. It's not done, by the way. So if you see bits of blobs on the wall and stuff, it hasn't actually been painted yet, so it's not finished. But we wanted to show you guys the house anyway. There it is. Basically, we've decided to cut a hole in the wall. I know that that's kind of weird, but when we got this house, we realized when we moved in, it was so dark in here. I wanted to literally knock this whole wall down, but when we moved in, we realized we didn't really want to knock it down because we quite liked that they were separate. Then we thought about putting a door in there, like a French door. We would have lost a lot of room doing that. So then Jo's mum basically had the idea that we should cut a hole in it. She'd seen Mrs. Hinch do it, I think, before. It was like, that is literally the best idea ever. Like, let's just do it. Andy came in and spent a whole day in here cutting the wall open. Luckily, this wall was literally just plasterboard, so we didn't have to bash through bricks or anything. Three, two, one. We have lifted. Hello. We were thinking about maybe hanging some plants, like having some of those macrame plants. Yeah. Break it up a bit. But yeah, that's our big news. It's just so much more sociable as well. Whoever's in the lounge can still hear the person in the kitchen. I feel like in the summer when we have garden parties and stuff, it would just be a lot more open. Obviously, the cabinet, we have fully finished it now. We painted this in the previous video you guys would have seen. But we've literally just finished, well, you finished putting the doors on today, didn't you? And we're really happy with it. It looks really nice. Yeah, love it. And then the last couple of parts of the kitchen, if you have watched the previous videos, you probably would have seen. We have this dining table made and delivered. Oh, yeah, we've got these little photographs from B&M. And they're just like the perfect color. I really like them. I was going to get cream, but then I was like, I feel like we need a bit of color in the house. So I've gone for the yellow. They go really nicely with the wood as well. They just go nice in the room, don't they? Go with our candles. We've got the prints here from Etsy, the frames from Amazon, and the shelf was from B&M. So yeah, that looks really nice. I think that's a nice feature. And then we put this light up as well. We've done it quite unusually though. We've done like a- They call it decentralizing, don't they? Is that what it is? Decentralizer. But yeah, we're really happy with it. That's Dunelm. Yeah, Dunelm. Same as these as well. These were Dunelm. Sort of like they pretty much match, don't they? Dun, dun, dun. Welcome to the lounge. Yeah, so first things first, the sofa. Woo, look at this sofa. We went like two weeks without actually having a sofa. I know, I don't know how we managed it. Sitting on these, it just wasn't ideal. So yeah, we've finally got the sofa and I'll do the little slip test. Hey! That sofa is from Sofology and we've spoken about- I think we've spoken about the experience we had with Sofology. But I thought it was great, weren't it? When we went in there, the guy was so helpful. Yeah, honestly. We didn't even see the sofa before we bought it. No. He just said, you'll love this one. We sat on the two-seater one and we were like, yeah, that's well nice. In a different colour, wasn't it? Yeah, it was like a blue colour. So we didn't even know what this fabric was going to be like. Shall I show you the fabric up close? Because you can't really get there. It's like a weave sort of fabric. Yeah, it was called Natural Weave, I think. Obviously, it's actually the most impractical colour in the world but we've got insurance on it. I'm really trying to rub in it. So you can move this and put it to the side. Then when we have a movie night, we can sit and watch TV on the new TV. The new TV. Which is- A lot bigger than the last one. Bigger than the last one. But you can see, it is big. The room isn't massive. It's not massive, it's not small, but you sit over there and it's like- It's quite far. It's not too far away for a small TV. We had a 43-inch in the last house, didn't we? Yeah. When we come here, that one just seemed tiny. So I just thought, if we're going to buy- We got a headache watching it, didn't we? We might as well just buy a big one. If we end up moving eventually or making this room bigger or whatever, that TV's still going to be big enough. Yeah. Moving on. So this rug that we've got is- Crazy rug. Is a cowhide. It's not real, guys. Can I just confirm? It's not a real cowhide. We haven't skinned a cow. It's just a mock-up. But when you're walking on it, it's soft AF. Soft AF. I think it looks really nice. You can't tell that it's a cowhide, to be honest. No. It just looks really nice. From Amazon, we got this the other day. It's really nice. This is just the centerpiece of the lounge, really. We bought this. We had this in the old house. It's just a Facebook marketplace, actually, weren't it? Yeah. I think it's originally from made.com. Oh, is it? Yeah. Also, these are from made.com. So we are pretty bougie. Yeah. Our lounges are from made.com. But we get it all off the marketplace. I had an exam the other day, and I went to Cambridge. And you came back with a nice cushion. I came back with this cushion from the Futon Company. Love the Futon Company. There's a sofa bed that we actually really want in there, so I keep going in there whenever I go past looking like, oh, please. I want this sofa bed. In time. We've been struggling with the plants a little bit. A couple of them look like they're struggling. I don't know why. So I've repotted them today. But this one, he is- He? Is it she? No, he. That's his little sister. OK. But he's growing. He is gorgeous. He's thriving in this room. He is. He actually looks sick. He's loving it. We bought this when we went down to Bath. Yeah, that was in the last video. In the last vlog. We bought this pot. And then we come back. And Bethan's colleague had bought us this pot, which actually looks like the same. Can you believe that? They're like, like I say, that's- Little and large. Little sister. So we're going to do like, we're going to get like a proper TV unit, like a floating TV unit. It's going to be like more like, more like woody, like natural, like you can see like the sort of vibe we're going for. It's like wood, natural sort of stuff like that. We actually, this is new. Oh yeah, this is new. We actually, when we ordered the, when we ordered the sofa, we measured it and it's like, it fit. But that was before we moved in, wasn't it? Yeah. And then when we moved in, the dimensions of the wall are slightly less than what they had in the drawings. And so yeah, the radiator that was, that they put in was underneath the window. So now we've put this tall radiator, and Aaron, my cousin, is a plumber, and he just come around and done it when we were on holiday. Are we going to do the garden? Like we just do, the garden's not pretty. There's not really much in the garden, but you can have a look. That's French doors in the summer months. Open that up. Yeah. It's a lovely garden. Like when we do actually do it. There'll be a whole garden reno video, won't there? Definitely. Like we have actually got plans already for this, but there's no point us doing it now because it's literally October and we're not going to be going in the garden. The only thing that we haven't mentioned just then is this back wall is like a big blank space that we are going to put artwork on. So yeah, we need to get some artwork. We found a few bits and we did like one. We really liked one when we were in Bath that was in like some interior shop, but we didn't get it. We could still get it, but we haven't got it yet. No. So this bit's done and this bit's not. And we've got a cupboard under the stairs, which is quite big to be fair. We put some hooks up. We've got a shoe rack in there. Yeah. Millie goes in there at night. No, she does not. No chance. So yeah, that's the living room. Hi-ho. It's upstairs we go. These stairs to be fair. Yeah, they're so nice. I mean, love the carpets. I like the way that they sort of go up and then like curve around. Love the carpets. Yeah. Mushroom. Or mascarpone, was it? Yeah. What we could do actually, in case any of you guys are randomly buying, sorry, I nearly fell down the stairs there. In case any of you guys are actually buying an indian home, we will write in the description all the choices that we made. They were all standard, so no upgrades. But yeah, in case you guys like the carpet or the flooring or whatever. Got our choices. But come on upstairs. Little window. Yes. Which we love. So nice. Brings loads of light in, don't it? So much light in, yeah. Normally in the morning, like literally the light floods this place. It's so nice when you get up. The first room you come to is my dressing room. It is not done in any way, by the way. In fact, all of this upstairs isn't done. So the main bits we've done is the downstairs. I mean, we've spent half the time cutting a wall through. So you'll get the idea. Welcome to my dressing room. Yeah, there's the clothes rail. This is the clothes rail. So plans for the dressing room are this is going to be the layout of it, basically. But where you're standing and kind of all this clothing rail, this is all going to be wardrobes the whole way along. Yeah, that's like alcove, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not really sure whether I'm going to do like a corner wardrobe or I've got a few different ideas for this bit. So I'm not really sure. But I definitely know that this is going to be filled with wardrobes. This part here is kind of done. So I put the dressing table here, but I'm planning on getting some kind of big mirror here. Are you keeping that dressing table? You are, aren't you? Yeah, I really like the dressing table. I feel like it would look nice. Yeah, and I'm keeping this chair. And this cushion is from Tesco. Hello, Mr. Tinch. Love a bit of Mr. Tinch, Tesco comfort room. Homer and stone candles again. And that is my friend's White Cove Collective as well. Always bring your own sunshine. And you can see the garden from up here. The layout is just that. I haven't actually got the wardrobes and the mirror and stuff yet, or two mirrors. But yeah, I love this room. Like I just find it so relaxing. I come in here in the morning sometimes and just like watch YouTube, get ready. And I've just never had that. So I feel like really grateful for this room out of all the rooms in the house. And it's not even finished yet. Once it's finished, it's going to look like so much better. Going on from that is the master bedroom, which we are saving for kind of a main video. We're going to redecorate this whole room. So it is very plain at the moment. As you can see, we've literally not done anything to it. We've just got a few nice bits on the side. But we just thought there's no point in us doing random bits. Like we want to redo this whole room and make it like really super cool. Super cool. We do have a stunning plant, which we absolutely love. This plant was suffering the other night, wasn't it? But it's come back to life. All the leaves curled up. And we were like, oh my god. It was just dehydrated. And then, yeah, just put a bit of water in it overnight. And then it woke up and it was all back to normal. All of the plants that you have seen are like quite big. And we actually got a line. What was the place? Bloom Box Club. And we would definitely recommend them. Like the quality of the plants is so good. She's trying to get attention. This is like the half an hour that she doesn't get attention of the day. But yeah, Bloom Box Club. I definitely recommend getting plants from there. Really good. And then this was from HomeSense. This is just going a little bit off. And we're going to have a few more here as well. I've seen a slug drop. A little Leather Topic. Got that off of Amazon. Palmer and Stone again. Palmer and Stone Pampas as well. So all of her stuff is so nice in there. I would definitely check that place out. Lumilite, which I got off Marketplace. They're really expensive to buy. They're like over 100 quid. So I got one off Marketplace. And it's so good. It makes the whole room look like daylight at like 5 in the morning when it's pitch black. There's houses behind us. But then behind them, there's no houses. And these are just woods and fields. It's so nice to have that. The sun goes down over there. So it's really nice. Moving on is the en suite. We're planning to get basically a wall mirror here, which we'll do in the future. It's going to go like the full- The full wall. Full height as well? We're going to do the full height? Yeah. From the top of that tile, basically, all the way to the top. We had one of those in the showroom, and it looked really cool. So we basically wanted to replicate that. But yeah, apart from that, we love the shower. We've added some B&M. They're really good, actually. What do you call them? Shower caddies? Yeah. We definitely recommend them. They're really good. They haven't fallen off once, have they? No. We had some in the old house, and they kept falling off. But I don't know. Yeah. These ones seem really good. So if you're looking for- We've got three, because we've got so much stuff in there. Very nice. I absolutely love these tiles. I love them more than the ones in our other bathroom. They're really nice. And the flooring is different to the downstairs. We didn't even mention the flooring downstairs. Herringbone downstairs, and then this is like a dark oak sort of one. Oh, yeah. Lovely. This is from B&M. We've got two of these. We've got one in the other bathroom, which you'll see as well. I really like it, and it's literally £8. No, it wasn't B&M. It was Home Bargains. Home Bargains. Also, I'm sorry. Can I just demonstrate this toilet brush? So toilet brushes rank things to buy, right? Silicon toilet brush. Pop it in, it closes itself. Absolutely obsessed. I'm sorry, but it's just the best thing that we've bought for this whole house. The space here for wardrobe, which is going to be my wardrobe space. Basically just trying to hide all of our towels. Hiding the little towels. This is the spare room slash office, and here is where I spend, well, not most of my time, because like- I would say most of your time. I suppose most of my time- Eight hours a day? Yeah, but I'm not- Oh, you're not in- Five days a week. Yeah, true. I suppose like- Three days a week. Recently, I just got a new desk and a new chair. Check this out. This desk is from Amazon, and if anyone's thinking about getting one, I'd definitely recommend, because it's solid as well. This goes up to the height that I have it on. Bethan uses it, but she can just change it and adjust it. I've got a cable tray under there, which I also got from Amazon, which basically hides all the cables. There's literally just one though. Before, you had so many when it first arrived, didn't you? Yeah, and there's like an extension thing on the bottom. You can't see it from up here at all. So that's that. The chair is from Dals. Dals? Dals or Dals? I don't know. I don't know where it's from. It's like D-A-A-L-S. D-A-A-L-S. That's how it's spelled, and they do like- Demonstrate it. This is the chair that I went for. Black and leather. Oh my God, guys. Do we have that? I'm actually just going to show you what Joe sat on for basically two years, guys. This fold-out metal chair. How bad for your back? I'm so glad that you've gone and got that other chair. This is the desk. This is my workspace. This little arm thing basically just means that I have this as desk space rather than like them big clunky- Monitor thing. That was only like 30 quid of Amazon, so I'll link that in the description as well. That was decent. Then this is an Ikea little unit, which we had in the old house, didn't we? It was down there like flat back, and the other night I was like, that would actually look decent if I had that next to my desk, and now I have it next to my desk. The plans in here are basically- I don't know if anyone's seen, but there's like this stuff called Accupanel, and it's like- They look like wooden like battens that go up the wall, so I'm going to do this from like where the sort of desk starts up, and then it's going to be like sort of a timber sort of like naturally sort of colour. I like it. This is the conservatory chair, which- We don't really know what to do with this at the moment. But it's so comfy, and to be honest, like if I'm like in a long meeting or something, I have been known to just like sit here. Yeah, so we might keep it and just get it upholstered. It's such a nice chair, and it's like original wicker, like it's not like one of the new ones, so we just don't really want to part with it, but we're also struggling to fit it in the house. I think it goes here. The sofa bed that we were talking about from Futon Company is like a timber sort of wood one, which is similar tones of wood to this conservatory chair, and there's going to be- That sofa is going to sort of go on that wall, so it's going to be like a sofa, like a little bit more of like a conversation space. You literally like- You should work in a showroom. There is space for wardrobes and other stuff behind there. We've got a laundry. I think I'm just going to custom make like a shelving, some shelving, so this is still going to be- That's going to be like the laundry area. Then there's a couple of shelves for like towels and bedding and stuff. That's going to be- Because we don't have an airing cupboard. No. That is the one thing about this house that we were a bit sad about, was that there's no upstairs cupboard. There's no like room storage. There isn't a wardrobe. You know how normally you'd have on a landing like some kind of cupboard, but I guess they just utilized all the space for the bedroom. If we had like- Because I know this would be where the airing cupboard would be. Yeah. We would lose that space in the room. That. Around the corner. The last room in the house. Go to the toilet. Then this is the bathroom. It's quite a decent size to be fair. Like we've got the bath. We didn't get a shower upgrade because we just didn't think it was necessary to spend that money. Because your cousin's a plumber, there's no point in us paying for someone else to do stuff like that when we wanted to move in here and like decide later what we're going to do to it. This bath, we can maybe get like a nicer bath that's like a bit more stylish. Yeah. And then think about what we're going to do with that bath. But that's to be confirmed. We also don't have any storage in here either yet. But we're going to get like a, I think we're going to get like a ladder shelving thing there. Yeah, we've literally got stuff on the floor. Just like a few bits. But then like I say, this room is like not used that much. No. And that is pretty much- That's the house tour. The house tour. Thank you so much for watching this video. Make sure you- Make sure you subscribe. If you haven't already. Click that button. And like. We've got plenty to do, guys. We're going to have all sorts of different stuff. Garden renos, bedroom renos. Yeah, loads to do. Hope you like the hole in our wall. We'll update you when that's been painted. But yeah, hope you like the idea of it. And yeah, maybe it'll give you guys some inspiration if you feel like your house is looking a little bit dark or just not sociable enough. But yeah, we'll see you in the next video. Peace.