EXTREME DIY HOME PROJECTS ON A BUDGET | LANDSCAPE UPDATES + NEW TREE | IT'S TIME TO GET THINGS DONE!

Hello guys and welcome to Till Vacuum Do Us Part. If you're new here my name is Ashley. So today's video has actually been being filmed for over a week at this point. Typically they're all one day but we've done some home projects that's kind of taken longer than normal or they're just tiring so I don't want to do it all in one day. We have a new addition to the front of our house which I'm excited to show you guys. So and there's some other ones in there as well. I may mention in the video going over to the barn house because I had intense I intended on getting some stuff done over there, but I think that's going to just be a separate video because I think this one might be getting long. I can't always tell, especially when I'm filming multiple days, but let's get you caught up and then we'll start what we're going to be working on today. Okay so the project I have to get done today that I have been putting off for so long because I just don't enjoy doing it is cleaning all the outside of the windows but I feel like we just always have like our curtains open. We don't have blinds. In the summer I love seeing like the sun and all of that and then in the winter there's snow. I don't know. I just like having them cleaned for each season if not more often. I should do it more often. I just don't always have it in me. I think I think the high is like 66 today, so I shouldn't get too hot or too cold. And then the inside. I can get done anytime, you know what I mean? Like that's easier to space out, but why it's a pretty day, I wanna get all these done. Okay, that's it. It is so easy. I don't know why I put it off. So I use the Dawn dish spray. Someone had mentioned to do that cause I use this on everything. And then I ordered this off Amazon cause I'm just a tad bit too short to get to the height, but I can scrub them and then squeegee them. I'm gonna link that cause it's so affordable and literally it makes cleaning your windows so dang easy. So now we're just gonna keep moving. This whole area, I'm not going to do it now, but it needs the good, like, you know, spring cleaning, like patio makeover cleaning. When I come out here and take everything apart and clean it, that's what I really need to do before winter, but I just don't have it in me. I'm actually a little cold out here, so I'm going to go ahead and get those windows clean, maybe clean up. If you can tell, I'm like power washing a few things. There's just so many bugs and stuff out here in Oklahoma, but I'm going to clean it up some, not as well as I normally do, and then it'll be ready. Want to move my feet. You can hear it chases over there mowing. It's like home projects mode for sure. We're just trying to like get everything ready and get everything cleaned up for winter and all that. So I got that cleaned out the best I'm going to for right now. It definitely needs an even better scrub, but I feel like I do that, you know, right before summer when we're going to be out here. But I still want this to look clean because it's definitely the dirtiest area of our house. Sorry, he's really close. I don't know what that was. and you like look at our living room and stuff and see it so it still has to be maintained and it just gets so buggy but the dawn and all that worked really well definitely looks way better than what it was i'm gonna let everything air dry oh i need to go squeegee those and then we'll move on to the next Is it perfect? Not by a long shot. If I took you close, I'll even take you up there. It's not. Georgia's out here trying not to get hit by water. I'll take you over there. From back here, it's better. The windows are going to be clean. That's all I needed, but I'll show you what it looks like up close. So if you see on our white paint, there's just a lot of stuff from bugs. I feel like I'm better in the spring where I come out here at dawn and like when I'm doing I'm doing a patio makeover, I actually scrubbed that. That'll be done then. I really only have it in me to do once a year. I got a lot of like the mud daubers off here with Dawn but like up here I couldn't see like there's still some up there. I don't know. It's looking way cleaner on camera than it actually is, but it's buggy. It just kind of is what it is. I cleaned off this table some, but you can see like inside of it. See how it's disgusting. Oklahoma is just so hard to have like nice things outside. I'll actually do these windows first. I didn't want to go through my house because I'm all wet. I'm going to do these and then I'm also going to show you some clips of the front yard. So I had been wanting to redo the landscaping. It's still not done, but it's better. Um, so So while I'm cleaning these, I'll start a clip here and then I'll insert the clips over there of what we did. One day, if you follow me on Instagram, you kind of know, but you'll get to see the after and the reveal as of now. I still want to do more. So let's cut to that real fast. Oh, it's on tonight, let me come real close now. Baby's trying to pose. It's hot, you're gonna love it. Guys, I was going to do a whole video sharing this and then we couldn't find a tree. So then I stopped. Well, we got out the next day and found a tree. It's like the hottest day in a long time. We're in mid-October and we're breaking a record today in what, the first 60 years? Yeah, since 1963. It hasn't been this hot on this day so like why we chose today but it's because we have a lot of rain coming so we wanted to get this in because I'm telling you God's water is so much better than just like normal water so I wanted to get it in. But if you guys can't tell these pots used to be over there. We slid them here because if you guys remember what is on me I think just dirt. We used to have bushes here. The boys always came out here and you know what on them so like they They died, so this will work better. So I like that there, but then we needed a tree here and I was very picky on a tree because you guys know me, I have an opinion on everything like that when it comes to design. I wanted something that was like organic and kind of had lots of branches. I wanted small leaves. I didn't want anything that turned colors. I wanted something that was like green all year round. Plus we're like at the end of the season, but we went like 40 minutes away and found what we needed. I was so excited. So Chase is getting in the ground, but we have literally about had a heat stroke. Broke out here. He has to keep like going in, laying on tile. Can you tell them that the wax myrtle? It's a wax myrtle. Oh, let me show you. I have the tag and guys, it was super affordable. I feel like for what it is, it was only $2.99. Like I feel like that was such a good deal. Here's what it is. If you guys need like a screenshot of it, but it is gorgeous. And like I said, it stays green. It sheds, but naturally, so there's always leaves on it. Doesn't have color, doesn't have berries, doesn't do any of that. I'll get further back here in a little bit, the trucks here, but it It is gorgeous. I keep trying to like hide in the shade. What was so funny is me and mama from scratch, if you guys know Emily or follow her, I'll link her if you don't, you need to. But she said it was like 48 where she lives and it had snowed a couple days ago and then here we are in the heat. So what you guys missed since I decided not to film it even though I'm filming it now. I put a new doormat out. I did clean all of these off. I need to clean the window because I am so hot. It's not even funny. Like we're going to just try to finish this up and when it cools off one day we can do the rest. But now we had a light back here so we're going to re like bury it and put it on the tree and then move the rocks back and we're getting close. I have the hose out to water it as well. Okay not only were we putting a tree here because I had moved those there because that stuff I wanted some privacy. Privacy in this window, you guys know that's, it's my laundry room right there, and I have tried so many different shades and I cannot figure out what works, but I want a little bit of privacy, especially at night, because I feel like when I'm in there doing laundry and the light's on, you can just like see through into my house. So this is just a little bit of privacy, even if I'm in there at the sink and we get a delivery, you know what I mean? It's just like a little bit of a barrier. I wanted to come inside so you can kind of see like when I'm here at my sink see how I have like blockage now like if someone's walking out there it'll help sometimes with the sun depending on where it is. I mean this is gonna get bigger. We didn't get one that got too big because I want it to stay low where I have like you know The privacy here not up high but I know it will get a little taller and wider and so that'll help but that alone was just huge. I feel like I can be here especially at night and people driving by aren't just like staring at me. I'll try and remember to do this again this evening when it's all lit up but look how good it looks. I think it's perfect for the space. Like I think we got the perfect size to start off with. Okay, it's a lot later. It's so pretty. I should have got this guy earlier. It was even prettier, but we were out here cleaning up. We went in, showered, had dinner, and like... We crashed. Like we, we didn't fall asleep, but we just could not move. We could not talk. We could not do anything. And I don't know, it just took us a second to recover. He's going to go in and turn our lights on out here. They're on timers, but it's starting to get dark here earlier. So we have to like reprogram it. So he's going to go turn it on for you guys. But like, it is perfect. Like the camera isn't even doing it justice at all. Like it looks so good in real life. That is what lighting does. It was a little bit of an investment when we moved in but I love it. Once again, sorry, Chase is mowing. I hope it's not super loud over my voice, but here's how it looks. The tree is thriving. I love having it from the inside to the outside. I do still wanna add something in these areas. I just don't know what yet, but we'll eventually finish that up either this season or like, you know, in the spring, but it's looking so, so good. We put our flag back up. I just feel like everything's looking pretty at night. It's gorgeous. I'll try to show you an after clip. Chase finally added two lights here. lights up even more. But it is gorgeous. The other home project, which I don't have any clips of because we paid someone to do it. We always pay firefighters to put up our Christmas lights because this is really, really steep. So that's done. We don't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. We don't turn them on until after Halloween. But those are all done. So this is looking great. I can't wait to show you what it looks like for Christmas. Christmas by arm. yeah we definitely got that was that was a major project and i think that's why i've been putting it off but it looks so good i mean look at this view isn't it so pretty like i love having these pots here it just makes more sense the boys can't kill them because they're elevated um the flag the tree i don't know we just spend more time out here now than we used to hey george he just took himself on a walk over the pond um so yeah i'm loving the style and everything that we chose For that area. We get down to. We are getting close. I'm getting tired. I'm going to do this section and then I'll do that section and we'll be done. Well, maybe one, two, three, potentially. I don't know, but we're getting close. The window I needed to get to the most is this one because that's where I do laundry And it's kind of dirty. There is a massive spider over there. We found one there the other day too. And then I kind of saw one run from me over there, like in the rocks. Like guys, it's big. We're out in the country. We're not talking small house spiders at all. So Chase is going to have to clean that window when he's done mowing. So the rest are done. I was going to squeegee them, but the sun's on this side. They may get streaky, but I'm staying away from those flower beds for now. That's why we don't have a lot of flowers in there. I do not want to maintain things where there's tons of snakes. Now we get really lucky. I do prayer walks. And we have not seen very many snakes around here. We've seen a few over by the pond. And then when we were building, there was one by the AC unit that like one of the workers sent us. But like I literally pray and walk around our houses. This is, um... And it's helped so much in the past. I guess I'm going to have to start praying for spiders too because those are big. Luckily, we've never really seen them inside. We've had one run in before. And Chase got it when we were like letting the dogs out at night. But oh my gosh, like I I'm literally a city girl in the country. Like, I love land. I love not having neighbors. But, like, the creatures are so much bigger out here. So you all know I like redid it in here and I couldn't really find a Chanel. Let me think. I found this one up here. It was a smaller one. I really want to find a big Chanel. So I keep looking and you guys have been so good about like, oh my gosh, I found one or I've had one that I've had for a few years. You guys have been sending me your offices that you've been doing the same thing, going to Ross, finding them. I have loved seeing them keep sending them and keep motivating me. If you guys ever see a Chanel in your area, obviously I can't get it, but it gives me hope that I'm going to find one. I did find some. They're small. I didn't film it because I'm I never know how much you guys want to see of me just playing in my closet. It's like my favorite hobby right now but I found this one and it's like a Chanel bag with balloons and then I found this one which is like the storefront and then that one so I kind of like rearranged the posters up here and then I have quite a few to take back. I still want to replace this one um but yeah doesn't that look so good. So there is hope Oh, there's Chanel photos out there at Ross. And these three were all laying together. You just have to dig for them. It's like finding Easter eggs. It's like garage sale, hunting, thrifting. You've got to dig, cause like Ross isn't good about just setting their stuff out there like layered. You feel like you're gonna break everything, just like take your time and go through it. But now I have one, two, three, and then I had that one originally, but these are definitely my favorite. So if you watched my home tour, I think it was probably my most recent video. I've already rearranged since because like, This poster is like threw it off because once I had that there I had all my sweaters here but I felt like my Chanel bag needed to go there but yeah. So this is how everything's looking. I moved my jeans back over here but it looks so good. I love it. Okay my sheets are in the dryer. I'll put those on later. I'm going to show you how I clean these windows. I'm not going to show you the rest of the house even though I'm going to do it because you guys have been watching me clean windows this whole video. I swear we have more to do. So what I use is my Jaws glass cleaner and then they have this wand and that's the best way I can do it so I don't have to have a step stool the whole time and I can reach the whole window. We get down. I got you caught up to this point so the outside the front looks so good but now we're going to move on to today's project and we have holes in our walls everywhere. You guys know I get itchy. I get the itch to switch. We're rearranging and typically I'm really good about filling and painting those holes as we go but I just got lazy. I've been so tired lately. I think just keeping up with work and my age I'm like oh my gosh we're getting to the holiday season. There's going to be a ton of people in our house plus just personally I'm sick of looking at holes like I'm talking every bathroom bedroom. We're going to walk around so I'm going to I bought a new product. I have my normal stuff I use, but I also bought like a new stick we're gonna test out from Amazon. So be on the lookout for that. I'll have it down below my description box, but let's start working on all the holes and we'll go from there. I'll see if I have time for another project or not, but that's what has to get done today. So this is what I'm gonna use. I'll link it for you. I'm curious if it's gonna be easier cause I don't have to like dig my nails into it. Like the other one's like a putty and I have to like scrape it out and put it on the wall. on the wall and then take a cloth and wipe it down. So let's see what we think. From here when It worked really well. It is way softer. Like you could use this on your fingers and just wipe it if that's easier. I still like this better than having to dig it out of a tub even if I put it on my finger just because I have nails and it gets messy. So so far so good. If you guys remember a few videos back, this was like our TV room and we hung up all the Big Brother posters or like their photos for it. So there's like a billion holes in this wall. Luckily, I just did the ones you can see. One day when we move this, I can do more. I should have done it, but now that it's all hooked up. I only did the ones you can see and they weren't big holes, but the stuff is working well. I suggest using your finger. I feel like if you rub it on there, you're wasting way too much product and it's cleaner just using your finger, wiping it and then wiping it off. Um, and if you have like a cream, like darker walls than mine, little tanner, you may not even have to paint, especially if it's like small holes. Cause you don't even really notice it. Now I have a few in this bathroom. When we hung this mirror we used to have two individual and when we put up the big one I love it but there's like some holes here and on that side I need to fill. Found some holes in here. I don't even know remember what was up there do you? Before this? Oh was it that deer photo or something? Oh it was the deer picture. So we have some holes up there. We're going to fill that and then we're going to go to my closet because you guys know I have those like they're like knobs but I used to have them to hang my purses. We have a few more we need to take down and fill. I probably have the most holes in the closet outside of the movie room in there but we're going to get this done and then Chase is going to go around and start painting everything. I can't find a way from all of this. I know there's a brighter day. Okay now it's gonna get tedious so I'm just gonna show you clips. So we took this one down. You guys know I had those seasonal rods that you pull down. Well they screwed them into the wall so it looks like these have those little like Ikea holes where you put little things in and put shelves but it's actually just. from being screwed in like the rods we did it once here and it looks so much better so Chase is going to fill all the holes all the way around so we can get that painted as well Wow. now we're to the painting part so we got everything done this is something that's really really easy but i feel like it's just time consuming probably because my closet was so much and it was up high but now we just get to go around and paint and then it will be done We came in here to paint and like we know right where we filled them but they were such small holes and we cleaned it up that we came in here and we can't even find it. So like if you have the right color walls and they're not like huge holes from like screws um these were probably just from nails when we were hanging different photos like you can't even see it so you don't always necessarily have to paint. Now if you have like red walls or colored walls you'll have to but if you have like a white tan you may get away not doing it because like i said i can't even find like exactly where it was in here this space always takes the longest so i'll just show you a few short clips but it's gonna make it look so much better once it's done It's all done. It's just drying now. It's one of those things you don't want to start because it's just kind of tedious and takes time but I'm so so glad it's done. While Chase has been doing that I've just been doing like loads and loads and loads of laundry. Okay guys we're gonna call it there. I hope you enjoyed today's video. It may have been all over the place. Sometimes when I'm filming multiple days I'm like oh my gosh this is gonna be crazy but it feels so good to have that stuff done especially going into winter where the hosting house people are gonna be over Over here, and like I said, just personally for me, I like to have everything in tip top. Top shape, I mean, that's not shocking for me, right? So it feels so good to have all the holes in the walls done. I can see out my windows. The flower beds look so much better. I think I mentioned in that clip, I still wanna do a little bit more, but we'll probably wait until spring because it's good for now. But thank you guys so, so much for being here. I hope you're enjoying my videos. I always hope they're helpful. I hope I bring you something. So thank you for being here. Be sure to comment, like, and share. It helps me out more than you guys know. But I hope you guys have a wonderful Have a wonderful week and I will see you in the next one. Bye.