Right now we're standing in my bedroom, as you may not be able to tell, because there's literally no furniture in here whatsoever.

Really there's not a lot going on, but that's kind of good for me because it's setting the bar low, so

Even if I do a crappy job taking over this place it's gonna look better than it does right now

I have four wonderful blank white walls. I have this pretty decent sized window.

I have a little closet in one corner; This wall, which is just completely blank. So that's super exciting.

And then this wall which has the door, which is also super exciting.

The only furniture that I have right now is this sad little foam mat that's on the floor with my bedding.

Pretty much the only thing that I hate about this place is the carpet. I know I sound dramatic, but it's absolutely fucking disgusting...

It's just like so many colors, like, pick a color to be.

Probably the real reason I hate it is just because it's giving me PTSD to my high school, in which all the rooms were covered with this carpet.

So there are a lot of awkward memories attached to that,

A lot of unrequited crushes,

A lot of acne in unfortunate places on my face.

First step, is going to be going to Home Depot

[And I said it]

Not even on the 405 yet, why is there traffic? It's 1 pm on a Thursday???

Oh, I love LA.

[it's not about personality matrixels and charts. It's all about the b-bumps in your heart]

Alright guys, I just got back from the Home Depot

My makeup and my dignity are nowhere to be found.

My bank account is not happy with me because it turns out that power tools and carpet kind of add up.

I will say though the men at Home Depot are amongst the nicest people with a y-chromosome I've ever met in LA.

Two Scandinavian guys who were parked next to me helped me boot these giant ass carpets into my car.

I also saw this guy who looked like he was straight out of an Abercrombie catalog returning a single plank of wood.

So I'm gonna take a shower now.

I'm gonna eat some cereal, because that is the only food that I own currently, and then I'll catch up with you guys,

and we'll start putting together this room.

Hey guys, so I'm a back from the shower and I'm wearing this exciting, new, other white t-shirt.

I apologize that my outfit are not gonna be cute in this video. You either get home improvement Ashley or fashion Ashley

There's no intersection of the two.

First thing we're gonna do is move out my pseudo bed...

Depressing ass situation. We're gonna move that out of the room. We're gonna bring in the rug.

Feels mildly sexual and I don't know why...

Just kidding, this never happens to me.

There he is.

But not bad

So to explain what's going on here basically my room is the most inconvenient set of dimensions possible

It's thirteen point seven five feet by eleven point two five point. I honestly don't know who the fuck designed this

So in order to cover this entire ugly-ass carpet, I bought two eight foot by 10 foot rubs

Now the problem here is that no matter how you configure these two routes. They will not cover the entire room

however

there is enough total square footage between the two carpets so my plan is I'm gonna unfurl one of the rows and I'm just

gonna leave it as is and then the other rug is going to be my

Torture victim and unfortunately, I'm going to cut it apart with a box cutter.

I am so sorry for this rug and its family members

Because you're about to watch a murder on the screen.

I feel like Gustavo on Breaking Bad

[Gustavo: you do this,

All you have left is an eight million dollar hole in the ground]

This is going to be so painful, this feels so wrong

After I cut the carpet to size and put it in place

I just kind of juzzed the edges where the two carpets met a little bit to make that seem less noticeable

And then I just repeated that process for the remaining pieces of the carpet. Nothing too complicated

One thing I did pay special attention to though was that the knots on this carpet are going in a certain direction

You can see it if you flip the carpet over and there are these ridges

So I made sure that those rows went the same direction lengthwise across my entire room

So next up we're just gonna start bringing in some furniture.

I've bought me some furniture from some really random ass places so far

I have this big ass mirror that I got off of Craigslist

I also have this desk from Ikea it was only three dollars, which is super freakin affordable

And then I also have some shelves that are in the same style that I'm gonna build

So an unseen disadvantage of this carpet is I think I dropped a screw somewhere and

It's literally impossible to find this bitch because she is so thick.

When it will inevitably stab into my foot, I guess I'll find it then

I have a bunch of mirrors and plants that are actually from Damon from the Travel Channel Damon Joe

I don't know if you guys know them

They're like the best fuckin travel youtubers but they're actually moving out of LA

So they left me some plants to take care of and also some really lovely decor. So thank you so much Damon for that

You guys today is

What fucking day is it? you officially know that it's summer when you can't remember what day of the week it is

It's Tuesday. It's about four days since I've moved -wait- Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Apparently I can't do math either so good thing. I'm a film major

It is six days after I moved in I have been sleeping on the floor like a fucking badger

I had a guy over and I had to explain that there was literally no furniture is my room

But we may do that is too much information. Anyway, as you can see my bed has just arrived today initially

I was really set on building one myself and I spent like six hours of watching YouTube tutorials I online but the problem with living

Alone and being weak is that I would have to take the entire bed once I built it outside into the back of my apartment

in order to do with the furnish and then I have to bring the assembled bed all the way back up the stairs and into

This apartment which given the fact that I haven't exercised in about four years is damn near impossible anyways

Because I did want to save fifty dollars and not have to pay the delivery man to us and will this for me?

I'm assembling it myself and turns out that unlike IKEA furniture. It doesn't fucking come with a manual

So I'm just gonna wing it as I go along

So today is Thursday

Officially a week since I moved in another day another who plain white shirt and shorts because my outfits are popping in this video

honestly

the room looks are really good from this angle but um

There's actually just like a pile of random crap on the floor

Because I've been that awkward in-between stage where I'm still trying to organize all of my stuff

Anyway, so today we are tackling this wall behind me. I decided I'm gonna try to install a faux brick wall

This faux brick wall idea by the way is almost completely ripped off TheSorryGirls

Hi Kelsey and Becky. If you're watching this. Kelsey and Becky are actually lowkey my bosses because I take two years for them as well

I'll link the original video below. It's gonna be way more professional than whatever the fuck I end up doing here

But basically what we're doing is burning a brick pattern into some Styrofoam sheets

So I have my measurements of my wall written out on this sheet of paper

And I'm gonna try my best to kind of Tetris these pieces into the shape of the wall that I need

So I started out this project by cutting my styrofoam to size

And yes

I am using a sewing tape measure and a small ruler to do this because I didn't want to pay like an extra

$20 for proper measuring tools hardware stores, usually carry eight foot long sheets of styrofoam insulation, which would make this process so much easier

But I had to buy smaller ones so they would actually fit in the trunk of my car

The one upside is that these pre-cut pieces are a lot cheaper

This is 3/4 inch thick styrofoam and it only cost me around $30 for enough to cover my entire wall

Once I had a panel cut to size. I started tracing out the brick pattern

I first traced out rows that were four inches apart then cut a brick template out of cardboard

Any random cardboard box you have lying around from your excessive online shopping will work for this

I just cut out a template that was four inches tall by eight inches wide and I added a line down the middle which will

Help us later when we're laying down that alternating brick pattern

Sorry for the hideous lighting, by the way, it's like nighttime now because tracing that out of me way longer than I expected

I am probably going to be up to like 2:00 a.m. Tonight, but now it is time to use this thingy

This is a plastic welding tool that I got of Amazon for like $25

Which was definitely way too much to spend on a tool that I'll literally never use again

But it basically just like heats up and then this triangle will hopefully melt my styrofoam for me

I would highly recommend going outside if you can but first of all

I didn't want to get caught filming outside by my attractive neighbours and second of all

I live on the second floor and I don't have an extension cord large enough to go down the entire staircase

So we're gonna make do by just opening the windows and blowing event fans

I'm not gonna get cancer lose a good like two years off my life span by doing this but I'm gonna have a really good

Fabric wall for about twelve months while i live here so.

After about an hour of burning styrofoam and and a good 200 dead brain cells later

I genuinely

Felt like I wanted to throw up so I took a break for the night and woke up fresh and ready in the morning to

Do exactly the same thing all over again as I was melting the design

I made sure to line up adjacent pieces of styrofoam and melt right over the edge of the two pieces

So the design would match up exactly and help minimize the appearance of the scene

Next it was time to add some brick texture you can get pretty creative with this

You can go all Jackson Pollock on it if you want

But my main techniques were tapping the styrofoam light week to create at least tiny little dents and then dragging the tool quickly across the surface

To get rid of that bubbly looking styrofoam texture lastly

I went in with a coat of white semi-gloss latex paint as I was painting

I purposefully let some of that black sharpie show through in some spots because I felt like it helped create an illusion of a

Three-dimensional kind of worn in slightly dirty looking brick wall. I

I am about halfway through painting and I realized like an idiot

I didn't buy enough paint, what I didn't count for is that styrofoam was a thirsty ass bitch and she absorbs a lot of paint

I put like a thick coat on I like yeah, it's white, but it's still to me looks very

Clearly styrofoam me. It doesn't really have like that painted texture that I really want to get

So that means that I'm gonna go to Home Depot for the third time in a single week

And now a brief intermission for the least informative clothing rack tutorial of all time

So I just finished the second coat of paint and I've changed into something cuter because I realize that my outfits are getting a little

Depressing in this video. I still have paint on my knees though. So that's couture

So the first step is gonna be to measure out these things, these are rods. It's what they're called. Okay. Oh, I should probably have a sharpie

I don't wanna get up though uh

I just

So apparently if you don't have a Sharpie

You can just use some scissors to to Nick it and then you won't have to get up because you're a lazy piece of shit

The fucking worst type of packaging by the way, okay

So from what I hear, from what the kids on the street are saying is that you just unscrew this thingy

to fit your pipe and then you just

Give a little that action. It's like a little pizza cutter but for pipes. Oh we have breakage this seems kinda short

For a clothing rack, but we're gonna go for it since I've cut this piece now

I'm gonna pull you guys in for a nice shot on my crotch here so you can see what I'm doing

Oh god, that's very crotchal. Oh

One blister later we have all of the pieces cut

so now all we really have to do is assemble it using these little

Connect nub-aroos I did a super bad job of explaining this next part on camera

But basically I just use an epoxy glue to secure all of the pipe nubbins to the connecting nub-aroos

The official terms and then after drying overnight, this is what I looked like

All right now back to that brick wall

Because I wasn't trying to blow like $50 on command strips

I ended up using this blue putty it's what I used to use as a kid all the time back in my day

Before your kids came in and give command strips and betweens and socialism for extra security

I did use a couple command strips just at key locations

Like where two pieces of styrofoam overlapped before I laid in the last pieces of faux brick

I installed curtain rod holders on either side of the window and then cut a small slit in the styrofoam

So it would fit over nicely

Lastly I went back in again with some paint laying a pretty generous amount over the lines were two pieces of styrofoam net to minimize

The appearance of those seams and make it look hopefully more like one big brick wall and out some random-ass pieces of styrofoam stuck together

I

Spent the next few weeks

Procrastinating editing this video and I mean putting up some finishing touches on the room which in all seriousness

Was quite a task when you're as cripplingly indecisive as I am

I also went hunting for some furniture and my local thrift stores added a frankly excessive number of plants