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  • So, for the past 21 years, I've been waiting for HGTV to give me my own room makeover show and..

  • It hasn't quite happened yet. So, in the meantime, I'm just doing as many room makeovers as I possibly can.

  • I promise I am working on my own apartment makeover,

  • but I am being such a little anal-

  • I don't- nope, that wasn't the right word to call myself.

  • I mean, a bit of a perfectionist about it.

  • So, in the meantime, I'm making over David's bedroom,

  • which is like middle-school-Ashley: a little ugly, confused, and desperately in need of a glow up.

  • So without further ado,

  • I'm heading over to Home Depot to play my favorite game of

  • "How Long Can I Shop For Hardware Without Getting Harassed and/or Patronized by 60-Year-Old Men?"

  • The answer is: usually not that long.

  • I love this game... so much!

  • Uh, let's get started!

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  • First, we're gonna redo the floors with some hardwood.

  • We're gonna get some paint to repaint the walls.

  • We're gonna build some shelves out of some wood and some 6-inch steel nipples.

  • Yes, that is what they're called.

  • And,

  • we're gonna fill some holes with some caulk.

  • Drywall caulk, that is.

  • Okay. I promise I'm done now.

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  • Come over here-

  • Hi, I'm David.

  • Room on 3, room on 3!

  • 1, 2, 3! ROOM! (ROOM!)

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  • First and foremost, we are getting rid of this ugly-ass carpet.

  • As some of you might know, carpets and frats are not a good mix.

  • Do you think there's a whole handle of vodka inside this carpet- can you wring it out?

  • I think there's at least 4

  • [laughter]

  • You can probably drink that and get REaL drunk

  • Let's RIP this baby up!

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  • David's frat has two cats that are named Chad and Brad

  • Alright, the carpet and the carpet liner have all been removed.

  • Underneath we found a disturbing amount of mold so we picked up-

  • these masks.

  • Oh, let's do a Home Depot try on haul!

  • So I really like the blue accent strap on this,

  • I think it would pair really well with just like a simple pair of denim

  • or maybe like a twirly skirt for that industrial feminine

  • juxtaposition.

  • Okay, let's get to

  • Disinfecting!

  • --Because we love not getting respiratory diseases from mold.

  • yEaH

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  • NoOoOooo

  • Alright, next up, we have to install our laminate flooring

  • so installing hardwood is basically like putting together a puzzle-

  • Except it's a giant puzzle that covers your entire floor,

  • you can't start with the corners,

  • you have no reference image,

  • and you have to cut your own pieces yourself.

  • So just like the worst puzzle you could possibly imagine

  • So the first part is kind of easy; laminate planks come with these interlocking edges,

  • so all you have to do is slide in the horizontal edge and then press down the plank

  • to lock it in place.

  • It gets a little bit complicated when you get to the edges,

  • which is where you need to cut the planks to size

  • I used a knife and this right angle thingy to mark where I needed to make a cut.

  • Luckily, at the frat they have a circular saw,

  • but they do not have any clamps.

  • So instead, we're weighing it down with a gallon of paint

  • and another box of laminate

  • because you do what you gotta do

  • Probably don't do this at home

  • After miraculously emerging with my appendages still attached,

  • I locked our freshly cut piece in place.

  • There you go. Now we just continue that for

  • seven more hours until our entire floor is covered.

  • And from there on out, it was a pretty simple rinse and repeat process,

  • with the exception of this special 90-degree piece

  • We had to cut to fit around the edge of the L-shaped room.

  • You know you've been working hard when your boobs

  • are literally just completely covered in sawdust.

  • And David hasn't even been touchin' 'em.

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  • The last piece... David's doing the honors

  • [angelic sound effect]

  • I gotta say, for two people who have absolutely no

  • experience in construction whatsoever

  • and who were cutting wood literally with a bucket of paint as a clamp,

  • I think it came out pretty well.

  • As long as you don't look at the edges of this floor,

  • which came out a little bit janky because I just didn't measure everything perfectly

  • But luckily I have our friend- aAah

  • I have THIs which is called a quarter round

  • It is essentially like a band-aid for the edges of your wood or just like a really good full coverage concealer

  • You know?

  • I measure out each side of the room and then marked on my moulding where I wanted to make a cut

  • After playing another fun game of

  • "Will Ashley and David Lose a Finger Today?

  • Who the Hell Knows?"

  • we nailed the molding into place with some small finishing nails

  • and I got to say we also kinda nailed

  • ba-dum tss~

  • this hardwood installation, if I may say so myself. (Oh, yeah.)

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  • Hello, and welcome to probably the jankiest wall in this entire room,

  • this is a pure styrofoam wall-

  • it has a ton of holes in it. It's half painted black, half green.

  • It's silver up top.

  • Really weird situation.

  • So, I figured, what better way to cover up styrofoam than with more styrofoam?

  • This is my precious little baby from my last room makeover

  • I spent like two days burning this brick pattern into a piece of styrofoam

  • and probably lost a lot of brain cells to Styrofoam fumes,

  • but let's not think about that right now.

  • Anyways, a couple months ago. I moved out of my old apartment

  • and I'm looking for a new home for my styrofoam baby.

  • And I figured this would be the perfect thing for David's wall.

  • I think he'll be a good adoptive father

  • and I'll get visiting rights occasionally when I come to see him

  • and then I can be

  • reunited with my baby.

  • Yes, I am strangely attached to a piece of styrofoam, okay? But I spent a long time making it.

  • To install my faux brick wall

  • I trimmed the styrofoam to size with a box cutter

  • and then nailed it into place with some small finishing nails.

  • If you don't conveniently have some old faux brick laying around from a past apartment makeover,

  • they also sell pre-made faux brick sheets at Home Depot that you can buy and apply this same technique to.

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  • Lo and behold, there was another weird styrofoam patch on the other side of the room.

  • Since this is a smaller patch,

  • I just ended up smoothing out the holes with an aggressive amount of drywall spackle.

  • This is like the same stuff that you use to fill a little nail hole in the wall,

  • except I was filling like 10 cubic feet worth of

  • wall-swiss-cheese.

  • And to finish off the day,

  • we finally covered up the ten different

  • infuriating half-ass paint jobs on this room

  • with one full juicy ass of a paint job

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  • Hello, and welcome to day two of our room makeover

  • Today, we are tackling David's true nemesis

  • this fucking cabinet system.

  • [David] I hate them. They're terribly painted.

  • They're an utter waste of space.

  • [Ashley] Basically, David has been itching to tear out these cabinets for so long,

  • but, whoever built them put them in so sturdily.

  • They're like, on a platform, they're painted in by like ten layers of paint,

  • they're nailed in-

  • Tackling the whole cabinet system...

  • A little too much for us today.

  • [Ashley] So, [David] Yeah [Ashley] Cabinets - 1, David and Ashley - 0

  • So, we settled for just tearing out this little bottom section

  • since this is by far the most

  • awkward storage space and we're gonna turn it into a little kitchenette area.

  • There is conveniently an outlet right over here,

  • so David can plug in his fridge,

  • we're gonna build him some shelves.

  • As for the rest of the cabinets, even though we have to keep the frame,

  • we're gonna clean them up, paint them, make them look a lot nicer,

  • so hopefully you'll be able to look at them and not be super infuriated.

  • [David] Okay [Ashley] Just mildly infuriated.

  • Let's get

  • demolishing

  • [music... and hammer banging sounds]

  • Cabinets - 0, David - 1

  • All right, time to get painting

  • for the second time.

  • And I'm gonna get into my painting outfit.

  • I have no idea whether that transition was horrible...

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  • Welcome to our third and hopefully final day