Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles [music] 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! [music] 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. [music] Come over here- Hi, I'm David. Room on 3, room on 3! 1, 2, 3! ROOM! (ROOM!) [music] 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! [music] 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 [music] 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. [music] 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.) [music] 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. [music] 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 [music] 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... [music] Welcome to our third and hopefully final day