At Long Last, An Updated House Tour Video: a house log

It is been over half a year since we shared our last video house tour, and since a bunch of you’ve been requesting an update, we at last cleaned the whole house shoved everything into our closets and made an all-one-take video. At first it seemed like we did not have that many new things to report, but then we realized that there were tons of changes since our previous tour (a freshly redone hall bathroom, a storage-room-turned-playroom, new lighting in the living room and dining room, plenty of sunroom updates, a new fireplace facade and a fresh color in the kitchen, hallway board & batten, etc). So without further ado, let us walk around the house together. I will chat while John mans the camera (you do not want me holding the camera, trust me).

A few notes:

• We filmed this on our Nikon D3200 (we mainly use it as a digital camera, but occasionally make videos with it too).
• I am not sick this time (I was for the last two video tours, so I am breaking that stupid tradition). Huzzah!
• Why a towel falling to the ground as we made this video was so funny to me, I will never know. Watching it back, it is not even remotely entertaining. Perhaps I am simply a hyper/nervous tour giver? Yes, likely that.
• Are the in-yo-face brassy doorknobs in the laundry room making you itch? I ORBed every other knob in the house, but dude I have not gotten on those yet…

And now, I thought I’d end with our last video tour from September, simply because it is lively to watch the evolution. I consistently drag my feet when it comes to making these videos, but then when I look back on them I am so grateful that we make them because they are like little bi-annual time capsules.

Do you folks ever videotape your house, simply to see how it changes over time? Would your hubby ever walk around with you and hold the camera while you jabber on right next to him? That is totally our method. Yes, John and I stroll around the house together while he holds the camera and I talk. I think he deserves 65,790 man-points for coming up with that insane technique, but somehow it works. Because if he were narrating it would sound like this: “this is the dining room (long pause) and this is the office (long pause) – ok we are done.” And if I was chatting and holding the camera, 7 out of 10 people would lose their lunch while watching. Hence the four-legged video house tour tradition. Yeehaw.

Oh and if you are watching our most recent tour and wondering what we still have on our to-do list, here is a somewhat updated rundown that has all that info for ya. I smell a guest bathroom update along with some porch and carport projects. Can I get a what what? No? A high five then? How about good old fashioned talk to the hand?

Psst- You can peruse all the other house tour videos that we have made since we moved in here, here, here, here, here, and here. And here is an outside tour from last summer. Viva la video camera!