Attic bedrooms are such main character energy. I’m so thrilled to be seeing the vision in the early stages and can’t wait for what you have in store!

@ArielBissett

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YES! This is so true. Main character energy in attics is such a THING.

@circleofleaves2676

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@@ArielBissett I think of Jo in Little Women writing in the attic, and having meetings and putting on plays with her sisters.

@georgiakuchinsky

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Mia Thermopolis in her abandoned firehouse loft 👌🏻

@Chelsea-jv7fb

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Very Sam (Hillary Duff’s character) in a Cinderella Story!!

@elyse1996

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@@ArielBissett I immediately thought of the bedroom from the movie Penelope when you first showed it and said you were going to make it a suite!!! It's going to be amazing just like all of your other interior design work! < 3

Who doesn't want to renovate a large "scarey" space into a master suite? With your Monet inspired love of colour and light I am really looking forward to following you on this journey.

Hidden staircase? Spooky closet that’s actually a room? You’re living my dream!

@FolkFaninMA

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I know right!!

@YW84LUV

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It's like a Nancy Drew Mystery!

@nataliacarril5692

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Yeah right?? Reminds me of the fear movies when u say: why are all the hounted houses sooo beautifull hahaha

@seriouslyinsanediva

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Oh, that just reminds me of a recurring dream that I have had. Moving into a house or being in my own place and suddenly finding a room I never saw before and then another room within it. It is magical. You have the coolest house! The back staircase is what they called the servants stairs, and it led to servants quarters. It must have fallen into disuse when there were no longer servants in la casa. You really tidied up. I can't wait to see the next stage. Could you do some historical fact finding on the house? That would be exciting! Gracias for sharing this.

@lisabell7934

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mine too. i love old houses and discovering there mysteries

really loved those little moments of spanish with your mom 😄

@AmyyA7X

Жыл бұрын

Ariel's spanish accent is so latin, I love it

@miriamconnor8821

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Same! I'm learning Spanish right now, so it was fun to see if I could understand without using the subtitles

@Newt1981

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Her mom is so cute!

@MargotHypnos

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Was wondering what language that was.

@Lucia-ef9zd

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@@AmyyA7X to me as an European second language Spanish speaker it sounded really American, the way she rolled her "r"s and everything! Is that latin? How funny 😃

I loved the spanglish conversation between you and your mom, as a native Spanish speaker melts my heart to see that maybe one day I'll have such a wonderful and succesfull spanglish daughter hahahahhahaha

@ArielBissett

Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha this is a sweet comment ♥️

@bunny_0288

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Keep it up! My mom was Spanish and my dad was American. She tried to speak Spanish and English to my brother when he was little, so that he would be bilingual, but she gave up when English speakers couldn't understand him when he used Spanish words, so now none of the 4 of us kids speak Spanish. (Other than what we learned in school). I really wish she had kept at it, so we could have all been bilingual!

@mar1na1993

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@@bunny_0288 i am also half Spanish (dad) and half american (mom), and even with my mom being a spanish teacher they failed me! Fortunately I picked it up through school but Im still nowhere near native 😕

@bunny_0288

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@@mar1na1993 Haha that's really funny! I took 3 years of Spanish in high school and 2 years in college, but that was years ago. I've forgotten most of it. I do understand why my mom gave up. My dad didn't speak Spanish at all. He met my mom in Germany when he was in the army. Her family moved from Spain to Germany when she was a little girl. So she and my dad spoke German while they were dating and my mom learned English after they got married and moved to America. Her family still lives in Spain/Germany, so we hardly ever saw them. I think it would have been different if she had family here. There would have been more people around us speaking Spanish and it would have been easier and more natural for us to learn.

@berkleynisson9654

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It’s so sweet! My cousin, who’s still really little, speaks spanish with his mom (fluent in spanish and english) and english with his dad (knows a little spanish but fluent in english). I’m curious to see how his family speaks with each other when he’s older and can actually have conversations

I bet this was the servant's quarters in the olden days! The servant's stairs were always hidden. (My cousin used to live in a very old house with servant's quarters and hidden stairs)

@samsherwood8332

Жыл бұрын

oh that’s a really good point

@northwoodfalls1403

Жыл бұрын

@@Heidishereandthere great reference

@toanzhou

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One of the houses I watch had a servants staircase looking thing just like that but it ended up being an old boarding house and that small staircase was for the boarders use only as opposed to the public parlors/stairs in case someone was entertaining.

@bluegirl777

Жыл бұрын

Saw this after commenting the same thing! Yes, I agree. LOL

@marshawargo7238

Жыл бұрын

@@Heidishereandthere More like a Room Of Requirement. It's going to Require A LOT More Work & Vision than any other room! Except perhaps the kitchen... but Ariel has that already figured out on Sims🙄💖

:D This is my favorite series on youtube :) i'm so happy the spooky room is getting some love! I'm tearing apart a bus to make it my home right now and i really need to follow your mom's advice on sprinkling water to keep down the dust

@ArielBissett

Жыл бұрын

She is always right!! Good luck with your bus, that sounds so awesome!

@debbiegomez2818

Жыл бұрын

I was just about to comment about her mom's advice!! I'm about to start doing my attic to transform it into a bedroom, mine's only been here since 1928 but what a great hack!

I love your Mom and how excited she was to clean the 'spooky space'. The comment about the little animal jumping out at you as you got the can and then the 'I TOLD YOU!" 😆classic, so good.

I am TOO EXCITED about the idea of watching this become a master bedroom of dreams! 😭👏🏻 It’s SO COOL.

Little by little your home is coming together! 🥹🌙

@ArielBissett

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for joining me on the journey!!!

When me and my husband first looked in the attic in our house, it was terrifying because we see two figures standing up. They were skeletons and other Halloween decorations

@katetamsyn

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, that’s both hilarious (to look back in) and awful at the same time!

I think to me the spookiest is being able to see light make its way between the floorboards...

@stephaniem1107

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Nothing spookier than a building not up to code hahaha

@denverdubois5835

Жыл бұрын

This, yikes. I'd be worried about rotten boards but I guess they've already made sure it's okay to walk on.

@happyceetje2978

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It is so interesting to follow this project of Ariel's house alongside other KZreadr Laura Kampf's rescue of a 120 year old house. Ariel's is very aesthetic and great to watch. The rooms look amazing. While Laura's is not as aesthetic, it is incredibly thorough with things such as lead and asbethos testing etc.

Ariel, I think many will agree with me that your old house fix ups are our favorite videos! Just watching your tenaciousness tackling these DIY projects is truly amazing! Keep them coming!!

This Feels like Totoro and you're cleaning out all the soot sprites! Love this so much, so excited that you're tackling the scary room ^_^

In our 1892 house we also have a hidden staircase (servants quarters) that has access from the back yard.

yay lot's of Spanish in this video! I adore your mom's Honduran accent

The moment when you open the secret staircase and start walking up to the spooky room is when most people are screaming at the movie screen telling you not to do it :) but it looks like it will be a large, lovely, not scary all all room when you're done fixing it up.

If you’re reading this and are a fan of the bubbly yet calming energy of these videos I would highly recommend checking out Ariel’s podcast with her friend Raeleen, Books Unbound! It’s two passionate besties discussing their lives, reading journeys and recommendations. Such a joy to start my week with

More Mom and Dad appearances! Your parents are so cute! And they’re obviously helpful.

Will you be hiring contractors for this room? Just to redo the floor and ceiling so they are structurally sound. Also, have you thought about making the little room (the one with all the rubble) into a bathroom? It would be nice to add another private ensuite although I know that would be crazy expensive!

@lauramitchell6725

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Or at least leave the little room for a “waaaaay in the future “ en-suite.

It'd be cool if you fixed the broken plate with a kintsugi kit. It's an old Japanese method of fixing broken ceramic with enamel and gold. Its really lovely that the item becomes more beautiful because it's been broken. It would also serve as a thoughtful metaphor for your home renovation process.

The triumphant "I TOLD YOU!!" from your mom when you find the can and it's a beer can made me laugh so hard, so thanks for that!

It was absolutely wonderful to see you and your mum work on this together, and listen to you speak together in Spanish. Please let your mum know that I will be using her trick with the rag and the water as I clean out the old coal shed at my house! So helpful!

These are literally in my recurring dreams for the past 30 years. The steps, the low ceilings. I usually have to climb through piles and piles of clothes. And in the dreams I never get to any "destination" because I get sidetracked by looking through the clothes and finding new rooms and crawlspaces. This video was very real for me

I forgot how old you said your house is but the secret staircase sometimes servants would use a back staircase to their quarters. But then again idk how old your house is and if that’s an addition to the house and the youngest part to the house. But I’m super excited for this series 😍

If you end up saving more 3D debris, you could get deep frames/shadow boxes and display them in the hallway or in the room the stuff was found in. Love these videos

@setodd2098

Жыл бұрын

Yes! She should frame the cool stuff like the newspaper and random stuff and dedicate a hallway to it like a mini museum of the house.

this is currently like my favourite series of videos of youtube, i love seeing how the house is coming together and i'm obsessed with the aesthetic of it. just please maybe consider wearing a mask while working in very dusty environments like the attic. even if there are no toxic materials involved the dust can still settle in your lungs and cause health problems. and especially with such an old house you may not know what is floating in the air, maybe there's mold too. wish you all the best! :)

@lauramitchell6725

Жыл бұрын

Also the dust from bird and mouse droppings are very harmful to breathe in.😮😵‍💫🫢

I grown in a mid 19th century farm house, with lots of relatives and friends in the same kind of houses. Although it's in Quebec and not Nova Scotia, that extension is called summer kitchen, the main floor is a second kitchen (to keep the main house cooler in summer) and the second floor is an storage attic, usually served by a second set of stairs (but sometimes it just a wooden ladder). It's usually placed at the Northeast of the house, to stay cooled in summer and cut the Northeast winds for the main house in winter. I'm not sure if it's relevant to your house though, but I'm sharing just in case...

Ariel this series is one of the best things on youtube!!

I am so freaking jazzed for this spooky room transformation, you don't even know!

This is the room I've been waiting to see! It's how I found your channel at the beginning and I've followed along, hoping to see it soon! Thank you for documenting all your hard work.

I hope there will be more windows in this master bedroom, even if the ceiling is low, is nothing like sitting on the floor in an attic and looking how it rains or snowing.

I hadn’t ever thought of sprinkling water to make sure that not as much dust gets kicked up! So smart. So excited to see how this space unfolds!

That would be such a cool space for a second apartment or a parent's suite since there's a second staircase. I cant wait to see it as your bedroom though!

I'm British so I'm not sure about Canadian history or how popular it was to have servants back in the day. But in England "secret/separate" rooms and staircases are the servants quarters. The staircase was a way to move about the house without being seen.

fun topic! tiny mushroom could be mounted to make a wall hook, a cabinet knob, or tucked into a plant, holiday tree as a whimsical ornament.

It’s amazing what taking that stuff out and cleaning up did for the space, I was thinking that space would be perfect for a masters honestly, do you plan on adding more windows? Maybe can find some salvaged ones that can fit in the space to bring more light in, or a sky light, and some vintage or antique lights I would also have someone come look at the roof and floor to make sure it’s sound and find out how you can properly support the roof and if any walls can be taken down to open it up and add more support elsewhere, also look at the fireplace and sealing the roof Also excited for all the book books, I feel a little spa area would be really nice up there. Maybe you can create it in the sims again :D

@madz6697

Жыл бұрын

Me too, was thinking I hope a skylight will be possible, that would make it an incredible space. If possible I'd also take out any 'ceiling' leftovers and just have loft ceilings with exposed beams 😀

**Tell yer mom thank you for sharing her wonderful, creative daughter!** She can certainly be proud! I'm living vicariously through you! Sold my house 3 1/2yrs ago and hit the road in an rv fulltime. I say I miss the projects... but just realized in the past month I ripped out the old ( rv is only 6 yrs old 😁) furniture in my rv, actually replaced it with patio furniture- sounds weird but looks great! And this week I took out my kitchen faucet and got a new high neck one. That's after I removed the convection/ microwave oven, and had a great little old man put in a retractable shelf for me. Guess the home reno bug doesn't go away when you have a home on wheels!

This is the room I’ve been waiting for! I’m so excited! You’ve all done wonders already!

As a second-generation immigrant the way you talk with your mom makes me feel so seen! The constant switching from English to your native language, the asking your mom how to say [English word] in [Native language] - it's exactly the same way I talk with my mom. Can't wait to see this room all cleaned and renovated!

I absolutely love hearing your mom and you speak Spanish to each other. For some reason it just made my heart really happy!!

"my house was built in 1850, so its 150 years old" ariel, baby, im so sorry to break it to you but it is 2022

@lena.theune

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But years after 2000 don't exist, it's a scientific fact🤷‍♀️😅 I count the same way , it's definitely 150yo 🤓 and people born after year 2000 are little babies 🤗✌

@achromaticism

Жыл бұрын

can confirm people born after 2000 are babies, i have been stuck in the physical form of an infant for almost eighteen years. please send help

@lena.theune

Жыл бұрын

@@achromaticism 🤣🤣🤣

Its so fun, I actually watched the minimalism episode before this video was even online, because The Sorry Girls shouted you out in their video today. Love when stuff like that happens and "my" internet cornerns collide ❤️

I would really be interested in seeing another video where you do a sims version of what you want your room to look like..similar to what you did with your kitchen. Or maybe a Pinterest board or something of what you plan to do with the space ? I'm super curious about what your version for this space is! Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

I love your mom so much 😍 so much character, and she's so funny, too!

@ArielBissett

Жыл бұрын

She’s the best ⭐️

I like that those stairs give you options too. If you ever needed to rent space out as additional income, those stairs give you a "separate access" option to make that a temporary studio apt too in the future. What a fun room, the possibilities are endless! Its going to be a fantastic primary bedroom.

Finally watched Emma, and it was so good! Made me think of you and your house ✨😍

We all know and love the teapot on Ariel's desk, but especially love the wooden spoon in the pen holder. Such a cute touch that I will definitely be copying! Perfect for when you're in the work flow but need a spoon for tea or a snack :)

Ariel your videos are such a delight ✨

Idk if this happens to anyone else, but it's like when you have a dream about finding a whole new wing of your house that you didn't know about and it's so exciting

This was delightful, as always, especially the conversations with your mom. It was oddly soothing to listen to you both speak Spanish.

Your Mom is awesome! I loved hearing you both speak Spanish. The spooky room is going to make for an amazing master bedroom, and some great videos. I am excited to see what happens next.

Methinks my mum and yours would get along very well - if we lived in your house, I’d come home one day to find the attic room cleaned and everything organised! Perhaps you could make some kind of shelf using the broken crib? To feature teacups or trinkets or something? I can’t wait to see what this space becomes!

That's a huge space, so much potential. The thing that creeps me out is the back stairs to the garage/outside area. Would like to see the floor plan layout of the entire space. Maybe make the landing area for the back stairs separate from the room, wall it off and access from the stairs only, use as attic storage. I don't think I could sleep comfortably knowing it had an outside access. Is there any wall you could add another window? This will be fun to watch the transformation.

I love the tip about putting water down to stop the dust rising up!

I adore that your mom is in the video so much. You’re both such lovely people. 🥹🥰

I've been saving this video all week for a treat at just the right moment, but unlike mashed potatoes, it is still perfectly warm and buttery.

This was fun one! This could be a total upstairs apartment! With a separate entrance and everything ❤️

We had a knee break stairwell like that from the kitchen up to the largest room in the house, which was said to be the servants quarters? Your space reminds me very much of our 1869 home in Cape May, NJ USA. We enjoyed making the entire third floor into a master bedroom. The one thing it lacked was light...we sourced some salvaged stained glass vernacular windows and installed them in the gable ends and it was absolutely fabulous! I hope to see you do something extraordinary like that to get more light in.

Your house reminds me of la Casita and you are like Mirabel, from Encanto 😍 I love it!! Love from Spain!!

Insulation! You need it. It will help your home SO much. Not hard either with everything open like that! Love your attic!

Your mom is such a sweetheart - and funny! "Maybe a little animal will get you." All I could think of was Thanks mom. LOL! :)

I am always in awe of how much house there really is. Like I still remember your first walk through and just, how big the whole house is. Like all of the back work rooms and this giant space, it's so incredible! I had been wondering when you were going to tackle it because it has to much potential and even more now that it's cleaned up and brighter. I really cannot believe how much more space was up there too! I know you're a fan of reading nooks and that could be a really neat reading loft! I also love the idea that your bedroom is going to have a hidden passage way out, like that's some real dreams come true stuff right there. I'd suggest a bright color or fun wall paper for it. Ahh, this is really such a joy to watch.

AhhhI cant wait to see u do more... .kitchen one day especially

I’m so glad it’s where debauchery happened, and not where people kept their crazy wives like in Jane Eyre. Also your mother is such a mood!

Honestly, I geeked out when you speak spanish as well as your mother. I am mexican and my family is mexican. Half of my family only speak spanish the other half speak spanish/english. So it was pretty cool to hear it lol. Anyway amazing vid as always, so calmy and soothing. -Bernardo Cisneros

I know this totally isn’t your vibe BUT I would love to see that room decorated like a old explorer hidden bedroom, like keep the secret aspect and make it full of old treasures! Almost like an old attic but clean and liveable hahaha

YES!!!!! I have been waiting so long for this! I found you through your tour of this space, what seems like forever ago! That was my intro to you, and I thought you were so funny and adventurous and brave and clever- I had to subscribe!! So excited to see what you do with it! I have a feeling that your house probably is haunted, just because it's so old, but you're not experiencing anything bad because the ghosts are all grateful for how gorgeous you're making the whole thing! ;D

Is really cute to hear you talk in Spanish/Spanglish with your mom ❤️❤️

The extra little room in the attic would make a cool walk-in closet if that's going to be the master bedroom.

Depending on how old your house is, the attic space may have been servant suite and that hidden stair is definitely a service staircase. Do some research on them! Kinda cool and definitely totally scary part of history that household servants would have to use those stairs in some mansions. But service stairs are a really neat historical feature of the house, and it would be amazing if you kept them. Same with that port window.

omg i'm so excited to see the transofmation process of this room, have been waiting for this ever since you first showed it to us!!

Never thought of the water trick to help with dust! Mom advice for the win :)

The video i’ve been waiting for ✨ Now I can’t wait for the second part!!

I can’t wait to see all the work done and the video of fixing this room up!

I got so excited about your hidden staircase I had to pause the video and breathe. Those stairs look like they're in great condition, too! I hope you can keep them!

Just found your channel two days ago from randomly being recommended your wallpaper video for the throughway by your bathroom. I have since binged all your house videos and can't wait to see what you continue to do! This unexpected area is so large and I can only imagine how magical it will be as a master bedroom!! I know budget is super important as you tackle all the rooms, and especially with the kitchen still yet to be done, but if somewhere years down the road, you can add a bathroom to this space to make it a legitimate Master Suite, I'm sure it will be a relaxing haven!

Yayyy!!! I have been waiting for this video for what feels like forever 💕 I love all things spooky, so this feels like a birthday gift especially for me 🥰

your mom is so smart about the water so the dust doesn't get kicked up, so SMART

I have been excited to see something done with the spooky rooms since I first saw the house tour! x

Loved everything about this (and your whole house series)!! I hope you're able to do something special with that plate like your yellow rose flooring piece! Good luck with the spooky room reno.

Ariel, I like your book videos but I love these house videos! They are so inspiring. I bought a home during COVID as well and working on fixing it up as well. My home is only about 40 - 50 years years old though.I love your enthusiasm and use of colors!

So excited to see the transformation, this is the room I've wanted to see since your first tour. Also, older farmhouse, chickens, a creek, your home is giving very Anne of Green Gables vibes.

So excited to go on this project journey with you! Can not wait to see the progress🥰

best series on youtube! can't wait to see the progress 😊✨

this was incredible can't wait for the next part🥰❤️

Every single time I watch one of these, I am also just soooo jealous. GAH I am so happy for you, always.

I needed this video today and it’s not even started. Thanks girl.

I'm excited for what is to come, and great job to you and your mom!

Ariel--I've recently discovered your videos and have been watching non-stop, I'm obsessed! I settled on my first house on Monday and your videos make me so excited for the process. I love your joyful and determined attitude and your playful designs--it shows me that I can make my house into anything I dream of! Thank you for sharing!!

Ahhh!! I've been waiting for this since your first house tour!

Oooo!!! So excited for spooky room progress!

the one nice thing about it being unfinished means you get to easily insulate it since I imagine you'll be doing some sort of dry walling anyway!

1. That part of the house definitely improved! Good work! 2. I loved hearing you speak Spanish! I wish you did more often! :D 3. Your mom sounds like a nice, practical lady. All the best to her and to the rest of your family! 4. I truly believe you should wear respirators or, at least, some kind of face mask when doing this kind of dirty work. :S You never know what's gonna come floating up and get into your lungs, and old places were built with some nasty stuff sometimes that could cause serious illness! So, please, be careful you both!

This space has so much beauty and potential in it, you can do a smudge ceremony before commencing rebuilding in order to cleanse the space and make it ready to accept your energy. Congratulations on finding such a great house.

I'm so excited for this renovation!! I've been waiting for you to get to the spooky room since you first started this journey.

I cannot wait to see how this room turns out! I've been waiting to see you clean it out and transform it, I know it's going to be amazing!

I'm so excited to see what you're going to do with that space. I love this renovation serie and your fun and unique personality!

god i'm so in love with this series. loved this !

YESSS!! I have been waiting for this series of videos to start!! congratulations on getting started with this project I can't wait to see how it turns out over time!