Yes that is my fabulous employee Eden in the oven reflection, and no we didn't notice until we edited the video. Let's never speak of this again. 😂

Oooh goody, I love housewarming presents! I'd be happy to send along some word signs like "Home," "Gather," "Lather," "Relax," "Eat," Friends," "Laundry," "Family," and of course a "Live Laugh Love" for each and every bedroom.

So excited for the farmhouse aesthetic, word signs, barn doors, shiplap, and tons of painted distressed furniture. yay!

Buying a home in Vancouver is impressive enough. Buying a single family home in Vancouver is even more impressive. Renovating that same home AND planning to completely demolish it later to build a brand new luxury home in its place from scratch? Holy shit. Nick is loaded.

I hope we still get to see the clock. 1217 gave me so much comfort 🤣 Congratulations!!!

We expect this channel to be a renovation channel for the next few weeks/months. We expect to go furniture shopping together, put in our two cents on paint color and wallpaper (I don’t think I know where you stand on wallpaper). This is going to be fun 😊

The internet should come together to buy you a "Live, Love, Laugh" sign for Nick's new home

"you dont see paige wassel sitting in a dog bed for their updates" im SO GLAD someone said it!! i've always appreciated your authenticity/relatability compared to other design influencers

If you're still in Vancouver a single family home is a big accomplishment--the re-decorating will come, and we will all benefit from the discoveries you make along the way. Happy Housewarming!

Congratulations Nick! I do hope you take us along on your home’s rejuvenation journey. You know we love that stuff!

This video should have opened with Nick opening his front door and going, "Oh hi AD, welcome to my new home, step inside." 😂

If you don't live in an HOA area ('cause apparently Canada has this horror too), you can consider pulling up the grass and installing clover which doesn't need to be mowed and is more beneficial to local wildlife in the form of not needing to be watered as much as grass, having flowers for local insects, doesn't deplete as much nutrients from the soil, and causes less pollution ('cause it doesn't need to be mowed and less water uptake), and is easier to maintain overall. If you're really HOA free, you can pull up all the grass and then let local wildflowers take over the lawn, though this depends on the neighborhood. And that's far, far more beneficial than any grass you may have as it benefits birds, insects and local wildlife. I'm pro no-maintenance lawns that benefit the planet.

Grats on your new house!! You may be sitting on a dog bed, but it's a very TASTEFUL dog bed!

Make sure you put all the furniture against the wall, get a nice small rug and some verticals for the living room, add a seaside/marine theme in the bathroom, hang all the artwork up high and have a ball making your new home 😏. Congrats Nick - love you and your videos!

The best thing about Reolink is that it's not cloud based so you control the footage and you don't have to worry about your cameras shutting off because they decided to stop supporting it.

Just a thought for lighting... last older home we lived in, best thing we ever did was put in one of those tube skylights. It's affordable, easy to install, and brings in a ton of natural light. Doesn't look like a spot light and doesn't leak.

Things I’ve learned about owning a lawn: 1) the more you water the more it grows. 2) if you cut it too short it turns brown, so raise your mower and cut small bites at a time. 3) just hire a gardener, ask your neighbors to find one.

Green kitchen cabinets would be so nice! ..I love that you think mowing your lawn once a week is excessive. 😄

Hey Nick, WELCOME to your new home! May it be a place filled with love, joy and peace for you and Sophie. As a dog trainer who has moved house a ridiculous number of times over the years (obviously with the dogs!) I can see absolutely nothing wrong... or even abnormal about sitting in a dog bed in a kitchen... doesn't everyone?! Just a couple of tips to help Sophie settle in really quickly - If you're visiting your new home, take her with you to explore. Don't wash her bed before moving so she has something that smells of her in her new home. And finally on moving day either have friends look after her or shut her in a room that no-one goes in until everything else is packed and gone and then she can go with you without the stress of seeing her current home disappearing (or the danger of getting lost - a number of dogs end up escaping with all the comings and goings, so it's safest if they're not there or are shut away from removal people.) Hope all goes really well and I look forward to the updates.

Please, please, please 🙏🏻 do not go all white. Be courageous and use colour. It warms a home. It makes it a house a home. My style is very eclectic, I live in a cottage in Ireland that was built sometime in the late 18 hundreds. It’s full of colour and vibrancy and gives me great joy. Congratulations on your new womb and have fun. ♥️

Simply White is also an ingenious way to make your new house immediately feel like a familiar 🏡 home.

I just recently returned Home from a 10 day Hospitalization due to complications with my condition and I was in an exhausted place, physically and mentally. When I saw this video pop up, an unceasing smile came over my face. I felt, instantly, at ease. You could speak upon anything, truly, and I would still feel grateful and captivated by your humor-suffused presence, Nick. Also, when I clicked this video, it showed there were 213 comments. I very often see this number in Life ever since my Mother's Death. She Died on February 13th (2/13), and seeing 213 feels very much like a sign to me now. Her Soulmate in color-form was Green. I adore those Green paint options you shared. Best of luck in your new and evolving Home. 🖤🕯🖤

October Mist was the basis for my entire home's paint choices, I did that color in the kitchen, living and dining rooms. I have no regrets, I treat green like a neutral and it's provided a wonderful and interesting backdrop to my whole house. So happy you love that color too, you won't regret it!!!!

Getting into a home in one of the most expensive and compedative housing market in North America is quite an acomplishment. Congratulations!

Love that you won't have to deal with the rolling cart in your kitchen any more!

i know its not your dream home, but you still deserve to be so proud that you did, in fact, buy a home in the GVA. that’s amazing! congrats! can’t wait to see before/afters because whatever you do with those greens will be STUNNING

On behalf of all The Plant Gays, congratulations, Nick, on your new home! Wishing you endless joy and unforgettable memories in your new place.

We also just moved after years in the same home. Within 1 week we painted 3 smaller rooms the exact same colors from our first home. Next, the main areas will be painted the same as the previous house. We are used to warmer tones with warmer lighting. The current dingy light gray with bright clear bulbs everywhere (worse than boob lights) makes this feel like an old prison or hospital. The unpainted parts of the house- feel like a strange airBNB. I Thought we were odd for picking the same colors so It’s nice to feel like we are not the only ones doing that. Let the painting begin. It’s exhausting but always worth it. Congratulations!

You don’t have to mow. The guy who mows mine also does snow removal. He’s worth every penny. I’m excited to see the changes you make.

Yes! Paint the cabinets! They're too dark.

Congratulations on your new home, and yes, they are a lot of work, but it can be worth it. You can make changes without having to consult a strata board for permission, which is a big plus. I’m looking forward to seeing all the budget friendly changes you will be making to your home; many of your viewers who also don’t want to invest a lot of money in making their homes look more designer will benefit from all your ideas.

One trick I learned about choosing paint to get the most light, was holding it at an angle to the light to see which sample reflected the most light. Colors could be very counter intuitive. Just because it was "white", didn't mean it reflected light well. And it was more than just the paint type (e.g. flat, eggshell, etc.)

Congratulations Nick! So happy for you and excited to see how you transform it & make it YOU! ❣️

We just moved into our first house, and this fall we are replacing the grass with a different ground cover that doesn't require as much maintenance. We are thinking about doing creeping phlox or clover. Its good for nature, its pretty with flowers in the spring, and we won't need to mow the lawn nearly as much (or maybe at all).

A big garish light turning on outside is a terrific deterrent to prevent criminal activity. Home invasions & break-ins prefer darkness - be safe, Nick ❤

Your comment about Arvin Olano was hysterical - all you needed to do was start the video with "No one asked, but I" GOOD LUCK

I hope filming all those moments when you are picking paint to making changes inside the home. We need these ❤❤❤

Painting those cupboards will help brighten that space up so much and what a great colour choice.

When I was in college one of our neighbors used a couple of those type light fixtures as popcorn bowls. They found them in a closet of their rental, and cleaned them up. I now and forever call those popcorn bowl light fixtures. 😊 And, mowing is very dependent on how much water your lawn is getting. More water = more mowing.

Congrats on your new home! I bought my first house a year ago. It was built in 1947 and has LOTS of windows! I'll be busy forever fixing up the house and yard. After a year I have enough living room furniture plus my dining table and chairs so my house has become a home since I had my first party. I'm going to love watching the progress on your house!

Congratulations! All I can do is stare at the reflection on the oven door

Congrats to you, Nick! If it were me I have to get the popcorn off the ceilings before I moved in. It's so much easier to do it first. Lawd, that is a messy job.

Congrats Nick. For whatever reason, for low ceilings, the linen lampshades are by far the best to me. Actually one on very wide or oversized side would be the best, I wish they would put some kind of a lens so you can't see the inside from the bottom.

Forest green is one of those few greens that is flattering greens that makes everyone look nice. So lovely!

Congratulations Nick! As a first time home owner-nearly four years in, yes, there’s maintenance and upkeep that we obviously knew management would handle like mowing grass, etc. during those apartment living days. However as time went on I began to enjoy it and express gratitude because it’s mine…so enjoy the journey! And guess what! As you evolve and make the house your home-rebuilding might not be your dream anymore. ❤

Raintree Green is beautiful! I can’t wait to see what you do to the new space!

congratulations! When you're ready to build something new, there's a company in the area that moves houses that are in the way of new builds and sells/delivers them to other people, which saves a LOT from going to waste, if your house is suitable. Nichol Brothers House Moving. There are quite a few salvaged houses in the Gulf Islands.

Congrats, Nick! As soon as I saw those kitchen cupboards, I said to myself---Nick will paint those suckers, STAT! Good luck and we'll all be waiting to see what you do.

Yes! Nick way to go!! 🎉🎉 Go for the dark green! I feel darker colours are more classic and timeless It’s gonna be so weird seeing a new background in your videos and I don’t think I’m emotionally ready for such a big change 😅😅 And yes, any kind of yard work is SUCH a chore honestly, so I suggest you look into yard alternatives, like clover lawns, stone/pebble gardens etc-something low-maintenance.

You could also add some large mirrors that reflect light around the rooms

Hi Nick. It’s gonna look great when you’re done. I’m glad you’re sitting in the dog bed and not sleeping in it.

A good physical security thing you can do quickly is replacing 2” screws into the front door frame lock. Makes it harder to break down the door.

APPARENTLY, huge congrats to Nick for getting a new house, being a grown-up "moaning lawns" apparently 😂👏

White is absolutely a good idea to brighten up a dark space. I splashed cheap white paint in my garage and it was incredibly the difference it made just being able to see more because light reflected rather than being absorbed.

Congratulations!! And thank you so much for making your videos. For some reason they calm me down so much when nothing else does.

Congratulations on your new home. New style potential...yea! Can't wait to see what you do with it. I absolutely love your designing style.

And congrats! You are going to find ownership and the improvements very satisfying.

Yes. If you don't have a lot of money to spend on renovations, then paint and really good lighting is the way to go. You can completely change a room just with lighting alone. Levels of lighting and dimmable LEDs can work miracles.

Congratulations! Please show you painting your cabinets, as I want to paint mine also. But I want to do it right so chunks of paint don’t come off. Consider replacing the lawn with that Hawaiian grass that stays short. ❤

I am so excited for you, Nick. It will be fun to see you in a new spot. The kitchen cabinets look pretty dark, but the kitchen looks like it might be a workable size. Congratulations!

Congratulations Nick--I hope you'll be sharing some of your projects with us. You're gonna need tools you never even heard of . . .

Welcome to the club. I am currently renovating my granny's old house too to move into and it is lots of work beside the regular daily life. Especially ripping off wallpapers can be very time consuming, plus sometimes you don't know where to start as there are so many things to be done. Ripping down wallpapers, sanding down wood panels on walls or cellings, painting ceillings and doors, door frames, in this half timbered house you have a lot of clay walls and on those you take off wallpaper along with the clay walls, which then have to be fixed up again- which I like. An endless list with things to so. But especially after living in Ireland for 18 years where you have to take the furniture your landlord gives you for the rental, here I can start with a blank canvas and make it my own. And I CANNOT WAIT for the wallpapers, walls and doors be done and to start furnishing and decorating the place. This will be the cherry on top of all tasks and the pleasurable part, but it's still a lot of work till then. At least I will be appreciation it more with all the work I put in... Wishing you a very happy time in your new old house Nick!

My apartment has that same exact ugly ceiling light! I loved the tour of your apartment and it's huge outdoor patio, just gorgeous! But l think in time you will make your new house cosy and welcoming. I hope sweet Sophie will love her new house and that the two of you will feel safe and happy together in your new 🪹nest! CONGRATULATIONS NICK & SOPHIE on your New House!! 🤗♥️☘️🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦🕊

Fab! Your camera person is in the reflection on the oven door 😂

Older homes have such character and are fun to update! I hope you do things such as replace any sliders with French doors. Never mind, I just saw the very end of the video and you probably don’t want to do anything costly like that for this house. 😊❤

Wonderful adventure in front of you! I bloody love that feeling when you are figuring out your new space. Broke or rich, it's a blast. When I was a student (gen X/millenial), my friends and I were always picking up furniture from skips. My first rental, I painted the room deep red, then glazed it with industrial shellac (bonkers, but it looked like a catwalk), with huge fluorescent stars from the pound shop scattered here and there to shine mellow cool light at night. We made hanging lamps from thin wire and cheap coloured plastic tracing sheets and cut Japanese symbols in it, and mounted a stuffed raven with paper crown on the edge of a wardrobe, and we sat on the salvaged mismatched chairs and drank absolute plonk and had a grand old time of it. And nowadays I have been doing the work thing for ages, and I have my money and I wear all my appropriate current time drags and pay my mortgage and walk the walk, and in my heart of hearts, my preferred style is still circus chic. But the best of it were the friendships, and they all linger. :)

I really recommend working with a landscaper to replace the lawn with low care shrubs, perennial flowers and low care trees, unless of course you like the lawn! Do whatever is best for you.

Hooray! We can go through the whole process with you! This is exciting. 😊 Congrats on your new abode. 👍

So excited to see you decorate your home. Congrats 🍾

If the weather is cooler than NJ ..... I'll do your kitchen cabinets! I'm dying here!!!

Hi Nick, my mom and I constantly refer to you. We were in IKEA and said “ oh Nick said….” You are part of our family 😊. It was that same shopping trip we talked about when you were moving, and voila here is your video! Ugh grass seems impossible to have in the lower mainland. Good luck with that.

Dont forget to focus on your GARDEN rooms! You now have the space for a beautiful garden, all grass is a no no

A tiny bit of advice on your yard if it is small get yourself electric cordless lawn mower so much easier to operate..... tress add value..but Eliminate gardens, there's a lot of weeding and uptake..... Go for a huge patio with a couple pots that have flowers... Much easier❤

Respectfully request pupper cameos! Also, seeing Eden in the oven reflection was kinda nice. You get to actually talk to someone and not just into the void.

Congratulations on your new purchase...very exciting. I look forward to seeing all the amazing and chic upgrades you put into it to make it your style 😁

The thinking that an older home doesn’t have a lot of windows is something of a fallacy. From about 1885-1915 in the US houses were built with big and tall windows, and lots of them, usually 2-4 in each room! Then the War came a d smaller resources which meant smaller windows. Then a Depression, followed by ANOTHER War. Canada suffered similarly. Windows got bigger again in the late 60s/70s. So you bought a mid century home. It will be great in Simply White!

Congratulations!!!!🎉

Congratulations, Nick! We are 8 months into our new to us house in Providence RI. Lot's of updates needed, so many updates still needed, but we're getting there. Good luck!

Replace your lawn with clover and you won’t need to mow as much. It’s much better for the planet too. 😎 Congratulations on your new home!!!

Nick, since you now live in a house with a lawn, you only need to mow it every couple of weeks. Longer grass withstands the heat better (it won’t brown out like short grass does), shades out weeds (always a plus in my world) and is nice and soft underfoot. You could always do what we did, get rid of the grass altogether and replace it with River rock paths and self-maintaining native plants, tended monthly by your gardener who will pull weeds, adjust mulch and set up the automatic watering system. 🎉🎉

Congratulations! Beautiful and nice dog bed!😂

Major life upgrade. I feel so validated, the cabinets and colour choices of the kitchen you showed, are almost a perfect match to the kitchen renovation we've just completed. Oh, say Hi to the blonde lady in the blue hoodie working the camera (you can see her in the oven reflection) ;)

Congrats on buying your home. And buying an older home means you can make it your own. And if you don't have an HOA then don't worry about the lawn. We mow ours like every 10-14 days. We don't have an HOA breathing down our neck. Very nice to have a large enough lot to build a new home later on it. You can always rent out the older one. 😊

🤣🤣🤣 *“NOT BOOB LIGHTS, BUT BOOB LIKE” IM GONNA START USING THAT ON A DAILY BASIS*

Luckily, my spouse and I were able to pay off our mortgage early. We took the money we were spending to accelerate our mortgage repayment and invested it right away while we were both still working. We were able to retire early after accumulating what would have been our home payment for over 7 years and maxing out our 401K/403B plans. Thankfully, both of our parents taught in us the importance of living within our means.

Homeownership is so hard but in a good way. Theres always something to fix, maintain or do but Ive learned a LOT over the years.

Have fun and make lots of good memories in your new home!

Wow, I never clicked so fast - published 41 seconds ago 😂

“UNWELCOME” front door signs are probably cranking up production in anticipation of a new cold monstrosity home build.

Congratulations, Nick. It is a genius move to dive into home ownership and instantly have a new vehicle for content on your channel! Depending on your lot size, you may want to invest in a lawn service. Helps keep up curb appeal while you concentrate on the aesthetic of outdoor projects.

Happy for you Nick. I bought a 1984 house last year. I've spent the past year doing yard stuff, digging dead bushes up, and doing rock landscaping. In in Houston and it's so hot doing this....lol. oh well. Next I'll update my interior. Can't wait to do something with these stupid popcorn walls. Oh God....what a feat that will be.

Congratulations! Nick's picks; Crisp clean with "classic white." Very nice.

"it's not very designer, it's not what i'm used to.." relateableee haha good luck with the renovations!!! so exciting :-)

Again Congratulations 🎊 🎉🏠 Life sometimes is full of surprises 🎉😊😊

NICK!!!! Congratulations!! I CANNOT WAIT to see what you do with the place. SOOOOO exciting!!

Congratulations on the new home! As for the lawn, friends in Denver replaced there's with a low profile, low maintenance clover a few years ago and have never had to mow again -they love it!

I did simply white too when I moved to my home. I resonate with your aesthetic - so will be watching your updates closely!

So very happy for you Nick, you're going to have so much FUN renovating and decorating that place and getting it set up for yourself❤❤❤❤

Congratulations from the other coast of Canada, can't wait to see you transform your new house into a Beautiful Home Nick . Sophie is going to love her new yard.

So excited for you! Life can be challenging at times, but the process of coming through on the other side is when we learn the most about ourselves. Congratulations on the new home, and can't wait to see your design choices.