Building Furniture for my new flat 

Pro tip: your ratcheting screwdriver (or "clicky clicky" if you will) can take Hex bits to put together IKEA furniture. So much easier than those stupid L shaped Allen keys

Buy mini metal folding stairs. Useful for changing light bulbs, keeping/removing high top thing on cupboards, etc..

Dude, you're so busy right now. We appreciate the vlogs you are doing but please don't feel pressured to get a main channel video out or even the vlogs. You've just moved into your own space after living out of rented rooms for 6 months, enjoy yourself.

Electric screw driver or a power drill set on low speed makes work go faster. Drill also usefull for installing shades and blinds. Get a tool box for tools so all in one place. You are an adult now!

I was just building a shelf today because I rearranged some stuff in my flat and I really identify with the “this is not my coffe table, wtf manual” feeling.

Hey - fellow recent new build purchaser here! In terms of drilling and hanging I highly recommend you get a stud finder before you go putting in holes anywhere. I think the one I have was £25 and can check for studs, pipes, metal etc. I’d also recommend you pick up some good filler, a filler knife and trade white paint because you will make a few mistakes along the way and I find that I’m a lot less anxious when prepared! Don’t forget that some things can be “no more nailed” into place like bathroom fixings etc. Glad to see your place come together and as a design graduate it’s great to hear that you’re getting into interior design! If you’re into mid century - eBay is a great place to find unique pieces and a lot of the time they’re actually based in / around London. Can’t wait to see it all come together! 😁

Hey Evan, not sure if anyone commented already but TV licencing is for anything that you would be watching live. Basically, it means that anything you would be watching live streamed whether on your laptop or tv would be under tv licencing. As long as youtube premiere doesn't have 'live' sign on it you can watch it without a tv licence. If you wish to watch anything on bbc iplayer whether live or on demand you will need tv licence. Funny thing is that they don't have authority to enter your home and as long as you say that you do not watch live tv you are good. They do try to check it occasionally, but since you are living in an apartment building, it might be a bit hard for them to check your flat directly. :)

A word of warning from a friend that lived in a flat with he same setup as you (he live in a victorian nurse housing block that got coverent into flats ~ also it was listed building)... after a few years his ground rent went up and up and up and him and his wile had to sellup and move out because that bill was more than his mortgage payments. Scotland has a cap and law about these type of payments/bills where in England it is totally unregulated and there been cases owners of the building putting the ground rents up 1000%+ just to drive out people that moved in due to the fact X% of the development had to be social housing and they did not agree with the current law or the people that moved in.

Never watch videos like this, but something about this was so fun to watch. It's literally months later, but still congrats for getting the apartment!

It's all coming together nicely. Congrats and enjoy your home.

I cannot WAIT to let out my inner interior designer. Love your aesthetics

Hey, great video. I have that coffee table. By the way, it’s not live tv you have to pay your tv license for, it’s anything on BBC iPlayer too. So if you’re watching anything on iPlayer, make sure you’re paying it!

The way you were flipping that desk... I was waiting for the legs to give in. It'd be easier and safer to flip it around the long side.

Soooo happy that you're worrying anxiously about furnishing your own place! 3:00 They can come in to inspect your home for "TV signal receivers" or something like that. And unless you watch BBC iPlayer in any shape or form, especially live, you'll be alright. I never watch BBC on my laptop😉🤥

As someone who has waaay too much “stuff” in my life and discovering the joys of minimalism, I highly recommend waiting to buy more furniture and decor until you have lived with it for a while.

You may have already found it - but there is an option in Alexa to get it to just make a quiet ding after doing something, rather than trying to start a conversation with you!

You know Evan. You're smart bloke, educated, tech savy, cosmopolitan, friendly, great personality, personable, young and a proffessional person. You are going to go far in life. I can see good things for you including wealth, because buying property in London is a very hard thing to do, and you've achieved it. You have the knowledge..upwards and onwards. London will embrace you. .

Your desk looks a lot like mine, but I suppose these adjustable-height desks all look very much alike. But they are great. BTW: In Germany, you have to have a licence if you have any kind of device in your home that would allow you to listen to the radio or watch television, regardless of whether you actually do so. That includes computers with internet access. So yes, virtually everyone is required to pay for a licence. Whether they do or not is a completely different question!

The probable reason your normal screwdriver stripped the screw head is because they are different. One is a "Philips" (with 4 points) and the other is a "Pozidriv" (with 8 points, 4 big and 4 small). The actual angle of the screwdriver splines is different meaning the Philips is loose in a Pozidrive screw head and therefore it strips them. If you don't have a Posidriv to hand however one quick fix is the grind about 1mm off the end of a Philips (you can use a brick on an exterioor wall or something) so it sits further in the screw head and gives it that extra grip.

ikea tip - you can order spare parts like screws and fixings for free!

Once you have the main stuff sorted it’s all done and you can just sit back and relax. Then enjoy your palace. If I could go back to when I first moved in I’d agree that putting stuff back where it lives will keep things tidier in the long run. Glad you are finally in xxx

Building furniture is so satisfying to me, wasn't expecting to see Daniel Layton just watched his new video yesterday haha thanks for the consistent content recently can't wait to see more 😊

Your tray is Rio de Janeiro.......with the orange being Pao de Azucar (Sugarloaf)!!!

5:53 (winces) please put some shoes on!! Mr 9 toes!😁 (not all the time but when lowering awkward furniture)

This is all I ever wanted, man builds furniture 😌

Assembly is not quite the same as building stuff! You will certainly need a stepladder but I know there is just so much stuff to buy that it can get overwhelming.

Highly recommend getting a wobble board for your standing desk, to keep circulation going (I like the ones that are basically a curved board with bumps to massage your feet... you can keep it very still when needed or can wobble back and forth). It makes you a couple inches taller, so the extra height on the desk would be useful!

Watching you go through what you did to get your place and how much you appreciate even the annoying life stuff reminds me of our journey to buy our home. It was a humbling 10+ years and when we finally got to call this house ours, we really do appreciate everything so much more!! We're still getting used to the idea of doing what we want to the place without our landlords crying about any improvements that needed to be made, but I'm getting there. Enjoy your home journey, now that you're in it!!! Soak it up. It's YOURS!

I've been catching up on the house videos. This is really funny, I am just finishing up a massive renovation of my first house. Basically reno'd everything. I feel for you Evan with figuring stuff out but I am laughing at how entertaining it would be to see you go through everything I've done in the past six months. Best advice a friend gave me, houses are very modular, if you break something it's easy enough to fix. I managed to destroy a corner bead (metal part that makes the outside corners of doorways sharp) had to call back my drywall guy and have him fix my mess up. Paint it again and it's no big deal.

Second point on the 'do you need a TV licence' rules. Watch or stream programmes live on an online TV service (such as ITV Hub, All 4, *RU-vid*, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV, Sky Go, etc.)

My preferred term for that is “work-crastination”. I procrastinating work by doing other work.

I once bought a 12 cubby hole shelving unit. Couldn't imagine how i could manipulate all the bits by myself so paid the shop that sold it to me to send someone out to build it. When he came he couldn't follow the instructions properly so we ended up doing it together (lol) So now I always put things together myself

Dont worry evan, im trying to get my apartment fixed up and its alot to take on, overwhelming, i really want to organize and have everything neat, clean and tidy and it seems like i cant get it that way. Lol. Its a big undertaking.

Who needs a ladder when you have an Evan?

The place is coming together nicely.

Pro tip, Hex keys can be used long ways too. much easier to spin the screw using the opposite end first and then crank with the long arm. Also check out blackbeltbarrister, he has done many videos on the TV license from a legal perspective. Live youtube is ok if it isn't broadcast on TV at the same time essentially. rewind TV is fine also, so catch up. The license only covers LIVE TV on whatever platform it is broadcast on. The only rewind you can't watch is iPlayer.

Hello! Your episode popped into my feed and I have a couple of suggestions that you might find useful. I’m female and very handy with my tools… first up, buy yourself a stud finder and a level to make sure you know if you’re drilling into a stud or just sheet rock. Measure and re-measure ‘till you’re 99.9 percent sure you have your mirror located where you want it to be. To avoid pencil marks on your walls, place a piece of masking tape where you need to mark and draw a line using your level to guarantee everything is straight. If you are truly uncomfy with drills and such, don’t force yourself to do it, just find a friend you know is handy, buy him/her lunch and done! Not everyone needs to be handy, do what makes you most comfy and happy! Good Luck and Enjoy! 😊

I’d be interested in your smart home setup!

Evan, you're such an avocado whisperer!!

One of the first things I bought for my new flat - (first time living by myself in an unfurnished place!) was a step ladder! It was much needed! I actually just assembled my last bit of furniture and I moved into my flat in early October! I had to wait to buy a few things due to you know, money... but my dressing table was the last thing to be put up today - which I bought in early January...

In Germany you pay even if you only have a tablet or a phone. Because even there you can watch the TV channels.

Evan,you bought your furniture. That's so declasse! And you're undertaking the nightmare torture of assembling it yourself. AND you read the instructions. No one does that! Keep us up to date on the licence fee stand off. I wish I was brave enough not to pay but I know they'd get me and I do watch some live tv.

Building Ikea furniture can be a pain at times. I have 7 Ikea builds of my own. :)

Yep, you need a TV license to watch live streaming on any service or telly including any on demand TV channels. Furniture looks good!!

As someone who does a lot of DIY (I built an extension and porch) it always makes me laugh when people struggle with flat pack. Not to brag, but the other night I built and installed an entire kitchen. I mean, I was up until 3am, but I was determined to get it done in one night.

Tv licence is only for the beeb, whether live or using iPlayer. Otherwise, not required even if it’s a bbc livestream on RU-vid

Anyone know if Evan has detailed his desk setup as yet in terms of where to purchase? Including the riser and laptop holder - exactly what I’m looking for at the moment but haven’t found anything that looks this good!

A chair mite be safer to stand on while installing the lights. :)

I love those screwdrivers!!!! Best purchased when I moved out of home!

Me: feels fear over Evan gesturing with a full mug of tea "at least it can't get worse than this!" Evan: holds scissors Me: "oh no"

Thank you so much for this video Evan! Seeing more of how your home is set up made me feel a lot less shit about my own abilities in interior design. You are good at it, but your abilities seem more realistic here than the image we get from your main channel :) Your home looks great!

you're a real pro (crastinator/ductinator)

What's the easiest way to stand up a desk, "I know, we'll do it lengthways" . . . 😶🙄

Leatherman: the perfect tool for rounding off nuts. I guess it does a fine job on screw heads too!

Thank you for the video! Have an amazing week!

Kim N ......... the Queen of shelf brackets. I'd trust her for any handyperson advice if I was you. Good to see DJL making an appearance ..... I'm now waiting for his vid titled "I helped !!!"

Woah, Cheers Evan. My homepod has just gone mental 😂😂

There was a hsbc ad before this video 🤣

Love the music!

Love the desk

Where did you get the desk? Everything looks lovely! :)

TV license is just for TV channels e.g. BBC, ITV. It is how the BBC is funded so RU-vid, Netflix etc. in any form doesn't count... You can go online and tell them you don't need one and they will stop sending letters

BBC iPlayer even though it's not live, needs a TV license to watch so… that's interesting.

Please link the study desk--I'm in love

In general for online viewing with the TV licence. You need it for catchup services like iplayer. You don't need it for RU-vid, with the exception of where it's being used as a catchup service. You need it for services where the broadcaster is treating it as a linear broadcast not just a livestream (so think it it like the UK Parliament twitch channel, or when Channel 4 broadcasts Formula E on RU-vid) You don't need it to watch livestreams from normal streamers (so if you were streaming, we wouldn't need to have a licence to watch you) The whole livestream thing is a huge grey area. There's no real definition over what constitutes a TV service vs a livestream broadcast,

Luke has cool socks !!

Parlour Palms bounce back, ,mine have been through it and their growth is now better than ever.

Newb....shortly you'll think "hmm if I had an battery powered drill with some hex bits, putting all the furniture together would've stopped all that RSI I now have"🤔😁 7:35 oh then you've only yourself to blame 😁

Nice chill video. Awesome to see everything coming together.

I thought you only needed a TV licence for BBC channels (including the Iplayer) because every other channel was paid through ads so having a TV and only watching online content should be fine, just don’t plug your aerial in. I’m pretty sure I opted out of it for this same reason but I can’t remember exactly.

You only need the TV license if you are watching live "broadcast" TV (I realise it's no longer technically broadcast, but like if you hooked up a Freeview box) or if you are using the BBC iPlayer online for anything live or streaming later. Interestingly, you don't need the license to watch iTV player or any of the other online players that have a live option, so you wouldn't need it to watch RU-vid.

Tv licences aren't just for live TV, you also need one to use bbc iplayer

hello! plz tell me the brand of your couch/ sofa! I was looking such a color from one year and in june (maybe earlier) I will have my own flat. And fabric is great, too!

Where did you buy this desk? I am looking for a similar one.

Americans when faced with putting together Ikea furniture: Oh nooo! We're doomed! Germans when faced with putting together non Ikea furniture: Its not Ikea???? We're doomed!!!

It's intentionally opaque but generally understood that you don't need a TV licence to watch live streaming except stuff that is also broadcast, e.g. Sky News or ABC News on RU-vid (yes even if it's broadcast abroad it counts). I like the BBC in theory but haven't had a licence for 8 years, it wasn't worth it for me once they gave up F1 - I'm not paying £150 a year to watch Dr Who. I no longer tell Capita that I don't need a licence (I object to having to keep telling them after years) and am waiting to see if they ever turn up at my door. So far I just have hundreds of slightly threatening letters.

Love your content Evan, you don't need a licence to watch live RU-vid vids so long as the creator is not a TV company. Blackbelt barrister on YT covered this in a recent video.

“Adult legos” There are two things wrong with that sentence

Extra engagement to maybe help when you can’t post as much

0:08 love the map of Middle Earth Evan! Thoughts on RoP?

Live TV only counts for organisations supported by the licence so not RU-vid

You tube lives aren’t covered by TV license. You need Tv license to watch any live broadcast TV (recieved over TV frequencies) and for BBC iPlayer live streaming and BBC iPlayer on -demand. But you can watch other broadcasters catch up with out a license.

Evan, you're a homeowner now, get yourself a better set of tools. Even just a small tool kit with spanners and real screw drivers would work.

Yeah I never understand the instruction on putting together furniture, I always - always-just look at the pictures to see if I'm doing the right thing because the instructions confuse me so much.

That desk is amazing. Where is it from?!

The licence fee is just for all television I'm pretty sure...like owning a TV makes you legally have to pay it..although contrary to popular belief the law isn't actually enforced.

TV licensing does not just apply to live BBC TV but also to BBC iPlayer. It also funds Channel 4/4 On Demand.

Is that a damn smash mouth reference in the thumbnail?

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Where is the rug from please?

Sandays studio film

Get yourself a decent electric screwdriver, makes life so much easier.

Live RU-vid doesn't count, unless they transmit it using tv signal broadcasting at the same time

I want to print 40 copies for paper toy for local school

Why would you need to put in a new light bulb already in a new flat?!!!

Bote 3euros for a cocola

Annoyingly yes you do need a tv licence for youtube.

@5:23 Please Evan, don't do this type of thing barefoot in the future. Desks like this one are really heavy and you really don't want something like that to land on your toes. Please wear some sturdy shoes, with steel toecaps if you have them.

Tv license and viewing RU-vid…… Watching a normal everyday vloger is fine, the tv license covers companies that have a broadcast license from the government. So it would only be needed if you were watching something live from one of those companies, which would be very rare if ever…..

you should buy electric screwdriver) it even better the clicky one)))