Tearing Out The Secret Room I Found In My Bathroom 

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The editing for this is immaculate. “Cutting the pipe seems crazy” Cuts to yall sawing the pipe 😂😂

🙋🏼‍♀️ Hello Ariel, I’m a 72 year old woman living in middle Tennessee. I recently found your RU-vid channel and I’m so glad I did. I’m enjoying watching your post cleaning up your amazing house. I’m writing to explain the floors painted on the edges and not in the middle. Back in the 1800’s people had either a loose laid linoleum or an area rug that typically didn’t go to wall to wall so the area not covered was painted. My great grandparents victorian home floors were painted like that. They used a glossy dark burgundy paint and it was beautiful. Take care and continue to have a good time bringing the old girl back to life! Fran

I CACKLED at the editing where you say "Part of me says cut the pipe, but that seems crazy" and immediately cuts to cutting the pipe. Amazing. Genius. I love this series so much you have no idea. Your can-do attitude, jumping in and going for it... I love it. One day I hope to have enough executive functioning to tackle stuff like that!

I LOVE that you aren't afraid to jump in - like Miss Frizzle, “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!” Learning alongside you is so fun and inspiring! ☺

Shopping list for future Ariel: 1. Hard Hat 2. Reciprocating Saw 3. Oscillating Tool You are doing a great job! The bathroom will look great when you finish!

The throwback to the water pipe moment in the kitchen was so good, ahh good times

You saying “I think these closets were added on when some fireplaces were removed a long time ago” at 11:46 made me SO happy lol. I mentioned this theory in the comments of the secret room in the bathroom video and people disagreed 😅 BUT I HAVE BEEN VINDICATED

The shot of the sink standing in the middle of the room is so funny to me

“Gentle renovating” Now THAT is a movement I can get behind 😊 I adore that you type out your to do list with a typewriter on cute paper. Making as much of the process aesthetically pleasing as possible is definitely the move.

The bathroom secret room discovery was my intro to your channel, so I’m really excited for this update.

If you’re going to advertise to me it better be from a bathtub in the snow 😂 new standard set

all the praise for the editing is deserved but i also love the setting for the sponsor 😂 what a fantastic shot setting with a bathtub in the snow! woo progress!!

I love seeing you demolish at you own pace, in your own way. Makes me realize that the hasty way of working I learned growing up is not the only way

"maybe we just cut the pipe, but that seems crazy" *NEEEORRMMM* (pipe cutting noises)

I love hearing your joy and mirth on your channel. When you're just tickled to death with yourself like with the mini truck, or when something bad happens and you laugh like being sprayed with water in the kitchen, your spirit is so beautiful

Next time you’re at the hardware store get an electrical power sniffer. It has a pointy end that if you bring it next to a live wire it sounds. I’m here to tell you that you can absorb electricity. I’ve done it twice. Once when I was a kid. Once when I thought I had the right circuit off..nope. 😂 It feels like intense shaking inside your own wiring..😂 Love your passion!

Sink goes where the tub was, leave the throne in that corner, and build a nice big walk-in shower in the secret revealed hidden room area. But the sloping ceiling does add some complication that I may not be properly visualizing. Maybe turn that side into a low closet for linens or other storage?

Hit me in the glasses. I’ve never felt more seen.

I can’t tell you how thankful I am that you show this online. I have no desire to remodel. But I’m in a huge new shift that feels new and overwhelming. Watching you break this down and do new things gives me a lot of hope for my personal “secret room”. Thank you for your gift.

Old studs like that are super worth keeping, particularly from houses of that age. They tend to be old growth and really strong, so you can do all kinds of things with them, including really nice looking cabinet doors and such. I was a little worried about there being something extra with that non-former-closet-but-still-hidden space stuck in the corner but now it looks like you're in the clear, which is great! I too have found SURPRISE BONUS SPACE and I still have dreams about it regularly so... you might too? xD

Every time I see that water-in-the-face kitchen video, I do the same thing...hold my breath until you start cracking up, and then I do the same. By the way, if you have a fireplace, those lathes make THE BEST kindling.

I like how the sink is just freestanding in the middle of a room now lol

you’re one of my fav RU-vidrs, I will literally watch anything u upload HAHAHA

Tearing all that out had to be exhausting but rewarding!! That bathtub was a real trick! I cannot express how excited I am to see this bathroom come along. The secret room reveal last episode opened up so many possibilities to make the bathroom so much more fun because I’m hoping plumber will be able to get shower components into the secret room!!

Sometimes the hardest part of a job is just getting started!

Who else adored the comment about maybe finding another secret room? Massive progress hath been made!

I randomly found one of your old videos about a month ago and have now watched every single one and started listening to all of the backlist episodes of the podcast 😅 love your content!!! 🫶🫶

YAY NEW UPLOAD YAY YAY

You cracking yourself up is so funny 😭 I love watching all the transformations!!

Things that I want after watching Ariel’s videos: a home to renovate and a mini truck 🤣

I love the sink in your bathroom! I know you have different plans for the sink in your bathroom, but if you're not going to repurpose it in the house maybe you could set it up outside with a hose running to the tap and a bucket to catch the runoff so you can wash your hands off outside and use the water for plants (be careful of soap, some can damage plants). So excited to see what your plans are now that you have extra space.

You need to invest in a reciprocating saw. It will make demolition WAY FASTER for you. I love your enthusiasm though. keep it up.

First item on our to do list is always, “Make a List”. That way you will have accomplished something right away! Love that you typed yours. Kudos on all your hard work.

Hey Ariel, You are blessed with so much strength, talent and will. You are putting so much work into the house. It's quite amazing to watch! I would advise you to put much importance into resting and recovering between projects and taking things slow. Our bodies are amazing and are capable of amazing things. But once they reach a burnout, things turn ugly pretty fast. And A. The recovery is long. B. The body never goes back to what it used to be. Take it from someone who pushed her body a little to hard and a little to far without noticing. Once I realised what happened, I was deep in burnout. Much love!

Wow, this opens up the bathroom SO much more. It's going to be incredible

❤️ I insulated the floor underneith & walls around my shower, so that the shower stayed warmer.

I was just rewatching all of your videos hoping for a bathroom update because I'm nosy - and here you are blessing us. Love your home style. Your videos have brought me so much joy lately.

whoop whoop progress! i am secretly hoping the bathtub will make a comeback as a planter, or maybe a little pond😶‍🌫

Super impressive Ariel! it is awesome how you disassembled everything all by yourself, really your level of determination and strength is impressive! the editing was also super well done, the bathtub scene in the garden is somehow very cinematic :)

The key sign of a load bearing wall is the direction of the floor/ ceiling joists above. If they are parallel to the wall you want to remove, they are not load bearing. If they are perpendicular to the wall you want to remove, beware.

Yay I get so excited when you put up a new video! 🎉Sitting in a bathtub in the snow seems like a very Canadian Thing to do haha

I really love your attitude & willingness to just proceed and figure things out as you go. I often wish my grandfathers or my dad were still living to explain all this to me. They knew & learned from their fathers. I just had a new kitchen faucet put in at a cost of $900 not including the faucet itself. I was shocked. Apparently the 20-year old soddered copper pipes are no longer up to code & the hot & cold connections had to be replaced. I’m done with this nonsense & want to learn to do these things myself. Bravo to you for doing that!

I love chucking stuff out of the window. Probably good that I don't live in a high-rise. :). Btw, pretty sure you need a special tool to get the drain out. I've seen them for rent at hardware stores. My brother came by to help me with 3 projects yesterday and all 3 are in worse shape than when he started! Gotta go get plumbing supplies this afternoon.

I just found out that Shannon, of the channel Shannon Makes, bought an old house to reno in NS last summer! I think it would be so cool if you two did a collab. There aren't a huge number of Canadian youtubers doing this and you are in the same province, though I don't know how close. You could be on cape breton and she could be near Yarmouth. She is a bit smaller of a channel, but if this comment reaches you I really hope you will consider it. You are both living my dream, so I have to live vicariously through you both.

Yeees, wonderful to get a new old house video! I discovered your channel in December when I had a bad case of the covids and watched the entire house series in like 4 days. It has been such a joy and I'm just cheering you on, all the way from Germany!

Fantastic! And you could turn that tub into a raised bed planter with built-in drainage!

The delayed laughter after getting sprayed by water 😂 your laugh & personality is amazing

“Gentle renovation” I loved that term😂

So this might be a crazy idea, but what if moved your washer/dryer upstairs into the bathroom? More room downstairs and then you also don't have to carry your laundry up and down the stairs. Perfect time to do the move. You can even hide it behind a mirror door or something. 😁

I am so excited to see this bathroom come to life !! ❤ Fantastic shots and beautiful editing as always.

I opened up RU-vid and it hadn't even fully loaded and I immediately clicked! I love watching these while I work on my own home projects!

So much room! I would suggest the tub/shower/whichever you want to go where the closet once was, relocate that amazing sink to the wall where the foot of the tub was, across from the toilet.

1:04 “Gentle Renovating” may be my new favorite term

While I'm sure it's not fun having brick chunks rain down from your ceiling, I think it's so cool to see the physical reminders of all the different lives your house has lived. Granted the thought process behind 'let's insulate the tub' is still a bit hard to wrap my head around lol. I hope the electrician and plumber bring you good news!

Not a plumber, but know how to do many things. I never knew how satisfying it could be watching someone "figure it out"... I'm usually on the teaching side with people that want 10 pages of illustrated instructions and a supervisor before they try to do anything!

THE SECRET ROOM! It opens to Narnia!!!

The transition to the cut right after saying it is crazy was so good.

A manual typewriter. I remember playing with my grandfather's old typewriter back in the 1970s

Sometimes the entire project is overwhelming. Breaking it down makes it so much simpler! Love the sponsor for once!!!!

Great idea to do these videos in parts. It's super fun but also manageable for you. Win win! 🎉

Ariel, you are doing such an amazing job! I can't even begin to imagine how stressfull and exhausting this renovation gets at times so i am here to tell you YOU'RE DOING GREAT!!!

She’s like the Safiya of home renovation and it’s so amazing!! Two of my favorite things all in one place ❤❤❤

Ariel! I just want to say I love watching your videos so MUCH. Your positive attitude is so refreshing and an inspiration to me. I can’t wait to see your bathroom come together! ❤️

my two favorite moments of this video were the trim flying up and hitting your glasses RIGHT after you describe that exact thing happening the first time you'd ever removed trim... and also you saying it seemed dumb to cut the pipe right before cutting to a shot of cutting the pipe. GOLD. lol

Most people have a fancy set for advertising products for their sponsors but you are totally fantastic and fun just using the old bathtub out in your snowy yard. I loved and enjoyed watching you and look forward to the next video. ❤😅

There’s nothing to it but to do it!! I LOVE that you broke it into smaller chunks and I LOVE that you dove into taking the tub out. That’s the kind of thing that appears really intimidating if you have never done it before and you’re inspiring women everywhere to just GET IT DONE!! I LOVE IT! ❤❤❤

You are going to have an amazing house when you get finished with your remodels.

Ariel sitting in a bathtub outside in the snow watched over by a vigilant garden gnome might just be my favourite shot of this video 😃

You are SO inspiring!! What a chore, but you DID IT!!!! The next stuff is the fun stuff! Designing and picking colors and then the BEST part of all…being done with the brand new bathroom! Way to go Ariel!

“Maybe I’ll reveal another room, eh?” had my dying! Love the video Ariel!

Watching you tear out that stuff is SO SATISFYING!! You're gonna have a big wonderful bathroom, can't wait to see what is possible.

The daylit sink in the mirror at 1:20 looks like a modern painting

Omg! The way I screamed when I saw that you had posted!!! Truly you have inspired me so much to make my home a place I LOVE to be not just a place that holds my stuff. 💛💛💛

I wish the original home owners could see you restoring their home and returning it to its former beauty ❤

Ariel please get safety glasses! They protect the sides too which glasses don’t. If you can’t find ones that fit over your glasses, stoggles has prescription safety goggles and I have them in green! 💕 Love your videos!

the new spot would make an awesome place for a new stand alone shower!

the sponsorship in the bathtub was hilarious and awesome

Oh my goodness…loved the way you laughed when you disconnected the washer!😂

Yes! Another installment of my favorite addiction!! 😂

That transition at 7:45 was perfect; great progress!

Suggestion for you not to get hit in the face with the floor trim. You know how you used a flat head screwdriver to remove the paneling from the wall, hitting it with the hammer. Well, do that to that floor trim first. Between the wall and trim first. That way it doesn't fly up into your face. Then do the same to under the trim, still using the hammer and screwdriver. To me it works faster and easier than using the wonder-bar. That is how I did it in my home remodels. Great work and I love your home.

You could put a large bath in your new found closet space & just put your shower over it. That would free up even more floor space in the room.

I loved the “no hay nada en el baño”

Watching this (somewhat) randomly reminded me of last summer when my family was helping to renovate my grandmother's investment home. There was crawlspaces between the the walls and the roof on the upper level, and there was a sheet of plywood matching the walls used to close off the space since it was only accesible through the closet. She has a cat that will wander, and you may see where this is going. After not seeing the cat for a whole day, we started getting concerned, and we looked for her for days. One of the times some of us were looking for the cat, they saw a cat roaming the field on the plot neighboring us. When they tries to grab the cat, it hissed and ran away, which later turns out it just looked identical to her cat. That night my mom goes to sleep in the guest bedroom and hears meowing, and assumes she is hallucinating due to exhaustion from searching. She still hears meowing in the morning, so we check in the crawlspace, lo and behold she was in the crawlspace for *6* *full* *days* . At most she has eaten a single mouse in the span of the entire week. That cat has used practically all her lives with the adventures she has had in her 15 or so years.

Good morning. Since the bathroom was created years after the house was built, it was probably a bedroom to begin with. The little room you have to walk through was created at that time. What is behind the wall in that room? Is it another hidden space? On the slope side of the bathroom, where the slope stops, a storage cabinet would look great there. There is probably space behind the plaster wall that can be accessed to recess the storage cabinet, giving more flexibility. I love the spooky rooms! Upstairs and downstairs. It looks like a new kitchen was in progress of being added. I’m excited just waiting to see what you’re doing next! Your creek is so powerful, you might be able to use it to generate electricity! It would probably be cheaper and easier to set up over solar. And it would not create an eyesore in your yard. Have a great day and an awesome weekend. Sincerely, Fran PS Good idea to keep your location secret, especially if you don’t want 338k fans 😇 to come and see you😁 🤣 🤔 of course that would be a lot of free laborers 😂😊

Great progress! It's so much bigger now. You were so funny with the finding another secret room bit, and I love sponsorships in bathtubs in the snow. Thanks for your sweet videos ❤

Easy for me to say how exciting when I'm not the one doing the work. Awesome video and thanks for the content!

i'm SO glad you had those glasses on 😅 a guy i knew was splitting wood/sticks and badly injured his eye after it bounced back up at him. eye safety is important 💗

“Gentle renovating” 😂 I love that

okay the Wild add outiside in the bathtub. Just amazing.

It's amazing how much room was just wasted by them boarding up a closet. I can't fathom why they would since it would have made a much better bathroom. Anyway, nice job on the demo. Glad none of that was load bearing, but I can't see why it would have been unless they had to replace a rafter when they installed that closet.

'14 pictures ' is definitely giving off haunted vibes

I LOVE the revisit to the pressurized line and you laughing with water gushing into the sink. A favorite moment of all time!

Thank you so much for the update! You’re doing great 🎉😊

Ariel, I am so impressed with how your knowledge, patience, confidence and physical strength have grown on this journey!

As someone that's renovated houses and plumbing, I'm in complete awe of what you're able to accomplish. 10/10. Keep at it!

You always provide renewed excitement to DIY.

I love you so much!!! That hearty laugh at the “oops moment” with the washing machine was e v e r y t h i n g!!!! 😘

Just an idea. I had a friend remodel and use his old bathtub outside up against his garden shed as a pool for 1 in the summer. He just puts a stopper in and fills it with the hose. He loves it. You could also use it for a planter, or a small fish pond ect.