Tearing Out My Disgusting Carpeted Kitchen | Before & After!

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0:00 introducing our enemy the carpeted kitchen
2:12 starting the rip out
3:13 thanking the sponsor book of the month
4:57 it's hard to renovate a house while you live in it
9:51 telling you about my epiphany (featuring a duck attack)
14:30 day two
15:35 water explosion
19:16 day three
21:06 day four
22:21 ikea build

☞ My name is Ariel and I’m a Canadian writer, poet, and YouTuber. I organize my shelves by genre and then colour and my favourite book is Animal Farm. I've been making bookish content online for a decade and love spreading a love of reading through videos, panels, articles, and more!

☞ Thanks for watching! ☜

[spookyfish]

I have worked in the building permit industry for 13 years and can honestly confirm that television show timelines are WILDLY inaccurate. They have the benefit of permits, professionals, funding, materials and can dedicate time and energy to renovating a project without disruptions. Kitchen remodels are very stressful and more expensive and take longer than people realize. You're doing AMAZING, Ariel! I'm looking forward to seeing this kitchen complete for you. :D

[theremakery]

In a world of throwaway content and AI-generated sludge, your thoughtful, beautiful work is like water in the desert. Even if you only put out one video a year, I would still consider your channel one of my all-time faves. Please don’t let the capitalist pressure to always be working burn you out — your audience loves you for your humanity, not in spite of it. Keep doing the great work you’re doing, at your own pace and on your own schedule. Ariel vids are always appointment viewing in my book 😊

[saisriv]

Ariel, don't forget: You're documenting your life, not creating a life to document. Your life and renovation without the camera would take years, and with the camera it should be the same. Your life shouldn't (as much as possible) be directed by YouTube <3

[jennagoldsmith]

The constant mumbled "It's so disgusting" as you ripped up the carpet had me laughing! I'm so happy you are getting to make progress; watching your journey has been so much fun.

[letitiajohnson]

Something I've noticed is that a lot of YouTubers apologize for not keeping up the pace & the subscribers always understand! Quality content over quantity. We will be here whenever you are! If anyone doesn't like it, they do not have to watch. Working on renos really burns a person out. We appreciate you sharing your life with us! 💗

[Kiki-pupc]

omg i love the way you handled the water spray at the beginning! sometimes all you can do is laugh 💕

[xingcat]

That washing machine hose moment was pure, unadulterated CHAOS, and was capped off perfectly by the maniacal laugh at the end.

[meowsielee]

maybe i missed something but i always thought that was linoleum in the kitchen. finding out it was actually carpet is horrifying 😭

[alixorosexo]

“Underneath this carpet is another carpet.” The way I cackled! I love seeing this journey. 💜

[scrapgirl]

My parents put carpet in their kitchen AND (brace yourself) the bathroom in the 1970s. To call it gross would be understating it. To make it more gross, it stayed until the early 2000s. 🤮

[juliarichmond]

Lol! Oh sister, we are trauma bonded. In the 90’s bought a ranch style fixer. The kitchen had dark brown “tile” design carpeting which was glued down just like yours. It was also permeated with maple syrup and whenever the cat walked through she would fling out her paws with each step in an attempt to shake off the stickiness. I remember sitting on the fireplace hearth and thinking “what have I done?”. But the renovation turned out soooo great. Hang in there, baby.

[LauraSasss]

My grandparents put turquoise carpet in their kitchen. My parents replaced it with horrid laminate. My ex boyfriend replaced it with poorly installed black and white laminate. It's just doomed to be terrible.

[vitaemins]

nothing screams hispanic household more than feeling obligated to finally tackle projects you've been putting off because now you're expecting company. as my family always says "antes muerta que sencilla" 🤣🤣
love that you're one step closer to your new kitchen ♥

[mundanemornings]

The amount of work that goes into these videos does not go unnoticed!! You are such an inspiration. So happy that the kitchen is underway! (Also, the water incident almost seemed like a sitcom skit! I laughed along with you!)

[viviakay]

Even the concept of that carpet makes my eye twitch. I thought it was the ugly linoleum we had in my childhood kitchen, which was actually vinyl made to look like linoleum. This is carpet made to look like ugly vinyl made to look like linoleum (which is actually sort of cool and a rabbit hole of decor history worthy of going down).
But carpet in kitchens was a time.

[squirellbrain]

you should build like a table thingy to go over your washer/dryer for more counterspace!

[aimsly]

“I am the sludge.” 😂 I hope you know we’re here for your authenticity! Content will come and go - live your life! ❤

[KaylaShaye]

You talking about the pressure to renovate a house quickly really hit home, I bought my house in 2021 and was able to paint a few rooms and then my roof needed to be completely replaced and it was so overwhelmingly expensive and it hasn't allowed me to update more rooms bc of the sheer cost of the replacement, My dining room is your kitchen in this scenario, and though im not embarrassed of it, its hard for me to feel completely at home with another big project looming over me. I appreciate your vulnerability here and know you arent alone at all!!

[reminiscentoss]

As someone who had a carpeted basement, that then got flooded, and consequently needed all it's carpeting torn up to remove, that then had multiple rounds of the water pump smacking everyone in the face, this is highly relatable.

[auroraasleep]

My kitchen floor is literally held together by linoleum. At last count, and I may be wrong there are: the original wood floors (I know this because I can see them from the basement), 1940's lino, 1960's tile (which is coming up & breaking & nobody bothered to sweep up which created a hump under... FIVE layers of successive linoleum. It's so thick it's almost the same as the 1" boards Dad laid down in the dining room to even out the warped originals. We've lived in the same house since 1983. It is still a work in progress. Give yourself grace here, and time, and don't sweat it. I'm binge watching now, but everything here is worth waiting for.