Shadowing Practice: NYC Apartment Tour: 2 Bed, 2 Bath in Brooklyn - Learn English Speaking with Video
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come in welcome to my abode
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what's up guys welcome to if i may say
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so a long -awaited apartment tour we are here in brooklyn this is two bed two bath i've taken a
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while to get it in a livable homey place where i
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feel comfortable showing it to you guys lived here for six months
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so it's been a minute without further ado let's start off where the magic happens the kitchen
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architectural digest great first thing i guess i'd like to point out we have an induction stove top the first
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that i've ever had and i made the mistake of bringing over my old pots
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and pans they don't work on induction you have to have
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induction grade pans come over here we have some fun little
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details sir salt it's our oh i just think this is
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the cutest little container i got this recently actually both of
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these we have a really cute kitchenware store near us
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and that's where i got these things it's pretty adult
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if you ask me a spoon rest come on for the
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first like five months of living here i just we just put it here
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and had to clean it every time it also matches pretty
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well okay come on over here sink farmhouse variety i know
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you guys are thinking about it right like this thing 46
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for hand soap taylor you're not in reality anymore you guys
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should know we had a really awesome sub letter who's a friend of mine she came
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and saved for a few weeks and left a few things behind
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that she thought we could use the aesop soap being one of them
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so very nice thank you gabby gabby's her name she's great
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okay moving over here we have my favorite food of all
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time i like to have a constant supply just to be
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eaten whenever i want moving over here you guys psa lilies
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are extremely toxic to cats not going to go into too much detail on how i know
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that but let's just say i was very recently in an emergency vet clinic
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when i was supposed to be at a wedding last weekend
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so don't buy lilies
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if you have cats we don't have cats though it's not
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a problem moving over here you might think this is just a really really large
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nice built -in pantry for our dry goods cereal
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and such wrong my oh i didn't even say i live
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here with a roommate i live here with one other roommate
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and we eat pretty much the same exact thing
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so we have zero percent fat 19 gram protein greek yogurt on tap this makes me laugh you know
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that viral feta tomato recipe we made that the other night tasty
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but it looks so disgusting like it looks like coagulated rotten
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but it tastes good just wanted to throw
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that out there we have these bowls
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which i've always wanted kind of like a heavy stoneware bet you can't guess where they're from
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um they're from castlery phoenicia diner that's a place that my roommate
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and i went to for valentine's day one year
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because it was probably one of the best cinnamon rolls we've ever had
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and i wanted to commemorate tea for turtle real ones know huntsman that's what that's program i was in college.
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Moving here, a friend of mine, his dad actually handcrafted this in Canada.
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I just think it's really pretty to look at.
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I will link his website down below as well if you guys want to check those out.
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All right, moving over here before we get to the living room.
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This is one of my favorite places in the apartment, low -key.
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So I've had this display shelf from Castlery.
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By the way, Castlery is going to come up in this apartment tour more than a few times
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because their furniture is bomb so i've had this for a
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while you guys might recognize it gosh from my first apartment into my last one in east village
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and now here i really like the kind of geometric design
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but to go over some of the fun things on it my bambino i need to take a breath
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i'm too too wired up trusty trusty machine he does me well every single morning i absolutely love him
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and honestly we were just talking about this last night i
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can't imagine not being able to make really really good coffee from your house
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if you like coffee and i have that
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because of bambino i also have breville grinder taylor's coffee hobby
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that's sort of this row moving down up here there's just
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so many fun little personal trinkets my brother's girlfriend this year
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for christmas got us all customized to what our personality is
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or what things we like she got me tomato ornament
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so we keep that right there picture of me
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and my roommate at a wedding hanging out i like to display the beans
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that i'm using right now it's ethiopian beans medium roast this was the last bag
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that we used this is our favorite coffee in texas where
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my roommate is from the mystery is coming together
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and i think it's kind of cute to display for a
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little bit up there this is a cup from rwanda
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that my roommate bought me and it's really really cool it's handcrafted it's got a lot of nice texture to it
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and i like to look at it
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so he stays up there turtle obviously there's a lot of
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turtles in this apartment i think hawaii i can't remember where
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i got this one though now we can move into the living room.
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What?
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Oh, yeah, okay.
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And one more very important thing before we move into the living room, if you'll come up with me here.
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This is a custom embroidery piece done by a friend of ours.
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Some of you guys definitely recognize this bar.
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It's the Montelione in New Orleans.
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It's so fun to look at.
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If you kind of get in there in the details, you can see every little stitch.
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It's so impressive.
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And the sequins and the shading.
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And moving over here before the living room, a few fun things.
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This is a hand -blown glass bowl from someone with very good taste.
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You know who you are.
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And I keep all my matchbooks in there that we get from weddings and restaurants and so on and so forth.
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And now we move into the living room.
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Oh God, I keep forgetting.
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If you have a limited space under the sink, which is where most people put their trash cans and you want like a 13 gallon trash can.
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So you actually are not taking it out every two seconds, highly recommend this solution that my roommate and I conjured up.
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Look at that.
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Full -size trash can.
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It's a bunch of coffee grounds.
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I think this is a great solution.
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I'm especially happy with this.
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And now officially moving into the dining room let's go open
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the door come on in it was locked for a sec
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okay this is the dining room we had to travel far
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and wide to get here from the kitchen we my roommate
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and i have sort of accidentally curated this western theme which i'm really happy about starting with this picture of
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of us in moab utah the oranges the woods the warm colors
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and that sort of translated once we got the table
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and the chairs we got wood we got chestnutty browns
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and it's kind of actually more cohesive than i think we were expecting something about this table
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that i really like is
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that it extends it's from castlery you could have guessed all of this is the tables the chairs
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but it extends so when we have more people than six can open it up
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and we can take this for years to come in other spaces where the status quo is
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that it can be in its longer form
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which is great we also over here have a bench like two people can sit here
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which we did yesterday we had some people over
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and we were just eating baked goods
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and then there's storage underneath in there too moving over here we have a pumpkin
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that has been here for almost six months my friend lauren got it for me
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when we very first moved in
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and it's not rotten at all for those who are wondering
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we'll see how much longer it has moving in to the living room
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all right this is the living room just off of the of the dining room I would say
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that among others the most notable thing is that there is storage
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which is pretty awesome my mom would be happy about this we keep the tools
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that we use the most right here you'd be surprised how much we use like a drill
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and a screwdriver on a day -to -day but especially our favorite thing to use
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handheld vacuum storage it's where we keep our extra linens towels for people
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that come and stay it's pretty awesome this is the agnes couch you can remove the covers
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and put them in the washing machine so anyways really really love this couch
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and this ottoman moving on to the details we have floating shelf
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that we've had there for a long time i've tried to
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curate what i think looks like a well -balanced selection of
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items here we have it's a book about like the whole
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history of new york on top of it another turtle this
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one is from uganda a gift from a friend orchid
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that my roommate got me for valentine's day
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and then we have this pot that we recently got i think this is one of our favorite purchases of late.
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So then over here, another toil.
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This one is like a ceramic toil that moves around.
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This one's from Korea, also a gift.
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I gifted a lot of turtles.
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Next, last thing I'll say about this space is the sconces.
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I think they're really great.
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What I like about them the most is these wire covers.
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The wires were just hanging loose before and until a few days ago.
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It's one of those things where it's like, I wish I did that sooner.
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They're so easy.
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You just stick them on the wall and it keeps things in place
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and you can cut them too so I'll probably do some more of
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that down here looks great
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if you ask me two lips all right moving in we have the hallway
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but first we have the first bathroom come on in washer
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dryer washer dryer moving in here we have the shower this is the one
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that my roommate uses in the morning so as to not wake me up when I'm still sleeping, which is very nice.
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I have only used it a few times.
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What I've used it for more is the ice baths.
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When I was training for the marathon, I'd come put ice in here, sit down for 15 minutes and call it a day.
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All right, moving into the hallway again.
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First, you might notice that we have this nice long runner rug.
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Once again, cultivating that sort of Western vibe that we're going for.
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My roommate's one of his movie posters and it covers the circuit breaker box.
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Fun, smart, ingenuity.
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All right, moving into the hallway closet.
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This is a bit of an eyesore for our apartment, I'm not going to lie.
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We have his and hers, roommates and my shoe compartments.
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We have our winter jackets and a few more shoes.
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Yeah, not the prettiest closet.
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All right, let's move into the second bedroom or the office.
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That's kind of what we use it for most of the time.
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There's so many fun things in here.
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First of all, we have a rug, castlery, obviously.
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Moving over here, guys, I've had this guy since my first apartment it's crazy I've had a lot of this
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and just kept it with me castlery armchair
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and then this this is pretty cool you guys
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so first of all favorite desk chair I've ever had
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and probably like I don't see myself getting a different one
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for a very long time I finally retired the old white one
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that I had for years and this one you guys you're just sitting like a king
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when you're in this thing like I oh
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that actually needs to be higher so this has a little pillow for neck support.
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You're going to dress it up and down.
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I'm not going to do that right now because it's set to my specs that I like.
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What's this, you might ask?
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sanding disc that's pretty awesome over here we have my new york city marathon medal yay
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books that i have
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that we have read my most recent reads i'll tell you real quick pachinko
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and john steinbeck's east of eden a classic
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and a freaking epic multi -generational family tale they actually both are similar genre in
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that sense these have been two of my favorite books
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that i've ever read
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and i will link them both below moving over here i
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love you m who's m you might wonder it's my mom
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this is a huge walk -in closet oh my god this you guys arguably crown jewel of certainly of this room.
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This right here is a Murphy bed, obviously.
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So we debated for a long time about whether to do like a pullout couch.
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There's just a lot of different options you can do
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when you're trying to host and like sleep someone else in the second bedroom.
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We wanted to be able to use it normally most of the time as like an office.
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And if you have a bed in here, you can see it quite literally takes up the whole entire room.
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This is a queen bed.
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This is my roommate's old bed.
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We've already hosted people for a cumulative probably two months, and we've lived here for six months, so that's pretty good.
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I'm going to put it back up.
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Yay!
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Finally, let's move on to the primary suite.
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Welcome!
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Welcome to the primary suite.
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This is where the magic happens oh this is probably one of my favorite things actually about the bedroom
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which is that we have dogs
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that each of us grew up with this is my roommates this is mine
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if you guys watch my videos you know this is mine
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he makes an appearance in most videos even though he lives in california
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so huh they okay i have two of let's clear this up right now i have two dogs who i love
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equally but one of them i just have like a really really close bond with
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and so i mention him more but i have two
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and they're just the sweetest creatures in the entire world here they are right now oh my god willie
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and biscuit willie i carried him home on my lap i have a theory i'm curious
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if you guys agree that whoever has the dog the little baby dog on the lap after
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when you get him like you're bound to him forever him
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or her curious if you guys have had
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that experience all right moving into more details
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so this is a new plant that we got it's a fiddle leaf fig
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and you guys i get the plant thing now i think for
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so long i was like just buy fake ones
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and you don't have to worry about it and they look nice
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but we now have live plants and it's actually really really nice
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so this is pothos plant
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and his name we changed it recently from pokey to perkins
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perkins is more fitting we think his name is eduardo moving over all the way over here
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this is our bed once again we have the western vibe
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my dad actually took this photo this is Bryce Canyon in Utah.
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These are called hoodoos.
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So this is a really cool picture to me because it has a sort of confusing depth of field and perspective almost.
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It kind of looks like a full -size human would be this big, but a full -size human is like that big.
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So you can't tell how big they are unless you've been there, which I think makes it sort of a cool photo and just also one of my favorite places in the world.
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Okay, now we can move over to the bookshelf.
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also got a question for you guys i wouldn't go
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so far to say it's an eyesore
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but it's we're figuring out the spatial design of it because there's just sort of a lot going on with different
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frames and sizes and items and
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so we'll take suggestions on what you guys think might be the best way to arrange this
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but absolutely love the bookshelf itself love that it's wood and marble
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so directly ties into the style of the kitchen as well
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sort of on accident also from castlery we have my plaque
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placky during my first move in new york the the letters rubbed off here
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which is a bummer but you know he's got character I guess.
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100 ,000 survivors.
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Get the gold one soon like and subscribe.
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This is my roommate and I.
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That's us at Sisyphus in Berlin
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which was probably one of the most fun days of the year last year that we had.
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It's a good time.
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Down here we have some coffee table books that are they're pretty awesome.
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So beginning down here this is Jimmy Chin's book There and Back.
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Just really really stunning beautiful mountainous imagery.
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This is an aircraft book, The Definitive Visual History of Aircraft.
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I got this as a gift from my high school.
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I got this award when I graduated, and they give you a personalized gift for an interest of yours.
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Yeah, aviation runs extremely deep in my blood, in my family, and so that's the book I got, which is really special to me.
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And then we have two books here by different photographers, but they're both published by Steidl, Steidl in German.
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He is a super, super cool publisher.
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He's very picky about the projects and photography and things that he chooses to publish.
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It's all done in Germany, right?
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Yeah.
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And just has like a very, very meticulous process and specific way that he likes to do things.
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So the second that we saw a Seidel book in a bookstore, we bought it.
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It was this one.
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And then I bought my roommate this one because I thought the pictures were neat.
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And then this watering pot, it might look decorative, but this is actually the pot that we use to water our plant friends, but we just keep them here normally.
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And sometimes I use this
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when take my magnesium at night i literally use it to water myself yeah
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and it works like you can be
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so precise you can just do a little bit it's kind
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of fun moving over here this is taylor's closet open it
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up not too much to see here these are kind of
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fun these are my moccasins from canada my canadian family got them for me for christmas a couple years ago
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and it's kind of the softest thing you could ever put
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on your foot they're amazing they're very warm too oh
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and then my gym bag which is just my trader joe's bag
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but if you enjoy working out and you do pull days like pull -ups
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and lat pull -downs and such
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and deadlifts like things where you really are using your grip
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for heavy things these lifting straps are a game changer wrap it around the the thing you grab it
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and then you don't have to rely on your grip pulling
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all the weight you can like just use your back it's awesome
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so if you're a gym rat highly recommend if you don't already have these All right.
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Just a personal passion.
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Don't mind me.
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Let's go into the primary bathroom.
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Hampers.
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His and hers.
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I love this bathroom.
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You might be thinking again, Taylor, Aesop, what's going on?
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You're not relatable anymore.
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I did buy this one, but only for market research.
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I made a whole video about it.
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It'd be crazy if I didn't buy one.
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This is kind of the shower of our dreams to totally
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honest got the the rain what's it called rain shower well what's this called rainfall rainfall
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rainy rain rain rain rainforest rain man dustin hoffman yeah these are my three little soldiers
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that i've always had the cool thing here underneath my razor
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is this little turtle glass coaster of sorts my roommate got me this in kenya it's kenya right
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but i think it was painted in rwanda Senegal.
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Oh, Dakar.
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You're right.
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So love this bathroom a lot.
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It's funny.
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This mat is what I had in my old apartment, um, in my old apartment going out to my old terrace.
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Miss the terrace.
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We don't have an outdoor space to show you today.
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This building does have a rooftop, but we're not going to go out there tonight.
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Sorry.
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So as we wrap this up, there's a really big question I have to answer the big
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question being why Brooklyn let's talk about it for a sec
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so if you live in New York no explanation needed you get Brooklyn you know
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that it's awesome most likely
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but for those who don't know New York City is built of five boroughs
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so you have Manhattan Brooklyn the Bronx Staten Island
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and Queens the one that's the most famous and quintessential New York
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and what you think of is Manhattan that's where the Empire State Building is
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and Central Park and kind of all friend group and people
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that we know a lot move to Brooklyn
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when they're at the stage where they're wanting a little bit more peace and quiet.
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That's a strong phrase.
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You don't get a whole bunch of peace and quiet in New York anywhere, but on average, Brooklyn is a bit more chill.
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And in my opinion, you just get the best of both.
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So when I first moved to New York, when I was 22, 23.
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i just turned 23 i lived in this amazing high -rise
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in hell's kitchen i got this crazy covid deal very much in the thick of things around industry
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and tall buildings
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and honk honk honk like literally i would fall asleep listening
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to people getting onto the lincoln tunnel honking i lived there for two years the next two
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and a half years i lived in east village
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which is not necessarily where you want to live when you're a bit older it's very very young
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unlimited bars and restaurants just sort of the epitome of fun
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and being in the thick of it in your early mid -20s for
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that phase of my life it was could not have been more perfect I think
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so fondly back on that time and feeling like that's
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when I really got my footing in New York
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and yeah I was having a lot of fun
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so East Village was great for that but now I'm 28 now
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that that's old
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but I am at a phase of my life where I
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am wanting a little bit more ability to just exhale at the end of the day
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and i am literally one subway stop away from manhattan
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so i still go into manhattan every day to work
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but i get to come home to brooklyn and walk around
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and feel a little bit more chill
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and there's still a lot of people out it's still new york it's not like the suburbs
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if you ask me in my early 20s will you ever
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move to brooklyn i would have said like no way for
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as long as i'm in new york i'll be in manhattan that's the whole point
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but yeah i get it now and my roommate
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and i also moved in together and he's lived in brooklyn for years
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and so brooklyn has also sort of been my second home for quite a while.
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That's my Brooklyn.
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That's the explanation for those who have been asking.
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And as far as my future in New York goes, I think the longer that I stay here, the longer I feel like I'm going to stay.
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I just, the timeline keeps getting pushed back.
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Don't know if that's going to be forever, but at least for the next year, I am here in this apartment.
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I hope you liked it.
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I was happy to show it to you today.
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Like, and subscribe for zero dollars, totally free.
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We have another fun video coming next week.
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It's going to be a good one
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and until next time you guys turtle out bye okay let
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me have to judge this do do do do that's the architectural digest music
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cable management under control i haven't meaning to do that for a while as it is so thanks for the excuse.
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It's a little drippy.
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Microwave.
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Ew.
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You see that book over there?
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And then I run over here.
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Okay.
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Jump scare.
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Hey, if you made it this far, thank you for watching.
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And if you liked this video, I bet my bottom dollar that you'll also like this one.
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Check it out.
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Okay, bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “NYC Apartment Tour: 2 Bed, 2 Bath in Brooklyn”. This video has 382 sentences and 4301 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:42. The speaker talks fast, about 189 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| roommate noun | /ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/ | A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment. |
| turtle noun | /ˈtɝtl̩/ | Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| dine verb | /daɪn/ | To eat; to eat dinner or supper. |
| honk verb | /hɑŋk/ | To use a car horn. |
| induction noun | /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/ | An act of inducting. |
| hallway noun | /ˈhɔlˌweɪ/ | A corridor in a building that connects rooms. |
| couch noun | /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/ | An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa. |
| bambino noun | /bæmˈbinoʊ/ | A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. |
| bookshelf noun | /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/ | A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference. |
| eyesore noun | /ˈaɪsoɹ/ | An eye lesion. |
| handcrafted adjective | Made by hand or using the hands, as opposed to by mass production or using machinery. | |
| toil noun | /tɔɪl/ | Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature. |
| trusty adjective | /ˈtɹʌsti/ | Reliable or trustworthy. |
| washer noun | /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/ | Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| move over verb | To move (oneself, or someone/something else) so as to free up space. | |
| come on in verb | Synonym of come in (“to enter”). | |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| bring over verb | To cause to change allegiance or point of view. | |
| come on over verb | to visit someone's home or other location. | |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. | |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I just think it's really pretty to look at.
- I'm especially happy with this.
- I think they're really great.
- What's this, you might ask?
- You see that book over there?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've taken · i've always wanted · has been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | sink, which is · those who are · sleeping, which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was locked · are called · was painted |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the cutest · the best · the most notable |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 85 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: induction /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/, bookshelf /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/, washer /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: architectural /ˌɑɹkɪˈtɛkt͡ʃəɹəl/, cumulative /ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/, geometric /ˌd͡ʒiː.əʊˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like roommate, turtle, closet.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.