The first thing on screen in part 48 is a man in a dark shirt and red ear protection reaching up a wall with a tool in his hand, under a text overlay that reads “Remodeling my house after work part 48.” Within a few seconds the video cuts to a kitchen with a counter being worked on, then to a laundry room buried in clothes, and then to a gutted downstairs space of bare drywall, concrete floor and exposed joists. That space is the next room on the list.
The creator, @kyle.mcdaneld, introduces himself in the first line as someone remodeling “as a 6 foot 7 24 year old” and says the plan is to keep going “until every room is done.” Last episode, he says, he turned his laundry room “from this to this.” Now he is moving to the downstairs bathroom, “where I have to build it completely from scratch.”
He sets expectations early. “If you are professional, do not watch this video,” he says. “I’m just a 24 year old dad on a very tight budget.”
The footage that follows is the unglamorous start of a bathroom, marked on the overlay as “Bathroom remodel day one.” The frames show a space with a mix of old drywall and bare studs, tools and cords scattered across a concrete floor, and a miter saw set up in the room. He is seen standing on the floor and reaching overhead to fit lumber between the existing beams, crouching to fasten framing near the floor, and holding up a full sheet of drywall against a wall. In the last seconds the room is noticeably more boxed in than it was at the start, with new wood and a drywall panel in place at the edge of the frame.
Most of the talking in the second half is not about the build. He asks viewers to watch to the end and to help the series along. His reason is time. “I’ll still be remodeling my house no matter what,” he says, “but I just can’t justify taking family time away to edit these videos if I don’t have enough support from you guys.”
He closes by asking what people think of the before and after of what he has done so far, and promises another episode.
Two habits from how he runs the series are worth copying for a bathroom built from nothing.
Film the “before” properly. The laundry room he shows in the opening seconds is a pile of clothes and baskets, and that frame is what makes the finished version readable later. If you want a reveal at the end, shoot the messy stage first, from the same doorway you will use afterwards.
Treat each room as its own project. He finished the laundry room before starting the bathroom, and he calls the bathroom “day one” rather than folding it into one long job. That keeps a budget and a to do list small enough to track while you work evenings.
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