2 years ago our journey in Canada 
started from this apartment
and today here we are
sharing our biggest
achievement with all of you.
Which is buying a house in Canada.
These two years were tough.
So many ups and downs came
and we faced many failure
but we remain mentally strong
and gave our best in every situation.
This is what life in Canada is.
Thank you so much guys for supporting
us and accompanied us in our journey.
I hope in future you will
keep supporting us like this
So without wasting any more time, 
let's begin the most awaited video
our home tour.
We moved in this house in Feb
and then came the Corona, and all our
arrangements for home tour had be postponed.
So after 6 months, after setting all
the things, we can now do the home tour.
In this type of house we have a
front yard and a back yard.
We have to take care of the
grass,  watering them daily.
Every week your 4-5 hour will be wasted.
This is that shepherd's hook, which
Manpreet was so adamant for buying, right?
-Right.
And you must have seen,
it was so hard to get.
If you have a fire hydrant in front of
your house, then it has some benefits
no one can park in front of
your house, which people like,
plus your house
insurance it is reduced,
if within 150 metre of your
house there is a fire hydrant.
Like in India people say "Don't
park in front of my house",
so nothing like
this happens here.
the street comes under the
city, so anyone can park.
So this is good.
So it is the front entrance, let us go
inside, and if you come here from the side
there is a separate
entrance for the basement.
We have given a whole basement tour.
You can see that video from the link in the
description below, the entire basement tour.
If you have a D plot, which
means you have large area
so you will get to park
two cars in the drive way
like our drive way is little
large, this lot is of 30/100.
So two cars can be parked in the
driveway and one in the garage.
Let me quickly show you our
garage, it is also important.
You can connect the
garage door with your car.
So that if you do not have
remote, then also you can open it.
The one complaint which I have
is that this garage is small
If you have a single garage in
your house seems inadequate,
initially when we came to Canada
I used to think why people do
not Park their cars in garage,
instead all the stuff are stored in the garage,
and even some people have kitchen there.
so I used to think, when we will have our
own garage, I will park only car inside it
but see, all the stuff
is laying around.
in the houses of desi people, you will
find this type of items in garage,
specially such small garage do
not give you any storage option
we have to build a separate shelf.
We had to speand $500 extra for that,
so we can store things,
and in emergency 
we can also park our car inside,
so it happens soomthly.
but it is little bit congested,
so we can for 3 cars,
two in the driveway and
one inside the garage.
It's a good thing that builder has given
us, it is charging socket for electric cars
or so in case you have
Tesla or other electric car
then you have to pay extra
$1000-$1500 for this,
which we didn't have to spend.
So Rough-in is
already given here.
So you can ask your builder for this,
if you have new house.
So let's go and do the entry from the front,
it's too heat, I am sweating literally.
If you think that there is no heat in Canada,
we always say that it's too hot here.
It's too hot in summers.
So let's do a proper
entry from the front.
Manpreet has a great knack for gardening,
so she had decorated everything
I don't know why she thinks planting
money plant, will bring money;
dollars will grow in trees!
But nothing such happens.
So let's go inside.
Welcome to our house.
Please come in.
So this is the
entry of our house.
So as in other canadian homes 
the first step is to open your shoes.
So we have kept a tray here for guests
or even we also keep our slippers here
so that the house remain clean.
sorry I have to
throw it like that
because I am holding the tripod.
So here as you can see,
this place is empty
we have a lot of ideas in our mind,
like we want to keep a bench here at
the entry and to put a mirror here
but if you think we can do something
better, let us know in the comments section.
Throughout our home tour, we will ask
your suggestion for decorating few section
because we haven't been able to
completely decorate the house.
It is not completed yet, we are
confused, we need some suggestions
so expert advice.
So after that there is
a closet at the entry.
Which is like this at the moment.
As we need different
shoes for different seasons here,
so we have large number of shoes.
So here we have large number
of shoes, mostly his, I have less
normally opposite happens,
but he is fond of shoes.
So we have kept a shoe rack, we will
bring a new one when market opens.
The upper area will be for storage,
we hang all our jackets in the winter
as it is summer, so all those things
are in the storage in the upper floor.
So that's pretty much about this area.
So let's move forward.
This is our hallway.
In this wall normally
décor or paintings are kept
but we are looking for good idea
which will suit this wall.
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Let's go, we will keep a
runner rugs matching the theme
so that's again a future plan.
So moving forward, in our left side there is
a garage door, which you saw from outside.
Normally we access that from
inside specially in winters.
On the right side,
there is a powder room.
Powder room is nothing
but a toilet, with a sink.
This room is very
important for every house
because normally when
guest comes to your house,
they have to go to upper floor
to access the your wash room
even normally the living area and also
kitchen are in the ground floor in Canada,
so you cannot just
always go up and down
so therefore powder room is
very important in the house.
So this is our
little powder room
and as you all know that Harmeet
needs jet in every wash room
so here also we have installed it.
How can one imagine a
wash room without it?
How one can imagine a
wash room without jet?
It should be in every wash room.
Let us move forward. 
This one is basement door.
Our house has one main entrance,
one entry is from garage
and one from the basement.
So this is the first
floor of our house
so normally in Canada ground
floor are called first floor
and the upper floor,
which in India is first floor
is called 2nd floor here
initially it we were
little confused with it,
but now we're kind
of familiar with it.
So in the first floor mainly we have
the living area and dining area,
on the left hand side we have
our kitchen and dining area.
This is a open concept modern house
When we were searching for houses,
we saw houses where there was a wall
between kitchen and living area,
so which was like congested for us.
So we liked open spaces like this
here the kitchen and living
areas are on the same floor,
and there is no
separation between them,
as you can see here.
As you know, the house we
purchased in Canada is a new house
so in the new houses, few builders by default
give you new appliances and some do not give.
In our case, we do not get appliances.
The positive side of that is, we were
able to purchase appliances of our choice.
So we have to bear the
additional costs for that,
because if by default, you get
those appliances with the new house,
so that will be included
in your total house cost.
The negative side is when you get
those appliances installed yourself,
when delivery guys come to do that
while moving the appliances, they make scratches
on the floor, so that is little bit disheartening
because they make scratches
on walls and floors.
Anyway, so this is a smart
fridge that we got.
And it has a smart tablet, and it has a lot
of features we are still exploring ourselves.
And one of the biggest features is
it has a camera inside it, through
which you can check with your phone
what items are there inside it.
So that's really helpful
when you are going
to grocery shopping
and you want to see if you have
that specific thing in your fridge
so you can check that
through your phone
and it will show you the
entire view of the fridge
so that's a great think.
and it has water dispenser.
so the fuss of filling
the water bottle is over.
There is no risk of
filling water bottles here.
Mother after coming here will say
'Son you have not filled the bottle'.
These are fridge magnets, you all know that
where ever we go we bring fridge magnets
so recently due to Corona 
we haven't been able to go outside
but in future we
will definitely go
and we will add on to them.
moving on, this is
the main section,
where we do cooking,
where the magic happens
so, again in a new
house, you get an option
that you can choose from the
cabinet colours to counter top.
So this is all what we selected.
So you can select your
own choice of colours
So pro tip here is that, if you
want to make your house look bigger
so always go for light colours
next is the Hood and the stove
in Canada normally gas
stoves are not used
electric stoves are used instead
but it doesn't give you
that taste in cooking.
So I was always had in mind that
whenever we will purchase our house,
we wanted a gas stove.
So we opted for one.
For that you need to
upgrade to gas line,
so we opted for that.
So you too have an option of installing a gas
line in your house, so go for it.
It makes a great difference in taste
and you know one thing
about Indian cooking
how much smell it produces
so always go for a Hood,
whose CFM power is very strong.
So it again upgrade, we choose the
model with the maximum CFM power of 750,
so that no smell can spread
in the house while cooking
as it is a open concept, the smell
will spread in the whole house
and it makes a great difference.
For upgrades we will
make a separate video
so that you can have that what
upgrades you need to make.
so moving on, here
we have a microwave.
Here we made little mistake, when
we went to our décor appointment
they give us an option
to make a inbuilt stand for
the microwave in our island.
We will show you the island section
and we miss that thing.
And for that we lost this space.
so if you get an option
always go for a microwave stand
and in this side we have a island.
This space is very helpful because when
you have a house with open concept kitchen,
the space becomes less
this give you extra space for cooking
and you can do chopping in this
section, and then you can cook there.
plus there is a
breakfast area as well
if you have a small family like ours, we two
sit here and have our breakfast and lunch
so in that sense you can save a lot of space.
The best thing in the
house is the dishwasher
it is a very helpful
thing in our house
you know when you live in apartments
where you do not have dishwashers,
it takes great effort
to wash the dishes
so it has given us great help
so it is a best appliance that
you can have in your house.
Ahead in the tour,
gadgets are going to come
so I am going to take over,
if you can see in this section
in this entire floor
we have installed a lot of LED lights.
So if you have seen the basement video,
we have also set so many LEDs there
because lighting is an issue.
As it is open concept,
it has one benefit
it has no wall in between
so you have light coming from your
front and also from the backyard.
So this is a good thing.
apartment was smaller, but
since we have moved here
it has become a great
headache to clean the floors
so we had to purchase
this vacuum robot
so it saves a lot of time,
you run this 2 times a week
it cleans your whole house, we
will make a separate video on it.
Is it worth buying that costly
robot, vaccum robot or not.
So wait for that video.
So these are the things
which I told Harmeet
that you need to do when we
will move to the new house
so he automated those works 
so that he doesn't need to do anything.
Why not to automate things, right?
OK.
I had visualised this section
how I want to decorate this section
still now we are thinking about
it, you can also give us some idea
I was thinking that we
can put two bean bags here
not the typical bean bag, but one
with the chair, I'll add the picture.
and you can spend time here
comfortably and cosy,
and have the tea
beside the fire place.
So this is also an upgrade, if
you get the option go for it
this is one such upgrade, which requires a
lot of brick breaking and also expenditure.
In the apartment this TV used to
look huge, but now it seems small
because according to this space
80-85 inch TV can fit easily
so we like this
section very much.
Suggest us, maybe the bean chair 
might not the look good, the cosy look I wanted.
and this section was little empty, while
visualising I thought a tree could be better
and luckily when I was exploring all the
indoor trees, I find this one, it's a very good tree
it looks so good
and it is low maintenance
it grows pretty well even if
you water them once a week or two
it's not a plant but it's a tree
if I planned this one in the ground in
the back yard, it will grow up to 60 feet
you can search for money tree,
it is an awesome tree.
we don't know much
we are new in this
I am caring it,
I don't want it to die
it gives a positive vibe and
cosy feeling to the décor.
Manpreet has planted money plant
and here we have money tree,
let's see if it grows money or not.
but it is considered as lucky tree
if you have one in your house.
So let us go to the backyard,
we have a entry from here.
We put this blinds as it is a
modern concept as Manpreet said.
You can put curtains here, if we
feel that we need to have curtains
we can have the curtains
over the blinds
because look wise
curtains are better
but these blinds where in sync with
our modern concept, so we had them
these are very easy
to open and close.
These are very easy
to open and close.
As we mentioned this is
a newly constructed house,
and all the new constructed houses
it doesn't contain fencing for 1-1.5 for years.
So if you are looking at the backyard
you couldn't find any fencing.
And after some time all neighbours coming
together contribute in installing the fencing.
So in that you have all the privacy,
you can enjoy in the backyard.
As you can see in the backyard there's a
lot of grass which you need to take care of
still now watering is going on.
And we spent a lot of time in this.
And now as we are doing work from home,
sitting here, we enjoy a little bit.
All the enjoyment of the backyard is done
in summer, winters are not preferable
it's nice to enjoy outside,
until the backyard fencing is not installed.
Until then you can enjoy
the open the backyard.
And in the side, if you can
see it is the installed AC,
which we didn't got from the builder,
we installed it ourselves.
Quick tip: It's beneficial if you can install
this in the wall between the two rooms,
because you will not have
the sound in the house
and also it will save your space
it is wasting your
backyard space, isn't it?
so this is a tip, which
you can take care of.
It is hot outside, let's go inside.
And this is the family area
As we told you, it's a open concept,
there is the kitchen, there is family area.
This is the same section which you
have also seen in our apartment,
this is also pull out section
here you can relax and watch movies
it is the same table ,
we did not spend much
because, I need recliners with good massagers
recliners with leather covering,
they are little costly,
we have already spent much now,
we will save some
maybe after few years we will purchase
that also, now we are using this.
As you can see in the pot lights.
And Waffel Ceilings, which you
can ask your builders to install.
otherwise latter on it will prove costly.
Next is dining area.
This is a newly purchased item.
We made a mistake here that 
we didn't purchased the glass ones
if you have a open concept like
this and you have smaller space
it might look more spacious
if you use glass dining table.
I didn't purchased, because I felt the glass ones
are not that sturdy and fear of cracks are there.
So I purchased it keeping the long
lasting point of view in mind.
But look what wise glass
ones is better and spacious.
It has one benefit that it is expandable
and it has six settings.
If I expand it, I'll
have one extra sitting,
so it will be very useful if you
have get together in your house.
and there is one
benefit of open concept
if there is a gathering
of 30 to 40 people
there will be no problem.
The next meet up
will happen here
we will invite everyone here,
once this Corona is gone.
20-40 can enjoy here easily.
And if you are thinking of
purchasing or renting a house.
there is a link in the description,
many people are benefited from it,
many have purchased their homes already.
So you can go to that link and fill the details
and our realtor will get in touch with you,
he will be able to help you
to buy a new construction,
condo, house for rent a house
so that will be really helpful.
So moving forward.
There are few decors
which we still need to do
And I'll ask Manpreet to let
you through these stairs.
But before that,
every Canadian home
contains a thermostat,
through which you can control
the temperature of whole house
control the heat,
control the AC.
It is also smart.
We will cover this in the video
which we will make on smart house.
The area upstairs is my
favourite, so I will cover it.
Because one thing that I like
about homes in the Canada is that
your bedrooms are
on different floors
so that you can maintain your privacy,
and not everyone can access them
so that's a great thing.
So let's go upstairs.
That area is not decorated
Obviously please give suggestions,
ideas, what we can use here.
Normally in this wall people do some decorations,
so please tell us what we can put here.
and one another beautiful thing about our
house is that, these windows are really large
which brings so much light
normally in other houses these
windows are not that large,
so we are thankful that
we got so big windows.
Again there is one more window.
Then this is the hallway.
So here we have
made a small mistake
Normally the hallways
have wooden flooring
and we didn't had any idea about this,
so we did not pay any attention to it
as it is high traffic area 
so normally carpet must not be there
so we missed it.
So if you are purchasing a house or renovating it 
try and get a wooden flooring here.
So let's go first room
which is our home office.
If you have seen our old video
in which we had setup
our home furniture
we had a lot of comedy in that
do check that out.
So it is not that much special,
it is just our work station.
This is my workstation and...
This is the one for poor person.
he sits there.
Her majesty sits here comfortably
and his servants sits here.
Obviously in future we will change its colour,
right now we choose whatever we got
but in future we
will switch to white.
Normally it is a bedroom, in future
we can also convert it if we needed.
At the moment we needed for office works,
as we're both doing work from home right now
so let's see what happens in future.
There is a small closet where
he have put all his gadgets.
So I do not have permission
to access this area because
I mess all the things.
so here he have all the his stuff.
You can see all the walls are empty
there is no decoration, so we will put
some paintings and our silver button here.
Because it is also our Canada couple office,
so we will choose one wall for that.
Let's go to the next room.
That is our guest bedroom.
Which is this one.
We thought of keeping all the
furnitures of this bedroom white,
so that we were able to buy them.
So there is not much decoration,
only some white furnitures
and lamp, which we purchased
from IKEA, it is a very good lamp.
If you had watch our apartment video, it is
the same bed which we had in our apartment.
And this blinds are blackout blinds
because normally sunlight is more here
you need darkness, therefore 
we have blackout blinds for that.
Let me show you the view from here
the view from this room is amazing.
And in our every room there is smart
assistance, like Alexa or Google home,
so in this room we have Alexa
which really help us in listening to songs
and the closet here, inside it
not much special, but we have suitcases
which are not able to go anywhere
hopefully things will be normal soon,
and we will out for vacation somewhere.
This remind me of my favourite song,
Main Te Mera Techi
Garry Sandhu is my favourite
- He is not my favourite, I don't like him.
And one important thing, normally
homes in Canada has smoke alarms
so health wise and safety wise
it is really good, as you can see there
so this was our guest
room/ escape room.
So if we have some fight
this one room
helps the other guy
he doesn't need to sleep on the sofa, and
normally that guy is behind the camera.
- That guy is basically servent.
So he doesn't need to go to
down stairs to sleep on the sofa
he can sleep here.
and Her majesty,
sleeps on the bed.
OK moving on, so this is a living closet.
Nothing special here, 
here on the top
we have made this section for
our prayers/ worship
we have made a small gurdwara
obviously we need to bring more photos
we need to put those on the entry
we are seeking more ideas from you.
Moving on.
This is the guest wash room.
This is not guest wash room,
this is the servent wash room.
Very small.
This is a very small wash room,
we have a tub and shower
if you get an option for
such small wash room,
go for standing shower
instead of a tub
because it takes great
effort to clean them.
and also in this
wash room we have jet.
Without that my life is wasted.
Moving on.
On the right hand side.
We have a laundry area.
So this is a very important section, normally the
laundry in the houses is in the basement area
so we got a option to make our laundry
up here, so we have a laundry in this area
plus there is one in the basement
in case we need to separate out.
The benefit of this is that you
doesn't have to take a bunch of clothes
down in the basement for cleaning them.
it is saves a lot of job.
Also there is a space here
where we can attach cabinets,
right now we do not need them.
so we will not invest in that.
Moving on, this is
the Grand bedroom,
that's the master bedroom.
Here the furniture is white.
We need to give a little
vintage look to it
so we got what we like
and on the left hand side
there is a walk in closet
it's a little messed up.
We have divided the
sections in left and right.
So that it doesn't get messed up.
You can see here
there are a lot of clothes,
and there are a lot of shorts.
But I get complaints that I always
wear one t-shirt and one short.
I have become healthy.
So what clothes fit
us, we wear that.
We will change all of them after sometime.
So this is the bedroom area,
This are the side tables,
we seeing lamps for them,
but now we are not
getting something good
may be in future we will install them here.
And here we have
done some decorations.
If you think we need some decoration
on the wall in this room, so let us know
as you can see, it is a king size bed
so that no one can complaint
about the space crunch.
I hope you are getting
enough space now.
Still now I am getting only 20% of the
bed and you are occupying 80% of it.
It is a very big problem, that men
only get 20% office space in the bed.
And this is a bedroom window, from
here also we get very beautiful view.
Let us show you some view
In winters there comes a lot of sunlight,
so we enjoy a lot sitting here.
As you can see this space is empty
so you can give us ideas if bean
chair or rocking chair will be good.
So we will buy that.
Moving on, here is
the en-suite wash room.
It is my favourite.
The best thing about this
wash room is this soaker tub.
It is a very best option if you
get in your house, so do go for it.
It looks much better and
royal from the normal bathtubs
plus it saves you some space.
And there is a sink, and mirror,
moving on there is a standing shower.
Normally we use that one
soaker tub is used rarely because
daily this one more convenient.
So again a lot of decoration
is left for other sections,
so in future maybe we
will do another home tour,
where we will show you
all these areas decorated.
As you can see this wash room also has
jet installed, which Harmeet has installed.
So let's go down stairs.
So this was our home tour.
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