We sold our house, touring the old home.
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Touring our old house on Starwood road in Ottawa. The house sold in 6 hours and over asking price.
For links to all the projects I mention in the video, click the link below.
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So I used this video to make a CAD model of the house. Now I can print out some templates and cut it out on the band saw...
Using BigPrint
That sound pretty creepy, can you share it with us?
What program did you use?!?
Special K it was a joke.
It was a reference to the endless question which results in the same answer: "SketchUp."
if it is getting torn down see if you can get hold of all the lumber as its tossed- would be good to make stuff from your recycled recyclables :)
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Matthias is rich now...forget that splintery cracked dumpster lumber, hello Lowe's store bought lumber.
Thank you Matthias. This video gives us all an opportunity to say goodbye to the house. I remember many of your home improvement projects.
peggyt1243
yes I really will miss this house
I have been in touch with matthiass video for 6 years.
he is my teacher
he is part of my life
god bless him
sad to see the house go, but new adventure awaits
I'm gonna miss the basement shop.
After so many videos shot there...
I had do smile a lot when I realized how many projects I could remember having seen the video of. Nice memories, but I am looking forward to see new and exiting things happening at the new place.
Buyer: 450,000 is too much Agent: this is Matthias Wandel's house Buyer: I'll give you 465,000.
My wife and me moved from the city to the country and we luv it! You may miss your "cozy shop," but in the long run you'll have a lot more space and potential with your new larger shop. And now you'll have all kinds of projects for your new house and shop and getting it how you guys want it. Have a good one at your new place!
This video makes me sad. It is a page of history that is turning. I loved much this place where we could see the seasons spent since all these years.
Matthias I have been a faithful follower of your videos since about 2012. And after watching for so long i had pretty much learned myself where you kept most things in your shop. Now you are on to a new space and I must say it is slightly emotional to think about not seeing this work space in your videos anymore. Now on to bigger and better things and a new chapter of your life and I am so glad you enjoy your fans enough to bring them along for the ride.
Godspeed
Garrett
Matthias, Jimmy, Bob, and David. All moving. This is literally a maker movement.
Izzy is moving too
James DeWald which David?
Joe whats his channel?
I hear Zac is thinking about moving too
Interesting Video, Here in London we sold our house for slightly less than market value ensuring it was a family buying it and NOT a developer.
Looking forward to all the new home mod videos !
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Shame it's getting torn down, you might've got a blue plaque 'Matthias Wandel lived here - UA-cam superstar'
That makes him sound dead. I need Matthias for at least 120 more years of my life.
Without all the equipment and right camera angels, the shop seems a lot smaller then I thought all the time.
450,000 canuckistan pesos, that is a hot market.....
blake worsham Keep your stick on the ice!
About triple what you would pay arround here...
Considering how small the house and lot is I agree or at least I could buy twice as much in size for both for less than that where I live in the USA and it is in the city as well.
consider that the canukistan pesos are worth very little in comparison to the gold bills you guys are using when comparing housing prices.
iliketobuildstuff .75 of a freedom dollar.
Good for you and your family. Take the money and run! I too will miss that cozy little shop as well.
Fun tour, thanks. 100ft wide lots are gold. Wish I had a wider lot! But I agree that a basement shop can be SO convenient.
This was nice. I appreciate the closure and look forward to future projects in your new space.
I don't know Ottawa well - I never lived there - but I'm somewhat familiar with that neighbourhood. My grandmother lived maybe 6-7 blocks away from your (now former) place. Fond memories of modest houses on quiet, leafy, sleepy large lots. Kinda too bad that the lot might be split and/or a more imposing home (or two) might be built there. But if it needs updating, it needs updating.
Congrats on the quick sale, and here's to upgrading your A/C in the new place before July and August kills you!
I found your place on Google maps, and discover: we are in the same neighborhood just a few 8.900 kilometers, come some day for a coffee with biscuits...
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my house is about 8901KM away from his. May be you and I can get together some times.
Thanks for showing the old house. Putting the familiar shop in perspective was interesting to me.
Matthias, wonderful house tour just like yours of your parent's cottages. I half expected when you entered the house to see those wooden door knobs and locks. Yes a cool basement on a hot summer day.
I am looking forward to a video tour of your new place, new work shop, etc. It would be enjoyable to hear Racheal's views about the new homestead too. It was fun watching her build that dispenser.
So hard to believe you could make a studio, a shop, and a living in such a small place. 1000 sq ft would have been an excuse for most of us. You have an amazingly organized mind. All you need is a good marketing manager, unless you are clearing 6 figures after taxes and expenses. You & your family deserve more. One for patience, two for not swearing.
Thanks for the tour! I'm glad you sold it so fast! Good luck in your new home.
Gonna miss that old place... Glad its gonna get a little extra life at least.. Can't wait to see your new place though!
I feel like I learned so much in that house! Good luck, can't wait to see what comes from the new shop!
"had to say at the old place because it was sweltering hot" - here in Texas rolling my eyes. My neighbors garbage bin melted the other day.
DBODIN2 it’s about perspective
This is a really nice video. I will miss your old workshop too, it feels like I've spent a lot of time in it just from watching your videos over the years. That table top is fantastic, I'd love it if you could re-create that for a video someday! Good luck with your new house.
I'm going to miss that basement. Nice to see what the rest of the house was like.
Congratulations on the sale Matthias, time for a new chapter. Nice to have it sell so quickly, enjoy your new home
I loved that your walls were green.
Brought back old memories seeing things you made long ago.
It also has Wandel mods installed. I'd buy it if I lived in Canada. The land of Matthias and AvE.
Memories! Sadness? End of an era! But with 99.9% of endings there's always a beginning! Excitement. Plans. Dreams. Can't wait for your next video! Good luck Matt :-)
Congrats on the quick sale. The fastest I sold my house was 3 days before listing here in B.C. We just bought a house in Port Alberni BC on Vancouver Island (6 bed with 2 car garage in town on a 7600 sqft lot) for $200,000. Five minutes to the ocean. Can't wait to see the new place.
Great vid. Thank you for sharing Matthias.
Selling & buying at the moment myself. Most exciting bit so far is the chance to start a new shop from scratch.
Seeing this reminds me of the old adage "There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix"
those drying hooks above the door are genius....
that an idea I'm 'borrowing'.
We are all looking forward to how you transform your new house. Years of fun!
You mentioned that a bunch of the things you did were "a waste" because you thought it was just going to get torn down. But, with the exception of the baseboards that you did ONLY for the purpose of selling, I think those other projects served their functions well, and made your house your home. One of the things I like about your channel is that you don't just come up with projects to get content, but rather you get content by solving your actual real life problems. Even if they did get scrapped as soon as you leave, they were still worth doing. Not to mention the added bonus of being content for your channel.
Sad to see the workshop go! Thanks for making the video about the move.All the best on settling into the new place. Looking forward to all the new projects. I hate change myself but it's a good thing!
I really liked that table that you built. Good luck in your new to you home.
Congratulations on the quick sale! Home sales here in Colorado are pretty insane as well.....two of my properties have doubled in value in the past three years.....
Matthias , Congratulations! You're movin on up. Great to see you and the internet evolve.
Wow you are lucky you found a wife who likes things that are made of wood.
Man. The same thing happened to the house I grew up in Ottawa - bought for a ridiculous price for the huge lot, unrecognizable now. We had a big garden and a plum tree too - we never got plums, though. Too cold, and too much shade. But man, it smelled amazing in the spring. Thanks for the tour!
Sad to see the house go. Besides all the awesome stuff made in the workshop, some good food was cooked in that kitchen!
Love to see your new house and new workshop as you build it, love your work M!
we all belong to that house, wish you the best on the next one.
I don't know how you can remember all those dates. Fantastic tour, Matthias.
End of an era, sad...
I'm sure we'll grow fond of his new shop.
Thanks Matthias for the behind the scenes
Now you need to set up your shop. Looking forward to the tour of your new one.
That is expensive for that tiny old house damn! You scored
That is land value. The house will be torn down.
Considering how small the house and lot is I agree or at least I could buy twice as much in size for both for less than that where I live in the USA and it is in the city as well.
Cheap for the Canadian suburbs these days.
Ottawa Ontario Canada.
Its the location odds are they well tear the roof off and make it a 2 story house or jsut tear it down and build totlay new
I was thinking that I recognized almost all the projects in the house. I'm watching your videos for a long time!
wow, that backyard is massive!
Best of luck with your new home! I enjoy all your videos.
House seems to be an ideal size to me, considering it has a basement.
Good luck with the last bit of the move, I hope everything went ok up until now.
I only subscribed maybe a month ago tops, but it still hits me hard to see the workshop completely emptied out
Matthias, regarding your comments about minimising furniture content when showing for sale, over here in the UK - here we have lots less space so land is expensive - new houses are getting smaller and smaller. To try to hide this, developers put scaled-down furniture in their show houses, and even remove the doors to make them look less poky than they really are when showing to potential buyers.
Congratulations Matthias, happy for you and your family.
You could ask the developer if you can come and get the plums in August or perhaps tell him as a stipulation. By the way that was a great idea with the table with the short pieces. It is beautiful.
I always wanted to know how you deal sound bleeding through the floor. Is it annoying for your wife to hear the power tools while you were working downstairs?
insulation between the joists helps a lot
Ask the buyer/developer for notice of the demolition and permission to salvage. The more you take the fewer dumpster he needs to pay for. Get those cabinets & curtain rods for your new house.
New house means lots of new projects, that's good news all around!
Congrats Matthias and hope to view your new video soon.
Same thing is happening in my town -- developers are buying the small houses and replacing them with mansions -- with narrow strips of grass where a spacious lawn once was.
Kinda like the UK property market: any available space gets built on. The economic advantages of an ever growing population butting up against resentment at the loss of space and the difficulty for young folk to buy a house, perhaps being part of the motivation for Brexit. Often troubles folk who over decades see their world relentlessly morph into bricks and mortar.
Residential property has its peaks and troughs, but it came through a huge trough in 2008 & is now buoyant again. The population in the UK and US (markets I study) are increasing due to immigration which is government policy in the UK and US: new folk to look after indigenous older folk. So yes, there will be declines in property prices but the trend is relentlessly up. It would take a serious war or a pandemic in my view to change this trend.
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I really think this should go on your main channel. it was like walking through all your videos seeing this.
Oh wow! I used to know that area well! I found the video fascinating not only because it's cool to give some of your projects and videos some context but when I was a kid I stayed for a bit at my Grandparents just off Merrivale Rd. I'd ride my bike to my friends house on Tower (using the "short cut" and then we'd ride up to hang with our other friend who lived on Granton. Probably rode by your future place on a daily basis. Brings back some fun memories, so it's a cool video for me on more than just one level. Thanks for sharing and all the best in your new digs. :)
Looking forward to your new shop and new projects!
"High real estate prices just aren't good for the country." Could you please come over to the Netherlands and explain that? We really love our insane housing prices.
Congrats on the quick sale!
congrats on the sale !
we all can't wait for a tour of the new place ! but now it starts all over again eh?
It's going to be tough to dumpster dive your old house if they don't have a timetable for the demo.
krtwood no matter. He can just check the camera!
I just realized you've lived 15 minutes from my home for almost 10 years
high home prices not good for the country? you wouldn't hear that from most ...almighty dollar rules to most ppl. refreshing to see a different perspective
Chinese buy property as a form of investment in Canadian cities which causes the housing markets prices to jack up. So in cities like Toronto you have skyrocketing housing costs. Its to the point their outright banning the purchase of property from oversea's investors to prevent a housing crash. That said, Ottawa has a much higher housing cost due to it being the Capital of the country. I lived in a town outside of Ottawa in a house that was 75k, when we sold it, it was worth 200k since Ottawa had absorbed the town by that point. This was over a span of five years.
Maliciously Delicious in Us this is happening as well. plus hedge funds, investor/flippers & air bnb investors = actual people are increasingly unable to afford to LIVE anywhere. In Canada, the got does something to protect ppl....in US? Almighty $$$$ only matters, there is a homeless epidemic ... as long as a few are getting wealthy, foreign or domestic, nothing will change.
our area has hyper inflated prices due to an influx of city tourists. They get their summer home here as we are only an hour and a half away. our little town (about 1500 people) grows to about 6000 people after Menorial Day, then drops again after Labor day. Housing is quadruple in this area as compared to the rest of our county. Sad.
Yet he still sold to a developer for top dollar.. Actions speak louder than (self-righteous) words.
sounds to me you just made a shit tons of money off those oversea buyers, but here you are bitching it like a little bitch, pretty fucking brazen, don't you think?
Based Matthias. Selling at the height of the housing bubble.
I cant believe i lived like two blocks away from you when i went to Algonquin college. Small world.
Thanks for the tour....good luck on your new place...
The house has a nice garden on a decent size plot. Where i live 450.000 Canadian peso's would buy you a small duplex with a postage stamp for a garden.
If you were thinking that they might tear the house down, then the lot alone is worth 450,000 Canadian, Matthias?
That's right.
So you could move or tear down the house for scrap and still sell it for $465K!
It's worth 465k + whatever it costs to tear the old house down, to be exact. Makes you wonder how expensive the new house will be because even if they do build two, it'll be ~250k/house for the lot, plus whatever it costs to build the actual house, plus most likely quite a hefty profit margin.
+$465k house + $50k demolition + $300k new house = $800k development costs in 8 months and sold for $1.5m in 2 days.
Hope you're going to show us your new place and plans for your new workshop!
Sad if they take that down. Crazy home prices do that stuff I guess. Best of luck and happiness in your new place!
Room to grow. Enjoy your new digs.
I think you should make a video making a similar wooden toy sword! It is awesome!
Small world. Im in Texas now and picked up on the woodgears channel a few years ago but didnt know where you were in CA. I lived a few blocks away within walking distance going to Algonquin in 2001-2004.
Hey nice! Congratulations!! Sold after six hours on starting price is amazing!
it seems like u undersold it by quite a bit - all the furniture inside it is priceless! :)
If it is going to be demolished you should take the cabinets out of the kitchen and salvage anything else that you can.
Do watch the whole video.
I did catch at the end where you meet the buyer and were informed it would be a rental for some time. I should learn to watch a full video before commenting.
That's the first mistake. You always watch a full Matthias Wandel video. :D
Martin Cart, I comment on videos while watching also. One reason so many of my comments get edited! LOL
Watch it twice first.
good luck in the new home!
I'll miss the shop...the first video I saw was the milk crate video and from there on I have probably watched them all. One of the reasons I got into woodworking. Hope the country shop works well...
After living in our house for 33 years, we too are about to move (May 2018) We found a local place we really like but on one floor (wife has serious back injury and now has had strokes) Smaller too, but it has a larger garage and a WORKSHOP! Yay! - moving may not be so traumatic after all. Thanks for all your videos Mattias.
Congratulations!!
Congratulations, good luck with the new place!
I just added a 1200 sq ft composite deck with fire place and outside stainless kitchen and attached 12' by 20' glass greenhouse. slightly larger than that house. Total of 1428 sq ft..
was about to see first few minutes, just to get in touch with the situation, ended up watching the whole video. :D
Good sell (I suppose)! Congratulations!
I like these "contemporary" solutions a lot. When somebody says after five years or so "Wasn't that meant to be contemporary?"
I reply "Nearly everything is contemporary, even we are. Come back in 2100 and you'll see if it is still there."