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
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.
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
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!
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.
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 :-)
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.
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.
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 !
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 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!
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.....
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!
Oh that's too bad. I think I found it on google maps now- and it looks like it's been demoed/replaced by 2x 2-story modern-style houses built 5 feet apart, which tower over their neighbors & look out of place. One of them has 3 new cars in the driveway, a volvo/mercedes/honda I guess it's better than the alternative- a neighborhood going to crap. I was wondering what you could do to prevent that. I guess leasing is the only option. Or changing zoning regulations etc. Or charging so much that there's no money to be made in a resale. I don't really understand what the new residents "get". Obviously the neighborhood is filled with good people, and is the primary value. Maybe they're just interested in a low-maintenance new house. Seems like they could get a largely similar experience, and save 10-40%, by just living as their neighbors they seem to like so much.
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.
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?
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!
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. :)
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.
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.
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...
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.
as small as it looks, there was still a lot of liveable space in there, great cozy starter house. how much did you originally buy it, fi you don't mind
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.
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."
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.
Not with competing offers. If he just accepted the first and only offer then maybe but he had 4 offers. Maybe he might have gotten slightly more but only a few thousand, if anything at all. A no conditional offer is better than a few thousand dollars and conditions like financing or the selling of another house. The deal is done and he can move forward and plan life.
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.
Does all the furniture in there stay? It makes sense if they're renting it out but can you get it back before it gets demolished? So many great projects in there :'(
I don't know where in Ontario you are, but my parents were looking to downsize between Hamilton and Toronto area and houses were going for $100k+ over the asking price cash with no conditions. They'd make a killing off their old house, but would have to turn around and over pay for a new place, so they decided to stay put. It's nuts over there.
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."
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
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.
House seems to be an ideal size to me, considering it has a basement.
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.
sad to see the house go, but new adventure awaits
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
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!
I was thinking that I recognized almost all the projects in the house. I'm watching your videos for a long time!
This was nice. I appreciate the closure and look forward to future projects in your new space.
Thanks for showing the old house. Putting the familiar shop in perspective was interesting to me.
Good for you and your family. Take the money and run! I too will miss that cozy little shop as well.
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.
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 :-)
Great vid. Thank you for sharing Matthias.
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.
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.
Without all the equipment and right camera angels, the shop seems a lot smaller then I thought all the time.
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.
Thanks for the tour! I'm glad you sold it so fast! Good luck in your new home.
I feel like I learned so much in that house! Good luck, can't wait to see what comes from the new shop!
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.
Gonna miss that old place... Glad its gonna get a little extra life at least.. Can't wait to see your new place though!
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 !
Riccardo Pelc-wesoly ii
Congratulations on the sale Matthias, time for a new chapter. Nice to have it sell so quickly, enjoy your new home
Hey nice! Congratulations!! Sold after six hours on starting price is amazing!
I really liked that table that you built. Good luck in your new to you home.
I loved that your walls were green.
We are all looking forward to how you transform your new house. Years of fun!
Best of luck with your new home! I enjoy all your videos.
I don't know how you can remember all those dates. Fantastic tour, Matthias.
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 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!
Congrats Matthias and hope to view your new video soon.
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.
New house means lots of new projects, that's good news all around!
Now you need to set up your shop. Looking forward to the tour of your new one.
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
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!
those drying hooks above the door are genius....
that an idea I'm 'borrowing'.
Oh that's too bad. I think I found it on google maps now- and it looks like it's been demoed/replaced by 2x 2-story modern-style houses built 5 feet apart, which tower over their neighbors & look out of place. One of them has 3 new cars in the driveway, a volvo/mercedes/honda
I guess it's better than the alternative- a neighborhood going to crap.
I was wondering what you could do to prevent that. I guess leasing is the only option. Or changing zoning regulations etc. Or charging so much that there's no money to be made in a resale.
I don't really understand what the new residents "get". Obviously the neighborhood is filled with good people, and is the primary value. Maybe they're just interested in a low-maintenance new house. Seems like they could get a largely similar experience, and save 10-40%, by just living as their neighbors they seem to like so much.
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.
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
I'm going to miss that basement. Nice to see what the rest of the house was like.
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!
Brought back old memories seeing things you made long ago.
Love to see your new house and new workshop as you build it, love your work M!
Selling & buying at the moment myself. Most exciting bit so far is the chance to start a new shop from scratch.
wow, that backyard is massive!
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. :)
Thanks for the tour....good luck on your new place...
Good luck with the last bit of the move, I hope everything went ok up until now.
Congratulations Matthias, happy for you and your family.
Mütiş bir yeteneğe sahipsiniz.Sizi ilgiyle takip ediyorum.Çok teşekkürler Mattihias başarılar.Kendine iyi bak.
Shame it's getting torn down, you might've got a blue plaque 'Matthias Wandel lived here - RUclips superstar'
That makes him sound dead. I need Matthias for at least 120 more years of my life.
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.
Hope you're going to show us your new place and plans for your new workshop!
Sad to see the house go. Besides all the awesome stuff made in the workshop, some good food was cooked in that kitchen!
Congrats on the quick sale!
I think you should make a video making a similar wooden toy sword! It is awesome!
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.
Congratulations, good luck with the new place!
End of an era, sad...
I'm sure we'll grow fond of his new shop.
Thanks Matthias for the behind the scenes
Seeing this reminds me of the old adage "There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix"
wow nice to know we are from the same place enjoy your videos
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...
Creep
my house is about 8901KM away from his. May be you and I can get together some times.
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.
Most heartfelt congratulations!
congrats on the sale !
we all can't wait for a tour of the new place ! but now it starts all over again eh?
I only subscribed maybe a month ago tops, but it still hits me hard to see the workshop completely emptied out
good luck in the new home!
Based Matthias. Selling at the height of the housing bubble.
Sad if they take that down. Crazy home prices do that stuff I guess. Best of luck and happiness in your new place!
It also has Wandel mods installed. I'd buy it if I lived in Canada. The land of Matthias and AvE.
"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
Congratulations on selling your house!!!
Seems like your camera has some dead pixels on its sensor Matthias. They stand out when you are showing the workshop sign on your door.
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!
as small as it looks, there was still a lot of liveable space in there, great cozy starter house. how much did you originally buy it, fi you don't mind
Looking forward to your new shop and new projects!
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.
we all belong to that house, wish you the best on the next one.
super comfy video
Wow. Today is July 17th, 2017, your closing date. Good luck with your new house.
cool. good luck on the new phase of your life.
Congratulations!!
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."
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.
sounds good that it sold so fast.... Doesn't that suggest you sold too cheap?
competitive market, I think if he went too high they wouldn't have bought it.
Still, isn't selling a property always a bad deal?
Not with competing offers. If he just accepted the first and only offer then maybe but he had 4 offers. Maybe he might have gotten slightly more but only a few thousand, if anything at all. A no conditional offer is better than a few thousand dollars and conditions like financing or the selling of another house. The deal is done and he can move forward and plan life.
Are you planning a tour of the new house? Will the large garage workshop be your new workshop? Been hoping to see these in videos but nothing yet.
I cant believe i lived like two blocks away from you when i went to Algonquin college. Small world.
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.
Thanks for sharing. My house is worth similar to yours(Australia). But your house has basement and awesome kitchen.
Does all the furniture in there stay? It makes sense if they're renting it out but can you get it back before it gets demolished? So many great projects in there :'(
I don't know where in Ontario you are, but my parents were looking to downsize between Hamilton and Toronto area and houses were going for $100k+ over the asking price cash with no conditions. They'd make a killing off their old house, but would have to turn around and over pay for a new place, so they decided to stay put. It's nuts over there.
How long ago did you buy the house with the huge shop ? I have not seen any video that mentions it.
Looks like the house was not demolished, at least until 2019.