Building Party (Day 3494 - 6/19/19)

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Stephen and Mallory had Lunch Bunch with Austin, Nikki, Roland, and Dan. Stephen didn't film anything for Lunch Bunch, but Austin, Nikki, Roland, and Dan came back to their house to help them build furniture after lunch. They also put all the furniture in their corresponding places. Stephen says that they are still not sure if this will be the final furniture set up. They now only have Stephen's desk and the coffee bar to build.

They finished building all the furniture in an hour and 30 minutes. Stephen thanks everyone for their help and says that it would've taken him and Mal a long time to build the furniture themselves. He wished that that the couch would've here earlier, so that Paul had somewhere comfortable to sit. Stephen then says that they are going to throw party once they finish setting up the house. Austin says that they are already having a building party since everyone is here building furniture.

Later, everyone left and Stephen built his desk and set it up in front of the window. He says that he might slightly move over the streaming set up, but not too much since he has to fit a green screen between his desk and the streaming set up. Stephen talks about how he needs to find a solution about where the mount a camera since using a camera instead of a webcam would result in a better video quality for Morning Mario. Stephen says that he also doesn't want to be too close to the green screen since that will cause shadows which are hard to edit out. He mentions that Morning Mario will be coming back in about 2 weeks.

Stephen then talks about they used an Ikea Kallix shelving, which you can get drawers and cabinet doors for, as a coffee bar. They stored all their coffee and tea there and some other things that didn't quite fit in the kitchen. There is still 1 more cabinet door that needs to be added, but they need to figure out a solution for the Keurig plug behind the shelving unit since it's to big. Stephen mentions that he is still feeling ill.

He then talks about how they moved the couch inwards since when the couch was against the wall, the viewing angle was really bad since the TV is in an alcove. Once they moved the couch, the chaise couldn't fit anymore because it was to close to the kitchen bar counter, so they couldn't walk past easily. Therefore, they moved the chaise and ottoman in from of the TV which looks really out of place. Stephen says that it feels like they made the room smaller by moving the couch. By moving the couch, it made room for a gaming table behind it. Stephen says that they might move the gaming table to the dining room once they clean it up and the dining table behind the couch.

Stephen says that he will give a quick tour of the house once they get the house all set up. He mentions that they didn't connect the couch pieces, but this will allow them to move around the couch pieces if needed. Stephen then talks about how they ordered the same couch since they really liked the couch they already had. However, it seems like the quality of the new couch has dropped as the couch cushions and pillows are firm and hard. Stephen doesn't know if their original couch was like this when they just bought it or not, but the new couch is cheaper.