We've done thousands of tech projects here on the sets in our studio, but
there's one crucial thing missing from just about every one of them. They're
just too easy. See, the most creative
solutions come from solving realworld problems with realworld constraints. And
you can't easily replicate a real world problem in a space that is designed to
be easy to work in. That's what made projects like filling my house with
allegedly smart light switches or building a hot noisy server room just
feet from where we had to shoot videos so awesome. Like, yeah, we had cool tech
to show off, but we also had the kind of inescapable limits that only crop up in
the real world. You know, things like smart switches getting stupid when the
device count gets into the hundreds or the server room catching on fire. the
kinds of things that force us and our sponsor for this video, AMD, to go the
extra mile to overcome them. That's why we're going house shopping. We want to
find the perfect zero that we can tech out and turn into a one. I'm talking
everything. [music] Gaming room, security system, home theater setup, smart home integrations,
all in a real world environment that requires real world problem solving. And
because someone's going to actually live in it when we're done, it's going to
have to actually work this time. So with all that in mind, we're looking for
something balanced, [music] something that's big enough for us to do
cool projects in, but small enough that you could scale them down and maybe
execute on something similar at home. We want something that needs a lot of work,
so we can have a big before and after. But also, we're not professional trades
people. We're electronics people. So,
we're not necessarily looking for something we have to tear down to the studs. And finally, we're going to be
filming here a lot, so we want something that's reasonably close to our office
and to our team. We're going to be looking at five houses today. And here
is the first one.
And here is the first one. Hey guys, I'm here to make sure this guy takes a
fiscally responsible approach to this house. >> And my team actually needs to work in
this place. So, I need to know that we can get stuff in and out. We can put
lights in the rooms. Actually, I kind of like this lobby right here. Yeah, this
is this is kind of great. Let's take a look around. Actually, not a bad family
room. I've seen so many family rooms, even in much larger houses, where there
is nowhere to put a TV other than too
high. But the problem with these designs where there's a family room and a living
room, is they often don't have a great home theater room. I don't know what
else is in this house, but if this is the home theater room, how are we
sealing it? There's too many entrances. Being open to this little eating nook
and the kitchen is great, though. The kitchen's pretty nice. >> It's a good kitchen, but I wonder how
much we care about a a kitchen. I think we could put smart appliances in pretty
much any kitchen. So, [snorts] let's move on. Same goes for the dining room,
but the living room matters. This is where we're going to want to smartify
things. And this is where I have major concerns about access. I want a house
with a crawl space or at the very least
ease of fishing wires through the ceilings in case we want to put in
speakers or other amenities. >> Well, there's no floor above this, so
could be an attic. Oo, that's cool for wiring, but where am I going to put all
the brains? I don't [music] see an obvious like server room.
Main [music] bedroom's pretty spacious. I found one.
I was looking for attic access, but this walk-in closet could be mechanical room.
Do you really want to give up the walk-in closet in the main bathroom, though?
>> I don't care, but the person who eventually lives here, they probably don't want [music] to do that. No.
>> I actually have tons of ideas for what we could do in the bathroom. Like why
not have in shower karaoke? You're going to sing in there anyway.
And I don't know a lot about smart tubs, but I heard they exist. So maybe this is
an opportunity to learn. >> Couple more bedrooms, but nothing that
really screams gaming space. >> Yeah, that's going to be a problem. See,
AMD is already sponsoring [music] the game room. So, >> but we don't even have the house yet.
>> We got to find one. >> Lionus. Yep. This place just got more
interesting for two reasons. One, they sealed up one of the garage bays. Oh,
sick. So, it's insulated >> for a maker space, for a home theater
space, a cold home theater space. >> Okay, it's not that insulated. And the
second thing is this little mechanical room. Oh, that's not bad. That's not bad
at all. And if we do put anything that generates a bunch of heat in here, you
know, servers, gaming PCs, and the like, we've got venting right there. I'm
loving that. Even with one of the bays sealed, we still have a twocar garage.
if we can put gear in here. But more importantly, mission accomplished,
Linus, look what I found. Good news and bad news, James. Huh? The good news is
that you've got even more storage space. The bad news is that it's not as easy to
get around in the attic as you might have thought. Meanwhile, in the backyard, there's tons of room for
activities. I could totally see us getting into kind of some smart
gardening stuff. >> I thought you were going to say you're going to dig a pool.
>> Why don't we sit in it for a minute? What do you guys think? >> I think it's got good bones. is well
taken care of, but I think it's a little small given the price. >> Doesn't have any stairs, which is going
to be less pain in the ass, but it's pretty far from the office, which hurts.
I like that there's no smartification whatsoever, making it pretty much a
blank slate tech-wise. But I worry that transformation to get the sick before
and after is going to involve tearing out pretty nice stuff almost across the
board. Let's move on.
Another
big entryway. [music] >> If our concern was that the last place
was too nice to tear apart,
we may have the same issue here. This is gorgeous. Hey, look. They put us on
their TV. >> Yeah, the TV that's too high. >> But at least there is a good spot for a
TV. >> That's true. That's valid. I'm a freak.
I believe that cars should be parked in garages. And I would also be pretty
interested in maybe exploring like wireless electric car charging and stuff
like that. So I'd want to turn this back into a garage if possible if we can
still have our gaming room and our theater room and whatever else. But this
place has a basement so we might be able to do that.
H nice little home office or maybe [music] twoerson gaming room. This
situation over here is way less simple. You've got this like careening long hall
that terminates in a small kind of node,
>> right? [laughter] So, if I go over here, then immediately
I'll be back. >> What?
>> Cuz it terminates. >> Oh. Oh, okay. Okay. Hold on a second.
Imagine this is your home theater. You've got viewing distance. Like, it's
okay. >> Mhm. you uh your speakers would be like
right on the back wall. Not ideal, but at least at least you can close the
door. It's a sealed room, but there's actually more down here.
There's a tenant in the other side, so we can't film there, but we're going to go have a look into the no filming zone.
Oh god. Oh, you stepped on my foot. >> Yeah. So, we can make an awesome home
theater man cave bar thing down here, >> dude. That's fine. We can work with
that. Interesting. We formed thoughts. Dude, is that a tree
house? That is a whole another house.
>> Well, it's not on a tree, so hear me out. It's small. We paint it red. It's
the AMD gamer room, but it's separate from the house. The gamer dog house.
>> Gamer. [laughter] >> Guess where you're sleeping tonight. Woof woof. They've actually got a line
size door here. >> Okay.
Oh, dude. This is sick. Look at how this is set up. This is amazing.
Well, that's everything. What do you guys think? I like the price. Good
price. Close to the office. >> Way closer. >> Yeah. >> Has options for theater room, but you're
going to have to move some walls and work for this space.
>> I like that it's big and even has like a decent size yard in spite of being like
kind of within the city. I have the same problem as the last one,
though. We're going to have to tear off a bunch of this drywall to put a bunch
of Ethernet and everything in here. And I just feel bad. >> The next one will definitely need more
work than these. >> Okay, let's have a look. >> Yeah.
This one I like already. Why? Because they just lowered the price. Hey,
>> let's go. >> And immediately, boom. Obvious wall for
a TV and a couch. No TV above the fireplace. Kitchen. I won't feel bad
about uh ripping this out. Good job, Admiral. You've served well. It's called
a dishwasher. [laughter] You can learn about them on technology connections.
>> Quality channel. Wait, wait. Meanwhile, what is this? >> That's sick. That is awesome.
>> Mega Base. >> Wa. Acoustic profile. That's a Canadian
brand, which I now know because I bought some acoustic profile speakers during
the last scrapyard wars. >> Oh, that's interesting.
>> Skylight. >> Who would put a Why would you put that on your skylights?
>> You know, so leaves don't fall through. I feel like this house was like '90s
high tech. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, hey. Oh, wait. Why? I turned it on.
>> Oh, it's that one. >> Oh, it's a dimmer switch.
>> Well, that was not >> It's a ratcheted dimmer switch.
>> Nice. >> Hold on a second. Is this Oh, like a little fountain. Is this plumbed?
>> No, that's power. >> Huh? >> Yeah, it's a little fountain. It just recirculates. That's cool.
>> Okay. Yeah. Okay. It's not plumbed. That's stupid. Don't even include a loop.
>> No, I like it. Include that. This Oh, this is a raised floor. So, and there's
in flooror forced air heating. So, this is obviously going to have a crawl space
under it. You should find that built-in vacuum. I'm actually a fan, which I've
heard is a bad take, but >> No, I have one of those and it's sick. >> Whatever.
>> It's great. The noise is way far away from me. I love it. >> Right. >> Yeah.
>> Right. >> It's a fireplace. It's not fun.
>> I [laughter]
I just hate these family room plus living room layouts. >> Why? You don't want to talk to your
family? >> It just doesn't serve a different function than the other living room we
were in. >> No, you're not wrong. Oh, >> unless we made one of them like gamer
heaven. And I think we could make the family room just like a sick gaming
space. Or actually, I would see the entertaining space being the more gamey
space. But it'd be really cool if it was like kind of stealthy. [music] So, you
could enjoy the room like adults or you
could have like a like a panel that opens in the wall and like a big TV
comes out or whatever, you know? But I'm a home theater guy. I'm biased. I want a
sealed room that you can pressurize with your subs and paint it black and get all
the speakers >> and then get upset when nobody uses it and everyone watches TV upstairs.
>> My wife's like, "We should get a TV in the bedroom." I'M LIKE, "GET OUT OF HERE. WE BUILT A ROOM FOR THIS."
>> HEY, CHECK THIS OUT. >> Is this the crawl space? >> Yeah.
>> No. >> Oh, that's cool. >> Those are stairs. >> Look at that. Crawl space access. Here
it is, boys.
>> Oh, this is sick. All right, coming out.
This is weird. It has stairs that go up to one room.
>> Yeah, just one. >> Okay. Well, we'll get up there in a sec. Okay. So, first there's a bedroom here.
>> Oh, whoa. What about >> this bedroom? >> Wo wo wo wo.
>> Hilarious. Huh? >> Wait, what? WHY?
>> It's got a sliding door between the rooms. And if you're thinking what I'm
thinking, you're thinking gamer space.
AMD Gamer Space. So you Yes, thank you Colton for reminding them of our sponsor
AMD. So think about it. You get one team in here, you get one team over there.
Then depending on whether you want to play the type of game where you know
there's isolation or if you want to yell at each other,
>> dude, that's cool. >> You just pop the doors open. Why do they only have single receptacles in these
spots? >> What am I looking at? >> Oh, they're night lights.
>> Okay, they're builtin nightlight ones or something. These are the perfect stairs
to just like toboggan down. Look at that runway. [laughter]
>> This is what happens. You let mench children go house shopping. You don't
bring any of the wives.
>> With treatment, dude. No, it's not even that bad because it's not square. Like,
it's a little bit. You get a little bit of treatment in here. Dude, this is
sick. We just cover that window. >> Yeah. That's your display wall.
>> Yeah. Your couch is here. >> Here's your cabinet with everything in
it. Boom. Literally already there. Put
some ventilation on it. Black these out. Hello.
Oh, crawl space. >> It's I think it's the whole set. Is
there one on that? Yeah, both sides. Dude, there's a light switch in here.
>> Oh, this is jank. >> But have you guys seen the ice cream
cone dispenser? >> What? Oh, we have one of those little
disposable water cup things. It's plumbed right in. [laughter]
He's going to start throwing these at me. >> Overall thoughts, boys. I really like
this one. Close to the office. It's got the movie theater room. It's got a
cheaper price. It's big. It's not too big. I love the easy access for the
wiring. >> Yeah, [music] >> we can get it everything. No problem.
>> It's a makeover. >> Yeah, it'd be worth That's a two-sided
coin. She's a makeover. >> That's content, baby. [music] >> A lot of it's surface level, though.
You're going to want to do new carpeting and flooring and a coat of paint anyway.
This is also the realtor told me this has only been owned by one owner. So,
you know that they haven't done a bunch of weird things that you can't see. Like it it's it's outdated in a few areas.
>> They might have done some weird things you can see, but >> Well, yeah. Yeah. >> Like when they plumbed in that thing
above the fireplace. >> I've never seen that [laughter] before. >> I've never seen that before,
>> guys. I don't think that was plumbed. >> Shut up. Shut up.
>> Is this a fountain? Real talk for a minute, though. This is plumbed.
All right. This next one's a little bit tricky. We don't have permission to film
inside. So, all we're going to be able to do is kind of show you guys the
pictures off the site and we'll kind of narrate it. This is deep as hell.
Interesting. Like, it's like a den but with a walk out patio. No, the backyard.
Dude, this backyard is sick. Perfectly
flat, which I didn't expect when I saw the slope in the front. And it's square.
And you're on green belt. I like this room is really sealed off from the other
rooms, though. It does weirdly have two cornery doors, but you can close the
doors and you can game in here. You can play loudly in here. A solid half of the
basement is unfinished. You guys can't see this, but I'm working out on a
machine they left here. Just getting a couple chest press in.
>> Yeah, this is a pretty small bedroom. Why don't we have a look at this? It's
the same as the other one. Pink carpet. Yep, that was a '90s staple.
>> The best part about this place for me was the potential that that unfinished
lower level has. That is such realtor speak for
>> potential. >> Lot of work. A lot of work. >> Got a lot of potential for a future
buyer. I don't like the price. I don't like how far away it is from the office.
And I really don't like the super sloped driveway.
>> Yeah, I do like the blank slate. It has
that in common with some of the other places that we looked at. But I don't
see a way to get around the small bedrooms upstairs. The downstairs
endless potential. >> The next place that we're looking at though is actually one of my favorites.
All right, let's check it out.
>> Red versus blue rooms here. >> That's not bad.
>> Oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah, >> I think like doing like the sickest home office would be pretty cool. Like this
purple room. This would actually be great as a gear closet. Oh, this is
above the garage. >> Wo, wait, what?
What? A storage mezzanine above the garage.
Oh, and there's an attic access above that. Where does this door go then? I'm
like two stories up. >> It's super cool to have a big garage
with height like this cuz then you can have those storage things that drop down
and that's a cool project. I'd like to see a video on that. All right, little
den when we come down the stairs. I am
definitely picking up entertainment vibe. I don't know if it's theater vibe
though. James, you know what would be kind of cool to explore would be like
beverage tech. Like I don't drink. >> Mhm. >> But someone does.
>> We got to plum something in though. >> So there is no crawl space.
>> No crawl space. I repeat no >> under a basement. Is there ever?
>> Um probably not. No. Two bedrooms in the
basement. >> This is a big enough room you technically could make a home theater in
here. >> You could. It'd be a little cramped.
You wouldn't be able to have all the buys over. >> What do you guys think?
>> It's huge. I liked it. >> It's big. >> Very big.
>> I liked it. It has more rooms to play
with than AMD eyes. [laughter] AMD gaming rooms in multiple rooms.
>> Oh my god. Okay, >> we're going to have to do lots of
different projects. >> To me, it's between this one and house
number three. >> I would say house number three. I think the only consideration I would have
there is just if you guys need that extra space, but 100% house number
three, >> I'd be really excited to see how we problem solve around a more reasonable
sized home. How do we [music] make an ultimate gaming bedroom that is also
still a reasonable bedroom? House number three. House number three is a big
enough project without biting off more than we can chew. [music] It's the
closest to the office. If we go back to what our goals were in the first place,
it ticks every [music] box. I'm just thinking with that conjoined room thing,
like is this a house that you can only move into if you're just like single or
a couple, like no kids? It's not a family home. >> It's totally a family home.
>> Where where are the bedrooms? >> You would have your two kids share one
mega room. I'd want a 16 gaming setup that's completely stealth in the family
room. So, you don't even know that there's like an [music] awesome gaming
setup in there. >> Mhm. A total wife acceptance factor.
What? I wasn't just gaming kind of setup. >> Nice. Obviously, we have to have
head-to-head AMD powered gaming setups in the two bedrooms.
>> Yep. What about like a Plex server in the home theater? [music]
>> AMD CPU would be perfect for that. >> Mhm. >> Yeah, that would work. Let's make an
offer. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out one of the times AMD
gave us a budget to upgrade the homes of one of our team members. [music]
Maybe Sherrod. >> Is that the closest to this?
>> Nope. It's just that he got an AMD grill, which is amazing. And he met Lisa
Sue but didn't wear it. >> What?