00:01Hey guys, it's Carly. Welcome to my sweet digs renovation. Oh, brace yourselves. We got a lot
00:07of changes coming in this place. Let's go. I'm Carly and I am a production assistant at Refinery
00:1229. I live in Brooklyn with four other people and this living room that we have is not a living
00:20room. For the money that we're paying for this place, we should have a place to eat. We should
00:23have a place to hang out with our friends. I mean, if people come over, forget about it. So today
00:27I'm
00:27taking on the challenge of renovating this space at three different price points, $75, $125 and $400.
00:36I've never really done like a big renovation before, but this needs help. It's time.
00:42Something in this apartment that has bothered me since the day I moved in is the ugly brown couch.
00:48I have not sat on it. Don't even get me started on the pillows. I hate them more than anything.
00:52It
00:52looks like pillows from my grandma's house in the nineties. It's disgusting. It's got to go.
00:57So I found these pillow covers on Amazon, two for $10. They're nice and like country linen. I could
01:03still nap on it. They don't feel too rough. They're also just a neutral color. It'll go with anything
01:09that we do with this space. So as you can see, we are standing on empty wood floor. So I
01:16really
01:16wanted to bring in a rug that would add some color, add an aesthetic. So that is phase one of
01:22the
01:22renovation. And already you can tell with just these two items, it looks completely different.
01:27The pillows distract from the disgusting couch color that I still cannot stand. And the rug itself just
01:33makes it a cozier space. Like I can actually see my roommates and I just like chilling on the floor,
01:39hanging on the couch, actually getting to know each other and not isolated in our rooms.
01:44All right. So phase two of the renovation, I have $125 really wanted to focus on creating more
01:50seating. There are so many of us. We have a lot of friends at the same time. We also have
01:55a lot of
01:55crap and we need places to store it. I wanted to do kind of a two in one situation where
02:01we have more
02:01seating and more storage. This bench is from Walmart for about 70 bucks. Um, it's beautiful. I love it so
02:08much. It was definitely worth the price. It was not worth the pain that we went through trying to build
02:14this thing last night. And can I just point out, um, if you're going to ask me to build something,
02:18you know that it will not be perfect. Bye. Overall, it turned out beautiful. I love it so much. It
02:28might
02:28be my favorite piece in the apartment. So when I first moved into this apartment, I loved it so much
02:33for five bedrooms. It's massive. I love a lot of things about this apartment. Something I don't
02:39love, no shade, this, this is just not my aesthetic. And now that we have these plants and this beautiful
02:46storage bench and the rug, we got to get rid of it. So I found them here on Amazon for
02:52about $43.
02:53I have my hammer. I have some nails. I have some weird plastic things that I've never seen before,
02:59but we're just going to go for it. I was also really nervous that it wouldn't be the right
03:02shade of gold. But when it came in, I was pleasantly surprised. It was like exactly what
03:07I wanted for this space. I think it's just going to open everything up, reflect some light. It's
03:12just going to look so good. We did it. We got through and now we have a cute little mirror.
03:19I'm so excited. So I had a little money left over my budget and I wanted to add some texture
03:26to this
03:26couch. So I got this fur throw. It looks hella expensive, but it was $15 and it just makes the
03:34couch look so much more sophisticated. So I saw this idea on Pinterest of using books as a decor
03:41piece. I found some books from work. I stripped them of their covers, brought them home and created
03:46this cute little ombre effect. All right. So we are onto the final round of renovations. $400. We
03:54have so much money to work with. I found some pattern contact paper on Amazon, about 30 bucks each.
04:00So I'm so stoked to get this peel and stick on there because the accent wall is just going to
04:04give
04:04it character. It's going to make it look more cohesive. I actually could cry. It looks so good.
04:13This looks like a luxury apartment. I am shook right now. Like this is not the same apartment
04:20that I have been living in for a year. All right. So now that I have conquered the living room
04:25wall,
04:25you could basically say I'm a wallpaper queen. I thought let's spice it up a bit with some
04:31chalkboard paper so that when people come over, it's like this cute little interactive corner.
04:35We can draw, play games. So we have completely transformed this room. It looks so different and
04:41I'm loving it, but I'm still not happy with this brown couch. So I found this couch cover on Amazon
04:46for about 34 bucks. I love the color and it is so soft.
04:53I do not want to get food on any of it. So I'm building a little table for us to
04:58have a place to
04:58eat. All right. So surprise, we also have two bar stools. So now we have one, two, three, four,
05:05five, six, seven, the floor. So many places to sit and chill. We can have all our friends here.
05:11It's great. I also got this plant from a local shop just down the street. It has pink in it.
05:16Like
05:17who doesn't want a pink plant? Oh, it's so cute. I am so in love with my space. I have
05:23four roommates,
05:23but I don't really know them that well because we never really had a space to hang out and get
05:28to
05:28know each other. This literally doesn't like anything like our living room. This is so crazy.
05:33This is so beautiful. Now we have so much seating. We actually all will probably want to hang out in
05:38here every night. I'm so excited. This is just like a dream come true.
