00:00Hey guys, welcome to Brooklyn, a home for hip-hop and art. Let's go check out my spot.
00:04I'm Alanda Garcia. I'm Associate Director of Marketing at Refiner 29, but my side hustle is DJing.
00:10I live with my boyfriend, Bryce, and my French bulldog, Ollie.
00:14We live in a two-bedroom apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and we have a very minimalist but
00:19artistic, creative feel within our apartment itself. What I love about this apartment is
00:24the space. We have the luxury now of a second room. Today, I'm transferring my second room
00:28from a storage unit to a more musically-driven creative space. We're going to focus on improving
00:33my DJ setup as well as organizing all my sneakers. This space really needs a change. It's a place
00:39where I'm supposed to want to be at. My budget for this makeover is $4.50 at three different
00:45price points. First things first, let's go play some music. For the first phase, I'm decluttering
00:52my room by putting things in boxes and really trying to figure out which items I want to keep
00:56and which items I want to donate. Going through my clothes is very nostalgic. I found a couple
01:03items that I've had since high school, and there are other items that I've had and I just never worn.
01:10I'm going to keep this sweater because I'm from Seattle and has all the mountains in Seattle,
01:15so this is one of my faves. While this is really cute, it sheds a lot, so this one definitely
01:20has to go.
01:22Great. Hmm. I finally purchased a shoe rack on Amazon and it was super affordable. It cost a total of
01:29$40.
01:30Building the shoe rack wasn't as easy as it looked for me anyhow. This is a struggle because my boyfriend
01:36usually does all this, so there was a lot of confusing parts. They all look the same to me,
01:42so it took me a while to actually get it together. This is really a struggle.
01:51Oh, got it. Okay. I think that's right. Then what part is that? What?
02:00My boyfriend and I have collectively around 80 sneakers, so we have to fix that. When I'm DJing,
02:07the last thing I want to see is an ironing board next to me or stepping on my shoe boxes
02:12or turning
02:13around and seeing piles of clothes. Bam. Got it. I got rid of a lot of furniture that really helped
02:23cleared a lot of space. It looks so much better. It's very clean and very organized.
02:39For the next phase, I'm really focusing on adding a lot of greenery. So I have this fake grass that's
02:46also going to act as kind of like a sound absorber. So when I'm DJing at night, hopefully this will
02:53absorb the sound and it won't bother my neighbors. My love for music started at a very young age.
02:58Thankfully, my brother, my cousin, and my sister, they all introduced me to different types of music.
03:03And as I got older, I really decided to pursue my passion in music and decided to become a DJ.
03:12Not sure if this is really going to work with absorbing the sound, but at least it looks cute.
03:17I'm hanging with pants in my room. One of them specifically is a fun DIY project you can even do
03:22at home. All you have to do is buy some string, tie some knots and get a king ring holder.
03:27And then you
03:28have your own little plate holder. This is my favorite piece of the room. It's by this great
03:35designer called Podega Rose. And it's literally a basketball that's made into a plant holder. So
03:40this is definitely something I love. And it's just going to add even more personality to the room.
03:47Looks great. I was a little hesitant of the grass walls. I didn't want it to look like a Coachella
03:53backdrop. But after seeing everything put together, it was exactly what I was looking for. And it really
03:59fried in the room. Everything was amazing. I love the transformation. I already feel inspired. Now all
04:04I have to do are the finishing touches. Let's go. My budget for the final phase was $200. Rather than
04:10buying expensive artwork to decorate the room, I went around and found personal pieces around my house.
04:15I found a skateboard from Seattle, pretty much $3.99. I used zip ties and hooks to hang it on
04:21the wall.
04:22I'm making my own little music cave. Now I feel like I'm ready to just keep going at this.
04:33To really show my friends and my personality, I took Polaroid photos of my friends at my last DJ
04:39event. And then I made a collage within a white picture frame. Cute. That's great. This rug has to go.
04:48It's way too dark for the room. I need something brighter, something that matches more of the
04:53overall aesthetic that we just did. Ollie, come on. I honestly never liked this rug. It was my
04:59boyfriend's idea. So now I'm excited that I can finally take it out and transform this room.
05:12It is Ollie approved. Right, buddy? You like the new rug? Huh? This is exactly what 30 needed.
05:20Oh my God. Ollie loves the new space. There's so much more room from him to walk around. The total
05:27amount was $4.50 and I'm very surprised with the amount of things I was able to get within
05:31that budget. I realized with a little bit of creativity, you really don't have to blow out
05:36your budget and you could really personalize your space. My favorite thing about the space is how
05:40big and bright it is. Before it felt very claustrophobic and dark. And now it just feels like
05:47I can breathe. I can move around. Even though I had this vision, I didn't realize how good it was
05:52going
05:52to look. So I was very surprised that everything kind of just went together and went with our whole
05:58overall apartment look. The first thing I want to do, of course, is DJ.
