(upbeat music) - I think my room is adorable.
There's so much room everywhere.
I just, I'm not a decorator.
(desk sliding)
(thoughts popping)
I'm sweating, you guys.
Hi, my name's Selorm, and I'm gonna be trying
to give my room a work-from-home makeover.
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Right now we're in my room, my office, my gym.
We're in all of them at the same time.
Even before quarantine, I did everything in my room.
I am a musician. As you can see, I've got my piano.
I'm a video producer.
Sometimes I'll be shooting a video
and I'll have lights in different corners.
So everything takes place right here.
I think my room is adorable, but it is a big, giant,
empty space of nothing.
There's so much room everywhere, so much room!
It's amazing! I love it!
But, I don't know what to do with that space.
As you can see, I've got my queen size bed.
I have a cute, little, wooden shelf that kind of like hangs.
I've got this guitar tree that holds up all of my guitars.
And then there's this ottoman.
It's actually the very first piece of furniture
that I've ever bought.
It was really useful at the time.
I might keep the ottoman, I might not.
The main issues that I have
with my room are that I haven't really found a balance
between work and regular life, anymore.
Mostly because my regular life is pretty much gone.
(baby crying)
Like, my desk is right over there.
And sometimes I'll just roll out of bed,
and then I'll go to my desk,
and then I'll roll back into my bed.
It's not the best.
So I've been trying to find some ways to rework that.
So after doing a lot of research,
I found a perfect feng shui expert.
Her name is Safrina,
and she has a YouTube channel
where she teaches people the values of feng shui.
- The general explanation for feng shui is
the Chinese art of placement.
The analogy that I like to use,
for people who have never heard of feng shui before,
I tell them I'm a metaphysical home inspector.
With certain information, I am able to calculate the energy
of the space, figure out where the prosperous energies are,
you know, the energies that are good for relationships,
and health, and finances,
and also what are the areas of the space
that has negative energy.
- So, you've seen a little bit of my room.
- It is big, yeah.
So you're in an East-facing building.
Based on the location,
you actually need a little bit more water element
in your room.
Water element colors are black and blue.
For bedrooms, I do tend to like blues over black
because too much black
in a room can be a little bit depressing.
It's too yin.
Think about how you can infuse a little bit more blue
in here.
It can be your bed sheets or curtains,
just make blue the main element in this room.
I will keep your bed where it is now.
But you do have a bedside table,
I would ask you to move that on the other side.
Now the bedside table is the Southwest
and your bed is the South.
And the energy of the South is
where that career progression energy is.
I do have a spot for your work desk.
So your work desk has to be right against this wall.
For this area, which is behind your door,
you do need a little bit more metal.
Metal can be gold, silver, chrome, brass.
If you can't find anything you like
in the actual metal element, you can use metal colors.
- After speaking with Safrina, I spoke to David,
an amazing interior designer
who is gonna help me bring my space to life.
- I'm an interior designer.
And I'm the designer
that says you can blend different styles.
And what I do with my design is really specify your domain.
- So you've spoken with this feng shui expert a little bit.
How did that go?
- I was completely shocked.
Speaking with a professional that is focusing just
on feng shui, we're creating on so many different movements
and elements, and bringing the elements into one space.
And I'm gonna bring that out on the whole design.
Like, a creative area, if you will,
a downtime area.
And your whole, like, bedding, I mean,
that's gonna be a moment itself.
So we're gonna bring in elements that are round
and blue elements.
I think it's really, like, intriguing.
- I love that so much.
Okay, it's a little bit weird putting the fate of my room
into two strangers' hands,
but I'm really excited for the change
because I know I really want something different.
Let's see what happens!
So most of the structural changes that Safrina wanted me
to make to my room were not actually that extreme.
Thank the Lord.
Safrina didn't like the fact that my bed was all the way
in the corner,
so she suggested that I move my bed
in a way so that there's space on both sides of the bed.
She also wanted me to move my desk from this corner
to the corner over there so my desk is facing my window,
mostly because this is an angle that directs me
towards money, she says.
I'm open to more money so I'm gonna do it.
Now, I think, is a good time
to call in the interior decorator.
To get a closer look and place some of the items,
David came over and helped me rearrange my room.
He also brought along some items
that fit with the feng shui vibe, like the silk plant
to ensure that no other energy would be taken away
from my space, and blue drapes to make the water element
more prominent within my room.
The surprising thing was, David actually used a lot of items
I already had, like this rug from my living room.
After David left, I added a few personal things
that would help with the clutter of my room,
like this storage mirror.
So it looks like we're good. I'm sweating, you guys.
Okay, so it's been quite a few days of trying
to get this room together,
but I think it looks pretty dope so far.
So behind me we have my lovely bed.
I'm someone who's very colorful,
so I wasn't really anticipating having a white bed
and colors that are a little bit muted.
But I have to be honest, it calms me down so much.
When I walk in here, the white bed just feels like I'm
at a hotel.
And I don't know what it is, but I've seen such a change
in the way that I've been interacting in this space.
The sheets are like a nice quality of sheets,
so they're just super great to sleep on.
So because the sheets look good and they also feel good,
I feel like it's really increased my mood.
So I also have my little, like, office corner,
which is really cool.
I think breaking the room up into sections
has really helped me find a balance for certain things.
Like when I'm working, I can just go over there
and I can just work on my desk.
And then when I want to relax, I have not one,
but two sections to go to.
I can lay on my bed or I can go
to my little music corner and just sit, which is nice.
I'm someone who's so used to my bed being, like,
the only comfortable area that I can sit in in my room.
So having like this giant papasan chair
in the corner of my room has been great.
Having the curtains has been great
because I think curtain made this feel
a lot more like an elegant, bigger space.
Safrina said that I should incorporate
a lot of water elements into my room.
It's blue, and so it's the main focus of the room.
Also, the little, like, hanging shelf that I have,
which is really nice, and we were able
to put some blue books on them.
And they look cute in my blue room, so they're gonna stay.
Before this room makeover, I didn't wanna be in my room.
I hated working from home.
And so having this space that now feels so calming,
so relaxing, and just so welcoming is amazing.
I don't know too much about feng shui, I can't lie.
But I know that this room has boosted my moral tremendously.
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