- I knew I had a lot of T-shirts but like, I feel crazy.
(dramatic music)
(yelps)
This is the day I've been dreading the most.
(sighs)
(upbeat music)
I'm gearing up to move into a new apartment
from my old apartment, but I'm doing it with my friends.
For me, moving is at the top of the list
when it comes to stressful events.
This is kind of a exercise to help me,
to let go of the notion that people
absolutely will not help me, or don't want to.
So the apartment that I'm going to be moving into
is something that I would want to categorize
as like my first big girl apartment
or my first apartment as a whoman.
It has like separate rooms
that I could use for actual separate things
instead of just sort of being like, one small apartment
where I do everything in one room.
Because I'm taking over the apartment from a friend
who's already been living there,
and I already know how she decorated it.
I really wanna make sure that I go into this apartment
feeling renewed and refreshed.
I wanna do some painting changes with like, the decor.
So I'm gonna hire some painters
and also probably help paint a little myself.
And also I'm going to bring in a Reiki healer
to sort of bless the apartment
and make sure that it's truly mine when I actually move in.
- Hi, I'm Mel.
- And I'm Brandon.
- And we're from Kirk Renovations based here in Los Angeles.
We're painting, handyman and interior design service.
- I've been doing this since I was a kid.
We own rental properties here in LA county.
Part of the rule was, they're going to be mine someday,
so I better learn how to do it myself.
We start off with the interior design,
picking colors, swatches,
and then from there we'll paint
and provide handyman services,
finishing touches, like adding drapery,
or maybe mounting a television.
Which is exactly what we're helping Freddie with today.
We're really excited to get started on this project
and we can't wait for Freddie to see the final result.
Because the apartment is really open,
it has a lot of daylight bouncing in.
I really wanna keep it as bright and as white as possible.
So, I'm gonna go into the bedroom and paint it white.
It's currently like, a really dark blue.
- So, what we're going to have to do
is seal that color in using a primer.
After that, we'll lay a couple of coats of white paint
and hopefully get rid of that blue color.
- So my room is like, almost done
being painted white, it's like, a pure white.
Which I'm super excited about.
- [Chantel] How many coats did this room take, Brandon?
- Six new coats of paints.
- [Mel] Wow.
- [Chantel] It really looks so different.
- [Freddie] I love it.
It makes me feel, oh my gosh,
it's just giving me a ooh!
These were all brown wooden strips
and so they're just painting the beams
and the brown wooden strips white,
to sort of make everything sort of cohesive,
and bright, and fresh.
- Freddie's apartment has some woodwork
that's original to the space.
Which is beautiful,
but for Freddie we really wanna modernize it.
- I'm gonna have Mel nd Brandon come in the hallway
and sort of paint all of these trims and doors.
In addition, they're also gonna paint this built-in cabinet,
that is also wooden and brown.
We're gonna sort of make it match the rest of the hallway.
- So were gonna be going over it with a semi-gloss white
to really brighten up the space and make it fun and girly.
- [Freddie] So what's happening here?
- So we took the cabinets back to our shop with us,
and the drawers.
We sanded them down and now we're hanging them back up.
And the hallway trim has been painted,
and it's like a brand new hallway.
- [Freddie] Oh my gosh, it looks so good.
- So one of our biggest challenges
while painting Freddie's space,
is that a lot of paint is very old.
Which is difficult to always match paint.
- [Brandon] So what we did was took our base,
which is a paint color and added a little bit of the white.
- You can always add but can't subtract.
Now that we've taken the metal rods off the wall
in the office, we're gonna try to match the pink colors
as best as we can.
- [Freddie] So we started here, then started mixing
and we ended up here.
And then once it dries it should be pretty close.
- [Mel] It should be pretty close.
- And I wanna go into the master closet
and paint that a pop of color.
I'm thinking like purplish pink,
which I'm really excited about.
- [Devin] Redoing your apartment
makes me really want to do mine.
- Listen, I love these kind of projects, I need some more.
- What if we just turn Ladylike into an HDTV show?
(laughing)
- [Chantel] Look, I'm down!
- Yeah.
- So we also did a fun little pop of color
in the main closet
and it's called pink raspberry.
I'm really happy with the way it turned out.
- One of Freddie's other ideas was to add
some really fun accent shapes along the walls.
So rather than painting a whole wall an accent color,
we've added really unique geometric shapes to the corners
as well as to across the wall.
So prep work is really key in scenarios like this.
I'm gonna do some preliminary doctoring
before she goes in and we start doing some accent stuff.
- To prep the wall for paint,
we're just gonna fill in some of the nail and screw holes.
Super easy, just some spackling.
She's just gonna press it on.
Really firm pressure and scrape away as she goes,
and it's gonna go on pink and dry white.
When it's white it's ready to sand.
For all these projects,
we anticipate it to take about two days.
Mostly painting the first day,
and then going in the second day,
and completing the handyman work,
like TV mounting and door hanging.
- So we are pretty much done with our first full day.
The longer the day has gone
and like the more comradery I've felt
in meeting Mel and Brandon
and hanging out with them,
and them just like, keeping me at ease the whole day
has been like, super beneficial.
Now, lets get into these accents.
I'm very excited and very happy about them.
So I've decided to go with the chartreuse
as an accent color.
Mel had the cool idea to just have the stripe extend
to this little corner.
Then we did a cool accent here.
It's a nice little triangle situation.
I feel like accent walls are very popular
and they're like, a really great idea
but, in theory they are just like a little bit more work
than really what I wanted to do.
So, I was like, let's just do little peak-a-boo accents
and like, just sort of throughout the common areas,
so that it sorta ties everything together.
It's been a really great day one,
like, it's definitely helping me to feel like,
okay, the rest of the week is gonna go pretty smooth
but, then again, I'll probably not be able
to sleep again tonight
and go through the whole emotional rollercoaster tomorrow.
Bye! (laughs)
(jaunty music)
- [Mel] One of Freddie's requests
was that she really wanted her televisions mounted.
In her living room though, there's a really unique hole
right smack dab in the middle.
So, we're gonna try to create our own TV mounting.
- With that TV mounting, we're gonna fill the hole
and then include some molding around it,
to frame the TV into that hole.
- And the television will look like a painting.
- So one thing we noticed about Freddie's bedroom
was that the closet didn't have a door.
- It just like,
(machine whirring)
you could just see, see right into it.
- We don't know why, but it doesn't.
So, what were gonna be doing is replacing that door
so that she can actually use it.
- Plot twist.
So, Brandon has to go get more materials and things
because they've have to completely replace
the door jam on my closet.
- This is the joy of a very character-driven older home.
The floor's uneven
and the door jam's just a little to tight.
I think he's gonna replace the full door jam,
put new molding back up, and it'll be good as new.
- [Freddie] This is why Mel and Brandon are amazing.
Okay, so, Brandon, you made it happen.
- I made it happen.
- [Freddie] This looks great.
- Yep, just doing some finishing touches.
Filling our holes,
put some spackle in here from the finishing guy.
You are the spackling queen.
(Freddie laughs)
Maybe you should be doing this.
- Listen, ha ha.
(upbeat music)
We're gonna have movers move everything
from the old apartment to the new apartment.
So QShark they're gonna be really great.
They're gonna help to really minimize the stress.
They're gonna un-mount my TVs,
they're gonna un-mount my vanity,
and additional packing for larger items
that they need to do, they'll take care of that
and then take everything over to the new apartment.
So that's definitely one less thing
that I have to worry about.
Before we move everything into the new apartment,
Christina, the reiki healer,
is gonna come in and bless the apartment
and set me up with good energy and good vibes
for a new fresh start.
She's gonna make sure aint no ghosts,
'cause I don't do ghosts.
- [Chantel] I need her to stop by my place after.
I've got ghosts!
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Christina Galvez,
I'm a reiki master and shamanic healer.
I'm here today to do a house cleansing,
Freddie's moving in today.
- Hi, Christina.
- Hi, how are you?
- So good to meet you.
- Likewise.
- I've been talking to you
about my nervousness for a while, so.
- It's a huge move for most people.
It's totally nerve-racking, it's all of your stuff.
- Also, just based on like, the finances
and the money aspect of it,
because it is a more expensive apartment,
and I think it is a cultural thing,
where like, I could be making like a million dollars a year
but still be terrified about money.
And like, my biggest fear is running out of money
and having to move back home.
- Okay. (Freddie laughing)
- Let's not bring that into this space.
- I know, I know.
Just trying to realize that it's like, okay to upgrade
and like, you know, make sure that I'm living in a space
that makes me feel good,
versus like trying to save, save, save, save, save.
- We will definitely do a blessing right,
so you'll feel like you're living
in this abundant consciousness.
And abundance, you can't subtract from it.
- Should we get started?
- Yes!
- All right let's do it.
- So, I walk into the space to scan
for maybe any trapped energies that feel dense, heavy, airy.
So the importance of it is to clear that out
so that we bring in the blessings, the abundance,
the wealth, the health, and the good energy.
So the significance of the altar is how I work.
It's my participation in bringing in spirits
so it's the first thing that I do
is to honor the energies that I work with.
And because of Freddie's nerves,
we're also gonna be cleansing her auric space
so she doesn't bring any other stress
into her new property or her apartment today.
(gentle music) (chanting)
- This was like, my first experience like this ever.
So, I just feel really good, really focusing on my breaths,
and breathing in and breathing out
and just letting go all of the baggage
and all of the worry and all the nervousness.
and turning that into excitement is definitely helpful.
Well, thank you so much, I really appreciate it.
I would love to check back in with you
in a couple of months, just to like let you know.
- Yeah, definitely.
- [Freddie] Cool, thank you Christina.
- Today's the day that we've been waiting for.
Okay, so I'm freaking out a little bit.
The main point of this whole video was the closets.
So, I just had to like, power through it,
make sure that it's as great as it's gonna be.
I'm excited to get my life in order.
- Yeah.
- Because it feels like it's in shambles.
I want it to be done.
(jaunty music)