Hi, my name is Christine, and this is Kai.
Welcome to our renovated sweet digs.
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I live here with my husband Ben, my son Kai, and my dog Epic.
And we've been living here for a year and a half.
We live in the border of Dumbo and Vinegar Hill.
Before the renovation this apartment was a three-bedroom apartment.
The renovation cost us fifty thousand dollars and that included hiring
a contractor, an architect, a sprinkler engineer.
Also, decorating the entire apartment.
So, this is our kitchen.
My favorite part about the kitchen is the sink facing the room.
When we are washing dishes, we can watch TV or watch by playing on the mat.
I am Korean, so I like to cook lots of Korean food, but also lots of Italian food.
One of my favorite things to cook is Wild Mushroom Pappardelle.
I am an experiential event designer.
I design spaces for pop ups and product launches.
I took this renovation as one of my work projects.
I created the floor plan, renderings, and had a design deck which had a lot
of options and inspiration images.
This is our living room.
The living room was half of this current size.
There used to be a wall over there.
That was our third bedroom.
The dining room area and the living room area was pretty small.
So, we wanted to open it up to make a larger common space.
First was the demo of the walls.
We had to relocate the sprinklers.
In the beginning of the renovation,
I was pregnant with Kai.
I was in first trimester.
We actually moved into the space while the renovation was happening, that was very hard.
When I was designing the space, I knew the couch will be sitting in the middle of the room,
so I wanted it to have a really pretty back and sit low to the ground.
The couch is from the Croft House, which is only located in California.
They didn't have a showroom here, so we couldn't really do the comfort test.
Luckily, Ben had a business trip out to L.A., so he was able to sit on it.
It passed the comfort test and we were able to bring it home.
I love having plants in our home, it's shape and colors really bring life to our space.
The most sentimental item in this space would be my cello, my mom got it for me when I was eight.
So that's many, many, many years ago.
This is my son, Kai's bedroom.
The only change we made was to relocate the door location.
It used to face where the living room is, but we closed it off and made the door face the hallway.
The theme of the room really started from our babymoon in Morocco.
The rug really set the tone for the rest of the room with its colors and textures.
For a baby room we didn't really want to spend too much money.
So, we mix high and low-cost items.
An investment pieces like the pullout bed, we got it from Pottery Barn, but the rest of the items
are from IKEA, H&M, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie Home Section.
This room has the most expensive and valuable art pieces and that would be these two, done by Kai.
I framed them with the frames from West Elm.
They look like a million bucks.
This is our master bedroom.
The only renovation we did to this room was adding the bookshelf to the wall.
There was a space right next to the entrance, so I wanted to utilize its height and add
more storage space.
My favorite part of this room is the gallery wall, it has all the photos from our trip that I took.
Some of the photos of us were taken by the local photographers that we hire when we travel.
It's a really great way to meet the locals, but also see the local spots.
We have two bathrooms; one is out in the hallway and one is in our master bedroom.
I like the bathrooms a lot because I didn't have to do a lot of work, it already came
in pristine condition.
In our first apartment together, the bathroom was so tiny I could just spread my arms and
touch the walls in the bathroom.
So, our current bathrooms are a huge step up.
I would love our next apartment to have true three bedrooms
and an outdoor space for Kai and Epic to run around.
At the beginning, we were really scared to do a renovation since it's our first renovation.
But once we went through the process and once it was all done,
I feel like it's totally worth it, worth all the hardships.
This is Kai's first home and it will always have a special place in our hearts.
Thanks for watching, my Sweet Digs.
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