- Hey guys, it's Xochitl Gomez from "The Baby-sitters Club".
I recently completely transformed my room
from top to bottom, painting walls to redecorating.
And I video taped it for you.
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This has changed a lot!
I'm still getting used to it,
but a part of me like already feels so comfortable.
Step one was cleaning the space out, obviously.
I was like, we need to paint these walls white.
We need to make it look crisp and sharp and fresh.
Thing is, we couldn't have the entire room all white,
because that would just be a little like (groans).
So I need some kind of color difference.
And what's better than raccoon wallpaper?
Let me show you what I'm obsessed with.
It's raccoons!
Here I have a little statue, other photo,
three photos of raccoons right there.
Raccoon here, another here, another here,
and another one right there.
My favorite thing about the process
of doing the wallpaper was hanging it
and like squeegeeing it because it made me
really feel like it's really coming together.
Like I can fully see it now.
I have my bed.
My favorite part about this area is,
oh, I finally got it down. (claps)
This is my plant lady, super cute.
Oh yeah, I have my bracelets.
I've been really into making bracelets lately.
Here's when I started it yesterday and I forgot about it.
So I have to remember about that today.
In my old room, my closet was super tiny.
I had to just pack things in there.
And I even had these little compartments
where you put it under your bed,
and I put my clothes in there.
This closet meant a lot to me
because I could have things spaced out,
I could have stuff in drawers, but I could also see it.
Oh yeah, my favorite part.
You know, this closet is extraordinarily important to me.
So is the wallpaper, obviously.
I put a lot of hard work into this closet
because I actually created the design.
And so a part of it made me feel like I'm grown up.
I have my own closet, it's big.
Now I had to start living up here.
The things I ended up using in my room
that I had gathered around my house
were the sofa, that was my mom's from college.
I use this dining kitchen set that
is now my desk that I use for homework.
And that was also from my mom from college.
My favorite part about this area,
my mom actually put a little nail in it,
and then it went like the wrong way into the wall,
which is really funny. (laughs)
Did the TV, I actually had that from,
I don't know just kind of like lying around.
It's not connected to cable, anything,
just kind of connected to YouTube and Netflix.
The posters I had from Canada when I decorated my trailer.
I'm really happy I got to reuse these
because at first I thought it was like,
maybe because of the tape,
it might like peel off or something.
But you know what I really wanna do,
is I wanna do like more of these.
I wanna have at least two more.
I love those.
I love this painting.
I have a bunch of dog paintings.
There's another one over here.
And then I have a lady with a fox.
You know what I did notice?
My room is very like animal based.
I have like raccoons, I have dogs, I have wolves.
And then over here I have like raccoons.
A miniature raccoon figurine.
There's my raccoon.
Of course, new wallpaper.
I love my wallpaper so much.
My raccoon forest.
I just like, I have no words, 'cause I'm so like happy.
You've had that feeling?
Where you're like, you're so happy you just wanna smile.
I've already been sitting here for like 10 minutes,
just doing the same thing.
This is Xochitl Gomez,
go watch our show "The Babysitter's Club".
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