- Today is the day that we've been waiting for.
Okay, so I'm freaking out a little bit.
(loud snap)
The main point of this whole video was the closets.
So, I just have to like, power thorough
and make sure that it's as great as its gonna be.
I'm excited to get my life in order,
- Yeah
- 'cause it feels like its in shambles.
I want it to be done!
(upbeat jazz music)
So we decluttered, we packed up my old apartment
we also painted the new apartment,
unpacked into the new apartment,
organized the new apartment.
Now, is the fun part.
We're gonna do the design portion of my apartment
make over series.
Oh my gosh, I love interior design
but, as I mentioned in the video
where I did the bedroom makeover,
it still stresses me out to like, design my own thing.
So I always just feel like I need a little bit of,
I don't know, help?
(laughs)
Mel Kirk is gonna be helping me with the interior design,
and she's providing these services at a discounted rate.
(upbeat music)
- Mel come on in!
Hey girl, hey!
- Hi Freddie!
- So good to see you again!
- You too!
- She actually also painted and did the handiwork
with her husband Brandon.
It's really nice to just like
kind of keep the same energy throughout
and also they were just a pleasure to work with.
One of my favorite things you did was mounting the TV
into that awesome frame that you all made!
- I loved the TV
- Oh my gosh!
- The whole thing has been really fun
but this part, is like, the fun part.
Where we're about to design the apartment.
- Yeah I feel like we're finally
bringing everything together,
especially 'cause you had a pretty clear cut
vision to begin with,
in terms of like, color scheme.
It's made it really fun to kind of roll out from there.
- Yay!
In general I feel like, its sort of like,
an open blank canvas.
(picture snap)
I will say that I did order a pink couch,
custom from Total Design Furniture.
- That pink couch is like such an awesome focal point,
I don't really want to take away from it.
I just want to enhance it,
and throw in some patterns
and we have that awesome teal chair as well
- Yes
- that's also a solid,
so I'm thinking of really fun print rug
- Ooh!
- I also think that we should get some gold accents
that's going to bring everything in the apartment together.
- Oh my gosh, well I love gold!
- In my head I like, have this dream
of having like a gallery wall of some sort.
Is that going to be too much?
- No. - Oh.
- Too much is not enough.
- Okay (laughs)
And what color frames were you thinking?
- I think we go pink.
(gasp)
- I love that!
Oh my gosh!
Also, I have a little bonus room off of the living room.
- Yes
- [Freddie] I would love to figure out a way
to make it a guest room but it is tiny.
- It is, but I like immediately got so excited.
I think we do like, a little guest suite.
- Ooh - Yes
- Sweet!
- [Mel] For your dining room
your gonna have way too many gatherings going
that I think your space needs to be totally usable.
I'm thinking that we do a dining table, with a couch.
(upbeat jazz music)
- I'm seeing that a lot of these tables
on the other side of them,
are just like, benches.
Now, I'ma be frank.
Ones that don't have back support really upset my body.
- We can't totally redirect to some dining chairs.
- Okay!
- Kirk renovations cares.
I think we can support your friends.
- Yeah - I think we can support you.
- You know, I think that's what this whole thing is about.
(laughs)
- And then I think we do like,
an extra little talking corner.
And I'm thinking two armchairs and an end table.
- Yes, I love that.
- And I think we need to bring in more animal print.
- Ooh! - But in a different way.
- [Freddie] Okay.
- The kitchen is already a minty blue color.
I really liked that.
And also there's a really cute Smeg fridge
that matches that color,
so its like a whole vibe in the kitchen.
So I want to really just play up the kitschy-ness
of the kitchen.
(laughs)
- I think we add a little bit of wallpaper
- Ooh!
My bathroom, I'm keeping it really simple.
I'm just sticking with the black and white theme.
- I think we just do a really simple white shower curtain.
I picked one out that has these really sweet ruffles on it.
- Cute!
And then my bedroom,
I'm keeping everything generally the same
from my bedroom makeover last year that Kane did.
Except I'm gonna get new wallpaper
because I can't re-use the wallpaper
That I had in my old apartment.
Don't worry Kane, same vibe.
I'm not getting rid of your touches.
- He knocked it out of the park last year.
We only need a few things and it'll just add to it already.
We're doing, uh, white bedding in there.
- Yeah
- And you have an awesome white vanity
- [Freddie] Mhmm
- [Mel] And some cream colors going on and I think
- [Freddie] Gold
- Exactly.
I think we do a statement.
It's basically like the only room in the house
that can really withstand it.
- Yeah - So I think we go for it.
- Lets do it!
Well we have a lot of work to do,
but I'm so excited for everything to actually come in
and us to start putting things together.
- I can't wait, like I want to redo all of my places.
(laughs)
- We picked out some cute furniture,
lovely curtains, cute little drapes,
And I was like, ooh shopping time, so fun!
What I forgot,
was that there is another stressful component to designing,
and that is receiving furniture in the mail
and then having to assemble it.
(upbeat music)
- I'm waiting on Mel and Brandon
they're gonna come and the first order of business
is applying all of the wallpaper.
And hopefully if we have some time left
we can start putting together some of this furniture.
Look at all these boxes.
(horror music)
Mel and Brandon were such troopers
and put together pretty much all of my furniture
before we actually got to design day.
Because there was no way we were gonna fit
styling the apartment and assembling all the furniture
together in one day.
(upbeat guitar music)
- [Mel] It's design day!
- Yeah
Everything's pretty much already put together.
You assembled furniture,
you put up wallpaper,
so what are we doing today?
- I think the hard parts are done.
It's just going to be arranging,
putting things where it needs to be,
and then adjusting from there.
Hanging like the drapes,
things like that will take a little bit of extra time
but I think we pretty much know where we want everything so.
- Yay!
Okay let's get started!
(upbeat dance music)
First we tackled the curtains in the dining room.
It added so much personality to the dining room
even before we got everything else set up,
so that was really exciting to start with.
What am I doing Mel?
- Let's squish them so that the panel itself isn't as wide,
- Got it
- So we can let in some more light.
- What Mel decided to do was to have a dining table couch,
and then chairs on the other side.
The table, the dining room couch,
and the dining room chairs came from AllModern.
And then we styled that area with cute little throw pillows.
I think with the seating being a mixture of chairs
and a couch, in addition to throw pillows,
it makes it really comfy
and actually makes me want to sit there.
- This is where you'll be the whole night.
Buckle up, tray tables down.
(laughs)
- We can't forget to talk about the back support.
At the dining room table.
I am a stickler for back support.
I don't have it at the moment and I'm getting cranky.
But, Mel held it down.
Ones that don't have back support really upset my body.
Body, (slow-mo) body.
(beep)
And then we put the plate settings on the table.
Gifted to us by the lovely Articture.
Mel obviously picked them out
- [Mel] (laughs)
- 'cause like I keep saying,
I just know nothing about dining rooms.
The plates are like a beautiful marble
and the chargers are like,
this beautiful translucent kind of color with gold accents.
And then I have gold flatware.
Y'all know I love gold!
So the gold flatware just (laughs) woo!
Then we move over to the other side of the dining room.
Mel had this awesome idea to make that
sort of like a little mini sitting area.
And so that's where the two camel chairs come in.
Oh look how nice it looks!
- [Mel] Man, those chairs look fancy!
- They really do!
Those are dope, they're also full leather.
And then, to put icing on the cake,
we roll out a beautiful faux cow hide rug.
I don't know if its cow hide
its some kind of hide,
but it looks like it belongs
in a toasty cabin up in the mountains.
Oh! I just need a nice, uh, martini
- [Mel] I know!
There's also this really cute shelving
right above the sitting area in the dining room
that my friend who lived in the apartment before me,
let me keep.
And on those shelves, TJ Maxx provided
a bunch of cute little knick-knacks
to make the shelves look really lovely decorated.
Also to top it off, we have a couple of lamps
in the dining room provided by Brightech.
Gold of course!
Y'all know me.
They definitely add that dining room level aspect to it.
It kinda like heightens the experience.
- [Chantel] Give her a lamp.
Give her gold
She's good to go!
(laughs)
- You know me! (beep)
- We've moved on into the bedroom
and we're going to replace her duvet cover
with an all white one,
just to add to the clean, fresh look in here.
- [Freddie] We applied the beautiful wallpaper
provided by Walls Need Love.
Obsessed.
Very cool, vintage vibes happening.
- We are going to replace her duvet cover
with an all white one
and then we're going to add white drapes to again,
just keep everything really clean,
and soft, and comfortable.
- That I just been ducking and getting dressed in my room
to not be seen by my neighbors, for like, a couple weeks.
So, I was so happy to finally get my curtains in place.
Okay so dining rooms done.
Bedroom is done.
We're moving into the living room now.
I knew I wanted a gallery wall
and that was something that had been
sort of a want of mine for a while.
We ended up picking out some really awesome prints
from Society6.
Thank you for gifting them to us.
In addition to the gallery wall and just the prints,
Mel and Brandon got frames for me
and spray painted them the same color pink as my couch.
And it really tied together everything
and just added more pink, and the more pink the better.
I just loved it.
- We're gonna move the couch over against the wall
so Freddie has some more space to work with.
We're gonna hang a sheer panel over this
and the top is just all knotted
so I want Freddie to have as much room as possible.
- Finally to tie everything together,
we had this beautiful beige and black rug from AllModern.
It's such a cool, just like, pop of pattern
for the living room, that I'm super excited about.
Mel and Brandon
also did a little wallpaper accent in the kitchen,
right above the stove and oven.
And we chose bananers.
Another little accent that we added
was just cute little valance curtains
above the windows in the kitchen.
Like awe, Granny made an apple pie, type curtains.
Also there is just so many different terms
for window coverings.
Curtains.
Drapes.
Mel obviously knows all the terminology
and she called them valances
and I was like, I, I don't know what.
Sure.
The guest room was the biggest challenge
because it's such a small oddly shaped space
that I really wanted to make as functional as possible.
We got a loft bed because Mel really wanted
to maximize space.
And then underneath she made this really cute vanity.
So this way, my guests will have a bed to sleep in,
their own vanity to get ready.
One of the coolest parts of the vanity,
aside from the mirror,
is a super cute furry chair that's white
and adds a little but of glam.
Brandon sat in the chair to like, test it out
and he looked so cute just sitting in a little vanity spot.
- There you go. - Hey Brandon!
(cheering)
We didn't have much to really tackle in the bathroom.
Elsa did her thing with all the organization
and all we needed was a really cute shower curtain.
Mel picked out this super cute white shower curtain
with some ruffles on it.
Also I had two really awesome chairs provided by Article.
It's going on my front porch
and if I just want to sit and gaze out at the sunshine.
You know I definitely feel like one of those women
in the Folgers commercials, who just like,
has their coffee and they just like
stand on their front porch
and they're just like (inhaling) in their robe.
That's gonna be me.
- We made it!
- Oh my gosh, its been a long day.
- Really long day, but I was so excited
to see everything where it belongs.
- I'm very excited to be closing this chapter of moving,
that has felt like six months of moving.
(laughs)
- We've been with you for a while!
- I'm going to miss you so much.
(laughs) Thank you so much!
- You too, thank you!
(upbeat music)
- We're here with Freddie at the big reveal
of her apartment.
And we have our two friends outside,
lets let them in.
- [Freddie] Hi Ladies!
- [Chantel] Hi Friend- oh!
(laughs)
- Wow, wow!
Oh my god, look at this couch!
We talked about this couch color for literally
minutes and minutes!
I'm glad that we're apart of this part
of the moving process.
When I saw who was going to be involved
we were both were like, hmm, that makes sense.
- Oh how convenient, you didn't invite us to organize!
(laughs)
- You are apart of the moving process
by being here today and sipping mimosas.
- Oh my gosh. - Shall we?
- Okay - Okay
- So my big move
with the intention of it being as stress free as possible,
has now come to an end.
- [Group] Congrats Freddie!
(cheers)
- Do you want to show Jen and Kristen
the rest of your apartment?
- Sure.
This is my kitchen.
- Oh my God - Look at your fridge!
- This is my fridge
- Smeg
- They knew your nickname.
- The coolest thing about this is that
Yes, it looked really cool
and yes, it was for a video
but I'm actually going to be living here now.
Like, I just feel so grateful
and I'm happy that I'm going to be able
to just like, live in this space.
I might not leave my house.
(gasps)
- Wow! - Shut up!
- No (beep) way! (excited chatter)
- Thank you to Kirk Renovations.
Mel and Brandon, y'all have been my saviors!
Thank you so much!
Thank you to Elsa!
Elsa, you changed the game baby girl!
Thank you to Kristina for blessing the apartment
and ridding it of all the demons.
Thank you to Chantel
We sistas now, we gotta have a sleepover!
Thank you to Devon!
You were amazing!
Thank you to our production coordinator Erica,
you killed it!
Thank you to Brittney and Adrianna,
They helped me throughout this entire process.
They just helped me to stay positive
and remember the grand scope of things,
which was that I'm moving into a new apartment
and I have a bunch of help.
Berta is loving it.
She has so many windows to look out of.
She's having so much fun.
That makes me happy.
If my daughters happy, then Mom is happy.
(gentle music)
- Honestly I couldn't of done it
without the emotional support
- Yeah we gave a lot of that.
We were definitely supporting. - And also
physical and emotional support.
- Uh-huh. (laughing)
- Chantels like, point it out.
(laughing)
Awe Freddie, you have such a nice apartment!
- Oh thank you!
(happy chatter)
- It turned out really well.
- Group hugs!
- [Group] Yay!
- Don't hit each others glasses!
- Too late!
- [Group] And, cut!
- So Freddie's big move,
Stress free.
Freddie tested.
Freddie, ooh this was fun,
but I'm never moving again!
- [Woman's Voice] Never. You're not allowed to!
- [Freddie] Nope!
- [Woman's Voice] You will stay.
- [Freddie] (laughs)
(gentle music)