Hi everybody, it's Letitia. As you guys know I am on a super big home decor kick.
I mean I have always been ever since I moved into my own place, as you saw in my
previous thrifting video. I picked up a lot of second-hand home decor pieces for
very cheap. I don't know how people do this where they move into an
apartment and they somehow are able to completely furnish and completely fill
up all their spaces and fill up all their shelves, because we've lived here
for two to three years now. So it continues to be a work in progress but
as you know it gets really expensive to do home decor. But these are some small
apartment decor hacks that you can do to maximize on the space that you have.
So the first hack that you want to do is to build up. You want to maximize all the
wall space that you have even if it's a rental unit. You can have some very space
friendly wall hangings that you can put with command strip you can add shelves.
And even this like little nook in our bedroom, it's just this tiny little
corner so we took some really small shelves and they're white so then they
blend right into this space. And we use decor and plants to fill out that space.
I have a backdrop system as well and I'll have my office decor. I've been
doing an office rental and that'll be a separate video but I just wanted to note
that this is hung right above the door where it was a space that would have
never been used. Which brings me to my next point. If you have small knickknacks
and you have small decor pieces, I think that those pieces are actually necessary
for the home because that's what makes your home your home. It's really nice to
come home and be able to look at something that just kind of, it just kind
of greets you like hey this is your place, welcome home. Aside from the
memorabilia pieces, almost everything on this shelf is thrifted. So everything you
find can actually be very affordable, you just have to be a bit more creative
about where you look for it. With this shelf, is that one standout piece. This is
a very random area, it's kind of like in-between our entryway. It's an open
concept kind of apartment so the space used to be really like, this is where we
hid all of our books behind the mirror. We had like random photo frames that we
still haven't, I still haven't hung up. It was a huge eyesore and it was right in
front like right when you walk in the door you'll see it. I know that there are
lots of shelves that you can buy and technically a shelf can be just like
the white ones that we have in our bedroom. They can be used to blend into
the apartment and bring out your decor pieces, but they can also be a standout
piece on its own. In each room I try to do my best to invest in one standout
piece. When we first moved into our place we didn't have a bed, so it wasn't until
we moved into this apartment, so our second home did we actually buy a bed
frame. So everything we do, we try to save up for. We look for that one thing that
we really want and then you just wait. And I have this little nook in my
apartment where it looks out to the street and it looks out to the park and
this is just the perfect armchair. When you find a chair that is so deep that
you could like settle in on it perfectly and put up your feet because I always
put up my feet. Like I have my feet up right now. That is the piece that's worth
investing in in my case. Love that it's velvet and I love that it's surrounded
by all my plants. There is always space for plants and for some reason it just
never looks too cluttered. And it adds so much life to your room no matter if you
live in a studio apartment whatever. If you could find space to even hang your
plants, there's always space for plants. So we try to enforce very strict rules in
this house is not to buy unitaskers, especially in the kitchen. Well like one
thing I have is zucchini a zoodler and those, that's a unitasker. It only
does one thing. We really try to slim down on bulky pieces and choose
multi-tasking items. Because it's just the two of us we kind of decided to not
get a dining table. We kind of put stools around the coffee table. Our coffee table
also lifts up into a table it's opened up the room a lot more and it felt like
a worthy sacrifice. Sacrifice? I feel like some rules are meant to be broken, but
you do want to stick to a relatively neutral color scheme in terms of
furniture. I'll only have a couple of accent color pieces like the side table
and then the copper floor lamp. Little pinkish tones from the
pink side-table bring it back to the bedroom with the headboard. If you guys
are wondering no Stefan is not afraid of pink, he actually really likes it.
I just wanted to preface that because I kind of feel self-conscious that people
think that I just do all the decisions. And you also want to choose furniture
with more delicate design. Like this couch for example, is not a couch to the
floor. It has legs and even though I've put storage underneath it still keeps
things light. If you notice a lot of my furniture still has legs so it's not
just a block of furniture. For the entire home I follow this rule where it's
unless it's for display you put it away. If you see my washroom countertops like
I have a randomly big side of a countertop in my washroom I know a lot
of people will have their makeup in like clear cases and on their countertop but
I actually keep all of my makeup in the drawers. So you use your decor pieces to
make your statement instead instead of your clutter. So if you want to maintain
that neutral color scheme but your house is looking kind of drab, it needs a bit
of life to it, you can add texture instead of color like this super soft
throw. It's just a nice off-white but the way that the light plays with it you
know like it creates a lot more dimension you want to add warm textures
and like in a land of stainless steel appliances putting in pieces like this
kind of makes you even feel warmer already. You know like naked on a
bearskin rug kind of homey and cozy. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you
like home decor videos let us know and if you have any requests let me know.
I'll continue to be thrifting home decor and also working around the house
because there's still a lot of stuff that we do need to work on. And thank you
so much Article for collaborating with me on this video. It means a lot to be able
to come home and actually feel at home and being able to express yourself
through your home. So big thank you to Article and I will see you guys next
time bye!