Hey everyone, it's Lucie Fink, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. Today it is finally
time to give you a tour of my office. As you might know, a few months ago we moved
into this two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment... and as you probably saw in a
recent video of mine, I recently left refinery29, so I'm no longer a full-time
employee there, which means I work from home a lot. And that's why having a
second bedroom in our apartment that I could turn into an office space was
really important for me. I do a lot of filming at home... I really wanted a
shooting studio where I can film videos just like this with a very nice backdrop...
I also feel like because I work from home so often it is kind of nice to walk
into a room and know that this is your work room, so that I don't have to use my
kitchen, living room, or bedroom for things like doing work. In my old
apartment, I used to just do work all over... at the kitchen table, in my bed... and
I find that's not really good for having a sane mind, because then when I get
in bed and I try to go to sleep, I'm still kind of in "work mode". So having
this separate space that's all about work, and all about color and inspiration
was very, very important to me, and I'm so excited to finally unveil it to you and
show you what we've done with the place. This office, but also pretty much my
entire apartment, was decorated in collaboration with my mom. You might
remember from an older video of mine that my mom is an interior designer... so,
when we moved, of course I knew I was going to pick her brain and use her to
help make this place as beautiful as possible. She has incredible style, she's
really good at mixing and matching patterns and colors, and personally I
love everything she's done with our childhood home... so I knew that it would
be great to use her for this apartment. I know that I haven't shown you guys my
living room or the bedroom or even some aspects of the kitchen yet, so stay tuned,
because I am going to film an entire video for this channel showing you the
furnished apartment tour. You might remember from my empty apartment tour
video, that when I first came into this office
it was just an empty, blank canvas. It's a pretty small room... I'll pop up the
measurements right here... You also might remember that this room has built-in
bookshelves... and I'm really excited to show you all the things
we've done with them... So let's just start from the beginning. When you first walk
into this room, there is a little bit of a hallway... On the right side, there's a
really long closet that we've stored a lot of shooting equipment in. We also put
some other storage items in there... things like our tools, boxes of things that we
want to keep, old notebooks, and stuff like that... And then, because each closet
in the apartment has double height, in the top we put all of our suitcases. Both
Michael and I got three new suitcases each from our wedding registry, so we
have stored them all in a line on the top closet. On the left side of the entry
hallway, we put up these really minimal world maps. There's three frames in a row...
so the left photo is Asia and Australia, the middle photo is North America and
South America, and then the right photo is Europe and Africa. Our plan is to buy
little circular stickers and put dots on all of the places that we've been
together or plan on going as a couple. Then once you get to the end of the
short hallway, you're in the room. On the right hand side, you'll see the ladder
shelf desk that we got from West Elm... And on the left hand side you will see our
futon, as well as the gallery wall that we've displayed behind it. There are so
many little details in here, so I want to give you a closer look at each aspect of
the room. Let's start on the right with the ladder desk. I knew that I'd love this
desk because of the minimal look of it. It's pretty much just dark, solid wood,
with white wood... It's pretty much leaning against the wall, although we did mount
it to make sure that it doesn't slip back... and even though the desk itself is
very sleek and minimal, I didn't want it to be empty. I wanted to fill this desk
up with little pieces that are meaningful to me, bright pops of color,
and things that are gonna make me smile. So if you really look around the shelves,
there's a lot to look at here... but here are some things you'll find. Crystals all
over the place... I used to collect crystals in my old apartment... If you
remember correctly, these triangular, wooden pieces are a DIY piece that I
actually made myself and painted myself for an episode of Try Living with Lucie a
few years back. In our old apartment, they were hanging on the wall, but here
they're just displayed on the desk... and then on the inside I just tucked away
some brightly colored crystals. If you peek around the desk some more, you'll
also see some candles in different shapes and sizes. I have some fun little
pieces that my mom picked up for me, like this really, really cute
light bulb... that, if you turn on, glows orange... There's also some photos of me
and Michael, as well as photos of me and my sister... Some watercolors that I
painted myself... My YouTube plaque, of course... which has to go in this room,
because this is my filming room... and just some other little things that are
meaningful to me. This little handmade rainbow book that says "All That Really
Matters" with our wedding date on it was a gift from my friend Colette, and if you
actually open it, inside there are photos of me and Michael. I have a reminder that
says "sleep solves everything"... Just a little note to self when I am in here
grinding away at 9 p.m.... What else do I have? I have some pretty rocks, I have a
sign that says "Lucie and Michael" that we put up at my bridal shower... We have a
printer in the lower right hand corner, which is very functional... and just a few
desk supplies out on the desk. I try not to keep too much cluttered on the desk
because we do have this entire bin on the left hand side of the desk, which is
filled with markers and colored pencils, and regular pencils, and all of my bullet
journal supplies and my painting supplies... I put this together during Five
Days of Organization, and I've kept it intact
ever since. Also on the left hand side of the desk, you will see the two cork
boards that I put up recently. As of now, there are only two things tacked up
there. One is a custom watercolor illustration from our wedding, and the
other is an astrological poster for my sign, Leo. And I do plan to put a flipping
calendar on this, or also maybe use it to help organize all my projects... I'm not
exactly sure what I plan to do with the rest of these cork boards, but if you
have any suggestions, comment below. And the right hand side of the desk is where
the built-in bookshelves are... And we have a ton of books, and we're always getting
more books. So we tried to color coordinate into the four main colors...
Black, white, blue, and then orange-y/ yellow-y... anything that's beneath that is
something that didn't really fit into the color scheme well, but books we still
want to keep. And I would highly recommend organizing your books by color
if you want to smile every day, because when I look at that shelf it just makes
my mind feel organized and clear. Also tucked up next to the bookshelf, you'll
see my camera tripod, which I use all the time... so I like
to keep it readily accessible. And now we can move on to the left side of the room...
which is the wall you're seeing behind me.
When we first walked in, this wall obviously had no wallpaper on it, and it
was just a big, open, white wall. It was my mom's idea to put wallpaper on just one
wall in the room, just to add a pop to that side of the room and make it
interesting without making it overwhelming and having wallpaper all
around. In the description box I'm going to put the link to this exact wallpaper.
I love this wallpaper. It was peel and stick, so it's not actually permanent. We
can peel it off really easily, almost like a decal... I will say, it was not an
easy thing to put up. I didn't do it myself. We did hire a wallpaper
professional to put it up, and they found it was difficult to do just because
there's a lot of scraping to get all the air bubbles out... That being said, it's
done, and it looks incredible. These are 12-foot ceilings, so I wouldn't have
wanted to try to attempt this myself... but I absolutely love the way it came out,
and I love the pink and orange look. It just adds a nice pop of color to the
entire room. And then, pretty much this entire gallery wall that you're seeing
behind me was created in collaboration with Etsy. So, not everything is from Etsy...
there are a couple of paintings that my mom painted herself, a couple of vintage
frames that came from my parents' house, and also a couple of other pieces that
I've grabbed from other spots along the way... but the hexagon wooden pieces, the
triangular wooden pieces, the hanging shelf with the wood base, and the bronze
air plant holders are all from Etsy. So it's not like you're buying something
from a factory that's pumping out one after the other... these are handmade items.
And once they get to your door, you can just see how much love and attention to
detail went into them, and it feels so good to know that my wall is decorated
with all these individual, handmade pieces. I'm gonna put a link in the
description box below for all of the Etsy items that you're seeing on this wall.
The two vases that you're seeing on the wall are also from Etsy: The rainbow one
with the golden arches, and then also the pinched, skinny arch one. Both of these
were handmade, and hand-crafted, and they add
so much creativity to the room. Along the windowsill in the back of the room,
you'll see four planters... These are four plants that I potted during Five Days of
Indoor Gardening, and they look so good! They've thrived in the light. My hope
is to add more and more plants as time goes on, because having pops of natural
greenery around your space is always a good idea. And I am actually filming this
vlog right now before I put a lot of the wall plants in... but I'm going to show you
close-up footage right now of some of the plants that I've added since filming
this part. We are still considering whether or not we want to get a rug in
here... We initially bought a rug, but then when I laid it out and I saw it next to
the futon, I didn't love the color combo... So now I'm still wondering if maybe I
get a yellow rug... maybe an orange rug... maybe just something natural... I'm not
sure yet. Let me know if you would recommend a rug. I could always use your
design expertise. And we did want to make sure that it was suitable to be a second
bedroom as well as just an office, so that's why the futon that we got from
Urban Outfitters does collapse down and become a full-sized bed. We do need to
get blankets, and pillows, and sheets for it if someone is going to stay here, but
it is suitable for sleep... and, actually, my first guest who's coming to sleep over
is my friend Marjolaine and her boyfriend George. They're coming in
December because the two of us are working on a secret project together, and
they're going to be staying in our second bedroom. I'm so excited to see how
this room fares as a bedroom, because... I would sleep in here. It's great.
One other thing to call out... You're seeing on this side of the frame it's a
little bit empty right now... and that's because right here, off to the side of
the couch is where I tuck away my two softbox lights, and also my ring light on
the stand... And as we were decorating the wall, I wanted to make sure to remain
aware of the fact that that is where my lights live. In our old apartment, I
didn't like having the lights set up all the time in our bedroom, so I actually
kept them in storage or I would break them down... But my problem is that when my
lights are not up and assembled, and ready to just plug into the wall and go...
I'm not as tempted to shoot videos. It is SO much easier, and it actually makes the
process of filming so much faster, when my lights are ready to go. So I knew that
this office space was going to be the place in the apartment where our lights
were assembled and ready to shoot with, 24/7. So, even though it's not the
prettiest thing... I do keep them tucked in this corner... which
is why the wall is a little bit emptier over there. We also have this short end
table next to the couch, over here by the window... It's from All Modern, and because
of the shape, it has this opening inside of it that's kind of hidden when you're
looking at it from the top... So I sneakily tucked our weights in
there. I used to use those weights more frequently when I was trying to build up
my arm muscles... Can't say I've used them in quite a long time... but they're right
there if I ever want to workout with them. Another thing I love about this
office is that we got these City windows installed, so there's actually two panes
of glass, which makes it a lot quieter in here than when there's one pane of glass...
And I've been using this front pane of glass to kind of write on with the dry
erase marker. Sometimes I'll write my to-do list... but right now what you're
seeing is some friends and family that have come by and just written little
notes on it. And that is a closer look at our office space! I really hope you love
it in here as much as I do. Please comment below if you have any design
suggestions or inspiration ideas... We are always changing this place up. That's
just kind of how we roll. My mom comes over, and the next thing you know... the
whole shelves are different. So definitely let us know if you have any
ideas for any aspect of the room. Especially for the carpet. I really would
love your suggestions on that... And I hope that this inspires you to take one place
in your home and just make it yours. The real reason why I wanted this space, and
also why I wanted it to be so colorful and vibrant, is because being in a space
like this inspires me. It pushes me to come up with new creative ideas, it gets
me in the mood to sit here and film these videos because the background is
so beautiful and fun to look at... It's very important for the space around me
and the environment to yell CREATIVITY and FUN. Thank you so much for coming
back to my YouTube channel! Give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and if
you want more apartment content... and comment below to let me know what else
you want to see on this channel. See you next time!