Ooh! Still hot, okay. Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel and moved into my studio space
This is where I work where I live and you've probably seen a couple of the corners
Floating around in the background of my videos. It's definitely been long enough that we've been living here
And so I thought I'd share how it all came together like how we found it, realistic prices, all that kind of stuff
Dan and I have been living here since summer last year and I did post a video back when we were in the moving process
At the time, we weren't looking for a place to move to but we were in the same Facebook group as the real estate agent
Who put up this listing and when Dan saw it he really encouraged me to go take a look in it right away
That's how I found out about this place and we ended up scooping it up over the course of just one
weekend before it became publicly available. In Toronto real estate can move pretty fast both in buying selling and in rentals,
So generally, if you want to grab a place you should have your paperwork ready and be ready to dive in within a day.
The place we moved from was a two-bedroom condo. That was about 600 square feet in size
So here in downtown Toronto, and I used that second bedroom as my sewing studio space
But here it's all just one room
like the only door is on the bathroom door and the entrance
A few of our friends were kind of nervous for us when we said that we were moving to a studio
Which I understand because if you're a person who really values having some personal time,
Personal space, in a studio you can see where the other person is all the time. There's no separate rooms
There's no like I'm just gonna go sit in the den now and do my own thing
But Dan and I felt confident we could give it a sure shot
And also we saw a lot of potential for it to benefit my work since it was so much bigger and more natural light
So yeah, we decided to go for it
This was what was roughly assigned to be our living room area
And then this is the mood board that was designed by my interior designer friend. Autumn Hachey
Our centerpiece was this Mirage sofa from article in yellow velvet. I really love that
It's colorful calm and inviting plus the covers are washable
Which was helpful one time when we spilled some wine and went from super stressed out to oh my gosh
It's going to be okay. It's the second article sofa that we own and in both cases
The quality has held up in terms of the foam staying firm the upholstery staying in good condition
So I recommend article to my friends all the time
Autumn found us this chair at a store it used to look completely different but
along with a
Fleece throw of mine it got a total upholstery makeover by and.once.we.were. It's a bit of a nod to the white fuzzy
chairs in the mood board as well as my youtube channel since it has a slight director's chair cut
For the curtains
12-feet curtains are not cheap by any means
So instead, I ordered 16 yards of fabric to make my own because we know how to sew around here
I chopped it into 4 equal sized pieces as best I could and hemmed all the edges and
Kept hemming and kept hemming as the legend goes. I'm still hemming even to this day
we put our dining set in the middle because that made sense to help food flow easily from the kitchen to the table and
Our dining set came from rove concepts. I assembled it by myself and thankfully did not break it in the process
it is their laurs table and we chose it because it suits working and
Hosting since inevitably my sewing just kind of spreads all over.
These compass chairs are stackable and they provide a really nice hug as you sit in them
And these two tabletop planters are also from rove concepts. They might be discontinued but the table and chairs are still available online
This entire time I was
looking all over the place for this
lamp and it's because in the original mood board the lamp that was provided came from a website where it was over
$1000 dollars and I just wasn't ready to drop that on a lamp. But the one I got from Amazon was $400
Hello it is I, the lampshade.
just still not cheap, but for something that's like so beautiful and fills up the living room with such a good statement
I'm super happy about it
We finished off the studio with these two chairs from Gus modern this marble table from Facebook Marketplace
this gigantic rug from cb2 and
Also this media unit from Urban Outfitters
Since we wanted our home to be a good place for work and friends
We were trying to figure out a solution that could like hide the bed
while still letting light in through this window to be see-through and still let the light through is
Quite the conundrum! Some of you have seen the video I did with the Sorry Girls where we built a divider
inspired by a factory window frames out of wood and acrylic sheets
This was a multi-day journey
but the outcome has been perfect for our place and
Our landlord compliments it whenever he pops by which is the greatest relief out of the entire project
Right now dan is using this divider to kind of create his own work from home space
But here is how this empty corner looked when we moved in and here's how it looks now
The original plan with a sewing studio was to put it in this
corner
So that I would get a little bit of sunlight maybe even get to watch a little TV while I sew
But over time it felt like my work was taking a lot of space. So we banished it to this little nook
That's between a pole and a closet to be clear my work still takes up a lot of space
But at least we can tuck it against the wall when we want it to retreat
I do still use these IKEA Hällan lockers to store all of my sewing supplies
And I still have my IKEA Skarsta desk that goes up and down so I can work standing up or sitting down
Hello. Today, Alexandra is coming over to give this space a redo
Goodbye, old bathroom. I have grown a bit attached to these Hollywood lights. So in case they're going away. I love you
I'll miss you. Here are a few shots from Alexandra's makeover video where she painted the wall. She swapped out my mirror
She even brought in her friend
DIY Danni to add doors to our shelving unit all in the name of making this place look a little more
Spa-like if you haven't seen the video it's linked in the description
we kept almost all of
Alexandra's updates and accents except for one which was she had these two doors covered in fabric to give it a more natural look
But as you can see right here
There's not a lot of room to give so it made opening and closing things a little bit tricky instead
We removed the fabric and we took out these handles and gave them a matte black paint job
And I think that pulled it together very well
Dan's working hard to shine light from a skylight
Onto these little guys which is (look!) illuminating the bathroom, see? Look at- look at the difference!
Here is how the bathroom looked back when we moved in. Definitely minimal, but not really
Feeling like a place of tranquility and rest and so here is how it looks now that we've made it a bit more spa style
Before I show the final walkthrough I wanted to make sure I at least covered cost. Money is kind of a sensitive topic
But I don't think that's a good reason to just completely ignore it
So our studio is a 950 square foot studio with one bathroom. No parking
no locker in downtown Toronto
And those are all parameters that impact how much something can cost to buy or to rent in the building that we're in
rent ranges from
$2,500 to
$3,000 per month, which to be frank, from like my own downtown Toronto perspective,
Is reasonable compared to what's out there on top of that we pay about
$200 per month for additional costs related to living here such as the
Utilities here and the internet that we needed to get hooked up here
If you do add up all the items linked in the description
I think it comes to roughly eight thousand dollars that we've spent on making this place our nest
That's not a small number by any means and I know that too
But we've chosen our home to be one of our spending priorities because I work here all the time
It's on camera all the time. We use this space all the time to have friends over and we want them to feel comfortable
And that it's like a pleasant and relaxing place to be, too. We are really happy with it
And honestly we hope we get to live here for a long time
I feel like I'm pleading with my landlord. Are you watching this video?
I'm gonna finish it with showing you this whole place including the kitchen, which I did really gloss over but it's because honestly,
We just didn't make a lot of changes
Thanks so much for watching. Thanks for all your support that makes my youtube business possible and my living possible
I'll see you all in the next video. Enjoy the tour!