- Hi, I'm Megan.
And it is the one year anniversary
of me finishing chemotherapy for colon cancer.
And I wanna make over my apartment
to help physically mark the end of that period of my life
and help celebrate this newer, healthier chapter.
I have three main goals.
I'm gonna totally renovate the bedroom.
It's super cluttered and really doesn't represent who I am
or what I like anymore.
I wanna give it a comforting, comfortable safe vibe.
Redo the living room and kitchen area
so that it feels warm, and cozy and safe.
Right now, it's busy and messy
and reflects the cancer period of my life too much to me.
My final goal is to alter the art on my walls.
Part of the problem is that I have way too much of it,
and the other part of the problem
is that the stuff I do have
doesn't rally feel like me anymore.
So, I'm gonna take a ton of it down
and embrace some empty space.
And now, for my favorite part.
Let's go shopping.
I'm' with my best friend, Mallery.
Let's go shopping.
Okay, hi, this Megan in voiceover.
Oh, we're dancing in the elevator.
This is like a really quick montage of us shopping,
but we shopped for like four hours.
I got some sheets that ended up being really bad sheets.
I feel like when you buy sheets,
you can feel them and they feel soft,
but then you put them on your bed
and you put your whole body into them
and they're suddenly scratchy and its B.S.
And I need someone to fix it.
(chime)
(upbeat music)
We think we have a plan,
but really, the only way to test it
is to just actually frickin' do it so, let's frickin' do it.
- Let's do it.
- [Megan] This is the part of the day
where we became delusional with my Aries chaos
and believed that we could finish
this apartment makeover in a day.
I didn't.
It took a lot longer.
But I feel like we really laid the ground work this day
for what it would eventually end up looking like.
Oh, she's in a wig.
You guys, I'm an air hockey master.
I'm the master.
It's on my dating profiles.
Yes, I have more than one.
I'm gonna move on.
- [Mallery] This is how the magic happens.
(squeaking)
- It is the end of the first day of renovation.
I am exhausted.
The apartment is exhausted.
And I'm excited for day two.
When hopefully, it all finally really comes together.
Good night.
This is the point in the journey
when I decide to paint my walls.
I don't know if I'm allowed to paint the walls
of my apartment, but I plan on staying there a while
and figured that I could always just paint them back.
That's my friend, Duke, truly just my friend.
I've known him for 10 years.
Yes, guys and girls can be friends.
No, one of us isn't secretly in love with each other.
Everyone relax.
Yay!
- [Duke] What?
- It looks great.
In the time it took me to paint a fourth
of my living room wall, Duke painted half of it.
That being said, he's taller and has more of a wingspan,
you know, so he can paint more of the wall.
I think there's some science there.
I did what I could.
Satisfying shots.
Yeah, get in there.
Fill in those little holes.
Oh, hell yeah.
When you think of a apartment makeover,
I wasn't initially thinking of my bathroom.
But like shower time is a sacred time.
You're naked and vulnerable.
Maybe you're listening to like your favorite jams.
So, I wanted to make sure my bathroom was upgraded too.
That is my friend, Shera, sitting in the corner,
watching me do what I felt was an epic unboxing of things
that I had ordered online
that were gonna go in random places in the apartment.
This is where I felt my comforter for the first time
and discovered that it's bad.
It's bad quality.
But I kept it, 'cause it looks good.
Changing my apartment forced me to process
the year I had with cancer
in a way that I hadn't yet.
Every room and personal belonging was attached to a memory
and it was super cathartic
to say thank you and goodbye to those memories.
(upbeat music)
It's a video.
- Oh!
- [Megan] Cancer is obviously horrible,
but I am a better Megan because of it.
And it felt fulfilling to upgrade my home
to match the new me.
If you're feeling stuck in your life,
I'd definitely consider going through your belongings
and maybe the change around you will inspire change within.
(upbeat music)
Before, the living room was a messy mish mash of clutter
and difficult memories.
But now, holy wow, look at this transformation.
This is exactly what I had in my head.
The blue gray of the wall
is so comforting and warm and cozy.
I love a good art gallery wall.
Art provided by Society6.
I got the rug for free on Wayfair.
These pillows were also free from AllModern
and way bigger than I expected, but I love it.
I feel like all my little knick knacks
are really able to be seen and appreciated
now that they're on this nice shelving.
Look at the transformation
of my cute little new music corner.
This little portion of the wall
feels like it has intention now.
And makes me feel very pleased to look at with my eyeballs
it's vibes in here, you know,
like I don't even, it's just vibes, you know.
(upbeat music)
Before my bedroom was chaos.
But now, my bedroom is my little safe haven.
I've mostly only moved into new places with boyfriends,
so I've never had a place that was fully designed
for and by me.
It really feels like my vibe and my space.
And I just finally feel at home in every part of my home.
I had a hard time figuring out
how to make this portion of my room make sense,
but I think I did it.
I'm obsessed with this art
and quite enjoy looking at it from my bed before I sleep.
(upbeat music)
That's the whole makeover.
I'm so in love with it.
And I truly feel like it marks the start
of a more healthy, beautiful new chapter in my life.
Thanks for watching!
(upbeat music)