hey friends I'm Aliena in this video I'll show
you how I completely transformed my home office from this to this
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as a UI ux designer I spend my everyday designing for the digital world I was so excited for this
project that I even created a clear design brief and a figma file so that I can improve my own
user experience in my physical space ironically just like my daytime job nothing went as planned
but things turned out to be okay in its own way let's start from the decluttering process I'm a
firm believer that declutter is even more valuable than getting new stuff in a home transformation or
life transformation process and my original plan was that I will get rid of the stuff that I no
longer need or I no longer use and I also want to sell some of these so that I can get at least 50
bucks to help with this home transformation process but this ended up taking way longer
than I thought so I ended up donating all the things I don't need and I sold none of them
I felt so much lighter and so much more inspired after getting rid of most of the stuff [Music]
I also plan to rearrange before so I used figma to jot down six plants that I want to try and test
did I really tested six Arrangements nope
well I tried two of them which is already helpful so here's the first arrangement
I actually quite like this Arrangement and I also realized that just by rearranging
the things I already own already can bring a new feeling into the room
I really like this new workspace however placing the bed in this position doesn't
provide me enough support at night I feel like I can easily fell off the bed
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hello everyone I got a special delivery from flexi spot and this is a desk bike
let's assemble it and let's see how this works
it doesn't look too hard to assemble
Outspread both left and right petals until you hear the sound pop [Music]
it's so cute oh it's too low
whoever designed this is a genius let me show you this first of all you can bike while you are
working and has this thing so that it helps you to place your wrist** and this desk can easily
move forward and backward this thing can go up and down and then this thing can also go up and down
it has different levels so right now I'm at six you can also make it a bit simpler
to like negative one also my grandmother was visiting me at the time when I recorded this
and she was particularly interested in this bike desk she was using it every day
I chose Flexispot standing desk and desk bike because it is durable it is Affordable and it
is also very beautiful and most importantly it keeps me moving and it makes my work more fun
I also tried out a few arrangements for my living room so I really want this side of
the living room to be for the desk bike this Arrangement didn't turn out well though it
felt a bit weird facing this direction and I also don't play piano very often with this
Arrangement and I don't use this whiteboard often either also you can see that my plants are dying
so here comes another iteration of design
I'm trying a new Arrangement by placing the bed closer to the wall so that I can have
some support at night and I'm also placing the desk right beside the window so that it
made me want to go out more often and go exploring the nature more often [Music]
I also brought in my piano to this room so that I can feel more private playing along at night
and it's just closer to my desk so I can see it all the time and I have more nudge to play it
after testing this layout for a few days I realized it performs
way better than the previous one I felt better working here I also
felt better sleeping at night so I've decided to use this layout
and for the living room I also brought in a shelf from another area in this way I can have a
printer section plus a plant section this layout also made me use the desk bike way more often
for part of this office makeover project I also want to build a vision board for myself and set
it up as a wallpaper and my first iteration is just a hell mess so I did another iteration
cleaned things up a little bit it still looks a little bit messy but I'm fine with it beyond
that I also decided to print out some of these pictures that I envisioned and manifest toword
and then just hang it to my wall because who doesn't want to sleep under your dream thank you
under my original plan I didn't plan to buy new stuff until I have most of the things decluttered
set up and arranged and nothing went as planned as I said before so I actually bought some stuff
that you've already saw in this video because this video is not chronological and here's the
first item I got from Ikea this works as a shelf it also works as an extension to my desk and my
bedside table next item is my absolute favorite pumpkin from yayoi kusama many years ago I went
to a Japanese island and I saw this pumpkin in real life and at that moment I felt like I
meet another version of myself just by having this new small Pumpkin on my desk it inspires
me all the time and it brings me so much joy I also got myself a new vase to place beautiful
flowers in it right now you probably can't see how beautiful this flower is because of the lighting
but it is so pretty and again it also brings me so much joy I also got this thing that can help
to handle plants on the ceiling I heard this makes you more productive and creative by having plants
in your environment so I love it [Music] hi guess what I just got the last delivery piece for this
project this is the moment let me show you what this is oh there's more tape over here [Music]
it's my name [Music] my YouTube channel name please don't break [Music]
this is a thumbnail moment [Music]
cool so this is good this will be the setup for my future talking videos [Music] I'm happy
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thank you don't wait for me don't wait
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and I know exactly what I'm looking for
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thank you
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