- Hi, Glamour. My name is April.
I live in Austin, Texas with my husband and two lovely pets.
I'm a full-time nanny and content creator.
I make about 50K, full-time nannying
and being a content creator.
My rent is 1,790. I pay 825 myself.
When it comes to my apartment style,
I want to say very '70s
cottage core, disco.
So I really appreciate art.
I love going to art museums.
My husband actually proposed to me at the Dallas Art Museum.
So we have a lot of like, appreciation for art.
I just want my house to look like a museum.
I want people to come in and say,
"Wow! Where did you get that piece?
Where is this from?"
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So, this is my hand chair,
my most favorite fun, funky piece
that I've had here in my home.
I actually got this on Facebook Marketplace for $50.
These resell from anywhere from $100 to $500.
I wanted to make sure I got this right away.
Saw the lady posted it 10 minutes ago, messaged her,
told her I'm on my way.
Didn't even ask her if she still had it.
I said, "I'm on my way."
She was like, [chuckles] "Okay, here's my address."
I got married last summer and it was a thrifty wedding.
I thrifted every decor piece and item
for our wedding from thrift stores.
I used a lot of the items that you see as decor now
at my wedding!
I wanted to be as sustainable as I could be.
I also wanted to make sure
that when I was sourcing things for my wedding,
it was things that I could use outside of my wedding
and not just for one day.
I think it's ridiculous to spend a lot of money on one day
that you might not even remember.
It flies by so fast.
It was a great opportunity for me to add a bunch of items
I realistically can afford to our registry list.
This is my Miffy lamp.
She was $300.
So this was definitely out of my price range.
So I made sure to put this on my wedding registry gift
and in hopes that someone would get it for me.
She's one of my favorite lamps ever
and I will keep her till I'm 100 years old.
I really, like, appreciate vintage and I respect it.
And I'm not one of those persons
that's gonna go to the thrift store
and, like, retouch this beautiful mid-century dresser.
I will never disrespect a dresser like that.
These are actually two side tables
that I made into one TV console.
This two side tables came with a coffee table.
I say this about everything
being my favorite possession ever that I own,
but this coffee table and this side table
is going to go on my will.
I just know.
Everybody always asks me when I'm posting,
like, a picture of my living room,
"Are those for sale? Are you selling those?
Can you please tell me when you're selling that table?"
I'm never gonna sell it.
Let's just put that out there.
Never selling this, never getting rid of this.
This is mine forever. [chuckles]
So the coffee table and the two side tables came together
for a total of $300 on Facebook Marketplace.
I saved a lot of money with these.
They do sell from anywhere
from $1,000 to $3,000 individually.
I'm a big fan of checkered, as you can see.
This is my first big adult purchase, I want to say.
I never realized how expensive rugs
till I became an adult.
I tried to thrift this rug
and sourced it on Facebook Marketplace
but I just couldn't find it anywhere.
Every time I would message someone
with a checkered board rug,
they'd tell me, "Sorry, already sold."
It's literally been only 10 minutes since they uploaded it.
So it was one of those things where it's like,
you know what?
You're gonna have to buy this rug if you really want it.
I did do Afterpay for this rug.
So I did do four installment payments,
which at the time was really convenient for me
'cause I only ended up paying $52 four times.
So I do recommend doing that if there is something
that you just really, really, really want
but can't see yourself paying at once.
So I am the oldest out of six kids.
So growing up, we only had three bedrooms.
So that means sharing your space with your sibling,
and they kind of have a say
over what you can have in your room, what you can't have.
And they hated color and they hated pink.
So now as an adult,
I get to have a pink, dreamy space and I love it.
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So here we have my shopping cart.
One day we were just driving around,
and I saw this gray, beat-down shopping cart,
and I just had a vision.
I was like, how about we just put a bunch of plants,
have them hanging all around
and have it as decor in our patio?
Loaded up the car, went to Michaels, got some spray paint,
spray-painted all of it pink 'cause it's my favorite color.
So I actually got this yesterday at the thrift store.
I go very often to the thrift store.
I give myself, like, a $20 budget every time.
I don't if it works.
I just thought it was really cute. Gave me '70s vibe.
I thought it was perfect red.
It was only $10.
When I was, like, wedding planning,
I realized that a wedding cake can go up to $1,000 and more.
It's ridiculous how expensive wedding cakes are.
So I started thinking, "How can I have a wedding cake
that I can keep forever without wasting money?
But also having the memory
and not having people ask me, where is your wedding cake?"
So I had someone make a styrofoam wedding cake for me
that I can now have forever.
I don't know if I want children in the future, to be honest.
But I do hope that if I do have children,
I can pass this on and just keep it in the tradition.
So the whole vision with this area was diner vibes.
My apartment did not come
with this checkered tile floor actually.
It's actually adhesive removable tiles. Renter-friendly.
I got this on Amazon for 14.99.
It comes with about 20 tiles.
It's really fun as far as content creating too,
just because I can come here, snap a picture,
use this area, remove the table, and I have a whole layout.
So we're being complete honest,
I don't spend any time in my kitchen but my husband does.
So we have to make sure we keep it cute.
I wanted to make sure everything was accessible.
So this little case is like sugar, super cute.
From our wedding actually,
'cause we had a coffee bar at our wedding.
I love where we live,
and I love all the little knickknacks of it.
It is an old home, you know,
it comes with its little love things.
But one thing that I'm not a big fan of,
it's all the little scuffs on it
just because it's an older unit.
So one thing that I've done is just replace the scuffs
with little decor pieces.
So I'll use something like this to cover this whole stain
that I have not been able to remove.
And I'll just place random things on there like that.
This is actually a vegetable holder
that goes in your fridge.
I sourced these ceramic fruits and vegetables on their own,
and eventually really loved how they all look together,
and I just wanted to have them as decor.
Each one of them was about $2,
but I have seen them on antique shops
and they're about $30 for two of them together.
So here we are in our office space.
This is one of my favorite decor sections in this room.
It's pretty much a collection
of all of our favorite things as a couple.
When it comes to organizing, I'm all about visuals.
I wanna make sure everything looks organized,
put together, accessible, easy for me to know like,
okay, my cables are here,
my VHS tapes are here with my Polaroid.
Just wanted everything to be visually put together.
So I make sure to get these baskets from Amazon.
They're 4.99 for five of them,
which I think is a great deal
just because they're really cute on their own,
and you'd never be able to tell
that there's about 20 cables in each one of them.
This is a really fun piece that I have.
It's actually a fruit bowl,
but I put in a little mushroom lamp that I got at Ikea,
put it in there and it turned into a lamp.
I saw it on Pinterest,
tried to look it up, couldn't find it.
It's really expensive, like an actual seashell lamp,
made it myself.
Another really fun thing,
my friends make a lot of things,
and their makers here in Austin,
and there's a lot of markets every weekend it feels like.
This is probably one of my favorite purchases
at one of those markets.
Handmade, beaded, super cute purse.
I usually don't buy myself expensive purses
just because I can go to the thrift store
and find one for $5 to $10.
This was $180 and it was one of my biggest purchases.
It was really hard for me to say yes,
but I just really wanted to treat myself
while also supporting a small maker here in Austin, Texas.
So when it came to our desk work area,
I wanted to make sure
that I was also adding things that my husband would want,
would actually use, and would actually enjoy.
But I really didn't like the desk that he had
just because it wasn't really my style.
It wasn't my favorite color.
So I kept telling him like, "How about we buy a gaming desk
but we'll make it pink because I like pink,
we'll meet halfway?"
I started looking everywhere.
I made it in my job
to source these items on Facebook Marketplace.
And eventually found this desk.
She was like, desperate to get rid of it.
She had to move out.
I told her, "I'll go pick it up right now
if you take 70 for it."
She was down for it. So now we have it.
So I did buy this at a Goodwill.
It actually still has the price tags. It was $20.
You can find these anywhere
from 100 to 200 just because it is vintage.
What I love about this, it's that it's four different layers
and I can accessorize it very differently.
I do have an 8 mm camera
and you might be wondering,
"Whoa, does she know how to, like, film 8 mm?"
I do not. It's literally just a decor piece.
One thing that I really wanted to make sure
that our wedding had was 8 mm taping.
So I reached out, looked everywhere
for someone to film my wedding in 8 mm.
It seemed like the most impossible thing.
I came across an Instagram Mutual
who decided to give this to me as a gift
if I paid for their airplane flight,
which I thought was perfect.
I had to pay for the film myself to get it developed.
But having someone film my wedding in 8 mm,
is hands down the best thing.
Such a memorial thing, I love it,
and I'm always gonna hold onto it forever.
So like I mentioned, I am a content creator.
I work with a lot of different brands,
and I'm lucky enough to be sent product to me.
So I do work with Ruggable, which is a rug company.
I was lucky enough to get this,
pick this awesome rug that I just love.
I feel like it's perfect for our space
since I am a colorful person,
and my husband appreciates his art so much.
I want to say my favorite room in my space is my bedroom
just because that's where I go to relax.
That's my safe space.
That's where I write in my diary every night.
That's where I meditate.
That's where I try on all my favorite vintage dresses.
It's just the bedroom I always wanted.
Like I said, I had to share a room with my siblings.
So now I have my own room,
and I have a partner that loves how I decorate it,
and I just feel like a little princess in there.
I wanted to feel like I was entering a new space
as soon as I stepped in here differently
from the different vibes downstairs, the office.
So the bow behind me is actually from my wedding as well.
My friend made this herself.
This was supposed to be used for the entryway
but we did not get to use it
due to them not allowing us to hang anything.
I didn't want to just throw it away.
I wanted to visually see it every day and I figured,
"Wait! Our bedroom."
I could literally wake up every day, see it.
It's so beautiful.
I get so many compliments on this.
Every time I post a picture in front of it,
anytime a friend comes over,
they always ask me where I got it from,
if they can buy it from me.
It's just beautiful.
And the fun part about this is
that my friend actually made it from recycled fabric
that she just thrifted herself.
So I think it was about $9 to make.
These pillow cases are actually pillow cases
with flowers from our wedding day.
So I was gifted these lovely pillow cases
where they recycled and dyed all of our wedding flowers
and to them for us to keep forever.
I just love being able to sleep every day
with a little memory from a very special day.
The mushroom lamp, I just love this lamp so much.
I have been wanting this lamp forever.
It's always out of stock. It's impossible to find.
Everyone resells it for double the price.
It's just unbelievably hard to find.
So I took it upon me
to add it onto my wedding registry list.
I was hoping somebody would get it for me.
Somebody did. I'm so happy.
I literally will take this to my grave with me.
I love my mushroom lamp.
So beautiful.
I want to say she retells for 130.
A really fun thing about my side table
is that I got this at a garage sale and it was $25.
I was able to haggle the girl.
It was originally 45 and I asked her if she'd take half.
She said, "Let's meet at 25."
So got this table.
What I love about it
is that I can hide all my Polaroids in there.
I love taking pictures of my friends, my partner and I,
just love holding onto memories as much as I can.
So growing up, it was really hard for me to display things
on my dresser just because I do have siblings
that like to touch everything they see.
So now that I'm an adult
and I have my own space and my own room,
I try to display as much as I can on my dresser.
My mom gifted me this camera for my birthday, right?
Loved it, was the happiest girl ever.
And I lost it and I cried,
and I was too embarrassed to tell my mom.
I didn't wanna break her heart.
So I took it upon me to go to thrift stores,
and I found this camera for $10.
Literally the camera that my mom spent
hundreds of dollars on for $10, and it works.
And she doesn't know.
Wait, if you're watching this, Mom,
now you know about this, sorry.
So these are perfume bottles. They are vintage.
I don't know if I'm ever going to actually
put perfume in there,
but right now I just love how they look.
The labeling is beautiful, super cute, super dancy.
This is my mini Miffy lamp.
This was actually purchased
just because I couldn't afford the big one.
I bought this and thought, "You know what?
Mini Miffy lamp will do."
Now I have her here.
So I actually got this mirror at a garage sale.
I noticed they were just setting up.
I was on my way to work.
I was actually late and I had to stop.
You know, this mirror caught my attention. I just had to.
It was $10 for this mirror.
It's so crazy 'cause it's actually an antique mirror.
It actually has a tag in the back, which is really amazing.
It's super heavy.
It takes two people to carry it.
Every time a friend comes over,
they ask me how much I spent on this.
Literally $10, they can't believe it
just because they are pretty expensive mirrors in general.
But when it is a vintage mirror, it's a lot more expensive.
I actually feel like my home is never going to be done.
I feel like I'm always going to be sourcing things
to create the space that I want.
My partner is very respectful
when it comes to just like my obsession with thrifting
and decorating our home and making it our space.
He's more of, I want to say he's a minimalist,
if we're being honest,
but I've kind of embraced the whole maximillus lifestyle
and I've showed him that, hey, you can have a lot of things
for very affordable prices.
I want to make sure that I do collectively make sure
that this space is both of ours,
and we're both making it our home, our space,
making it a space that when we get off work,
we love to come here.
We love to spend time here.
I don't want him to feel like,
hey, this is April's home only.
This is actually April's and Connor's home.