Extreme Living Room Makeover Using THRIFTED Furniture & Decor

Hi everyone, welcome back Hi guys, welcome back to my channel I'm really excited about today's video because we are doing a living room makeover for one of my good friends Jordan Now i've actually known Jordan for years He was one of the first people that I met when I moved to Los Angeles We ended up going to school together And he always asked me if whenever he moved to his new apartment because he was in his old one for a long period of time Whenever he moved if I would do his living room at his new place And when he showed me some photos of the space I was like I would love to make this over and something fun about this video Is actually a majority of the living room is actually thrifted finds Which is really fun a lot that I found in the past that you guys have seen me share in past thrift hauls And also I went out thrifting a bunch for this video. Jordan himself has a really really eclectic style He's always changing up his hair. He's always changing up his outfits I'm gonna pop some photos up of him right here So you guys can get kind of a visual and overall I feel like he definitely is one that would love a really really unique Space and I want to go all out in this use like an accent color I've never used before and just make it a moody Lovely little escape. So let's go ahead and dive on in I pulled a few inspo images for this space, but because I am going to be thrifting quite a bit I didn't exactly know what i'll be able to find of course So these were more for placement of furniture styles of pieces that i'm looking for color tones patterns and textures And I just loved these images and these are the ones that I actually sent over to Jordan just to kind of get his thoughts And ideas on the space design before I started with it And then I mocked up like kind of a preliminary mood board Which just had the sofa on it the coffee table that he already owned a chair I found at the thrift store and then a rug but there's going to be so much more. So stay tuned These are the thrift finds I have collected so far I got all four of these at the same thrift store and I spent 152 on all four pieces. I believe this one was 39 I think the chair was 59 and I think this was 39 as well And then this was whatever those add up to and was left was the lamp So these are pieces and i'm very very happy about them I'm gonna move these three to the side because what I want to actually work on today is this chair So I want to give you guys a little rundown on this chair when I got it It actually had these two cushions which look a lot different now I had them recovered which was super nice because it only cost me a hundred dollars to have both of the cushions recovered I think it was 120 and I just didn't want to have to cover them myself and match up the grid pattern So I picked this fabric out had them covered at a local shop here in LA Which i'll pop up on the screen for you guys because they are absolutely amazing And these are going to be the cushions for our chair Now what i'm also going to need to do is rewrap the arms and the bottom base here But I do want to paint it first. So that is what we are going to work on now Now the first thing I wanted to do with this chair was prep it for the spray painting portion So I took off the bottom seat that was upholstered or the bottom section that was upholstered And then I used a little bit of wood glue to reattach the arms to the base I couldn't find like an area that I can add a screw or anything where it would be a bit more secure So I just used some wood glue that I had and then I also gave the piece a wipe down prior to using this Universal bonding primer that I found at Lowe's and it said that it bonds to absolutely everything So I was like i'm going to give this a try and use this primer on this piece That way you don't have to sand it or anything and for the paint I actually found this high performance enamel in the high gloss black and I will say this spray paint was the most opaque black spray Paint i've ever used I found this at Lowe's as well I'll link below the exact one for you guys If you want to pick it up because it worked really really well for this chair And while that was drying outside I brought the piece back inside and I actually bought a yard and a half of extra fabric from the fabric store that Reupholstered the seats for me that way I can cover the arms myself and this little bottom section of the chair as well So all I did was kept the original fabric there. I figured you know what? It's going to add a little bit of extra cushion No worries, and I just rewrapped this on because the other one was professionally finished and I didn't want to have to undo it So I just wrapped this around all of the edges Cut up into the corners as I knew the legs were going to kind of like snugly fit around the corner Anyways used a staple gun to staple it all the way down cut off the extra fabric And that was just a quick and simple little reupholstery that I did on this bottom section here We're on the way to the thrift store I just finished spraying the chair and I figured for the rest of the day I would go look for a couple more things thrift store just because everything i've gotten so far has been From the thrift store besides the sofa and the rug and I kind of want to continue that so i'm thinking of Just going back to a couple more thrift stores at the moment marie's with me We're gonna go look around and see if we can find anything So i'm very aware that i'm not here shopping for myself Well, I mean I am I could shop for myself you guys but I am looking for jordan space now I came across this beautiful hutch, which this would be for my space potentially. It's so pretty It's $1.99 and look at this Desk look at the detail on like the leg The drawers pulls like it's so so pretty and it has like a little bit of rattan in the top I love this and this one is $2.49, but it would be 25% off in case you need a little Rustic crib moment this buffet here is also so pretty I love this piece as well I'm, not having the best luck with finding pieces for jordan's place But I am having good luck finding pieces for my new house, which I guess it's fine, but I am here looking for his Place and I just cannot find anything that i'm looking for. I need some decor some accents a light fixture a floor lamp and some stools At the last location guys for today out of the closet superstore Look how great this dresser is French provincial look how pretty the colors are in this globe. It's 12. I think i'm gonna grab that just as a decor piece It is day one over at jordan's apartment Now my voice is still a little bit gone, but we are going to take our first look at the apartment This is both of our first times seeing oh my gosh That arch is beautiful. Look how big it is I love how the dining room is right through there and then we have kind of like this little fireplace pop out situation But doesn't have an actual fireplace on it. And then there are three windows over here So it's actually like a pretty large living room and the only furniture that they had previously was the coffee table It's like a tessellated stone vintage coffee table and jordan was like i'm doing all new furniture in my place But i'm keeping the vintage coffee table, which is definitely a good choice Now as you guys can see over here the all form couch has arrived Which is the sponsor of today's video and we also have the rug which is great I'm glad that it's up here because it is a big one and we're gonna roll that out as well And then figure out the design plan in here Here is our rug you guys Which I love this is a laloi rug Chris loves julia x laloi rug and i've always always been wanting to use this rug and they had a humongous Prime day deal on it and I was like, okay, we're getting this it's gonna be a huge rug in here and it's so Pretty it's a 9 by 12. This is the largest rug i've ever worked with actually You guys have heard me rave about my helix mattress so many times on the channel But their sister company all form actually sells sofas and chairs at such reasonable price points shipped directly to your door They are modular There are so many different size options fabric options Like if you're in the market for a sofa You guys all form is the place to check out first because the pieces are shipped directly to your door in a box like this And yes, you do have to set them up But let me tell you that this only took me 15 minutes to set up the entire sofa And there are absolutely no tools required at all So it's extremely simple and easy which we love and there are over 500 different Customizable combinations that you can actually put together to create your very own sofa or chair And I love how big they come as well Like if you have a large living room that you want to fill out or let's say you have a small living room now But you know you're moving to a larger one later You can always just purchase additional like modular pieces to add to your sofa So you're always able to customize that size to fit the space you're living in So for jordan space, I wanted to do something dark as the base and I thought the black leather was absolutely perfect It is such a stunning sofa. Once I had this together. I was like you guys I might need one of these in my home as well I connected all of the legs I chose the walnut option just for a little bit of a darker wood tone And then I popped on all of the cushions and the back cushions as well and they might look a little wrinkled But do not worry because they totally smoothed out by the end of the makeover, which was just a couple days I always feel like leather looks better as like lived in as well So if you would like to get 20 off of your all-form sofa option Whichever one you would like make sure to use my link in the description box below I'm gonna quickly go run to my car and grab the chair that we've been DIYing because that's gonna go on the opposite side Of the coffee table and I really want to get those cushions in here to see kind of the colors that we're working with Here is our chair you guys or the base Of the chair and it looks like a perfect fit or like a nice size for this area That is so cool. This is my first ever piece of custom upholstery. I still have to wrap the arms by the way Which I think i'm gonna do that right now so we can get the full vibe of this piece, but it's perfect Actually, I'm gonna stop my hair It's nice. I love it. It's perfect such a cool accent To completely finish off this chair I did have some extra fabric that I covered the armrests with which I just wrapped them around on the front and back and then I stapled on the underside and just cut off the extra fabric Should I just reupholster things for a living? Yeah All right guys So here's where we are at and what i'm going to do next which was something I was kind of contemplating Is i'm going to do the window trim black because we have a lot of black going on in here and it's really stark white Throughout so I really think kind of transferring some of the black up to these windows will be nice And the windows too are really pretty because they're just very dainty And I think i'm going to do like the black around here the thin little kind of cross sections and just keep it super simple But just have them more as like almost artwork on the wall. I think it's just going to really frame out the windows I have curtains I got curtains at ikea last night. I actually did a bunch of shopping last night But I left my vlog camera at the apartment here so I couldn't film any of it Sadly, I got two different panel options So the first one here is like more of a simple one And then the second one here is more of a statement one and it's like a velvet with a stripe in it And this one just seems fun. I love the color of it as well It's like a rusty orange which would kind of go with our chair over there So i'm gonna have to decide which and then I also got a couple of rods as well So we're going to start by hanging the curtains. These are the two curtain options that we have The first is this one, which is more simple. It's just like a kind of a flowy Simple curtain this one will probably go around here and then have some pleats in it or we have this more statementy one Kind of fun. It has some lines in it I love how ikea sells their curtain rods in like a mix and match style So you can purchase the rod separately from the finials separately from the brackets to really like build your own Customizable curtains and I also love how they have a rod long enough to stretch across this entire living room And that's exactly what I used in here Look at these curtains. How insane does this make this room look? I absolutely love them Basically what I got from ikea was the really long skinny rod This is a skinnier one because I thought it would look really pretty and kind of dainty And then our curtains are just really bold. They're like a nice velvet fabric and they have this line in them I don't know if you can really see but it's like a rusty orange color And I still need to steam them, but they make the room look so much bigger I love these and they're all from ikea the rods in the curtains I ended up going through jordan's room and I found a hat Anyways, i'm going to now change the sconces and I actually have two options. Let me grab them Here are two sconce options. I got both of these from amazon So this first one is like a brass plate with a kind of ball on it And I think it could probably go either way. I feel like i'd like it more on the bottom though And then the other one is this green glass one, which this is the one I had on the mood board the entire time Which also could be fun, but i'm kind of leaning a little bit more towards this one Because I feel like it just makes sense as like a light source over here to disperse the light This more is like directed at something So i'm gonna go with these So our sconces are up curtains are hung rugs down couch from all form is here And this morning I actually had marie go and pick up two of these little stools that I found on offer up last night Because I needed another seating section for this side and I really wanted them to be lower I didn't want them to be high to block like all the furniture and stuff So I found these I found two of these really cute turned wood stools with woven tops on them And I found these on offer up the lady ended up selling them to me for 180 for both Which I thought was a pretty decent deal because yesterday I actually picked up some little Target ottomans that I was going to put here and I didn't love them and they were 115 dollars a piece So this was better. They are vintage and they definitely have a better bag to them So i'm going to pop both of them just right here and they're just going to act as little seats So you can like, you know interact with everybody sit down And they're easy to move around as well So if you wanted to move them you could and I also feel like these add like a nice little wood detail with the turned Legs, and I love the depth of the wood color It is time for a diy project. So what I did was this morning I picked up this piece of wood here and this is a live edge piece of wood from lowe's. These are 99 Actually, I had no idea that they sold these but it's uh, six feet long, but I think like 20 inches wide And I have had these I don't know if you guys remember but I shared these in a thrift haul I found these sawhorses and I loved them They were eight dollars a piece from goodwill And I thought I can use them as legs in the future for a project. I never got around to it But I thought they'd look great in here So what I want to do is actually use these as like the legs to the media console And then pop this wood piece on top and then stain the top of it with a darker wood stain So that is my idea. So let's see if that works out Look how good that looks as a little console under the tv That was such a makeshift idea because I didn't have anything for under there But I knew I had the sawhorses. So this was like an idea I had but I love it I'm going to go ahead and stain the wood darker and the wood's pretty heavy So i'm not even going to drill it in or anything I'm just going to leave it as is because what's going on top of here is just like a couple of decor pieces probably And then we're going to do a darker stain and I have some baskets to pop underneath as well The stain that I used for this piece was called Kona by Rustoleum and oh my gosh, it looked amazing I loved how the grain shined through on the wood. It looks like a high-end expensive piece of furniture So I made my way outside and I brought the pillar that I got from the thrift store with me And i'm going to be using this spray paint here. This is forged hammered burnished amber spray paint by Rustoleum It's my favorite one. I use this all the time I've never used it in a larger scale like a piece of furniture normally just decor. So we'll see how it looks Hello everybody good afternoon, we're starting today a little bit later and that's because this morning I actually uploaded the roger apartment video, which was so much fun And then I headed right over here and picked up this lovely fiddle leaf fig on the way Now something that's exciting is this paper lantern here I actually ordered last minute from amazon because I actually ordered a different one from hey design I don't know if they originated the paper lantern But everyone gets theirs from there and I got like an oblique shape which is more of an oval And I waited a month for it and it finally got here today. So we're actually going to swap it out Um, so let's do that quickly Okay, so do you guys see how this one's more of like an oval shape? And then the one in the air currently is more of a round shape and this one's slightly smaller and a little off-white So this is actually exactly what I was wanting. So you guys saw me get a tree this morning It's been about two hours since I got the tree put it in here and swapped the lampshade or the light shade I've been sitting in here wondering what the issue was and it was a tree Like you guys the green tree how fluorescent of a green which I don't know if you can really see But it is such a bright green color and against the red curtains. It was just clashing It really was so christmasy like red and green and I swapped it out And let me share with you guys what I swapped it out for. Okay, so I did something a little chic-er I love This so I grabbed the pedestal that we spray painted yesterday And then Jordan already had this vase in a bookcase So I just took it out of there And I added a couple of branches from outside with this really beautiful like burgundy color leaf on it And I think it just looks so much more elevated in this corner I like it a lot more than the tree and at this point of the apartment Really all that's left is the decor which i'm just going to be adding I got a couple throw pillows at target this morning and just picked up a couple of items And I also rummaged all of my home decor at home and like I had all of these pieces from past makeovers I think these all are from crate and barrel. I grabbed this lamp I grabbed this which I got from facebook marketplace a while back. So this was actually a thrifted lamp I recently got this shade at the thrift store and I got the lamp base At the thrift store as well for like a couple of dollars if you guys remember back on instagram So i'm just gonna style up a little bit and just play around with the colors and decor in here I'm actually going to keep the tree false alarm. I love it in this corner So I actually swapped completely opposite corners So the corner over here is the one with the vase and the branches and then this corner i'm gonna do the fiddle leaf fig Now there is a heater here, but they never turn it on ever You really never use heat in la and if for some reason they decide to it can just be pulled away Um even swapped over to the corner But I think i'm going to go ahead and actually put a little nail on the wall and just kind of Prop this up a bit more because it's kind of leaning quite a bit and then they also told me which I didn't know this But with fiddly figs you're actually supposed to keep them in the grow pot for about a year until they acclimate to Their new environment because they don't like being changed around a lot So i'm just going to trim the top of the grow pot. So it looks like it's in the pot itself After styling up those little built-in shelves it was time to share the apartment with you guys It is complete and finished now for this particular makeover I didn't get a reveal with jordan just because our schedules just really didn't align up well to do one However, I hope that you guys love this space and I cannot wait to share it with you