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I'm Carly and I am a production assistant at Refinery29.

I live in Brooklyn with four other people

and this living room

that we have is not a living room.

For the money that we're paying for this place

we should have a place to eat, we should have

a place to hang out with our friends.

I mean, if people come over, forget about it.

So today I'm taking on the challenge of renovating

this space at three different price points-

$75, $125 and $400.

I've never really done like a big renovation

before, but this needs help.

It's time.

Something in this apartment that has bothered

me since the day I moved in is the ugly brown

couch.

I have not sat on it.

Don't even get me started on the pillows,

I hate them more than anything.

It looks like pillows from my grandma's house

in the 90s.

It's disgusting.

It's got to go.

So I found these pillow covers on Amazon,

2 for $10.

They're nice country linen, I could still nap on it,

they don't feel too rough.

They're also just a neutral color.

It'll go with anything that we do with this space.

So as you can see, we are standing on empty

wood floor.

So, I really wanted to bring in a rug that would add

some color, add an aesthetic.

So that is phase one of the renovation and

already you can tell with just these two

items, it looks completely different.

The pillows distract from the disgusting couch

color that I still cannot

stand and the rug itself just makes it a

cozier space.

I can actually see my roommates and I just

chilling on the floor, hanging on the

couch, actually getting to know each other

and not isolated in our rooms.

Alright, so phase two of the renovation,

I have $125 and I really wanted to focus on

creating more seating.

There are so many of us, we have a lot of friends,

at the same time we also have a lot

of crap and we need places to store it.

I wanted to do kind of a two-in-one situation

where we have more seating and more storage.

This bench is from Wal-Mart for about 70 bucks.

It's beautiful, I love it so much.

It was definitely worth the price;

it was not worth the pain that we went through

trying to build this thing last night.

And can I just point out, if you're going to ask me to

build something, know that it will not be perfect.

Overall, it turned out beautiful.

I love it so much.

It might be my favorite piece in the apartment.

So when I first moved into this apartment

I loved it so much.

For five bedrooms, it's massive.

I love a lot of things about this apartment.

Something I don't love, no shade, this.

This is just not my aesthetic and now that we have

these plants and this beautiful storage

bench and the rug, we've got to get rid of it.

So I found a mirror on Amazon for about $43.

I have my hammer, I have some nails,

I have some weird plastic things that I've

never seen before but we're just going to go for it.

I was also really nervous that it wouldn't be

the right shade of gold.

But when it came in, I was pleasantly surprised.

It was exactly what I wanted for this space.

I think it's just going to open everything up,

reflect some light.

It's just going to look so good.

We did it.

We got through and now we have a cute

little mirror.

I'm so excited!

So I had a little money left over in my budget

and I wanted to add some texture to this couch.

So I got this fur throw.

It looked hella expensive, but it was $15

and it just makes the couch look so much

more sophisticated.

So I saw this idea on Pinterest of using books

as a decor piece.

I found some books from work,

I stripped them of their covers,

brought them home and created

this cute little ombre effect.

Alright, so we are on to the final round of renovations.

$400, we have so much money to work with.

I found some like pattern contact paper on

Amazon about 30 bucks each.

I'm so stoked to get this peel and stick on there

because the accent wall is just going

to give it character, going to make it look more cohesive.

I actually could cry.

It looks good!

This looks like a luxury apartment.

I am shook right now.

This is not the same apartment that I have

been living in for a year.

Alright, so now that I have conquered

the living room wall, you could basically say

I'm a wallpaper queen.

I thought, let's spice it up a bit with some chalkboard paper.

So that when people come over,

it's like this cute little interactive corner

we can draw play games.

So, we have completely transformed this room.

It looks so different and I'm loving it,

but I'm still not happy with this brown couch.

So, I found this couch cover on Amazon for

about 34 bucks.

I love the color and it is so soft.

I do not want to get food on any of it.

So I'm building a little table for us

to have a place to eat.

Right, so surprise, we also have two bar stools.

So now we have one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, the floor, so many places to sit

and chill.

We can have all our friends here, it's great.

I also got this plant from a

local shop just down the street.

It has pink in it, who doesn't want a pink plant?

Oh, it's so cute.

I am so in love with my space.

I have four roommates, but I don't really know them

that well because we've never really

had a space to hang out and get to know each other.

This literally doesn't look anything like our living room.

This is so crazy.

It's so beautiful.

Now we have so much seating,

we actually all will probably want to hang out

in here every night.

I'm so excited, this is just a dream come true.

Thank you so much for watching my sweet digs renovation.

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