HUGE Apartment Declutter Transformation in a 2 Bedroom Seoul Apartment | Extreme Makeover - Day 2
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2020
- This is part 2 of our extreme Seoul Makeover + Declutter featuring a 2 bedroom apartment in Seoul. If you missed the first part, watch here: • MAJOR Apartment Declut...
2020 hit just as they moved into their apartment and you can imagine that life got pretty stressful pretty quickly. When that happened, they neglected unpacking fully and before they knew it, there was a literal mountain of shi* left. But we've all been there, it happens. And especially with 2020, I GET IT! Today I wanted to start their makeover by decluttering their apartment, going through everything piece by piece and seeing if it's something we can get rid of. If not, I want to put it back in the space it belongs within the apartment. The second part of this video will focus more on pulling the whole space together, but today we're focusing on decluttering their lounge, bedroom and "dark room." This def felt like a therapy session leaving us emotionally and physically exhausted, so we squeezed in as much as we could on the first day and I'll be back to tackle the rest of their apartment another day and complete their 2 bedroom Seoul Apartment Makeover!
🌿Apartment Makeover Pt 1: • MAJOR Apartment Declut...
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*EDIT* Please Don't be too critical of the people whose rooms I'm renovating. Please understand they are letting me renovate their spaces and also film videos in their personal spaces and that's a very vulnerable thing to do. To let all of the world (youtube) get a private view into your home even when it's messy and not perfectly set up. So let's be grateful that we can see into their lives and not assume that we know what's best for them or make assumptions about what goes on when the camera is off. This should be an uplifting channel now and going forward, where we all help each other improve ourselves and not cut each other down. If these people had perfect homes and everything was perfect then they wouldn't have asked my help or let me design their space, and none of us are perfect. So let's be encouraging instead of discouraging.
I would love to have done more in Cayly's space, but the truth is, these things take time AND THAT'S OKAY. We did all that we could in 2 days and I'm so happy with how it came out. I love that she now has an area to relax peacefully in in the lounge, has an area to bake, and has a storage room that's not out of control. I hope you guys enjoyed this and we'll be back soon with more makeovers!
Love that you used mostly stuff they already had and didn't just go out and buy all new furniture!
We did get a new island, but it was necessary! It’s so easy to buy, but harder to reuse!
Imo it was all great but that sofa and that coffee table needed to go tbh tbh.
FYI: Have the client to unzip the sofa cushions. Reach inside and reposition the inserts, so that the piping is straight all around. This will totally change the overall look of the sofa. The result will be simply amazing when performed on the seat and back cushions. 👌
We were so busy decluttering I didn’t even think of that! Great tip and I’ll let her know!! Thank you!
Also if the cushion covers zip completely off, the covers can be put in the washing machine. The trick is to pick a dry, sunny, non-humid, day. Wash on the gentle to medium cycle. A small amount of detergent. You can run thru 2 gentle wash cycles if the gentle cycle didn't get it done the first time. You can also use a very little bit of fabric softener in the rinse cycle if you find it absolutely necessary. But DO NOT put the covers in the DRYER!!! Run it thru the SPIN cycle of the WASHING MACHINE TWICE to remove as much water as possible. Remove from washer immediately and IMMEDIATELY zip them WET back onto the cushions. YES, WET!! That will keep them from shrinking and not fitting back on. If you have a yard or balcony and it's dry &sunny, and even breezy, set them out there on clean lawn chairs or tables. Flip after an hour or so. And finish drying. You'll be surprised how quickly they dry. Unfortunately you need to plan ahead with the weather. It can be hot or cold, as long as it's sunny and NOT HUMID, you're good. If you really want be ambitious with your planning ahead, rent a carpet cleaner with a furniture attachment and clean the parts of your furniture that don't zip off, while your cushion covers are washing and drying. If not, just vacuum the rest REALLY WELL. Enlist the help of a friend or partner. The zipping back on is quite a workout. Especially if you have large cushions. It can be a little unwieldy.
The livingroom redo is EVERYTHING! As a plant lover myself, I'm loving the aesthetic!
I did not exactly expect this kind of outcome. But I love it. The lounge looks a bit like a cute coffee shop with all the plants and magazine (never would have thought of that). everything else is so much more practical and less overwhelming. You three did a great job :)
I think that was just her vibe and the result from using what we had in front of us! And she’s the cafe expert here in Seoul!!
I am very happy that you considered what SHE wanted. All too often I see these makeover videos where they go through and make the place soul-less and don't consider what the person who lives there actually wants. Not everyone likes that minimalist style that's all too popular these days. And not everyone can just heartlessly get rid of stuff, it takes time.
Absolutely! I understand we don’t all have the same style and while I absolutely love the minimalist look and feel... I know it’s not right for everyone. Some people still thought it was too cluttered in the end, but I think it suited her tastes and that’s all that matters! Clearer mind and a happy home.
@@SpaceMakerMethod Exactly! Wonderful job! :) thank you for a refreshing makeover video.
Love her baking shelves! The plants bring so much energy and life to the spaces. Great job!😊
My fellow South African far over the sea, I am very glad that you now have a beautiful space to live your life in. 🌻
This space looks so much calmer! I bet her mind feels so much at ease in relaxing in the living room now. And I bet getting dressed it so much easier and faster now it's organised!
i like your point about just switching things up, swapping locations of your stuff for a refresh. something i do, but needed a reminder of :)
It’s an easy thing to overlook, but helps so much!!
This space gave me such anxiety. And I'm so glad it has been organized. But also the transformation! The living really came alive! Great job guys!
It’s amazing what just a little TLC can do!
I think they will want the table back if they wish to eat comfortably.
The coffee-table is unusable because of the stuff on top.
The island is great for storage, but you can’t sit at it , because there is no legspace.
The house is a lot nicer now, and they will have to live in it, to know if this is what they like.
Looks so much better! My only critique is that having the magazines on the coffee table is not practical in the long run.
Definitely not for some, but that’s her style!
Congratulations, What a difference! They must be really happy and now it would be easier for them to maintain.👍🏻👏🏻
Absolutely!!
One thing about plants, they will probably be moved as you have to give it the light it wants and not expect it to stay in a place because it looks good. A home always looks better when tidied up.
absolutely!
She has good taste. When I first saw the apartment I knew it would be super cute.
Liked it but the coffee table was still too cluttered .
Ya! Maybe not your style but it’s hers and i think it looked cute!
My fingers were itching to clean up their home before so seeing how incredibly amazing it looks now is so satisfying. I absolutely love the plant "overflow" in the lounge and the end table was honestly such a great idea! That being said, the kitchen was definitely my favorite room, and though I'm no baker at all it made me want to go right out and bake something. Awesome job (as per usual) and I can't wait to see more in the future! (I'm low-key obsessed)
Oh my god it’s totally different! You did an amazing job!
Thank you! It’s amazing what a little decluttering and organizing can do to a space!
Bravo! The spaces are so much more cozy and functional. I predict better sleep, less stress and chances to make more little personalizations along the way. Sometimes that extra bedroom has to do 10 jobs and it's not easy!
Absolutely!!!!!
I love all your decluttering videos, it's awesome to see you make everything fit without buying anything new!
That’s incrediable! 😱 amazing what decluttering, organizing and repurposing can do. I’m so exited to see this channel grow, there is such a need for this kind of content! 👏 Amazing work!
Thank you and so happy you liked it and the channel!
LOVE! well done to all, shame you didnt have more time but in a way its good that they had a space to continue to declutter and organise on their own so they could use what they learnt and build that muscle and confidence & hopefully that will help them continue to keep things in a healthy lovely way.
Absolutely! I think that’s actually a necessary step for a project like this... get help starting but take what you learn and use those tools to create lasting change!
Wow I like her new organized space! Especially the kitchen. I think you will enjoy a Korean variety show called "The House Detox". Your video reminds me of that show
it looks awesome! It's so much more calming. Love, love, love!!
So much more calming!!
Beautifully decorated and decluttered !
💛🥰 thank you!
I love how you tailor made it to their needs. Using what they already had-extra bonus.🙌🏻
So early! Been waiting for this! ❤
Yay!! 😛
I swear you just started this channel! 6.5k already?! Woohoo!
Just moving things into their appropriate rooms made a huge difference. Sometimes it does make sense to have things in weird places (I keep my socks in the living room bookcase because it’s next to the shoe cabinet and front door) but it seemed like this had gotten all mixed up because things didn’t fit in their right spaces and pushed other things into other spaces. Hopefully they feel more relaxed and comfortable in their space now. Makes me want to do a quick sweep of my space.
I stumbled upon ur channel now I'm hooked 🤩
Fantastic job!
Ahh thank you!!
Fantastic makeover! This is so inspiring - please keep doing these! Think I'll tackle the crazy corner of my bedroom today, which just gives me anxiety as it doesn't work. Great to see a fellow South African on UA-cam! 🇿🇦😉
You get it!
Good job, and I just discovered the Command Velcro for my pictures, clocks, white board, calendar... I’m hooked
Aren't they awesome!?
+1 for the (inadvertent?) pun!
Amazing transformation! Well done!
Thank you so much!
so satisfying , so draining to part with items you have gotten attached to. need to do this asap now ive watched ur videos lol
It will feel sooo good!
Wow! It looks amazing! 🤩 Very boho and something that definitely could go on anyone's inspiration Pinterest boards! 😁 I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Yay! Thank you!
Wow…looks so so good😍
oh my goodness you are a organized person who has a talent.I am impressed a lot!
Haha thank you 💛💛💛
What's so fascinating to me is how people reacted & dealt with the pandemic. I turned it into a positive on my behalf & decided to declutter & organize while I wouldn't b interrupted bcuz we were in lock down for quite awhile. I figured we will probably not get this chance again, so why not take advantage of this time & go to town. 🤷♀️
Looks Amazing!!!
Thank you!
Amazing! What a transformation.
Thank you!!
Awesome job it looks really much better after! I think I would have swapped the bedroom and the blackroom as you call it though... It looks so much bigger and brighter and it is kind of sad to waste this much nice space I think
They’d thought about that too and I can’t remember the specific reason why they didn’t switch... but as I recall there was something 🤷🏻♀️
Amazing transformation!!!
It turned out so well for so little time!
Great job...love it!!
Thanks!! 🥰🥰🥰
Very nice !!! I would love an update for this appartment. Thaks for the upload.
Coming soon! (January actually)
Gurl. When you move to Europe I NEED you to visit me in the U.K. please ❤️ such a great job! Well done
Yes!!
@@SpaceMakerMethod I’m so excited! Can’t wait 🙌🏼
Impossible to say without being in the space, but I feel like I would have put the kitchen table in the living room and made that a living/dining/work space. Otherwise, such a satisfying experience!! I love watching these kinds of videos and I love decluttering and organizing ❤️
great video!!
Thank you!!
Looks great!
Thank you!!
hi I'm new and i LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!
Hi!! And thank you 💛💛🤣🤣
i love how many plants they have, i wished i could have more in my own home, but i don't have enough shelving space close to windows, so i'm afraid any plant would just die due to lack of sunlight
she has beautiful plants!
Magic!!!
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would be great if island had a flip up counter/table for eating
Cute! The only crit i have is that the couch cushions and pillows were so messy and distracting in the after video! I would have helped plump ❤️💜
it looks much better, but I would definitely have cleared that living room table as much as possible and get rid of some decor like word signs
besides that, is there particular reason for having all those water bottles?
If it was for me, yes I would do as you suggested... but that’s not everyone’s style and she likes it so that’s what’s important. Making home homey for individual tastes. And the water bottles are def a Korean thing
@@SpaceMakerMethod Is the municipal water there not good-tasting...?
I really wanted to see the declutter pile...
Greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Really enjoyed watching this! Very resourceful and looks beautiful. One comment I wanted to add was the voiceovers got a little repetitive. Keep doing what you’re doing! ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow 😊👍🏻
You can remove the paper from the glass by viniger.
Wow, they already had so many great trendy pieces to work with, they were just hidden.
I think so too!
She needs to step away from the plants & dried flowers. You definitely can have too much of a good thing. The after is way better. I'd put floating shelves in the kitchen next to the breakfast bar for the jars tho.
They probably can't as it is a rental, but you could make use of the vertical space way more, that's for sure.
Put a smaller shelf on top of the island leaning against the wall. That space is already occupied by the coffie maker and the brewer, but you can use the space above them to free floor space for the stools they wanted to add.
Nothing can be drilled into the wall in apartments like these.
@@SpaceMakerMethod rest them on the kitchenisland. if you need them to be extra secure, put some screws through the island connecting them even more firmly.
Why the time crunch, can’t you come back for another day to finish off that room🙂
Good question! She lives really far away from me via subway so it’d be a full day trip or an overnighter again which unfortunately my schedule doesn’t have time for right now.
hi where to buy the clothes rack thanks
Probably Coupang?
Looks much better, but the lounge still feels too busy, plants and prints and magazines on table with do dads. Just the plants and prints is enough. Negative space balances it all out. Remember most people can't keep things, 'displayed,' and it gets messy. Over all much better tho. Yep, visual merchandiser with years of experience here...also, when placing plants on shelves, place the visually heavier ones at the bottom and smaller ones on the top shelf
She actually had a very eclectic style and liked it that way so we wanted to roll with it.
Not a professional advice but that red carpet really taking a lot of space for me with it's size and color. Might as well change it to something white or get rid of it.
If all those plants make Cayly happy then good for her, it's her home after all. For me, that would be FAR TOO MANY. All "I" see is too many plants causing too much clutter. I live in, what we consider in Australia, a fairly small place. If I lived in a place the size of Cayly's I'd go minimalist.
Absolutely, we all have differnt tastes. Just gotta do what works for each person.
Don’t they have any closet to hang their clothes
No..... which is fairly typical here.
Don’t like arrangement of pic over couch, straight line would be better and small ones in between them
You’ve always got options when it comes to wall galleries!
It's a trendy look right now
This is why you shouldn’t rent an apartment without closet space. But if you do, you must buy or make closed storage units to contain all your stuff behind doors. Even if you have to make an entire wall of closed storage space in each room.
It simply doesn’t work to buy a bunch of mismatched, inexpensive, skimpy open shelving units that are low to the ground and then display all your stuff in them as if it was worth displaying. It is not.
When you have a tiny home with no closets, you do not buy 20 plants - you buy two or three wonderful plants that become beautiful focal points in your rooms.
One bouquet per room is more than enough. But it had better be a wonderful bouquet in a wonderful vase and scaled to the proportions of the room.
It is better to display one substantial quality piece of art than many small, inexpensive pieces of art.
Don’t buy several postage-stamp-sized rugs. Buy one quality rug that takes up a good part the room and makes an impact. Most of the room’s furniture should sit on this rug.
Magazines on a small coffee table should be displayed in a single stack, so as not to look crowded and busy. Coffee tables should have room for coffee.
Display only what is worth displaying.
These are all great points, but I think it’s also important to realize that everyone has different tastes. I like simple and minimal decor, but she happen to like busier and we used what she already had to create the spaces she wants. Over time she can change things out but she also will likely not be here much longer and it doesn’t make sense for her to just buy more expensive pieces for her place.
You are very good at organizing and decorating but I don't like your language.
Well that’s fair, you don’t have to like my language.