5 days

With a final pair of upholstered chairs being delivered on Monday, I am only five days away from what I consider to be "done" with this tiny apartment redo. From Bachelorette Pad to Organic Glam Zen - all to be revealed next Wednesday! What a journey in a minuscule rental!
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this round is almost over

Well this round of design change on my tiny apartment is almost done. The bachelorette pad has gone from this:

To white, black and gray modern organic/rustic/glam...

And the bedroom went from petrol blue high gloss color:

To soothing white zen with a huge art installation of dogwood branches on watercolor paper...

Sorry for the nighttime pics but I was excited! Can't wait to show you the entire space in a couple of weeks...and I am even more excited about moving in September and doing a whole new look in the next place! Stay tuned because most everything except the art will be up for sale in a couple months...
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Moving along....slowly

Hey guys - sorry to be MIA but there is some movement on the apartment front. Beni Ourain left and I put simple cream wool sisal down in living room. It is much simpler and gives a cleaner backdrop for the furniture I think...

Got this insanely heavy cool vase at Marshall's!

Still gonna paint this chair black or white

Still not sure about orchids here but loving everything else...

The desk area has not changed too much, though I got a new black hardback shade for the brass lamp...

Now the reupholstered desk chair, side chair, and armchair will be back in about two weeks, so that will make a huge impact. Then I really only need to do art for over the sofa and solar shades on the windows and either a bench or stools or poufs in that huge space in front of coffee table. Then pretty much done with living room!
In the bedroom I got in the parchment Augousti chest...

I love it but the mirror is changing and the styling will change. There is no outlet there so I can't have a lamp (ugh), I need a new rug and art (dogwood branches!) in there and then pretty much done with whole apartment this round. Can't wait to get the art up as it really makes the whole space. One of my fave parts of designing is taking and editing the photos at the end.
My friend Katy is coming in from Mexico tonight so the rest of the week is going to be spent going out to dinner and relaxing - catch you later!
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon

I didn't see the Transformers movies, but I imagine I am in the Dark of the Moon phase of this apartment transformation. I moved in a year and a half ago and immediately decorated it like this:

But as you know I can't stand things for much longer than six months. Well, I can stand the things, but I want OTHER things every six months and have neither the room nor the funds for them. So everything in this room was sold and now we are at this point:

I am pretty proud of the things I have done. I always wanted a huge Beni Ourain from Morocco and I got it. We sell this cypress/lucite coffee table in my store for $4k and I challenged myself to copy it for less than a grand and I did. The huge lucite desk and mirrored 70's buffet that you can't see were fabulous Ebay finds, and you were with me for the reupholstery of the green monster velvet sofa.

But there is still so much to do! The desk chairs (and 3 other chairs in my apt) have to be recovered, I need art over the sofa and a mirror over the tv credenza, I need a second West Elm lacquer bookcase as I am creating a tiny library feel over there, I need a bigger black hardback shade for the brass desk lamp, maybe a floorlamp or large fig tree (but I can't keep them alive).... and this is all before we even get to the bedroom!

So I have been pretty overwhelmed thinking of what needs to be done in my little rental, until I just looked at these pics with fresh eyes. I have accomplished quite a bit. I have to focus on my clients and my school exams and then the holidays for the next couple of months, but hopefully this room will be finished on the 2 year anniversary of me living in the apartment. The end of February is the goal! Are you working on any ongoing projects? Would love to see the progress!

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