House Tours: A Colorful, Transformed 425 Sq Ft Studio Apartment in Brooklyn, NY
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- Name: Leecy Li
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Size: 425 SQ FT/39 SQ METERS
Type of Home: Studio
Years Lived In: 2 years, renting
Leecy refers to her home’s style as a “wild mix that weirdly melts together and sparks enjoy!” and explains that you can “find a little bit of everything everywhere.” Speaking of everything, almost all of the things in Leecy’s apartment are from either vintage shops, FB marketplace, Urban Outfitters, or IKEA, with a few pieces from the MOMA design store, Design Within Reach, and Hay mixed in. “You’ll find a silhouette of places where I grew up, traveled to, influenced by, and long for,” she also adds. Ultimately she followed three key words when designing her home: cozy, personal, creative.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Floor Plan, B/A & Creating Zones
1:37 - Lounge Zone & Curtains
2:38 - Dining Zone & Paint
4:18 - Working Zone
5:28 - Bed/Resting Zone & Paint
6:25 - Kitchen & Pantry Area (Before & After)
9:11 - Entryway & Paint DIY
9:43 - Closet/Storage Space & Mural
11:17 - Bathroom & Paint DIY
12:11 - Meaning of Home
About Leecy
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I imagine that closet was advertised as the bedroom but she has really transformed the space into what works for her. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was thinking that’s a really large closet for a studio apartment. I think she made the right move using it for storage.
In NYC bedrooms have to have a window by law so it likely was always a closet.
@@_helloitse Since when do NYC landlords follow the law?
@@_helloitse I wonder if that is a State law; western NY follows that rule too.
Love that kitchen! Thanks for preaching about colour in small spaces. It's always more fun than the all light/white.
Yes! I’m having my bedroom painted a darker blue soon and I’m so excited!
This tour serves as both inspiration and a reminder that with a little imagination, any space can be transformed into a place you're proud to call home. ❤❤
She did a really great job laying out the space into different “rooms.” That kitchen and the large closet are pretty awesome for NYC.
small? yes. BUT YOU USED EVERY CORNER PERFECTLY 😍 i am in love 🌺
So cozy. I love what she did with the curtains. Very creative. Five Stars!
Leecy has good advice on living in a space. Surround yourself with an ambience that "speaks to your heart." I love how she uses paint to identify a space. Her adorable kitty must love that closet room with nooks and crannies she can hide in.
The standing desk plus seated desk is genius!
I love the color of the bedroom, the use of velvet, and the marble in the kitchen.
It's amazing what you've achieved in such a small space. It's practical...it's beautiful...it's fun...it's bold...it's colorful.
Cute space! Lots of opportunities for more organization. Some areas felt really cluttered. Love the personal touches.
She makes it look a lot bigger! Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
Homes that look realistic feel so much more inviting. Her home looks very lived in and homey and not boring and sad beige like an office.
Wonderfully decorated ! And your cat is precious ! Best of luck to you with your creative endeavors ! 😺😺😺
Very fun and vibrant space. The curtains are a great idea. I love how cozy they feel.
She’s 100% correct about color in a smaller space. Checkerboard door is beautifully symmetrical and a perfect touch.
I will say I’m a bit confused with all the big, expensive changes she’s made even though she’s renting? I do also customise my apartments but I do tend to use things I can change back to the original? Like I wouldn’t re-do the kitchen
Amazing and extremely creative transformation! I love your style!
I like how u added colors here and there to make the house looked so cozy, lively and colorful
Perfect space to put a cat highway up top/around for her furry friend.
I totally love her living space and her ideas, especially the bedroom area being visually quiet. Just a really super flat.
I would sleep in the WIC make it cosy bed and a night side table only and outfit a wall of my living room with IKEA pas closets.
If you get someone to make you a platform for your bed you could expand the living space underneath it.
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Color and feel of a home!
I like the commentary about how using different colored walls creates the appearance of more space
Your lofted space seems perfect for the modular cabinets used to free up upper space in many of the NTS videos.
Such a nice creative space and very functional.
Hey friends! Check out the SHORT of this charming space!! ruclips.net/user/shorts7sE2mOg5wxk
Love your creativity! I'm more of an earth tones girl.
This is way too much color for my introvert personality. Nice to see you create a space that makes you happy!
The end of the video is so right: you only know if it wwill work once you introduce it to your space! Great flat.
I get it, drawers are super functional and any kitchen that doesn't have them can lack in functionality (not everyone wants to put their flatware in a caddy). But she got rid of 5 sizable upper cabinets, dishwasher and range, downgrading to a cook top and drawers and a cart that sits out. I don't get it. And if she moves out, you know the landlord isn't going to spend the money to put everything back.
I think it’s all about her needs. Some people don’t like dish washer. If you’re a designer, I think marble top kitchen might be more important than some functionalaty
@@hecho1112 Unless she had permission to make those changes, she'll pay to have them undone.
She definitely needed permission from the landlord to make such changes to that apartment it’s one thing to paint but she changed up the whole kitchen area no way that wasn’t cleared by the owner
Love it! I don't have chance to have a small space like this, so I introduce this video to my 5 year old daughter, and told her she can have a space like this when she live alone in the future.
Looooove what you've done with the space!!!!
It's a bit much! 😬
This was really realistic, I learned alot ❤
I like the kitchen! I preferred the white before pic. I would make a divider out of anything but fabric or at least keep them sheer white. Too much fabric and assorted colors. Halfway painted walls of diff colors and trims with varying edges makes it look like it missed the mark. But to each their own. I love her quote about interior design really a self-discovery journey!
Her apartment is very fun 😅❤❤
I live in a smallish space and I’m taking so many inspo from this!!!
I love your place! 🙂
So cluttered! But appreciate the effort
Such an inspiring space! I kept hitting pause to get a closer look. Love this home!
Hold on, her closet is bigger than the entire studio. This episode reminds me of “ what you see, is what you get! I’m going to put a curtain around my bed in my bedroom because when I go to sleep I like to feel like I’m in a cocoon and I like to feel like a queen.
Love the quirkiness ❤
“Almost like a square”, ie a rectangle.
nice space, does she own it? she's invested a lot in here if she doesn't own it.
I doubt it. It seems that a lot of NY resident rent versus owning. I live in the midwest, so not speaking from experience.
The video description says she rents. In NYC, it’s pretty common for people to be lifelong renters because owning is so cost-prohibitive.
I'm 34 and and grew up in NYC (have only lived here actually). No one I know owns an apartment. I made 108k/yr at my last job and it's not nearly enough to own. My only friends/family that own have had to leave the city to make it happen. I've been at my apartment a decade, and if you see yourself living in a place long it's worth it to make it how you want.
She is so so smart . Love this.
so smart to have LAZY SUSANS inside the kitchen cabinets
Agree 100% about drawer bases. Much easier access!
I would love to own a apartment unit. Im tired of investing $$ and time in spaces I cant live in longer than 3-years. I would do this if i knew my rent incress kept up with my income😅
Love kitty! 🐈⬛ 💕
Did she really renovate the kitchen as a renter?
Beautiful apartment ❤
Nice, but I actually prefer the original white setup, it feels free and not clutter.
Cute place, where is the outfit from?
I love her ideas and commend her bold choices, but I can't help but feel sad that landlords actually expect people to live in such badly organized living spaces. Imagine if she weren't this creative and motivated to separate her space in a smart and beautiful way. It would be so depressing.
Not for me! I don’t like those strongly-coloured curtains, which imo make the space look smaller. And the couch should surely be facing the TV? But I don’t live there and she does, so if she’s happy that’s all that matters.
It’s personal taste
Absolutely each to their own but I didn’t understand wanting a loft like place to then hide it with those curtains
Her: I don’t have a pantry. Then proceeds to open the closet 😂. Humm…that’s where your pantry could go.
I don’t understand people who rent who paint floors… won’t you get in trouble for painting a floor, that’s not like something that can be easily replaced.
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her use of curtains is spendid :)
Too busy and doesn’t let the eye rest in one place making it an eye sore. I got a headache just from trying to make sense of this crazy layout
Tell what you’re are and where to get them,it’s why people watch videos like this,for the ideas,so if you don’t,what’s the use?
Studio tours always seem like very expensive dormitory rooms. Glad your foothold in the city makes it worthwhile to you.
House tours always seem like ostentatious wastes of resources. It’s a shame that driving everywhere is so normalized.
This is so cluttered, all the furniture touching, claustrophobic, too much stuff. If she would get rid of some of her stuff and use smaller-scale furniture (the couch is too large) it would be a big improvement.
I seem to be missing something. This is a rental? Why would you spend this much effort and money on someone else’s place? Would an owner even allow it?
I’m really confused on how she doesn’t see all of the holes in the walls. She said she did a lot of DIY projects and then kept redoing projects until it worked right. I’m pretty sure that the landlord didn’t tell her to just do whatever she wants because the amount of work and money spent on renovations, seems like she changed everything so much leaving a whole lot of holes in walls and ceilings. As a former renter, I was told to never make any holes in the walls or paint anything. She painted everything and did so much renovations that the actual apartment layout is so different and for what purpose, to live in a nice place that makes her feel comfortable? I imagine this might be her first apartment lease, but hopefully she knows that she will have to spend a lot of money and pay for laborers to fix it back. But, she seems young and she will learn through her mistakes and will have to take responsibility for the landlords demands. Hopefully, she lives there for a long-term, and I hope she enjoys her space, she seems to be happy, that’s what matters most. ❤
Yeah... I'm from NYC and can only afford to rent too. I've been at my apartment a decade and have painted and made plenty of holes in the walls. My landlord has no idea but the super has been in my apartment for repairs and doesn't care. I still wouldn't do as much as this girl did, it's too much to have to change back to normal once you leave
Yes an owner would allow a renter to renovate so as long as they had permission to do so, I’m certain the owner gave her permission to do so and more than likely looked at the plans before they said yes
Some landlords don’t mind especially if it can save them money on having to do it themselves
I don’t get why people have a couch in a studio apartment. Use your bed to watch tv or have a projector. You waste way too much space having a couch.
You can't be serious. 😂
Your accent extremely difficult to understand.