interior design ideas for living rooms on a budget

interior design ideas for living rooms on a budget

hi creative weirdos welcome to another room on a budget video living room for haley she is so lovely. she's 22 she works as a model, but she also is going through a big personal change with her mum having terminal cancer so i am very honored to be here today to work on pulling her space together. she's a very magical spiritual girl, and so we're gonna be infusing all that into the space, but of course with our constraints of 300 dollars and only one day to do it. you know the drill and thank you story blocks for sponsoring this video i'm so excited to be using some of those images today for some diy art so start the timer ahhh and let's go meet haley!


knock knock! i'm mr.ka-ohhh you don't even need the introduction. you already know who dis is i'm mr.kate,i'm here!i'll take a look at your place!i'll stay there for a while,and help you find your style!we'll laugh and we'll paint i'm mr.kaate!! oh,i'm mr.kate! ahhh!oh my gosh i am sooo thrilled to be doing this! i love your energy we're just already vibing together i think we fit perfectly. we fit perfectly, exactly! all right so in looking at this space the thing that stands out to me first and foremost is the fact that you have crystals and incense and candles on your table! yes my altar


i love my altar! is that what you call it, an altar? yes, so i mean some people call it coffee table, i call it an altar um,yes! it's definitely very spiritual i think spirituality is very important to me because i work so much and i have a lot going on in my life right now my mum has terminal cancer and so you know i have to be spiritual and positive for myself and for her and for my family and so we're setting you up with as much support and nurturing energy and beauty around you to really insulate you through that process yeah


definitely let's talk a little bit about technicalities you have this gigantic couch, yess sectional i love love love having my friends over that's like obviously another thing that keeps me going okay, so we like the couch. it's in great shape it is obviously very kind of contemporary in line so let's talk a little bit about style so in my spirituality like goddesses and gods are very important to me and that just happens to associate most with indian and asian culture, yeah, so to me i find that influence in a lot of places a bit of a mix i love a mix because we're all of us there's no real


you know exact button we can ever describe ourselves with or a mix of everything so i love cleaning with a mix of style and it makes sense. so okay, so colour wise will keep it fairly neutral in that will keep it kind of contemporary feeling with the wall color etc but because you have these mystical elements like crystals and stuff like that we wanna complement those with some jewel tone accents right?love the jewel tones the one other thing is you told me the desk in the corner is like you don't need it i thought i would use it a lot more when i got it, but i don't at all. we can get rid of it yeah, if we need to. okay that helps with the energy flow too right taking away clutter oh yeah, having open movement and being able to have that space. it's definitely gonna help


you manifest faster because you know there's space to work through yeah, so openness is definitely a very important key so it's more than just painting walls and everything,yes it's about mum! yes mum!yes what's your mum's name?pam,pam!we love pam*paaaaammm* okay, pam is gonna she's gonna be representing this room! do it for pam! pam starts with a p and so does paint so maybe we should paint great all right, so i'll see you later. yes okay guys! i love haley! she's so amazing


such good vibes. she's going through so much. i really want the space to be so magical for her i want to infuse a lot of that magic spirituality color etc, and she has these giant walls so we need a giant piece of art, so! i was thinking collage art for the space because it really will be a way to bring in some different textures and colors and all the things that she's into, into one piece of art and it's perfect because our sponsor for today's video is story blocks. which is my favorite place to go for images, icons vectors illustrations, so i was thinking how can i cover this giant wall above her couch with a beautiful statement piece of artwork without blowing our


$300 budget dawn on me collage art basically making a layout of like a planetary lineup of you know different planets in a row but budget saving tip i'm gonna print them on a home computer. just a basic computer. not go get them professionally printed like photographs just have them be regular printouts on eight-and-a-half by 11. i love the idea of having these circular planet like shapes made out of something not planetary like flowers or a tree or a mountain scene or something like that, but then represented in an entire planet world shape does that make sense? i know it sounds a little wacky, but trust me i'm gonna print out all these beautiful images


and then when i get to actually diy eyeing the project you will see what's in my head oh, how pretty look at this all these individual roses like these could be some of the smaller planet okay, that is magical that cut out in a sur well downloading that and there's over 400,000 images you can access its 149 bucks for the year membership on story blocks which basically is like 12 ish bucks a month you can also purchase the images individually, but you do save at 60% if you do the year membership and you can access all the marketplace items you guys get 2x as a 7-day free trial the link will be in the description below, so


access it to access your creativity. oh my gosh. who is this amazing i? love this freya norse goddess of love and beauty perfect guys should i print out more images to diy the coffee table? we need to do something to this coffee table? because it's like marked up underneath this cloth what if i print out more images to decoupage the coffee table? so i'm gonna download a ton of these. i'm gonna go find julie. we're gonna go shopping. we'll stop by the office we'll print these out go back here to decoupage and make planetary magic hopefully


i found me a joey hello, joey hello everybody so the plan is the big? statement feature is going to be that collage part that we're gonna make great that needs to be gigantic because her couch miss gigantic shows that desk in the corner when she said she doesn't even use it's just like kind of a clutter collector in the corner, so we should move that and try to put a chair over there right make more conversation area around the table because she loves to have her friends over she loves crystals, which i love about her i love crystals, so i definitely want to celebrate those really give her way to kind of showcase then who's gonna like a crystal shop for the art project, what do you want to do you into canvas budget-friendly?


we'll get let go you know then beat the wood mounted to the wall first off first or next stop coffee okay first door and then drivers are feeling you need coffee. i do need ah be alright furniture these are so magical this traditional eating your friend levert poof pull out a little bit, or you can put your feet up on the couch kind of like this oh that is cool throughout this dancing lady no no no put the swordfish back come out with the mirror the trick with that is just making it not look like your grandma's chair


so you want to get that do you want to get that my grandma's cool? do you get that? like this side table so then we just need a lamp to go on top of it let's get it really love your idea about going to like a crystal store. yep, so cuz they're right by there. we should go to pan pipes pan thanks you guys. it is like such a magical story okay, so i want to build her an intention kit for her new space because we're renewing it with design and since she is very spiritual i think she would love to have also something more meaningful as well, if these crystals quartz horse is a good stone it amplifies. whatever energy is in the space so over here are all the smudge bundles of like the different stages this


cleanses the energy sort of like resets the energy so she can use it on the floor walls and the space or to rise energy up in a way we tow anything we need feathers cuz you can burn the stage you can walk it all right, so i gotta buy this okay, so we just need to go to a hardware store to get the paint and the canvas material and then a big-box store to just get some basics right yeah, and get curtis rug throw pillows all the soft goods mr.. worldwide laughing aliens okay? we are there. we are back at haley's we're ready to unload joey about the hardware up right okay?


we stopped at hardware store and then there's just some things that i wanted to show you guys we picked up this rug you guys a 4x6 or 49 tina and then also these are gorgeous that i love when they sell them inside you don't know alex. i agree with plants plants bring good energy, but fluid pots can kind of be expensive so my new favorite trick is to buy inexpensive trash cans or you all right, so let's do everything up tall ceilings all she'd what color we painting a purpley gray. i think cuz you know i like gray this is a good neutral, but the cool thing about gray is it's very nuanced so it's gonna be great, but like a purple undertone, so it's gonna be a very complex grape joey joey


how long have we been together? you know did not just call great many years ten and a half is our decade i don't know. i'm bad at math you're good at math, okay yeah, so we'll paint the wall a purple undertone gray curtains curtains take down those vertical blinds those vertical ones are flooding. that's hilarious i know putting the tv on the wall yes, you young all mirror about the fireplace and i have that big art piece that i need to do that then you need hang you're gonna. help me hang i'm gonna help you hang help you paint actually cuz as room is gigantic you gonna help me paint


why are you using the smallest roller possible love you want me to help. i don't call it on your painting technique, and how dare you body shame my roller? how dare you? we are only good lives in here. i mean. i'm very good your bacon and body positivity and roller shape means very good. yes very none roller you know what you should be a lot more of a help of you plucked up your own roller and you know what it can be any shape and size joey


okay, okay diy artwork time okay, you guys so what i have in front of me is a piece of hardboard and that is something that you can find at the hardware store. it's normally used some construction, but it is only $7 for an 8 by 4 piece so joey and i just picked this up from the hardware store and we asked them to cut it down for us to 4x6 so i have our printouts from story block so some of these. i just printed out as full-page images and then some of these i cropped in two circles so i took for you guys if you only have a home printer that prints eight and a half by eleven pieces of paper and


you want a nice big circle you can divide it onto two pieces of paper first? i need to prep the background the deep space if you will where my planets are going to arrange themselves across so these are so gorgeous these so many textures and colors to play with so i need a penis deep space color which last time i checked i think deep space is black and then i'm gonna come in with my handy dandy mott qoj a decoupage errs best friend and i'm going to attach these pieces of paper aka my planets on to the art and then joey's and hang on wallen we're gonna. hope that it was great


okay guys deep space is over they're drying and now i am going to cut out my beautiful planetary shades also excited about these and then i have some various circle stencil shapes that i'm gonna use as my round stencils for the smaller planet so i'm hoping that this layering effect is gonna work out but i also did print out these images in this bowl pages so worst-case scenario my biggest planet could just be the size of a piece of paper which of course if you guys are doing this artwork in a smaller scale? you will probably want to scale down your planets as well, but since that piece of hardboard is so big


i need some big planets on deep-space has dried guys so now i have arranged the circular shapes in the order i want we're gonna hang it vertically so these are gonna be vertical rows of planets. i want to use a matte finish i'm gonna use a gloss for the coffee table and i also like to have some water on hand because it just makes it that much easier to thin out the glue a little bit sometimes it's just too thick and you want to make the piece of paper nice and saturated and flexible so it really adheres to the surface so this is when the water comes in handy because obviously this is kind of a stiff piece of paper


so i want it to be nice and flexible let's lay it down and this is what's so hilarious about any decoupage project is it just looks so messy before it dries, but don't worry like i said it's gonna dry clear and then this is where you can use your fingers make sure there's no air bubbles mod podge also dry very quickly which is great? for our quick turnaround


primer so i'm just gonna wait for it all to dry see how it looks i might decide to do a coat all over the entire thing depending on its the sheen. it's just a little bit different, so dry darling dry dry galaxy universal system oh here is our collage art of planets. i do want to add some hand-painted starburst shapes around and also add on some


smaller planets using just the color, white which i think will also unify these rows because obviously there's all kinds of colors going on so i just have some basic white craft paint which of course i take everywhere with me when you're doing collage art it's fun to also mix the medium so obviously we use paper and decoupage then adding some elements of paint also create more layers and complexity and just make it look like a higher quality piece of art yeah, that's super cool, so i plan on mountainous with standoffs, okay. i love seeing oz very contemporary look like about darish okay, i have to go to the coffee table. you got this yeah, thanks techno scott i got this


you know i love it upcycle and so do you we don't really happen in the pledget to get a new coffee table it's in good enough shape except the top is all scratched, and it's peeling and whatever obviously she was kind of concealing the peel enos with that cloth but i think it's gonna be a much cleaner look more contemporary if this can be a piece of furniture with a decoupage top if you guys have been watching our videos for a while and by awhile i mean ears you will remember that coffee table at our place our old apartment. i use images from an art book and decoupage herbal top anyway, so basically doing that theme technique so look i found these two pictures of this sort of like rose gold crystals like how gorgeous like look at that texture, and there's dimension to it?


so imagine this just fall over the top of the table so basically the key is obviously printing out multiple copies of the same image i've got these two different images here that i'm just gonna layer all over and obviously i'm also tearing off all of the white as well because that is going to make it look more seamless as well as we don't see any white border just shapes like this i'm just laying down these pieces like i did before on the artwork and i'm going right up a little bit over the edge of the table so that when this is dry i can cut along the sharp blade like an exacto knife and just trim the edge to be nice and perfectly straight you'll screw in the tops going up there yeah


nice nice and sealed and i did a ton of coats of mod podge on this right so it'll be nice and durable let's put together our positive intentions kit on a table okay, all the room color candles aren't presenting all the different what kind of dirty socks are you smelling? yeah, those. really? your socks do not smell like this,if your socks smelt like this. i would be a much happier woman beautiful,prettyyyy! so you have a bunch of pillows right,oh yeah!pillows!show me my pillows!let's go,let's go! place them over here on the positive vibes table, our positive intention skit it looks so magical in here you guys. what do you think? so let's talk through how this room came together


we have the black couch which obviously i could not ignore because it's gigantic so we brought in that dark color up on the wall with our magnificent gigantic piece of artwork i mean now we are really emphasizing the height of these ceilings and this coffee table is now such a statement piece and then i just love how we've made the fire place. have its moment we have the giraffe over there you know the giraffe only has one horn because i got it for two dollars, but hey nobody's perfect and then we've got your grandma's chair is that your grandma's chair, but it looks great we've got this beautiful textured pouf here, so she really has now a


360-degree conversation area for all of her friends, and then it's a positivity kit here to just really bring in so many good vibes. i feel it i feel the good vibes in here, and i'm gonna go find haley and bring her in. i hope she loves it. such a long hallway we need to get you into the right position okay, close your eyes now because you'll start to see sneak peeks 1 2 3!*haylee gasps* oh my god oh my god! i'm like "oh my gahd! i'm so excited!" the table is like


that's like crystal on steroids whole arrangement, we went to a specialty store, and we put together a positive intentions kit for you so we thought the- yeah the sage and all the different coloured candles and the crystals thank you oh my god you guys are so cute oh my god, and i love the elephant by the mirror right with the trunk up brings good luck yes, and the elephants are carriers of messages so i love that there's an elephant there, that's so perfect yes.


and then this is one of the crystals that we picked out for you it spoke to me the quartz crystal, which is the mag and amplifier, right? so it amplifies whatever energy is in the space you're right on the- i'm like shakey like did away with your vertical blinds to give you some curtains to just sort of blocks it up a little bit. no i love it. we didn't throw them away, so you have those as a rental so you can put it back when you need to. obviously kate made that.


so the idea behind it was like basically creating your own solar system so all of the planets that- you have a beautiful mind oh thank you. she was talking to me. thank you i couldn't have like done this in a million years. thank you guys so much. i'm so happy! we got you a rug pattern on it, i love i feel like it's very um you know modern and fresh it was actually made in india.


so its- haley: shut up! yeah so its got that, you know~ yeah and the-that pouf- we got like that eastern vibe going-. thank you guys so much! your such a lovely lovely lady we wish you all the best face seriously, and i hope your friends love it, and i hope they come over a lot. and pam mama comes to see it too she's gonna literally be blown away. she's been texting me all day she was like has it happened yet? have you seen it? i'm like no no, no, i'll let you know,i'll let you know!


definitely she's gonna come get the vibes too. yay pam! one thing- planets for pam! yes!planets for pam!that's what that artwork is callled. oh my god, that's perfect. that's beautiful. two days one a. we forgot that we took this on like the color. you love the wall color? i literally was like shook i was it's like it's so suttle yet, so beautiful like brings all the colors together so nicely


that just like i couldn't have imagined that we also did this all for $300 shut up! pretty good right? cool pieces we found throughout, la like that lamp is super nice perfect we was have the most amazing year ever i know you're going through a lot of life changes, but also hopefully there's a lot of fun it is and this is definitely gonna help bring in the new year. yeah, thank you guys so much again


market on the group erupted the raw oyster. thank you. see you later. i love you. i miss you already my gosh. she is so special i really really really really really hope that that smith brings all the positive energy that we tried to infuse in it because she's gonna go through the loss. she's going here a lot you did really good your artwork was so great so inspired so pretty like you won't they ever hang it it would just be our work on the ground if it weren't for you so thank you for uplifting my artwork. yeah, isn't nice guys are you guys feeling the good vibe leave? hailey just all the love and positivity in the comments, and yeah


we're off to dinner. you guys know the drill. it's dark out. we're heading home. thanks tori blocks for sponsoring. yeah all that decoupage was really fun i haven't decoupage in a while, so let us know what you guys thought of the project of the transformation and also, follow us on social media if you don't already definitely want to check out joey's instagram oh, you definitely want to check out my instagram you definitely want to check out case instagram it's on more fire than money subscribe guys i guess you won't know when the next videos coming out if you are subscribed and please turn on that notification about guys we are we are getting close to the end of the year. let me just tell you 2 million


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