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I Made Over A Stylist’s Rental Apartment Closet | Ikea Closet

May 31, 2021
Hey guys, welcome back to my channel Alexandra and today I have what may be my most epic makeover yet. I'm converting a walk-in

closet

of sorts, it's more like a bedroom turned into a

closet

for my friend Layla, kind of a fun story. In fact, Layla and I went to high school together how many years ago, 10 years ago, but we've reconnected. Layla actually designed my outfits for our DIY Season 2, which is Nell Live. I'll link it somewhere. Layla is a very talented blogger. She has a style blog, she's starting a YouTube channel, so check it out.
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It should be linked in the description box. We thought it would be fun to collaborate on this epic closet transformation of hers. This room was somewhat functional before, but first. When I walked in I realized that everything was very full, so she had this wall of shoes, but it was like covered by all of her clothes. Her clothes were on rails, but you couldn't really see what she had and I felt like I don't know, nothing really had a place when it's your job to find beautiful clothes, they should all be on display, everything should have a place, so I thought it would be a really fun makeover and I can't wait.
i made over a stylist s rental apartment closet ikea closet

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You guys saw this epic transformation, so let's get started, so the first day he walked into this space, taking everything out and bringing in some new furniture from IKEA. A big thank you to IKEA for donating much of the product that is in this room, them too. I sent a guy from IKEA and the right guys from IKEA to come and build all the furniture because it was a little intense and we only had two days to do this makeover so I had to go shoot another video so I I went and Leyla really painted. This entire room was white.
i made over a stylist s rental apartment closet ikea closet
I really liked the paint color before, but I thought the white would really open up this space and make it feel more airy, and since Layla has so many, you know, beautiful clothes, so many cute knick-knacks, I thought those are the things that bring the color and I thought her clothes competed with the pink. It's the day to see the difference this white color makes. It's just a basic white color, but it really opens up the space, completely transforms it. I am very excited. I thought it would be a really fun touch to leave the pink closet door alone as an accent color.
i made over a stylist s rental apartment closet ikea closet
I think this is a really good tip if you want to add some kind of color to her space, just paint the door like it's super. easy and then you have a cute and fun door that is pink. Layla already had a Billy bookcase, so I'm going to put one more next to it and add some doors on the bottom to see why I chose to do that. Really cool trick, if you have Billy bookcases at home, the original plan was to have this epic wardrobe on this wall, but we actually decided to put it on the back wall.
I think it was a very good decision, it opens the room to clothes. They don't really take up much space and it's the first thing you see when you walk in which is really nice and then on this wall we decided to put the Billy shelves and this is where all of his makeup will go. of her jewelry as well as all of her accessories along this wall and then of course she has her existing shoe wall here, this couldn't be moved, they were screwed to the wall so this was the layout we had I have to keep going, but I think it really works, so the first thing we're going to do is take all of Layla's clothes, throw them on the floor and start sorting them.
What Layla loves is saving, she's very good at it and she has all these incredibly beautiful clothes, so it's a lot of fun. Go over them with her and see her kind of system of how she organizes everything about her. This wardrobe is incredibly beautiful. He does so many things. I feel like this is an item that a lot of people don't know about Ikea and how great it is. The thing is you can customize it and I hope you can see how big these shelves are, there are these huge drawers that are very deep so Lela can put her jeans, her pants and all her folded things in these drawers.
They are hidden and the beauty of this piece is that it is actually renter friendly so there is no need to screw it to the wall. I mean, if she has kids, screw her to the wall because there is a fall hazard, but for the purposes of this makeover. We didn't do it and it works totally fine, there is space on top to put all of her beautiful bags, everything is open for display and she can take it to her next house as very easy, no problem. I think a lot of people are a little nervous. about open storage, but I think when you're someone like Lela who loves clothes, something like this is ideal because she can see what she has at all times, we both commented after we'd put all the clothes in this closet. like it looks like a store, like you can shop your wardrobe, there's nothing hidden, you can see what you have, which makes getting dressed in the morning very easy, so for all the winter accessories from Leila, you know things like hats, gloves and scarves, I really wanted to put them in tall baskets, these things are a little harder to organize because they tend to be bulky items, so I just bought some seaweed baskets and grouped everything by winter scarves, winter scarves, silk, gloves, winter hats, I use small cards, I just wrote a label on them. so you know what's in the baskets and attach the labels with little gold butterfly growth clips.
This is just an easy way to keep track of what's hidden, so if you're storing something like I did here, make sure it's labeled so you know where everything is and so you don't forget you have certain items of clothing. I also think Lela can change things up seasonally in this basket to have her swimsuits down there in the open closet, because it will be summer soon, but when? When winter comes, she can just move her winter accessories into that basket and put her swimsuits on top, so it's a really easy way to put things away and keep them really organized even when you're not wearing them now that we're moving. on this wall of shoes, so Lela actually just used some IKEA brackets and an IKEA shelf, she already had five of them installed.
In fact, I put one of the photos of her that she has, she has a lot of cool vintage art, so I tipped one in there. I thought it would just add a nice decor moment and be something that would stand out, so it's not just a sea of ​​shoes similar to organizing your clothes, but we just throw all the shoes on the floor and organize things with boots and sandals. floors again Lela had a very specific method. I just took the initiative from her and we organized them and now it's like a wall of shoes that you can buy.
Is incredible. I need a wall of shoes. I don't have that many shoes so it wouldn't make sense, so next up. I'm hanging a gold curtain rod, I think it adds a bit of glamor to the room and then I found these velvet curtains. I opted for a slightly heavier curtain due to the style because it looks very vintage. I love the velvet, but also because Lela is changing here in a dressing room, so they just add a little more privacy. A few people have asked me what kind of curtains to buy that block out light, they are definitely heavy, all curtains like this. they'll work and they're pink which is really cute so that's just the next door it was time to design these shelves so if you remember Lela had a couple of shelves like this on the back wall and they had kind of a mix . from her office things like her tax documents and it just didn't seem like anything had a place.
One thing I really loved about Layla's shelves before is that she was using all these cool old ITINs that she found at the thrift store, you know. I saved her jewelry to save her makeup, so she wanted to implement that. I think it's a great tip for you guys at home, if you have a dresser or a bookshelf and you need little baskets to hold things, just go to the thrift store. really nice containers and we organize things by group so we have something that looks like a cool vaz for your hair ties and bracelets and then little bowls for things like eye shadow so finding really beautiful decorative pieces to display your items again It means you're out, you know you have it at all times and it looks like this beautiful type of display that can be purchased right when you walk into the room.
A personal favorite of how Lela actually uses these really beautiful shelves to store her earrings. I just think that's how she looks. beautiful and everything is very well displayed, it is functional and decorative, this is a great trick to keep your Beauty blenders organized and hygienic, just place them in some old egg cups, this is a trick from Leila, but I will definitely use it in my own bathroom Leila She also has a lot of sunglasses, so I found this really cool acrylic tray from Amazon. It fits very well with all of her sunglasses. I really like how this piece is acrylic so you can see through it.
This article is linked below. I find it and it's very economical, so I'm putting all of her daily makeup on these shelves. I'm putting them back into acrylic boxes so you can see what she has. I have aligned all of her palettes again. She can see everything. The palettes that have the things you use every day are easy to access but also look beautiful and then on the shelves under the door I just put all the leftover makeup in makeup bags so this will be the cabinet where Leila, you know? it puts all these things that she doesn't necessarily use every day but that need storage and then I'm pulling out a trick that I use probably like in all the videos, but I'm just using these knobs, the same ones that I always use.
They'll be linked below just to make these cabinets look a little more glamorous and a little more personalized for Leila in the other cabinet. The reason I wanted to add doors was because Leila and her partner have a lot of similar office pieces that they needed. be hidden, so things like tax documents, you know, camera equipment, all that stuff, it's really hard to get paperwork and tax documents to be seen, so these doors are really cool because they just hide all that stuff and , you know, they don't hinder the style of this beautiful, beautiful closet, so Lela requested a Persian rug in this room.
Now Persian rugs are hard to find on a budget. In general, they are very expensive. Turns out we found one at US Rugs. Yeah, I'll link it below, it was really cheap and this one. The five by seven size works perfectly in this room. What a change a simple rug can make. Heat the space. It's neutral enough not to take away from your clothes, but again warms up the space and adds that vintage touch. touch Leila really loves it a big thank you to HomeSense for the next piece so Leila and I brought this mirror as you can see we are struggling a bit now usually huge mirrors like this cost over a thousand dollars They really are expensive.
I found this at home for about 400 cents, so that's like a lot of money, don't get me wrong, but for a huge, beautiful mirror like this, it was actually a bargain and the reason I went for a really big mirror. like this is one because Leila can take photos of the day's outfit, but also because this room, which you know, is small and because there is a lot going on, it has the potential to look very messy, but the light from the window bounces off this big mirror, just open this space. a lot and I think it makes this room feel like a boutique it feels like I'm in a clothing store basically called Leila's vintage finds so thank you to HomeSense for donating this item we love it it's just beautiful again the scents of home.
I also donated this beautiful pouf, it's a light pinkish lavender color, it has gold accents to tie all the other gold elements in the space together again. I just thought it would make this room feel a lot more boutique-like. Leila can use it to climb. Stand up to place the bags on top of the open shelf if she wants or she will use them to put on her shoes. It's just a cute little piece that I think is also a lot of fun. The next step I will bring light to this corner. It was feeling a little dark, so I think a floor lamp is really cool.
Another really inexpensive piece that you can bring into your space that makes a big difference is a floor lamp so when we plugged this light in we needed an extension cord and it didn't look that nice under the shelf so a great trick is just found a basket, placed it underneath and held all of Leila's bags and then added a cute little trinket in the corner to cover all the extension cords and be done with it. In this corner I hung one of Layla's old prints. Fun fact, she actually found this at a funeral home she was closing, so she has a fun story behind it again, it just ties into her love of vintage, then we posted three. hats on top of the mirror to fill the space.
This is another great tip: hang some hatsIt is functional because it is used to store things and it also looks very beautiful. Then we'll put some finishing touches on this mustard colored chair again. vintage find a piece that Lela already had, it's just a cute and cool piece that makes this room feel really cozy and then hidden in this corner there is a plant stand again, very vintage Leila already had this and we just put one fake plant because this corner is dark doesn't see much light, so sometimes artificial plants are the way to go. I am very excited with the result of this room.
This was totally a team project. Leila helped a lot to bring this room together, but I'm looking forward to it. It was a very personal thing, it's all her clothes, it's all her makeup, all the things she loves, so it was really fun to do this together and I think this might be my most epic makeover, guys, let me know in the comments below. next what Your biggest struggle is organizing your closet. I know not everyone hasI would like to convert an entire room into a walk-in closet, but I want to know, even if you live in a small space or even if you have a closet this size, do you know what organization you struggle with.
Let me know. Should we bring it? leyland January 10, 2008, that was 11 years ago thanks Lela, do you know what time we have to be at school on Monday? We're looking to see if we have photos of each other on Facebook, but our wall seems to appear. The story of the wall is what you call it, do you know if something is happening tonight? Oh my gosh, we clearly used to have parties together. Ah, I think I know who you're talking about. Did that person say something new? Actually, I do not know. number one, you have to do the and hearts like ampersand hearts semicolon oh, I didn't answer you what do you think is the biggest game changer in the space, this storage, you said it very quickly, everything can be bought, yes, and on display, yes? yeah underneath this some have a hope and it's your shoes like they had their moment they were so full before it was bad cause you got this wall of shoes but it's like they don't duplicate they deserve two dated tracks keep shining , OK?
Thank you very much for watching this makeover. I really hope you enjoyed it. Follow Leila and I'll see you next Friday. See you, you posed on Friday. Well, you can watch both of our videos next Friday next week. I'm coming for you with another one. makeover that's really exciting and yes, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time

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