Another Bachelor, Another Reveal

This light-filled apartment with a killer view of Miami, belongs to my second bachelor client of the year, Mr. B. 
Well, he does have an amazing girlfriend, so technically, he's not a true bachelor. Anyway, I digress. Mr. B owns a home in Spain but works, lives in Miami and travels the globe for work. Renting, not owning a place here was his best option. 
This little cave of an apartment on Miami's Brickell Key is a prime location, but oh, the apartment was so gloomy it felt mildly depressing.
Since it's a rental, we couldn't knock down walls, change light fixtures or gut bathrooms, but we could surely purchase some solid pieces of furniture that will transition well to his next home, add some fresh paint colors to the walls (we'll paint it back to the original color when his lease is up), and give the space some gosh damn style. Here's where we started:

Yes, yes, when will I learn to remove handbags from my before photos? Anyway, handbags aside, pretty gloomy looking no?

Mr. B wanted the grey wall gone and some more fun colors introduced. Once we'd settled on the large items like this very comfy sectional from Z Gallerie, he left me to my own devices to purchase other items. I scored this rug from Home Goods and thought it's rust tones added color and warmth to the space. 

As always, I try to mix high tickets items with more budget friendly options so scored these end tables from Overstock. 

He swooned for this swing arm lamp from Crate and Barrel. Can you blame him?

He is an avid reader, so his book collection served as great accessories on this Overstock coffee table and throughout the condo.

This little nook needed some special love and attention.

This Ikea table is a favorite of mine because it's so versatile. It fit perfectly here. The Target lamps add extra lighting and the Nate Berkus baskets serve as both extra storage and seating for additional guests, and I love their amazing texture.

Y'all know I loves me some grey paint, but it admittedly made this apartment feel exceedingly gloomy and he hated it so much that it had to go. 

Since this is a rental, we only painted accent walls, and not the entire apartment. Here we added a warm beige with a brown banding, which added some visual detail on the wall in lieu on spending loads of money on art to add to this very long wall.

The accent wall is also the perfect backdrop for this walnut and white media console which we all fell in love with, but lost out to another buyer who'd purchased the last two! I cannot tell you the anguish I had over that, but luckily the buyer decided she only needed one and now voila, this splendid piece now sits very pretty in this space.

Around the corner from the living room is the first of two bedrooms, a tad smaller than the second bedroom but since it had an en suite bathroom he preferred to have it serve as the master.

Mr. B entrusted all paint choices to me (love those clients!) so I decided to use the color of the living room rug as inspiration for the accent wall color in  the master bedroom. We splurged a bit on this bed from Crate and Barrel. I loved the mid century modern lines of the nightstands from West Elm and our

Our Instagram followers voted on the lamp shades (so glad y'all picked the one I wanted!!!) 

He already had this amazing duvet from Pottery Barn and it was the perfect finish for the bed.

A very longggggggggg hallway connects the rooms to the living room, so to add some interest without breaking the bank, we framed inexpensive prints of some of his favorite cities and used the water view he sees from the apartment as inspiration for the striped detail on the wall. 

We carried that blue into the second bedroom which he does double duty as his office and guest room. 

 

An inexpensive day bed from Ikea takes up minimal real estate in the room while providing seating and a comfy place for guests to sleep.

He fell in love with this desk from West Elm and we paired it with this a stylish yet comfortable chair from Modani. A gallery wall of maps of his hometown and other cities that he loves offers a sense of connection to Spain and Europe, even as he now calls Miami home.

A huge thanks to Mr. B whose emails kept me royally entertained. We often got lost in translation, as English is his second language. We had a blast sending photos, emails and text messages back and forth, since he was not here for much of the project, and we needed to make sure he understood all that was happening. A bigger thank you to his amazing girlfriend Paula, who trusted me enough to recommend to Mr. B that I take over the reigns of this design project, so he could live in style.

 

Source Guide

Living Room:

Zgallerie - Sectional

KMP Furniture - Media Unit

Overstook - Coffee Table, End Tables

Crate and Barrel - Floor Lamp

Home Goods - Area Rug

Curtain panels - Ikea but customized by Titan Decor.

Sheer panels - Titan Decor 

Bedroom: 

Crate and Barrel - Bed

Overstock - Rug

West Elm - nightstands

Lamps - Target

Guest Room/Office:

Home Goods - Rug

West Elm - Desk

Ikea - Daybed

All Artwork: Art.com and Allposters.com

Chair - Modani

Pillows - Target, Ikea and Home Goods

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A Week in Weston - Bedrooms Finale

Hot dang it's Friday. I'd do a dance and celebrate like nobody's business, but if you're in the design business, you probably gotta work tomorrow so TGIF is really a smack in the face. Of sorts. 
Anywho, lord Jezus it's been a hell of a week. 
Thanks for indulging us as we took this week-long blogging fest to showcase our biggest project of the year. If ya missed it (how could you?!) then feel free to hit rewind and check it out here, here, here and here.
This has really been one of those projects in which I really connected with my clients, got inside their heads and was so grateful that they gave me so much free reign to turn things up a bit and take a few risks in my designs. On this final day we say hello to bedrooms upstairs.
We're starting with the master. Oohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Weeeeeeeeeeeeee it's come a long way.

Here's how it looked in it's previous life. We flipped things around a bit with the floor plan. A media center was placed against the wall where the bed now sits. The unit is sitting between two windows and it made much more sense to place the bed there to embrace the natural light and give us a full wall to place the bed against.

 Sam and Athalia already had much of the furnishings here - the bed, nightstands, chest of drawers and console table.

But what pulled it all together was the wallpaper and custom drapes. Athalia fell in love with the bird print on Pinterest and with our luck, we discovered it was available as a wallpaper and off we went.  

Here's what's happening down the hall.

This room that was once an office:

Guests now get to check in here and get some simple work done at this desk if they so choose. 

 

Emmy's room once looked like this:

 

 

 And finally, little Noa's room started out like this: 

 And now looks like this.

That's all folks. I think we've shown that there are some great ways to incorporate your existing furniture into a new home, and give it new life with the right accessories, flooring, curtains, wallpaper and so much more.  

Guess what? There are two rooms we didn't even get to highlight here! 

To see the girls playroom, and Athalia and Sam's home office, head on over to our Facebook page where you'll also see a full album of the before and after of each room. Happy Friday and cheers to a great and safe weekend.

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Bachelor Pad - The Bedroom. It's a Wrap.

Say it ain't so! But yes peeps, this is the final reveal of our favorite bachelor's now swanky pad. 

If you've been following along, he's gotten quite a few stylish updates to his Miami condo over the past few months. If you missed it, you can read here, here and here. So here's where he'd been sleeping for a few years.

 

 
Lots of red - duvet and curtains - and lots of furniture crammed into this bedroom. Much like the rest of the house he'd just gone out and purchased what he thought made sense without much care for style or function. The bookcase and desk became a haven for junk and though he needed lots of storage, dresser took up lots of space and was a doozy to walk by every day. 
Since I knew the dresser would have to go, we sourced items that offered loads of smart storage.



This bed from Room and Board has a large storage drawer and now holds lots of items. Ditto for these trunk-inspired nightstands we found at Modani Miami that offer a total of four deep drawers and storage in the upper half that he uses for items he won't need to get frequent access to since it doesn't have a drawer but needs to be lifted open much like a trunk. 

Simple accessories like a storage box for cuff links and other knick knacks and a photo of his grandfather adorn the nightstands.

 

While we ditched the dresser, we needed this floating console to store all the media equipment he needed with the newly installed large television. The two drawers again offered more storage. 

 

Awww how we argued about these lights! Debbie sourced these and we felt it was a great way to add a fun element to the room but at first he balked. No way he said. Then he polled his closest friends who all loved it, and he decided to trust us and the friends and go for it. It is now one of his favorite elements in the space. 
If you'll notice the room now has many lighting options from the fixture, lights we added in the bulkhead and the two lamps. 
 
Though the room is flooded with natural light by day, it was pitch black at night with nothing but this one sad and lonely lamp you see on the nightstand.

Goodbye red curtains, hello brown silk and chartreuse - pulled from the green foliage in the central park image and ties the space to the living room which also has green throw pillows. Bamboo shades now filter the light as he sleeps in and a similar bamboo shade with blackout lining, now covers the glass door in the room that leads to the patio.

Central Park in New York is by far his favorite place to visit and this custom-framed image was the perfect way to remind him of the park.

All photos by Circle Ten Media

Last but not least, the mattress and pillows are from his favorite hotel, the Four Seasons. A pricey splurge but the man swears they are the most comfortable bedding he's ever experienced and wanted to replicate that feel in his own bedroom. 
Thanks to our amazing bachelor Al, who allowed me to share his makeover with the world - warts and all! Eternally thankful/grateful to have had you as a client sir and thanks even more for that inspiring pep talk encouraging me to spread my wings and leap into this design business on a full-time basis.  
Thanks to everyone for following along here and even more intently on Instagram. The feedback and love has been much appreciated.
So did you have a favorite room in this reveal? Would love to hear your picks.
TGIF and have a freaking fabulous weekend.


Source Guide


Bed - Room and Board
Nightstands - Modani
Light Fixture - Lightology
Rug - Modern Furniture Warehouse
Lamps - Target
Duvet - Overstock 
Mattress/bed linens - Four Seasons Hotel collection

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