NYC APARTMENT TOUR (UPPER WEST SIDE) 2 BED/1 BA

[Music] [Music] welcome to our apartment it has been such a long time since i've shown you this apartment and it's almost been a year so i wanted to do an updated apartment tour um especially since we are about to take everything down because we're moving we're moving to a better apartment with a washer and dryer a dishwasher second bathroom second bathroom just like the it's gonna be really really nice so this room will start here this is um kind of like in the center of the apartment and this apartment was this building was built in 1908 so it's extremely old it's in the upper west side of manhattan which if you're not familiar with manhattan the upper west side is on the west of central park so we really really love the location and we're staying in the upper west side for our next place that we live but it'll be closer to the park and it is just brighter and a lot of things so um this apartment has two bedrooms one bathroom you can see tj's office is right here and used it as my workout room that's colby's couch right there last time i posted a video the comments were all about like how much does this cost so um in new york city it's very expensive compared to other other places that you can live in the country but this building specifically um has studios that are for around two thousand one bedrooms for around three thousand two bedrooms there's one with this exact layout that is on a different floor and it is currently going for 42.50 which is lower than this time last year so that's another reason why we're moving um you can get some pretty good deals right now compared to this time last year before the pandemic and everything with these older apartments that you can find you'll find like really tall ceilings these have 12 foot ceilings which is crazy a lot of trim and molding woodwork around the windows so let's talk about this multi-purpose room that we have so it was a giant empty room we added some molding with removable mounting tape double-sided mounting tape so we are going to take the molding off the walls and we added this mantel which really just made it feel like homey and this will definitely be coming to our new apartment is like my favorite piece in the whole apartment you look out onto broadway which is a very noisy street if you are moving to new york and you don't want to live on a noisy street i wouldn't recommend living on broadway but it's right in the middle of everything so close to the grocery store bagel shop everything we need all literally right downstairs and we added some electrical tape on the on the windows just to give it some faux window pane vibes which i really really love it but we're going to take that down and i'm going to film the whole process of taking things down just so you can see how much work goes into removing it and the residue it leaves and everything so um over here we have a bar cart which i never really fully decorated this wall to be honest i had big plans for it we decorated for christmas right there was a wreath right there yeah that's true but i had big plans to add like more like molding and um it just we just never got to it to be honest i think the one number one thing i'll miss about this apartment are these french doors because our next place will not have these but they just make me so happy so when you go through the french doors you come into a what i think was supposed to be a dining room but it's just really large so we made it into like a casual living room and a dining corner over here so this um dining corner we added a light up here just because there was no light and we didn't want to do any hard wiring of course because we don't own this place so we strung a pendant with a plug-in cord and it goes all the way around the windows plugs in right there which is great so this adds light and makes it feel like a nice little dining nook where we added a gallery wall just um it's a set of 12 and my original goal was to put a picture for every country that we visited which to be honest we're only at like number four right now because 2020 we do not leave new york and well you haven't even put up uh the canada one on there yet oh yeah i need to add canada there's only st lucia and france yeah or signature in the bahamas yeah so i wanted to do a country that tj and i visited together over on this wall i added a nut this is the same type of style as our desks and it's just a simple shelf kind of adds i mean you can do whatever you put whatever you want on it i kind of use it for storage purposes as well with like dishes that we have this is a paint sample that i am thinking about using in our next place over here we have our basically the room that we spend most of our time in we watch tv in here and read and eat i added a dresser for our tv stand just because it had a lot of storage so i keep like cleaning supplies camera equipment office supplies and just some others one is like a junk drawer most of these frames were found at thrift stores just kind of wanted like some mixed golds and dark browns and um kind of have it trickle up to the top and this one i need to fill we did the same kind of molding over in this room too around this frame we just filled out like the empty walls made it feel more just like have more character and so over here i keep all my candles in this thing this thing is from target candles and a seasonal depression lamp this entryway is where the front door is so um you walk in and you immediately can turn go in this living room and you're here which is kind of uh we don't have a huge like entryway entryway so i keep these baskets here they're not the most aesthetically pleasing things when they're full like this but they are really nice and handy to have because we put all of our dog stuff in here like dog shop y'all we bought dog leggings dog leggings for the snow because colby did not like her booties so speaking of thrift store frames i have to show you this frame because it's so beautiful but we found this at chelsea flea market if you're ever looking for like large vintage looking frames definitely check out chelsea flea market i think it's on saturdays and sundays i love this thing and i can't wait to find a spot for it on this wall we wanted i wanted to decorate the tv wall and uh we bought this wood from home depot just added simple very simple brackets and i just put books and frames and these like paper mache bowls all of these frames are from h m they have the best frames but they sell so quickly um so i'm like constantly trying to see if they have them in stock but all of these prints are pictures that we took on our walks when we first moved here i was like we were always going on walks because it was there was nothing else that's the only thing to do yeah so um and i fell in love with all of the architecture in the city so we have some screen prints some buildings uh windows lots of lots of prints and i sell these prints on my etsy shop which i will link also down below the kitchen which is probably um we have we made a video on like how we did a kitchen makeover and everything so we probably put the most work into our kitchen and this kitchen is large for new york city standards which i will really miss because our next kitchen is definitely not big it's very small actually but it's so much it's so bright and it has a dishwasher so this one does not have a dishwasher and we have been uh using this portable dishwasher which is extremely small but it gets the job done when you are just tired of washing dishes so um over here this wall it was an empty white wall and um i knew i wanted some more counter space because we the kitchen's really big but our counters are so skinny and we just needed more like cooking surfaces and added this bar table which i actually found in stock last night it i thought it was discontinued but i found it online i'll try to link that because it's the perfect size this is actually a wallpaper that looks like beadboard but it's actually like kind of squishy it's weird um so that will be interesting trying to get this off the wad it says it was removable yeah i'm i'm i have some techniques to remove it so i'll let you know i still haven't added princess to those frames but maybe one day i'll add them we also added some removable uh faux countertop material and this stuff is really really good quality and honestly everything we put on the floor that was peel and stick it literally looks it's in the exact same state or shape pretty good shape it's in really good shape and um this is not the type of material that you order on amazon it's like way way thicker and sturdier so it probably would have worked but it this just felt way better in terms of quality we removed some cabinets which we'll add later this week when we put them back on we switched out the hardware an espresso and this lamp which i just got from target and it's really really cute um over here on this side of the kitchen just like extra space we put our garbage can really we don't ever use this door but it's we have like storage honestly we need to go through these baskets i don't think i mentioned this but the backsplash is also peel and stick and it was easy to apply and it looks very realistic in my opinion um so kind of seeing the whole front of the apartment so next i'll show you the two bedrooms again we have two bedrooms and one bathroom and um i really they get much better light and we have a little hallway here that leads to our main bedroom and the bathroom at the end of the hallway um and what's really nice about this hallway is that one wall is completely like closet so it uh they're not very deep at all they're very like shallow but um they're storage space which is always great it's really stuffed to the max we have some shoes this is my little closet right here okay so we have these closets here and then at the end of the hallway we'll switch places this is our closet for coasts and it's also filled to the absolute maximum we have suitcases as well so um and it's really tall which is really nice the good thing is we're going to an apartment that has probably just as much if not more space at this end of the hallway we have our bathroom and to be honest this is a very standard new york city bathroom there's not really much to talk about we didn't do anything really to make it our own it's just we put a shower curtain up that's fine and some plants um yeah there is a plant so next we will walk into our bedroom and i love this bedroom because of how much light it gets this is probably the brightest room of our it's definitely the brightest room of our whole apartment but it faces west and north and it's really good light pretty much all day long and over here we have a closet system that is not customized but it's from ikea i just found it on on ikea's website and it got delivered and it's been really nice because um since we don't have too much closet space for clothing um we this is really where i put like my everyday type clothes like uh has drawers which is really nice and um i'll switch out some things like seasonally and i don't really keep like any special occasion stuff out this is really like just basics so sweaters jeans tops every all of the basic stuff leggings keep in here so really love this and i didn't know if i wanted doors or not but i will say that having it open like this makes me very intentional about what i buy and over here we have our kind of like it's a gallery wall surrounding our tv this is just art which is really nice and this tv is actually really really nice like quality wise it's way better than our living room tv um which is we should probably switch the two in our next place just because we don't really watch tv in our bedroom that much um but that one up top is a little crooked but we a lot of these are my own photos that i took like this one this one this one that one the two up top some more new york uh inspired photos i love taking pictures and then that's your doodle right it is i did a little doodle line thing don't judge me it's fine so um she's an artiste all right and this is what it usually looks like the uh frame tv when it's off yeah and then you can [Music] um this i ordered from pottery barn but they sell it a lot of different places now there's a softball underneath there oh what a softball underneath oh soccer ball that's fine our bed is um this was ordered this we've had this in our old house like back in north carolina this we've had it for a long time it's really good quality um and i added like those little peg things up there just because i don't know i painted this arch and it felt like it needed something in the arch so for the holidays i had like christmas wreaths hanging crease for the holidays i had christmas wreaths hanging here and you can really just put hang whatever you want you can hang like frames if you wanted to in pictures or you could do all sorts of things with that so um yeah not much to say about our bedroom other than it's cozy and i love it so cozy bright and happy over here i kind of just added a art uh what is it a floor mirror just so i can like get ready here put my clothes on that's where you do your daily outfit photos too yeah this is where i get dressed i had this bench so i kind of just like added the floor on the bench it's kind of messy over here but um this basket is full of clothing joggers and sweatsuits to be specific and then out this window is broadway you can see our bagel shop the grocery store so many things would be very sad not to live right near our favorite bagel shop and our favorite neighbor who is a famous broadway star he sings out his window well he sung out his window for the essential workers last year and it was it was great had a celebrity spotting outside of these windows it was selena gomez my girl selena we saw her filming her upcoming show with for hulu it's called um only murders in the building only murders in the building that is our bedroom and i will take you to our other bedroom that was supposed to be a guest room but then there was a pandemic and no one visited us so in this bedroom last room of the house last room so this is a desk that i painted and i get ready here every day so i put like all my makeup and hair stuff in here it actually has outlets um over here we have a bed that wasn't no one uses so but it is really pretty this is from living spaces another one of my absolute favorite things in our apartment this was a facebook marketplace find and it was like a very yellow tone and i painted it and it painted it like six times yeah at first i thought i wanted a dark green and then it looked really bad and so i went with this neutral color this is shaded white by pharaoh and ball this is down pipe also by pharaoh and ball and we added some molding just like kind of fill it out um i didn't really get far in terms of decorating this room because but you did do a really nice uh christmas display inside the uh yeah this inside was so cool at christmas time it had like a cityscape a shared photo in the video but um so we're gonna take both of our mantels with us and because this one just sits it doesn't even attach to the wall it's really just really nice to have it makes it feel like a house and this was i can't believe i found this thing for like 250 on facebook marketplace because if you find these online they're probably gonna be at least a thousand um so and that uh that lamp was another thrift store fine too yeah this was from a thrift store right across the street actually so yeah that's about it for this room there's not much else to show but it's a lot smaller than the master bedroom so there's not much food here so this is this is a queen size bed by the way too so that is our apartment tour if you have any questions let me know um this apartment i've really we really loved living here um but we're really excited to have more amenities a dishwasher washer and dryer uh second bathroom will be really nice and it is right on the park it is right on the park and i'm so excited you can you can see the part from the window it's exciting so exciting so and it's quieter than broadway i'm sure you guys can hear the uh broadway noises out there right now maybe not with the microphone oh okay maybe not i'm using a new microphone so hopefully the voice sounds pretty good but um yeah so i will be sure to share a video within the next week about undecorating the apartment and then i will have the closure i need with this apartment and subscribe to my channel thanks so much for thanks so much for watching yeah subscribe to the channel we'll see you next time [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 19min 48sec (1188 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 06 2021