Hi friends! How are you? I hope that you're doing well and that you're
feeling a little bit better than the weather is outside today because it's
going from like sunny, to gloomy, to sunny, to gloomy so, hopefully, you're
just feeling plain old sunny! Today, I thought I would share a little bit of an
update on where I'm at with decorating this place, as well as some helpful tips
for getting started on a project like this. Now, I have to admit that I haven't
really made a lot of progress since I showed you around last time. But, if you
remember where I was a couple months ago you'll be happy to know that I have
upgraded to some prettier temporary shades. The sheet and the blanket are now
gone, which is great... right? Yes, this is a nice aesthetic upgrade and helps to hold
me over while I make some decisions, but it is not a permanent solution and I am
very much looking forward to something that is more of a permanent solution.
Between the client projects I've been working on, getting started on these
videos, other partner projects, and just balancing my life out again things have
been at a standstill... and I really haven't had the stamina or the bandwidth
to kind of push this forward. And, now that kind of puts me in a situation of being
the cobbler with no shoes, which is kind of sad and a little embarrassing... um... but
it's going to change so it's all fine. Plus, I am super picky when it comes to this
type of stuff, so I really haven't found things that inspired me and I wanted to
be part of this project. However, I have recently discovered a couple things that
I am super excited about, as well as some DIY projects that I have on my radar so
things are starting to turn around. My vision is coming together a little
bit more and I'm just getting more excited to finally push this forward and
start to get my home more settled, be more comfortable, and just be inspiring
again and the place that I like to call home. I'm sure many of you have found
yourself in decorating situations because you've just moved or you want to
makeover a part of your home and you're standing there going... "I don't know where
to start." "I don't know to do."
"I'm so overwhelmed."
"Where do I start?"
"What do I do?"
"Do I start over here?" You're not alone. Even the most well versed designer or
home DIY-er finds themselves overwhelmed when they're starting a new project. But,
that's why we simply take a step back and we break it down. To help get your
thoughts organized about what you're about to do you want to start by making
a list. I know it sounds super basic, but it's imperative to help you focus on
what you're about to do and get all your thoughts in order.
It also helps so that you don't continue to cycle back around to the same thing,
if you've ever noticed that... you keep thinking about one thing that you need
to do. Like, for example, that I need to take care of my windows. I know. I keep
staring at them every day... but I want to get that thought out of my head so I can
move on to something else... so write it down. You want to think of
this as your brain dump on decorating. Let your creativity run rampant and do
not discourage yourself because of budget... YET. You never know what you'll be
able to DIY or find on sale. Now, if you remember that you need a coffee maker, or
pots and pans, or something like that don't put that on this list. Keep this to
the project at hand, which is decorating, and remember... down to the smallest detail.
So that's cabinet knobs or touching up a spot on a wall somewhere that you need
to take care of... write all of that stuff down. Now, you can do this list as one
huge master list that you can later go through and categorize by room, or you
can actually do it where you just start breaking it out by room from the start. I
prefer to break my list out by room because that's how my mind thinks. So,
I'll go through and I'll have the living room, bedroom, entry, kitchen, bathroom, and I
have all of those spaces written out. When you break things out by room the one thing you
want to do is make sure you leave space at the end of that list so that you can
always continue to add to it... because you never know what other things are going
to pop in your head and you don't want to get your list all sloppy,
disorganized or have to unnecessarily rewrite it. So, just keep that
in mind. The next fun thing we're going to do is draw a floor plan... to scale. I
know! I bet the floor plan part sounds really fun but the "to scale" apart... hmm... that
sounds kind of hard and tedious, right? Well, it's not. I promise it's much easier
than you think and it's actually going to save you a lot of frustration and
money in the long run. Now there are programs out there online that will be
able to help you create a floor plan, however, I actually still prefer to do
the old-school method of graph paper. Now, to get started you're going to want to
measure your entire space, as well as any nooks and crannies or boxouts, kind of
like I have back there in the corner of my living room, and any furniture that
you have and you want to keep. Don't worry about drawing it to scale at this
point. You can just make it really rough. You can see here that mine is actually
quite sloppy and really not neat and tidy at this point... totally fine. Once you have
everything measured and sketched out now it's time to talk about drawing it to
scale. The reason you want to draw it to scale is because it's going to help
you to know what's going to fit and what's not going to fit. So, when you go
to shop for furniture, bring things into your space, you're not going to buy
things that are too small and you're not going to buy things that are too big...
you're going to buy things that are just right... so you can kind of think of yourself as
Goldilocks. Don't be intimidated by the numbers when it comes to drawing to
scale. I know that can be overwhelming, but it's really quite simple and I have
faith that you're going to be able to do this even if you're not a numbers person.
So I'm going to break it down for you right now so that we can try a little
bit together. So there's only a couple supplies that you need for this. You
basically need a pencil, a good eraser, a ruler, a calculator, and some graph paper...
and I'll put a link to all those items in the description below in case there's
anything you don't have and you want to do a quick order for. Now, I like to use
an 8 x 8 graph paper because I find that the squares aren't too big, they're
not too small and they're really just the right size to fit a good-sized space
on that piece of paper. So the first thing we're going to do is determine the
scale for our floor plan... and what that means is we're basically figuring out
how many inches each one of these little teeny, tiny squares is going
to represent... and to do that I'm going to take the longest measurement that I have,
which for this space is 243... and I'm going to divide that by 2....and that
equals 121.5. Now, there aren't 121 squares going across this piece of paper.
There's actually only 88, so that's not going to work for our scale. So next I'm
going to try again and I'm going to take 243 and this time I'm going to divide it
by 3 and that equals 81, which is great because that's actually going to fit. So
that means our scale is going to be 3 inches equals 1 teeny, tiny square on this
piece of paper. So now to lay out my floor plan I just take every measurement
that I have and I divide it by 3 and that's going to tell me exactly how many
squares each one of those measurements is equal to. So, let's do a little bit
together... so I know that the length of my space is 81 squares so I'm going to draw
81 squares... and then the width I'm going to take 156 and I'm dividing that by 3
and that equals 52... so I'm going to do the width as 52... and then I'm going to just
finish off the space... and once the space is squared off now I'm going to start to
draw on the windows, which I know the window is 27 inches from the corner... so
I'm going to do nine squares and start to draw the window... and then I know the
window is 36 inches, which is 12 squares... so I'm going to draw 12 squares to
finish that window... and I'm going to keep doing that all the way around until I
land up with my finished space. A little tip I have for you... once you have the
general outline drawn, go over it again in pen so that way, if you have to erase
any furniture as you're drawing it in, you don't have to worry about erasing
the walls or the windows. It's going to make your life so much easier so take
that extra step. But, now once this whole general outline is complete it's time to
start to have some fun with the furniture... and you can start to add that
in in a couple different ways. You can either
draw it in with pencil just keeping the scale in mind that you've already
determined, or you can actually cut out little pieces of furniture to scale that
you can easily just shift around. I, personally, prefer to draw in my
furniture, but if you have several different floor plans in your mind that
you want to test out it can be easier to actually cut out the furniture so you
can easily shift it around. But that's it! It's really not too hard, right? To draw
floor plans of scale... it's really pretty easy. Now, next time I'm going to get into a little
bit more of the details in terms of laying out furniture and some
measurements to take into consideration, so be sure to tune in for that... and I'll
definitely be sharing some things about what I'm going to do within my space as
well. So, I hope that you found this video helpful today
and that you enjoyed it. And, if you did, please, do me a favor and click that thumbs
up button, share it with someone you want to do a makeover with, and be sure to tap
the subscribe button so we can continue to talk about this fun makeover and some
different ideas. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you soon.
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