Colourful Living Room Makeover For Pet Parents

hey guys welcome back to my channel I'm

Alexandra and today I am tackling a

living room makeover and making it pet

friendly one of the most requested

topics I've received over the years

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into the makeover I'm so excited to be

helping Dana and Tommy makeover their

living room I've actually known Dana for

a while she is lah and Boo's nanny I say

Nanny because it's just so funny and

we've really latched onto the term but

Dana is actually a professional pets

sitter she walks dogs in the city of

Toronto she has this really cool

business that she started where she will

attend to your dog if you're having a

wedding and want your dog to be involved

in your ceremony and just the day in

general she is obviously a huge animal

lover she's so caring and she's helped

us out so much so let's hop on a call

with Dana and Tommy and get to know what

they're looking for functionally and

stylistically in this living room hi hi

Tommy nice to meet you nice to meet you

finally I feel like I know you but I

realized before I got on this call like

we've actually never met in person I

don't think I know I hear about you all

the time and your cat is Kuma there too

Kuma's here hi Kuma say hi Auntie

Alexandra well congrats for winning a

makeover with me and my team a thank you

we so excited this call is really just

to get to know your space when you moved

in what's working what's not working

just tell me all the things so I've been

living here for 5 years since then I

haven't actually been able to make it

more of like a home it just kind of

feels like a house to be honest it

doesn't feel like I'm so excited to go

home if that makes sense oh it totally

does yeah we recently got a new couch it

was from my grandmother when you sit on

the cushions the cushions like slide off

so I'm like having like friends over and

we're all like half off the

go you readjust the pillows yeah so that

definitely is not working when I dog sit

and I have dogs sleepover Tommy sleeps

on the couch oh my God that is hilarious

that's not my choice that's his choice

so like a two-seater wouldn't work

because he needs a leaf of twer to sleep

on do all the dogs sleep with you in

your bed yeah I'm obsessed they warm up

to me and then I get the worst sleep

ever cuz they're like crawling on top of

me or I don't know what it is you're

like I'm not even your guardian why are

you close to me I know one here one here

one here one here I can't do it there's

no space for Tommy it's like the best

job ever so a three-seater we also

brought in a lot of stuff from Dana's

grandmother's condo at the time we

thought like oh free stuff awesome we's

like put it here and put it there but

it's more or less cluttered we don't

have like a defined place for it so

there just like weird things Idol laying

around the condo like in the living

space especially because our living

space is so small it's more like a tiny

storage I noticed that you have a lot of

storage but it's all kind of disjointed

it doesn't feel cohesive to me exactly

under your kitchen island have you ever

had stools there or thought about having

like stools yeah so we have like these

two stools but right now they're not

underneath we're eating on the corner of

the is it's it's because it's a console

walking yeah which is not ideal yeah

walk me through also your TV it doesn't

look like you have a console underneath

it so we have a fireplace we don't need

it it's basically there to make the

space look more inviting when we have

guess over so basically what you're

doing is going to fix the problem with

that I didn't even think about that like

you mentioning like a storage under a TV

but like taking that out and even like

adding that as a space unit would be

like so much more functional I think

storage here in this space is going to

be crucial so wherever we can get it so

I'm glad you're open to replace it in

the fireplace yeah sure and that'll

allow us to lower the TV too that be

amazing our necks are already ped up

yeah so walk me through your inspo since

you are like both sharing the space I'd

love to know what colors you are both

drawn to what style one thing that

you're going to be very happy about oh

my gosh please say Tommy like loves pink

he's like well yeah like I like the pink

coach at Alexandra so we can have a pink

couch sorry I need to just announce this

to the office Tommy doesn't mind pink

because of my house specifically my pink

sofa we miss your pink

sofa okay we're excited for a right

space but we also would love to

incorporate neutrals I don't think we

want anything like that kind of sharp no

I I know what you mean you know you have

color but it still feels soft and not

overbearing yeah one thing I did want to

mention is I wanted something kind of

like a Kuma's Corner Yeah just something

that is like cute so I can like make

little videos with him there I so

excited we have never really done like a

pet heavy video before but we all talked

before about how like so many people can

relate to this I think pet storage also

like furniture for your pet washable

rugs yes so Kuma's porner just makes a

lot of sense this is actually Kuma's

house this is Kuma's project we just

live here that's amazing I feel like I

have a good idea of what we're going to

do I'm really excited honestly thank you

so much this is amazing and something

we've been trying to work on but don't

have the skill or like the execution so

you don't know how much it means yeah

really appreciate

it's really my pleasure like you take

such good care of L and Buu and yeah

exciting okay bye

bye so the main thing about this living

room is that it needs to be pet friendly

Point Blank Dana has animals over all

the time she has their dog Kuma and I'm

also loving their inspo it's really

bright it's really comfortable they're

definitely not scared of color and I

really just want to bring in kind of a

fresh new vibe in this SP face make it

feel happy warm and also cozy for pets

so here's what I'm thinking first and

foremost I want a bright and bold sofa

picking something in this bright

terracotta fabric I want it to be velvet

but I also want it to be pet friendly

more on that later I want to add peel

and stick molding to the wall this is

after all a cookie cutter white box

condo I want to add some visual interest

to it I also really want to make use of

vertical wall space rather than

horizontal wall space for storage they

have this storage cabinet under their

kitchen island I want to move that

storage to a wall make it vertical to

free up space for a couple of colorful

Island stools so they have even more

seating Dana had pinned a lot of images

for like pet Corners so we are creating

a Kuma corner outfitted with a neon sign

a portrait and the most stylish pet bed

imaginable okay good morning everyone it

is prep day and there are so many boxes

basically taking up the entire living

room we're making over we are going to

start by unboxing everything so we can

just see what we have before we can

actually start you know putting it in

the space we've had an interesting

morning had an interesting morning but

we're ready well I'm ready I'm ready I

spilt a can of paint that's really hard

to clean up and so we thought it was in

the lobby so we were like me and Manda

lettera were picturing paint all over

the condo Lobby actually it was in the

garage it just went a full 90 upside

down like flat so that when you picked

it up the lid the lid was it wasn't

comical cuz the concierge was escorting

us to the elevator and then she just saw

like her life flash before her eyes I

know you see like the Happy go-lucky

behind the scenes but sometimes it's

really this stuff is really tough but

I'm excited we're ready is let's do

this

how beautiful this

is like

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what this is probably my favorite part

of every makeover like unboxing it

really feels like Christmas I don't

think you guys are ready to see this

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photo oh wa my gosh you can't handle

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that

wow stunning Graham is taking down the

electric fireplace that was here this

fireplace was just taking up valuable

storage real estate in the small living

room Dana and Tommy were totally fine

with selling it they've had it for a

while so we're taking that down and

we're patching and painting the space

where it

was now that we've unboxed everything

it's time to put up some wall molding

this is from Lux architectural I've used

them a couple of times in a few

different makeovers and this product is

so cool because you can instantly add

character to a rental without putting

any holes in the walls you'll see what I

mean in a second so this is the peel and

stick back you literally peel this back

and then it's going to stick on and you

can remove it just like any other peel

and stick product which is so cool the

first thing we're doing is finding the

center of the wall and this is where the

center piece of molding is going to sit

and we're going to work our way out out

from there we're doing three panels of

molding on this open wall so Graham and

I are figuring out the distance we want

between each piece of molding I kind of

want these to be as centered as possible

so you don't lose them on the large wall

so we're just doing lots of calculations

and figuring out what that measurement

looks like I'm always struck when we use

this product with how simple it is but

how much of an impact it has on a white

box condo it makes the ceilings look so

much taller it adds so much character

and just makes this whole apartment feel

so much more

Lux so the next thing we're going to do

is build the media unit I'm really

excited about this we're using a storage

locker a storage locker makes it sound

like like in an apartment building I

really wanted there to be as much

storage in here as possible and they

didn't even have a media unit in here

before so they're missing out on that

valuable storage space so we're going to

build it it's a beautiful olive green

color I'm not going to build

it well I am look we're matching to

hi Barbie hi Barbie hi Barbie hi

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Barbies we're done for the day we've

gotten a lot accomplished this molding I

mean we'll be back tomorrow obviously

with that uh what am I saying um and

with that we'll see you guys Bri early

tomorrow

bye hi guys okay final day of this

makeover we're pulling it together

because we are revealing to Tommy and

Dana tomorrow the first thing I'm going

to do is work on prepping this outlet

cover this outlet cover is very special

because we are actually selling these on

Alexander gator.com in the palmed

marketplace right now so we have the

double and then the single gang on the

back it has my name and palmed which is

so exciting these were made in the

workshop in the Team Ag workshop and the

cool thing is you can buy them painted

or unpainted like this one so if you

want to paint them your own special

color you totally can I'm going to do

that today I'm so excited to announce

that paled Marketplace has been

restocked there's slippers and some

bright fun spring colors there's some

home decor items like these really cute

place mats and of course the outlet

covers these outlet covers are such an

easy way to update your rental and they

come in a prepainted blue a prepainted

pink and then a fully primed one that

you can sand and paint yourself at home

the primed ready to paint ones were

launched last week and they're already

sold out so I've restocked them for

pre-orders all the links and info will

be down below and you can also go to

alexandr gator.com to shop at anytime

you want to go in with your color of

choice in an enamel paint so something

you would use on trim that's going to

make it extra durable and I'm going to

paint this the same color as a coffee

table that you're going to see later on

today so I'm going to let this dry add a

second coat later for now let's move on

to the rug so let's talk pet friendly

rugs I'm bringing in this washable rug

from ruggable how many times can I say

rug in one sentence and it comes with

this base layer the top of the rug

sticks to it so you can easily remove it

and Chuck it in the wash which is

great I follow a Tik tocker who does

like clean with Mees his name is Jack

Callahan I think and he has so many

ruggable rugs in his apartment and he's

like always washing them and they look

totally brand new when he takes them out

of the wash which is really cool this is

so cute I love

it it's all Hands-On deck to build the

IKEA sofa I chose the finale sofa it's

really fluffy and comfortable for Tommy

to sleep on and yes it is a three-seater

which is what they requested so I found

this company called Comfort works and I

leaded over to Atlanta's desk and I was

like we have to use these covers in a

makeover because people always ask me me

what fabric should I buy for my sofa

what's pet friendly this sofa is not

only velvet but it's claw prooof

washable and they make the covers to fit

Ikea sofas so you can choose the IKEA

sofa you have buy the cover for it let's

do it let's turn this sofa into a custom

pet friendly

dream one of my most favorite Ikea hacks

is just switching the leg on your sofa

or any Ikea piece of furniture that you

have these are from pretty pegs they're

my go-to for custom legs that that fit

Ikea furniture and they're really simple

so you just pick the sofa you have or

the item of furniture you have from Ikea

and they'll send you the right

bolt that's it so

easy I'm very impressed with the sofa

cover it's really cool how you can have

a velvet looking and feeling sofa that's

also super pet friendly claw prooof

washable it feels really nice in here it

feels like bright and

beautiful I love approaching Graham and

saying okay you have free creative Reign

for this project and this was one of

those projects I said your task is to

make a coffee table here are the

dimensions go wild the only functional

criteria I gave him is that it needed to

have storage and we couldn't have a

glass tabletop because there's going to

be pets running around so it needed to

be a solid piece of furniture that could

withstand you know little pause running

on on it daily with all of those

functional elements in mind Graham

decided that he wanted to create a

similar coffee table to the one he made

for James's maximalist living room but

put a little twist on it and make it

more pet friendly when Graham first made

this coffee table for james' living room

I explained how he used a method called

staving to cut small angled strips of

wood and glue them together using brad

nails and wood glue I recommend checking

out that video for DIY instructions on

how to do this method to start this

project Graham is cutting a series of

14in long wood strips at 5° and 9°

angles using his table

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stock he's using the 5° angled piece to

make the wavy length of the base and the

9 degree angles for the smaller waves

along the

width he's piecing the lengths together

and securing them with Brad Nails until

the wood glue has

dried now that he shaped the base with

the sander he's making the bottom of the

base out of some scrap MDF

pieces he's gluing and securing them

with Brad nails and clamps until

dry Graham is smoothing out the angled

edges where the staved piece of MDF meet

each

other he's now shaping the base so that

it has the same Contours using a flush

trim router

bit finally he's filling any cracks or

holes with wood

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filler because we want this coffee table

to have storage Graham needs to make a

lid with a hinge that opens to do this

Graham has to create a straight piece of

wood that matches the length and

Contours of the coffee table he's

tracing the Contours onto the piece of

wood and then cutting it out with a

jigsaw and sanding it down until it fits

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perfectly grandma is now priming the

entire base using shellac base

primer he's using a continuous hinge for

the lid hinge and securing it using

small grass

screws Graham had this awesome idea to

actually create a tray that fits

seamlessly inside of the coffee table so

that Dana and Tommy could put away their

remotes and any other small knickknacks

when they have pets running around the

house to do this Graham is basically

creating a shelf inside the coffee

table he's using a piece of Oak butcher

block and tracing the Contours from the

inside of the coffee table onto the

piece of Oak cutting out the shape with

a

jigsaw and shaping it with a spindle

sander and until it fit properly inside

the coffee

table he's making a rounded handle using

the same

method and securing it using two

screws lastly he's sealing this

beautiful little tray with LD seed

oil he's painting the lid and the base

using semigloss old Claret in Benjamin

Moore's Advanced line of

paint I can't even this is for remotes

what 100% made from scrap pieces of wood

from the workshop this is insane okay so

when they're done at the end of the

night watching TV I want to put it

away what amplifying the storage in here

and this also just looks stunning

wow okay this gorgeous light is from

Mitsy I want one of these it's so

beautiful and it's going to give them

lot of extra light if you're sitting at

home right now watching this in the dark

consider table lamps or floor lamps I

feel like a lot of times apartments and

condos have like one light source and

it's usually overhead and around here we

don't use the overhead lights instantly

warm in here instantly

Overexposed the power of light to make a

space feel cozy

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unmatched I'm bringing in this beautiful

muted Olive media unit I'm loving how

much extra storage we're bringing in

here

cute okay let's bring in the TV my

favorite part of bringing the TV is

going to be putting the remotes in here

a note the TV just slides a little bit

to the right on the mount so that they

can access that H back door if they need

to as you guys know the TV was really

high before and that was one of the

things Dana requested she's like d we

can you put lower our TV like they were

sitting there like that so I'm going to

plug it in I'm going to put the remotes

in the coffee table and then we're move

on I'm mounting the curtains on these

back windows if you live in a condo like

this with white walls feels very cookie

cutter don't underestimate the power of

curtains it's going to add texture and

warmth no matter what color they

are this beautiful print is from Emily

King Snider I have a canvas of Emily's

in my home this is a print but honestly

can't really tell the difference this

looks like canvas so if I fooled you

it's a print we are going to move on to

storage yay it's like we just did ballet

I know I loved it Dana and Tommy had

like a cabinet under the island and they

were storing a lot of overflow kitchen

food dog food Etc we're adding stools

here later so I thought that a cabinet

like this would be perfect Dana can put

baskets up here she can hide Kuma's food

in the bottom here this beautiful piece

is from article I love it

okay so this is what we like to call a

condo special why is this light here at

first we were like maybe because if you

had a dining table underneath it but

then people couldn't walk past you

couldn't really have a living space so

I'm not really sure why it's here we are

going to fix it by adding a pendant

light and then swagging that pendant

light to the center of the room watch

and learn people watch and learn this

beautiful light is from mity cute oh my

gosh this pendic could totally work with

these little Shades like with just the

exposed bulbs but this is cute we're

going to use a cup hook centered above

the coffee table and we're going to hook

the chain into it it's going to be

magic these beautiful stools are from

article yes we color matched the coffee

table to match back to these I really

wanted to give Dana and Tommy another

seating area and now that it's not

cramped by that horizontal cabinet

because we have this one the stool spit

this shelf is going to be both stylish

and very functional I've already put

Kuma's food down here and then he's got

some treats in this basket going down

here Dana can fill this up even more

there's so much room she has so many

treats for Kuma it's kind of comical and

then up here because everything's out in

the open it has to look cute so I'm

going to start with some baskets baskets

are so great because you can store stuff

in

them but they still look really

beautiful on display so I'm going to pop

this here two little canisters for

Kuma's

treats now I'm layering in even more

baskets Dana can fill these with all of

Kuma's

necessities and then layering in Decor

amongst all the storage to make it look

cute finally a couple of plants that

Dana already had

one thing Dana really wanted was a

corner for Kuma she's actually already

named it Kuma's Corner so we got Kuma

his own personalized neon sign from AOS

so there's no mistaking that this is his

corner like how cool is that

though this is a custom portrait of Kuma

you may notice he's wearing a pink

neckerchief his tongue is

going and he just looks so happy like

anytime I see Kuma he's smiling he's

like I have this professionally framed

by posterjack my One-Stop shop for all

my framing needs they do such a great

job so we're going to hang it in the one

and only kumas corner I'm just hiding

the neon sign cord behind it's clear

which is nice too so it's not too

noticeable don't worry we're cord

covering everything in here but we're

going to leave that to the end this sign

came with a battery pack as well so if

you didn't want to plug it in you could

also use batteries which is cool or like

Graham said if you live on a boat you

can still have a neon sign Forest oh or

the forest this pet bed is from the

retan studio on

Etsy so I'm going to end the day by

adding a few pieces of furniture

starting with a side

table Dana already had these stairs for

Kuma they're very loved you can see his

little paw prints have like made the

wood lighten a bit it's so cute and

these are in perfect condition so I

thought why not keep them I'm feeling

like this area is a little bit empty so

I have the stool it's the home sense

bind and I'm going to put it here

against the window Dana and Tommy can

bring it into the living room if they

have guest over or Kuma can sit and look

out the

window I'm finishing off the day by

decorating Kuma's

Corner these are all of Kuma stuffies he

has so many these cute bowls are from

home

sents and these little toys like the

weight the pink bone I can't even handle

it they're going in there okay that is