 Wait, Kelsey, can you show me like what the place looks like with your bed in it now? It looks kind of small though Guys we have a little bit of an issue which I've never run into anything like this before And I'm leaving to Arizona tomorrow, and I don't really know what to do now as you can see on my computer here This is a floor plan of the dimensions of the space that I was given. This is our open area This is kind of what I'm considering, you know workable. So I was told that it was 25 feet this way 15 feet this way and Today I FaceTimed Kelsey and I wanted to see the apartment. She had just moved into it brand new This is like the first time that I actually got to see it on a FaceTime in person I guess you could say wait Kelsey can you show me like what the place looks like with your bed in it now? It looks kind of small though Where did we get our dimensions from how did we get the dimensions before who gave you those did you measure yourself? So she goes back and re-measures everything 15 25 I'm not lying at all like it literally said 25 you guys we are 10 feet off On one of the walls. It's actually 14 feet by 15 feet It is not 15 feet by 25 feet and I have lost 10 feet in my plan It is less than 24 hours until I fly out and I have no idea what I'm doing I don't know what furniture we are using and the furniture is too big for the space I don't even know if the bed's going to fit this is going to be trial-and-error and Kelsey has boxes and boxes of furniture in Her apartment it all just literally got delivered like an hour ago We will have to see what is but I will catch you guys tomorrow on my way to Tucson Good morning everybody from a Tucson, Arizona I am so excited to be here actually funny story My brother is gonna be going to school here very shortly, which is exciting So it's kind of cool to see this area, but besides the point Marie and I got here yesterday We flew here got here last night stated our Airbnb and we are over this morning at the apartment that we are making over for our good friend Kelsey hi, so I'm Kelsey just to give some background me and Marie have been friends for like the longest time I started going out to visit her in California when she moved to LA and there I met Drew So I live in Tucson, Arizona. I moved out here for graduate school a couple years ago I'm in a PhD program for neuroscience. I study stroke and dementia I was inspired to do this work because I actually have a Disease of my own called muscular dystrophy. I have a service dog. His name is Duke He's like the love of my life, but yeah I'm so excited to see what you can do with my face for me and Duke now and Kelsey was texting us about this apartment space and Showing us photos of it It was such a unique space and I knew I wanted to transform this for her and turn it into something incredible And I just loved all of the details like the architectural interest of the space So to give you guys a little bit of a backstory on this apartment building. She lives in it's actually just been renovated It is the original VFW building of Tucson, Arizona back from the 1930s And it has so many of the original finishes such as all of the original brick has original ceilings all of the kind of Like fixtures and metal and everything in this space is pretty much original other than like, you know The walls they put up and the flooring that they added to turn it into a apartment building And it gives it so much character and a great starting point for this space But I will say that it is rather small if I had to guess I would probably say this is like 300 square feet or so and keep in mind that Kelsey is on a scooter as well So everything does need to be accessible from her scooter It needs to have a nice flow and overall we want it to look pretty in the end So we are about to get started. It is Marie I and Kelsey service dog Duke Of course, I'm gonna share him with you He's gonna be here with us all of the days we're making this over and lastly before jumping in this is a full-on surprise You guys Kelsey's not stepping back foot in this apartment until the end. She's staying at the Airbnb with us Which is very exciting, but let's get started. I am ready to do so Bad that we got this bed back here is in a box. Well, you can't really see it. It's right there This is a canopy style bed. So it kind of has like the frame around it Oh my god As you can see Duke's very excited for the bed as well But basically this is a canopy style bed And I thought that it would be really nice to fill in the space because the ceilings are super tall So we're gonna build that put it together. I got it on Amazon you guys like 200 bucks I'll link up below if it is still available. We could pop the new mattress on it from Helix Which is so exciting because today's video is sponsored by Helix We're gonna either put it on this wall this wall not too sure yet But let's get to building that the bed has been constructed and it totally fits the vibe I opted for black metal just because I knew there was a ton of black metal happening in the space So kind of coordinated those two now not too sure if the bed's going to be going on this wall here Or in between right here. We do have a large sofa from article Which I'm hoping and praying will fit somewhere So it's kind of going to be trial and error with the orientation We still have like the old bed in here gonna move this out in a little bit Now Helix was so so kind to send over Kelsey a brand new mattress you guys And she actually went ahead and took the quiz a few weeks back It's Kelsey here. I'm gonna go ahead and pick out my mattress using Helix's sleep quiz. I'm super excited Okay, my dog joined me We're gonna go through this sleep quiz together So I started taking the sleep quiz and I'm on the position section now There's a position feel relief and then your match and my match is Oh twilight lux and it ships her over a new mattress, which I'm gonna go ahead and unbox We're gonna start letting that air out in the space and I'm gonna tell you guys a little bit about her mattress As you guys can see here, the mattress is shipped directly to your doorstep Which is so convenient and nice. Helix is actually a premium of mattress in a box company That makes mattresses to fit your unique needs and preferences based off of your body type and sleep style So you go ahead and take that sleep quiz which Kelsey just took and it then will go ahead and pair you with a mattress That it thinks is going to be perfect for your personal, you know Body type and sleep style and I can't really touch on Kelsey's mattress too much because it's pretty new for her But I absolutely love mine. I've had mine for about eight months you guys and it is the most perfect mattress I can ever opt for but if it does make you nervous to buy something that you haven't tried Helix actually offers a hundred night sleep trial so that you can get more than three months to try it out And if you don't like it, they'll come and pick it up for a full refund You don't even have to put it in the box, which is amazing So if you're looking for a new bed check out helix you can do so using my link Which is helix sleep comm slash drew scott to get up to 200 off your helix mattress That in mattress as you guys can see is in at the space, which is amazing This is our largest piece for the space So I want to go ahead and bust out our second largest piece Which is actually a couch from article article with so kind They actually sent over a couple pieces for this makeover including a sofa a floor lamp a media console Let's break out the sofa I want to orient it a couple of ways in this apartment to kind of get the floor plan in the direction I want to go in first Intation number one So this is kind of like the original idea when I had to rework the floor plan I thought the bed could go on the white wall here couch could go on this wall here And this actually does work well because the scooter can easily access through this area We have access on the other side of the bed as well and access into the nook area But the second kind of floor plan idea I have it's just to essentially swap these two so put the couch on this wall Bed on this wall because tv is now going to be going directly in front of me So I'm going to reorient these really quickly and we can see what the second layout looks like Second orientation here in the frame. It looks so cute. I love the bed over in this area Luke likes it too. I think now I really really like whether this looks but in person It does make the apartment seem smaller. So I think we're going to orient it in option number one I feel like that's just going to give us the best space here But I'm going to think about it for a couple more minutes. All right, we're opting for orientation number one I really like the other way the other one looked inside of the frame of the camera But it did make the space feel smaller So I think having a more open space is definitely better and then also Kelsey has a cute keyboard here So we thought it would be fun to maybe put it under this window as like a little, you know vibe We could put the nightstand there maybe a little side table for the couch or something But there's still access to you know, go in this area wide enough for her wheelchair So I think I mentioned to you guys how I ordered a ton of furniture for this space Originally the couch and media console were supposed to be a complete different area that kind of made up its own living room We were going to section it off But because we lost the 10 feet essentially I didn't think that the media console was going to fit However, it definitely seems like there is possibility to put the console here Which could be great the closet door as you can see starts around here Console could go right where Duke is currently sleeping I am actually pretty shocked that the sideboard fits and you guys it fits with like a good amount of space too Like as you can see when you walk in to the apartment space, there's Duke There's the couch in front of you. The sideboard is here to the right is the bed over there But then to the left, of course, we're going to mount the tv I'm not too sure if I want to do a center mount or I might mount it a little bit more on the right side So it's more centered with the bed and then do some like larger decor over on the left side there I do want to do some sort of rug here. Now Kelsey does have a rug in her entryway I'm going to test this out for sizing just to see if it looks good over there And then we can maybe get a different one that complements the furniture pieces The rug situation is a little challenging just because we do have furniture pieces so close together This is the rug Kelsey already had. I don't believe it's the ideal style for the space The size of it doesn't look awful just because this is such a small studio, you know And to be honest with you guys like we've done a lot and we've been here for two hours How like built a bed unpacked all the furniture placed it got rid of all the trash old beds out The nook still has quite a bit of work that needs to be done there Of Kelsey's apartment, we are going to go shopping a little bit just to break up the day We actually conquered way more than I even thought we were going to We have a list of random items to gather. I think we're going to head to target And maybe some other stores too. So let's go. I am melting in this car. It has to be 200 degrees Minimum of 200 That's Arizona The hard part of the space is kind of the rug as you guys saw Um a five by seven rug did fit under the couch I wish I was able to find something a bit longer than five by seven and this one here is five by seven And it's kind of cute. It has these warm tones in it Which will kind of pull from the brick and like the creams and the other spaces They do have this black one, which I think is really graphic and bold, but I think it might be overwhelming I'm not too sure if we like this one too. It's like nice and it's very thick and like wool But it has like some coloring through it. I don't know. Well, there's options you guys Look at our successful shopping carts. Uh mine's going by itself Got so much good really cute stuff. I'm so excited for you guys to see it We're going to quickly head to home goods as well to see if we can find any furniture pieces Still need a coffee table and some nightstand. So we're gonna pop over there I made my way to home goods. I'm trying to find some larger furniture pieces Basically, all that's left to find is two nightstands and a coffee table. Marie said she found some nice running a look Oh my god, we're running through this floor So we have some options in here now. I need a pair of nightstands. Of course, they have this set here These are 79 99 each and they are really cute. I don't know the gray is the right color for these I think I'd probably repaint them, but they are just painted. There's like no finish So I can go right over the top, which is nice. Like it's already kind of rough There's tons of little tables too But I think I want something with like a little bit of storage element and something you could put something On the bottom of because the space is on the smaller side. These are also really cute But I don't think it's the right vibe. We have like some simple wooden Situations like this, which are just kind of like wooden shelves A2 at Kelsey's apartment Yesterday I talked about how I want to do an archway around the bed and the reasoning for this is is because there's a ton of very Masculine details in this space. So we have all the wood up here You know, we have a ton of black metal very industrial vibes And I know Kelsey is very much like girly aesthetic So I think it would be really cute to add an archway in here just to give more of a feminine touch I'm going to do a very tone on tone with kind of a cream on this white wall back here So I'm going to tape those up get an idea for what the color looks like in the space and then select one And at the same time We also just need to go ahead and paint the night stands that I got yesterday These I picked up at home goods And we're going to paint them black and then redo the hardware to be like a brass So they almost look a little bit antique. We have a lot of stuff to do But I'm really excited about this archway. So let's get these on the wall In order to get the left and right lines of my archway I went ahead and used a laser level along with some frog tape just to tape about four inches from my headboard I did that on the left side and then I also repeated the same steps over on the right side Left side and right side have been taped off I essentially just used a laser level to laser on the wall and then I taped right along the line there I'm doing it pretty close to the bed as you could see because I want the night stands to still have their own Moment on the side and this is just more so a continuation of the canopy bed And so now it's time to create the archway on top here Which I believe I'm going to do by creating a diy compass I've seen a ton of people do this where you kind of just put a nail in the center Use some string and then kind of use it as a compass to trace the outline of it Not too sure how this is going to work. So we are going to definitely trial and error this Archway has been drawn. I hope that you guys can see the pencil line on there It looks great. I also set back up the laser level just to make sure everything looked pretty symmetrical And as you can see we have just like maybe two inches there And then over on the other side, we have about the same two inches, which is great So this looks really really great. There's a handprint up there, but we're going to be painting it The paint swatches are on the wall But while I'm still staring at these we're going to go ahead and start painting the night stands from home goods So this right here is the paint I got at Home Depot This is chalk decorative paint and it's really cool because it's actually already like basically meant for furniture And I got it in classic noir I figured this was just a lot easier than having to get a primer and paint and do multiple coats And let's start giving a coat to the night stands Night stands have their first coat of paint on I'm going to let that dry and I already went ahead and selected the color you guys So from here, I'm actually going to opt for this one right here It is the one of the lightest shades, but I also like how it's really really neutral It has some gray and brown in it as these ones have kind of like some more brown and peachy tones So I'm going to opt for Spanish sands, which is going to be painted inside of our archway there And I think that's going to be a nice kind of subtle tone on tone look with the white wall in the background I'm going to head out to Home Depot pick up the paint come back here and we could paint it on the wall I'm kind of scared to freehand the archway, but it's also Going to be fun Yes, yes, I know you guys an archway can definitely be a little bit intimidating Especially when it's a curved line that you can't really tape off and you have to freehand it But honestly if you get an angled brush and just go really really slowly and precisely kind of make sure that you Don't have too much paint on your brush And once you have your initial line done you are good to go everything else is super simple from there I filled it in with a larger brush then filled it in with a roller to complete my archway The archway is complete you guys and this took me probably 45 minutes to create super quick But I love it. I think it's perfect. It's a great little grounding area for the bed section Marie is over here doing the second coat of paint on the paint stands paint stands night stands I actually found this when I was checking out for the other paint for the arch And it is a chalk finished paint in black But if you guys can see the old color that we use which was supposed to be black is more of like a bluish tone dark charcoal So I started painting the second coat with a new black color so much better and this is also cheaper So just an idea um try to look for this deco our american decor choppy finish. Oh my gosh I love that. It's like a backing for the bed. I don't know it just adds a lovely vibe so cute We have done a lot today the archway is painted behind the bed the bedding is all on there Not a hundred thousand percent sure if this is the proper throw blanket or the proper styling of the bed But I wanted to get an idea for it after the current timing and then underneath the window We actually have Kelsey's keyboard and this is a chair that she's had forever that she requested to keep in the apartment It was her one item she wanted to keep so we're keeping the chair Placing it here and of course if it just like doesn't work here for her It could be moved around everything's coming along great I think we're going to head out to do a little bit more shopping need some lamps for the side tables We also still need a coffee table, which I kind of want to find at a thrift store, but that's where we're currently at I'm so excited for you to see it and I hope you love it and you can open your eyes in three two one