 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. My name is Nika and this is Hi Black Girl, a place where we live our lives at our absolute highest potential, both spiritually, financially, and emotionally. So if that sounds like something that you're interested in, make sure you subscribe to this channel. Hit the button, please. Thank you. Okay, so in today's video, we are going to be doing an updated apartment tour. Honestly, my apartment tours have been like the most popular videos of my channel. So I'm super, super excited to be walking you guys through it. I have bought a shit ton of more furniture. Like it's a little secret, but I had a friend of a friend of a friend who let me know that the West End sample sale was going on. So I'm really, really excited to give you guys just like an updated tour. Plus I've become a much better video editor. So I think this is going to be so much better than my first one. But anyway, I live in a rent-controlled luxury building in Williamsburg, and my apartment is rent-controlled. And if you want to know how you can get your own rent-controlled apartment in New York City, go ahead and watch this video here. I will put it in the cards. But anyway, I'm rambling, let's get started with this tour. Come on, let's go. All right guys, so we are in my bedroom right now. Not much has changed. I just changed out my duvet for a comforter. I got this comforter from the West End sample sale. It was only $10. Mine blown. But I really like the cute little like honeycomb detailed on it. I think it gives a nice like little texture. And then my throw blanket is from Urban Outfitters. I think like the texture of like the kind of like cozy with like the honeycomb and then the scallop. Oh, perfection. I just absolutely love my bed. My sheets are from Brooklynin. I'll leave my discount code for Brooklynin down below. But honestly guys, there's these softest sheets I've ever had in my life. So if you are looking for new sheets, I highly recommend them. Then I just got this new chair from the West End sample sale. It's, I don't know, I just love it. I only paid like $154 and it's like an $800 chair. But right now I just have Jacques's cat bed in it. Jacques is my cat. And I just put his bed in it because that's usually where he sleeps. I'm not sure I'll probably get more pillows or probably reorganize that a little bit more. But right now that's just how it is. Then I have my office space right here. This is where I edit all my YouTube videos. And yeah, please ignore the clothes. I just got a huge like yoga outfit like haul. If you guys wanna watch that, I'll put the card here too. Then I just have this really cute mirror that I absolutely love. It's from Ikea, but pro like financial tip. Ikea kept selling out of it. And I honestly, when I'm Craigslist, looked for the exact mirror and got it from like a random boutique and park slope for like $80. And I think it's originally like a $200 mirror. Have this cute little bookshelf here. I like that it's floating, but I do think I'll probably do something different with this space eventually. And yeah, that's it. Let me know if you guys have any questions about anything in my room, but that is my bedroom. Okay, so this is my bathroom. I truly haven't done much in here, but I feel like you can't really have an apartment tour and not show the bathroom. So this is it. I absolutely love the bathtub. I love the shower. And there's not much that I would really do to this. Actually, pro tip. I learned to organize things by like stuff that I touch here on the side of the counter and then stuff that everyone touches on this side of the counter. It really helps with like my fear of germs. It makes me feel good to know that like people aren't like touching my things. But other than that, like that's purely organizational. I don't think I'll do anything else in here. I do though at one point wanna put shelves just on this wall here. But that's pretty much it. I really love my drawers have really nice storage underneath the door with additional storage. I'm quickly running out of space and I truly just need to use myself, throw them away and stop buying more beauty stuff. But give this video a thumbs up if you're also a skincare addict like me. All right, that's it for the bathroom. Let's move on. Okay, so now we're in my kitchen area which probably like the biggest change I've done in this area is move this island like the long way. When I first did my apartment tour, you guys can see I have this piece of furniture but I have it horizontal. And it really just like kind of chopped off the kitchen from the living room area. And now I just feel like it flows so much better than the apartment. So I highly recommend like if you have furniture and it's just not vibing, it's not working, get in touch with the flange way of the space. Maybe just move some things around, put them in different directions. See how that makes like a difference in the way your apartment flows. Cause this baby, baby, this change it truly is it. I feel like I have a whole new apartment literally just by moving this around. So this is probably one of my biggest and honestly best purchases for my kitchen area. Other than that, everything is pretty much the same. I'm obsessed with these matte black cabinets that even comes like a built-in little like rindwrap wine rack that I really love. I just keep like some alcohol there. I'm working with how to like use the storage space underneath this to make it a little bit more aesthetic. But I think the biggest thing when it came to doing my apartment and my first priority was really just getting all the furniture in. I feel like putting things on the wall and making things exactly pleasing is something easy you can do once you have all the big pieces of furniture in. So yeah, like I have a lot of storage space in my cabinets. I absolutely love them. I'm so working on like how to organize stuff. I love watching those YouTubers that have like all the like the organization pans and like all the like different cups for like their cereals and like, you know, all that stuff. So hopefully one day I'll get there but my number one priority like I said before was just getting all the furniture I needed in my apartment in here first. And then later we can organize everything together and I just think it's gonna, but yeah, like I got this from IKEA and then most of my like kitchen stuff like I don't really have anything out that's too like crazy. Yeah. So that's it for the kitchen. Let's go into my like living room area. All right guys, we're here. We made it. This is my absolute favorite room in the apartment. It is my living room space. So I don't know if you can tell but I got a brand new couch. The last one I had was brown and it was so funny because like I'd finally come to terms with it. I was like, I'm just gonna keep my brown couch. I don't care. Like it's beautiful. I love it. It's fine. And then I went to the West Ham Sample sale and they had this couch for $400. And I waited. I was like, you know, someone's probably gonna get it. Someone's probably gonna get it. And I don't know if I can get a guide to come lift it and move it into my apartment and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Long story short, it was there. No one purchased it. And I was like, well, it's a sign. I love it so much. Like, so I grabbed it. So I got this couch for about $400. This blanket I also got from the West Ham Sample sale. It was about $10, if not less. But yeah, I'm like really, really happy with how I've decorated my living room space. I still need to get another lamp just to kind of even out like how the TV area is. I'm gonna move this a little bit more into the center and then get the same black lamp I got just to go on the other side. And I already have the lampshade for it. I got this new chair, just a cute little accident chair from the West Ham Sample sale as well. It was about $40. It's a little beat up, but I'm like for $40, how can you beat it? This little ottoman I got from Ikea. I really like it because my cat scratches it all the time and I just don't even care because the way the material is, it's pretty durable and it was so affordable that even if you mess it up, like whatever. Like I really don't care that much. I got this little table from another West Ham Sample sale. About two years ago, I've had it for forever. I don't even remember how much I paid for it. But it's really nice and I like the marble. I feel like it kind of lightens up the mood and it's just such good quality. I never want to get rid of it. Never. I've been using this stool I got from a junk stop, like a junk store basically. I don't know if you're familiar in Williamsburg. There's like a nothing but junk store and I wish they had two, but they only had one and when I first moved in here, I needed a chair so I could work in. So I just bought it and obviously since I've gotten new bar stools, but now I just use it as kind of like a plant holder and eventually I will get proper ones. But yeah, I really love this rug. I got it from Overstock and I think it just helps bring the black from like the kitchen over into the living room in like a nice, subtle, tasteful way. But yeah, like, y'all, I'm just so proud of myself because this living room came a really long way and if you have ever furnished your apartment, you know, getting your living room together can be probably one of the most expensive firms to do just because a couch can cost you anywhere from like 1,000 to 2,000 to $4,000. And so the fact that I got this for 400, like I just feel really blessed. The TV actually never other gave that to me for free. The console, I actually have a whole video about it. I'll put in the cards here if you guys want to look at that. But yeah, the console, I believe I got that from Overstock too. I just feel absolutely so blessed. And I guess what's next for this apartment, I really want to work on like just getting the little things together, like finding something and some way to organize like my drawers and my bathroom and inside my kitchen cabinets and then just getting little like better storage solutions. So like maybe some baskets to go underneath my kitchen island and then getting stuff up on the wall. If you guys saw my New York City vlog, I did buy some art from the Whitney when I went with my friend Corey, but I just need to get like the frames, which are expensive. I didn't realize how expensive frames were, but I want to get some stuff on the wall, maybe paint the walls a little bit, so we'll see. But I'm really, really excited and looking forward to the future. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. If you have any questions about Brent Control Departments in New York City, definitely watch my video, but feel free to leave me a comment down below and I'll get to you as soon as I can. But thank you so much for watching and make sure you subscribe and stay tuned for the next video. Love you guys. Bye.