 to my channel guys it's your girl Coco styles and on this channel we talk about beauty fashion lifestyle and styling today I wanted to kind of come to you guys not really vlog style but kind of about some things that I'm doing in my home I am redecorating the downstairs of my home and I'm super excited so you guys already saw the chandelier from Amazon and the ceiling fan from what did I get the ceiling fan from lamps plus so my sofa will be coming from crate and barrel I think I mentioned that a few videos back and this is the color that I got it's called frost and it's the Monet I don't know if you guys can see it it's really really it's really pretty it's a Chanel like a Chanel fabric and this I got a month and I want to say a month ago so it's not gonna be here until like mid-May okay it is being custom made because of the color that I picked I did want something a lighter I used to have a blue sofa really pretty pretty much brand new but I want to lighten up my face and change the lighting just a whole aesthetic in my home so I got it from crate and barrel now when you're purchasing from crate and barrel I would say well let me backtrack I wanted to talk about when you are decorating your home or redecorating your home some steps that I am taking that I think are very very helpful and it's kind of like when I work with clients I'm just a very strategic with things I don't just run out and just buy everything from the from one store and I've always been like that since my first apartment at 17 so I would say Pinterest boards are really really great but use them wisely you know if you see a picture of something that you like maybe you just like the rug color or something like that just get creative when you're actually doing it so for me how I do it is I start with certain pieces right I already have the money ready to go but I'll start with certain pieces so lighting was really big in here and I like warm tone colors it's just something that I like I've always liked it so changing my chandelier and my ceiling fan was the first thing the lights behind me see those ugly lights those are gonna get changed as well but I'm gonna do all the rest of the lights together at one time so I started with the chandelier and the ceiling fan because that's where the main change is gonna be so that's actually helping me get my vision together so I finally purchased well that the sofa is from Crate & Barrow and it's called gather I will pop in a photo some photo over here for you guys and I'll try to get the color and see if it picks up on camera for you guys in the picture but it's called gathered I did get the 98 inch sofa with the three seats they have a bench style bench style sofas are nice however I kind of feel like I don't know I just feel like it's gonna sink in one I don't know if you sit on it a lot so to me you can break it up with the three seats so I got that it's like not really so much track arms but they are kind of low let me see if this shows a photo in here oh yeah let me see if you guys can actually see this can you see yeah I'm in my you can see it kind of so they have a ton of colors so I stopped with my lighting first and that actually helps me visualize what else can be in this in this space now I finally purchased my coffee table so I was going to get a coffee table from our house which is really nice the issue I was having was it was a really dark dark almost black but brown color I saw it in person it's really nice it didn't have any storage so I went on restoration hardware guys and I saw my coffee table this one is a wood as well a reclaimed wood I think it's reclaimed wood I'm gonna try I'm gonna pop in a photo for you guys and it has an open space in the middle so to me that helps with breaking up that area and so I got that I did go to what did I go today West Elm now I don't like what some furniture I just feel like it's so small but I went to West Elm they look at some of their rugs and stuff because I need a really nice rug to go over there I want to break up the colors over there I am typically one who has a lot of similar colors in my home but I want to do something a little bit different and with the gold mirror from restoration hardware I think it's gonna look super amazing so I did find some really nice accent chairs I'm just gonna make sure that I do a lot of reviews because they are from I think they from all modern and see you know how people are liking them how they holding up so that's another thing like you don't necessarily have to buy everything from one expensive designer you can definitely break it up some high some low the other thing I do what that I am gonna do as after my lighting is I'm going to have my handy guy come to place my mirror on the wall then I can stop building my artwork around that that's gonna help me get that stuff so the coffee table should be here but I need my rug to be here first and that's just so I can see I don't want to lift it up because I know it's really heavy I mean I can roll it over with the little things at the bottom but I rather just have them put it put it into place so when my social comes in my chairs come I can just put everything together so the next thing is I'm gonna work on my artwork and places that I like to shop for art is great big canvas sometimes home goods but great big canvas is my go-to place or Etsy they have really nice artwork you can buy the artwork from them poster style put it in a frame or you can use great big canvas and I'm gonna link their information below great big canvas is nice because you can get a simple photo right a simple photo you can either put it in a frame framed art with different color frames or you can do a floating piece of art right that's the second option then the other option is canvas canvas that is framed and then playing canvas so you have all these different options with different frame colors and then a cool thing about the canvas that's framed they have gold they have brown and I believe the other color is black really nice I've been ordering them ordering from them for years now all of my artwork is from them I love it the artwork behind me covered over it got that from them and what else my artwork in my office is from them and I had a piece of artwork in my guest bedroom so great big canvas is a good place if you want something a little bit different like just pictures of yourself there's a new place I'm gonna link it below that I just found they have really nice frames and you can put your own artwork in it just play around with the numbers see what you like it kind of spits out the image of the frame of how it's gonna look meeting if you have one and you want like a smaller mat you can pick that size if you want a larger mat frame and just a small picture in a minute you can definitely do that now the frames are not super cheap but if you're going for a certain look definitely check them out I'm gonna link it so once I do all of that and this is just a step that I take once my sofa is here now I know the dining room chairs that I want I have to sell my dining room table it's sitting here it doesn't look bad you know what let me show you what you guys have seen it I think I show you guys it has silver legs but that's the only thing but I know once my sofa comes and my chairs are here I may be able to still keep it if not it's still up to be sold it's a glass table it's really pretty so that's like the last thing that I'm gonna get rid of but I definitely want to buy my larger pieces first and that is how I like to do things my large pieces I will get first and start piecing everything else together that way the bulk of the money is going towards the bigger furniture especially if it's really expensive hence the mirror hence the coffee table from restoration hardware in the mirror from restoration hardware and just kind of go like that like make it fun don't rush and do it buy things that are gonna last you for a long time buy things are that are timeless buy things that when I say timeless I mean like color wise right so let's just say you want you I know people who spend 6,000 7,000 miles on the sofa but they usually get a color that's going to kind of be timeless right their accent chairs would be a little bit more bright you don't necessarily have to spend a lot of action chairs you can but you don't have to especially with so many nice designers out now you don't really have to and the other thing is probably your rug is gonna be expensive mirrors are not cheap guys they're not cheap and dining room chairs are not cheap they're like 500 a pack okay so those are just some of the things that I do I do like to invest in my furniture listen for a girl who's been on home since she was very very young I've always liked nice things in my home and quality because I don't want to have to keep replacing it and I am the same exact way guys with my clothes certain things I will not budge on certain things I will budge on especially if it's like a bolder color and that's totally because it's probably gonna be out of style like the next season so I like to invest in things that are great quality home and clothes guys okay so I just wanted to jump on here and give you guys a quick little way if you're going to refurnish anything in your home start with your lighting that will help with everything and then start adding in your other pieces investing your things that you really really love if you want something that is expensive wait for it just wait for it you can find a dupe for it now his let me talk about dudes really quick I like dudes okay the only thing about dudes is that sometimes they're not great quality but there are times where you can find like an exact match wood glass whatever you can find an exact match and just because it didn't come from that design doesn't mean that it's not great quality so look at the reviews guys that's I'm so big especially if you're ordering anything from Amazon look at those reviews even if you order from a website that you are allowed to put that they're allowed to put reviews on look at those as well and just make it like I don't know make it fun make it fun when you're doing it don't get too caught up in what everybody else is doing I kid you not I feel like everyone has the same exact home right now and it's really really strange to me like they're just like all they all have the same style and it's weird it's just weird to me but I get it social media is really big so everyone just kind of picks up what they see it's just like trends right it's all trendy but no I'm telling you you want to buy things that are gonna be classic and be around for a long time all right so those are my quick tips on how to start you know doing your home and let me add another thing I have neutral walls and I did that on purpose and that is because I like to add in things sometimes so if you want a neutral color wall definitely go to the paint store you can borrow books from the paint store you can borrow books of wallpaper and of the paint and you can bring it home like almost like a library look through the book see what looks good get your pink samples put them all over your home but I'll tell you this the reason why your lighting is key is because these walls are accessible beige but my chandelier is giving it this pretty I don't know it's like a pretty taupe color kind of but I know it's lighter than that but my lighting is making it look a little bit darker which I actually really like so just make sure you're doing things slowly take your time do not rush into it like I said if you want something and that's really expensive wait for it okay if your sofa is gonna be custom made because you don't see anything that you like just do it get exactly what you want it doesn't matter if you have a small studio one bedroom two bedroom three bedroom or a town home or a full house or a mansion guys take your time get what you want in there find the best pieces for your home and slay in your crib guys that's how I am so that is a quick video on how I would how I actually prepare to redecorate my entire home and another last thing is for me when it comes to selling my things I definitely use Facebook market Facebook market is a good place now they will try to g you down like the really low low price however if you just ready to get rid of stuff you can definitely just like chop the price down some things I will not budge on like my mirrors I have these really nice mirrors from they're not they there's a marathon Z gallery but I didn't get them from Z get same exact mirror same price and the lady was trying to go down so low and I was just like I will stick them in my other closet like before I go that low on something so it's just things little ways you can get rid of your stuff if it's damaged of course don't sell it but if it's in great condition try to get as much as you can and put that money towards your new stuff that's what I did for I believe the chandeliers just kind of got out some stuff some pictures from Ottoman and then I'm gonna replace it I mean I purchased this chandelier and the ceiling fan so just a quick way to like save a little bit of money and put more of your money towards the more expensive pieces so if you like videos like this please comment below and if you stay to the end of this video please come and Coco we see you and guys don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Coco styles NYC and Coco styles and why and my style services Coco styles and why calm and my style blog Coco styles NYC calm and I will catch you guys in the next one bye guys