all furniture selections are from First Dibs! giving you a general idea of what could be done, perspective might be slightly off because of this as well xx

Yes. This was fantastic. You worked with what was there and didn’t go crazy. Sometimes people are like, “add moulding, paint, put down a fake floor, wrap the kitchen, change all the knobs …..” and it’s like ….. dude. That’s intense. You showed the power of accessories, furniture, and fabric to change the feel of a space.

I lived in one of these and adding warm toned wood and textures really made a difference. The owner was shocked when they saw how good it looked.

yes to more videos like this - would also love to see how you would decorate a tiny house or really small apartment!

Paige!! I would really love if you made a video on a curated selection of home basics like laundry hampers, trash cans, small appliances, etc. Stuff we all have that’s usually pretty unattractive unless you search really hard.

Since there's no entry closet, I would turn that little nook off the dining area into one. Add a hanging rod, high enough above the existing shelf to leave room for a drop zone for purses, keys, etc.; then add cube storage below the shelf with bins for shoes, hats, gloves, umbrellas, reusable grocery bags, and the like. It could be concealed by a curtain or even a roman shade. In the kitchen, instead of adding a counter stool on the end of the peninsula, I would add a garbage and recycling bin. That way you don't have to waste cabinet space for them. Why do kitchen designers never account for the trash?

I've lived in apartments like this most of my adult life so far and there is so little content like this for ways to decorate that aren't ultra modern, diy, or like a dorm room. I think a lot of people live in a place like this where they can't make big changes or don't want to paint or are trying to incorporate vintage into a modern aesthetic and videos like this are awesome. Great content!

I think this is the most helpful video you’ve ever done. We need more of this! I would love you to do a video like this where you furnish a place with affordable furniture (preferably not thrifted so we can buy it). Like if you were on a really low budget and had to furnish a place and couldn’t thrift anything what would you do?

I’d want to utilize the space in the nook of the entryway for something useful. Coffee station, bar, keep books, drop zone for keys and mail, create storage underneath for shoes, just anything to not let the space go wasted

When did architects decide that everyone wants to sit in their living room and stare at their refrigerator? Give me small, separate rooms.

I haven’t even watched yet but I just moved to a new house that has awful ugly grey floors and there aren’t enough area rugs in existence to erase the drab. So excited to watch

love that you worked with a renderer! just a really good idea too- there are so many sad grey apartments that need rescuing

I would love to see another in this series for sort of bad home styles we sometimes have to work with. For example, my 1990s midwestern house with lots of oak wood and traditional touches.

My all mushroom beige sterile apartment has harsh restrictions and two or three inspections a year (with 24 hr notice) to check compliance. I can’t paint, change lighting, hang curtains, put up privacy film, change hardware/any fixtures. I can put up shelves and art though! And I still was inspired by how you made this similar place feel like a home ❤

Yes make this a series! The rendering really helps translate to real life. My parents bought a mobile home and renovated it like these gray apartments 2 years ago 🙃 wish I had this video to influence them back then

My best friend has a condo almost exactly like this. There are a couple of additions I would make to your suggestions. In the living room, there really need to be end tables with lamps. I think too often, people end up with the can lights or flat ceiling fixture and those are never flattering. In the bedroom, it would probably be easy to get a vintage desk that wouldn't fit exactly, but would allow the space to run the various cords for a lamp, chargers etc. No one wants these desks anymore since they don't handle modern office things (if you even have a printer) and it's always a shame to cut a hole in the back of something to run wires. I'd do a combination of a sheer roman blind and heavier curtains, but I'm thinking for a different reason: the bathroom seems very dark (and even more so if someone were to use the dark paint you suggested), so I would consider making that desk into a makeup table at least part of the time. It would make use of the drawers and with the sheer blinds, you'd have natural light to do your makeup. The dark green paint in the bathroom would really distort the color of the light, so it would be less than ideal for makeup anyway.

I loved this so much - the place felt completely different. So much warmth in it after those changes!

a tip for your renders - trace the straight edges of the room and other hard edges in the base photo and extend those lines until several intersect like a star burst. this point is the vanishing point, and you can use it to align your edited objects to make them look in perspective and parallel with the room's angles. you may need to distort your added images to align them if they were photographed at a wildly different angle than the BG, but it makes a big difference for things like rugs like at 7:01

*Adding Tuscan to the Gray Prison Box* . Yes, I did enjoy this video, now the long comment. A male family member recently moved into a "gray box" townhouse flip. Built in 1979, vaulted ceiling, cat walk with two bedrooms and bath upstairs. Vaulted wall in pine tongue and paneling in the living room. I think the landlord literally just had every room sprayed with white primer and left it. The flooring is cheap gray laminate, every fixture is brushed nickel. Family member purchased a vintage 1990's huge red leather sectional which I re-configured into a U-shape facing the man TV over a console. I leaned into the red with chocolate brown, olive and black, a few Tuscan style decor elements, art and backlit ficus trees on the paneled wall behind the sofa. I'm on the hunt for an eight foot round rug for the kitchen to hide the hideous tile. Bringing in color made a *HUGE* difference! I thrifted window treatments as well (yet to be installed). It may not be the style "du jour" but dang, it no longer feels like a prison cell. Thanks for your great design inspo Paige.... 😘

It’s almost like you read my mind. This video is so spot on. I went to school for interior design and my apartment is unfortunately one of these horrible sterile apartments and I’ve been struggling SO much trying to decorate and this coming from someone in design. It just sucks the creativity out of you!

I’m not a fan of gray. It feels too cold. I’m so glad you provided tips on how to make the apartment feel warm.

I love this as a series! Showing how to decorate different types of rentals. Allllssoooo love the idea of taking in submissions for peoples homes or rentals!

Love your videos but can we just agree that "comfortability" is not a word... Comfort. It's just comfort.

This was great timing. Just bought a badly renovated 70s townhouse and don’t have the budget to restore just yet. You have given me some great ideas for covering grey carpet and grey walls.

Thank you! 🙏 this is so helpful. I’m on my third rental that suffers from this white walled stainless steel minimalist gray hell and I’m at my wits end trying to make the place look unique and interesting

Since the office is in the bedroom, I imagine a bar area in the nook! Otherwise can be a gallery area or crafts table (with track lighting under the shelves). Something you don’t use everyday, and I would move one of the kitchen chairs over when needed to reduce floor clutter!

Also if you dont want to/cant paint in your apartment there is peel and stick wallpaper which can easily make a space look great and add in your own personal style

Love all the suggestions, I would make the nook in the living room a closet for storage of vacuum and extra shoes and coats. But that depends on if you rent or not of course

i am constantly thankful that my flat has massive original wibbly wobby beams all throughout. they're left over from when it used to be a barn, and the landlord has them painted black. it might not be a look for everyone, but it saves me from being in a dreaded grey box

Such a good topic - you're killing it with your content 👏👏👏

I liked the art, furniture and rugs filling up the room, with your design ideas. I would have loved to see one more large art piece above the headboard, in the bedroom. Definitely fun!

This video is so good! We're facing this exact issue in the flat we're renting. Our landlord apparently likes grey. Grey tiles in the hallway, guest bath and full bath. Grey carpet in living room, office and bedroom. Light grey speckled linoleum floor in the kitchen. I basically hate all the floors but changing them would be our costs and it's just not feasible. We've been able to make this grey flat feel cozy over the past two years by working with big area rugs, walls painted in warm and more moody colours, mix of oak and walnut woods as well as lots of texture in textiles used around our home.

I loved this! I live in a small house built 74’ in the Swedish country-side . It still has some charming details (wooden trims and windows) but some thing are kind of bland. For example the bathroom. Me and my bf will do a bigger renovation at some point but we need to save up first. That’s why I really like this kind of video because I feel like there’s a lot we can do without making bigger changes. Like painting the bathroom and things like that 🌻

I love to add a small bookshelf in the kitchen under the counter. It’s a great place for pretty glasses and dishes with cookbooks.

They are súper popular rn in mexico, I just moved to a house like this for college. The first thing i did was hang a blue painting my mom gifted me because the all white was driving me crazy

That was fun! The only thing I would do a little differently is a low bench instead of a chair in that funky built in desk entry area. That way you could tuck it away easily. I love to pretend design, do more, do more!

I appreciate you so much for making this video. I'm moving into a characterless grey apartment soon (plus side, HUGE windows across the whole front of the unit). My design 'style' (if you can even call it that) has always been pretty neutral but I want to get away from that when I decorate this apartment. I also tend to shy away from going big for fear of making the space feel smaller, but you did a great job of demonstrating how that's not necessarily true.. Also, I love that you gave tips on how to accomplish things for city apartment dwellers who may have limited resources. This is my first time living in a city, I had to downsize a lot including getting rid of all my tools so knowing that I can hire work out or have things cut to size at Home Depot is so helpful.

Conquering ugly ass grey floors one rendering at a time. Seriously loved this!! My best friend now watches your videos and is now moving homes because the once beautiful grey floors are now her LITERAL nightmare.

Where is the paris video?

I would do an ottoman/stool in the entry way. 5 chairs looks chaotic and no one will actually sit there. Also could add vintage baskets down there as a place to toss shoes and things you want hidden.

I lived in this kind of apartment. My solution was get colorful things and warm tones and rugs which changed it a lot. That worked really well.

When I moved into my boring grey apartment, i literally just painted at least on wall in every room. Best idea i ever had. This brings so much warmth into the rooms and it feels more homey. I also got more wooden kind of furniture. I know in the states a lot of landlords don't allow painting the walls, but in Germany we just paint everything white again if we decide to move out. I really liked the suggestions you gave❤

YES. House shopping, and the "newly updated!" gray everything is awful. As a renter, I'm always looking for inspo bc I can't do a whole remodel of the place and also don't want to dump a bunch of money into a place I don't own. The outdated builder-grade bathroom with no natural lighting is the hardest to decorate imo. 🥴

I would love to see more videos like this! I feel like this kind of contend is really missing on most interior design pages/magazines. They mostly feature this giant luxurious houses or apartments with crazy architecture and while fun to look at it is just not applicable to the reality of how I live (or probably ever will live). I love that this are hand on tips you can actually implicated.

Love this video!! I live in a gray box(thankfully white walls though) and although I would love something with history and character I cannot afford to live in the part of my city where those exist. So gray box is really a huge step up from 80s brown box with tiny windows.

I did love this video! I like it more than the zillow shopping.. I agree that I think cutting those videos down and then decorating your first choice would be more interesting. (or decorate a room in each of the top 5 to help decide)

Paige, as always I luv everything you have done here. One exception, no work space in a bedroom. EVER. It interrupts sleep. Can't wait for your next vid. 😘

i love it!!! the renders made it 1000 times better❤

It’s so wonderful that I don’t have the same style and aesthetic taste as you but I get so many great ideas. Also I ❤ the green paint in your home! Thank you for helping us stay to out of a gray hole in our decorating!

Yesss! 😩😩 perfect timing, Paige! I happen to be apartment hunting and all the apartments (save for a blessed few) look lile this and it Kills Me. Gray is such a difficult color to match with other colors, especially if you prefer warmer tones (which I do), so I've been stressing about how I'm going to decorate without breaking the bank.

Lol Paige's grumpy face in every thumbnail. So cute.

The floor is what ruins it all honestly😭

Would love to see you decorate a nursery. It’s so hard to find inspiration when everything is so themed or minimalist.

Fun video. Always enjoyable. The desk nook would make a nice bar area or place for music components. Might be able to slide some pantry storage under the "desk." White walls bother me so much, I might wash the walls with colored light, at least temperature adjustable LEDs. Thanks for the Etsy rug tip. I love good quality rag rugs that I can wash. Great ideas in bedroom. I would add open storage shelves above the desk and extend the ceiling-drapery-track all across the room so I could instantly hide a busy desk and straighten the closet wall into a flat drapery wall. Fabric choice so important. In bathroom, I would have painted the white wall space next to the mirror. Then I would look for, or make art large enough to cover the left edge of the mirror.

I moved into a similar grey apartment, except the floors are cool brown and the walls were a VERY cold medium deep grey. I don’t think grey walls are necessarily horrible, but with low natural light and kinda horrible LED recessed lighting, it felt SO depressing. I really felt very uncomfortable until I painted and adjusted the color temp of the LEDs (light quality still is t great, but much better). The difference is night and day! I think you did an excellent job improving this space with without a lot of invasive/high effort DIY projects! It looks much more inviting.

LOVE THIS! After trying to find housing in a very hot (and much too expensive) market, my partner and I decided to buy a single-wide trailer to live in. For all sorts of reasons we love it, its size is small but practical, it was a good financial decision, ordering it was a delight and it arrived to our specifications a few months later, and everything is new! But, I'll be the first to admit that the "bones" of our home is not the most aesthetic place I've ever lived in (super similar vibes to this boring gray apartment). I have struggled, but also enjoyed the challenge of trying to decorate it and imbibe it with personality and some style. I have always thought this would be a great challenge for your channel: "how to decorate your boring single-wide trailer". Hit me up if you'd like to get a walk-through of what we've done already, I would be very happy to discuss the design challenges we've run into, I'd be happy to oblige. ☺

This is helpful. I want to buy a place but lots of homes have the grey floors. It would cost a lot remove and replace. You’ve made a lot of suggestions that draw the eye away from the cooler tones. 👏🏼👏🏼

lol in April I moved to an apartment that is exactly like this and I did (am still doing) a lot of the same things she suggested: light woods, white shelves for books, TV and knickknacks, big colorful art on the walls, pendant lights, track curtains, HUGE rug to cover this cold-ass floor... Guess my place is Paige-approved!

Perfect timing...I just stretched out for a KZfaq binge on this Sunday afternoon. I find Paige's videos so calming and reassuring in a mad, mad world.

I would love to see you trying to tackle a black cabinet kitchen with white/white black marble countertops and silver appliances. I find these type of very sleek cabinets difficult to style and soften up. Just an idea :)

"My place in Chicago" drinking game is going hard in this video!! You are trying to make me pass out!!! 😂😂😂

This is also really handy if you just bought a home but can't afford/don't have time to immediately renovate

I can’t believe you made that sad cold place into a warm welcoming vibe.

The entry shelf space should be a mirror backed bar area - with a small warm lamp, no chair, and then add a track curtain for the bottom area for storage

For feng shui I think you’re supposed to have a commanding view in any room. This mean being able to see the doors so that you’ll never have that feeling that someone might sneak up on you. And you’re not supposed to have your feet facing out the door because while you sleep your soul might just float out the door 😹🤷‍♀️

3000 views in an hour! Paige you are soaring! 🎉happy for you because I enjoy your channel so very much!

I enjoyed this very much. I like grey and yellow together, so I think your mustard and gold tones are a smart way to warm up the spaces. The bathroom paint color is also fantastic.

I bought a similar type condo, been slowly trying to add interest. Very helpful ideas, would definitely like to see more of this type of content.

5 minutes in, and I subscribed. Great video. You give practical and realistic advice, especially for renters, and I love that you’re showing us the creation process instead of just a before and after.

The way that you made me think I had “pendant light outlets” and I go to remove the cover and it’s the sprinkler system 🤣

I own my little (1000 SF) house, but this was still helpful. Always looking for tips to make things cozier and more inviting. But frankly Paige, ALL your content is interesting and has value to me. Carry on.

I love this concept. My area only has super recent builds like this, unless you’re buying and have a $750k budget. So this is so helpful. ❤️

One of your best videos in my opinion!

Loved this. Really fun video with the visuals. I'd love to see options for a two bedroom work from home design.

Enjoyed this concept so much! Thanks for sharing Paige! I was honestly so surprised you didn’t put a tiny lamp on the kitchen counter 🤗

Yes, yes this is my situation and your ideas helped a lot. Thank you.

Thank you for this!! As someone who lives in one of these and has been struggling to decorate - it was soooo appreciated!!!!!

This made the apartment feel a lot warmer actually which I enjoy so you did great

the bathroom switch was everything, it went from giving just a modern plain impression to like "i stepped into a luxurious family home bathroom where the people have amazing taste"

After the chicago hunt all those textures brick stone wood mixed made me appreciate my white canvas home

I agree Entirely and Wholeheartedly. Much obliged

Yes, more of these, pleeeeeease! So satisfying to watch it all come together in your professional perspective!

Paige, this was an excellent video! Truly helpful: really illustrates how much role texture plays in creating aesthetic. Texture through fabric, through furniture and shelving. Amazing, thank you!

Yes I enjoyed this. I previously watched another video but found it a bit long to get to the point. I m now keen to see more of your videos as I was recommended you from a Line Fox subscriber. Thank you

Yes please do more of these!

I would say “REASSURING” to this one, which is great for me. I popped for an expensive place with hella good view, but then I see all these really interventionist videos… I think I must be just ‘okay with ugly’ because I’m not seeing anything where a “stick on upgrade” would be a real upgrade, to me. So …phew!!! Okay! I feel like you did a great job of… I’m not sure what to call it. You painted the entire bathroom, which was so white that it was like “The Matrix” and that’s a pretty useful distinction to see! Almost that “giant expanses of monochrome need relief.” But if you simply make it TWO giant expanses of monochrome, then you get the relief you need, AND you can still fit in some art objects without slipping toward that insane Victorian clutter! So: Aha! Brilliant! Keep it up! ❤ To me, this is kinda like Michelangelo first putting frames up on the ceiling, so he could paint vignettes without them getting lost or turning into murals. Very cool!

I loved this video!!!! The visualization really brings the whole picture into life

The olive colors and gold colors are very 60's and 70's. I lived through mid-century modern and those colors once. There are so many more choices now including Art Deco or Art Nouveau, Traditional, Retro, or Victorian and eclectic. Even boho would be better.

I've been thinking about how I'd do this if I can't find a cozy place during my apartment search and I have been STUMPED. I was surprised you didn't make that desk in the entry are into a little bar that would've been my first thought

I liked this video. Yes, I care that you don’t miss Sundays. I care very much. Love your channel.

I love this series! I hope you keep doing it!

You are so fun to watch, I wanna be you when I grow up ❤ You are so intentional and thoughtful, more designers should follow suit.

Loved the video! My last apartment was a big white box like this (thankfully my landlord chose warmer oak looking flooring). Rugs, teak furniture, and Ikea Ritva curtains that I hemmed with nonsew hemming tape did wonders. I also had a nice black leather corbusier style loveseat and the chrome detail fit into the white box vibe while keeping things interesting.

Loved seeing your vision come to life. Let's end the grey era

This was FANTASTIC. I just moved into a gray box and now I have so much inspo!!!!

You have no idea how long I’ve wanted you to do a video like this 🥲🥲🥲 Would love more of this series!

I love your choice of window treatment for the living room. The bookshelves are nice too.

Thank you for this video!! My partner and I moved into this brand new apartment and it's literally exactly the same as your example 😂 EVERYTHING is grey (not my style) but it was such a good deal and great location. I was scared that my decor and furniture wouldn't go but I made it work.

I think I'd use the nook in the entry way as a little bar. Store some nice glassware on the top shelfs and then like a cute tray with some decanters and some decor on the bottom. I feel like you wouldn't use the space as a desk if the dining table is right in front of it, also to have another chair back there might make it feel cluttered.

I have pretty much the exact same flooring in my apartment and I hate it but life goes on lol