Making Your Home Work for YOU 🏠 Living Like LK ep. 1

In this 1st episode of "Living Like ME," we're focusing on EASY Home Upgrades for My Subscribers' Homes! I'll be covering how to handle large, impactful home features when they don't match your aesthetic and how to inject personality into a minimalist space. My subscriber Angela faced the challenge of deciding whether to keep, update, or remove a major feature in her living room, while Barb wanted to make her space feel both minimal and personal. I’ll be addressing some common living room and bedroom design challenges by providing inspiration and digital mock-ups to demonstrate how new furniture, secondhand finds, or reusing existing pieces—along with balance, contrast, pattern, and personal touches—can completely refresh the look and feel of your home. You can check out all the pieces I featured in each room makeover below!

Which room was your favorite?

"Living Like ME" is a series where you submit your rooms, and I make them over! Thank you so much to Angela and Barb for sharing their spaces!

✌🏼 LK

ANGELA'S LIVING ROOM

BARB'S BEDROOM

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✶If you're new here, my name is LK and I'm a design focused renter in San Diego. I love California aesthetic, Thrifting, DIY + Vintage Home Decor!

CHAPTERS
0:00 Subscriber Makeovers!
1:06 Living Room Makeover
14:02 Bedroom Makeover

Music by Epidemic Sound

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[khill]

I love the idea of this series and the name you came up with is perfect!

[CanadianQueenmagenta]

Terrific video LK. I'd love to see more. Thanks.

[jenniferalexisgavin]

Luv that you left the fireplace as is (first home in video)

[monacodelancey]

Very helpful - I like that you share your rationale and why you are choosing particular pieces. Really helps me see items more thru a designer's eye. I'd love to see a series like this :)

[DIYDectective]

What a great idea! I am moving in a month to a small community in North County San Diego...into a home built in 1978 where not much has been done. I will be taking inspiration from you in the mean time for MCM decorating ideas. Definitely would love more segments of LLLK

[Jordan--Him-NM]

For the second room you made suggestions for- I love, love, love the rust/red color rug you added under the bed at timestamp 26:28. It did a "WOW" for that space. Adding a throw pillow to the bed in that same color, as well as a large framed piece of art with the frame in the same color would bring a cohesive look and add color to the beige tones. I also love the Roman shade idea!

[dalecentamore]

Love the suggestions. If they moved the dining table out, 2 seating areas could be created, making it feel more cozy. I'm thinking 2 upholstered chairs by the fireplace and the sofa seating towards the back of the room.

[maurawhelan]

I would add many plants to mantle to hide some of the stone and soften it up…like the new name living like LK great job

[Peopleperker]

On the flagstone fire place, a wooden slab mantle covering the stone top shelf would soften the space perhaps.

[AlmondJoie]

LK you gave such great ideas. Love this series _Living Like LK_ and the instrumental jazz accompanying this vid.☺️

[louismeyer]

Great job, doing levels of changes so people can slowly invest is smart in these financial times as is suggesting buying used and updating.

[xiomara]

Thank you for giving multiple options! Multiple layout options, multiple chairs or lamps or tables the owner can choose from. I loved how diverse your "Decor I love" or "Textures I love" slides were. It really gives your viewers the freedom to still make their own decisions but with a more focused design style. This is the BEST virtual makeover video I've seen on YouTube!
You could also call it WWLKD "What Would LK Do?" 😄

[archanasharma]

Wonderful suggestions! Would love to have more in this series.

[kathyv]

Love, love, love your message equally to accessing your talent and knowledge for my own consideration. If if works for you then yes!, more of these videos please especially for those of us, like me, who are design challenged. The unique applications, even with lacking information to make decisions, is so valuable. Suggestion: perhaps include outdoor living spaces as well. I have a large back porch that I am redoing (it's never been done) and I have our colors picked out that we want to see daily and my gut wants to paint the ceiling a gorgeous deep, dark, navy blue-teal (almost black) but then all the guidance says that's a no-no. It's more a utilitarian space than a garden lounge area. This is where I keep all my gardening tools, soil amendments, mulch, tarps and fabric pots in storage bins on shelving, and most importantly my dehydrators, worm farm, outdoor swamp cooler, and comfy chill chair (hoping to thrift a second chair) to kick back and love and enjoy this space. But it's a mess!!! I have potted plants for the area and a design forming for a sort of plant rack/mini plant wall to put at the edge of the porch to cut down on sunny glare in the afternoon. If one of your episodes, you could focus on the application of paint colors and the why's/why not's it would be super helpful. I have four very bold colors that I am in love with and look forward to figuring out which will be accents and which are the main color(s). Thank you LK, your content is very inspirational and probably the main reason I moved forward with choosing paint and picking up samples.

[Martha-vxbj]

Yes, yes! I love the large textured art on the bedroom wall. Maybe a printed or colored layer on the bottom of the bed so the bed linen would been seen instead of the bars on the bed frame foot board. Lovely room and beautiful flooring.

[lindaroyal]

Yeah - glad to hear you have some AC! All good suggestions in both rooms, plenty of options for each submission to try. It was nice you linked all the suggestions also. Just watched the video/person you suggested; Emily Bode's Home Tour: • Inside a Designer’s Handcrafted NYC A... What a wonderful couple and unique home they have created. Really enjoyed the tour and their quirky items and the stories behind them. Thanks for the referral, nice!

[LaJessChelle]

That first fireplace was seriously amazing! I love how you worked with it.

[jenniferkristofik]

Definitely love this format! Do it Agan!

[sarahb]

Yes I really enjoyed it so I vote for more, and I like the thorough approach! I agree and think moving the furniture to the middle of the living room and putting a rug in that bedroom would be my first actions. This was fun. K bye.

[SusanKelly-qg]

It’s Aug 7 .. 2024 and first time I have seen you videos.. love it . Did subscribe and will watch often and share with my 2 sisters and adult nieces ❤️❤️