I recently(ish) moved into a new apartment. It's kind of bare bones right now, and I have no eye for decor. Really, zero. And no idea where to start. Halp.
So my husband and I moved into a one-bedroom apartment last August. The previous owners did a decent job on the paint and kitchen and so on, but other than that, it sort of looks like, I don't know, a college dorm suite? We have some nice pieces of furniture, I guess, but also a lot of crap furniture that's a zillion years old (not antique, just old crappy stuff) that I'd love to lose. We also have waaaaaay too much furniture (the place we lived in before, a rental, was a lot bigger).
The trouble is, I have absolutely no idea where to even begin. How do people do this and make their apartments look nice? Seriously, I see documentaries and things where the people are being interviewed in their apartments and they all look great, and to me it just seems unattainable. I know the traditional advice is "Look at Apartment Therapy," but I just feel overwhelmed when I look at that site and it's not at all helpful. (Same goes for Pinterest or what have you.) I can look at photos of an apartment and say, "Oh, I like that," but that's about as far as I get, because the people who live in those places look they have good design sense and can see in their minds' eyes what they want and how to get there. I don't have that ability, and that's the problem. I can't even really articulate what I like much past "I like dark wood" and "I don't really like a minimalist look." People talk always about "mid-century modern" or whatever as though everyone knows what that is, and I have no clue what that even would look like.
The one thing I do know we'd like is built-in bookcases, because we have a lot of books. We were all set to have someone come in and build us built-in bookcases, but then Covid happened.
So where do I start? Should I just bite the bullet and hire a designer? (I don't have a huge budget.) |
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