An Apartment Styling Makeover for White Walls

This one-day styling makeover transforms a rental apartment with strategic furniture placement, essential accessories, and the magic of well-placed lamps to create a warm, inviting space despite white walls.

Nobody asked, but I’ve decided to rename my Colour Rescue One-Day Makeovers to One-Day STYLING Makeovers because that’s what it actually is.

You have to have basic furniture and then I’ll come over, move what you have into the right position and then we shop to fill in the holes, add pillows, accessories, a rug if necessary, an end table and most important of all, LAMPS. And if we do it at a store like HomeSense or HomeGoods it all happens in one day.

A styling makeover for a special couple

In January I completed a mini-makeover for Brigida’s office. Brigida and her husband Tony raise money with their business Tydel Foods helping the local community! They help feed 800 seniors a month in addition to providing food for the homeless.💛

So a few weeks ago I offered to do the same thing for their apartment located above their cheese shop. It’s located right in District 1881. And their cheese is so good!

These are brand new apartments and they are renting but they went ahead and purchased the furniture from the show suite because they didn’t have any when they moved in. That’s a great place to start! And it wasn’t hard to add some styling, which is all it needed.

An apartment glow up

My favourite moment happened on the dining table in here and you’ll never guess why. . .

That’s right, the lamp right in the middle of the table 😘 It was a narrow room with an overhead light that functioned only as a spotlight with zero glow so I added a little glow up.

There are lots of great tips and tricks in today’s makeover video including what to do with the cord on the dining table.

The 3 essentials to every styling vignette

I’m also talking about the 3 fundamentals of any tablescape at 7:08 of this video.

The joy in your house starts and ends with lamps and styling so the better you get at this skill, the happier your house will be!

All the before and after images (so you can study them to your heart’s content) will also be found in my True Colour Insider community, you can sign up here!

The Colour Designer level also includes free access to Styling School where you can learn how to add lamps to your home and we are currently working through the pillow module inside. A sofa without pillows to match your decorating is a sad sofa indeed! Gallery walls will be the next styling school!

Here’s today’s video:

White Walls? Add This!

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Related posts:

a Mini-Makeover for a Good Cause

Colour Rescue Passion Project: Before & After

Passion Project Part 2: Decorating Before & After