Our Chicago Home Tour | Inside Curtis and Danielle's Charming 700 Sq Ft Apartment — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi guys, I'm Danielle.
2. 0:01And I'm Curtis.
3. 0:02And welcome to Pompeo Home.
4. 0:04Our 700 sq ft oasis in Hyde Park,
5. 0:07Chicago.
6. 0:08Come on in.
7. 0:09Come on in.
8. 0:13So, welcome to our living room. This is
9. 0:15one of our favorite portions of our
10. 0:17home. Honestly, we chose it because of
11. 0:19the beautiful bay windows and the view
12. 0:21of Hyde Park. So, we live really close
13. 0:23to the Obama Center, the University of
14. 0:25Chicago, and we get to see all of that
15. 0:27through these gorgeous bay windows that
16. 0:29have so much character.
17. 0:30We almost have like a little view of the
18. 0:32lake as well. Like if you squint a
19. 0:35little bit of penthouse without being a
20. 0:37penthouse, if you know what I mean, with
21. 0:39the lake view. So, that's that's what we
22. 0:41like to say, at least in our mind,
23. 0:43that's how it all worked out. Now, we're
24. 0:45going to talk about some of the things
25. 0:46in the space that we just absolutely
26. 0:48love, which is like this chair, this
27. 0:50this chair
28. 0:51It's comfortable.
29. 0:52right here. There's a really cool story
30. 0:53about this chair. This chair was bought
31. 0:55at
32. 0:55outlet store. It's actually a piece of
33. 0:57outdoor furniture.
34. 0:58Yeah.
35. 0:59Believe it or not. We saw it one day,
36. 1:02and I knew we had to have it, but the
37. 1:03car was packed. Told Danielle that I was
38. 1:05coming back out there first thing.
39. 1:06I didn't believe him.
40. 1:07The next day. And now it's here. We call
41. 1:09it our Gucci chair. It makes you just
42. 1:11feel expensive.
43. 1:13Something we like to do is entertain,
44. 1:14have our friends and family over. We
45. 1:16pack out our 700 sq ft apartment, for
46. 1:19real.
47. 1:20We be in here tight.
48. 1:21We do. Plates on the lap, like holidays,
49. 1:23all that. Some of the things that were
50. 1:24actually really important to us was the
51. 1:25sofa. It's actually by Six Penny. It's
52. 1:27stunning. One of our favorite features
53. 1:29is the entire like cover. You can remove
54. 1:32it, dry clean it, and swap it out for
55. 1:33another color. I thought a white couch
56. 1:35was kind of dangerous, but not when you
57. 1:37can replace it.
58. 1:38Still dangerous, guys. I will say this,
59. 1:40if we knew what we knew now about our
60. 1:43style, about everything
61. 1:44Yeah.
62. 1:45we would have opted out of the white
63. 1:46couch. Even though we know auntie and
64. 1:48grandma and all of them all got a white
65. 1:50room and a white couch
66. 1:53we probably should have opted out of the
67. 1:54white couch, you know, makeup and all.
68. 1:57This is where you can say I told you so.
69. 1:59Yeah.
70. 2:00Exactly. Another thing that we really,
71. 2:02really love in our living room space and
72. 2:05that we wanted to make sure that we had
73. 2:07in our home was a gallery wall. Our
74. 2:11journey with art, like we've always been
75. 2:13around it and been around creativity,
76. 2:16but really being able to step into what
77. 2:19it means to be like collectors and to
78. 2:21preserve like art and black story is
79. 2:24something that's really, really
80. 2:25important to us.
81. 2:26What is your favorite piece in the
82. 2:29collection?
83. 2:30I consider it one piece because they
84. 2:31were a pair, but the twins. Shayna McCoy
85. 2:34really did something nice and special
86. 2:36for some of her friends and family and
87. 2:38gave us these two patches up here. Twins
88. 2:40are in our family and just like reminds
89. 2:42us of childhood.
90. 2:44And hopefully our future.
91. 2:45Hopefully our future.
92. 2:47Fingers crossed.
93. 2:48Those are my favorites. What about you?
94. 2:50My favorite you guys will see later,
95. 2:52which is by Nico Washington and it is
96. 2:55Starboy. It's in our bedroom and the
97. 2:58thing that's really, really special
98. 2:59about that piece is Nico actually used
99. 3:01to live on our street. The fact that we
100. 3:04now have a piece that we own in our
101. 3:06collection from Nico is just like crazy.
102. 3:09Nico also did this work behind us as
103. 3:11well, which was a wedding gift from our
104. 3:13friend Adrian Octavius Walker, who is
105. 3:15another incredible artist.
106. 3:17His work's there.
107. 3:18Who? His work is right here. So, the
108. 3:20fact that our collection actually speaks
109. 3:23to one another is something that's
110. 3:25really, really important. And this piece
111. 3:27that we didn't get to talk about, we've
112. 3:29called it baby girl and this is also a
113. 3:31Shayna McCoy. Just an original that
114. 3:34Shayna gifted to us because I hosted an
115. 3:36artist talk with her in Los Angeles and
116. 3:40yeah, she made this special for us. So,
117. 3:42we don't know if this is foreshadowing,
118. 3:45um,
119. 3:46but you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind
120. 3:47being a girl dad.
121. 3:49When we first moved in, we had nothing
122. 3:50in here. It was white space, like very
123. 3:54much Chicago apartment when you first
124. 3:56move in.
125. 3:57Um but we went to Jason Home and picked
126. 3:59up a lot of books. It was like our first
127. 4:00investment. So, we found a ton of books
128. 4:03that inspired us, but also could be used
129. 4:05as form a form of decoration.
130. 4:07Um you see we have Virgil Abloh, we have
131. 4:10Henry Taylor, The New Vanguard, and this
132. 4:13is just a little bit of our collection.
133. 4:15When we started our journey, we really
134. 4:18were trying to find a way to marry both
135. 4:20of our styles together, which I would
136. 4:22say that Yael's style was very neutral.
137. 4:25She liked lines.
138. 4:26Okay, y'all. It was.
139. 4:27structure. And
140. 4:30now
141. 4:31Now we have a green ceiling.
142. 4:32Yeah, we have a green ceiling and blue
143. 4:34walls. You You know what I mean? It's
144. 4:36definitely giving candy shop. We found
145. 4:38maximalism and that our ability to show
146. 4:43up in a design practice and an approach
147. 4:45that we felt like was a great way to
148. 4:47merge both of the things that we love.
149. 4:49Maximalism afforded us the opportunity
150. 4:51to be able to play in a really, really
151. 4:53special way. And so, we get to do that a
152. 4:55lot in smalls. So, with smalls, you're
153. 4:58looking at, you know, objects like this,
154. 5:01like this really incredible vessel that
155. 5:03we got from Jason Home, as Danielle
156. 5:04said.
157. 5:05Yeah, Jason Home's all up in here.
158. 5:07We love Jason Home.
159. 5:08we cannot not mention the candle. Smells
160. 5:10amazing. I'm so close to the fire. Woo.
161. 5:12But um we also get a lot of our candles
162. 5:14from Jason Home. Do you remember the
163. 5:15scent?
164. 5:16Mm, but I don't remember the scent.
165. 5:18Yeah. So many great things and Jason
166. 5:20Home always has them in stock.
167. 5:21But it is our home scent, which is
168. 5:24important. We found to be able to have a
169. 5:26uh a scent that can be associated with
170. 5:28your home.
171. 5:29Yeah.
172. 5:30It's just like that other thing that
173. 5:31make it really feel like exquisite. Talk
174. 5:33about Mr. Fish.
175. 5:34Oh my gosh. Okay, this is honestly
176. 5:36Curtis's thing, so it's really nice he's
177. 5:37letting me talk about the Mr. Fish. Um
178. 5:40but Mr. Fish is also from the Lincoln
179. 5:41antique store um here in Chicago. And
180. 5:44like, look at him. Little fish. This was
181. 5:46one of the things Curtis bought and
182. 5:48didn't know if I was going to be like,
183. 5:48"Oh, babe, what is that?" What do we
184. 5:50have here?
185. 5:51Oh, it's salon.
186. 5:54Apartmental salon. That was a gift from
187. 5:56our friend Karen.
188. 5:56Shout out to Karen.
189. 5:57Thank you, Karen.
190. 5:58We love you.
191. 5:59But I love Mr. Fish and so does Daniel.
192. 6:02I do. He's lucky.
193. 6:03Let's take you guys into our dining room
194. 6:05cuz we love our dining room.
195. 6:13Characters all have been really in the
196. 6:15entire building. It feels like it's
197. 6:16almost like a pre-war building and some
198. 6:19things that came with our apartment are
199. 6:21actually our built-in bookshelves. So,
200. 6:23the built-in bookshelves, there's two of
201. 6:24them, another twin thing.
202. 6:27Um, and it's a home for a lot of our
203. 6:29books that we got from Jason Home. So, I
204. 6:31mean, honestly, if these weren't here, I
205. 6:34feel like the entire dining room would
206. 6:35feel completely different, but I feel
207. 6:37like it really frames up the place and
208. 6:39gives us another place to store some
209. 6:40more smalls.
210. 6:41She said it was the bay windows that she
211. 6:43fell in love with, guys, but honestly,
212. 6:45once she saw the bookshelves and the
213. 6:47arch, I knew it was over. As we
214. 6:49mentioned before,
215. 6:51Safari Lounge, fresh fruit,
216. 6:54limes, all the things you need in the
217. 6:56lab.
218. 6:57And you can smell it, so that means it's
219. 6:59ready. It's ripe and ready. This little
220. 7:01bowl we got sourced in Los Angeles on
221. 7:04one of our trips there from Olive
222. 7:07Atelier. We mentioned Jason Home before.
223. 7:09This
224. 7:10Another Jason Home.
225. 7:10organic wood stool stump
226. 7:15thing we love so much is from Jason
227. 7:17Home. When we saw it, we knew we had to
228. 7:19have it. Shout out to Green Ink, which
229. 7:21has been our local florist that has held
230. 7:24us down. So, shout out to Green. We'll
231. 7:27link them. And then we have this really,
232. 7:28really beautiful vessel that we sourced
233. 7:31from Oklahoma randomly. Don't let these
234. 7:33people out here get you into getting
235. 7:36those vessels for like $100, $200, $300.
236. 7:40Don't do that to yourself. There's a
237. 7:42little shop in Oklahoma. We've got you
238. 7:44covered. The table was a gift to my
239. 7:45wife. She wasn't my wife at the time.
240. 7:48Or you were my fiance?
241. 7:49No.
242. 7:49No, she was a girlfriend. Y'all, she was
243. 7:51a girlfriend. I was gifting tables.
244. 7:54All right. So, when we're setting up the
245. 7:56table, a lot of times it's just Curtis
246. 7:58and I. So, we have two chairs here. One
247. 8:00of our favorites is actually another
248. 8:03deal from the Crate & Barrel Outlet,
249. 8:05suburbs of Chicago. I think this is
250. 8:07right near like Juliet, Aurora area.
251. 8:09There's a Crate & Barrel Outlet and we
252. 8:11got this chair. Look at it. It's
253. 8:13beautiful and I can't tell you exactly
254. 8:15how much it was, but it was definitely
255. 8:16under $150.
256. 8:18Maybe like 70, 80 bucks.
257. 8:20Has this beautiful detail in the back.
258. 8:22It's wood and then like the cushion and
259. 8:23everything is comfortable. Comfort is
260. 8:25important to us, which honestly might
261. 8:27you might look at the other chair and be
262. 8:28like, "Um." But, this one is super
263. 8:30comfortable, very beautiful. It styles
264. 8:32differently even in our living room,
265. 8:34dining room, however we see it. It's
266. 8:36just one of our favorites.
267. 8:37Let's talk about the elephant in the
268. 8:38room.
269. 8:39Uh elephant? Okay, well, the elephant in
270. 8:41the room is that our refrigerator is in
271. 8:43our dining room. And I know that's not
272. 8:45everyone's cup of tea, but we when we
273. 8:47saw it, we just knew that we were going
274. 8:48to have to work with it because we loved
275. 8:50the other elements in our apartment. Um
276. 8:53it isn't as cumbersome as it looks, but
277. 8:55definitely not our favorite thing, but
278. 8:57we just made it work. Um adding in these
279. 8:59shelves here from Crate & Barrel um kind
280. 9:02of made it feel like this whole area was
281. 9:03a little bit more utility and
282. 9:05functional. Win some, you lose some.
283. 9:06Like, this was one of our our
284. 9:08compromises for our apartment.
285. 9:09additions in here that you love. You
286. 9:12know, it was the one project that was
287. 9:14Danielle's thing that she owned
288. 9:17and honestly it was one of the best
289. 9:19ideas ever. So, talk about it.
290. 9:20Okay. So, when you look at our
291. 9:22apartment, you wouldn't ever guess that
292. 9:24some of our ceiling tiles are actually
293. 9:25made of foam. Um our ceiling tiles here
294. 9:28and also in our entry, we'll show you
295. 9:29later, are ceiling tiles from Amazon.
296. 9:32It's been up there for like 2 years,
297. 9:34right?
298. 9:35No, almost like
299. 9:37three?
300. 9:37Almost three years and we like barely
301. 9:39have to make a repair.
302. 9:41Yeah. So
303. 9:42Yeah.
304. 9:43If you're thinking about it on your own
305. 9:44edge
306. 9:45hopefully we just push you over.
307. 9:47it. It's really easy.
308. 9:48in the back, these sconces and this
309. 9:50gallery light on the wall are all
310. 9:53additions that we made and those really
311. 9:55helped elevate the space and paired
312. 9:57really beautiful with this paint that we
313. 9:59got in Los Angeles from Portola
314. 10:02Yeah.
315. 10:03and the color nitty-gritty and it is
316. 10:05actually to be able to simulate a
317. 10:08plaster. There's a family who created
318. 10:10this recipe years ago um that the father
319. 10:12did and then the sons took the business
320. 10:14over and now we have this really really
321. 10:16beautiful technique and our friend Vic
322. 10:19who's an interior designer in Los
323. 10:20Angeles was the one who put us on. Shout
324. 10:23out to Vic.
325. 10:23Hey Vic.
326. 10:24We love Vic. This back wall um is a
327. 10:27piece that is currently on loan
328. 10:29from an artist by the name of Von Davis
329. 10:31Jr. in St. Louis. Wanted to textile
330. 10:33piece for the longest time to really
331. 10:35round out our collection and to make
332. 10:37something bold and so this painting
333. 10:40really paired well with the movement
334. 10:43that was happening in
335. 10:45the nitty-gritty. So it just was the
336. 10:48last period of resistance to the room.
337. 10:57Welcome to our kitchen. This is also
338. 10:59another area that we put a lot of love
339. 11:01and attention into.
340. 11:03Um there's beautiful things in here and
341. 11:05one of the most obvious things is that
342. 11:07our kitchen is actually kind of small.
343. 11:08There's enough room for just the two of
344. 11:09us so it's given just the two of us.
345. 11:18All right, that's good.
346. 11:19music break. Things we did in here to
347. 11:20make it feel more like our own and open
348. 11:22up the space actually take the doors off
349. 11:24of some of our cabinets. So this exposes
350. 11:27our beautiful dishware that we swap out
351. 11:29depending on the season, depending on
352. 11:30the holiday. One of our favorite things
353. 11:33to open up this space and make it feel a
354. 11:35little bit more interesting
355. 11:37um and custom. So, yeah.
356. 11:39Because it is a galley-style kitchen and
357. 11:43obviously there's no window, it was
358. 11:45really important for us to be able to
359. 11:46try to bring some sort of color or light
360. 11:49into the space to make cooking feel like
361. 11:52more of an adventure.
362. 11:53Yeah, like a TV set.
363. 11:55Like a TV set. And also to be
364. 11:57reminiscent of our travels and things
365. 11:59like that.
366. 12:00So, for my 30th birthday, we actually
367. 12:02went to Italy and we were really, really
368. 12:04inspired by the textures and colors that
369. 12:06we saw in the country. And because of
370. 12:08that, we found these tiles
371. 12:11on Etsy. And now we have this really,
372. 12:14really beautiful tile wall in our
373. 12:16kitchen. So, it reminds us of um the
374. 12:19Amalfi Coast and Capri. We love Capri.
375. 12:22We love Capri.
376. 12:24Shoutout to our TaskRabbit. He was
377. 12:26amazing and super talented and made this
378. 12:28look so realistic.
379. 12:30So, super random side note about the fun
380. 12:33facts you find out about your
381. 12:34TaskRabbit. Andy is a working actor who
382. 12:38was actually a double on The Dark
383. 12:40Knight.
384. 12:41Right, for Batman. Like
385. 12:42for Batman.
386. 12:43Not just like anybody.
387. 12:44Yeah. So, maybe Andy might also be your
388. 12:46TaskRabbit guy, too. That's the kitchen.
389. 12:49What you see is what you get.
390. 12:52Pretty much.
391. 12:59My favorite piece in the collection is
392. 13:01actually in our bedroom. It communicates
393. 13:03directly to the gallery wall that's in
394. 13:04the living room because
395. 13:06the two Nico Washingtons actually mirror
396. 13:08each other that are in the home. And
397. 13:10Starboy for us just feels so warm and
398. 13:13like another character and an element
399. 13:15that's textural that we wanted to add
400. 13:17into our space. Art is not always
401. 13:18something that you always think about in
402. 13:20having in a bedroom, but it just feels
403. 13:22so powerful and it inspires us. And you
404. 13:25think about stars at night. Like there's
405. 13:27a lot of connective tissue there. This
406. 13:29is the Nico piece that we'll never stop
407. 13:31talking about. So Star Boy is like
408. 13:35pride and joy.
409. 13:36Star Boy actually sits right above one
410. 13:38of our favorite additions to our
411. 13:39bedroom, which is this 18th century
412. 13:41Mexican table that we got from First
413. 13:43Dibs. When we were looking for a vanity
414. 13:45that could house all of our little
415. 13:48tchotchkes.
416. 13:49We just got married and so we actually
417. 13:50got
418. 13:52um this unisex perfume while we were in
419. 13:55Mexico City, where we went for our
420. 13:57honeymoon. And we just loved the like
421. 13:59design elements of it. And this really,
422. 14:02really dark wood is something that we
423. 14:05found through our process of designing
424. 14:07that we really gravitated towards. So we
425. 14:09wish that our armoire would have been in
426. 14:13this like really dark wood. Can y'all
427. 14:14see it? You see the vision.
428. 14:16have been beautiful.
429. 14:17It would have been It would have been so
430. 14:19good, but that's okay, guys, because
431. 14:21that's the beauty about design. It
432. 14:22evolves with you over time. So if y'all
433. 14:25see this again
434. 14:26And it's dark.
435. 14:26And it's dark.
436. 14:27You know why.
437. 14:28You were there when, folks. You were
438. 14:30there when. So the paint color is also
439. 14:32from Portola. You can either do Roman
440. 14:35Clay or lime wash,
441. 14:37which are also both very popular that
442. 14:39we're seeing in design. But this color
443. 14:41is Figueroa, but we really wanted
444. 14:43something that was like more oasis, more
445. 14:46calm in our bedroom, because we really
446. 14:48like the feeling when we travel to other
447. 14:50countries and how it feels to be in a
448. 14:52boutique hotel. And the ladder we got
449. 14:55from Etsy. Again, this is when we were
450. 14:57on our bender for the dark wood.
451. 14:59Right.
452. 15:00So after the fact
453. 15:02and our dark wood stool that we sourced
454. 15:05in LA at the Rose Bowl. Now it cost a
455. 15:08lot to ship it back.
456. 15:09That yeah, we shipped it. Like
457. 15:11But it was worth it.
458. 15:11FedEx didn't care.
459. 15:12Yeah, because when you try to buy this
460. 15:14on First Dibs
461. 15:16they're going to run your pocket.
462. 15:17Honestly, when we first found the
463. 15:19apartment, the two closets was really
464. 15:21nice. I think we both have an extensive
465. 15:23wardrobe and wanted to have space, um
466. 15:26but also it's tucked away and easy to,
467. 15:28like, you know, separate from the rest
468. 15:30of our room.
469. 15:30Really wanted this like elongated feel
470. 15:33in the room to be able to bring in some
471. 15:35of that Scandinavian wasabi sort of vibe
472. 15:38to the room with the source vessels.
473. 15:41Those really simple ways to design
474. 15:43really tied the room together in a way
475. 15:46that felt considered, but also
476. 15:49gave it elevation.
477. 15:50Well, our bedding is all from Parachute
478. 15:52Home except for this gorgeous indigo
479. 15:54pillow that's all also from Jason a
480. 15:57home.
481. 15:58Um but yeah, our bedding we chose all
482. 16:00from Parachute Home. It was really
483. 16:01inspired by a Scandinavian design. We
484. 16:03wanted the bedding to look like it was
485. 16:05overflowing, so we scaled up in the
486. 16:07sizing. Like, I think we used like
487. 16:08king-size duvet covers where we could,
488. 16:11throw blankets, and things like that to
489. 16:13make it feel fuller. Um and honestly,
490. 16:16linen sheets was a a must for us. It's
491. 16:19just it takes a lot to like make you
492. 16:20look pretty. So, we stain them.
493. 16:22Yeah.
494. 16:22I don't know if we would recommend it
495. 16:23per se, but
496. 16:24I mean, Danielle pretty much could get
497. 16:26an award now. This is that like luxe
498. 16:29hotel vibe that like once you dive in,
499. 16:32you feel like you don't want to get out
500. 16:33of the bed. So, I love being able to
501. 16:35come in here after a long day's work.
502. 16:37And what we can say is why we didn't go
503. 16:39with the headboard.
504. 16:40For us in the bedroom, we wanted the
505. 16:41slate to be clear, and Danielle loves
506. 16:43pillows, so we already knew there were
507. 16:45going to be a thousand pillows. So, you
508. 16:47know, sometimes the pillows are the
509. 16:49headboard.
510. 16:50This is our bedroom.
511. 16:55This is our bathroom. It's pretty
512. 16:58intimate and small if you can't tell.
513. 17:01Intimate.
514. 17:01Uh it's intimate. One of my favorite
515. 17:03characteristics of our bathroom is
516. 17:05actually our floors. So, they're like
517. 17:07this gingham print almost. I'm sure
518. 17:10there's a better word for this in the
519. 17:11design community um to describe the
520. 17:13tiles on our floor, but it's so
521. 17:14beautiful um black and white, and it
522. 17:16just makes you feel like you're in a
523. 17:18vintage space.
524. 17:19Yeah.
525. 17:19Um, but we made some other additions to
526. 17:21the bathroom that make it feel more like
527. 17:23us in that spa-like feeling.
528. 17:24And it's not an ad, but Portola Paints.
529. 17:28We're back with more Roman Clay, guys.
530. 17:30I'm trying to think of the color. I
531. 17:31don't remember the specific
532. 17:32floor?
533. 17:33You got a good memory. Forest floor is
534. 17:35what we did on the actual walls in here.
535. 17:37And like Danielle said, it just made us
536. 17:39think of a spa.
537. 17:40Mhm.
538. 17:40And so, we wanted because the space was
539. 17:42so small, we wanted it to feel like an
540. 17:44escape from the rest of the house that
541. 17:46you could take a moment to yourself.
542. 17:47Because of the floor, we wanted to bring
543. 17:49in those black notes into other moments
544. 17:52of how we did paint and trim. Um, and
545. 17:55that's also what we used for like the
546. 17:57light switch and the light covers. You
547. 17:58can think of this or not. Depends on how
548. 18:00good you guys feel like we did. Um, we
549. 18:02added in these chocolate curtains. And
550. 18:05then we took them all the way up to the
551. 18:07ceiling to make the room look bigger.
552. 18:09Because originally the curtain rod was
553. 18:12like this tall, maybe like 6 ft. And
554. 18:14then we took it up to about 9. Love
555. 18:16Aesop. And so, the cabinet felt like a
556. 18:19moment in the Aesop store. One thing
557. 18:21that we've done throughout the home,
558. 18:23whether it's like organizing under the
559. 18:25sink and closed closets, we really
560. 18:28wanted stuff to feel merchandised. It
561. 18:30feels like we're shopping when we're in
562. 18:32our own home.
563. 18:38We continued our ceiling tiles up above.
564. 18:41Um, and then also we added some more
565. 18:43trim in here. So, it kind of gives more
566. 18:44of that antique looking feel. Um, and
567. 18:47then another renter-friendly DIY in
568. 18:49here, um, are sconces. So, you saw these
569. 18:52in our in our living room. Um, and you
570. 18:55also see them here in our foyer area.
571. 18:57So, really beautiful. Plus our green
572. 18:59doors that continue into other parts of
573. 19:01our home feels like a big moment for
574. 19:04continuity, but also like Cardi said, it
575. 19:06feels like a palate cleanser.
576. 19:07Things about these like historic Chicago
577. 19:10apartments is like there's this call
578. 19:12system
579. 19:14It does not work.
580. 19:14button thing here that doesn't work, but
581. 19:17it's so cool and I really wish it worked
582. 19:19because when people come to visit you,
583. 19:21you got to like buzz them up on your
584. 19:22cell phone. It would have been so cool
585. 19:24to be able to do this. So, we are now in
586. 19:27our study.
587. 19:28Um the reason we call it a study is
588. 19:30because we added these floating
589. 19:31bookshelves here um that we found on
590. 19:34Amazon to house our books. This is one
591. 19:37of those projects that we had a vision
592. 19:39for and we didn't quite finish because
593. 19:41we wanted books to engulf this whole
594. 19:43space and life just our life. It's our
595. 19:47little moments to remind ourselves to
596. 19:48slow down our day and to grab a book
597. 19:52on a nice Saturday or Sunday
598. 19:54and kick back and relax.
599. 19:56As we live in an apartment building,
600. 19:58like the actual entry like entrance to
601. 20:00our door is very uniform. Everyone else
602. 20:01has the same door. We wanted to have
603. 20:03something that felt like us, gave a bit
604. 20:04of character and also continued some of
605. 20:06that molding that we've done throughout
606. 20:08the rest of the home. You get the
607. 20:10feeling like a Lincoln Park like
608. 20:12from like a
609. 20:13street view of some of those gorgeous
610. 20:15row homes.
611. 20:17Um tell them about the fox.
612. 20:18This is really special because if you
613. 20:20look all throughout the home at
614. 20:22different moments, we have these little
615. 20:23like characters that show up that really
616. 20:26bring this like enchanting and like
617. 20:28whimsical nature into the space. I'm a
618. 20:30writer director and specifically my
619. 20:32genre is fantasy and fiction. So, these
620. 20:35little moments of like the fox and the
621. 20:38birds and the horses and the little
622. 20:40things that we have throughout the space
623. 20:42are like really special to us. Like this
624. 20:44is a horse gold door stopper
625. 20:47um that we're using as like a book
626. 20:48weight, but I love that my wife lets me
627. 20:51do things like this because it really
628. 20:53makes me happy. And people like the fox.
629. 20:55Feel like he's like lucky.
630. 20:57Yeah, like you rub it.
631. 20:58your way out. You can like rub them for
632. 20:59good luck. The two F's, functional and
633. 21:01fly. If we can hit both of those, we did
634. 21:04the Lord's work.
635. 21:05Speaking of fly, you got to tell them
636. 21:06about our entryway rug.
637. 21:07If you don't know the album, go listen
638. 21:09to it by Outcast. So, we really wanted
639. 21:12to make sure that we had a
640. 21:13representation of like our love for
641. 21:16music. Danielle is the real music head.
642. 21:18I just cosplay as one. But, she's the
643. 21:20one that if you need to know who made
644. 21:23it, when it was made, all that, she's
645. 21:24your girl. Me, I just like what I like,
646. 21:27and I like this CD rug.
647. 21:29We loved the apartment for many reasons,
648. 21:32but this was the first thing we saw,
649. 21:34which were these uh closets. Gives us a
650. 21:36lot of space, very, very functional, and
651. 21:38there's four of them. In order to make
652. 21:40it feel more like a moment, we painted
653. 21:42them green. Um so, we got that big like
654. 21:45I don't know how you'd describe this,
655. 21:46but a very cohesive, um and also grand.
656. 21:50So, not really a door handle on there.
657. 21:51We needed to add our own. We found these
658. 21:53on
659. 21:54Amazon.
660. 21:54Amazon. Um and we love them because
661. 21:58they're gold, but also very, very
662. 21:59sturdy. They're using like a 3M like
663. 22:02double-sided tape. Um we just got four
664. 22:04of them.
665. 22:04Oh, yeah. It's all about designing with
666. 22:06one continuous thought in mind. This is
667. 22:08our house. This is the house of Taylor.
668. 22:11I'm Curtis.
669. 22:12I'm Danielle.
670. 22:13And this is Pompeo home. And
671. 22:16we don't want to say you got to go home,
672. 22:17but
673. 22:18you do got to get up out of here.
674. 22:20Bye. Thank you so much.