I have an idea for you to try... What if you put the big heavy art piece on the fireplace mantel (centered) and put the rug and boomerangs with your collage wall behind the couch? That would bring some nice textures into the collage and give your grandparents art a focal point on the mantel, plus if it sits on the mantel you dont have to worry about its weight. :)
you should do a video on how to naturally disinfect thrifted furniture!! I love how unique your apartment decor is and am also working on slowly acquiring thrifted items for my own apartment but struggle to know how to clean different & larger pieces such as couches, tables, etc.
Scary spice is a kind of plant that might need obscene amounts of light - even super plant people say they can only keep them alive for a couple years unless they're towards the equator! Great job keeping her alive so long!
I love that you appreciate your old kitchen: following trends in home decoration and furniture is unsustainable and frankly makes every home seem the same! Your home seems a real and loved home :-) greetings from Turin, Italy
I love how many items are either secondhand or given to you from family ... The stories behind our belongings are sometimes more important than the objects themselves 🖤
I also hand wash my dishes instead of running my dishwasher! I use my dishwasher as a drying rack so I can keep my limited counter space freed up! I absolutely love your style and ALL of your precious plants!! :) thank you for being real about still making trash, etc.
Hello Christie I look up to you so much especially with you buying second hand clothes and furniture. I think it's so amazing and cool. I also love your videos so much! Xxx
I honestly hope that you can keep doing this TH-cam thing you're doing for a really long time, because you inspire so, so many people to consider low waste and to live more sustainably, myself included. Back in school I never thought that living a low waste lifestyle would be so fun and freeing and inspiring, but in university I discovered your channel and my life and financial situation and happiness have improved so much since living more sustainable and minimal and I'll be forever thankful to your channel, Gittemarys channel and Shelby as well. 💗💗💗 I wish you all the best on your journey and all the health and happiness in the world, beautiful apartment by the way. 💗
I love that there are still apartments like this around. Total childhood nostalgia for me, and there is nothing wrong with any of it, if it's well cared for. Such an adorable kitchen!
Love your videos! You inspired me to be more conscious about how I can reduce my plastic waste when I first watched your videos a few months ago and I am continuing to reduce it as much as I can and live as intentionally as possible today. Thank youuuu!! 😊😁
AHHHHHH this just made my morning!!! I am so so so happy to encourage in any way! Honoured to be on this journey with ya! Sending you heaps of love! xo
You can still use your dish washer as a massive drying wrack ;) that’s what I’ve done in past places with washers. It’s like a drying wrack cabinet to avoid having to put dishes away once they dry.
You should do a closet tour! It would be so nice to see a sustainable realistic closet! :) Also I'm super curious about your hiking gear! I'm an avid hiker but usually only hike in the summer and am looking for some gear to be able to hike yearround or at least a little longer than just the summer :)
I throughly enjoyed this! So different than most of the space tours I watch, but so much more inspiring as I have a hard time turning secondhand decor items into cute stuff like you’ve done! Thanks so much for sharing
If you are more into liquid soap you can always melt a bar down. ( we use a cleaned out Franks red hot bottle to hold ours) : How to make........ Place a bar of Castile soap in a large mason jar and fill to the top with water. Put the whole jar in a pot on the stove with an inch or two of water and boil until all the soap is melted in. I add a tablespoon of vinegar for a disinfectant and 10-20 drops of your favorite essential oil. (Peppermint!!) This will fill my franks bottle 2x and lasts me 6-8 weeks for the cost of a bar of soap.
I have heard that! The only thing is that we have a very minimal set of dishes and really don't use that many so it would take us days to fill our dishwasher if we used it and we'd run out of dishes hehe 🙈But using little dishes also saves us water! It all depends on what kind of things you tend to cook I think and if you let the water run/etc. Individual technique, if you will hahaha 💛But I definitely don't know the exact stats on how much we use in comparison so it's hard to say x
I have watched people use dishwashers. They rinse the dishes first so you could just go ahead and wash them and be dine by the time you liad the dushwasher.i believe handwashing is better
@@The1cagirl When I do dishes, I spray any easy grime off and then turn the water off. I have a dual sink, so I put them all the right. Then I soap up dishes and put them in the left. That way my water is off 90% of the time. My dish washer uses so much water, and takes a long time to wash.
handwashing dishes usually wastes more water than using a dishwasher (depending how old that dishwasher is, if it's also from the 70s.... maybe not :D )
I am new to your channel and I love what you are doing, super inspired to stay on my sustainable journey!! I have to say my favourite part of this video is your audible portion. I love knowing what you are reading/listening to, both books are on my list and I can't wait to listen to them!
hehehe I hope you enjoyed this!!! 💛We found it on craigslist from a really nice family, maybe there will be one in your area too!! Sending ya heaps of good thrifting energy! :) x
Okay, three things: 1. Your apartment is sooo nice in an effortless way. 2. You are so beautiful and have the nicest voice 3. your grandparents had the coolest style ever :D Love your videos! Keep going ;)
Hey Christie! First off, the audio was just fine, secondly, your apartment is so cozy! Thank you for producing content and I hope you're feeling better and making sure to take care of yourself
I happily discovered you a few hours ago and have been nonstop watching your videos while I turn a pair of socks into a reusable napkin. I am so happy to find you and to learn from your channel. Really looking forward to trying the things you talk about!!!
so much love. i moved about a month and a half ago and you made me feel so much better about not having art perfectly arranged on all my walls (or art at all)
I loooove this. Christie you are glowing and it makes your videos so nice to watch seeing how happy you are ☺️☺️ I also second all the requests to do an in depth kitchen tour thing! X
This is awesome! I'm about to get my own place for the first time (100% mine, no roommates, holy cow!), and I'm so looking forward to decorating for the first time. I'm starting from ground zero, so it's nice to see how much you can do with second hand!
can you mention in an upcoming video how you use your compost? I'm composting now..... and idk what to do with it? or if I'm even really doing it right? whenever I do some research, it's information from farmers or eXtReMe gardeners, and I'm just a gal living in an apartment trying to reduce her food waste. (been meaning to call my local garden center to see if they accept compost, but i saw an old google review stating that they don't.) help?
We are fortunate enough to have curb side pickup, so we bring it out to our building's bigger compost and then the city picks it up 💛V lucky to have that over here in Seattle
If i'm honest, I work most of the day/nights, and then in my spare time I'm either reading, listening to podcasts, or hanging with friends/out exploring 💛
Wow I can't believe you don't use the dishwasher... I've always wanted one :o I so hate doing dishes. And did you know it actually saves more water then doing dishes by hand? Love your videos! Greetings from The Netherlands :)
Inger Muntjewerff It May depend on the type of dishwasher as well. I rent a house with a couple of people and a month of using the dishwasher vs a month without showed a huge different where the dishwasher used significantly more water than when we hand washed. Hopefully the newer dishwashers would be more efficient though ours is not very old
I look up to this way of life so much! The queen of sustainably sustainable on a budget! 👑 P.s. please consider making a video on how you prepare for a camping trip, including food prep. 🙏🏼💜
any recommendations for buying used couches and linens stuff like that? I'm so nervous about getting lice again so how do you clean stuff/make sure its clean?
bahahaha had to stop the video when you said you 'studied abroad in Strayaaaa" i did the same!! my friends always make fun of my fake lil accent that pops out when i say "Straya/melbourne" hehe
hehe 💛💛 I'm Lithuanian and my best friend is actually from Latvia!! Growing up I'd always hang with her friends from her Latvian camp/community too haha and I'd joke that I was half Latvian because her family was like my second family 😹🙈
Wow. That is so cool! I don't know if you metioned it in any of your videos (because I haven't seen them all), but it would be interesting to hear more about your past, how you ended up in the USA. At least for me it would be interesting, because you basically was my neighbour. 😄 I found your channel with your DIY shampoo recipe about year and a half ago. And I am still here, because I like your personality and we share similar interests. Keep up the good work! 🤗🖤
I'm really interested in the Lietuva ribbon (because it's my home country). What's the story behind it??? P.s. very cosy and warm looking place you have :)
I found them in my parent's basement, if I'm honest haha so I'm not totally sure! I think they were my moms mom's (different side of the family than most of the donated/inherited items in the apartment, even though they ironically have a similar vibe haha) 💛
I love naming things with the first name that comes into my head when I see them! I feel like each item has it's own vibe and when a name comes to me, it's gotta be that, y'know 💛That's my strategy! [also if I didn't pick the first (or second) one, I'd fall into over thinking it haha] Sending ya lots of love and good 'naming' energy! hehe x
Sedona Christina that makes sense! Hmm I’ll have a think and see 🌿 maybe Charlie for the succulent and I’ll think about the other one later 😂 thanks for the good energy I’ll put it to good use! 💚
Definitely always meet the person giving it away and inspect before bringing home! There are SO MANY lovely and clean pieces out there looking for a home. I'd never throw anything in good condition into a landfill and opt for something new and wasteful when I could buy secondhand 💛
I love that your apartment is minimal but not PLAIN WHITE! The earthy tones are so beautiful
Ahhhh thank you!!! 💛💛💛
I don't like plain white. It stresses me out. (Which is why I wonder why it's the prime choice to every hospital)
I have an idea for you to try... What if you put the big heavy art piece on the fireplace mantel (centered) and put the rug and boomerangs with your collage wall behind the couch? That would bring some nice textures into the collage and give your grandparents art a focal point on the mantel, plus if it sits on the mantel you dont have to worry about its weight. :)
Definitely an interesting idea to think about! Thank you! 💛
Your apartment is so cute! I love that you appreciate its quirks and embrace its 70s style.
Thank you!! 💛
you should do a video on how to naturally disinfect thrifted furniture!! I love how unique your apartment decor is and am also working on slowly acquiring thrifted items for my own apartment but struggle to know how to clean different & larger pieces such as couches, tables, etc.
Scary spice is a kind of plant that might need obscene amounts of light - even super plant people say they can only keep them alive for a couple years unless they're towards the equator! Great job keeping her alive so long!
I love that you appreciate your old kitchen: following trends in home decoration and furniture is unsustainable and frankly makes every home seem the same! Your home seems a real and loved home :-) greetings from Turin, Italy
I love how many items are either secondhand or given to you from family ... The stories behind our belongings are sometimes more important than the objects themselves 🖤
I also hand wash my dishes instead of running my dishwasher! I use my dishwasher as a drying rack so I can keep my limited counter space freed up! I absolutely love your style and ALL of your precious plants!! :) thank you for being real about still making trash, etc.
Hello Christie I look up to you so much especially with you buying second hand clothes and furniture. I think it's so amazing and cool. I also love your videos so much! Xxx
bless ya - one of the only youtubers that isn't totally irritating w/ ads (yours actually sound sincere & like you care a lot & I am HERE for it!)
I honestly hope that you can keep doing this TH-cam thing you're doing for a really long time, because you inspire so, so many people to consider low waste and to live more sustainably, myself included.
Back in school I never thought that living a low waste lifestyle would be so fun and freeing and inspiring, but in university I discovered your channel and my life and financial situation and happiness have improved so much since living more sustainable and minimal and I'll be forever thankful to your channel, Gittemarys channel and Shelby as well. 💗💗💗
I wish you all the best on your journey and all the health and happiness in the world, beautiful apartment by the way. 💗
I love that there are still apartments like this around. Total childhood nostalgia for me, and there is nothing wrong with any of it, if it's well cared for. Such an adorable kitchen!
I would love to see an in-depth kitchen tour.😊😊😊😊
absolutely!!
me too!!
wooohoo! Okay comoing sooooon! 💛💛💛
Love your videos! You inspired me to be more conscious about how I can reduce my plastic waste when I first watched your videos a few months ago and I am continuing to reduce it as much as I can and live as intentionally as possible today. Thank youuuu!! 😊😁
AHHHHHH this just made my morning!!! I am so so so happy to encourage in any way! Honoured to be on this journey with ya! Sending you heaps of love! xo
There’s nothing like living with your best friend 😊❤️been doing it myself for three years!
I literally just subscribed because "the oatmeal bowl" and "trash plant" 😂
hehehehe ;) 💛
(Also, hello! Super grateful to have ya here in this lil corner of the internet! Welcome!)
You can still use your dish washer as a massive drying wrack ;) that’s what I’ve done in past places with washers. It’s like a drying wrack cabinet to avoid having to put dishes away once they dry.
You should do a closet tour! It would be so nice to see a sustainable realistic closet! :) Also I'm super curious about your hiking gear! I'm an avid hiker but usually only hike in the summer and am looking for some gear to be able to hike yearround or at least a little longer than just the summer :)
I throughly enjoyed this! So different than most of the space tours I watch, but so much more inspiring as I have a hard time turning secondhand decor items into cute stuff like you’ve done! Thanks so much for sharing
If you are more into liquid soap you can always melt a bar down. ( we use a cleaned out Franks red hot bottle to hold ours) :
How to make........
Place a bar of Castile soap in a large mason jar and fill to the top with water.
Put the whole jar in a pot on the stove with an inch or two of water and boil until all the soap is melted in.
I add a tablespoon of vinegar for a disinfectant and 10-20 drops of your favorite essential oil. (Peppermint!!)
This will fill my franks bottle 2x and lasts me 6-8 weeks for the cost of a bar of soap.
Wow this makes me so excited to get my own place and thrift everything!!
Did you know depending on how new your dish washer is hand washing dishes waste a lot more water than using the dish washer
That depends on how you wash your dishes.
@@thaurbanhomemaker how ?
I have heard that! The only thing is that we have a very minimal set of dishes and really don't use that many so it would take us days to fill our dishwasher if we used it and we'd run out of dishes hehe 🙈But using little dishes also saves us water! It all depends on what kind of things you tend to cook I think and if you let the water run/etc. Individual technique, if you will hahaha 💛But I definitely don't know the exact stats on how much we use in comparison so it's hard to say x
I have watched people use dishwashers. They rinse the dishes first so you could just go ahead and wash them and be dine by the time you liad the dushwasher.i believe handwashing is better
@@The1cagirl When I do dishes, I spray any easy grime off and then turn the water off. I have a dual sink, so I put them all the right. Then I soap up dishes and put them in the left. That way my water is off 90% of the time. My dish washer uses so much water, and takes a long time to wash.
Cute names for plants and then you get Trash plant 😀😀😀
Great video, I am just looking for some inspiration for my flat.
handwashing dishes usually wastes more water than using a dishwasher (depending how old that dishwasher is, if it's also from the 70s.... maybe not :D )
I absolutely adore your kitchen and am so happy that someone who appreciates its aesthetic is living in it!
I am new to your channel and I love what you are doing, super inspired to stay on my sustainable journey!! I have to say my favourite part of this video is your audible portion. I love knowing what you are reading/listening to, both books are on my list and I can't wait to listen to them!
I have been impatiently waiting for this because I really want that green couch
hehehe I hope you enjoyed this!!! 💛We found it on craigslist from a really nice family, maybe there will be one in your area too!! Sending ya heaps of good thrifting energy! :) x
Okay, three things: 1. Your apartment is sooo nice in an effortless way. 2. You are so beautiful and have the nicest voice 3. your grandparents had the coolest style ever :D Love your videos! Keep going ;)
THE LOW WASTE APARTMENT TOUR WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR💯👏🏻🎉❤️
Omg! My grandma has those chairs you had in your kitchen table. With the gold metal. I totally forgot about them until I saw your video.
Amazing that your say Australia and Melbourne like an Australian. Loved this vid! xx
Hey Christie! First off, the audio was just fine, secondly, your apartment is so cozy! Thank you for producing content and I hope you're feeling better and making sure to take care of yourself
I happily discovered you a few hours ago and have been nonstop watching your videos while I turn a pair of socks into a reusable napkin. I am so happy to find you and to learn from your channel. Really looking forward to trying the things you talk about!!!
so much love.
i moved about a month and a half ago and you made me feel so much better about not having art perfectly arranged on all my walls (or art at all)
Such a cute apartment! love the 2nd hand decor
Your place is really cute. I love all the plant names!
You say “Australia” and “Melbourne” with an Australian accent! I love that!
Your place is so cute! You should totally do an in-depth kitchen tour and/or bedroom tour too. ❤😊
I loooove this. Christie you are glowing and it makes your videos so nice to watch seeing how happy you are ☺️☺️ I also second all the requests to do an in depth kitchen tour thing! X
This is awesome! I'm about to get my own place for the first time (100% mine, no roommates, holy cow!), and I'm so looking forward to decorating for the first time. I'm starting from ground zero, so it's nice to see how much you can do with second hand!
can you mention in an upcoming video how you use your compost? I'm composting now..... and idk what to do with it? or if I'm even really doing it right? whenever I do some research, it's information from farmers or eXtReMe gardeners, and I'm just a gal living in an apartment trying to reduce her food waste. (been meaning to call my local garden center to see if they accept compost, but i saw an old google review stating that they don't.) help?
Very nice! A perfect place for you both. Love the plant names. Thanks for sharing!
low waste kitchen tour pls!!
Yayy really nice apartment looks super cozy and vintage. Would love to see a closet tour. Lots of love
how do you compost without a special box or etc. can you make video about that?
The container in the kitchen is probably just a box that she uses to take outside to her compost bin. Unless she gets compost picked up curbside
We are fortunate enough to have curb side pickup, so we bring it out to our building's bigger compost and then the city picks it up 💛V lucky to have that over here in Seattle
Omg so dreamy! I’m moving soon so this is deffo major inspo for me, I love it all 😍✨🧚🏼♀️
I bet your grandparents were really cool. Just with things you say and stuff you show, that was theirs, they sound awesome. 😊🤗
peaceful apartment, great job.
Thanks for the reminder to stretch
I really need it!
I noticed you don’t have a tv. What are some things you do for fun? I need some ideas to get away from screens, all I do is watch tv 😅
If i'm honest, I work most of the day/nights, and then in my spare time I'm either reading, listening to podcasts, or hanging with friends/out exploring 💛
Love the slight Aussie accent when you say "Melbourne"
I love the vintage vibe
As an Australian... Thank you for pronouncing Melbourne like that 😭💖
She also pronounced Australia right!!
Congrats on your new home it looks super cozy and inspirational :)
could totally have a little herb garden in that window above your sink
Wow I can't believe you don't use the dishwasher... I've always wanted one :o I so hate doing dishes. And did you know it actually saves more water then doing dishes by hand?
Love your videos! Greetings from The Netherlands :)
Inger Muntjewerff It May depend on the type of dishwasher as well. I rent a house with a couple of people and a month of using the dishwasher vs a month without showed a huge different where the dishwasher used significantly more water than when we hand washed. Hopefully the newer dishwashers would be more efficient though ours is not very old
such a cozy, great apartment. 🧡 love how many things that you were able to get for free!!
I look up to this way of life so much! The queen of sustainably sustainable on a budget! 👑
P.s. please consider making a video on how you prepare for a camping trip, including food prep. 🙏🏼💜
THANK YOU!! 💛💛 And definitely camping videos coming soon! x
Please make an in depth kitchen tour
Yes please to kitchen video!
You should grow some herbs in kitchen window.
Can you please show us your podcast gear? Loved your desk corner
Didnt stop the video for a lil 2 minute steche but I am gonna go for a full session right after 🌞
any recommendations for buying used couches and linens stuff like that? I'm so nervous about getting lice again so how do you clean stuff/make sure its clean?
Kitchen tour would be cool
I love that kitchen!!!
Great video! Xx
Love this so much! Your home is beautiful 😙
Pretty! I can’t believe how much you got for free!
You're so beautiful, loved the tour✨
Could you do a video on soap and how you don’t need a hundred different cleaners for the house?
Love your place 😀would really like to see a more in-depth kitchen video ❤️
Would love to see a kitchen your!!🤩
If you haven’t already, you should do a video of your stretch routine.
You kitchen cabinets look EXACTLY like my Grandmother's kitchen cabinets. IDENTICAL.
bahahaha had to stop the video when you said you 'studied abroad in Strayaaaa" i did the same!! my friends always make fun of my fake lil accent that pops out when i say "Straya/melbourne" hehe
I love how everything in your house is named lol
You are an inspiration ❤️
The chair next to the oatmeal bowl should be called cinnamon toast. LOL
Sustainability queen 👑 ❤️
Is that a little Lithuanian banner I spot near your desk? 🇱🇹
The picture in your room is from the Spanish novel Don Quixote if you didn’t know!!
I like your videos! But I also like how your hair looks!!! What is your hair care??? Which hair products do you use??? Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you!! I have a "hair care 2019" vide on my channel with an in-depth explanation of my routine and products. Hope that helps!! 💛
I love her plant names hahaha 😆
I was kinda surprised to see the ribbon with Lietuva on it. Because I am from Latvia, wich is next to it.
P.s. I really enjoyed this video.
hehe 💛💛 I'm Lithuanian and my best friend is actually from Latvia!! Growing up I'd always hang with her friends from her Latvian camp/community too haha and I'd joke that I was half Latvian because her family was like my second family 😹🙈
Wow. That is so cool! I don't know if you metioned it in any of your videos (because I haven't seen them all), but it would be interesting to hear more about your past, how you ended up in the USA. At least for me it would be interesting, because you basically was my neighbour. 😄
I found your channel with your DIY shampoo recipe about year and a half ago. And I am still here, because I like your personality and we share similar interests. Keep up the good work! 🤗🖤
yes please do a kitchen tour! also I love that you acknowledge the things you have that aren't secondhand but are old - i try to do the same:)
pleeeease a closet tour :D
I'm really interested in the Lietuva ribbon (because it's my home country). What's the story behind it???
P.s. very cosy and warm looking place you have :)
Thank you!!! 💛 And I'm Lithuanian! My dad's side of the family! x
@@SedonaChristina that is so awesome! It's always a happy thing to see or hear about Lietuva somewhere :)
You look really good
Where did those baby rugs come from that are on your side table?
I found them in my parent's basement, if I'm honest haha so I'm not totally sure! I think they were my moms mom's (different side of the family than most of the donated/inherited items in the apartment, even though they ironically have a similar vibe haha) 💛
How do you come up with names for your plants? I've just bought my first two plants and feel like they need names too XD
I love naming things with the first name that comes into my head when I see them! I feel like each item has it's own vibe and when a name comes to me, it's gotta be that, y'know 💛That's my strategy! [also if I didn't pick the first (or second) one, I'd fall into over thinking it haha] Sending ya lots of love and good 'naming' energy! hehe x
Sedona Christina that makes sense! Hmm I’ll have a think and see 🌿 maybe Charlie for the succulent and I’ll think about the other one later 😂 thanks for the good energy I’ll put it to good use! 💚
How many square feet is your apartment?
You are so beautiful, funny and cute!!
I guess no one is scared of Bedbugs anymore. I would never want anyone else's used furniture. Especially a sofa or couch.
Definitely always meet the person giving it away and inspect before bringing home! There are SO MANY lovely and clean pieces out there looking for a home. I'd never throw anything in good condition into a landfill and opt for something new and wasteful when I could buy secondhand 💛
Be careful of bringing in bed bugs and mites
"not sure if she gave me permission to come into her room..." *walks into room and immediately starts complimenting dresser*
You forgot the bathroom 😭
Josué is pronounced like ho-sweh not ho-sway lol
hehe I know! But it's kind of a long story why we pronounce his name like that, it's just spelled the same 😹