My Houzz: DIYs and Design Classics Create Scandi look on a budget

My Houzz: DIYs and Design Classics Create Scandi look on a budget - Cori and Lamont Magee designed their comfortable apartment in Los Angeles budgetary means of the environment by repainting the furniture covering skillfully cankers rental and consider DIY versions of designer pieces at high cost. The house now has creative solutions to problems at home every day in a modern, Scandinavian-inspired. I am most proud to run the exact look I wanted while doing functional place 100% for our daily lifestyle, including pets, watching movies and working from home, "says Cori, a graphic designer.

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Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here Lamont and Cori Magee, their cat, Jolie, and Shih Tzu-poodle mix, Bishop
Location Los Angeles
Size 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom

Cori Magee describes his playful Scandinavian design aesthetic ', a style that is evident in the living room of the rented apartment she shares with her husband, Lamont. He wears graphic prints, textiles and color schemes. Thanks to the Internet, I have so many sources of great design, in addition to my own friends to design and print magazines, she said.

The pouf is woven from Cori's parents' garage.

Ranarp w Worklight hite Ikea. White coffee table, Crate and Barrel. Cushions Hem Ikea Etsy , Marimekko. R ug, Urban Outfitters.

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'once you know the look you want, be it an entire room or a specific piece of lighting, you can try to find a way around buying the expensive option, "said Cori. For example, she had trouble locating black, cafe style lights at a low price. "All I found was at least $ 100. I decided to buy the 12 $ chain of green lights of the target and the black spray paint. I've had them for a few years and I still love them, "she said.

Ektorp sofa, Ikea. Los Angeles typography art, ORK Posters. Small Talk Art, One Must Dash.

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Cori's mother gave her chest through the corridor as a gift for his eighth-grade diploma. The Day the Dead pillow is also a gift from his mother.

Eames coat rack, Design Within Reach. Eames lounge chair BD Talmadge.

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'whether we have money or not, I refuse to spend $ 4,000 on a console, so the design challenge is to find a less expensive solution, "said Cori. For their own multimedia console, it has two smaller floating cabinets from Ikea together and had a piece of wood cut to fit the top.

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The open living room until what was once the dining room, now the office of house the couple. Cori is a graphic designer and blogger and Lamont is a writer. They made a work surface by turning two sheets from a dining table found at a garage sale in a shared and white paint desk.

The desk fan was originally brown. Their solution rental Friendly was replaced by a white, visually disappears into the ceiling.

Stendig wall calendar, need supplies. Pia Wallen coverage, North history.

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the air conditioning units were one of the biggest Cori design dilemmas. We had a white box with a hinged door commissioned to cover ugliness, "she said. The unit floats on top of the desk and the door can be opened in summer when the unit is running.

For shelf above the box, Cori looked houseplants with a low profile, so they would not hit the ceiling. pearl necklace, ivy and a small succulent fit the space perfectly.

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A shelf style takes design books and souvenirs. Cori planted inside a cactus in a woven basket.

Shelving Kallax, Ikea.

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Pretty cat asleep on his favorite spot in the house, the cable box.

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A graphical pattern hangs above a neon stool in the hallway next to the kitchen. 'I love the graphic style in black and white, and I also like the color and put in small places, said Cori.

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The boxes reused as glass side tables are great-grandmother of Cori and once held family bouquets.

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The ceiling the room originally had a dark brown fan. Cori found a friendly simple and economical solution to hide the unwanted attachment without interfering with the electrical son. I took the fan apart, but left the little white base and the bulb on the ceiling, she said. "I bought the light clouds of Ikea and formed layers of paper to hide the fan base, and the remaining layers to float above the bed like a cloud." If the Couple moving, they can put the fan in place.

pendant Krusning, Ikea. Malm bed, Ikea. Sheets, Target.

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Cori favorite design palette is black, white and wood. He played full advantage in their bedroom, with black appliques, white bedding and wooden bedside tables.

Malm bedside tables, Ikea. Sconces, TripleSevenHome.

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a small banner located on Etsy swings the mirror next to the dresser of torque. The bedroom is the favorite place of Cori because "that's where our accent wall is dark. I love how it turned out with white drawers in front of him.

Malm dresser, Ikea.

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an illustration by artist Garance Doré e is displayed next to a pendant light and a framed postcard. Cori finds framing postcards friendly economical way to include more art in their home.

Shades poster art by Garance Doré, Company. pendant light West Elm.

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the door to the room has smart and hide the shoes of the couple. Cori said one of their secrets storage was buying a bed with drawers. Moreover, just do not keep everything; learn to throw stuff out or give it away, "she said as advice to other tenants.

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A hallway wall gallery includes illustrations and engravings favorite artists torque and design companies, like Anna Dorfman, Pop Chart Lab Wasted Rita.

other framed artwork (no particular order) are relativism, Genis Carreras. Die Hard, Wharton. Django Unchained, Aron Jones. Just thousand, Agnes Cecilia. Great Taxonomy of Rap names, Pop Chart Lab. Never Wasted Rita.  , Shari Margolin. Vile, Kisforblack. Dope, Matthew Taylor Wilson.

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Cori painted a large glass mirror with paint and blackboard fixed to the wall in the kitchen. His father made the hanging planter.

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Cori and father also built the suspended gate to keep the pots and pans of the couple organized, rather than adding shelves.

beyond the kitchen is the home office.

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Cori, photo , wearing a shirt cotton Office by one of her favorite designers, James Victore.

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