00:00Hi, I'm Dani.
00:01Welcome to my sweet digs hidden in the jungle of green.
00:04Come check it out.
00:08I live in Beachwood Canyon in a two bedroom apartment.
00:11I live here with my boyfriend Fabio and my two dogs.
00:14It's about 900 square feet and for rent we pay $26.25.
00:18I think that $26.25 is, I don't want to say too little
00:21in case my landlord sees it.
00:23When you look at all of the other rents in our neighborhood
00:25I feel like we plucked this sucker.
00:27This here's the dining room.
00:29The dining room I really love.
00:31I love, love, love the chandelier.
00:33The picture behind me I got at a thrift store for like 30 bucks.
00:37We both saw it at the same time and we kind of immediately
00:39were just like, yes, that's exactly what we need
00:41and that doesn't often happen.
00:42This room gets really great sun in the morning.
00:45It's really great to sit right here and catch the natural light
00:47and read the newspaper.
00:48I love the neighborhood where in Beachwood Canyon
00:50it's kind of just at the beginning of the Hollywood Hills
00:52under the Hollywood sign.
00:53You're right in the middle of the city
00:54but you still feel kind of removed from it.
00:56It's super communal and I'm really into that.
00:59I found the apartment kind of by chance.
01:01I was actually interested in the apartment downstairs
01:03and when she finally did get back to us
01:05she let me know that that apartment was already rented
01:07but that she had one that really wasn't on the market yet
01:10and we could take a look.
01:11It was bigger.
01:12It's on the second floor.
01:13I pulled the trigger right then and there.
01:14I was like, we're going to go for this apartment.
01:16It's perfect.
01:17And this is the kitchen.
01:18We cook.
01:18We really love cooking.
01:20We do a lot of salmon and quinoa and bean based things
01:23but I'm Italian and I love cheese and pasta
01:26so we also do a lot of that.
01:28The last apartment that Fabio and I had was a huge kitchen
01:32and I learned how to flambe in that kitchen
01:35so it was really cool but I know that if I tried to do that here
01:38I would burn the whole apartment down.
01:40So this is the living room.
01:43Shake it out.
01:44My favorite thing about this space is my least favorite thing
01:47about this space and that's the jungle behind me.
01:50It really creates this sense of privacy and you feel like you're in this oasis
01:54rather than stuck in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard
01:56but also it sucks away all the sunlight so it's kind of a double-edged sword.
02:00Living so close to the Hollywood sign is really interesting.
02:03It's just like a fun fact when you're driving your relatives up
02:06or your friends from out of town you're just like
02:07and there's the Hollywood sign right in front of your face.
02:10It kind of makes you feel a little surreal especially
02:12you know living in the east coast your whole life
02:14and seeing the Hollywood sign and then seeing that you live right there.
02:18It's just it's kind of a cool experience.
02:20But it's also a little frustrating because on the weekends
02:25there's a slew of people just kind of standing in the middle of the road
02:29right where our carport is.
02:31They just take out their selfie sticks.
02:32I've seen people with tripods
02:34and they just stand there until they get their shot.
02:36Cars be damned.
02:37And it's just like okay all right that's what you deal with.
02:43This is the guest room.
02:46These are my dogs.
02:47This is Fred short for Alfredo and this is Noli short for cannoli.
02:51Cannoli ravioli.
02:52As you can see they're pretty attached to me and where one goes the other follows
02:56as long as it's following me.
02:58We use this room as a guest room for whenever we have relatives or friends staying from out of town.
03:02We also read a lot in this room and we use it as a workout room as well.
03:06We're both from the east coast so we have guests coming all the time.
03:09My mom comes and stays with us and his family does too.
03:12In this corner we have this kind of it's like a vintage washing board that we found.
03:17Fabio is the one that found it and brought it into the apartment.
03:20And then I came home one day and he had swapped it out with a Jimi Hendrix poster.
03:23It kind of started a battle and we like to pretend to go in there when no one's looking and
03:28swap it
03:28out but I've hidden the Jimi Hendrix poster and it will not be coming back.
03:33What would you guys prefer on the wall?
03:34A vintage washing board or a Jimi Hendrix poster?
03:37Reply in the comments.
03:38I love to collect knickknacks.
03:40I also have some things that my grandfather left me when he passed away that I like to hang on
03:44to.
03:44One of those things is this really cool phone that I have over here that he used every single day.
03:49I remember being a kid and sitting in his little like side room where he always watched tv.
03:54He smoked his cigarettes and he'd always talk on this phone and it was just something that
03:59I just remembered a lot as a kid so it meant a lot when I got to take it.
04:03This is the bathroom.
04:04My biggest pet peeve about this apartment is that we don't have a lot of storage space and
04:07one of the places we don't is the bathroom and the sink is a pedestal sink.
04:11I cheated.
04:12I went to Ikea and I got some corner bookshelves and I used them together so that they are my
04:17under sink storage.
04:21This is the bedroom.
04:22We originally didn't have a tv in the bedroom but we do have a lot of guests stay in the
04:26guest
04:26room so the guests could kind of chill in the living room and we could do our own thing.
04:29The dresser was the splurge in our apartment.
04:32I thought it was such a cool piece.
04:33It's definitely unique.
04:34Nothing I've really ever seen before.
04:35We didn't have anything in the apartment at the time so we didn't really have to worry about
04:39matching it to anything.
04:40Fabio and I met at work a few years ago.
04:42We both worked at an advertising agency and we were both working on the same account together.
04:47We became friends for the first few years.
04:49We got really really close so after a few years of being friends we decided to date.
04:54Fabio and I are pretty great about splitting the space equally.
04:58He's really nice and let me keep the entire bedroom closet and dresser to myself and he
05:04uses the guest room dresser.
05:05Between Fabio and I we have a pretty similar aesthetic except for the fact that I like really
05:09bright bold colors and he's more of a neutral guy.
05:12So I think that the biggest challenge was really just kind of finding the right medium.
05:16In terms of what Fabio brings to the apartment he is the lighting guy and he always hits the mood.
05:23He's very particular about like wattage for light bulbs.
05:26Every light bulb Fabio has picked out meticulously so it's really nice.
05:30It sets the apartment and gives it a good tone.
05:33My home style I like casual.
05:35I like comfort but I like things to be clean too.
05:37So we definitely have the mid-century modern vibe going on.
05:40This place felt like home really quickly.
05:44It really gives you this calming vibe and it makes you feel at home right away.
05:48When we started to get all of our things in here we immediately just felt like
05:54like a sigh of relief like oh we were home.
