houzz modern bedroom furniture

(upbeat jazz music) - i live in chicago, just a few blocks south of wrigley field. in an up and coming neighborhood, a lot of hustle andbustle, and a lot going on. i bought in 2014. so, it took me a while to find this place. it really had the bonesof what i was looking for, the space is great,

but your kind of cookie cutter,developer-grade everything. the original developer paint. the original developer light fixtures. so, there definitely were things that i wanted to do with it. - i was moving to chicagofrom san francisco where i was just in thistiny, little apartment. when i moved to chicago, i wanted to step up my game a little bit.

i wanted to have a professional come in and give it a professional look. - i've had the pleasure to work with two incredible bachelors, twodistinctly different projects with two distinctlydifferent personalities. the bachelor client todayhas recognized good design and is becoming more educated and wants to live in theenvironment where design looks like you'resuccessful, you're organized,

and cohesive. - i had been doing everythingon my own for three years and i got to the pointwhere i've realized, first of all, i'm notqualified to do all this. i had been reaching out to friends every time i bought something. with three or five differentoptions of a bar that i wanted. - what was really nice about dustin was he was very open to anything.

because i think he was at the point where, he knew that he hadbought some cool things but now he didn't knowwhere to go with it. - i wanted to keep my reclaimedwood and steel coffee table, my concrete dining table, the bar. it's a large bar but it's a unique piece that i really like. and i also have a classic arcade game.

i enjoy it and i think it's fun and so, i wanted that to be worked in. i really wanted somethingthat was a unique space and anthony said to me, "i'mpicturing a gentleman's lounge. a moody, cigar bar, gentleman's lounge." and that made sense to me. and i hadn't really thought about it. - so, one of the things here is we did a lot of paint treatments here.

'cause paint is gonna give youthe most impact for change. so, adding the stripes,adding the drama, the height, the contrast of black and white. by giving this a horizontal look, what you do is youactually stretch the room and you're allowing the mind to believe that the room isactually a little bit shorter but wider. - when anthony met with me, he said,

"well, this is your wow factor. not a lot of places have a foyer. not a lot of places havethis type of space to really, set the mood for the rest of your home." he just got this idea to usemy existing console table which is a kind of awood-looking, console table that i had seen on houzz and thought of creatinga custom glass top. - adding lighting below that,it really made a statement.

the art is actually mushroom caps. so, in keeping with the organicnature of the tree root, which is the actual base of the console, i thought it might be interesting to incorporate the mushroom caps, climbing up the wall ina more random approach. - [dustin] the master bedroom,we've got a copper bed that i bought beforeanthony came on to help me. great copper lamps, copper and black art.

the photo wall, that area,is really just closet space. those are closet doors. - [anthony] i wanted to show things that were milestones in his life or trips, friends, maybeeven some college things. things like that. - those frames wereonly a few dollars each. having a picture printed isonly a dollar or so each. so, that's something that we did

that was really cost effective. as we were working and anthony's team wasputting the designs together, he used the houzz idea books to send over room by room design. it enabled real timesharing and collaboration. - i think that hispersonality showed through his houzz idea bookand with those elements between the idea book andbetween the initial meeting,

i think we arrived at this. - [dustin] he reallyunderstood what i was going for and i really didn't. i had pieces that i liked. but i didn't have an overall theme or the ability to tie that together. - i find it fun to work with things like the pac-manmachine, the diver dan bar, the tree root that he had in there.

dustin's space, we hadthings to work with. at andrew's space, we had nothing. my approach there wascompletely different. - when i first walked in, the place had a very pristine look to it. lots of whites, which isnice, but it just wasn't me. but it also had everythingin the neighborhood i was looking for, it wasreally close to an l stop, really close to a really fun street

where you could walk, lotsof restaurants and bars, and cool little shops. my military background isa big part of my identity and so i wanted a style thatwould be able to incorporate a lot of the elements fromthat period of my life. so, i was looking for amore rustic, masculine look. - in his houzz idea book,he had put elements like, a chesterfield sofa,which is very classic, very gentlemanly.

there was a rug. but he also had a fewmid-century modern pieces. that kind of gave me a good springboard. - the thing that jumped outto me about anthony was, he immediately had a very bold vision for what he would wantto do with the place. i didn't want a designerwho would just play it safe. i wanted a bold vision. i wanted someone who would take risks

and have some flair to the place. - i said, "i want to do allthe trim and doors in black. then i want to reverseit in the lower level and go all black on the walls and white crisp trim." andrew's like, "well, i'vegone with you this far, i might as well go with the program." and when the painting was doneand everything, he was like, "oh my god what a difference."

the living room, i feel, is an updated traditional living room. in the sense that we havethe chesterfield sofa, in distressed leather,so it feels very warm, very cozy, very inviting. a pair of interesting wing chairs flanking the fireplace. and then above thefireplace the engine molds. you don't really knowwhat they are or anything,

so it's a great conversation piece. - anthony wanted to incorporate a lot of three-dimensionalaspects to the design. the machinery as wellas these really large boxing images. those boxers are on a metal sheet, right? so, it's not a painting. - at first he was like,"i don't know about that." so, i said, "you gotta trust me.

they're monumental, they'regonna anchor the whole room." i said, "they're gonnafit the space perfectly." - i wasn't able to fully appreciate what that would do to myplace until it was here and installed but it wasa great example of how i trusted the vision of the designer. i have a lot of itemsfrom my military service. whether it's the saber from west point, images from my service,

things like that and i reallywanted to bring those out in the design. so, in the master bedroom there's a great image from my deployment, it's actually my platoon of artillery. anthony was able to blow it up. it actually looks better as this grainy black and white image and it's one of my favoritethings in the design.

for the master bedroom, hewanted to go really dark with it. which was something that at first, i was a little skeptical about but it has this verycalm feel to the bedroom. he had a few surprises for methat he was really proud of. i love the stars above the windows. he didn't tell me about it, he just kind of did it. - we had an unusual littlespace that was right outside

the powder room. i was looking at houzz marketplace. i came across a bench, thisreally cool map of london, and really nice rugs and they were great 'causethey shipped really quick, really fit the space nicely. - so, the media room, i wanted a place whereyou could just relax and watch a movie, play some card games.

- we have a really deep sofadown there with chaise lounge. we have really nice c tablesso you can work on your laptop. we have some enlargedpaintings that are so cool. they're actually made with playing cards. if you were to look closely at them, it's all cut up playing cards. then we have another wall,'cause he's a sports fan. and we did all black andwhite, classic sports moments for the chicago bears.

so, that was really cool. then we have his vanity wall, which is behind there. and there's a fabulousweathered metal cabinet, then all the awards and everything. - i have different uniform items that anthony was also able to incorporate. different head coverings for my uniforms, the parade hat, things like that.

- so it really came out really beautiful. so, very happy with that. - i was envisioning a placethat would inspire me. a place where i could comehome after a long day of work and just feel proud of where i live and a place that would be relaxing. it's well worth the money when you get a vision that's deliveredlike what anthony delivered here for me.

- when you live in a cohesive environment and things are well put together, you actually have a sense of calm. you actually have a sense of order. you also should havea sense of confidence. (calm electronic music)

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