mr. kate’s home tour

a bunch of you asked in comments if i could do a home tour. i did one as part of my Living the Mr. Kate Lifestyle video here, but that was a couple years ago now and we’ve redecorated (with DIYs of course) so i figured it would be fun to do an updated home/house tour of our rental apartment! we decorated with a ton of thrifted, flea market and side of the road finds as well as the DIYs that i make for all the videos and posts i do!

watch the video above for the full tour – there are links to previous DIY videos in the video – and let me know if you have any questions!

oh, and some pic-ys for your viewing pleasure…

DIYs seen in the video:

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08/19
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ask Mr. Kate: how to create an organized home bar?
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07/29
home

DIY home: art book decoupaged coffee table
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09/14
home

living the mr. kate lifestyle
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  • Aunt Peggy

    Kate, you know I just love your creativity and artistic talent and the tour of your place is lovely!! Wish I could come visit sometime!! Love seeing Joey in your video, too!! I miss him so much!! BTW — I also have a LOT of admiration for your bidness sense, girl!!! You know I’m ALL about that!! Love you!

    • mrkate

      Love you Peggy! Thank you so so much! You should come visit us!

  • Mr Unicorn

    I see your favorite place to shop for furniture is the side of the road…

    • mrkate

      YES! I LOVE the side of the road store…you never know what you’re going to find ; ) – Thanks for your comment! XO

  • Sofie

    I loveee ur living room wall!! did u paint it urself??? can you do some instructions how to do that??

    • mrkate

      Hi Sofie! Thank you so much! I did paint it myself and it’s sooooo easy because they’re free-hand stripes! I’ll try to do a post on it but in the meantime, here’s what I did:

      1. The wall was already painted a grey color so that was the base for one color of stripe.
      2. I used a yellow paint (in flat finish) and a brush to paint vertical stripes. I didn’t use painters tape I just started at the top and painted down the wall because I knew I wanted the stripes to look organic and not even. I spaced them about a foot and a half apart but I was purposefully not exact and let the lines be wavy a little.
      3. After the yellow stripes dried I used a teal paint color (in flat finish) to paint right up against (and a little overlapping) each yellow stripe. As you can see from the photos http://www.mrkate.com/2011/11/19/a-peek-at-my-living-room/ The lines vary in width. I left some grey wall peek through in between each teal and yellow stripe so that it too looks like a stripe and makes the wall look like it has a 3-tone stripe pattern!

      Hope that helps and thanks for your comment!
      XO!