Discover how designer Katherine Mondadori furnished a young couple’s two-bedroom, two-bathroom home for $10,000. Get her budget condo decorating ideas for adding style and personality to a space, while creating a gender-neutral design aesthetic.

Katherine Mondadori kept function and finances top of mind throughout the design process. She painted the bottom half of the wall in the long entryway in a durable dark navy hue as a less expensive (and non-permanent) alternative to wainscoting. In the living room, a rug acts as a room divider between the kitchen and dining area. Despite the small space, Katherine was able to fit a six-person dining

table and a pop-up desk in the corner. A black wall in the hotel-like master bedroom offers drama, while mini dressers work as night tables with ample storage. The guest room will be a nursery one day, so Katherine kept the design simple and used affordable pieces that can easily be replaced.

My clients for this project were a young couple who decided to buy a condo in Oakville I was given ten thousand dollars to furnish a two bedroom two bathroom suite which practically is nothing and we accomplished it and we actually came under fire the aesthetic that I was aiming towards was to be gender neutral specifically because we all know we have spouses and partners where home décor is definitely a sensitive issue. The entrance in this suite is a little bit longer than most are so I wanted to create a space that was definitely of interest and I wanted to focus on the function so near doing table lamp doing cabinetry that is more narrow but to spray painting hardware we all know we you know our fussing with groceries and dragging coats and things inside that we just nicked the wall left right and center so I decided to flank the bottom half of the wall in a dark blue and the reason for this is because we got to happens to be a pretty expensive treatment so painting is a much cheaper alternative and if you ever change your mind you can just paint over it again the biggest challenge in the living room dining room kitchen is be able to try to define space and the way that I did that was definitely putting a rug moving into the dining room which overlooks the living room I wanted to give the opportunity a larger table a six person Dion table isn’t super common in a condo but the benefit is that I put a bench at the back so you could easily squeeze three bombs on us in this open space we also managed to sneak in a pop of dust and the great thing about that is you can just swing over your head chair and right there you have a nice work surface there’s a ton of Windows and that’s such a great thing for a condo although that could also seem quite intimidating because you don’t want to block the way so a technique that. I used to pull everything away from the windows to give you the opportunity for more light as well as incorporating furniture that was a little bit more open a bench is nice because it’s low chairs that have an open back are also a great way to do it and then picking pieces that are organic material that don’t seem as solid is another really great way to keep things open and airy but still very comfortable and affordable minds’ version for the master bedroom was to create a hotel like and so I wanted to start with a straight black wall and then injecting the greenery a contrast of why sheep skin and secondly frogs all those textures play with the luxury of detail of a hotel suite I decided to put two dressers instead of smaller side tables because that gave the couple more flexibility with what they wanted to use them for and more table space broad fighting with a glass of water and a box of Kleenex and you’re watching your i Phone and all those things that would be nice if you just had more space and if you had a big enough drawer that you could tuck all those things away when to ask for this couple in particular has a lot of out of town gas I decided to put to trade like side tables in that way didn’t feel super formal IT FELT temporary but it also felt comfortable eventually this will turn into a nursery and I decided to make sure that we picked things that weren’t super expensive so when they need to get rid of it it’s no big deal because they will hopefully have me back when the time comes. My biggest tip for designing in a space that feels like a complete blank slate would be to add your personality adventurous and splurge on certain things and save on other things don’t worry about what the rules are what other people are doing just design for what suits your life.

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