33-year-old pays $3,100 a month to reside in an outdated financial institution

Plaisance, a content material creator, has a background in graphic design and industrial images, so discovering a house just like the outdated financial institution was a dream come true.

“When I discovered this place, it was a fantastic canvas for me,” she says. “I at all times envisioned myself residing in a really inventive, artistic, colourful, distinctive area. So, to have this place as my grownup home is so cool to me.”

As a self-professed “intentional maximalist,” Plaisance remodeled the darkish grey and child blue area into her colourful dream house. A few of her prized possessions embrace a lips-shaped sofa and two huge cherries that she thrifted and stuck up to make use of as a bit of artwork within the residence.

“I believe a great way of describing my model can be intentional maximalism as a result of I actually like maximalist décor objects, however not too a lot of them,” she says.

Plaisance estimates she spent $28,000 in renovations. She additionally did a number of the work herself, like including crown molding to the partitions — with assist from her dad — and turning the financial institution’s outdated entryway into her canine’s bed room.

“The very first thing I did after I moved in the home is to place rainbow curtains all via the area,” she says. “And the enjoyable factor with my curtains is while you shut them it makes one large rainbow.”

After including rainbow curtains to the area, one of many first issues Plaisance DIYed, with assist from her dad, was a studio area within the residing space the place she movies content material.

Plaisance says she spent an entire 12 months adorning the first bed room: “It’s totally Wes Anderson, a bit like space-aged combined with Parisian Fortress.”

The couple transformed one of many different bedrooms into Plaisance’s workplace. “I crammed the room with paintings that I like that impressed me,” she says.

There’s a second lavatory and a 3rd bed room within the basement, which Plaisance’s boyfriend makes use of as his workplace. The basement additionally has a passageway to a shared space of the constructing, the place Plaisance has her workshop.

“It appears to be like like a ironmongery store, which I like,” she says.

The couple has been residing within the former financial institution for over two years now, and Plaisance says they haven’t any plans of leaving.

“I actually need to take my time to remodel the place as a result of I do know I need to reside right here for a very long time,” she says. “It is a work in progress.”

The subsequent step is renovating the kitchen, which Plaisance plans on getting skilled assist for. Within the subsequent 5 years, she says she want to do the bogs.