All language subtitles for Andy (1998)

Well, basically, I said about redoing
the place about a year ago.

The colors in here used to be this
really intense blue, which I think was

reflective of the relationship I was in
at the time.

And just with the things I was going
through, I decided what I wanted was

something really calm and peaceful, sort
of timeless.

So that's actually one of the reasons I
picked the colors that are in here.

I know a lot of people come in here and
think, you know, can I fit down?

So white and ivory and that. But it's
very peaceful. I love it here.

And it actually all started with some
new light fixtures I bought that were on

sale at Canadian Tire for $8 .88.

And that sort of set the theme for the
whole apartment.

They're sort of the second empire style,
sort of, I don't know, maybe

neoclassic. I'm not sure what you would
call it.

So once I got my bargain deal for $8
.88, put them into the ceiling,

Well, everything else looked a bit run
down in comparison. So this is what

started a lot of renovations, aside from
just changing the color from an intense

blue to this is called Carrington Beige,
Benjamin Moore. So if you want to go

out, I don't know the number, but that's
what it's called.

I ended up replacing all the doors,
again, in a sort of a more classic

I ended up putting crown molding around
the ceilings, replaced

the dining room light fixture, again,
sort of a classical style, something

wasn't too overwhelming and yet at the
same time not understated.

The door to the balcony used to be a
solid door. I had that cut open and

glass insert put in. Again, sort of with
the theme of the windows. It just opens

up the room all the more.

I love a lot of light. It's one of the
reasons I moved here.

I don't like a lot of curtains.

It makes it nice and airy in here.
Especially during the wintertime, if

like a dull day, like today.

You never really feel closed in or
anything in here.

And then recently what I did is I Redid
all the windows. They used to be this

aluminum, sort of dirty steel color. And
I changed them all to white.

Again, it just brightens the room up and
makes everything look very clean cut.

And in the process, I also changed most
of the furniture.

The couch I got a really good bargain
on. It was this hoorish red color I

at a yard sale.

I paid like a hundred bucks for it. Sent
it out, had it recovered.

It's like a 1931 couch.

Sort of got deco line to it.

And again, it's a pretty timeless piece.

Something that, you know, if it wears
over the years, I can just have it

recovered again. But it's probably one
of the best buys I ever got in my life.

And I had the bolsters added to it.

With the coffee table, not only the
color of the place used to be very

but I had very heavy furniture, like
heavy wing chairs, a heavy 1920s couch.

My coffee table used to be...

a Chinese trunk, which I use as a tea
table.

And again, just with the whole idea of
trying to keep everything open and airy

looking, I went for the glass coffee
table.

And it's huge, but it doesn't feel like
it takes up any space simply because

it's glass. And the iron sort of
connects with the other pieces I bought

as well.

With the side tables, they're iron and
cement. So I tried to do a theme of...

very light colors, and then some wood
and some, like, rock and iron and stuff

like that.

And it seems to have connected quite
well in terms of accent pieces or

tchotchkes, as I like to call them.

I've games like the same themes, like
urns that are sort of iron urns or glass

to go with the coffee table.

you know, statues, things like that. I
actually have a piece of pewter from the

Netherlands, which I bought a couple
years back when I was over there.

And so that sort of connects in with the
theme as well of rock and iron and then

the very light colors for the furniture.

I sort of have a pillar theme.

I have a lot of architectural prints in
here.

So they sort of connect with The urns I
have, and then I, just a little while

ago, I got the pillar that's on the
wall. It looks like the remains of some

runes from Greece or something like
that.

And then my lamps in here, on either
side of the couch, again, sort of

with the pillar theme or Second Empire,
French Empire.

And those I got for a steal. I bought
them at an antique market.

They're plaster, and they're probably
about 50 years old or so.

And they were as ugly as could be. And
then what I simply did is I repainted

them black and gold to connect with the
themes in here.

And I paid like $25 for them, so that
was a good steal.

What else have I done in here?

The table that I got, I bought for
myself for Christmas last year.

Again, it's a pretty major piece, but
it's got very plain lines to it. So

it's a significant statement, it's not
overwhelming at the same time.

And the chairs, again, I went with a
really light color so it doesn't take

from the table itself.

One of my favorite pieces is my two
mermen.

A friend of mine went to Key West a
number of years ago, and he brought back

these two mermen that are holding...

a big glass ball again they're in iron
and the glass ball just connects

perfectly in here and it's a bit of a
conversation piece because most people

take a look at it and then together
these are in fact men not women and uh

getting a bit of a kick out of that so
um and then other tchotchkes in

in uh in theme with the uh the uh place

now i have

a picture in black and white of the
Empire State Building in New York, which

one of my favorite buildings in the
world.

And then I have a little statue of the
Eiffel Tower, which is from the turn of

the century.

And that's sort of connecting with some
other prints I have around the Arc de

Triomphe behind me on the couch.

And then I have the Chrysler Building
framed and sitting on the floor over

there.

So I've sort of tried to do an
architectural theme.

in terms of print, and that pulls
through with the pillows as well.

Some of them have gothic writing on it.
One actually has the print of a gothic

building.

So it all seems to connect pretty well.
And then I just put two or three big

plants in here. The one planter actually
isn't a gothic planter. It's the face

of Merlin, and it looks nice.

And a lot of things I did myself, like
the architectural print. The four of

are from a calendar, and I just took the
calendar down to my printer and had

them framed up.

Of course, my Vermeer print is classic
me.

Vermeer is one of my favorite painters.
It's always been my lifelong goal to be

every Vermeer that was ever painted.

I think there are 38.

I've seen 25 so far.

So I'm getting there. It's been another
13 to go.

And lemons and apples, this is sort of
one of my decorating features in

this apartment. If you ever need to
bring an apartment alive, just put some

yellow lemons in a bowl, and it usually
brings everything alive.

And I find they look good, and I always
recycle them because I make lemon juice

out of my lemons, and I make apple sauce
out of my apples.