The decoration of Van Anh Langelaan's apartment is tremendously budget-friendly, with vintage furniture, DIY-wall decor, and even an old dresser she refurbished and painted herself.

Gizelle was raised on PBS period dramas, but until she gets to live in a traditional English manor home, she's furnished her industrial modern Chicago loft with antiques to blend in British colonial design inspiration.

Alexx and Rob joke that they styled their living room so that their cat, Meoweh, would look good anywhere in it.

Angelo and his boyfriend's strongest ability to decorate their small apartment is refurbishing old furniture to fit a more modern style (like their kitchen table, coffee table trunk, kitchen chairs) and they love creating art and furniture from scratch.

Originally built in the 1850s as pig barn, when Elle and Martin first bought this place, the floor was literally just earth. The couple did much of the conversion work themselves using mostly reclaimed materials to convert this barn into a cozy, rustic dream home!

The homeowner's best advice for creating a home you love? "DON'T BE TIMID."

Salomé identifies as a maximalist who loves pink and mixing and matching prints, patterns, and textures.

There are eclectic art piece from local contemporary artists mixed with exquisite New Orleans antiques and family treasures.

A folding chair and folding tables bring flexibility to this teeny studio apartment shared by Daryl and his fiancée.

Jesse and Alastair love the bones of this apartment in a beautiful old Art Deco building and have filled it with an eclectic mix of antiques, vintage furniture, and modern art.

This home's remodel goal was to be well-designed but whimsical and fun... and there are over 1,000 books!

Inspired by Bauhaus and Scandinavian designs, Kristen Rosario blended the two designs to create a truly vibrant, clean, and minimalist space.

Musician Rachel Baiman and her husband, musician George Jackson, stumbled upon this former vacation cabin in Madison, Tennessee a few years ago. While full of charm, it needed A LOT of work, and the couple did much of the work themselves and on a budget.

Heather has spent the last 14 months redoing every inch of this small rental studio apartment on a budget.

Marie's vision for this 1920s-era Seattle house was to strip away the changes that had been made in the '60s, '70s and '80s and add back the 1920s feel.

Alicia went for plush furnishings (like velvet), deep, dark colors (like dark green walls), and unique artwork including custom neon lighting in her small UK terraced house.

Anlan Yao's home is filled with pieces that bring her happiness, light, and laugher, and is surrounded by greenery (lots and lots of greenery) and pieces found and repurposed.

Despite having a tiny budget, Jerica has been able to transform her house into a unique, colorful, patterned, vibrant home thanks to tackling many of the projects herself, like a very cute dining banquette area.

Katie rearranged her studio apartment thousands of times to make it seem separate from the bedroom area.

Kina de Cordoba moved in to a new rental apartment during the pandemic, and decorating the space has been their fun COVID project.

Lydia and Mike had to get extremely creative in putting their stamp on their house while they save for further renovations.

This total fixer upper was dark, dingy, and closed off, so interior designer Isabelle Dahlin opened up the ceilings to expose original beams and put in skylight windows to brighten the space.

Thanks to all the natural light, the high ceilings, and how everything is laid out, Hannah's apartment feels much bigger than it is! With the new loft bedroom, it feels even more distinctive.

It was important to Julia and John to build a house in a way that was respectful of the environment and that would be sustainable to live in long-term. It took three years from when they started building to before they were able to move in, but it's because they did nearly all the work themselves while working full-time jobs.

Chad used light colors to make their small space seem larger, open, and airy.

Rehma's DIY paint job of the builder-grade, standard black tile fireplace and built mantel is just one of the great projects in this home.

Erica Leader and her husband were able to get into the Portland neighborhood they wanted by buying a MAJOR fixer upper from a man who had lived in the house for 50 years!

Artist Meredith Olinger has used her Memphis house as a gorgeous canvas for her colorful and patterned style.

They even found room for a washer, dryer, and a large amount of fitness equipment on board!

Audrey Sprinkle and her husband, Dustin, combined tons of DIY projects with vintage furniture finds to create a space for their family, which includes five kids and two dogs.

There's an entryway, living area, dining area, library/office area, and sleeping area!

Though not exactly tiny, Kim Bui's house still had to fit her family of five and all the various functions they needed during the pandemic — including two home offices and school for three kids — in to her house. She did so by making rooms perform double and triple duty!

Sylvia's Crown Heights studio apartment proves it's possible to be eco-friendly, buy used, and not get bedbugs in NYC!

Over quarantine, actress Taylor Hook transformed her space with touches of antique charm, beautiful ornate details, gold accents, art, and of course, lots of plants! It's like a 'vibrant neo-classical apothecary.'

This little in-law studio is behind a house and it's perfect and right down the street from a cute little downtown area.

Sarah and Greg did lots of things to this apartment to make it feel like their own, including painting a big green arch in the living room.

Kristin and Joel splashed color on all the walls, added a couple murals, painted the kitchen cabinets, tile-stenciled the cement floors, added molding to doors and swapped all the lighting, faucets, and doorknobs to make this space fully their own.

Alison and Stephen stripped rooms and rooms of old wallpaper and added their own, painted kitchen cabinets and every single wall, updated gardens, rebuilt the white picket fence, and more. After five years, this house is a character- and art-filled forever home.

Stacey O'Brien has personalized her 800-square-foot rental apartment with books, art, and a little bit of driftwood DIY.

This cottage hadn't been decorated in almost 30 years; the layout was dark and there were fake beams and faded maroon carpet. After ripping out walls and saving the old stone walls, the log burner, and the real beams discovered under a false ceiling, the home's renovation is amazing.

Living in a small studio apartment has made Senaida realize you don’t need a lot of space; you just need a little bit of creativity and storage options.

Over the past three years Joan has been transforming this new construction house to something more personal. So far she's painted, wallpapered several rooms, and even tiled the powder room floor and changed its vanity.

The apartment's building is about 100 years old and has lovely vintage features including tall ceilings, which make the small space feel even larger and luxurious.

Hildos, an artist, channeled her anxiety of the challenging last year into creativity, taking on some major home decorating projects. "It took a lot of patience, research, building, and injuries."

For Mitch, going tiny was a way to minimize housing costs. "It also helps encourage me not to buy things I do not need, while being able to curate my space with nice things I really like. I like to call it 'tiny luxury.'"

Emma and her family lost everything — baby photos, wedding mementos, family heirlooms, and $150K in home improvements in the Nun's Fire, which crossed over from Sonoma and devastated the Mt. Veeder area where they live.

This 1901 cottage was vacant for over a year before Amy bought it six months ago. She moved in two weeks before going into lockdown, and working from home for six months has meant she's been able to do a little improvement every day.

"Creatively finding a way to accommodate a good work/life balance within 734 square feet took some time and unique design decisions."