GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM MAKEOVER ✨ DIY & Budget Friendly

[@justlanchen]

I unfortunately had to remove this last year due to the writers strike, so if you saw it previously be sure to show some love 🫶 FUN FACT: The tiles in the Atrium (and throughout the Ministry of Magic) were made out of thick cardboard, as actual ceramic tiles would have been very expensive to produce. Each "tile" underwent a lengthy painting process to give them the look of real ceramic tile. Over 30,000 individually placed tiles were used.

[@MusclesandBooks]

Okay, I thought I was going crazy for a second LOL. Yep, I remember this one! So glad you were able to reupload it.

[@justlanchen]

@@MusclesandBooks 😅😅 yea it was unfortunate. I think it was for the best though because I able to fix some audio issues and edit it more 🥰

[@hardstylelife5749]

Very interesting trivia. May I ask why you were forced to remove the video due to writers strike? I’m not familiar with neither the strike nor the consequences of it :)

[@vintagelady1]

Holy sh*t!

[@judis6224]

First time on your vlog,WOW,so clever😊❤

[@44alwaysrightjlp]

I am 80 y/o and have never seen a Harry Potter movie or the room that are referring to, however, I am a fan of dark academia decor and I have to say you absolutely nailed it with this room. YOu added all the charm and aesthetic required to give the vibe you were going for. You certainly should start in the set design and decorating business, you have so much imagination and knowledge of how to achieve that certain look you are going for. Again I love it. I have been an interior decorator for 50 years and always admire the ability in those people who can achieve an illusion to the point of being realistic. Good on ya girly !!!

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

I recommend that you throw yourself into Potterworld!, Read the books, or listen to the audio books. Then watch the movies. You will love them all!! Then come back and comment what House you belong to!! 🥰

[@vintagelady1]

As one old lady to another---isn't this great?

[@lizzy1519]

Girl the difference between fan room and actual decor is so real and understated

[@tamara10]

Love how the reveal was filmed and edited

[@justlanchen]

thank you!

[@spiderbeam]

a) this is one of the best fantasy room makeovers i've ever seen and b) your filmmaking is SO GOOD IN THIS

[@justlanchen]

You’re so kind for saying this, thank you so much 🥹🫶

[@juliebarrett943]

FANTASTIC. You have created a magical, cozy, inspiring (and transportable!) Gryffindor common room. Soooo well done. Great thrifting too. 🪄

[@justlanchen]

I’m really happy you enjoyed what I created 🥹🫶🥰

[@andreatorres2911]

WOW. You can be an interior designer. YOU ARE AN ARTIST.

[@reneebonnell5010]

Amazon has moving wick candles. They come in tapers & pillares. I use them all over my home; they are Mezmerizing! They'd be perfect for your sconces. Thanks for all your great ideas. 👏

[@justlanchen]

do you possibly have the link to yours? I would love to check those out!!

[@reneebonnell5010]

@justlanchen they have other brands of the tapers I hot but not the ones I purchased 3 years ago. 😔 But if you search, "moving wick pillar candles" I always go by highest rating. Very best of luck! 😊

[@travelpartnertn37050]

I think the "window wall" is my favorite effect! Perfect coloration.

[@justlanchen]

thank you!!

[@saracarlson-kringle]

That's some heavy duty ambiance...it was amazing to watch your whole process! If I may share - I saw a post on fb of someone's bookcase, and they secretly slipped a chocolate candy bar [Lindt in this case] between some book spines - which I think is a great hiding place and would be handy in case of dementors.

[@justlanchen]

So glad you enjoyed watching

[@imimaginingchaos]

Dude the candle holder would be the COOLEST propagation area, you could have so many baby plants 🌿

[@Serenity-Hedgenettle]

that portrait window turned out so good!

[@justlanchen]

thank you 🥹

[@olgapikul3328]

So beautiful!! And I love the sponsor segment. Your art is amazing!💕

[@justlanchen]

🙈 thank you so much 🥹🫶

[@beautyallaroundme724]

Great job! Love your artwork you showed, too. BTW, there is a wallpaper that looks like castle walls that probably would have been cheaper & easier for you. I knew of a crystal/metaphysical shop that had it on all of their walls, and it looked great. I was thinking of making a Gryffindor themed living room, myself, but have not done it.

[@justlanchen]

thank you 🥹🫶 I actually looked up a stone wall backdrop after the fact that looked amazing and it was priced around $20 😅 If I could do it over, I would get the backdrop 🙈

[@justlanchen]

oh you must!!!! let me know how it turns out!

[@debmi8839]

OMG, I am so happy to have found this! We have a guest house on our property that I am turning into the Gryffindor common room and I totally agree with you on the walls! I searched high and low for the perfect stone backdrop- finally found one on Amazon (that was not cheap) and it fades very quickly even with no direct sunlight. VERY frustrating, as the walls are the most important visual aspect of the room. I may have to start my search over, as I am a perfectionist. Thank you so much for the inspiration!

[@jaaustin500]

I once did a cut stone wall using thin masking tape and several shades of paint and using a dabbing method to create texture. Turned out great! It fooled a lot of people who thought we had actually attached stone to our walls! lol.

[@PenelopeBohunko]

The castle wall with the window is my favorite too! It came out so good! I loved the whole room! 😃

[@vampasha]

Fantastic! This is the first video of yours I've seen and I just gotta say you are stunning. I'm getting a mix of Troian Bellisario and Maya Hawk and I'm now addicted.

[@astrofalls]

This was so good I’m glad you reposted it!!!

[@KemiZaki]

I loved it, even though I'm Slytherin and Ravenclaw biased with the common rooms design, I just loved your creation. You did an splendid job!

[@justlanchen]

thank you so much!! 🥰

[@michelledalenaa]

I love the whimsical nature of this. Very cool.

[@toinex1]

You should be a set designer! I’m glad I found your channel!

[@justlanchen]

That’s always been my dream!!! 🫶🥹

[@justlanchen]

Thanks for sticking around 🥰🥰

[@Katzenjammer82]

So creative and fun, absolutely amazing.

[@justlanchen]

Thank you so much!!

[@yadiaag7771]

THIS IS CREATIVE, not the whole white on white on white trend we see

[@justlanchen]

I’m so happy you like it 😭😭🫶

[@jocelynbishop6816]

I'm in awe of your creativity and attention to detail. This looks amazing and so cozy.

[@sophie_guco]

ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!! AMAZIIIINNNGGGG 😍

[@faelynnnn]

The window is just too good 👏

[@judis6224]

Love your finds.😊

[@lua_moura]

OMG what you did in this room, I'm speechless!! Absolutely amazing❤

[@suzy1676]

Wonderful and magical ✨️ 💛 ❤! Love Harry Potter!

[@katrinatsouki]

Great job 👏👏👏 congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ms.alhajri4068]

Amazing Gryffindor common room makeover , love it ❤💯

[@justlanchen]

Thank you!!! 🥰🫶

[@vintagelady1]

Oh I love it & I'm not even a Harry Potter geek but the best thing (other than everything) is that you have a passion for something & you are living out that passion. Take it from an old lady---NEVER lose that! OK---so the tapestry is amazing but since yoo did the amazing Hogwarts castle painting in 35 minutes I'm thinking you could have painted your own tapestry in, what,90 minutes? The wall sconces were incredible, you nailed the look., the other thrifted items were perfect, the stone wal was excellent. I hope you will replicate this (or have already) in your new place & when you do, get several sizes & shapes of sponges & use them to stamp the wall with a base color & then paint up the stone look---or you coud go crazy & make papier-mache stones. Or you could order the foam stones you were talking about. I just hope you do another Common Room!

[@mfonafangideh805]

I love watching home decoration and you are just so talented and super inspiring, I'm really learning a lot from you! I've watched your elegant room makeover, and kitchen art deco makeover and now I'm curious to see a house tour of all the different rooms each with it's own different aesthetic, in the natural light, and how each style of the room feels when you walk into them. 🥰

[@justlanchen]

no way!! thanks for checking out all of those makeovers 🥹🫶 I definitely want to do a home tour at some point in the future!

[@biasanto]

I watch all your videos non stop 😅 it’s so good! Thank you so much for the hard work on sharing this beauty

[@mariacabrera2850]

I'm Slytherin everyday 🐍 I. Love. This!🖤 You amaze me, taking cardstock paper & making stones! 🏰 Then adding that amazing "window," back lit & painting 🤯

[@justlanchen]

🥹 I'm so happy you like it!!! 🫶

[@Tracer3]

So Goood. Super Well Done.

[@kgty1295]

You are a mastermind and so talented. I strive just to have a quarter of the vision you have. my room looks so sad right now. 😭

[@justlanchen]

😭🥹 you're so kind

[@LeviniaRuff]

Hi I’m Levinia from the Uk.I think you’ve done a cracking job.I love all the walls.The window is so effective.I’m in love with it too.❤

[@selenas4760]

This is AMAZING!!!!

[@justlanchen]

thank you so much!

[@carlosmatos2416]

Came great. So much amazing details.

[@justlanchen]

Thanks so much!

[@SomeKindofAesthete]

You're so gosh darn talented! ❤

[@hardstylelife5749]

Great design, bravo

[@mostlyghostey]

Ah! So nice to see video from the studio tour! I took the tour at the Leavesden studio before smart phones were a huge presence so I don’t have any photos of it. It’s nice to see it again!

[@mostlyghostey]

Also your stone wall dilemma is a perfect example of the sunk cost fallacy.

[@bridgetcook1064]

Just Totally Awesome ✨️ You are so Talented ❤

[@paulalusk5586]

This was really good!

[@justlanchen]

Thank you!!!

[@DragonFae420]

I bought floating candlesticks that you hang with fishing line and light up with a wand on Amazon. It makes the space look truly whimsical

[@justlanchen]

Love that!! I did that in my Harry Potter autumn makeover too. It’s so pretty 🥹🥹✨

[@snowysnowyriver]

Bless your heart.....watching you make that stone wall. I wanted to send you some rolls of stone patterned wallpaper like we had back in the 1970s. It would have been so much easier for you to customise. The effort you put in was incredible. ❤

[@kizunakei]

You did an amazing job!!! ❤❤❤

[@justlanchen]

Thank you!!🫶🫶🫶

[@Olivia-or7jy]

This is incredible! Now I want to create Ravenclaw common room

[@Esther-rehtsE]

Whoah!! Great job😍😍😍

[@justlanchen]

Thank you!! 😁

[@indi1omccoln565]

You could get small jars and add them to the wall candle holder and insert vines to make grow across the room

[@justlanchen]

oh that is such a cute idea!!!

[@stephanieellenbogen5570]

I love that so much!

[@angelinaduganNy]

I just found your channel today. I am so happy that I did. You are so talented. I will have to watch your other videos as well.

[@mialynnrivera3700]

This looks so good!! I love it! 😍 I love how the window turned out 🤩 this was definitely inspiring for me.

[@hellenhighwater]

May I suggest gold rub n buff? It's a gold wax you can use on basically any surface, and it picks up texture REALLY well. Prefect for frames and metal objects!

[@justlanchen]

Yes! I’ve been meaning to buy this!!

[@hellenhighwater]

@@justlanchen I love it for decor!

[@ljc.youtube]

those tapestry finds are awesome, great idea, maybe next time go with a stencil for the brick wall or tape it off in a brick pattern, how fun to come home to your HP common room.

[@Faeriecrafts_wh]

Bloody hell! the room turned out sick!! I love that you have narcissas hair but are a gryffindor. My hair used to be white for a long time but I dyed it back to my natural red and look like a gryffindor girly now even though I’m a slytherin. I’d love to do the same thing with slytherin house colors! Thanks for the inspiration

[@brycedoerksen9997]

Very cool! Awesome work! I hope you get to work for Imagineering. Seen you mention before on IG. Amazing place. Theme park design is great. I could definitely see you doing that!

[@justlanchen]

Same here! It would be an absolute dream come true 🥹

[@kathleenburns7065]

Thank you so much for putting this back up! I am planning to redo my bedroom as a Gryffindor common room this year and am getting so many ideas from this on what to start looking for and thrifting. I have two windows to try and work around but maybe I can find some photos of the tour in London to see what they did as I doubt my parents would let me paint the wood frames black but maybe a darker stain could be agreed upon. I love that little suitcase side table that is so freaking cute! Would love to know where you got it from! Got any ideas on how to upgrade a bedroom door and a sliding piano hinged closet doors? I know a lot of people paint the marauders map on their closet doors and I’ve debated it but I think I wanna keep them wood you know? I really wanna keep the aesthetic of the Gryffindor common room and not make it look like a little kids bedroom make over.

[@passingthru4383]

Amazing work. You have talent.

[@justlanchen]

🥹🥹🥹🫶🫶🫶

[@jessiesgirls3053]

This was absolutely amazing!!! I have always wanted to do something like this but never really knew how to do it and like you said make it actually look like the real deal. You nailed it!!! :)

[@cam2designs]

Very creative!

[@justlanchen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@yellowzora]

That was amazing, I really love how many candles / lightsources you implemented, it really brought it all to life! Now how to convince my boyfriend to let me do something similar in our livingroom... :p

[@brendanelson9635]

Well done! You are very talented! Looking forward to more!

[@susannee.colella6109]

This is amazing

[@justlanchen]

thank you so much!!!

[@TheCrochetVampire]

This is incredible! You are so talented! 🖤

[@meerschweinchenn]

omg this is so cool and inspiring. now i wanna redecorate

[@craigdgriffiths6206]

Very good!

[@justlanchen]

Glad you think so! 🫶

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

You are the main character of your life! Perfect! Please come make my Ravenclaw Room!!! 🤎

[@marenjeworowski9859]

Wow wow wow. It looks stunning! I love it 🖤🖤🖤

[@TwistedSisttaa]

It looks so good. Fantastic

[@anitasmith7764]

It looks absolutely amazing! So so cool! As for your wall it looks great! If you’re looking for a easier way to make the “stone" wall, I saw a woman on you tube tape off the grout lines and go over it with with joint compound to create a stone/brick effect. Then she pulls the tape off and it gives it a 3d stone look. Then you can paint them however you need to after it’s dry.

[@MlleWanderlust]

Wow 🤩 just found your channel and this room is amazing!

[@eileenmiller9914]

It is so cool! It looks so good.

[@karonmcgregor4753]

I have a huge poster/wallpaper art which is the full book of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone printed on it. It's in iny print, but the full book. Have had it for years, and just can't bring myself to use it!! You've done a fab job. Enjoy the space.

[@katieholsinger645]

This is so cute!!

[@justlanchen]

thanks so much

[@elenoredanielsson6771]

😱😍❤️🧑‍🎨🪄🧙‍♀️❣️ So mutch inspiration 😀👍

[@justlanchen]

So glad you think so!!

[@ramblejack]

I second your point about not making a fan room. My own room is inspired by the Slytherin Common Room, but is very much along the lines of what a student of the school might have, rather than what a fan of the show might have (which most room makeovers appear to be).

[@shawnfrye5987]

The window is my favorite part

[@haggisa]

This came out incredibly good! Your DIY skills are so impressive. And all the thrift finds! I envy you Americans, that you can find such treasures so cheaply. ❤🌸

[@AriZteaLover]

So magical!

[@jennyharwood6379]

What a fun space /*

[@marianneblack6503]

I love it!! This is absolutely amazing! 😍 I really wanted to watch this one and it did not disappoint, I'm so impressed with all the time and effort you put in it!

[@mochi_ani]

I just subscribed!! So glad I found your channel! This is so cool!🥹🫶🏼

[@justlanchen]

omg you're so kind 🥹 thank you for being here 🫶

[@harrietttt]

i don't really like harry potter, but this video looked promising so i clicked on it, and omg i'm so glad i did the room turned out absolutely GORGEOUS

[@TiamatApsu_Ia]

Love this ❤

[@justlanchen]

Thank you!!!

[@metassebiahailemariam1390]

Now I need a room like this

[@justlanchen]

do it!!!! 🫶

[@tailepoe]

Dude..I love your style. You should definitely try foam carving!! With all your skills you'll find all kinds of reasons to use it. Not that really expensive either. It will elevate your already beautiful wall. Great vibes❤

[@justlanchen]

I definitely want to do that in the future!! I would love to have a faux brick wall 😍😍

[@denisecaster1251]

❤This turned out amazing! You did a fantastic job! Very talented! I was scrolling along and I am so glad that I stopped and watched…❤

[@i.plvygrnd]

I don't know you, but I'm so proud of you. You had a vision and it was so fun to come along on the journey with you. I'm reading book 4 right now and kinda wanna rent the place. Do you do space art of the Auroras? I'm looking for a piece for my bedroom !

[@justlanchen]

🥹🫶 I’m so glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!! I have painted the aurora before 🥰 I don’t have one currently but I could always do a custom piece :)

[@abigailkatestewart7395]

as a Utahn I always forget nobody knows what the DI is😅 this is AMAZING!!! you’re so creative.

[@NA-tt1rb]

Damn and I thought I was a fan lol. Came out pretty good!

[@annedelaney33]

Oh my gosh! Years ago wanted to be a the first woman US astronaut. Although not meant to be, I did meet Sally Ride! And astronomy lectures..me, too! Thrilled to peruse your space art! Where are your collections? My Mom was an artist and mentor. As an avid reader, love the art piece i.e., the woman in white and her reading book. Any link? Congratulations on a fabulous creative room, Lauchen!

[@GrailSidhe]

Great work! I'm just amazed at how cheap things are in the US compared to Europe. Those items, even thrifted, would have cranked the price to over 500 euro.

[@justlanchen]

That is crazy!!! I honestly think it’s just a Utah thing. I moved back to LA and thrifting here has been awful!!! Items that are broken and unusable are listed for $$$ and I just don’t understand it 😭

[@GrailSidhe]

@@justlanchen Yes, looks like in some areas thrifting is trendy and people take advantage, making things quite expensive.

[@zooneyl2248]

Great talent. Bravo

[@tamieckert4548]

Lanchen, beautiful reveal, but as looking at the stone wall, the grout is too white, like bathroom white, just smudge some light gray in and out of the lines some,for a more ancient look, and the sconces on each side put a little higher than the picture so that the lights don’t compete with your picture,and it may make your room have a taller illusion.Love the divider very much, you’ll need a hint brighter desk light to show off your items better. Enjoyed the journey of your fantastic finds too. As loving art I made a faux fireplace and it’s close to completed.👍👜🌂👢🧳🎩💖

[@justlanchen]

Thanks for all the awesome tips! Love hearing your feedback. Ah the grout bothered me too. I unfortunately wasn’t able to paint in this rental but I would definitely age the grout in a future space if I was able to! Thanks so much for watching 🫶🥹🥰

[@tamieckert4548]

@@justlanchen My oops❣️A big sheet of paper, and then use two sided tape running it along for each row then smacking the squares on, and when done using the wall sheet with the paper adhered squares just roll it up till next use, if some squares tend to curl when unrolling it out just add more two sided tape behind those spots 💖✅👍❣️🎩👢

[@DylanYzewyn]

Just watched the video. You put in a lot of work into your interiors. Cutting the stone wall alone a lot of work

[@justlanchen]

It was quite the feat. Budget makes me do things that take a lot of time 😅

[@rflett5797]

It would be cool to put an old computer monitor in a frame and turn it into an animated picture like they have in Harry Potter movies.

[@justlanchen]

that would be epic!!!!

[@mrsmarr3308]

At 25:11 there is an oil lamp-- love it!! Did I miss this mentioned in the video? I would love to make one for myself!

[@justlanchen]

Yes, I showed it during the thrifting portion. You can find it in the time stamps. I thrifted mine 🥰