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Notice to nostalgics: don’t look for host Stéphane Bellavance, handyman Jean-François Éthier and their designer accomplices in Marianne gets involved. Yes, the new web series shows the transformation of teenagers’ bedrooms, but the comparison with Nasty changebroadcast on Vrak from 2005 to 2009, ends there.
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Throwback to the 1970s in the dinette corner
In this 10-episode production, we dive into the world of the sparkling Marianne Plaisance, content creator behind the YouTube channel 2and skin, followed by 238,000 subscribers, including many young adults who love decorating.
With degrees in graphic design and photography, the 30-year-old has made her mark on social media with her creativity and colorful style.
These two elements are reflected in his large open-plan apartment where some segments of the show were filmed, and where The Press met her.
A shattered universe
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The dining room and its blue sky
Upon entering Marianne Plaisance’s loft, one instantly feels energized by the rainbow of colors unfolding in the room. In the kitchen, a series of lines that seem straight out of the 1970s stretch across the wall. In the dining room, a painted sky brings the good weather inside, no matter the weather. In the living room, it is a multitude of colored pompoms that captures the attention. Even the bathroom impresses with its fresco-inspired artwork The Creation of Adamby Michelangelo.
“It was my project at the start of the pandemic when we thought it was going to last two weeks,” says Marianne Plaisance about the painting on the ceiling of the small room.
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Marianne Plaisance painted the work on the ceiling of her bathroom, inspired by the fresco The Creation of Adamby Michelangelo.
As she sits around the dining room table for the interview, the designer talks about the used rattan chairs she painted blue.
Almost everything in the apartment is second hand. I like it because it gives personality to your room. You can combine beautiful things that you wouldn’t find new in stores.
Marianne Pleasure
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At the head of her bed, Marianne Plaisance painted a reproduction of a painting by Bob Ross.
In episodes of Marianne gets involvedthe host also relies in part on the transformation of used objects to transform the rooms.
“Like in my YouTube videos, I like to keep it accessible. I wanted to offer things that people can reproduce at home,” explains Marianne Plaisance.
To the taste of young people
When you ask Marianne Plaisance what inspires her the most, she answers (unsurprisingly): colors. “Often, my inspiration comes from a color or a mix of colors that I like. For example, the poster behind. This kind of shade of red with a lilac. It’s so beautiful ! I could make a room like that,” she says, pointing to one of the frames in her dining room.
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Marianne Plaisance, in her living room, next to one of her paintings
For the show, Marianne Plaisance was inspired by the favorite colors of the 10 teenagers she met, but also by their tastes in general.
Young people today really know what they like. They have access to so many things that their tastes are developed younger.
Marianne Pleasure
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Marianne Plaisance in front of her wall of paintings, some of which are her creations
Among the metamorphoses carried out, there is a retro bedroom, another inspired by the world of video games, one that looks like a hotel room and one… resembling Marianne Plaisance’s apartment.
“Anne-Catherine said to me: ‘I want your apartment!’ I interpreted it as if I was doing my dream bedroom at 15. Although… it would be my dream room right now at 30 too! »
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Anne-Catherine Guay in her new room
Exit the banal room with white walls and pink comforter, hello colors!
“I go into my room now and I say to myself: “Ah! It’s nice ! It’s completely beautiful! It’s all colorful. It makes you happy”, says Anne-Catherine Guay, who opened the door of her house to The Press.
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Anne-Catherine Guay’s transformed bedroom
What does she like the most about her new decor? Hard to make a choice. After a moment of reflection, she talks about the minimalist illustrations placed above her sofa as well as her yellow cushion with arms. “I think it’s cute! »
Beyond the metamorphosis of his room, the student of fourth secondary was especially happy to meet Marianne Plaisance. “He’s like a role model for me. It represents a bit of what I would like to become when I grow up. […] I wish I had such a colorful apartment. I would like to stay as cheerful and motivated as her, ”says the one who has been following the youtuber for five years.
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Anne-Catherine Guay’s bedroom before Marianne Plaisance’s visit
A pleasure visibly shared by Marianne Plaisance, who found the young participants “really hot, full on, with lots of interesting things to say”.
“It was truly an honor to meet them all,” she says.
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Three tips for redecorating a teenage bedroom
Does your teenager want a change of scenery, but your budget is limited? Here are three tips from Marianne Plaisance.
1. Dare to put color on the walls. According to her, keeping the walls white to make a small room feel bigger is a mistake. “On the contrary, I find that in smaller rooms, it’s the fun to add color because it quickly creates a full atmosphere. »
2. Find what you love. “Go to Pinterest, to Instagram, and save the photos you like. Notice what keeps coming back from piece to piece. It’s a safe bet that what comes back is what you like.
3. Choose a nice big piece. “It can be a bedspread, a rug, a mirror. You change one thing to start with, and after that, you change your room gradually. This helps to space out decoration expenses.
The mirror with 600 pompoms
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An element that catches the eye in Anne-Catherine Guay’s room is without a doubt her large mirror with a frame covered with pompoms. “It’s an easy project,” assures Marianne Plaisance. To achieve this, however, you need a good dose of patience. “We put on a few TV series. It’s long, but it’s really fun. »
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The necessary equipment ? First, acrylic wool. “Much less expensive than real wool,” explains Marianne Plaisance. “In this case, my theme is all colors, but we could choose just one or two colors. »
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Next, you’ll need a pom pom maker, available at arts and crafts supply stores. This “bobble-making gadget,” as Marianne Plaisance calls it, makes it possible to create small balls of fabric much faster than the method with a piece of cardboard that you may be familiar with.
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First step: take the yarn from both ends of your ball of wool and wrap it around the device. We go from one end of the semi-circle to the other three times.
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Second step: “Once it’s rolled up, we cut in the middle,” explains Marianne Plaisance. With fabric scissors, of course, because we cut wool. It doesn’t go well with ordinary scissors. »
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Third step: we cut a piece of wool from his ball and we come to tie a knot in the center of his future pompom. “We serve really hard because we don’t want the pompom to come undone. I do a few laps. »
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Fourth step: we open the pom pom maker and surprise! An almost perfect pompom. “You just have to give a little haircut afterwards”, specifies Marianne Plaisance by cutting a few threads that protrude.
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Fifth step: we start again, again and again. To outline Anne-Catherine’s mirror, the content creator needed 600 pompoms. Don’t have that much patience? The project can be done on a smaller size mirror or a frame.
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Last step: glue the pompoms using a hot glue gun on the outline of the mirror. Marianne’s advice? Place the small balls quite tight. The effect is then more interesting, indicates the one who now considers herself an “expert in pompoms”.
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Since each episode of Marianne gets involved offers a do-it-yourself decoration idea, The Press asked the host to recreate one of her projects (Do It Yourself) for its readers. Here are the details of how the pompom mirror that Marianne Plaisance imagined for Anne-Catherine Guy’s bedroom was made.