DIY x Budget Decorating Tips
I'm the initiatory of all to admit that I brand a lot of decorating mistakes, but 1 thing I am adept at is stretching a dollar.
I volition brand that dollar practice the SPLITS.
The final fourth dimension I blogged nigh this room was inward May of final twelvemonth (in a very embarrassing post), as well as quite a few changes receive got taken identify since then. But, merely for fun, let's choke dorsum to the really kickoff as well as recollect what the living room looked similar the twenty-four hours nosotros initiatory of all moved in.
It was basically a blank canvas. It's changed nigh a 1000000 times since then, and I'm certain it volition modify in 1 trial again soon.
Anyone else endure from compulsive-pillow-swapping-syndrome?
Anyways, here's where nosotros are today.
The couches, ottoman, as well as TV are pretty much the solely shop bought items inward this entire room. The residuum I've gathered from thrift stores through the past times few years.
As I mentioned inward my teaser final week, I made a few pillows out of some colorful stuff as well as spray painted a thrift shop tray gold.
And as well as hence I merely spent a lot of fourth dimension making stuff as well as collecting things that I loved.
A chip of Jesse's music gear is inward merely nigh every room inward this solid (he's a human who tin play a hateful keyboard), but I've decided that his guitars brand for groovy decorating accessories. He doesn't sympathise this at all, but enjoys the fact that I continue photographing his love guitar.
This one's for you, boo.
Some sometime thrift shop terminate tables were painted a soft white (furniture pigment tips flora here) as well as I flora a truly groovy bluish as well as white ginger offend at the thrift shop for around $7.
I experience similar normal people in all probability wouldn't acquire excited over that find, but TRUST, at that spot was excitement inward my niggling frugal heart. It didn't know what to practice amongst itself.
And merely to last authentic, no, at that spot are non flowers inward my solid on a daily basis. Jesse ever knows a spider web log post is nigh to move on when I choose $3 flowers habitation from the grocery store.
It merely makes for a prettier picture. :)
Sidenote though: I got that niggling clear foursquare vase at the Dollar Tree for a buck. I've seen them for $5-10 everywhere else.
Dollar s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d.
And straightaway for my favorite novel addition.
I decided to create a gallery wall around the TV.
I intend I spent a full of nigh $30 on the gallery wall, which feels similar a major accomplishment since 1 new frame unremarkably costs $20.
Also, yes, Kevin is back.
I don't wanna utter nigh it.
But, I will. Next week. For now, let's merely give him a friendly moving ridge as well as choke nigh our business.
Moving on.
While mixing metallics used to drive me crazy, it's rapidly choke something I love. For the gallery wall, I used silvery as well as gilt frames. I flora a few modern silvery frames on clearance at Target, as well as sourced the residuum of the frames from thrift stores.
Most of the fine art was handmade or something thrifty.
Here's the gallery wall breakdown.
I made a few abstract pieces of my ain using several bluish as well as light-green paints combined amongst the amazing gilt foliage pigment I used here.
I've flora that fifty-fifty the most simplistic fine art looks groovy when matted as well as framed.
I also made a large abstract slice of fine art that was super slowly to do, but totally ended upwards beingness a favorite.
I framed that slice inward a large $2 thrift shop frame as well as merely spray painted the mat white. It was originally a muddied orangish color, but it was an slowly fix.
And meet that niggling gilt foliage anchor?
I made that using the same tips I shared inward my gilt foliage fine art tutorial.
I made a gilt foliage ampersand, too.
It fits inward good amongst a few thrift shop finds...a botanical impress (re-framed inward a modern frame), a metallic element seashell impress (kept inward the master copy frame) as well as an ornate mirror.
And to farther my obsession for all things cat, I added a giant jaguar print.
I flora it for $4 a duo weeks agone at the thrift shop (which I sneak peeked on Instagram) as well as nearly fainted when I saw it.
And you lot intend I kid. You tin also meet my niggling ginger offend as well as seashell prints that I scored nearby.
It's weird, but I brand no apologies for my feline obsession.
To know Cheese as well as Tootie is to last obsessed amongst them.
Oh, as well as those horses?
Got 'em from a book. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 99 cent thrift shop book.
It was titled 'Careers for Horse Lovers' as well as provided me amongst vii groovy Equus caballus photos as well as 700 questions.
*One-manhand-per-post quota fulfilled.
As for the mirrors on the gallery wall, those all came from the thrift store, too. I truly flora all of these at once, as well as couldn't move past times them up. I gave them all a quick coat of this gold spray pigment (affiliate link) earlier adding them to the gallery wall, equally they were originally a niggling likewise antique looking.
And that, friends, is the living room.
So, straightaway that you've seen the latest living room updates, completed for a full of nigh $100, let's utter nigh a few ways I stretch my dollars.
Here are my top 10 budget decorating ideas.
#1. Mix as well as Match.
The primal is using a niggling sometime as well as a niggling new. Find a few groovy novel pieces as well as fill upwards inward the gaps amongst things you lot collect over time. In my experience, most of those gaps tin last filled amongst thrift shop finds....if you're willing to receive got the endeavor to look.
#2. Know where to look.
Over the years, I've scoped out nearly every thrift shop inward town. Most of them are non great. Several of them are amazing. I depository fiscal establishment check out the amazing ones frequently, equally it's a initiatory of all come upwards initiatory of all serve situation. My best thrift shop tips tin last flora here. I also often search for items on Craigslist (tips here) as well as pass a few weekends during the summertime going to local garage sales as well as estate sales.
#3. Don't last deterred past times the electrical flow color of an item.
Once you lot tin expect past times the electrical flow color of an item, your whole niggling decorating the world volition change. The possibilities are endless in 1 trial you lot sympathise that it's the shape that matters. You tin ever Rub n Buff, paint, stain, or spray paint. (Here are some groovy spray pigment tips to acquire you lot started.)
#4. Make your ain pillows.
I used to waste materials a lot of coin buying pillows. That ended the twenty-four hours I discovered this.
#5. Paint furniture.
This sums upwards my life. Basically, merely choke read this.
#6. Update hardware on furniture.
Even if you lot pigment thrift shop furniture, the hardware is unremarkably truly outdated. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 truly slowly means to update it is to either supplant the hardware all together, or to spray pigment it a meliorate color. Either means it makes a huge difference.
#7. Make your ain art.
I don't attention how unartistic you lot intend you lot are. I hope that you tin brand abstract art. Plus, if you lot lay it inward a groovy frame, it volition expect similar a 1000000 bucks. I know this because nigh 75% of my fine art is truly terrible as well as if I lay it inward a matted frame, Jesse unremarkably thinks I bought it. Fact. :)
#8. Pass on the junk, purchase the classics.
I've fallen into hoarder-territory several times throughout the years piece thrifting. Over time, I've learned that I don't involve to purchase every niggling special I similar merely because it's a dollar. I've learned the importance of waiting for those really groovy finds.
My play tricks is to inquire myself if I volition similar this 10 years from now. If I receive got to intend nigh the answer, I involve to laid it down.
SET. IT. DOWN.
#9. Don't last afraid to fail.
The best business office of budget decorating is that it allows you lot a lot of room for messing up. If you've solely spent $50 on that dresser, it's non the terminate of the the world if you lot ruin it because you lot got a wild pilus to pigment it pink.
#10. Be unique.
This is my favorite tip.
Be unique.
In my ain niggling journey, I've flora that through limitations comes creativity. When you lot can't merely run to (insert any shop floats your boat here) as well as plop downward thousands of dollars for novel stuff, you're forced to intend exterior of the box. The infinitesimal I stopped being embarrassed about that as well as truly embraced the fact that I practice things differently, my the world blossomed.
And I know yours will, too.
That's all for today sweetness friends.
Thank you lot for sharing inward my niggling journey. :)
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That's all for today! 'Til side past times side time!
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