Silly home "decor" question...

[snarlingcoyote]

Yard Sales! Bring cash, be prepared to yard sale several weekends and have fun.

 

[Honeymooner04]

I'm going to second the thrift store idea. You wouldn't believe what you can get a thrift store and with a little elbow grease and spray paint you can make it fit into your home's palatte. I'm a huge blog junkie and there are a ton of blogs out there for inspiration like:

www.thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com
www.centsationalgirl.com
www.betterafter.blogspot.com

Have fun!

 

[bas71873]

The most important thing it to develop a theme or color palette and theme for for all the rooms in your house - and THEN......

BE PATIENT!

But as I said - the most important thing is to BE PATIENT and wait for the perfect item that is in your budget! It WILL happen - as long as you are reasonable!

I totally agre with you on this. I've learned the hard & expensive way. We moved into this house a year and half ago, it will be my forever (until we are retired and downsize) home and I am taking it one room at a time. House was foreclosure, and a mess, so we painted top to bottom and redid all the flooring before we even moved in. We finally finished a major overhaul of the front yard this fall and now I've moved inside. I'm starting upstairs in my guest room and taking it one room at a time and moving along.....I look constantly, but I don't buy something until I know it's exactly what I want....hence there not being a thing on any wall in my den . But I'll get there!

 

[tink2dw]

Ross Dress For Less, Love their home decor stuff and Dvd depts!

Big Lot's too!! We bought a package of 3 rugs for $20.00, that I'm seeing everywhere now!!!!

 

[herdtoDisney]

I totally agre with you on this. I've learned the hard & expensive way. We moved into this house a year and half ago, it will be my forever (until we are retired and downsize) home and I am taking it one room at a time. House was foreclosure, and a mess, so we painted top to bottom and redid all the flooring before we even moved in. We finally finished a major overhaul of the front yard this fall and now I've moved inside. I'm starting upstairs in my guest room and taking it one room at a time and moving along.....I look constantly, but I don't buy something until I know it's exactly what I want....hence there not being a thing on any wall in my den . But I'll get there!

Me too!!! We also bought our foreclosed house a year and a half ago, and had to do the same work-it was trashed-so I still haven't put much up on the walls. After all the work to fix and paint them, I can't bear putting nails in them I'll get there, too, eventually.

I'm suprised only one person mentioned Ikea. LOVE Ikea!!! I'm not crazy about all their furniture, but some is decent, and their decor stuff seems to be as good as anyone else's. It tends towards 'modernish' but it's not all that way. I don't like to have a lot of stuff, decor stuff, in my house, but what I do have typically came from Ikea or Walmart. I do know that not everyone lives near an Ikea-I'm only 35 minutes from one, but I would not drive any long distance to one, altough some people do.

 

[Mom2Ben02]

I love to go "shopping" on Sunday nights with my friend - a/k/a trash night I am very crafty, and so is she...you would not believe what I have found.

In the past few weeks, I have gotten a porch swing (yay!), a cedar chest that both my friend I both looked at said, "Oh, cool - a cedar planter" - turns out it was a toy box with a broken lid. Guess what it will be in the spring, though?

My fave find were two picket fence gates that are just WAITING for Christmas lights!

 

[jandmmom]

My major hobbie/interests are home decorating, travel, and reading, so I am right there with you all. I LOVE Home Goods! I find the most 'unique' items & they have really good prices as well. I also like thrift stores because I am artsy, so I can paint or refinish things. My DDs princess bedroom is made up of things that were almost free I painted them to match & did a huge Disney-ish princess castle mural on all 4 walls.

I like The Dump (it is a furniture store, not the *actual* dump) for really unique furniture pieces. There are some around the Philadelphia area, but not sure about other places.

I also find things at Pier 1, Kohls, Overstock, and Etsy (good for pillow covers for changing decorative pillows throughout the year).

I love Pottery Barn, West Elm, Viva Terra, and Crate & Barrel too, but I have to wait for some good sales or find similar things at other stores.

 

[Karenj2]

When DH and I got married, we decided that the majority of our decor was going to come from trips, so that the items have memories behind them... When we go places, we look for local artists that we like, or find postcards or take pictures and have those framed, we have a dog statue we got from the Bahamas when we went on a Disney Cruise, etc., etc. It takes a while to decorate our house that way, but IMHO it's worth it.