Our Apartment

Just thought I would share a few pictures of our home so that I can brag about inexpensive decorating, and how I can pull it off.  The most expensive thing in here is the love seat, which set us back $50.

Our couches are from Kijiji and Value Village.  The banana-shaped coffee table is from MCC, a thrift store run by the Mennonite Church.  I think I found it for $10.  The print that is tucked onto the back of the love seat is from Kensington Market in Toronto, bought with a friend.  Probably, before that, it came from India.

These pictures and pillows are probably the most dollar-per-pound objects in our living room.  The pictures were on sale at Home Sense for $25 each, and the pillows were $15 each at Walmart.  Yes, I bought them there.  Condemn me if you like.

I bought the lamp for $5 from Value Village, the shade for $1 from Salvation Army, and the potted plant containers from various thrift stores.  The lamp was originally gold, with a huge pleated shade, but I spray-painted it Marigold with paint from Home Depot ($7) and tossed the shade.

The picture frames are from Salvation Army, painted with a sample-size pot of beige paint I had lying around from a decorating project.  The mattes are pieces of cotton I had lying around, and the pictures are color photocopies from a book of illustrations we bought second-hand.  The copies cost $1.50 to make.  The book was probably $2.  The flowers are from Safeway.