My Recycled Living Room

Yes, this is my "recycled" living room. When we had an "unauthorized" military move from Hawaii 3 yrs ago, due to a deployment (this means the Army would not pay to ship us), I decided to sell everything we owned and just go yard sailing and thrift storing when I got to our new destination. Can you tell I'm unsentimental?
Here it is...still pretty unfinished, but a room we are in a lot and enjoy :)
Couch: free, except fabric. I recovered it.
Chairs: $30 each I believe. I planned on recovering them, but the fabric ended up growing on me in this room.
Everything else is basically under $5 at either yard sales or off Craigslist. Except the jute rug that was about $80....but what can a girl do?
Curtains are not my fav, but were already here and on a pulley system (great for that huge window!), so I tried to update them by adding fabric. There's barn red flowered fabric on the bottom.
The 9 mirror frames are from the dollar store. The paintings in the side office I did myself by tracing plates and bowl bottoms. They were painted on some shelves that were laying around from the previous owners. Desk in office and side table were both for free off Craigslist and off the side of the road :) Actually the plant was $10, I think everything else was cheaper!

Huge painting was $4 at the Goodwill, and the distressed cabinet was $5 in someone's yard down the road. Most of the artwork I did on photoshop and then had printed out at Walmart. The is a picture of my kid's tackling my husband.So, there it is. Most people seem to enjoy it. Most days I love it, somedays I wonder if it looks like I live in a Goodwill...lots still to do, but that's what's fun!


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