Did you know that you can actually furnish your entire home with yard sale items.   They actually had an article in our local paper about a man who did just that.  We are well on our way to doing the same thing.  Probably about 80 percent of what we have is from yard sales.  It is beautiful and when put together, it is really quite an eclectic collection.

We just love the sales, be it yard, estate moving sales, or auctions. Matter of fact, we were getting ready to re-do our kitchen. It was so small you could not bend over without hitting your butt on the other end of the kitchen, and honestly we do not have a big old butts.

We knew we were in for a big project and knew it would cost a small fortune for the reconstruction and to get nice decorations for this new project.

We were not sure how we wanted it decorated.  But all it took was one good yard sale and seeing a wonderful picture with grapes hanging over a shelf (It is beautiful). Well that started the whole project.  The kitchen became an Italian theme with curtains adorn with wine bottles and wine glasses, and from there finding the color (went with moss green and plum), and then at every sale we just found the best stuff for our kitchen.  Old wine bottles, crystal wine glasses, still life pictures with wine bottles and grapes that had an Italian theme. Honestly the kitchen is a vision of beauty and over ¾ of the kitchen was purchased at yard sales and estate auctions. This ended up being very inexpensive too. Now that we are done nothing looks cheap, it looks like it was all made to go together. (And we had a blast looking for the things, almost like a scavenger hunt). If the items were purchased at a store brand new, we would have spent about 2 thousand or so, but we only spent a small percent of that by buying items that no one wanted any more.  All you need is a plan and a good imagination.

This worked too, when we decided to add on a sun room. Lot’s of nautical stuff at sales. We found so many wonderful things for the sun room that we actually had too many and had to resell them at our yard sale.

When we get visitors, they are in total awe asking where in the world we got this or that. We say “A YARD SALE, under a dollar usually, they just gasp when we tell them.

Start with just one item and expand on a theme.  For instance,  We decorated around a beautiful pillow in one room using it as the central color theme for the entire room.  We set out over two years adding items to the room to improve upon the look that she started with just one pillow.  

No matter what you are looking for, whether it is drapes, curtains, rugs, kitchen appliances, utensils, pots and pans, or whatever.  Chances are you are going to find it at somebody’s sale.  

Did you know that you can actually furnish your entire home with yard sale items.   They actually had an article in our local paper about a man who did just that.  We are well on our way to doing the same thing.  Probably about 80 percent of what we have is from yard sales.  It is beautiful and when put together, it is really quite an eclectic collection.

We just love the sales, be it yard, estate moving sales, or auctions. Matter of fact, we were getting ready to re-do our kitchen. It was so small you could not bend over without hitting your butt on the other end of the kitchen, and honestly we do not have a big old butts.

We knew we were in for a big project and knew it would cost a small fortune for the reconstruction and to get nice decorations for this new project.

We were not sure how we wanted it decorated.  But all it took was one good yard sale and seeing a wonderful picture with grapes hanging over a shelf (It is beautiful). Well that started the whole project.  The kitchen became an Italian theme with curtains adorn with wine bottles and wine glasses, and from there finding the color (went with moss green and plum), and then at every sale we just found the best stuff for our kitchen.  Old wine bottles, crystal wine glasses, still life pictures with wine bottles and grapes that had an Italian theme. Honestly the kitchen is a vision of beauty and over ¾ of the kitchen was purchased at yard sales and estate auctions. This ended up being very inexpensive too. Now that we are done nothing looks cheap, it looks like it was all made to go together. (And we had a blast looking for the things, almost like a scavenger hunt). If the items were purchased at a store brand new, we would have spent about 2 thousand or so, but we only spent a small percent of that by buying items that no one wanted any more.  All you need is a plan and a good imagination.

This worked too, when we decided to add on a sun room. Lot’s of nautical stuff at sales. We found so many wonderful things for the sun room that we actually had too many and had to resell them at our yard sale.

When we get visitors, they are in total awe asking where in the world we got this or that. We say “A YARD SALE, under a dollar usually, they just gasp when we tell them.

Start with just one item and expand on a theme.  For instance,  We decorated around a beautiful pillow in one room using it as the central color theme for the entire room.  We set out over two years adding items to the room to improve upon the look that she started with just one pillow.  

No matter what you are looking for, whether it is drapes, curtains, rugs, kitchen appliances, utensils, pots and pans, or whatever.  Chances are you are going to find it at somebody’s sale.  

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