Price My Space Party 2

We just cannot get enough of prices can we?


1. I got that urn about 6 years ago at Target for $39. The sticks are from Hobby Lobby and my aunt gave them to me after I used them in her son's wedding. Score! The white table was a $5 Goodwill find.


2. The 4 shutters are from Value Village, another local thrift store. Yes, they are working plantation shutters. I painted them the same color as the armiore, Sherwin Williams Halcyon Green 6213--it's the same can of paint that was color matched in BEHR with primer. The color looks much richer/darker/greener and greyer in this room and on these shutters. Remember, colors read differently in every room.

I hung an iron plate hanger with a nail in the space between the shutters. I think it was from Old Time Pottery and an oval white platter that came with a set. Total for all of it was about $7.


The light, which I don't have a close up of, was hanging in my sister's bathroom when they bought their house. The people before them had done up the house in entirely too much Chinese stuff so they had to remove all sorts of stuff. This bamboo style fixture was one of them and I snatched it up, cleaned it up, let it sit on the floor of our last house for a year, and now my husband hung it here. FREE.


4. The sofa is a fake slipcover find from Value City Furniture from 5 years ago. It was a good buy at $499. We don't sit on it much but it's quite versatile, could go in our bedroom or the playroom if needed but I love it in our little dining room turned sitting room.


The pillows were all 30 Minute Makeovers from old pillows I had.



5. The coffee table, seen here in the old house, I miss that room. The table is from World Market for about $200. My boys have played every game imaginable on it.


And on top I used an outdoor iron topiary form just for looks. $20 I remember not where I found it.

Now it's your turn! Finally...

Price My Space Party

Welcome! It's almost time for Price My Space. We {me and y'all} thought it would be fun for everyone to share what they spent on some things in their home. And, I wanted to make sure all the people on the west coast had a fair chance to get in early so I opened up the Linky at 8pm Sunday.

I try to keep the rules as minimum as possible so, as far as what you can share, please feel free to reveal as much or as little as you'd like. Just have a table you want to show us? Fine. Have an entire room you are dying to tell us about? Go for it. And remember, this is not just a place to brag about our bargains. {as much as I LOVE doing that!} In real life, lots of us do end up paying retail for some things, please feel free to tell us about those finds as well. We are being real here girls.


I know I find it encouraging to see what people spend on certain items on their home. What they feel was worth the money, what they feel like was a waste, what they found on the side of the road, what they spent 28 hours refinishing... you know stuff like that.

I already told you my deep dark spending secrets so I could make this post as short as possible. Now, to the good stuff, YOU. Go ahead, sign in with Mr. Linky and Price Your Space--remember to link to the actual POST not simply your blog address or else your link will be deleted and you'll have to relink correctly {I tell you how in the comments, scroll down, I'm number 53ish} And, I love it when you tell people what you are doing by adding in the Price My Space button and linking back to this post so others can share in the fun.

If you don't see the links under these words that means Mr. L is still working on it! Sorry!

Price My Space:: Living Room Part 1

The bulk of our furniture was purchased five years ago. It was 5 years ago to the month I think, when my husband and I sat down on the lone place to sit in our house besides the toilet and decided it was time to think about furnishing our home. At the time we were able to set aside some money every month to put towards furniture and such. My goal was to focus on one room at a time so we could see progress and so I wouldn't be overwhelmed. My other goal was to pay cash for everything.

My first priority was places to sit. So we started in the living room. I had a yard sale and sold our old furniture and we had no where to sit for a few weeks while we waited for our sofa.


1. Window Mistreatments: the fabric was $7 per yard {purchased at 1502 Fabrics in Thomasville, NC, 5 years ago} each panel is about 3 yards so each panel was $21 plus the trim at $3ish per yard so that is another $9 per panel. Each panel was about $30 completed. I bought the rod at Target for $30 and have used it in 4 houses so far. We've got another window that cost the same on the other side of the room. {See how to make them here.} Total for both windows: $180 These are my most expensive windows and have been used for 5 years in 5 different houses! And I wish I would have bought one more foot of fabric--then I could hang my rods even higher.


2. Sofa Table and stuff: Table $109 at a crazy unfinished furniture place that has since gone out of business. I bought it already painted black 5 years ago. Changed out the knob: $4. Ottoman was included in a set I'll tell you about on down. Lamps, TJ Maxx, $39 each, 5 years ago--I moved them from my boy's room. On the table there's some red stuff I pulled out of this wreath and a box thing that I had in college sitting on a candle holder that is chipped that was $1. I painted the box blue last month. Pointy thing on the wall, Goodwill, a few months ago, $7. Total: $199 not including the ottoman.



3. Armiore: Purchased used from a friend for $75 --again, 5 years ago. I painted it last month with Behr Paint Plus Primer all in one stuff that was ??? Maybe $30ish. I'll tell you more about painting it soon but here's the before. It was super easy. I still need to find 3 knobs for it. Plates; the middle blue one was a gift to myself back when I had that big tassel sale I bought this plate for $13 at HomeGoods. I had the red ones {part of a set from Target 5 years ago 4 for $10} big green ones were $2 each from the rich Goodwill and the square one was $3 from HomeGoods. Total: $130


4. Fireplace Wall: Well, it already looks different up there. I'll list what you see in the original photo and I'm still not happy with it at all so just so you know, it will keep looking different.

• mirror: $50 Garden Ridge 2 years ago
• white urn: $20 Hobby Lobby 6 years ago
• red plate: $2.50 part of that set
• white crock: wedding gift {one of my favorite things}
• books: .75 cents yard sale
• wood thing on the fireplace front $13 TJ Maxx 6 years ago {hiding an ugly little scroll thing}
  

Total: $86.25

Now:

• urn: $20 with free branches from my yard
• books: .75 cents
• shutters: $10
• wood thing: $13
• starfish: ?? I have no idea how that appeared in my house
  

Total: $43.75 and I like it better

So far we are at $552.75 and we don't even have a place to sit yet. And if you want to see the photos closer in, you should be able to click them to enlarge. Go here for part 2.