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Frugal Home Decorating

A little tour of my office

February 17, 2011

I always love taking a peek inside other people’s homes, so I thought it would be fun to give you a little tour of my office. Worry not, though…since my frugality seeps into pretty much every area of my life, this post will be quite on topic. This is my scrapbooking/craft desk. It’s an old [...]

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Zoe’s Fish Bulletin Board

June 16, 2009

A few weeks ago I bought this bulletin board from Goodwill for $2. It’s no great shakes, but it wasn’t expensive and it came with some thumbtacks too. I wanted to use this in Zoe’s room, so I sprayed it with some white primer and then some white spray paint and hung it up in [...]

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Want to see my new black nightstands?

March 10, 2009

I’m finally finished painting the two nightstands that I bought at Goodwill recently, so I thought I’d share pictures. First, here’s what our old Ikea nightstands looked like. We had two, and this one was in the best shape. The other one came from an antique store(I know…what kind of antique store sells Ikea furniture??) [...]

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How to Paint Wooden Furniture

March 5, 2009

I know-this post has been a long time coming! After I wrote about my painted freecycle furniture, lots of you asked for a tutorial on painting and I’m finally getting around to it.  While I’m not a professional painter and my paint jobs aren’t perfect, I hope that reading about what I’ve learned will be [...]

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It doesn’t rain, but it pours!

February 10, 2009

Last spring/summer, the free furniture was pretty much pouring in(I got four dressers, three nightstands, two desks, a chair, a table, and a file cabinet from freecycle). Happily(because I was growing very weary of painting!) nothing came along in the fall. Recently, though, I got the nightstand for Zoe’s room, and I also got this [...]

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Something we saved for.

February 9, 2009

About 9 years ago, when we bought our townhome, we used some of our savings to buy some new furniture. We bought a La-Z-Boy couch and recliner, thinking that they’d last for a very, very long time. Unfortunately, this was not the case. The fabric on our couch pilled very badly, and for the last [...]

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