Sunday, June 10, 2012

Garage Sales & Furnishing a Home!

Okay, so we're moving sometime in the next 2-3 weeks (***SQUEE!***) I am so excited!

The thing is that we're moving from a 900 square foot house to an almost 1,700 square foot house.  We are going to actually have room for some 'real' furniture!

We're going to refurbish our two dressers that we own, but other than that, we're going to be furnishing the new house almost solely with garage sale/auction or used vintage furniture, DIY stuff (thank you, Pinterest) and our own artwork.

My daughter Paris LOVES going to garage sales with me, so we have had a blast.  Here are some of our recent finds and favorites!
We are VERY much looking forward to having a house that is PERFECTION for entertaining.  We found several cute entertaining things for a quarter here and there.

I LOVE these little storage ottoman type things.  Going to garage sales later in the day, we get a lot of deals.  We got this and the (very long, very pink) curtain in the background for $6.00

Yay!  Paris finally has a mirror for her soon to be found vanity table and her amazingly fun makeup youtube videos!

More lawn furniture for our PARTIES!!!

This chair belongs to a table and four chair set that I got for $6.00!  It will be turned into our art table in the dining area of the kitchen.  The game box on top has two game boards on each board and the pieces are all in the bottom drawer.  We love to play games, so this was a steal for $3.00.
Paris got this silver mirror for $3.00 for her vintage black, white and silver room (with teal accents).  I got this stack of pressboard shelf board for $5.00, there are twice what is show in this photo.  We will be building a lot of custom storage, so this was a great deal!

A nice little dish drainer for the kids and some more 'party' stuff!

A gorgeous colander for the kitchen and some silver tea set stuff that Paris is going to use on her vanity for makeup type things.

A 3-4 ft silver tree for Paris' room come Christmas!  She is SO excited to have a room with a real theme and decor that matches!
Again... for Paris.  She owns a record player and vintage speaker, so she collects records at garage sales and this magazine rack will be perfect once its spray painted silver.

These are adorable candle holders that Paris is going to use in the  main bathroom.
LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE LAMP!!!  Paris saw it first, or I would have snatched it up.  It will look so cute in her room!

Some pretty jars for our living room.  The "red" one is actually very much raspberry... the prominent color that we'll be using in the kitchen.

We found this 7 piece dining set for $150.00 at Aldi!
We are all so excited to MOVE!!!  If we can get the rest of the stuff out of this rental house and into the POD storage container this week, I will be doing some big stretch canvas paintings for the new house NEXT week.  And then we'll MOVE!