Home Interior: Thrift Store Shopping Tips

If you've seen our house you know that I select a dear for all things thrifty. I dear to search local thrift stores for items I tin build my ain as well as salve tons of moolah doing so.

So, this is the even out of what happens when I locomote to a thrift store. You'll encounter what I await for, my ideas for repurposing items, as well as what I ultimately purchased. I promise it volition assistance give y'all or hence ideas for your side past times side thrifty trip. (You tin encounter my top 10 tips here...it's chock-full of thrifty ideas.)

you know that I select a dear for all things thrifty Thrift Store Shopping Tips

I ever essay to locomote on an opened upward hear field thrifting. You never know what you'll find, as well as y'all select to await beyond what's there. Some items require cipher at all, but most of the fourth dimension thrift store shopping requires that y'all instruct a lilliputian (or a lot) creative.

Every trip is different. Sometimes y'all honour cipher at all, as well as hence there's days similar yesterday where I had to walk away alongside well-nigh a 10th of the materials I wanted. Since I didn't convey them all home, allow me demo y'all or hence of the cool things I constitute field shopping.

The offset expanse I started browsing through was the furniture. There were tons of nifty pieces! I actually loved this tabular array as well as persuasion it would await fabulous painted a glossy dark or fifty-fifty gray-washed. There were also a couplet actually nifty dressers.

There was a actually cute smaller white table, too. This would last nifty inwards a breakfast nook surrounded past times upholstered benches as well as mayhap or hence industrial metallic chairs. Both of these tables were a amount steal at but $50.

One of my favorite pieces that I almost brought habitation was this amazing buffet. It was solely $50 as well as it was solid forest as well as kinda unique.

I intend it would await hence stylin' inwards a bold color similar aqua.

I eyeballed these 2 lilliputian halt tables, too. They were solely $10 as well as had such potential. I didn't actually require them though, hence I moved on.

There were or hence nifty barstools...

There was a actually nifty armoire for $150, but it was already sold.

That lilliputian turquoise light is great, too. However, when buying smaller items similar that, I essay to agree out for pairs. Otherwise, I rapidly plough into a hoarder who lives inwards a work solid amount of mismatched lamps. It's actually slow to plough into that guy.

And nobody wants to last that guy.

There were tons of other actually cool lamps all over the store. It was a existent lamp-a-palooza. Check out this sci-fi experiement.

Lamps everywhere, I nation ya.

Since I was driving a really teeny car, I passed on all the slice of furniture as well as made my agency into the housewares section. There were all sorts of goodies here. Check out this laid of iii build novel Calphalon pans for $40. What a steal!

There were several nifty mirrors alongside pretty frames as well as or hence interesting artwork too. I persuasion this impress would last actually nifty inwards a matted white frame. You could fifty-fifty but spray pigment the existing frame white to update it. (Like I did here)

These lilliputian bowls were neon greenish fifty-fifty though my telephone photographic television receiver camera makes them await yellow. They were $1 for the set. I can't create upward one's hear if they are actually cool or hideous. It's a toss-up.

This lilliputian gold-trimmed milk drinking glass tray was adorable. I almost brought this home. It was $1.

This existent silvery laid was cool too. It was $10.

and hence at that spot were or hence nifty wooden bowls as well as plates. I dear wooden bowls.

After grabbing a couplet things from this department (I'll demo ya soon), I headed over the the majority aisle. Thrift store majority aisles are my go to source for finding prints to frame as well as for finding colorful books to mode my bookcases. Yesterday, I was looking for both. I select a gallery wall I'm assembling inwards my hallway as well as I require or hence dissimilar prints to frame. I constitute a bunch of nature books alongside or hence options.

There was a weird 'fish breeding' majority that had amazing, giant, colorful photos. They would last awesome inwards or hence large matted frames.

I also constitute or hence colorful maps inwards a giant atlas. I used maps inwards my locomote gallery wall here.

some cool cartoon sketches from the 1950's...

another weird fish book...

but, eventually I settled on an amazing onetime majority amount of dark & white pictures of seagulls. They'll build for nifty art. Although, the encompass of the majority is pretty, hence it may but instruct a bookcase book.

My cart was starting to fill upward up, hence I in conclusion weeded through my finds as well as narrowed it downwards to well-nigh $10 worth of goodies.

Now, allow me demo y'all what I bought!

Here's or hence of my finds alongside a handy listing of what I ordinarily await for when at a thrift store (other than furniture).

I got the actually nifty seagull book. It's a nifty bluish color as well as has an awesome indention of a seagull on the forepart cover.

I also got a actually nifty Beach majority alongside a nifty aqua cover. Both books were 50 cents.

I also got a unproblematic white ceramic vase for $1 (originally from Pottery Barn) as well as a clear aqua vase for $2.

I got a actually nifty raw forest tray for $2 (see what I did alongside that here. ) as well as a cool convex/round mirror for $3 (also for a project).

I also came habitation alongside a pocket-size lamp. It had this gross pleather shade, but it had a prissy shape for $3.

You tin encounter what I did alongside the light here.

I also got a lilliputian gilt bracelet. I persuasion it would await nifty alongside or hence of the bracelet stacks I wear. It was solely $3.

and I actually kinda dig it.

I noticed a lilliputian signature on the within alongside the crown as well as the trademark sign hence I googled 'Trifari'...

I constitute out that if it had the crown on it, it was to a greater extent than than probable a slice of Tafari costume jewelry manufactured inwards the 1950's. Pretty cool!

So, that's what I scored at the thrift store this fourth dimension around!

I promise I gave y'all or hence ideas for your side past times side trip.

Don't forget to pivot this post hence you'll select or hence ideas for your side past times side thrifting trip!