Just For Fun...

Ok, just for fun, 

 - and  since i have nothing else interesting to talk about right now- 

let me go back and do a little before and after of part of my living room... mainly the sofa and chairs

 I mean it's not Fabulous, Amazing , Shocking, like some i've seen... but it's better!

I'll start with an after photo, so people's eyeballs won't break when they see the picture on the blog post...

sofa before, bought on craigs list

Living room before with random cool vintage sofas

and ginormous vintage rug that weighs a thousand pounds that i grabbed at the Le recyling centre

(the dump)

sofa after slipcover with blue pillow...'

and a couple of great lamps from TJ Maxx

sofa after with flowers behind it....

here the walls are the original kinda yellowy color, i lightened them to "canvas natural" by Ralph Lauren

and decided the faux flowers were too much, even though i kinda liked them...

sofa after with plates all around the mirror...

cute, but it got a little annoying after a while... seemed like too much

as you can see, i'm constantly changing the pillows... and the stuff on the sofa table

one more...

sofa now with just 3 plates over the top

a few more befores...

after

notice i white washed the gold mirror 

chairy before...

chairy after slipcover...

Chairs before slipcovers...

sofa looking messy with throw on the middle because kids are home and they like to eat things like pizza and chocolate stuff while they sit on it...

 before....

chairs after...

So it all was a process, still ongoing..

I guess one of the best changes was lightening the walls and painting the living, dining room and kitchen all the same color

i added a seagrass rug from ikea, it's GREAT and was not that expensive

adding lots of mirrors everywhere!  I'm sure any decorator would say i have too many mirrors, but i don't care... they're cheap and you can fix them up!

finding that square coffee table on craigslist, it was dark wood, and I painted white and distressed it...  

the rest, the mantel and the coffee table and little stuff gets switched around all the time!

But the very best thing i spent my money on, 

and believe me.. i don't have much money, so it was a splurge

were the slipcovers...

I love my white sofa and chairs

I guess if i had to choose between something practical like new tires so i could drive safely to work,

and slipcovering a cool old chair

i would just drive a little slower... ;)

so total cost over a couple of years

well, lets add it up!

paint  around $50.00

sofa craigs list $75.00

sofa fabric $150.00

sofa slipcover $400.00

one chair thrift shop $19.99

other matching chair free

chair slipcovers for two chairs $250.00 each  $500.00

fabric for chairs $100.00

lamps TJ Maxx around $40.00

rug ikea around $140.00

random mirrors $150.00

craigs list coffee table $75.00

$1699.00

Holy Crap!  

did I spend that much!  That's alot! at least for me!

but to redo a whole living room, maybe that's not too bad

and i had to save up each time for the slipcovers...

you could actually go to Ikea and buy two really cute white slipcovered Ectorp chairs for around $250.00 each

but i couldn't get to Ikea

anyway, i've never really added all this up before the post, so while i recover from trying to show you a thrifty makeover that wasn't really that particularly thrifty

...

let me end with these gorgeous pink flowers from Pinterest after boring you with another rendition of my living room...

wouldn't this make a cool painting done on a really big canvas!!!?

ok, when i "previewed" this post, some of my fonts were all BIG and wacky... the only thing i really typed in extra large was the 
"HOLY CRAP"  part
so if it looks like i'm yelling stuff with big fonts,... sorry guys, i have no idea why that is going on!

...the end...