It’s ‘Chic to be Cheap’ When Decorating Rooms
The shabby chic trend has been popular for quite some time. It still is, if you’re willing to scour thrift stores. Reinvented thrift store items can make for a cool room design. Over the past year or so with the economy in the doldrums, it has become ‘chic to be cheap’. Almost everyone likes to get a bargain and the feelings that go with it, that ‘I got something for nothing’ feeling. For me, it has always been ‘chic to be cheap’, often shopping at thrift stores just scrounging for that bargain or diamond in the rough. Whether the bargain was furniture, curtain rods, silver trays, or clothes like a retro bowling shirt that became my favorite casual wear while in college. In the style of an Eisenhower jacket, the Louisville based team shirt was comfortable, fun to wear, and I had become accustomed to responding to “Pat” the name sewn above the pocket”.
What makes thrift store shopping so much fun for me is finding a diamond in the rough and coming up with an idea for a cool room design. It’s finding that old piece of furniture that with a bit of paint can be transformed into something new and useful. Or perhaps it’s the silver tray that with a little polish can be brought back to life. Or finding a complete set of golf clubs for $20 and a two-dollar golf bag, perfect for a teenage son that wants to duff around a course with his more serious golfing buddies.
As AZ custom home builders and enjoying what we do, we have moved a few times. It’s fun for us to begin with a great floor plan, design a house for the lot or location, organize construction, see it all come together at the end of the project, move in, and accessorize the home. A few pieces adorning our custom home are actually reinvented thrift store pieces, like the old night stand purchased on half-priced Saturday, whoo hoo! Ten bucks to acquire this gem, it is now in a neutral-colored distressed painted finish with wrought iron hardware and serves as a storage for extra tissues in the powder room. Found another day was a wooden salad bowl, now painted in silver metallic paint displaying large ostrich eggs. Dozens of silver-plated trays have been acquired over the years, one used at a bathroom vanity to hold glass jars of cotton swabs, and Q-tips, etc., another used for display in a hutch, and a few others used for serving trays when entertaining. Cool room design with reinvented thrift store items is only as limited as your imagination, and creativity.
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- Refinished Night Stand
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- Ostrich Eggs in a recycled and painted wood salad bowl
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- Tarnished silver tray recycled for display
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