good girl hi guys doing out a dime here and this is Luna aka street rat dog she used to live on the street so we call her street rat but trust me now she's super pampered involved I wanted to get on YouTube and make this video about how to decorate on a dime because or aka decorate on that this is super cheap because I feel like a lot of I don't know advice and that sort of thing for decorating on the chief implies decorating tacky or like you think of like a decorating from like the goodwill or the dollar store thrifting and at least for me a lot of times what comes to mind is like super super cluttered like a lot of knickknacks everywhere and just like dirty almost and I don't know and I you know if that is your salad you really like a lot of knickknacks and a lot of things all over the place like awesome like more power to you you find a style that you love great but for me personally I like more of like a streamline decorating and I don't feel it there's a lot of videos on YouTube that showcase how to decorate super cheap but still make things look really classy so I wanted to show you kind of a few things that I've done around my home to decorate and literally everything you're going to see has come from either the goodwill the dollar store the Dollar Tree or a thrift shop slash garage sale I might show you guys a couple things that like I've done like do-it-yourself and for some of those things I had to buy like fabric and that sort of thing that came from a fabric store but every item that you'll see I purchased on the super super cheap and I think it looks really nice so Linda are you ready to get started hello so first I'm going to take you guys into my entryway and I just wanted to kind of orient you here this is where I was just filming this is one area that I have decorated completely from the Dollar Tree and the goodwill this little basket it's kind of just like a a woven decoration and was originally intended to be a basket I think obviously I think it was supposed to house like chip and dip which is really nasty to me but it wasn't dirty at all it was completely clean I'll show you guys the back I just picked it up in like the basket section of the goodwill see what I mean I'm not really sure it's super awkward but I really thought this pattern was really modern and the woven look just gave a lot of texture and I paid I think less than a dollar for this but I just hung it on my wall at my entryway and then down here this is just those decals you can find them at Target and they're like twenty dollars or so this is from the Dollar Tree and it's a Bible verse from John 15:12 and I just thought it was really beautiful and kind of tied together this area so this entire artwork area on this side wall cost me less than two dollars I think okay so sort of taking you guys on the art theme this is more art that I was able to create from the goodwill when you guys go into the goodwill you really have to look at the items there and say okay what can I make out of this cuz you're not gonna walk into the goodwill and find art that looks really nice in fact a lot of the big pieces are gonna be really ugly like from the 90s just like not looking so hot so you have to keep a super open mind and be prepared to put a little bit of time into it because if you want to save a dime you do have to put in time that's just a fact but this is a frame that I found and inside the frame I can't even remember what it was it was just an extremely ugly piece of art I think it was like just like flowers and you know six hour pictures from the 90s that are not we're nice back then but aren't so nice right now I just took that out and I mean this is the frame it's you know it's just a nice standard black frame and I liked it cuz I didn't have to do anything to it but I put mattang into the frame I actually took this to Michaels and they cut down a mat really really small which I think just looks really beautiful on the wall like this it's a statement piece and that cost me I think eight dollars no seven dollars for the mat and then the frame was like $4.99 so for everything together my gosh were not good at math like twelve dollars for the entire project and then in here I actually got my master's degree on overseas in Spain and I took a ton of pictures and I just put it into a sepia color and set it in the center of the frame so it has a lot of meaning to our family I think the coloring really complements our couch and our pillows and that sort of thing so there you go decorating on a dime art that looks expensive for 12 bucks okay y'all so this is something that I didn't buy from the dollar store I inherited this next item and I just made it better so these chairs in our dining room we inherited this entire dining room set it was from my husband's grandmother so I just didn't like the fabric that it was done in it was a dated green so I just went to the fabric store and I just picked up a few yards of this fabric because I thought it was really pretty and classy and reupholstered a chair now I just like to point out on this scale of like one to ten one being not handy at all and ten being super handy I'm like a negative 0.75 not even kidding and I was able to reupholster this chair I was able to that's how easy it is I'll see if I can get under here if you've never real posted a chair just quick google it and you'll get like a jillion results for it you just have to make sure to pull the fabric taunt but I think the dining nurse that looks really nice and matches really well with the wall color which is bears contemplation by the way in case you wanted to know okay so this area is also in our dining room done completely on a dime over here we have this what do you even call that I don't know you're probably sitting there thinking I'm stupid whatever it is that you keep trying to in trying to count it I wanted to do something on the opposite side of the wall and any art that was really big was really expensive so these shelves are from Ikea I think I paid I don't know twelve dollars per shelf or something like that but the on a dime part was actually the things that I put on it everything that you see here was purchased from the goodwill so here I got these frames there and then I just took scrapbook paper and put it inside me to have Bible verses written on em and this just has a dove and I thought the gold frame was a nice contrast also from the goodwill and I put one of our engagement pictures in there so this entire section of the wall was done super super cheap we are talking like including the shelves under $40 okay so back in the entryway again this is an armoire that we inherited so I just wanted to point out what the goodwill is amazing for but also what it's not a lot of like my glassware that I keep in here I get from the goodwill and if I just out here this this is an example of something I got from the goodwill I don't know if you can tell but this is an extremely high-quality vase it is really really heavy it is super thick fabric it is really nice I think I paid us than $2 for this item and even when I checked out Mullaney was like this is only $2 and I was like yeah it's a good deal right this is something that you want to buy a goodwill I think we got flowers as a gift in this so I didn't buy this but this is something you don't want to buy at the goodwill why because you can find it at the Dollar Tree for $1 and the goodwill will charge you like two for it so I mean not that much of a difference but you want to be picky with your basis because the Dollar Tree has so many options um here's another example we use actually this first and ceremony at our wedding from the Dollar Tree so anyway this one is another good example of something you would want to purchase from the goodwill it's just this really nice pedestal glass kind of a cool geometric pattern I put candies in here or sometimes when we have parties and that sort of thing I'll put mints or something like that but I purchased this at the goodwill I think I paid a dollar 99 for it and I'm sure this was far more expensive when it was originally purchased ok so here's another example of how to decorate cheaply from a dollar store these are our bookshelves and we on there built heads and we just painted the back green so they would really stand out but these letters up here selling Ottumwa are from the Dollar Tree and like I said I speak Spanish fluently so it's kind of like an ode to what we love all of these frames here were less than a dollar each and they all match and they look really nice this elephant I found at the goodwill I think I paid a dollar for him and I call him Paco and I think he's absolutely amazing he may not be your style but I do so anyway I'm just a few little things I didn't like over clutter it or make it you know just look filled with things I just find like a few staple items and purchase them and one good thing to remember is that you guys do not have to go into the goodwill and buy something every single time in fact I don't buy a lot of things in the goodwill most of the time I don't buy things I tend to buy things like maybe one every six times or something like that sometimes they'll go in and I'll have this fabulous day but truly truly truly it takes time to find this stuff don't get discouraged if you go into the goodwill in the home decor section and you don't see something you love right away so now we're upstairs in our hallway and I just wanted to show you this decorative area yet again more of those I don't even know what you call them wall art cling to the wall art from the dollar tree every day is a gift and I just thought that was really beautiful and kind of tied this connection or this um collage rather of frames together these frames are from Ikea and they were only a few dollars each so this was not something that was from the goodwill or Dollar Tree but they're still very cheap and you could probably do this even cheaper using frames from the Dollar Tree cuz they actually really nice frames okay so now I'm in the guest bedroom and this is eventually gonna be our nursery so we like never go in here but I thought that this was a good purchase especially for the future this lamp can be used anywhere I found this lamp at the goodwill and I was so excited because there's a lamp like that's from Pottery Barn that's uber expensive and this one was a couple of dollars it didn't come with the shade so I had to purchase that separately no I'm light fixture and all that jazz but I just think this lamp is amazing you can put different things inside of it looks really nice this table also came from the goodwill I just used a can of spray paint to paint it white because it was a super ugly wood color and then I picked up um this hardware from Lowe's for just a couple of dollars to create a pretty side table that we can use when this room is a nursery or just right now okay so you can still be organized and decorative at the same time super cheap I totally just hit my glasses there so this is the cabinet that I purchased from where should I purchase this from oh yeah but nothing beyond with a coupon obviously but I went and to the Dollar Tree and I picked up these amazing jars I thought they were so cute one dollar and I use it to keep makeup containers q-tips and cotton balls and I just think it looks really nice in the bathroom it kind of ties everything together and my clutter is completely out of the way and you don't see it because let's face it guys this bathroom is really small so another thing that goodwill is great for is finding things like in napkin holders and these kind of like kitchen knickknacks please please please please please do not pay full price for those things because you can get them for so cheap at the goodwill we got the one in our dining room and the one in here both from the Goodwill I paid $0.99 baskets guys baskets and the goodwill are like I'm serious they are everywhere now and some of the baskets you're gonna go in and see me be like oh these are ugly or like kind of grody don't buy those you're gonna have to go in quite a bit to be able to find a good quality basket like this I think I paid for my gosh only three or four dollars for this basket and based on the quality of it it's got wiring on the inside I think this came from Target and I'm pretty sure it was at least fifteen dollars so I got a super super good deal and we just use it to keep magazines extra coasters and clicker okay so that concludes my how to decorate on the super cheap video