If you are on a tight budget. The thrift store is a fantastic place to find things to decorate your
home for the season. Let's see if I can decorate our living room for spring with thrift store
finds and a little bit of DIY. Hey there. It's Christina from TheDIYMommy.com. Let's get started.
I am here at my local value village, so let's pop in and see if there's anything that we can
make over for spring decor. I always find that thrift stores are a hit and miss. Sometimes
you find amazing stuff, sometimes you don't. So it's all in the thrill of the hunt. So let's go.
One of my favorite spots to look through a Value village is the
very front of the store where they have all of the decor accessories.
You can often find lots of really interesting wooden knickknacks and brass knickknacks I found
these really neat marble, really heavy bookends, and I thought they'd be fantastic to take home for
spring decor. I'm also loving this extremely unique tree. It has mother of pearl inside
and it's all wooden. I'm also really drawn to this floral art. There's a vintage floral art,
and I was hoping to find something in the textiles section, but there wasn't really anything there.
Okay, well, that wasn't that great. There wasn't too many things there. I only found
a couple of things. So we're going to pop back maybe next week and see if I can find
some other thing. I am back at Value Village. It's about four days later.
I can't stop thinking about that large oversize Rose artwork with the frame.
Worst case scenario, I could use the frame
and then replace the art or maybe do different. I'm going to go see if it's still there. Plus,
I'm going to see if there's anything else. Maybe that's new today. Okay, it's still here. Yay.
On the back of this frame, there's actually some info showing that this came from the
Bombay Company, and it's from 1987, so it's a pretty high quality piece
of art. They also had a whole bunch of new vintage books in this section,
which I love. I love collecting green and blue vintage books. I also found these beautiful moss,
green colored placemats that I'm thinking could be used for some sort of interesting textile DIY.
Now that I'm home with all my thrift store finds,
I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to do with them. But sometimes things happen as I
start working on projects. So often with her to find I'll have an idea in my head. But as
I start dying along the way, I'll get sort of a different idea and take it somewhere else.
Let's begin with this thrifted floral artwork I love this already, but when I put it on my
fireplace mantel, that beige colored mat kind of faded into the background. Plus,
I don't like that sort of dated looking texture that's on the mat. That's silk.
Pretty sure I had a dress in the late eighties made out of this exact same fabric.
This artworks from about 1987. So that totally checks out.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to take apart this whole frame and I'm
going to paint the matte around this floral piece. Black Black is a very demanding color,
but I think in this little bit around the piece of art, it's going to make the art pop.
It's going to really update this artwork. And I think it's going to look great on my mantel.
I'm taking this out really carefully with some tools. I'm going to keep that back
paper plaque that says it's from the Bombay Company says when it was made,
and I'm cleaning up the frame as well as a piece of glass inside.
This was a really high end piece at the time,
so I'm trying to be really careful with everything as I take it all apart.
Now I'm just taking some black acrylic paint that I have on hand,
and I'm using a paint brush, a small one and a large one to paint around the frame. I'm also
taping off the little brass insert around the artwork with some painter's tape so that I don't
get that painted. And I'm also really careful not to get any paint on the artwork itself.
Now that I'm done painting, I'm going to let this try. I'm going to remove this painter's tape
and there's a few little pieces where the black paint leaked onto the brass frame.
So I'm just taking a little craft knife and scraping that off.
I only had to use one coat of paint, and I think it covered really well.
I love how this turned out. I'm putting everything back together and placing this on my mantel with
my ferns, with my candlesticks. And then I wanted to create another piece of art to sort of offset
this one, give a little bit of extra body to my mantel because I mantles rather large. So
I feel like it needs one giant mirror or art piece or two medium sized art pieces.
So what I did was I already had a frame on hand.
I'm going on Etsy there's this beautiful shop where you can download for a really good price,
some vintage pieces of art and print them right at home. So you only need a few dollars This
one's right in Canada, so I love supporting fellow Canadian artists. I bought the piece.
I thought it was beautiful for spring. Printed it now as an eight by ten and put it in the
frame I already had on hand. I'm placing this beside my first piece of directed art
on my mantel, and I think it's the perfect pairing to give my mantel this beautiful
spring look with the floral and this vintage antique looking landscape art
for this next year, I want to create a green pillow.
I found this green place match at Valley Village. The thrift store is a fantastic place to find
textiles like sheets, napkins, placemats, fabric. You could just wash it at home and
use it for all sorts of DIY. So I found out that when I placed two of these placemats together,
it was pretty much the perfect size for one side of a 16 by 24 inch pillow.
So I'm just going to use my sewing machine I'm pinning that shoe placemats together,
using the zigzag stitch on my sewing machine and zigzagging those two pieces together.
I'm also doing the same thing to the other two placemats because I bought these in a set of four.
If you don't have a sewing machine at home and you want to do something similar, you could also sell
by hand or use a gorilla hot glue that hot glue holds fabric really well and it lasts a long time.
Now that I'm done stitching, I'm going to place these two pieces right side together,
stitch all the way around again with my sewing machine using a quarter inch seam allowance. I'm
also leaving a space of about six inches a hole so that when I turn this whole thing right side out,
I can pop my pillow form inside. I bought my pillow form at IKEA,
and I always have a lot of these on hand because I love switching out pillow covers seasonally
I'm using my scissors to cut all of the corners off at an angle.
So when I turn this right side out, there's no bulk in the corners
Once I've done the sewing, I'm turning this right tight out, popping that pillow form inside
and showing up the whole by hand. Again, if you don't have a sewing machine and
you want to show this altogether, you can either. So the whole thing by hand or use
gorilla hot glue and your hot glue gun to get a really similar effect.
I was debating putting some sort of trim or something on the zigzag stitch in the center,
but I actually like how sort of casual and organic it looks by itself.
So I'm just going to leave it as is. I'm going to add this to my couch to give my
couch a nice look for the season. So I have a couple of neutral pillows on the couch.
I'm adding a DIY floral pillow that I've made last year. In the summertime. I love this print. I'll
leave a link to everything that you can find online down in the description box below and
then I'm adding this green place mat pillow as my final piece for the couch. That gives it a little
bit of a spring. Look, I'm loving adding green into my home this year, especially for spring.
Now, you might remember this giant wooden salad bowl that I found at Value Village
last year. I turned it into sort of a wintery Christmas
centerpiece. Now I'm just going to reset and this whole thing,
I'm going to make the top a little less metallic and I'm going to create a mask bowl centerpiece.
You might have seen these add expensive high end stores for up to hundreds of dollars.
We're going to create one for much less. I found it the whole piece down,
giving it even more of a matte sort of organic look. And I'm stuffing it up with some
leftover packing material. You could use packing material for this you could use
brown paper, pretty much anything to fill up your bowl so that it's at least half full.
Then I'm taking some moss from the dollar store and I'm placing with inside the bowl
to create a beautiful Moss Bowl centerpiece that's perfect for spring and summer.
So simple. You could check this up a little bit to make it more Easter. If you want add
some little Easter eggs or bunny ornaments, I'm just going to leave this plain and simple.
And I'm placing this in the coffee table in the living room
I also found that really unique sort of tray with the mother of pearl inside mother of
pearl and sort of iridescent textures are really trending for spring. And this is a
way that I can bring this into the home. Low commitment, low cost because it's thrift. Ed.
I'm also sanding this down to give it more of that natural organic look
and using it on the coffee table to hold some candies in
okay. So you might remember that I painted this piece here green
a few weeks ago. I still love it. It's really tying into all these mossy green
and spring, like plant like accessories. We're putting in the living room for spring.
What I'm going to do now is I'm just using those bookends that I found. So I'm just placing them
as is just gave them a little clean on to this green sideboard, placing those vintage books that
I found in between. And this is a beautiful way to bring some color and texture into the living room
for spring. I think these bookends are probably my favorite thread to find of this whole trip.
They're just so unique, so pretty, and I feel like they're going to stand the test of time.
Marble Brass. What's not to love? So here is how our whole living room looks like for spring.
I love these soft green touches, these organic wood touches, the little bits of marble to give
it a luxury vibe. And I really love that we incorporated so many thrift store and
budget friendly elements in the space to give it that springtime look on a budget
Thank you so much for watching this video.
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