I bought this house for $600 dollars at a tax sale auction and set out to remodel and redo it with a very small amount of money! It has been redone with free, recycled, repurposed items with paint being the only major expense! I searched all over town and hit curb piles, had friends, neighbors and whoever I could talk into keeping a look out.. watch for discarded items. Soon, people began to bring me things they thought might look good in my house! No area was free from scrounging, including the city compost pile where people dumped amazing treasures!
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I've done a lot of diy work myself, like the tilework. Mostly because I couldn't afford better.
The cabinets were bought cheap (in 1992 from someone who was renovating their condo, and made to fit the space. There used to be a full window were the stove and microwave are now, and a wall where the fridge is, which explains the floor's patchy look as it transitions from maple to pine.
I don't have enough cabinet space, and a lot of unusable space above the cabinets. Also, countertop space is fairly limited. I love my pantry, though it does need a fresh coat of paint.
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The front of the house is an ongoing "do it yourself" project, much of what we used is used and recycled materials (obviously not the plants! We broke up a concrete curved walkway and added crushed quartz sand and stepping stones. The split rail fence and plants, circle patio, vintage-rustic touches to the exterior are all done by my husband and I. The shutters around the small arch window are boards from a fence we took down in the back yard. I added the brick pavers to the corners of the house, the carved window topper was a yard sale find, and the shutters are made of reclaimed fence board. I'd like to add copper sheeting to the dome shape above the bay window and pull the "grass" (green weeds, to add more plants and natural walkways with sod areas around the metal patio chairs for the feet to enjoy.
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I was tired of my old room and decided to spruce it up with some cheap and easy changes. I "acquired" around 100 pallets from the surrounding home improvement stores. I then stripped, powerwashed, and sanded all of the useable pieces. I used the best, most solid pallets as a bed platform and then used a stagering pattern for the stripped pallet wood as a feature wall/headboard. Everything in the room is organic, reused, or some sort of renewable resource. The floor is stained concrete with a jute area rug.
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typical 70's ranch that had a typical remodel, now a total renovation has transformed this ordinary home. the best part is the fact that the cabinets were purchased for under $ 4000.00 from greendemolitions.com.
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This was our first attempt at decorating. We recycled some furniture and furnishings from our childhood rooms but we would like them to flow better with the newer pieces (bed nightstand to create a unified room. The walls are a natural color (that's actually what's it's called...natural and the bedding is a raspberry.
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Our kitchen is very unique and has multiple characters. It came together by many items purchase through yard-sales, demolistion companies, and banks gone-under. Needless to say we are making the most of it. Our kitchen consist of a $5 tv stand we got at a yard-sale. We use it for our microwave. Our industrial-size island comes curtosy of a bank-gone under. We paid $20 bucks for it, and our cabinets came from a demolistion company selling miscellaneous cabinets. We matched as much as we could. We paid $120.
We lack style, counterspace, and a sense of completion.
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Using lots of stuff I already had (including the paint I hated in my bedroom I updated my 6X6 laundry room for less than $50! I added a gift wrap center and some shelves for additional storage too. I still hate doing laundry but at least the room is okay to look at now. Suggestions welcome (but it will be tough to fit anything else in here!
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This is our guest bedroom. I really like these colors as you can probably tell. The picture wall with the six pictures has 6 generations of my family and the two by the desk are of my DH's family. I've tried putting the trunk by the bed but it didn't look quite right. It provides a nice place to sit an chat with our guests where it's at. What do you think?
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This 60' hallway had all mismatched doors and trim (glossy brown and a half bath tucked in.The closets for washer/dryer,furnace,water heater,and coats all had different dark wood.
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