#ThriftScoreThursday

What does a rattan tray, campaign style coaster set, soda crate, doll size peacock chair and wooden puzzle have in common?

They’re all on my vintage Lane credenza!

Can I be honest for a minute? Sometimes I thrift a lot, sometimes I don’t thrift much at all. My mood and funds play a big part in those swings.

I don’t always share what I pick up as soon as I buy it because I forget/want to style it/have something else I want to share and don’t want to overwhelm an entire post. And then I forget what I have and have not shared.

#oops

So for the next few weeks while I’m on a “no spend” (nope, that’s not me crying. Just cutting onions ?) I’ll take you around different areas of my home and go over everything I thrifted in that vignette/wall/furniture decorating.

Let’s snoop about the surface of my vintage Lane dresser then shall we?

(Yes, a basket fell off my wall and I didn’t pick it up ?)

Of course there’s my peacock on peacock on peacock set up with the thrifted doll sized peacock chair with the peacock feather with the peacock clip.

And in the middle of the credenza/media cabinet, I have my soda crate with agate, crystal and stone collection. And a wooden puzzle I picked up recently at Goodwill. This puzzle ended up being harder than it looked, but I still play around with it for a challenge.

And on the far right I’ve moved the rattan tray up here and it keeps the little target vase I picked up on clearance that I use for incense, an apothecary jar for the ugliest, and candle, my box of nag champa, and a box of coasters with a campaign style look.

Before we jump into my feautures for this week, I want to share that we have a guest host posting with us today. So check out their blog post by clicking on her face below and then check her out on Instagram and everything, too.

FEATURES 🙂

@designitinsideandout

@thriftedriches| @noodle_jude

@cosmicgirlgoes | @mayflowerfarm

Wanna Play? Here’s The Rules!

• We want you to participate! Hit up your local thrift stores, craigslist, yard sales, estate sales, side of the road, anything! Thrifty doesn’t necessarily mean from a thrift store. We want to see your good deals, wacky finds and treasures.
• Don’t feel like you need to save those finds for Thursdays! Yes, features are shared on our blogs and Instagram on Thursdays, but we’re all checking in on (and using!) the hashtag all week long. So, when you see/find it, feel free to share it!
• Want to get featured? Add the #thriftscorethursdsay hashtag, Follow the hosts (@the_gathered_home, @primitiveandproper, @adesignerathome and @maggieoverbystudios) and tag a friend to play along, too!
• Each week, Cassie from Primitive and Proper, Brynne from The Gathered Home, Maggie fromMaggie Overby Studios and  Myself (A Designer At Home) will pick a favorite thrift score or two to feature! So please note that by linking up with #thriftscorethursday, you are giving us permission to share your finds via social media or on our blogs.

The best part? There are 4 regular posts to check out every Thursday! Yup, you’ve got more thrift scores to look at. I know you’re not disappointed. Ha. Click on my beautiful cohost’s faces below to check out what they’ve scored and featured.

A little space in my home that I’ve been doing a tiny bit of work on is a “reading” corner. Ir’s in the dining room and it’s part of the wall I mentioned being a mud room kind of space a while back. I have the piece that is acting as a hideaway office of sorts. To the left of it I have baskets a coat rack and a mess of other things as this space is still coming together. On the other side I didn’t have any ideas.

Until I came across this unique rattan lounger. It’s petite in size, but the really neat part is the foot rest that slides in and out of the bottom. So it goes from cute rattan armchair to relaxing lounger.

I’m hoping to put shelves on this wall soon for books to help it function better as a reading corner. I recently put up these clipboards I picked up ages ago from the dollar store. I’ve got artwork created by my son and myself up here so he has a place to display his hobbies, too.

And I had to add the globe. I’m far from someone you’d see having a house with a library so I thought it’d be a bit comical and fun to put the globe here.

You know what else is fun? FEATURES 🙂

There’s a common thread with all these picks this week. I spotted something in each of these pictures that I also own. I started to notice the theme going through all the submissions so I had to go with it 😉

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIGGjc4gj11/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIEC8QMDcWs/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIGVuxkDeqG/

Wanna Play? Here’s The Rules!

• We want you to participate! Hit up your local thrift stores, craigslist, yard sales, estate sales, side of the road, anything! Thrifty doesn’t necessarily mean from a thrift store. We want to see your good deals, wacky finds and treasures.
• Don’t feel like you need to save those finds for Thursdays! Yes, features are shared on our blogs and Instagram on Thursdays, but we’re all checking in on (and using!) the hashtag all week long. So, when you see/find it, feel free to share it!
• Want to get featured? Add the #thriftscorethursdsay hashtag, Follow the hosts (@the_gathered_home, @primitiveandproper, @adesignerathome and @maggieoverbystudios) and tag a friend to play along, too!
• Each week, Cassie from Primitive and Proper, Brynne from The Gathered Home, Maggie fromMaggie Overby Studios and  Myself (A Designer At Home) will pick a favorite thrift score or two to feature! So please note that by linking up with #thriftscorethursday, you are giving us permission to share your finds via social media or on our blogs.

The best part? There are 4 regular posts to check out every Thursday! Yup, you’ve got more thrift scores to look at. I know you’re not disappointed. Ha. Click on my beautiful cohost’s faces below to check out what they’ve scored and featured.

If you’re an interior design enthusiast like myself, you probably love to learn about past and present trends. I’ve spent a small fortune on a variety of books from actual interior design studies books to those written by my favorite designers. But holy cow, I’ve found a mecca!

In a recent trip to the thrift store, I found some books that are so helpful. And the images are wildly accurate for the current design trends. If there’s ever been anything more reaffirming of this, it’s seeing spaces that I could swear I’ve seen in my Instagram feed on pages with olddddd computers and TVs.

Here are some I definitely recommend you look for and read now that I’ve picked them up and fallen in love:

Antiques In Interior Design

The Not So Big House

Family Circle Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia 1

A Practical Guide to Interior Design Planning A Home

And some other equally entertaining books I picked up:

Reader’s Digest Hints and Tips To Make Life Easier

Macrame Creative Design In Knotting

Victorian Dream Homes from Home Planners

The Art Of Hanging Loose in an Uptight World

To be completely honest, I haven’t picked up a book outside of my bible for at least a year. It’s been a fun trip down memory lane since I used to love books. I think it’s an obsession that may be returning. 😉

Now that you have a list of potential reading material, lets browse some of my favorite thrift scores from #thriftscorethursday:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHalZxjgj7A/

Wanna Play? Here’s The Rules!

• We want you to participate! Hit up your local thrift stores, craigslist, yard sales, estate sales, side of the road, anything! Thrifty doesn’t necessarily mean from a thrift store. We want to see your good deals, wacky finds and treasures.
• Don’t feel like you need to save those finds for Thursdays! Yes, features are shared on our blogs and Instagram on Thursdays, but we’re all checking in on (and using!) the hashtag all week long. So, when you see/find it, feel free to share it!
• Want to get featured? Add the #thriftscorethursdsay hashtag, Follow the hosts (@the_gathered_home, @primitiveandproper, @adesignerathome and @maggieoverbystudios) and tag a friend to play along, too!
• Each week, Cassie from Primitive and Proper, Brynne from The Gathered Home, Maggie from Maggie Overby Studios and  Myself (A Designer At Home) will pick a favorite thrift score or two to feature! So please note that by linking up with #thriftscorethursday, you are giving us permission to share your finds via social media or on our blogs.

The best part? There are 4 regular posts to check out every Thursday! Yup, you’ve got more thrift scores to look at. I know you’re not disappointed. Ha. Click on my beautiful cohost’s faces below to check out what they’ve scored and featured.