re-used the furniture I had & made it work for the short term.

Slowly, I began adding in the pieces that I wanted & finally bought the sectional a few months ago. I don't think I am alone in saying that, sometimes we want so much for our home to look a certain way, the way we see in magazines but we forget that these

things take time. A room that is layered & filled with items and details that you LOVE evolves, over time. I had to tell myself this a few times:).

This family room makeover was done on a ridiculously SMALL budget.

I do believe that making your home pretty doesn't have to break the bank.

I shopped thrift stores, flea markets, outlet stores,I repainted, recovered, sewed, re-purposed, made and built things myself

to save some $.

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them into a digital imaging program and fixed all the rips and creases, I enhanced the font to make them readable again and had them printed to size to fit these p;d windows that fantastically enough, we salvaged from an old Boat house a few months back. So now the prints on how to build this old boat, can live on for many many more years to come!

over paint, tape, accessories, light fixture...a little crazy but I think it's so much better! Before, after and more details: http://diyshowoff.com/2012/01/01/stair-and-l...