LIVING ROOM DECORATED ON A BUDGET

Many items in our living room are family heirlooms, like the console table, the ceramic bowl and the tapestry in the foreground.

The lovely basket was a gift from a family member. The candle holders were a gift from a friend.
The candles were purchased inexpensively at Big Lots. 

The lamps were $20 each from Marshalls.  The lovely pottery vase is from a local pottery store. The greenery inside the pottery (and the white ceramic fruit inside the bowl) is from Pier 1 - on sale and I used a coupon.  

But the heavy, large mirror was garbage picked! I painted it and added a mirror.  When we found it in our neighbor's trash, it had singe marks on it (probably survived a fire) and was just an empty, gold colored frame. It was very heavy even without the mirror. I painted it chocolate brown and had a mirror put in by our local glass company for $20.00.

The round, ivory, plaster relief pieces below the mirror are from a moving sale and we paid $20 for each.  I saw the same ones online which retail for $120 each!  Cha-ching!
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