Home Imperial : Furnishing a house on a budget
My family is house rich and money poor. Buying our first home was a great achievement for me, as I have never owned one before. Now the challenge is furnishing our home as inexpensively as possible in order to have money left over for other things like, say, food, electricity, gas and the like.
Fortunately, I have a solid background in cheap. My mother taught me the value of reusing old items and making them look like new. She also taught me that buying a piece of junk is no bargain, so make sure all items are sturdy, safe and worth salvaging. I gained my own experiences in college by furnishing my first apartment from the cast – offs of other students. In other words, dumpster diving. Now, I’ve drawn on these lessons to repurpose, reuse and otherwise recycle old items, bought and found, to begin decorating our home without turning it into a place that looks like a flea market exploded.
