I Tried Furnishing My Empty Living Room For $500
I Tried Furnishing My Empty Living Room For $500
In an attempt to save money AND limit waste, Rachel is furnishing her empty living room for under $500 using all second hand items.
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I furnished my entire apartment for far less than this… it’s totally doable! 😀
love this! I grew up poor so my mom would have to dumpster dive and sell the items at flea markets. now as an adult, I’m not even close to poor but I LOVE to dumpsterdive, thrift and yardsale.
Offer up is a great place for furniture and decor. I furnished my whole house when I moved. Love it! BUT, BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN PURCHASING APPLIANCES. TRUST ME!
"Since I’m older now…"
Any other 30-somethings watching this feel personally attacked?
Sims4 irl:
I did this when I moved out. Took my parents van out for a day to the neighboring big city and raced around beating people to furniture on kijiji. Most expensive piece of furniture was my kitchen table w/ chairs that was $190, cheapest was a microwave I got for free.
I definitely didn’t buy anything with fabric that was my main rule 🤣 If I can’t clean it then I won’t buy it used.
I just moved into a 1 bedroom myself and have bits of furniture that dont really make sense in the space, been trying to figure something out. I think im gonna give this idea a shot!
Wow what a great job. That turned out so comfy looking!!
Congrats but I would just have to deal with having an empty living room because I am so scared of bedbugs. I rather buy new and have more piece of mind. Also if you do end up getting them you risk infecting attached units that are next to yours.
Oh my god. .. that room is so gorgeous to begin with that i wouldn’t want to cover it up with anything!!!! …
so yea i can do that but not with the couch, idk i think its rly dirty and nasty. the pther thing we can clean it etc but a couch its moooore difficult to clean
Great job, everything fits together so well. I’d just add some art and/or mirror on the walls, and repaint the walls, white on top, and a light olivey green or light sand color under the chair rail. Your plants might need some more light than that which is available on that wall.
My rug alone cost 5,000 but worth every cent!
if you live in seattle or another big city, you can find just about anything for free on facebook marketplace and craigslist. we furnished our apartment for maybe $15.
That’s inspiring and environment friendly….good job
85 for that chair is so expensive! We git 2 huge recliner chairs and a 3 seater couch for 75, they’re big and spacious like that chair too, from a non smoking, non pet home
Omgoshhhhhh what is that green color???
You did an amazing job your livingroom looks like a professional designer spent thousands on your room . You have a great eye for everything . I am also a thrifter when it comes to redecorating
For future reference, throw pillows and blankets, rugs and things like that are priced great at Ross. I got 2 throw blankets and 6 throw pillows for under $70 this past weekend.
Job well done. My favorite piece you got is the console for the TV. I’ve purchased lots of items from Facebook Marketplace (a 39" TV for $100 and a 32" TV for $50) and saved a ton of money. I actually just found a beautiful footstool in excellent condition at the end of someone’s driveway – there was a matching chair but I didn’t need it and it wouldn’t have fit in my car so I left it there – cheap is good, but free is better.
You did fantastic
Wow lovely!
I found similar coffee tables online new at $60-70……
I bought a new, to me, couch on fb marketplace and the guy took my old couches and put them up for free, with delivery, on his profile. I thought it was great to be buying secondhand and also to know my old, slightly used (but very uncomfortable for me), couches would not end up in a landfill (at least not immediately).
This was a FUN challenge and like relatively easy?? Everyone should go and do this!!!
You could have fit that original sectional you wanted in that space. All you would have had to do is put the longer side against the wall and had the shorter side placed by your front door. Put a sofa table behind it or place a nice throw over the back and get a shoe rack bench for the front of the window and you have just created your own designated and outlined entry way. Would also be a perfect little space for your wicker basket with your yoga mat.
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Kudos … really enjoyed this video …
LOVED the side table!!!
Omg you did a great job. It looks great
Wow impressive
looks very cute, cozy and comfy!
I loooooove thrifting furniture! My home looks so expensive yet half the items are thrifted for damn near nothing or hand me downs 😂 Your goodwill is expensive tho! I just got a gorgeous wooden entertainment stand that I am using as extra decorative storage and lamp stand behind my couch for $15 and a big beautiful lamp to go on there for $6 (bulb included)
Is that Quinn from Zoey 101?
Great job! Loved this video…. Cheers, 🍻
I do like green, but the color of that end table would have gone so beautifully with the room beforehand!….
I’m curious as to what your rent is. I live in a one bedroom in Fullerton, ca (north orange county) and in my (very outdated with next to no amenities) complex, one bedrooms are currently being listed for between $2050 and $2155 per month for 705sqft. No central air, no dishwasher, very limited storage space and the only lights are in a ceiling fan in the dining room area and in the bathroom. The floors are faux wood laminate and the countertops are also some kind of vinyl overlay on top of wood.
Me and my sister furnished our apartment for under $400 Facebook marketplace is the place to be!!
Paintings
Perfect !
I did not know about the Habitat for Humanity store! Thanks for the tip!
Great for sustainability (and the wallet). Great video, thanks for sharing! 💕
I think you did a great job!
I considered doing secondhand furniture when I moved out on my own, but I didn’t want to risk bed bugs. I love the idea of furnishing a room for $500 but I’m not sure it’s worth the risk lol.
I’am too afraid of bed bugs, head lice and being murdered to do this
You’re better off just going to Amazon and buying everything new including a couch you may have to spend more than 500 but it shouldn’t be that much more
You did a great job on a budget everything goes really well all together
half my furniture is free stuff picked up from the side of the road and the other half is stuff that was given to me
the coffee table and the TV stand are amazingly beautiful 🤩 but the throw pillows were wasted money in my opinion. They were way to expensive 😳
Your living room is gorgeous now! Bravo! Glad you grabbed that side table even though it was not on your original list. I like your style! That rug really pulls it all together! But, seriously, get all of the upholstered pieces professionally cleaned ASAP.
I thrifted my whole house and I have too much of everything and spent a tiny tiny amount in all honesty.
I spent like $300 on my living room and I have 2 couches that retail for about $2000, mirrored end tables that retail for $500, a Kirkland’s desk worth $200, an ottoman that retails for $50, a wicker chest that retails for $350, 2 lamps that retail for $80, a big screen tv, tv stand that retails for $300, 10×12 rug worth $200, 6 curtains that retail for $120 and an antique etagere worth like $1000.
So I got $5100 of stuff for around $300.
I spent $24 on curtains, $155 on end tables, $60 on TV stand, $20 on wicker chest, $20 on each couch and the rest of the stuff I found for free or traded for.
I also acquired 3 nice bedroom suits for free and 2 dressers and traded away my industrial fan for a bar table and bar stools and used an old spool of rope as a front porch table and spent $40 on two chairs for the porch.
I spent $550 on the TV’s in my house and about $500 on dishes and decorations and coat hangers and sheets and a washer n dryer and such so I furnished my whole house for like $1300. – or $650 if you take the electronics out of the amount I spent.
So for $650 you can have a fully furnished 3 bedroom home minus TV, washer, dryer or fridge.
I’m really patient and good at acquiring things for cheap or free. It took me like 4 years to get my house just how I wanted it though.