Today marks the last post in a summer series on “the thrill of the hunt” AKA finding that one piece of furniture or item for your home or event your hosting. The summer series featured guest posts from professionals in the interior design, estate sales, professional organizing and event industries. My guests included Jennifer Burnham, Pure and Simple Organizing, and Cheryl Luckett, Dwell by Cheryl. You can view their “treasure hunting” tips here and here. Make sure you follow both of these talented women on Instagram and Twitter!
What makes something a treasure? It’s what ever accessory, piece of furniture, décor item that you value or that you like! Often times you may see the value in something that someone else might not.
As a wedding and event planner, I’m always using different pieces to decorate and style an event. These pieces may also be part of my home décor. I hit up garage sales, yard sales, Charlotte Market Place’s Vintage Charlotte Pop Up Flea Market, Metrolina ReStores, HomeGoods, Southern Marketplace, Sleepy Poet Antique Mall and Catawba River Antique Mall to name a few.
Just like my two guests, Pure and Simple Organizing and Dwell by Cheryl, I enjoy a good deal and making that “treasure” fit my home or event décor. It’s fun when I can kill two birds with one stone. Like these two bunnies I found at Catawba River Antique Mall for my Easter décor, which was featured in Easter Celebrations.
My home décor is full of blue and white and I was thrilled to find these plates, tea pot, and containers, which have all found homes in my kitchen and living room, at a local yard sale. I still can’t get over scoring all of the below finds for a total of $14.25!
I had been looking for an arm chair for my mater bedroom during One Room Challenge last spring and of course found this beauty a few months later for a whopping 25 cents! The chair is currently in my family room and waiting for a little TLC reupholster make over. I would love to do something like this to it in the below right photo!
I hung my blue and white plates from the yard with my three other plates I purchased from Lance Jackson with Parker Kennedy Living, on the kitchen wall. It’s add the perfect dimension and depth I was looking for to complete the kitchen updates without breaking the bank.
I scored this white porcelain Royal Haeger pitcher and basin for 25 cents at the yard sale! Yes, that’s right $0.25 for both, which could run you $40-$60. It completes the vintage look in my front entryway and looks great styled with hydrangeas as seen below from my Front Entryway post.
Another favorite from my treasure hunts is a beautiful miniature pitcher from Modern Cottage’s booth at Vintage Charlotte! It’s currently in my kitchen and is a great place to display small flower arrangements or herbs like basil. I also found these vintage metal spike flower frogs and stand at a vintage Parisian booth! All three finds look great in my kitchen.
Let’s not forget all the Lilly Pulitzer I found at the Metrolina ReStores in Charlotte! So excited that one of my friends scored this white ottoman to store her shoe collection after one of my recent posts!
I had a hard time walking away from these Lilly Pulizer elephant garden stools, especially since I already have one elephant stool in my home.
My last major treasure from this summer was this campaign three drawer piece from Habitat Metrolina ReStores. I’ve been slowly transforming the former dinning room into my office since we moving into our house a year and half ago. We are in desperate need of storage, especially for our files and this piece is a perfect fit. The cell phone photo is grainy, but you can see it has good bones.
I started spray painting this bad boy white and it just doesn’t look right. Back to the drawing board and rethinking the color and paint. Chalk paint might be interesting or going bold with coral to match with the color scheme of mint and coral with mainly white furniture and pops of green in my office. Stay tuned!
I hope you have enjoyed my summer series and have learned a thing or two about a long the way. Who knows, maybe your next big score is just around the corner!
Credits
Styling and photography – Sarah Sofia Productions
I’m sorry, did you say $0.25 chair? Say what?? Major scores Sarah!!! Thanks for the shout out and including me in the series!
Cheryl, thank you! Yes, took a tip from Jen and headed back to the same yard sale but towards the end and SCORE! My pleasure, thank you for all your great advice!