Carpet people will bind the rug, and they will add custom boarders. I had a corporate logo put into a rug, then had it bound and it was actually cheaper then buying a regular rug. Carpet people are amazing.
also ask if they have remnants - a large piece of carpet left over from someone else's job is even cheaper than buying from the roll, and the carpet company will then cut it to your size and bind it for a reasonable fee,
I'm in Maine USA, "Vacation Land", the antique shops here charge higher prices in the spring/summer, when people are here on vacation. I shop late fall and winter when prices are down. Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL and we charge the same prices (with exception of global companies' presence of cruises/flights/hotel stays) and our local prices are the SAME. If you buy a hamburger in winter, or a lamp, or a pair of pants, the prices are the SAME. What kind of BS is that that you RIP OFF tourists with inflated prices? Remind me to avoid "vacation land" Maine.
@@suecampbell4811I live in Florida as well and that’s not my experience. Maybe you’re lucky but that’s not what happens in more popular vacation locations. There’s a difference between snowbird season and not. Note: this last year or so is completely bonkers for prices.
@@suecampbell4811 Having been a tourist in Florida, I can tell you that you DO have inflated prices for all things tourist-attracting during the more popular vacation times compared to the other times of the year. All tourist hubs do that. That's one of the reasons people will recommend traveling in the off-season. You can save a lot of money.
@@suecampbell4811 oh honey.. you realize in most tourist areas around the world is ripping everyone in the area off all the time, let alone just the tourist for just a portion of the year..
I tried to go the buy old & reupholster route to save money. We found some amazing high quality 60s chairs- a his & hers set that went perfectly with our existing couch for under $800. The re-upholstery of just one chair was over $2K. And they're tiny chairs and used very low cost material. I could've gotten new chairs in the fabric of my choice for WAY less. So, depending on where you live, it's not always a good deal. Sometimes businesses see someone wanting to recover an item that's quality enough to do that with as their meal ticket. Sadly, this seems to be the result of a throwaway society. Most people where I live just toss their stuff after a few years. Reupholstery isn't cheap unless you do it yourself.
Yes it has gotten expensive but it might be worth it if it is an heirloom piece or you are looking for something truly unique and what you have is premium quality furniture.
In the UK it's probably only worth reupholstering if your furniture is expensive, or it's really cheap and you do it yourself. I've certainly recovered a few stools with a scrap of fabric and a staple gun.
I worked in a very good carpet store, we did quite a few custom rugs. We had gorgeous all wool carpets that we would custom cut and then we would send them off to a local person who would finish them with or without fringe. It was a relatively inexpensive way to get a nice wool rug.
Great video! I want to add some thing that I found when I shopped at restore. We were trying to find two exterior French doors that did not have a stem between them. Not sure if stem is the right word, but when we went to Home Depot and all the big box stores, all we found were exterior doors that still had that floor to ceiling stem in the middle of them with where they close together. I think it was because the area we lived in was generally on the colder side, so they felt that no one would want two doors that opened fully without a stem in between. But we did! Lol We happen to go to restore, and there they were! We literally could not find them in our province, but we found them at restore. So sometimes it’s not cheaper. It’s actually the product you were looking for and couldn’t find elsewhere! And the fact that the money goes to Habitat for Humanity is also an extra lovely win! ❤
When my generation was just starting out in life in the mid-70's, one way to get carpeting was to raid the trash bins of carpet stores and combine enough remnants to cover your floor. I have seen patchwork carpeting apartments. I don't think Nick would approve (to say the least), but it was better than cold feet.
There has been a bit of a trend of influencers buying clothes/items that have identical images but are sent from different retailers, and comparing the quality. They usually buy one of each price point, from the shockingly cheap to the kinda expensive. None of them look like the image on the website lol It would be interesting to see you do something similar, maybe with chairs or a side table
I've literally saved £1000s searching for 'white label' goods thanks to Nick's video on the subject. A bath tub I wanted was £2000 at a luxury bathroom store, I found it elsewhere for £950 🙏🏻💕 I'm doing it for everything in our renovation. Thank you so much Nick!
Thanks for tip on lamps. I got a great one at Home Depot and put in our kitchen. It sits on my beautiful granite countertop in corner. The granite sits atop of our reclaimed gorgeous cabinets we bought from Restore. Good on you!
I got a granite countertop and backsplash at a now closed resale store for $35!!!!!! for the galley kitchen in my former house. My contractor was able to customize it to fit the sink, etc. Honestly I never would have picked that granite (it was the early 2000’s and people were ripping granite out,) 😊but I went with it and picked colors, cabinets, etc. around it. I was so proud of my shopping skills, and I really liked having a stone countertop.
Hey. So happy you mentioned Restore. We bought kitchen cabinets in Anchorage AK for $2,000 for so many cabinets we got to give away several. And we built a beautiful kitchen for a bargain.
Mr Lewis: your videos are always interesting, usually fun and from time to time, well, Wow! - as much can be said of all the great Chanels - and yes this was a great one, several tips I am going to use this week because I am redoing a prior mother-daughter apartment into a real office.....where I will be both working alone AND seeing the occasional client etc. I am about to watch your layering rugs video so please, promote your videos.....in short: thanks for the hard work the sense of humor, the tips and above all the inspiration......G
A friend of mine got a great bargain on a rug when she found a carpet she liked, and it turned out there was just a small amount left on the the roll. She got it for a huge price by meter cost discount plus the cost of the stitched binding.
Carpet store for my rug- I did this and love them. I chose a super plush for my bedroom and cut out the shag that would have been under the bed- cut out and used as rug in other room. Because shag I didn’t need to seem. My low pile, I seamed after a year when I knew the size was correct- $7-12 a lineal foot to seam
Way back in the 1980s and 1990s, one used peach lightbulbs (not pink) because everyone looks better in that soft light. Don't know if they are even available anymore. It was kind of a trend.
Restore stopped sell😮ng the stuff in Orlando … at least nit through habitat for Humanity. I was crushed. It was a great place to find stuff. Are you good? Review lights to go on my ceiling. Especially very funky. I walked into the place and I found them. We had 10 of them. I bought three. I paid $15 a piece. Were they were in a store $60 apiece.
If you have pixel. Press and hold the bottom bar on your screen. Then encircle whatever item you are seeing from Instagram or online, lens will search it for you. No longer have to ask, what is the name of that thing
Would be helpful if you popped up the madness of all these places you mention in bigger type on the screen. Some of us need to see more. And every time you mention a company, put the link in the comments. Otherwise, you're just lazily talking and making us pause, rewind, and search in a separate tab. Help us out!
I found out a brand of curtain that I like is a white label brand! I got them on Amazon and then was forced to buy “different” curtains later because of stocking issues, only to find out that they are *exactly* the same! 😂
Marble like many other things is overpriced. They charge according to the store, the type of clientele and the hype of a product. It is cheaper, of course, when you go to a warehouse or a surplus store as they are not fancy places, and they usually sell what is discarded by the fancy stores and the builders, which are usually small random pieces, damaged or defect items, etc.
A lot of these sellers that we have never heard of, use the same photo, measurements, etc. Buuut.... when you receive the actual product, it's a terrible copy of the original... there's that.
🙋🏻♀️Former Habitat ReStore employee here. Ours had all kinds of building and finishing materials plus furniture, appliances and decor items. It’s a place where you might have to hunt through things or check back often, but you will definitely find some unexpected gems! Ours got a lot of vintage furniture and antiques donated that you would never be able to find elsewhere.
I just got a dresser for my boys there yesterday! Question for you if you’re willing - I often haggle the price when I do intend to purchase and sometimes they’re totally willing to haggle the price and some locations act like they’ve never had someone try to negotiate prices. What’s your experience with that - is there some sort of policy?
I bought a brand new farmhouse cast iron sink by Kohler (which retailed for $1800) for $100 at our Habitat ReStore ❤ & it was still in the original box 👀 . Maybe it didn’t fit in the original customer’s sink area 🤷🏼♀️ but it fit mine 🥳 FYI: best to take your measurements for whatever you are looking for when you shop there.
I think that was the original name of an old Steve Miller song, "Take the Marble and Run" I couldn't find anything online about why the word was changed to Money. I prefer Marble, and I'm guessing by all the comments here, lots of people would.😅
There’s a ReStore right down the road from me and when I bought my house and gutted it, I donated some of the materials to them, then found an attic staircase for $75 (saving nearly $400). Then the contractors left a lot of materials here and I turned around and donated those too. If you’re a shrewd shopper, you can get all kinds of stuff there and it’s a universally worthy cause.
I did a show with a community theater group that played in a local church (don't ask!). There was only one set, and it required a staircase. Which had to be "built to fit." Well, it was built to fit a Habitat for Humanity project, and was donated to that house when the (very short) run was over. I was highly impressed.
It's true about the lighting! A famous lamp manufacturer had a demo hotel room that they lit 3 ways. In certain light, it looked like a cheap hotel - and you can guess the rest. In other light the exact same space looked like a 5 star hotel room. I found it shocking and I'll never forget the power of good lighting.
One more resource for free of cost decoration that is normally ignored: Shadows. Put a spot light hidden behing a plant and you can decorate a full wall or ceiling for the evening and night. Same during sunlight, plants or well chosen patterns in front of a window can create a similar effect. Shadows can be abstract and subtle but they can be very effective, sometimes friends tell me "I like your home, but I dont know why". And thats why, shadows.
This doesn't have much to do specifically with your video, but I went to Home Sense this week and I kept thinking of you the whole time--like you were going to pop out of some huge basket and poke fun at me! 😂 I didn't buy anything mirrored, though. Points?
I have to say habitat restore is hit or miss some stores have awesome prices others are incredibly over priced. Everyone should be reupholstering furniture with how high furniture prices are. I got a chair on the side of the road earlier this month and reupholstered the seat last night with a manual nail gun, and five dollars worth of 100 percent cotton better homes and gardens fabric in a climbing rose pattern, it made my chair go from belonging on the set of the candy man, to1940s beauty Queen glamour. P.s. if you paint any of that 90s furniture and if it’s real wood future generations will dislike you like I dislike whoever painted my 1880s table. :)
Get some Ikea cotton curtains with the back tabs, long enough to go floor to ceiling. They’re flimsy so plan on two pair per window. For forty bucks, it’s instant luxe. Get a remnant of expensive fabric and make a small throw pillow to add to your cheapies. Get a marble or travertine tray for you coffee table. Makes any table from the side of the road look fabulous. If you have a dining room, clean off the table, and get a lidded, chunky vase - it can be cheap and ugly - put fresh flowers in it and bang. Put a $40 mirror from Home Goods across from a window to light up and enlarge the room. Go online and find incandescent bulbs. Uh-oh, I hear the police pulling up. Good luck!
We don't have a restore in my area. However, the landfill has an enclosed space that has left over doors and paint and random construction items available to the public. You don't know what you'll find, but I guess it's worth a look.
and it is free! I miss the day (years back) when you could forage yourself among all the stuff that builders would dump there as there was nowhere else to put it where I lived....
All solid tips, Nick, as you said. My only quibble would be on reupholstering. It might be different in the US and Canada, but it is a really costly thing to do here in Australia. Still worth it for a sentimental piece or designer find - I am saving to have my grandfather's wingback chair recovered - but it is cheaper here to buy a new designer chair than have my old one recovered. Lots of videos showing people buying fabric cheaply at a store and having their thrift find recovered, but you also need to be careful to buy fabric of sufficient weight and tightness of weave, than will not rub or pill.
I live in the same city as Nick and it cost me $6k to reupholster a sofa that has been passed down in my family for generations. So definitely cheaper to buy new unless it’s very high quality, or sentimental value. Edit: Having said that, it would have been cheaper if I didn’t fall in love with and chose a super expensive fabric 😂. He also did redid the cushioning and stain on the wood frame.
@@jeanallan8106 the fabric can make it super expensive. I reupholstered my couch after one of my cats destroyed it. I chose a fabric that cats can't scratch 👍, my couch destroyer is no longer with us 😢.
The foam is definitely the most expensive part, & it’s so important to get the right kind, especially for the seat. I did a lot of research just on that aspect.
If you have an architectural salvage place in your area those are worth checking out as well. They have some pre-owned but high quality lighting, cabinets etc
Oh, wow... I Googled "architectural salvage near me" and found the coolest store I never knew existed, even after living here 10 years! Thanks for this!
Well this has just changed my life for the better! It totally makes sense that such places exist, but I never thought about them existing before, and now I have discovered there is one near me full of beautiful, unique pieces I can't wait to check out in person.
I wanted to look at the lamp you mention in your shopify segment, and I remember going to the online store when you last featured it, but now I cannot remember how to spell the name of the shop. If you see this comment, would you please spell it out for me? Thanks Nick!
14:40 I was given some old wingback armchairs. I didn't like the fabric therefore, I'd found some great wingback armchair slipcovers from Amazon. When people visit my home they think that the chairs have been reupholstered.
Love my local Habitat for Humanity! Just found a beautiful 7’x7’ WOOL rug with tags attached! (Listed online from vendors listing at 7-8 times the price I paid) I am currently searching for some tile to redo my kitchen backsplash-patience is a virtue. Thank you Nick, you are a treasure!
Super duper video! So helpful. I find your RUclips delivery so witty and amusing. And, you’re a cutie, too. I’ve gone backwards and am watching all your videos. Was so sorry to hear about you long term partner breakup,but I’ve found that one never knows what the future holds and should alwats hope for the best. I speak as a female with 72 years of experience! Please Keep up the great work with your channel. I know that you have many of us out here who are always looking forward to your next video.
My big tip for saving money and making my space look better is having less furniture. Skip end tables. It's way easier to put your drink on the coffee table in front of you, so ditch the end tables, get some cute wall mounted lights. Less dusting and easier vacuuming as a bonus.
@@murielbaith5445That's what I did. I don't even have a couch and coffee table in my 2-bedroom house because there is nowhere to put it. My living room is simply not big enough and it would look out of place, anyway.
I want to add consignment stores! They often have brand new furniture but with some minor defects that wouldn't allow them to sell in the name brand store
I never buy anything without doing a Google image search first. And not just furniture. I have found the exact same items for a fraction of the cost. For instance I saw a hose holder on Pottery Barn's website on sale for $53 and the same one was available on Walmart for $38 and I think I paid $32 for it on Amazon. One thing that's surprised me is how often items from higher end retail sites are also for sale at Home Depot for much less.
Growing up my parents got all our rugs from a carpet remnant store. At home we just hot glued around the edges to keep it from fraying and done! Cheap and easy ❤
One inexpensive tip to share: move your furniture. Sometimes it's moving the sofa, tables, and lamps around and you'll have a more interesting place. Also, painting the space helps a lot, too.
yeah moving furniture also helps make doing a deep clean and declutter a lot easier with the process. and putting down a new layer of paint on the walls helps so much! people are so surprised that white paint can fade and get layers of grime over time and look drab, a new coat can really wake up a space.
Hey, Nick, thanks for reminding me about ReStore. I've been wanting to do some small projects in my home, but just don't want to go pay the price for crappy looking wood at a Big Box Store. I'll take a trip over to ReStore next week to see what I can find. Who knows?!? Maybe I'll find one of those big chunks of marble for $4.00!!!!😀
I like restore places. I got a door for $25. Solid wood. Can't beat that. And a friend of mine was able to build most of her little outbuilding with just the supplies from that store. Including a little sink, a little countertop, flooring, windows, etc.
I feel SO much better. Just used your tips to see that my designer is charging me $200 LESS for the media console she ordered for me than what I can find online.
I have a couch and chair from the 1940's that I've had re-upholstered twice. They'e beautiful and will last forever. Only downside is that this kind of old quality furniture is heavy, heavy, heavy.
"What truck got robbed at knifepoint in order to have these $4 marble.. that fell of the back of this van sometimes it's best not to ask questions, take the pieces and run" yup
Used or bargin coffee table books that are no longer being appreciated as reading material are full of frame-worthy photos or art. You can carefully remove pages, put into inexpensive frames and change up what you have displayed on your walls. Nice way to decorate a kids room as well - you can use images from vintage kids books.
I always loved wing chairs but they are way out of my budget. So on a whim I bought 3 from my local Restore (2 matching & 1 different style) on sale for a whopping $36.10!! All have really good wood & springs, just needed new foam & material. So I bought all the tools & supplies, including books, & learned how to reupholster them myself!! One is complete, the twin is in the process & the other I hope to start & finish this summer. Probably have about $1000 in supplies, 😂, like a decent pneumatic staple gun & air compressor, but I’m still going to come out ahead. I’ve learned so much in the process (like, who knew furniture coverings were STAPLED together?!) & I fell in love with reupholstering! I now also have a few other pieces in my list of things to re-cover!
I also learned to reupholstery by watching videos and then buying supplies. Even did piping, which makes the couch I did look professional. My old sewing machine handled the sewing work when I learned heavy duty needles were the way to go. I bought the fabric at a discount outlet for upholstery, good quality stuff. Bought zippers in a large roll. Only thing I regret was using a battery staple gun. But I wasn't going to invest in an air compressor.
I'd also add that doing a lot of work yourself is a great way to spend money - when I don't know how to do something, I ask the RUclips Dad community. There's always a video explaining how to do a lot of the smaller reno tasks (and it's not always a Dad, of course, but when I changed out my faucet, I followed along with a video where a dude started it off by saying "Hi Kids!," so there we are)
Definitely agree that this tip is good for finding products that are sold by multiple reputable manufacturers, but avoid anything that runs the risk of being some knock off drop ship trash.
Yes it has gotten expensive but it might be worth it if it is an heirloom piece or you are looking for something truly unique and what you have is premium quality furniture.
So true! We bought all of our lamps at antique stores, and even one from ReStore! Had'em rewired, and they are beautiful, unique, and even with the rewiring, they came to less than a $100 each 😃
Just one quick "tip": there's a difference between reupholstering and re-covering a piece of furniture. If the filler and springs of a piece are in good shape, you can leave all that alone and pay to have it re-covered instead of reupholstered (which usually involves replacing all the foam and batting as well as some or all of the springs). It's generally quite a bit cheaper to simply re-cover something! That said, if there's any doubt about the state of the filler and/or springs, just have it all done rather than forking-over the money to have a piece re-covered because it'd be a shame to have to redo it all in a year or two because the insides were wearing out!
What is the brand of the little light on his living room console? He mentioned it but I couldn’t hear it clearly. It sounded like he said Q E lighting, but the transcript has qwi, which isn’t a thing. Anyone?
Nope, nope, nope… the words IKEA kitchen and quality construction should never be used in the same sentence. Yes contractors like them because they’re cheap to purchase but their cheap quality fibreboard material will not take the wear and tear the way a better wood construction will. We purchased a house that already had an IKEA kitchen and at 6 years old it was starting to show problems when we moved in (sagging drawers, chunks of facing and fiberboard breaking down around the shelf supports, weird baseboard clips that break etc.). It has only gotten worse. We’ve had better performance out of similar designed modular kitchen cabinets (but different company) at our old house that were still holding up 18 years after we did a diy install. So just a heads up, you might be disappointed with a IKEA quality kitchen in a few years.
A good source also is to befriend some local, higher-end contractors. Show up with donuts and coffee and see if they have surplus materials or are doing demo. They may let you remove cabinets so you can repurpose them. It's no cost to them and saves them disposal fees so they will just let you have it, or excess tile and things they didn't use, but the customer already paid for. Make some friends. Various trades will also have off-cuts and rejects you can get for free or super cheap.
Sometimes it's best not to ask questions 😂 I remember once going to an address on a furniture advertisement that turned out to be a warehouse full of furniture. I thought it was kind of clandestine looking but found a nice set of of dining furniture which they delivered. A while later, the same furniture guy got robbed in a parking lot dealing diamonds. Go figure what he was into!
I DID go to a carpet supplier and bought some commercial grade colorful carpet and selected a border and they made us a beautiful area rug for a large room. The price was great and they made it the way we asked for it. The only thing was - and I warn you to check out - the back of the rug looked very rough. You could see how they put the carpet and border together because of the GLUE all over the back! They did the job as best they could - the rug lasted for a couple of years before it tore apart. Now we have hand-knotted (the back is gorgeous), wool, one-of-a-kind area rugs from Wayfair (our biggest rug is 10' x 14' and had a ridiculous price of $10k - we bought it for $2500). Another of their rugs cost us $740 and had a price of $3400. These rugs are well made and should last forever...oh please let that be the case!
With regards to the white label products being sold at different prices… Do you think that there’s a chance that the Less expensive ones from lesser known stores could be a lower grade product because they noticed some kind of deficiency in the manufacturing process? Then the top-tier stores would get the “perfect” ones.
Maybe reupholstering is affordable in Canada. But here (Netherlands) it is easier to find the Holy Grail than finding an upholsterer (is that a word?). And having a second hand piece of furniture upholstered will probably make the item more expensive than when you'd have bought it new. I have had 2 pieces upholstered, just because I prefer to buy a good quality second hand vintage item. But it is not a budget option. At least not here.
@@653j521 I'd love to. But trying to upholster a Saarinen Womb chair is no mean feat. It would take years of training to reach that level of skill I'm afraid. Shoddy upholstery would detract from the design
What a gold mine of knowledge you are, Nick! I'm going checking out quite a few of these! I have such a LOVE JONES for lighting! My lighting pinterest board is my happy place! Thanks for sharing your insider knowledge!
As for lighting, depending on your decor, room, and style, rock lamps give off a nice ambiance too. There are different type of rock lamps which come in various sizes, shapes, heights, and colors.
Love my living room couches and chair but the 4th cat ripped them all to pieces. Reupholstering is the way to go, though found the prices (UK) is more than 'decent' new furniture. Saying that, I seriously doubt that many new will have the same quality...
I agree, reupholstering prices are insanely high in the UK. However, if you like what you already have and the quality of those items is far better than the new ones, it is worth a try.
Reupholstering is expensive, because it'll be done by a fairly paid guy in Europe, rather than a little kid in Bangladesh. I think it's worth doing if the furniture itself is of good quality, what you'll be getting is going to be as good as new, and rather more sustainable. If you think that's expensive though, try having antiques restored...
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By far this video is the most informative I’ve seen about saving money to decorate our homes. Thank you so much for giving us this information. ❤
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Carpet people will bind the rug, and they will add custom boarders. I had a corporate logo put into a rug, then had it bound and it was actually cheaper then buying a regular rug. Carpet people are amazing.
also ask if they have remnants - a large piece of carpet left over from someone else's job is even cheaper than buying from the roll, and the carpet company will then cut it to your size and bind it for a reasonable fee,
I'm in Maine USA, "Vacation Land", the antique shops here charge higher prices in the spring/summer, when people are here on vacation. I shop late fall and winter when prices are down.
Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL and we charge the same prices (with exception of global companies' presence of cruises/flights/hotel stays) and our local prices are the SAME. If you buy a hamburger in winter, or a lamp, or a pair of pants, the prices are the SAME. What kind of BS is that that you RIP OFF tourists with inflated prices? Remind me to avoid "vacation land" Maine.
@@suecampbell4811 Unkind. You do you and they do themselves.
@@suecampbell4811I live in Florida as well and that’s not my experience. Maybe you’re lucky but that’s not what happens in more popular vacation locations. There’s a difference between snowbird season and not. Note: this last year or so is completely bonkers for prices.
@@suecampbell4811 Having been a tourist in Florida, I can tell you that you DO have inflated prices for all things tourist-attracting during the more popular vacation times compared to the other times of the year. All tourist hubs do that. That's one of the reasons people will recommend traveling in the off-season. You can save a lot of money.
@@suecampbell4811 oh honey.. you realize in most tourist areas around the world is ripping everyone in the area off all the time, let alone just the tourist for just a portion of the year..
I tried to go the buy old & reupholster route to save money. We found some amazing high quality 60s chairs- a his & hers set that went perfectly with our existing couch for under $800. The re-upholstery of just one chair was over $2K. And they're tiny chairs and used very low cost material. I could've gotten new chairs in the fabric of my choice for WAY less. So, depending on where you live, it's not always a good deal. Sometimes businesses see someone wanting to recover an item that's quality enough to do that with as their meal ticket. Sadly, this seems to be the result of a throwaway society. Most people where I live just toss their stuff after a few years. Reupholstery isn't cheap unless you do it yourself.
Yes it has gotten expensive but it might be worth it if it is an heirloom piece or you are looking for something truly unique and what you have is premium quality furniture.
In the UK it's probably only worth reupholstering if your furniture is expensive, or it's really cheap and you do it yourself. I've certainly recovered a few stools with a scrap of fabric and a staple gun.
Totally agree with reupholstering being expensive. But a lot a new furniture is poorly/cheaply made so it may be worth paying more in the end.
I am not sure why you didn’t get quotes.
And I'll repeat myself: Never pay someone else to do what you can do for yourself! It's way, way cheaper.
I worked in a very good carpet store, we did quite a few custom rugs. We had gorgeous all wool carpets that we would custom cut and then we would send them off to a local person who would finish them with or without fringe. It was a relatively inexpensive way to get a nice wool rug.
Great video! I want to add some thing that I found when I shopped at restore.
We were trying to find two exterior French doors that did not have a stem between them. Not sure if stem is the right word, but when we went to Home Depot and all the big box stores, all we found were exterior doors that still had that floor to ceiling stem in the middle of them with where they close together. I think it was because the area we lived in was generally on the colder side, so they felt that no one would want two doors that opened fully without a stem in between.
But we did! Lol
We happen to go to restore, and there they were! We literally could not find them in our province, but we found them at restore.
So sometimes it’s not cheaper. It’s actually the product you were looking for and couldn’t find elsewhere!
And the fact that the money goes to Habitat for Humanity is also an extra lovely win! ❤
When my generation was just starting out in life in the mid-70's, one way to get carpeting was to raid the trash bins of carpet stores and combine enough remnants to cover your floor. I have seen patchwork carpeting apartments. I don't think Nick would approve (to say the least), but it was better than cold feet.
Yes, definitely. I remember taping together old carpet sample squares to make a huge rug...😊
Great for kids rooms, basements, bonus rooms and the like!
There has been a bit of a trend of influencers buying clothes/items that have identical images but are sent from different retailers, and comparing the quality. They usually buy one of each price point, from the shockingly cheap to the kinda expensive. None of them look like the image on the website lol
It would be interesting to see you do something similar, maybe with chairs or a side table
I've literally saved £1000s searching for 'white label' goods thanks to Nick's video on the subject. A bath tub I wanted was £2000 at a luxury bathroom store, I found it elsewhere for £950 🙏🏻💕 I'm doing it for everything in our renovation. Thank you so much Nick!
Do you know if there are any re store type stores in the UK?
@@razamughal4582 do you mean like Home Sense and TJ Maxx? We have them. TJ Maxx is TK Maxx though 🤣
I've had carpet cut to size and bound. I needed a 14x14 ft rug. It worked great. I would do this again.
Those overlapping rugs are the stuff of nightmares! Good heavens
Thanks for tip on lamps. I got a great one at Home Depot and put in our kitchen. It sits on my beautiful granite countertop in corner. The granite sits atop of our reclaimed gorgeous cabinets we bought from Restore. Good on you!
I got a granite countertop and backsplash at a now closed resale store for $35!!!!!! for the galley kitchen in my former house. My contractor was able to customize it to fit the sink, etc. Honestly I never would have picked that granite (it was the early 2000’s and people were ripping granite out,) 😊but I went with it and picked colors, cabinets, etc. around it. I was so proud of my shopping skills, and I really liked having a stone countertop.
Yes! Restore is great. Can get some unique furniture there too. A+ for sustainability.
Just wanted to say cabinet and furniture hardware at Restore is a steal. You can redo a large dresser for the cost of two retail handles.
Not only great tips but entertaining as well.
Hey. So happy you mentioned Restore. We bought kitchen cabinets in Anchorage AK for $2,000 for so many cabinets we got to give away several. And we built a beautiful kitchen for a bargain.
Hi Nick!
I wish you can mention the AS- IS section in IKEA❤
Mr Lewis: your videos are always interesting, usually fun and from time to time, well, Wow! - as much can be said of all the great Chanels - and yes this was a great one, several tips I am going to use this week because I am redoing a prior mother-daughter apartment into a real office.....where I will be both working alone AND seeing the occasional client etc. I am about to watch your layering rugs video so please, promote your videos.....in short: thanks for the hard work the sense of humor, the tips and above all the inspiration......G
Hi Nick! Another GREAT video! 😍😍😍
A friend of mine got a great bargain on a rug when she found a carpet she liked, and it turned out there was just a small amount left on the the roll. She got it for a huge price by meter cost discount plus the cost of the stitched binding.
Carpet store for my rug- I did this and love them. I chose a super plush for my bedroom and cut out the shag that would have been under the bed- cut out and used as rug in other room. Because shag I didn’t need to seem. My low pile, I seamed after a year when I knew the size was correct- $7-12 a lineal foot to seam
Way back in the 1980s and 1990s, one used peach lightbulbs (not pink) because everyone looks better in that soft light. Don't know if they are even available anymore. It was kind of a trend.
Awesome tips Nick! Amen to the lamps 😄💡
Very enjoyable with lots of great ideas! Thank you! ❤
I have that exact little knitted stool. Found it at Ross for $25!!
As someone whose name is Rivka, it was hilarious hearing Nick say my name over and over!!!😆
Thank you for sharing these, Nick. This is gold!
16:38 "It's going to make your home look tragic." I love it!
This was a very solid video
Agreed, it's a great video! Thanks, Nick.
Not a "cheaper" retailer, but,,, "less expensive," Retailer❤
Restore stopped sell😮ng the stuff in Orlando … at least nit through habitat for Humanity. I was crushed. It was a great place to find stuff. Are you good? Review lights to go on my ceiling. Especially very funky. I walked into the place and I found them. We had 10 of them. I bought three. I paid $15 a piece. Were they were in a store $60 apiece.
I'm moving to Vancouver soon! Anyone know a some good second hand furniture stores? Not for antiques, but for usable furniture for reasonable prices.
“Some of my videos aren’t that great” 😂😂😂😂😂
If you have pixel. Press and hold the bottom bar on your screen. Then encircle whatever item you are seeing from Instagram or online, lens will search it for you. No longer have to ask, what is the name of that thing
Would be helpful if you popped up the madness of all these places you mention in bigger type on the screen. Some of us need to see more. And every time you mention a company, put the link in the comments. Otherwise, you're just lazily talking and making us pause, rewind, and search in a separate tab. Help us out!
I found out a brand of curtain that I like is a white label brand! I got them on Amazon and then was forced to buy “different” curtains later because of stocking issues, only to find out that they are *exactly* the same! 😂
Marble like many other things is overpriced. They charge according to the store, the type of clientele and the hype of a product. It is cheaper, of course, when you go to a warehouse or a surplus store as they are not fancy places, and they usually sell what is discarded by the fancy stores and the builders, which are usually small random pieces, damaged or defect items, etc.
A lot of these sellers that we have never heard of, use the same photo, measurements, etc. Buuut.... when you receive the actual product, it's a terrible copy of the original... there's that.
Honestly? I save money by inheriting everything.
...It's both a blessing and a curse, tbh.
🙋🏻♀️Former Habitat ReStore employee here. Ours had all kinds of building and finishing materials plus furniture, appliances and decor items. It’s a place where you might have to hunt through things or check back often, but you will definitely find some unexpected gems! Ours got a lot of vintage furniture and antiques donated that you would never be able to find elsewhere.
Best store ever!
Such a great place! I don't have one near me anymore and I miss that place! Have found some major gems.
I just got a dresser for my boys there yesterday! Question for you if you’re willing - I often haggle the price when I do intend to purchase and sometimes they’re totally willing to haggle the price and some locations act like they’ve never had someone try to negotiate prices. What’s your experience with that - is there some sort of policy?
@@evam4182 as far as I know, there is no official policy, but at our store we expected haggling! It never bothered us. Maybe it varies by location?
I bought a brand new farmhouse cast iron sink by Kohler (which retailed for $1800) for $100 at our Habitat ReStore ❤ & it was still in the original box 👀 . Maybe it didn’t fit in the original customer’s sink area 🤷🏼♀️ but it fit mine 🥳
FYI: best to take your measurements for whatever you are looking for when you shop there.
I canNOT believe Nick passed up the opportunity on that sheepskin chair. No sarcastic comment? Sheep with legs? Muppet chair? Nick, are you ok?!
It looks like a tiny highland cow 🤔
lol, I look forward to those comments! 😅
@@bricksloth6920I love highland cows 🥹
Bahhhhh ha ha the pause before he called it cute. 😂
He HAS one of those - yes he showed it and I am STILL reeling. Nick, THAT makes me ask if you're ok.
Sometimes it’s best not to ask questions. Just take the marble and run 🤣🤣🤣
His comedic timing is hilarious. 😂
Love his explanation on how the $4 marble got to the store 😂
All your vids are priceless. Take the marble and run ….. lololol
I think that was the original name of an old Steve Miller song, "Take the Marble and Run"
I couldn't find anything online about why the word was changed to Money. I prefer Marble, and I'm guessing by all the comments here, lots of people would.😅
There’s a ReStore right down the road from me and when I bought my house and gutted it, I donated some of the materials to them, then found an attic staircase for $75 (saving nearly $400). Then the contractors left a lot of materials here and I turned around and donated those too. If you’re a shrewd shopper, you can get all kinds of stuff there and it’s a universally worthy cause.
And they often give you coupons when you donate stuff too!
I did a show with a community theater group that played in a local church (don't ask!). There was only one set, and it required a staircase. Which had to be "built to fit." Well, it was built to fit a Habitat for Humanity project, and was donated to that house when the (very short) run was over. I was highly impressed.
Nick's #1 Pro Secret for saving money: sometimes it's best just not to ask questions, okay? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 LOVE IT
Take the cheap marble and run!
We call that “start the car” after an IKEA ad from years ago.
It's true about the lighting! A famous lamp manufacturer had a demo hotel room that they lit 3 ways. In certain light, it looked like a cheap hotel - and you can guess the rest. In other light the exact same space looked like a 5 star hotel room. I found it shocking and I'll never forget the power of good lighting.
Is this on RUclips? I'd love to see this.
@@helenmudge9989 Same, would also like to see.
Sorry, no. I saw this in real life...@@helenmudge9989
One more resource for free of cost decoration that is normally ignored: Shadows. Put a spot light hidden behing a plant and you can decorate a full wall or ceiling for the evening and night. Same during sunlight, plants or well chosen patterns in front of a window can create a similar effect. Shadows can be abstract and subtle but they can be very effective, sometimes friends tell me "I like your home, but I dont know why". And thats why, shadows.
I would love to hear more tips on this!
This doesn't have much to do specifically with your video, but I went to Home Sense this week and I kept thinking of you the whole time--like you were going to pop out of some huge basket and poke fun at me! 😂 I didn't buy anything mirrored, though. Points?
“Some of my videos aren’t that great” ….says my #1 favorite design RUclipsr. You are fantastic, Nick. Thank you for the ideas and humor.
Don’t say “some of my videos aren’t that great.” You’re amazing!!! So thankful for your channel!!!
Completely agree -- but it made me laugh so hard! Thank you for saying that, Nick!
I have to say habitat restore is hit or miss some stores have awesome prices others are incredibly over priced. Everyone should be reupholstering furniture with how high furniture prices are. I got a chair on the side of the road earlier this month and reupholstered the seat last night with a manual nail gun, and five dollars worth of 100 percent cotton better homes and gardens fabric in a climbing rose pattern, it made my chair go from belonging on the set of the candy man, to1940s beauty Queen glamour. P.s. if you paint any of that 90s furniture and if it’s real wood future generations will dislike you like I dislike whoever painted my 1880s table. :)
Get some Ikea cotton curtains with the back tabs, long enough to go floor to ceiling. They’re flimsy so plan on two pair per window. For forty bucks, it’s instant luxe. Get a remnant of expensive fabric and make a small throw pillow to add to your cheapies. Get a marble or travertine tray for you coffee table. Makes any table from the side of the road look fabulous. If you have a dining room, clean off the table, and get a lidded, chunky vase - it can be cheap and ugly - put fresh flowers in it and bang. Put a $40 mirror from Home Goods across from a window to light up and enlarge the room. Go online and find incandescent bulbs. Uh-oh, I hear the police pulling up. Good luck!
Why incandescent bulbs? Pretty much any style of bulbs you want can be found in LED nowadays
@@kw7378a1 They might be thinking that you need incandescent to get "warm white"
@@kw7378a1 Eye health. (But I don't want to start a war, here.)
What is a lidded vase?
We don't have a restore in my area. However, the landfill has an enclosed space that has left over doors and paint and random construction items available to the public. You don't know what you'll find, but I guess it's worth a look.
and it is free! I miss the day (years back) when you could forage yourself among all the stuff that builders would dump there as there was nowhere else to put it where I lived....
All solid tips, Nick, as you said. My only quibble would be on reupholstering. It might be different in the US and Canada, but it is a really costly thing to do here in Australia. Still worth it for a sentimental piece or designer find - I am saving to have my grandfather's wingback chair recovered - but it is cheaper here to buy a new designer chair than have my old one recovered. Lots of videos showing people buying fabric cheaply at a store and having their thrift find recovered, but you also need to be careful to buy fabric of sufficient weight and tightness of weave, than will not rub or pill.
It's very expensive in the states, at least the places where I have lived.
I live in the same city as Nick and it cost me $6k to reupholster a sofa that has been passed down in my family for generations. So definitely cheaper to buy new unless it’s very high quality, or sentimental value.
Edit: Having said that, it would have been cheaper if I didn’t fall in love with and chose a super expensive fabric 😂. He also did redid the cushioning and stain on the wood frame.
@@jeanallan8106 the fabric can make it super expensive. I reupholstered my couch after one of my cats destroyed it. I chose a fabric that cats can't scratch 👍, my couch destroyer is no longer with us 😢.
The foam is definitely the most expensive part, & it’s so important to get the right kind, especially for the seat. I did a lot of research just on that aspect.
everything is expensive in Canada and don't forget the exchange rate
If you have an architectural salvage place in your area those are worth checking out as well. They have some pre-owned but high quality lighting, cabinets etc
Oh, wow... I Googled "architectural salvage near me" and found the coolest store I never knew existed, even after living here 10 years! Thanks for this!
Well this has just changed my life for the better! It totally makes sense that such places exist, but I never thought about them existing before, and now I have discovered there is one near me full of beautiful, unique pieces I can't wait to check out in person.
I love architectural salvage places. I found so many great things.
I wanted to look at the lamp you mention in your shopify segment, and I remember going to the online store when you last featured it, but now I cannot remember how to spell the name of the shop. If you see this comment, would you please spell it out for me? Thanks Nick!
On Nick's recommendation I bought a couch cover from Bemz, to transform an Ikea couch. It's beautiful.
14:40 I was given some old wingback armchairs. I didn't like the fabric therefore, I'd found some great wingback armchair slipcovers from Amazon. When people visit my home they think that the chairs have been reupholstered.
"Sometimes it's best just not to ask questions." BWAHAHAHAHA I love it!
Estate sales have never let me down. I've bought expensive furniture for way, way less than buying new plus no one else has it.
Love my local Habitat for Humanity! Just found a beautiful 7’x7’ WOOL rug with tags attached! (Listed online from vendors listing at 7-8 times the price I paid) I am currently searching for some tile to redo my kitchen backsplash-patience is a virtue. Thank you Nick, you are a treasure!
I have done the carpet cut to my room size - the supplier finished the raw edges. Worked perfectly!
Is that expensive…to have edges finished?
It really isn’t expensive, but I don’t remember the exact cost. The carpet store will tell you upfront what it will cost based on your carpet size.
Super duper video! So helpful. I find your RUclips delivery so witty and amusing. And, you’re a cutie, too. I’ve gone backwards and am watching all your videos. Was so sorry to hear about you long term partner breakup,but I’ve found that one never knows what the future holds and should alwats hope for the best. I speak as a female with 72 years of experience! Please Keep up the great work with your channel. I know that you have many of us out here who are always looking forward to your next video.
My big tip for saving money and making my space look better is having less furniture. Skip end tables. It's way easier to put your drink on the coffee table in front of you, so ditch the end tables, get some cute wall mounted lights. Less dusting and easier vacuuming as a bonus.
but then where do i put my cute lamps?
@@philtastic4 thrift store donation! Because I realized we never turned them on. We just dusted them.
Or use end tables and ditch the coffee table.
@@MyFocusVariesi guess it depends on the person because I use my table lamps religiously
@@murielbaith5445That's what I did. I don't even have a couch and coffee table in my 2-bedroom house because there is nowhere to put it. My living room is simply not big enough and it would look out of place, anyway.
I want to add consignment stores! They often have brand new furniture but with some minor defects that wouldn't allow them to sell in the name brand store
I never buy anything without doing a Google image search first. And not just furniture. I have found the exact same items for a fraction of the cost. For instance I saw a hose holder on Pottery Barn's website on sale for $53 and the same one was available on Walmart for $38 and I think I paid $32 for it on Amazon. One thing that's surprised me is how often items from higher end retail sites are also for sale at Home Depot for much less.
Growing up my parents got all our rugs from a carpet remnant store. At home we just hot glued around the edges to keep it from fraying and done! Cheap and easy ❤
My apologies, but I just got this mental image of Nick, being held at gunpoint by the 'marble cartel', while holding a $4 marble tile in his hand. :)
YES! The Re-Store is such a great place. I never ask questions.
"It's probably best not to ask questions. Take that cheap marble and run." 😂😂
One inexpensive tip to share: move your furniture. Sometimes it's moving the sofa, tables, and lamps around and you'll have a more interesting place. Also, painting the space helps a lot, too.
yeah moving furniture also helps make doing a deep clean and declutter a lot easier with the process. and putting down a new layer of paint on the walls helps so much! people are so surprised that white paint can fade and get layers of grime over time and look drab, a new coat can really wake up a space.
Omg, Nick. You rock! Thanks so much for the Restore info. I had no idea we have like five of these in each surrounding county.
Hey, Nick, thanks for reminding me about ReStore. I've been wanting to do some small projects in my home, but just don't want to go pay the price for crappy looking wood at a Big Box Store. I'll take a trip over to ReStore next week to see what I can find. Who knows?!? Maybe I'll find one of those big chunks of marble for $4.00!!!!😀
I like restore places. I got a door for $25. Solid wood. Can't beat that. And a friend of mine was able to build most of her little outbuilding with just the supplies from that store. Including a little sink, a little countertop, flooring, windows, etc.
I feel SO much better. Just used your tips to see that my designer is charging me $200 LESS for the media console she ordered for me than what I can find online.
I have a couch and chair from the 1940's that I've had re-upholstered twice. They'e beautiful and will last forever. Only downside is that this kind of old quality furniture is heavy, heavy, heavy.
"What truck got robbed at knifepoint in order to have these $4 marble.. that fell of the back of this van sometimes it's best not to ask questions, take the pieces and run" yup
Used or bargin coffee table books that are no longer being appreciated as reading material are full of frame-worthy photos or art. You can carefully remove pages, put into inexpensive frames and change up what you have displayed on your walls. Nice way to decorate a kids room as well - you can use images from vintage kids books.
I always loved wing chairs but they are way out of my budget. So on a whim I bought 3 from my local Restore (2 matching & 1 different style) on sale for a whopping $36.10!! All have really good wood & springs, just needed new foam & material. So I bought all the tools & supplies, including books, & learned how to reupholster them myself!! One is complete, the twin is in the process & the other I hope to start & finish this summer. Probably have about $1000 in supplies, 😂, like a decent pneumatic staple gun & air compressor, but I’m still going to come out ahead. I’ve learned so much in the process (like, who knew furniture coverings were STAPLED together?!) & I fell in love with reupholstering! I now also have a few other pieces in my list of things to re-cover!
I also learned to reupholstery by watching videos and then buying supplies. Even did piping, which makes the couch I did look professional. My old sewing machine handled the sewing work when I learned heavy duty needles were the way to go. I bought the fabric at a discount outlet for upholstery, good quality stuff. Bought zippers in a large roll. Only thing I regret was using a battery staple gun. But I wasn't going to invest in an air compressor.
Best not to ask questions. Best advice ever. Thanks, as always.
I'd also add that doing a lot of work yourself is a great way to spend money - when I don't know how to do something, I ask the RUclips Dad community. There's always a video explaining how to do a lot of the smaller reno tasks (and it's not always a Dad, of course, but when I changed out my faucet, I followed along with a video where a dude started it off by saying "Hi Kids!," so there we are)
Be carefull with the google lens tipp though, cheap knock off manufaturers, sometimes use the photos of the higher quality things they ripp off.
So true
That is when you go to Google directly and search if the product picture is real or not. Lens is just as a starter point in your search.
Definitely agree that this tip is good for finding products that are sold by multiple reputable manufacturers, but avoid anything that runs the risk of being some knock off drop ship trash.
Here in Southern CA reupholsting can cost as much as brand new furniture piece
Yes it has gotten expensive but it might be worth it if it is an heirloom piece or you are looking for something truly unique and what you have is premium quality furniture.
YES, lamps! Bonus tip. You can find some really beautiful lamps for cheap at antique and resale stores.
Ebay and Etsy are great for that. All my lamps are from there.
So true! We bought all of our lamps at antique stores, and even one from ReStore! Had'em rewired, and they are beautiful, unique, and even with the rewiring, they came to less than a $100 each 😃
@@7binaz109 how did you find someone to rewire them?
Nick: “I don’t know where you live.”
😂😂😂
Just one quick "tip": there's a difference between reupholstering and re-covering a piece of furniture. If the filler and springs of a piece are in good shape, you can leave all that alone and pay to have it re-covered instead of reupholstered (which usually involves replacing all the foam and batting as well as some or all of the springs). It's generally quite a bit cheaper to simply re-cover something!
That said, if there's any doubt about the state of the filler and/or springs, just have it all done rather than forking-over the money to have a piece re-covered because it'd be a shame to have to redo it all in a year or two because the insides were wearing out!
What is the brand of the little light on his living room console? He mentioned it but I couldn’t hear it clearly. It sounded like he said Q E lighting, but the transcript has qwi, which isn’t a thing.
Anyone?
Nope, nope, nope… the words IKEA kitchen and quality construction should never be used in the same sentence. Yes contractors like them because they’re cheap to purchase but their cheap quality fibreboard material will not take the wear and tear the way a better wood construction will. We purchased a house that already had an IKEA kitchen and at 6 years old it was starting to show problems when we moved in (sagging drawers, chunks of facing and fiberboard breaking down around the shelf supports, weird baseboard clips that break etc.). It has only gotten worse. We’ve had better performance out of similar designed modular kitchen cabinets (but different company) at our old house that were still holding up 18 years after we did a diy install. So just a heads up, you might be disappointed with a IKEA quality kitchen in a few years.
I so agree. I rather buy used solid wood cabinets than those IKEA MDF cabinets.
A good source also is to befriend some local, higher-end contractors. Show up with donuts and coffee and see if they have surplus materials or are doing demo. They may let you remove cabinets so you can repurpose them. It's no cost to them and saves them disposal fees so they will just let you have it, or excess tile and things they didn't use, but the customer already paid for. Make some friends. Various trades will also have off-cuts and rejects you can get for free or super cheap.
Sometimes it's best not to ask questions 😂 I remember once going to an address on a furniture advertisement that turned out to be a warehouse full of furniture. I thought it was kind of clandestine looking but found a nice set of of dining furniture which they delivered. A while later, the same furniture guy got robbed in a parking lot dealing diamonds. Go figure what he was into!
I DID go to a carpet supplier and bought some commercial grade colorful carpet and selected a border and they made us a beautiful area rug for a large room. The price was great and they made it the way we asked for it. The only thing was - and I warn you to check out - the back of the rug looked very rough. You could see how they put the carpet and border together because of the GLUE all over the back! They did the job as best they could - the rug lasted for a couple of years before it tore apart. Now we have hand-knotted (the back is gorgeous), wool, one-of-a-kind area rugs from Wayfair (our biggest rug is 10' x 14' and had a ridiculous price of $10k - we bought it for $2500). Another of their rugs cost us $740 and had a price of $3400. These rugs are well made and should last forever...oh please let that be the case!
With regards to the white label products being sold at different prices… Do you think that there’s a chance that the Less expensive ones from lesser known stores could be a lower grade product because they noticed some kind of deficiency in the manufacturing process? Then the top-tier stores would get the “perfect” ones.
Another poster commented that you can check the serial number. If it's the same number, it's the same product. (but I get what you're saying)
I did the Google lens search on my office bookcase. Save literally 4k!
Maybe reupholstering is affordable in Canada. But here (Netherlands) it is easier to find the Holy Grail than finding an upholsterer (is that a word?). And having a second hand piece of furniture upholstered will probably make the item more expensive than when you'd have bought it new. I have had 2 pieces upholstered, just because I prefer to buy a good quality second hand vintage item. But it is not a budget option. At least not here.
Not in many places in the US either. Expensive!
@@j.m.7056 Learn to do it and hire yourself out? :)
@@653j521 I'd love to. But trying to upholster a Saarinen Womb chair is no mean feat. It would take years of training to reach that level of skill I'm afraid. Shoddy upholstery would detract from the design
PAINT WOOD? As a German (ok 1st generation American German) painting furniture is verboten! 😂
What a gold mine of knowledge you are, Nick! I'm going checking out quite a few of these! I have such a LOVE JONES for lighting! My lighting pinterest board is my happy place! Thanks for sharing your insider knowledge!
We have done two rugs by going through carpet stores. They had it bound for me. Beautiful and thrilled with results.
As for lighting, depending on your decor, room, and style, rock lamps give off a nice ambiance too. There are different type of rock lamps which come in various sizes, shapes, heights, and colors.
Love my living room couches and chair but the 4th cat ripped them all to pieces. Reupholstering is the way to go, though found the prices (UK) is more than 'decent' new furniture. Saying that, I seriously doubt that many new will have the same quality...
I agree, reupholstering prices are insanely high in the UK. However, if you like what you already have and the quality of those items is far better than the new ones, it is worth a try.
Reupholstering is expensive, because it'll be done by a fairly paid guy in Europe, rather than a little kid in Bangladesh. I think it's worth doing if the furniture itself is of good quality, what you'll be getting is going to be as good as new, and rather more sustainable. If you think that's expensive though, try having antiques restored...