I wanted to start with the Living room, I very much wanted a clam white space with comfy sofas and all our books and hopefully somewhere to hide my husbands awful speakers!
Sofa wise the Ikea 3 seater Ektrop sofa was what I wanted but our new livingroom is pretty big so I needed two one to sit in front of each window but at £300 each that was pretty much our whole budget so, the idea was to find them second hand and buy new covers which are £75 each which really brings the cost down.
After much trolling I found one on Ebay and got it for £20! I was so chuffed! its was brown and very badly photographed and not listed as a Ikea 3 seater Ektrop sofa which really helped!
The other one was £25 buy it now, it had just been listed and I was searching quite late at night I was just lucky, again this one was not white but for £25! Who cares!
Oh the difference of good lighting!
Other bits and bobs...
We were given and old chair by some friends that I plan to paint white and I will be making lots of cushions from burlap, linen and a few out of this Ikea fabric I just love it! We have been given a coffee table by my Aunt and that will also be getting painted. We have a big bookcase which will be use as a room divider to hide an office area.
We are going to use 2 Ikea Rast chest of drawers to put the TV on with lots of DVD storage and hidden cables. They are a bargain at £20 I'm very happy to get these new as I don't think there worth hunting for.
There are lots of really good Rast hacks I'm undecided what to do with ours I was thinking white with curved beat up chrome handles but I seen a few that have been waxed with dark wax & they look really good.
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| I love this its my favourite! |
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| My husband really likes this one I'm not sure. |
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| Maybe for the bedroom...... |
Kx
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