Quilts and Creations: Room on the cheep

Some of you may remember the plans I had to make a headboard and recover a garage sale chair that I got almost a year ago. It was for our guest room so the budget had to be small since it was definitely not a necessity.

Plans have changed. When you live in such a large metropolis the craig's list pool of adds are large and diverse. I will reference you to Eric's blog and his sewing machine finds. Anyway the reason I bring this up is often you can not make something as cheep as you can find it used so even though I wanted to make a head board I went to the woodlands online and craig's list (both online classifieds) first to see what I could find.

I found that I could not make a headboard as cheap as I could get one there. I found a nice solid wood carved headboard for $30, I figured it would have cost me about $100 to make the one I was thinking of doing. I thought I can adjust my thinking a little to accommodate a slightly different design. Plus the new direction went better with the current bedding in the room. But it did mean the chair fabric I got was out. Enter a crazy wind floppy man sign ( do you know what I mean I am not sure what they are called) it was advertising a sale on fabric from, to me, an unlikely source. The upholstery shop across from wall-mart. I cant pass up the chance to get some cheep fabric so we went in. and for $20 I found the perfect fabric for the chair.

Now the room break down goes something like this and if you only heard the description of it you might think it sounded pretty sad. Still I love a challenge and the thrill of the hunt for a deal.

Bed dressing's pillow: Shams $3 on clearance, super cheap $4 bed skirt not good quality fabric but it is a bed skirt, no wear and no one will know. Sheet $30 not cheep but they are what matter and will get used. Duvet is an old twin size duvet that actually works okay on the queen bed.

Curtains are a flat sheet on clearance that I cut up with almost no sewing and the rod that was there when we moved in. The fitted sheet I used as the table cloth for the bedside table I got for free at a relief society exchange. I did nothing to the sheet it was gathered all around and it just puddled nicely on the floor. Still thinking of a use for the pillow case.

The Lamp is from goodwill. I spray painted it cream and added a cheap Ikea shade. This brings us to the chair it as I said was from a garage sale it was about $10 plus the $20 I spent in fabric then there is the time and some staples and we are done.