Create A Cozy Home With Thrift Store Finds – Cozy Living

Hello October! I’m back with the Cozy Living gang and we are sharing our cozy ways for October with you today! I am sharing how my thrift store finds help to cozy up our home.  First though, can I just say I seriously can’t even believe that I’m actually typing the word O C T O B E R!  What the HECK, it’s October already!!!???? I’m going to focus on the positives here instead of the speed that time seems to be flying by. Some of those positives are that the leaves are turning all sorts of gorgeous out there, they are lightning up and I must tell you it’s my favourite time of year! How about you, do you love Fall? Alrighty let’s get to it, let’s talk all about the cozy things! 

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Thrift Store Treasures

Thrifting is my love language, I adore going to the thrift stores… I love a deal and I love to find unique decor items that aren’t cookie cutter (not that there is anything wrong with that). My obsession started way back in the late 80’s when we were first married, we just couldn’t afford  any home decor items (we were basically babies), heading into the thrift stores was one of the only ways I cozied up our home over the years. And now, I simply adore finding the unique and interesting item to add that extra bit of cozy! AND, thrift stores don’t actually JUST mean dedicated “thrift stores” either… I love thrifting at flea-markets, on Facebook market place, wanted and selling adds, estate sales and free-cycling is so totally in right now. 😉 To have a thrifting state of mind and seeing the diamond in the rough is how I function naturally,  it does help that I am so into it! 😉 

When I’m thrift shopping I don’t usually have a specific thing in mind, I usually know when something has to come home with me, it’s a feeling really. I do have common things I gravitate towards however, I love wooden drawers and warm wooden trays, pretty ink bottles, Ironstone and copper always makes me stop and ask myself, do I need this?  I literally could go on and on here.  In the image above I had to have that little green vintage Emile Henry pitcher, I mean it’s SO adorable and that colour was perfection. I also thrifted the wooden tray with the cute feet, I sanded it a bit and oiled it and it’s as good as new! I love how it organizes my thrifted copper watering can the green pitcher and the cozy candle. 

So cozy!

As it gets cooler out I love to bring out all of the candles… making your own candles using thrift store vessels is also a favourite way to use thrifted items. 

Tins are my favourites for candles – you can see how I made this candle here – “Use it or lose it! How to incorporate vintage into your home.” 

Transformations, maybe too big of a word  for here really… but, what I’m trying to say is just because it was intended for one thing doesn’t mean it has to be used that way in your home. My favourite example of using something for a different purpose is reusing bases of oil lanterns as a vase. These are usually all over the thrift stores. 

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When I’m styling in my home I adore using things I’ve rescued! 😉 That stool in our pantry was a rescue, those wooden mashers are thrifted and rescued… all of my transferware is all thrifted. The frame and the print resting on the shelf is also thrifted.  Basically this whole vignette is all thrifted. 

All thrifted! 

Like I said above, most of these items in our pantry are thrifted, but one of my faves in this room is that little piggy… that pig is cut out by myself from a thrifted cutting board. You can see how I made that here. It was patterned after my Mom’s cutting board from my childhood. 

Hmmm, even the door into our pantry is thrifted, this door was off of Facebook market place… I’m always looking and hunting! 😉 

I almost never pass up interesting wooden pieces, you will continue to see them everywhere in my vignettes, all thrifted. 

This $2 bowl looks awesome with the faker plant! 

This dried thistle is contrasted beautifully by that thrifted bingo sheet, it adds a warmth and a contrast that I love in my decor. 

These art pieces are all thrifted… I am always looking for those sweet little oil paintings, they are getting harder to find so I snag them when ever I see them. I got a HUGE kick that I found these two oil paintings in different places and months apart yet they look so similar.  Yay! 

I could literally  go on and on about my thrifting life, I mean it’s all the time, hahahaha! But, I’m going to wrap this up by saying that creating a unique and cozy home with thrifted finds is such a great alternative to running out to the big box stores and buying the latest trend. For me it’s so satisfying! And, the fact that I’m reusing things by thrifting makes me so happy, thrifting really does keep things out of the landfill. How about you, would you consider yourself a thrifter too?  Tell me about some of your favourite thrifted finds. xo 

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Now please won’t you go see what my friends are up to for October’s cozy living.  

Cozy Living Team

 

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