Budget Decor - House of Hawthornes

Vintage Teak Wooden Bowl Makeover

Pam Kessler — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

If I've said it once I've said it 4,999 times, 1970's wooden salad bowls and serving pieces seem to be spontaneously reproducing themselves at thrift stores. They're all over the place. I blame it on people decluttering their houses this time of year and deciding they don't need to store a huge salad bowl set...

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Boho Bliss: Transforming Thrifted Bamboo Into A Stylish Serving Tray

Pam Kessler — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

I like to mix a little boho decor with my vintage decor pieces. Or as I like to call it, my somewhat eclectically eccentric vintage-loving decor. I feel the old bamboo pieces so easily found at thrift stores and estate sales give a little bit of a classic, bohemian aesthetic along with a bit of...

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Vintage Valentines Day Decorating

Pam Kessler — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:23:46 +0000

You might remember, I had decided to take all the china and glassware out of my corner cupboard in my dining room last Christmas and use the cabinet for seasonal decor instead. Best decision EVER! We hardly ever use the dining room. Like maybe possibly 2 times a year. But since I converted a corner...

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Nostalgic Christmas Decorations

Pam Kessler — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:55:30 +0000

This year I had visions of going all out with Christmas decor around the house and had plans of starting to put up my Christmas decor right after Halloween. Abnormally early in my house. My thought was, since 2020 was sucking, I might as well pour myself into my happy place of vintage Shiny Brites,...

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Clean Silver With Baking Soda And Aluminum Foil

Pam Kessler — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:01:16 +0000

With the holidays coming up I wanted to show you a quick and easy way to clean silver. Over the years I have bought numerous pieces of silver at thrift stores and estate sales. Some are the kind of silverware you eat with, some are pieces I use to decorate my home. Urns, tea pots,...

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Colorful Summer Home Tour

Pam Kessler — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:29:59 +0000

Probably about 90% of my home decor is bought at thrift stores, estate sales or little antique shops. I rarely if ever buy anything brand spanking new, because I like the quirkiness of a home decorated with found and vintage items. I feel a house tells more of a story about its owners when it's...

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New Bookshelf To Decorate For Spring

Pam Kessler — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:44:51 +0000

As I've been sitting at home the last few days, not going out of the house and trying my best to be a good citizen in this scary time, I've been trying to think of things I can write about here that might give you a bit of a distraction. A little bit of inspiration...

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Decorating The China Cabinet For Christmas

Pam Kessler — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:52:55 +0000

This year for Christmas I decided to decorate in what I like to call Christmas-Lite. It's a scaled down version of my normal no holds barred, in your face Christmas decorating style I've shown you in the past. Not that I'm being the Grinch or anything (green is NOT my color), but this year it...

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Summer Front Porch Decor: Going Off The Deep End

Pam Kessler — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:48:57 +0000

This year I created a boho styled summer front porch using fun and funky thrift store finds. It's an inexpensive way to decorate. And a great way NOT look like every other porch on the block! Boho. Vintage. Eclectic. Whatever you call it, it's F-U-N. Let's throw on our bathing caps and dive right into...

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Vintage Wall Pocket Organizer

Pam Kessler — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:00:06 +0000

Do you all know what a wall pocket is? They were quite the "arrow" or "bunting" of home decor back in the early 1900's. No self-respecting Martha Stewart wannabe housewife would be without one. What? That was before Martha's time? She's no spring chicken you know! They were normally ceramic, shaped like vases, animals, houses,...

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