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All Just simply about Interior DesignThe Ultimate Yard Sale Manual for House Decorators
by:
Pamela Cole Harris
We all have dead nice article of furniture and art pieces that no longer fit with our d�cor and yard sales are a nice way to get rid of them patch earning enough to buy thing
new that actually fits. And visiting those sales is one of the most affordable route to add new life to your house decorating style. The piece that doesn't fit in being else's house may be simply what you were looking for! - And at a fraction of the piece of a new piece!
If you have ne'er
been to a garage sale, it is easy to move house with a carload of bargains you have neither use nor room for. A chair for a dollar is no bargain if you already have ten more chairs than you need. As a veteran yard-saler myself, let me offer these tips for the yard-saleing newbie:
1. Do a list of what you need and stick to it. And that means even as if you learn a cheap treasure you "might be able to use sometime." Believe me, in six months you wish be commerce it at your own yard sale - for half the price!
2. Measure your room, windows and accessible space for certain article of furniture needs. And speaking from experience, remember to take the list with you!
3. Do a list of addresses and short manual simply about how to get there. Check the classifieds and free shopper ads for times and rules. Several folk get really bad-tempered if you interrupt their sleep by showing up at their house two hours before the sale starts.
4. Support small bills in your hand and leave large bills in your purse. If you take out a big roll of large bills, there is not a marketer alive who wish give you a lower bargain cost for the item you want. They want their share of that roll!
5. Go early in the morning or late in the afternoon. Deed to a yard sale before its "picked over" assures you can find more that you power be able to use. Once
you visit a yard sale later in the afternoon, vendors are more likely to take more less for the items they still have because they don't want to pack them back in the garage! You power be able to find several nice bargains for article of furniture that was expensive
earlier.
6. Take a partner with you. Share with your partner what each of you is looking for and spread out. You can cover double
as more distance in half the time!
7. Pick up everything you think you power want. You can always put it back. And if you don't pick it up once
you see it, chances are being else wish spy it and buy it!
8. Choose article of furniture with nice bones such as solid wood construction and dovetailing. Its more easier to surface
a nice piece. Shoddily ready-made article of furniture wish still be shoddy after you redo it.
9. If you find drapes, scarves, sheets or bedspreads in a fabric that blends with your d�cor, buy it to use for reupholstering a used chair, to do pillows for your room or dozens of different uses.
10. Image frames, even as empty ones, can be painted or stained to create new looks. You can always find unframed art you like and with the help of creative matting, you can do it all activity together.
And one more thing - I have no scientific proof for this opinion, but I have found it true time after time - the bigger the sign, the lousier the yard sale. Its as if they are mistreatment a large sign to do up for the lack of merchandise to attract buyers.
So next Saturday, do your list, take your measurements, grab a nice friend and start your new decorating project. You wish have fun, get plenty of exercise and save money. What better way to spend a day?
Just simply about the author:
Pamela Cole Harris has been a writer and designer for 35 years
(Yikes, has it been that long?) Enjoy her tongue-in-cheek
approach to affordable interior design at:
http://www.homeandgardenmakeover.comand
http://www.diy-homedecor.com
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