How Much For This Room?
You’re going to love this week’s How Much For This Room? because it’s so budget friendly that you won’t believe your eyes. This living room belongs to Ashley Vaughn and her husband who own a record store, Vertical House, in Huntsville, Alabama. She is also a wedding photographer and a Realtor, and her husband is a graphic designer. When they have time to spare, they can usually be found restoring their 106-year-old house.
Deets on the house: The 2,100 square foot home was built in 1903 and sits in a historic neighborhood in Huntsville, Alabama. Both upstairs and downstairs boasts 11′ tall ceilings, original heart pine floors, transom windows, huge front porch, and six fireplaces. You can see the restoration process we’ve undergone so far in this flickr set which also include the before photos.
The bricks of the fireplace, mantle, and hardwoods are original to the house, so they are not including in the total, but here is the breakdown.
Living room: blue chairs (best thrift store find): $20 for the pair, couch (you can see the tip of it): $75, trunk (holds all of our records): originally from Panama and handed down to me from my parents (free), sewing table and chair (thrifted): $35, picture above the sewing machine (thrifted): $3, lamp on sewing table: wedding gift from target, but I believe it was $20, rubber man (the plant) was a gift, peace lily: found outside a house that was for sale in the garbage (free), green “seedling” tray: $10, Kitty (Sadie): free, “kinda! she found us, but I guess we pay to feed her hah!”. Everything on the mantle was either made by her husband (the hands, the 4 panel piece against the bricks, and the ‘birdhouse’ to the right of the books) or were found at thrift stores or yard sales and combined we maybe spent $10. On the other side of the room there is another identical blue chair, the cabinet that holds the TV (cabinet: $20 and the TV was a gift to my husband many birthdays ago…it’s nothing special). In fact, we only have it hooked up to play Wii), our record player and receiver ($100), and the Wii.
Grand Total: $293 (not including the Wii)!
Kitchen/Bedroom: These few photos were added just because I thought the space was cute and wanted to show you! No dollar amount to relate. I am also a transom window obsessed nut so when I saw one in her bathroom I had to post the pic. I also love her clawfoot tub, wallpaper, red chandelier, and her brown dresser - the lines are great.
If you have any questions for Ashley please just ask below!
Thanks Ashley for sharing your home today with us. :)
(images from ashley vaughn)