🌷HIGH END SPRING HOME DECOR ON A BUDGET | LOOK FOR LESS HOME DECOR

Today I'm going thrifting and I'm taking you guys along with me and then we're going to go back home and check out what I bought and then transform a few items to look like high-end pieces and then share some tips on how you can do the same. All right, let's go ahead and get started. Hey there, my name is Yami. I am your Latina next door. Welcome back to mi casa. I went to my local Goodwill not that long ago and I came across a few things and I just thought I saw this towel rack that was actually quite nice and a good size. I also saw these large fruit pieces that could be used as decor and I thought that they were a really good size as well. I also for the first time came across some handmade items. These two items are perfect for putting your rings or earrings or anything small like at the end of the day. I just think they're absolutely adorable, the colors and even the style. I also came across this little bag and it looks like it's for like diapers and baby wipes and lotions and stuff for the baby. Now I actually would pick this up but I actually already have one of these. I just thought this was in really good condition and a new mom might enjoy something like this. This vase and little fall arrangement weren't too bad but then I noticed this basket right here and without that liner it could be turned into a really pretty round wicker tray. I thought it was in pretty good condition. I noticed these boxes right here and honestly I was trying to pull off this ribbon to see if it could come off and it actually was coming off of that burlap and I thought this would be great. Just by removing that red on the outside it could be a very nice set for storage in your home and again all it needed was to remove the red accent. I came across these pretty large candle holders and they were actually quite heavy but honestly for the price I think for what they were they were just a little bit on the high end in my opinion. I saw this and it just reminded me of just fall decor. Now I personally would probably spray paint this a nice gold and then have it out for fall and I just think it would just look stunning on a sideboard or an entrance table. This right here was really cute too. It looks like it was from Hobby Lobby if I'm not mistaken yeah and I don't know what it is but I thought it was a cute little vessel and I love the color and I will say I regret not getting this pot. It was aged perfectly but I didn't kind of want to take anything home with me that was that dirty and there was actually two of them and oh I just wish I would have taken these. I left them and they were just aged perfectly and then there was this vase and it had great size and a great shape however the colors weren't really my style but a little bit of paint and you can have a beautiful vessel for your home as well. Then these candlesticks right here were also another great find. I love the details and the fact that they were real and heavy and then there's this book that I came across on the bookshelves and I just had to share with you guys because it literally made me laugh out loud in the store. Something else that made me laugh out loud was while checking out there was this sign on the counter. The first thing that I bought is this large vase. Now orange was 50% off that day so instead of it costing $7.99 it only cost me $4. Now the first thing I do whenever I bring these kind of items home is disinfect them and I usually use a mixture of rubbing alcohol and water and I spray everything down, wipe it off, make sure everything is nice and clean. If you know me by now you know I am not going to leave it like this and I was inspired by this collection at Pottery Barn. I have been really inspired lately with rustic and aged ceramic pottery and luckily I had all the supplies on hand that I needed for it and I was kind of trying to figure out whether I wanted small dots or the larger half rounds and I ended up going with the larger ones and so I began applying them all the way around and I made two different rows using Gorilla glue sticks. I then took it outside and I gave it one full coat of Rust-Oleum chalk paint in Oat Latte and I wasn't looking for an absolute full coverage on this. I just wanted to get rid of that pattern so that when I applied my next layer of paint none of that pattern would shine through. Next I mixed up some Plaster of Paris that I found in my moving items. I opened up another craft box and I found some Plaster of Paris that's been in storage forever. I mixed it in with some DIY paint in Sandy Blonde but then all of a sudden I began to remove all the paint and the reason being was is that for some reason the half rounds were just looking a little bit odd for me. It was looking a little bit tribal and that wasn't the vibe that I was going for. Not that there's anything wrong with that it's just not my style and every time I kept looking at it I'm like what is wrong with these half rounds and what I came to realize is that I just spaced them out way too far. They needed more of those half rounds in between and so I made sure that everything was nice and dry and then I began adding more half rounds between the ones that I had already put on the base. Then I went back to painting it again with my Plaster of Paris and DIY paint mixture and at this point it was sitting for a little bit so it was getting a little bit thicker but that was perfect because I really wanted a lot of texture on this piece. So the trick to doing something like this and having it look like it is an actual piece that was intended to look like this takes a few steps. Now obviously the first thing is you need a lot of patience and you're going to be doing this in layers. I made sure to get in all of those nooks and crannies with that paint and then once I made sure that I did I would go back over and stipple my brush all over this to gain that texture. Now if I would go back over it obviously it would change the texture so I would use like a hair dryer as I would go in order to dry it in place so that I didn't lose all that stippling that I had previously done with my brush. Now once it was dry I would go back in with some more of that mixture and I was really focusing around the wood rounds. I didn't want any gaps showing at least you know the best of my ability so that it would look like they were part of the actual pottery and not just glued on. So it took me a little while to build it up and I made sure I kept adding layers upon layers so that those little pieces could be covered up and it looked like it was intentionally made this way. So when doing this I highly suggest just to take your time and enjoy the process because sometimes something like this can take quite a bit and has to be done in multiple layers in order to get the right effect. Like right here you see me using a paper towel in order to add texture to the piece as well just something different in order to give some sections a different look. Now the original pieces had a lot of dimension with a lot of different colors throughout the pottery so I took some aged glaze also from my moving stash. This stuff has been in storage for over two years and I can't believe that it was still liquid. So I took some of it and I watered it down and I began applying it everywhere with a paper towel as well. I tried using a brush in between the little spheres and let me tell you something it ended up looking like a hot mess so I had to come back in with a paper towel and just try to smooth everything out and not let those drip marks dry so harshly on the surface of the pottery. The good thing about a project like this is that it's all trial and error and you just keep going and adjusting and changing and adding and removing as much as you want along the way. Now once I was happy with that it was time to add white wax and I wanted to make sure I highlighted all of the nooks and crannies of those half rounds all the way around so I took a smaller brush and began to just kind of paint around the areas and just kind of getting right where it touched the base of that vase. I would use a larger brush to feather everything out and then apply it all over the rest of the vessel just ever so slightly and as you can see here once you apply the wax very lightly on the surface with all of that texture the white wax will end up lying on the rough raised surfaces giving it such a beautiful multi-dimensional look. The only step left after that was to let it cure. Now I did not get a chance to go to get any spring florals for this and I had to really look in my stash of old crafty things to see if I had anything that could work with this vase and you know what lo and behold I found a couple of stems but I wasn't too happy with the neon green leaves that they initially came with. These are actually from Dollar Tree. They're very simple, very skinny, not very full at all but I figured I had these eucalyptus leaves that were in the box loose or I found these and I just decided to replace them. So yeah sometimes you just have to make do with what you've got but there is a way to make things look even better with just what you've got. I only had three of those flowers as well as one eucalyptus stem and I stuffed that vase and made it look as full as possible so you tell me what you think and how it turned out. Now one thing that I've been really trying to look for in thrift stores are nice solid pieces made out of also good materials like these little statues made out of marble and metal. The first one was $4.99 and the second one the larger one was $5.99. Now I contemplated painting these gold because I am really into gold leaf right now and I had a chat GPT show me what they would look like and I'm so glad I asked because I did not like them in gold at all. So I kept them as is and honestly sculptures like this can end up being pretty pricey so the fact that I only got this for $10 for the set and I didn't have to do absolutely any DIYing was just perfect. Something that I really have been looking for are frames. I have a lot of walls in our new house that I need to fill up and I really am excited about getting everything decorated. Now unfortunately I don't get to see any of those really pretty ornate vintage type frames at my local Goodwills so whenever I see something like this that has a little bit of movement character and just look a little bit unique I do tend to pick them up. Now I was really happy that there was a pair of these and each one was only $3.99. Now because these were meant to be like permanent art in these frames they were pretty hard to remove. This wasn't something that was supposed to be interchangeable so that's something that we'll revisit later on in the video. Of course the first thing I did after taking everything apart was spray paint them and I ended up spray painting them a matte black. Now the reason I do this is because I will eventually make them gold however before applying my rub and buff I always do an under layer of black especially for frames especially when they have lots of nooks and crannies because then you'll be able to see the multi-dimensions in the frame with that dark underlayment below. Now this rub and buff is new to me. I haven't used this one before and I'm really excited because this is called European Gold and it's got a little bit more of a green undertone to it which I kind of ended up really liking. So I use a brush whenever applying this and I use long and consistent strokes. I'll have some kind of paper underneath because this does get messy and all I do is squeeze out the rub and buff onto that paper and then just pull from it every time I need a little bit more and as you can see I'm not being absolutely perfect when applying the rub and buff because I personally love seeing that dark come through especially on those recessed areas on the frame. Now I have been really into hydrangeas lately and I found these on Etsy and I'll link them below for you if you like them too and I wanted to actually use those oval mats however they were stuck and then I realized well I couldn't use them anyways because the paper the 8x10 paper that I was printing these on was smaller than the ovals so that wasn't going to work. So I did get some white poster board for our local family dollar and there was a five pack and it was the perfect size because it was the same size as the mat. Now before I did anything else the next step I did was use some mud podge in order to create a more realistic look out of these prints. These are just printed on cardstock. I usually don't send these off to get printed because that can get a little pricey and I'm really trying to do this as budget-friendly as possible so in order to make my prints look a little bit more high-end and look like they're actually painted on the surface I just add some gloss mud podge and I like to just go throughout and add different textures depending on what the image is on the actual print. So for the leaves they'll be a little bit smoother for the hydrangeas. I'll actually do a lot more dabbing but yeah I go really heavy on it and then I let it sit and dry. So if you're like me and you have a lot of artwork to add in your home or you want to change out your artwork a very inexpensive way is getting a pack of cardstock and printing these out on your home printer. There are definitely ways to make these look even more high-end and this is just one of them. Next it was time to cut down the mat and adding a mat is honestly one of the best ways you can elevate a piece of artwork or any kind of frame in your home and so I traced out the actual piece of paper that I had printed them out and then I began to add a little bit of more width on the mat on top to bottom and then side to side because I needed to make that open area a little bit smaller and I also wanted it to be even on all sides. Now I came across these beautiful mats online at Ballard Designs and these were just so beautiful to me of course. These prints were like anywhere between $400 and $700 for the set. That was a little bit ridiculous to me especially since you guys know that I made a striped mat for Christmas this past year and you all absolutely loved how that frame turned out so I thought I would do this too with fabric that I already had on hand. Now you all saw me cut that with that little paper cutter from Cricut and honestly that was like the best idea I had in order to cut the inside of that mat. It made everything so easy. This fabric was in my moving box stash and I was so happy that I got it because I had made other things out of it previously so I really do love it. Of course I needed a little bit of ironing and I found this small little iron that I totally forgot I even had also in my moving stuff. I just keep finding all these treasures but as you know I will do this to all of my projects and I really wanted the stripes to lay very straight and just really well done on these mats. I didn't want any wrinkles showing so this was definitely a necessary step. Now when doing this I use spray adhesive and I am very careful especially when using striped fabric. It really gets on my nerves when lines are not straight so it's something that I do take my time and I make sure that I spray enough adhesive in the beginning so that once I flip over the fabric I can pull it nice and straight and it will stay in place just to hold that nice straight line on the front of the matting. Then I make sure that the print is lined up very nicely along the front and that no white is showing on the border of the print and then on the back side I usually add a little bit extra tape to make sure it doesn't move anywhere. Now I personally prefer my prints like this without the glass however if I remove the glass of all of the frames that I do this to I'm going to have pieces of glass all over my house so what I like to do is actually put it back in behind the print. It also gives me that extra thickness that I need in the back in order to secure the actual print and mat. I even added the old print of the flowers as well as the old matting because I needed to make sure I built up that backing and I didn't want the glass to be on the exterior so I wanted it kind of sandwiched in between. Now if I ever want to use the glass I know exactly where it's at and I could just pull everything apart. Now we didn't have any of the hardware to add to the back of the framing to hold everything in place and Nelson tried to use our staple gun but unfortunately the force was too strong and it wasn't sticking out the way you kind of need it to hold everything back in so in the meantime until I can find a better solution I just took these really big jumbo popsicle sticks and I hot glued them to the back of the frame as you can see there and so I thought okay this will work this will hold everything in place. I know it looks a little bit janky and I get it. It's not what I would prefer to be quite honest but nobody should be looking at the back of my artwork in my home and if they do they probably shouldn't be visiting so this is what I ended up doing as a solution to hold everything together in the meantime. You guys would never believe because I'm never this lucky but I found this space and it's actually from Magnolia originally priced $36 and I only paid $6 for it and I just didn't think I could ever be so lucky to find something like this something that's already done don't have to do anything to it and it looks perfect in my space. Also that little candlestick next to it was a previous thrifted find and a lot of these go for very expensive on Etsy so I had found one of these little candlesticks and I thought it was so cute so I have it here as well. Now this next piece is a combination of a thrifted item and something I already owned. This lamp was a floor lamp from my previous home and I started spray painting it because I wanted to change the color of it but my spray can like stop spraying so I kind of stopped and then I came across this beautiful lamp from Pottery Barn and I said wait a minute I don't think I've ever done anything so dark but I really like this so I thought I would give it a shot and make this like a chocolatey brown base. Now the original is actual wood mine isn't but if I can at least get the inspiration from it and make them look a little bit closer to it I think I can make it work. Now this paint was also in my moving craft boxes it's been in storage for over two years and miraculously it also is still working so that was something else that was really nice. Again I have a lot to do in this house and I'm really trying to be as economical as possible so a lot of these projects that you see me doing are very inexpensive because I already have a lot of this stuff on hand. Now I understand that some people might find this a little bit misleading because our costs are very low sometimes for these DIY projects especially us YouTubers but that's because we've already made the investment of the items for other projects before however anyone who's not on YouTube can also apply this as well and the good thing about this is is that when you're creating a coordinated home something that goes very well from room to room you're most likely using the same colors or tones or hues or metallics throughout different spaces in order to create that cohesiveness. So if you use a can of spray paint for one piece it doesn't mean you can't use it for two or three or even four pieces down the road, significantly reducing your overall costs for each of the projects so just keep that in mind. Now what you see me doing now is applying dark wax. I gave the entire lamp a nice thick coat of that chalk paint and let it dry and then afterwards I came in with dark wax in order to get in all both those nooks and crevices so that I can give the lamp a little bit more dimension. It might be a little bit hard to see on camera and I was trying to get as close as possible but you can see the difference of when the lamp has the dark wax on it versus this bottom section right here which does not. This is another one of those projects that's a little bit of a labor of love however this is something that I'm going to be showcasing in my home along with my furniture in my living space and I do want it to look like a piece that was intentionally made this way and that can last me a very long time. Now for the shade I found this one at my local Goodwill as well for only $5.99 and it is a burlap which I think is a perfect texture for like spring and summer and all I had to do was disinfect it wipe it down and attach it to the lamp. Sometimes you come across some items like these. There was a set of eight at another thrift store that I stopped by after I was done with Goodwill and I found these glasses for $10 for a set of eight and usually don't find a set of eight. I'm not sure where they're from originally but they are very heavy duty so I thought it would be a great way to add a little bit of style to my dining room table that looks a little unique. Well that's it for today's video I hope you enjoyed it if you did please make sure to give this video a thumbs up and let me know in the comments below which one of these DIYs or pieces of decor was your favorite. I've got more videos coming your way so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out and I look forward to seeing you all back here in the next one. Until then, adios!