Pro Secrets to Save Money On Home Decor and Furniture

In this video, I go over some of my favourite ways save money on home decor, furniture and building supplies for a renovation. Enjoy!

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00:00 - Pro tips to save money on home decor
00:19 - Shopify ad
01:23 - White label furniture
04:49 - IKEA upgrade companies
07:30 - Custom rugs
10:04 - ReStore
13:23 - Reupholstered Furniture
14:54 - Painting old furniture
16:06 - Upgrade your lighting

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[JaimeLeighArt]

🙋🏻‍♀️Former Habitat ReStore employee here. Ours had all kinds of building and finishing materials plus furniture, appliances and decor items. It’s a place where you might have to hunt through things or check back often, but you will definitely find some unexpected gems! Ours got a lot of vintage furniture and antiques donated that you would never be able to find elsewhere.

[dwysan]

I've literally saved £1000s searching for 'white label' goods thanks to Nick's video on the subject. A bath tub I wanted was £2000 at a luxury bathroom store, I found it elsewhere for £950 🙏🏻💕 I'm doing it for everything in our renovation. Thank you so much Nick!

[rosezingleman]

There’s a ReStore right down the road from me and when I bought my house and gutted it, I donated some of the materials to them, then found an attic staircase for $75 (saving nearly $400). Then the contractors left a lot of materials here and I turned around and donated those too. If you’re a shrewd shopper, you can get all kinds of stuff there and it’s a universally worthy cause.

[apocketfulofprose]

“Some of my videos aren’t that great” ….says my #1 favorite design YouTuber. You are fantastic, Nick. Thank you for the ideas and humor.

[TheMaciWainwright]

Don’t say “some of my videos aren’t that great.” You’re amazing!!! So thankful for your channel!!!

[jeannette]

It's true about the lighting! A famous lamp manufacturer had a demo hotel room that they lit 3 ways. In certain light, it looked like a cheap hotel - and you can guess the rest. In other light the exact same space looked like a 5 star hotel room. I found it shocking and I'll never forget the power of good lighting.

[javiej]

One more resource for free of cost decoration that is normally ignored: Shadows. Put a spot light hidden behing a plant and you can decorate a full wall or ceiling for the evening and night. Same during sunlight, plants or well chosen patterns in front of a window can create a similar effect. Shadows can be abstract and subtle but they can be very effective, sometimes friends tell me "I like your home, but I dont know why". And thats why, shadows.

[Ohwhale]

Nick's #1 Pro Secret for saving money: sometimes it's best just not to ask questions, okay? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 LOVE IT

[LauraLVTGW]

I'm in Maine USA, "Vacation Land", the antique shops here charge higher prices in the spring/summer, when people are here on vacation. I shop late fall and winter when prices are down.
Many blessings!!!💖💖💖

[kathrynaston]

Carpet people will bind the rug, and they will add custom boarders. I had a corporate logo put into a rug, then had it bound and it was actually cheaper then buying a regular rug. Carpet people are amazing.

[ValerieBrooks-biml]

We rented a house and didn’t want the beautiful hardwood floors scratched up by our zoomy Jack Russell. We bought carpet off the roll sized to fit the rooms as big as we wanted and had the edges bound. It worked great, saved the landlord’s floors and when we moved we just rolled it up and took it with us to use again.

[elizabethconklin]

I worked in a very good carpet store, we did quite a few custom rugs. We had gorgeous all wool carpets that we would custom cut and then we would send them off to a local person who would finish them with or without fringe. It was a relatively inexpensive way to get a nice wool rug.

[hannahkay]

Sometimes it’s best not to ask questions. Just take the marble and run 🤣🤣🤣

[janelte]

All solid tips, Nick, as you said. My only quibble would be on reupholstering. It might be different in the US and Canada, but it is a really costly thing to do here in Australia. Still worth it for a sentimental piece or designer find - I am saving to have my grandfather's wingback chair recovered - but it is cheaper here to buy a new designer chair than have my old one recovered. Lots of videos showing people buying fabric cheaply at a store and having their thrift find recovered, but you also need to be careful to buy fabric of sufficient weight and tightness of weave, than will not rub or pill.

[reginakeith]

I tried to go the buy old & reupholster route to save money. We found some amazing high quality 60s chairs- a his & hers set that went perfectly with our existing couch for under $800. The re-upholstery of just one chair was over $2K. And they're tiny chairs and used very low cost material. I could've gotten new chairs in the fabric of my choice for WAY less. So, depending on where you live, it's not always a good deal. Sometimes businesses see someone wanting to recover an item that's quality enough to do that with as their meal ticket. Sadly, this seems to be the result of a throwaway society. Most people where I live just toss their stuff after a few years. Reupholstery isn't cheap unless you do it yourself.

[Kim-qtyn]

Love my local Habitat for Humanity! Just found a beautiful 7’x7’ WOOL rug with tags attached! (Listed online from vendors listing at 7-8 times the price I paid) I am currently searching for some tile to redo my kitchen backsplash-patience is a virtue. Thank you Nick, you are a treasure!

[lindabransgrove]

Estate sales have never let me down. I've bought expensive furniture for way, way less than buying new plus no one else has it.

[leannejscott]

Great video! I want to add some thing that I found when I shopped at restore.

We were trying to find two exterior French doors that did not have a stem between them. Not sure if stem is the right word, but when we went to Home Depot and all the big box stores, all we found were exterior doors that still had that floor to ceiling stem in the middle of them with where they close together. I think it was because the area we lived in was generally on the colder side, so they felt that no one would want two doors that opened fully without a stem in between.

But we did! Lol

We happen to go to restore, and there they were! We literally could not find them in our province, but we found them at restore.

So sometimes it’s not cheaper. It’s actually the product you were looking for and couldn’t find elsewhere!

And the fact that the money goes to Habitat for Humanity is also an extra lovely win! ❤

[terry]

I have done the carpet cut to my room size - the supplier finished the raw edges. Worked perfectly!

[deborahhenry]

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