$15 Makeover

The Sitting Room

We had a loveseat sitting in a room filled with clutter. Nicknamed the mudroom, this space rapidly turned into a junk room. Piles of shoes and boots, recycled cans and bottles spilling out of their containers, and unpacked boxes made a room where dreck and detritis trapped massive dustballs and decayed leafy matter.

Underneath this chaos was a lovely room waiting to be transformed into something, anything. Filled with light from 4 screened windows, it has a wood floor and a wood-paneled  accent wall. I spent a few hours emptying the room of everything but an old loveseat, an Adirondack chair Mark made in wood shop and an antique deacon's bench we bought from the previous owner. I planned to sell or donate the loveseat. I wanted to replace it with 2 wicker chairs.

Jeffersonville was having a town-wide sidewalk sale on Saturday. Anyone could rent a table and haul their  knicks and knacks into town to try to unload them. We live 2 blocks from town, and didn't have that much to sell. We set everything up outside our house waiting for cars to stop and shop.

We sold the loveseat for $15, as well as a few other items, for a total of $26. At 4:30, I was bored by the concept and put everything away, which wasn't much.

The next day, Marty and I were driving to a barbeque in Pennsylvania when I saw 2 white wicker chairs on the side of the road. They were 2 for $15! This was meant to be. Marty loaded them into the car and drove off to PA. Buck was a little squeezed but he didn't mind.

That's the new and improved mudroom above. It will only be used as a sitting room in the warm months due to lack of heat. Then it will revert back into the mudroom, which I hope I can keep  relatively free of dust bunnies.