How to completely redecorate your space—without spending a penny.
—whether it’s a new pantry recipe or a useful tip for your kitchen, here are some ideas to make things run a little more smoothly for you and your loved ones.the stairs. Hidden behind a curtain of my father’s dress pants, hung ankle-up like sleeping bats, there’s a nearly-invisible door in the wall. If you manage to pry it open, you’ll find yourself in the world’s smallest antique shop.
The inventory: A dozen or so throw pillows, vases, lamps, a fish bowl full of early 20th century flower frogs, shadow boxes with carvings from Japan, pinned insects in cases, a paper weight with a giant dandelion wish in it, woven baskets, rusty cake tins in the shapes of fruit and fish.Architectural DigestI’ve dubbed this technique: the shuffle, aka, the art of completely transforming a room without spending a penny.
Then, in a matter of months, all of that will shift, some things retired to the cupboard, others things brought out, shined up, made new with a few branches of forsythia on the window sill or credenza. It’s a ritual I assumed everyone participated in when I was little—the evolution of our surroundings that made use of the same materials in different ways.And I noticed there wasn't a chair
I was furnishing my space on very little money—all I knew was that I didn’t want a one-stop aesthetic in a box. So, I took cues from photos of Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House in England, with its eclectic tumble of kilim rugs and lamps and hand-painted murals. My apartment took a very, very long time to decorate—and when it finally started to materialize, it adopted the theme of French expat Grandmama’s quarters.
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