Thrift MAYnia Starts Today… I’m Finally Refreshing My Kitchen • Thrifted Home Decor Styling

Ever since we finished the remodel out back where we turned our porch into a dining room and laundry room area I have yet to get my kitchen area back in order So what I am wanting to do is start a whole like kitchen reset Work on some projects that I just keep putting off that I know I need to do and I want to do So we're going to start a little may series that I will talk about here at the very end of the video And to kind of explain to y'all what we are doing But in today's video I want to start with the center of the kitchen and what I feel like is my main Problem in here We will get to the main problem area that we're working on today But I just wanted to show y'all like my coffee bar is a hot mess My hutch just feels disorganized and and not practical at all. So we'll be working on that And then like I said, they're just some small little Kitcheny things that still need some work and some attention, you know procrastination At its finest but again the main problem that I am wanting to work on today And show y'all this is where i'm going to start I'm going to just do this slowly in my kitchen and bring y'all along for the process By the way, look how beautiful these floors look But the problem that i'm having is that this just looks it doesn't look grounded to me. It looks like it needs Something desperately I feel like it needs a rug I went on the hunt for a rug that looked vintage And that had blue in it. I have green cabinets on the bottom and then I have white at the top, but I think These green cabinets here on the bottom a vintage looking rug with blue in it Will just really set the tone for this room And really help me kind of pull all of the other trouble areas that i'm dealing with I don't know. Are y'all like that? I just I really like for a space to feel grounded. So I think that this Beautiful, this is not sponsored. I bought this with my own money this beautiful machine washable rug And I wanted to get one of these because of that rug that I washed and put in my office When I saw how easy it was to um Wash and make it look new again. I was like, that's the kind of rug that I want So I shopped around on amazon wayfair Walmart target and you name it. I looked all over because I wanted like a low pile one Because this table here has a leg that swings open and closes But anyway, and I wanted one that was washable. So I think that this one is Beautiful We're going to open this thing together But first i'm going to do a couple little housekeeping things to get the area ready because y'all know how it is This is a five by seven rug. So it's going to take up a pretty good space And I want to get the table back and then get the rug laid down get the table back on and then decorate it and hopefully we can see if that Looks good if it makes it feel grounded in our opinion and then that'll kind of set the tone for working on the rest of the kitchen So the first thing that I want to do is take these little furniture movers that I just got at the dollar general And put underneath the leg so that I can move this out of the way because that is pretty heavy I want to show y'all a little trick that I did because we've bought cheap furniture movers before And the plastic part here. It scratched our floor So I made sure when I bought these the other day that I took some felt And glued the felt to that plastic side So your furniture piece will fit on here and then the felt is what slides on the floor So that's just a little tip for you to be careful If you get these furniture movers from somewhere like walmart or the dollar store, maybe put you some felt on the back So let's get this moved. I am going to take this side of the table and put it down And this is that leg that i'm talking about that moves elizabeth sits here a lot and she had it pulled up so I did have some felt underneath these legs, but it keeps coming off. So So I like to start with a clean slate. I did mop a couple days ago But um, I needed to do like, you know, get some crumbs up really quick. So let's open this rug. I am so excited about this I fell in love with it the moment that I took it out of the box Because it does have that old vintage look that I like so i'm hoping that once I get it all open And get it in place. I'm You know gonna love it even more because it's all folded up right now So I just got me a slit cut in it just in case I do need to take it back and I want to put it back in some of the packaging i'm trying not to Tear the packaging completely up just in case y'all know how it goes So I don't want to cut all the way through and I don't want to cut the rug I'm, just trying to be very careful That way if I do need to get it Packaged back up I can I'm, hoping I love it. I think I will Okay, let's see I think i'll put it on the floor and unfold it. What do y'all think? Yeah, probably better than trying to do it up here It feels like good quality so far We will see It had good reviews too like on target the website It had really really good reviews Think about it cinder coming to investigate I figure she would be coming to investigate before long All right I think i'm liking it I was afraid that some of it Was going to have like a gray color to it. But to me it just looks like a washed out blue So I don't think i'm going to mind that I just want to try to get the rug centered and the way I do that Is by using the light and I try to stand in the middle and it's almost pretty much on point Let me pull it just a little bit So here's kind of what it looks like. Oh, i'm loving that with those green cabinets 1000 So let me run the vacuum over it And then we're going to move the table back Get the table decorated And see if this sets the tone for this space Okay, well it didn't really help with the wrinkles that much but I guess that's just going to take time. Let me look at the instructions real quick talks about vacuuming spot cleaning machine washing How to remove creases from your rug Reverse rolling roll the rug in the opposite direction of the creases to help them relax and flatten out Weighted flattening place a heavy object such as books furniture blah blah blah or the steam method. You can use an iron on low heat To carefully press out the creases similar to ironing folds Always place a protective cloth. I didn't know you would be able to do that but I think i'm just going to I'm, just going to leave it for now and put my table and everything on it and let it just try to Naturally settle out y'all the sun keeps coming in and out from behind the clouds. So if my lighting's weird, i'm, sorry But yeah, I think that's what i'll do because um That's a lot of ironing if after a few days. I do not see the wrinkles like relaxing a little bit Then i'll do maybe one of those methods and see what I can do, but maybe even just putting the table on there That's not really going to help because it just has four legs But anyway, i'm going to go ahead and put the table back and we're going to get it decorated get this in place And then we will see what it all looks like the fun part is going to be trying to get this table back And on this rug and scoot it on this rug without wrinkling the rug up Do you want to go for a little ride? Is that why you're on the table? Are you just trying to see what i'm doing? You're trying to be nosy supervising All right, cinderella. Let's get the table moved I thought she would have done jumped off Also, what I love about this rug is it already has like a grip thing on the back so you don't have to lay down a separate gripper or Rug tape or anything like that like you can look at me i'm on this thing and it is not budging Which is exactly what I needed with having a daughter who uses a wheelchair I don't want that thing to get caught up in her chair. So Okay, I think hopefully i've got the rug centered Good enough now, I think i'm just going to Take and put it on the rug like that I don't really need the furniture movers after I get it on this rug Try to be careful because this is a true antique table, too Oh, that looks so good, I feel like I need to try to pull some of the wrinkles Get these legs and just see Okay, I think i've got The rug where I want it. Let me give you all another quick glance at that And then we're going to decorate this table And make this area Look so pretty Wow, what a difference the rug makes I love it so much Especially with the green cabinets so now I will probably go ahead and pull that other side up Because we leave it up a little bit like she'll roll in here and eat a lot in here during the day for lunch and stuff If it's just her so and it's a little bit lower of a table, so she likes it So i'm going to get that pulled back out and that's another reason I wanted this Very low pile rug is so that this well i'll just show y'all we'll do it together because this Antique table has this side here That we like to keep raised up but if we did Need to pull it in and out the low pile rug makes it a lot easier So you just have to lift this up and then just kind of move this over here And make that level and so then Her wheelchair kind of fits under here really perfectly and this is a great spot for her to like prepare food And different things like that because um She can roll she can fit under it really well and reach the table good because our countertops are so tall Okay to start with on this table I'm, just taking some folded fabric that I got At hobby lobby because it has that little bit of a blue color in it that I really Really like and i'm just going to use that as My table runner there Again, keeping this pretty simple. I'm taking a couple of goodwill bins Thrifted books putting them there I'm going to use this thrifted brass urn that I literally Got at a yard sale for a dollar The beautiful hydrangeas that you see those actually came from hobby lobby and I did tea stain those Just to make them look a little bit older for me. I do want to put these two little brass Coasters here that I got at an antique store. I think i'll just put them over here with this little arrangement I think that's where I had them before actually and then to finish this look off. I just want to use a thrifted a little saucer and a Candle, where did this actually come from? I'm not I think this came from hobby lobby And I know it says sweater weather, but I love the blue color on this and it smells so good So i'm just going to finish this little table top off with that So this already feels So much better like I am ready to Carry on with the rest of my kitchen refresh This rug made a huge difference so far to me. I love it very much I didn't want to overdo the table because I do have a lot of Decor that I use in here I think I would like the table better It would probably look better if I left this leaf down but because I do have a family member that uses it All the time. I don't want her to have to Put it down pull it up put it down pull it up like every day sometimes two or three times a day So we're just going to work with it and leave it up But yes, this looks So good, and I am so excited About what I am bringing y'all for the month of may so let's talk about it I'm, so excited to announce that for the month of may i'm going to be doing a new video Every day in may y'all know we've did thriftmas. We've done thriftuary We did that in february where I did a video every day And for the month of may i'm going to do thrift mania. I think it will be a lot of fun I am really putting thrift mania focused on Getting my home Decorated how I want for the summer Working on some problem areas doing some thrift flips some diy projects I need to rearrange some furniture in my living room. I have a lot of things coming up that I want to do I had just been so tied up with things getting our Back porch remodel all done and finished and then just a lot of end of the year things with college and taxes and registrations At universities and all the things I just had a lot of time consuming things that took place in march and april So I am ready to bring y'all a new video every day in may If for some reason I can't check my thrilled thrifter community tab here on youtube And I will let you know if I am not going to put a video up for that day Like if something come up and something happened My internet's out or you just never know somebody gets sick and I just can't get the video to upload or Anything like that. I will try to keep you updated on the thrilled thrifter community So what thrift mania means to me is not that i'm going thrifting every single day There is going to be a lot of that incorporated into this series But I have a lot that I want to do and instead of trying to do it all at one time I am just going to focus on one area at a time and kind of just filming that for y'all as I go along the way So I have everything planned. I have to be strategic when I plan videos out to post every single day So I have a plan so every video that follows the previous video it's going to have a purpose and a reason and then It's going to flow into the next video with a purpose and a reason on why I am doing what i'm doing Which is mainly just I want my home to feel better And I want my home to work better for us as a family And not just pretty yes, I love love love for all of my stuff to be pretty But we live in real homes and we need real useful things that look pretty so that's kind of my goal No, I just really want to like I said focus on one area At a time and just bring y'all along on that journey. I think it will be a lot of fun. So we have a jam Packed month. I hope that y'all are ready because we are going to be decorating DIYing things Making things over rearranging furniture going thrifting like we're not taking away the thrifting So don't let me scare some of y'all that love only the thrifting content. We will still be thrifting Because i'm wanting to redo several different areas and we'll talk more about that as we go But I am just super excited and I know that some of y'all will be too because y'all have expressed to me Multiple times some of you have that you love having the videos every single day And i'm happy to try to bring those to y'all every day in the month of may So be sure that you are subscribed if you are not already So that you can get notified every day when I upload a new video And if you don't mind comment down below and let me know if you're going to be watching thrift mania for the month of may So if you like the rug, I can try to link it for you. Sometimes if I link something I get like a Microscopic commission off of it. Like I don't it's nothing to write home about But I can just to make it easier for y'all link it but I do have to let you know um that there's a possibility I could earn like, you know, Some pennies on it if you click on it and actually get what um I put in the link tomorrow's video is going to be thrifting at A thrift store somewhere or an estate sale or an antique store I don't know whichever one I decide to go to because I am looking for some pieces To finish off decorating these countertops with I have a little makeover that i'm wanting to do before I style all of those So that's why we're going to go do the thrifting part tomorrow So that that project that i'm working on has time to dry. Don't worry. I'll be sharing that with y'all The next day after the thrifting trip, but for us tomorrow's trip We are going thrifting to see if we can find some pieces to refresh this kitchen for summer So I hope to see y'all back here tomorrow. We hope y'all have a wonderful evening. We love y'all I'll see y'all back here tomorrow with a brand new thrift mania video