Living Room Mantel Gets a New "Pink" Look

In these difficult economic times, it's almost impossible to contemplate buying new furniture or accessories that are not dire necessities.

While a new comfortable living room couch would be a godsend, buying one is out of the question at this time. So is purchasing new tables or rug.

The solution is to move around things that are already around here. For example, recently, all the flowered plates on holders came down from the fireplace mantel. They have been replaced with pieces from a cranberry glass collection.

Favorite boy and girl sculptures ( http://writingstraightfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2011/02/decor-for-month-of-love.html)  share the mantel with the glass pieces.

A pink fringed lampshade and crystal lamp got moved to a stand in front of the lace curtained window. It looks nice at night from the outside. A story about the lampshade can be found here  http://writingstraightfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-let-there-be-light.html


An old-fashioned looking Victorian attired doll now stands on a table to the left of the fireplace. Here's her story: http://writingstraightfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2011/05/crazy-for-dolls.html

The overhead hanging Victorian pink crackle cranberry glass lamp, shown in the photo at the top of this post,  now matches nicely with the mantel.

A story on how it was acquired was posted here: http://writingstraightfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2010/05/crackle-cranberry-glass-victorian-lamp.html

Having written more than 600 posts makes it easy to add links to stories that have already been posted. That way, anyone who's interested in reading more about a particular item discussed in a post is welcome to do so!

So the "new look"  in the living room is complete for now and it did not cost one thin dime!

DO YOU MOVE THINGS AROUND IN YOUR HOUSE?