Decorating on a low budget!

Hello everyone, so today I just wanted to briefly talk about decorating and maximizing your bucks when on a low budget.

I like to describe my decorating style as vintage/industrial with a little bit of modern. I like things here and there and like to put it together and try it out!

So my husband and I are at this apartment, and well we can paint walls, but if we want to leave when our lease is up then we have to paint it back. So maybe no painting will happen, but that does not mean that I wont hang up art work. Either way I decided I should try and at least make this place look some what decent. A bunch of the furniture pieces I have were all hand me downs, or found at garage sales.

For example our huge couch we bought off a couple that was moving away.

Any who I like to play with shapes,sizes,textures and color and I love for a room to be well lit, can't stand to sit in a room and it feel gloomy. So I am going to post some pictures of my living room which I am still working on. I have an area rug that was given to us, that I need to clean and then put down, and I need to still hang up some art work, and pictures. Either way here is my working progress.

Angle one of living room: This was the best angle where I could get most of the living room.

Here I have what I believe was a laundry chest, I am as of now using it for a coffee table
Laundry chest: Garage sale: $10.00
Tray: Gift
Burlap curtain that I made, and am using for decoration for now: $7.00
Decoration balls: $7.00 for a bag of 10
Hurricane Glass Vase from Marshall's: $9.99
Ceramic art piece: I made it
Moss inside vase: left over from my wedding
Candle from Walmart: $5.00 

Two Trunks from a garage sale: $10.00
Fill able Lamp from Target: $15.00
Candle vase wire decor from Kirkland's: $7.00
Picture of my sister and I: Priceless
I am using an old picture frame as a tray

Accent pillows are a must!
Yellow pillows from Marshall's: 2 for $19.99
The beige pillow one that I had from college
Fill able Lamp + Shade from Target: $25.00
Art Piece from T.J. Maxx: $5.00
Side table: Gift

I plan on taking one of my trucks and adding some industrial looking wheels to it, to turn that into my coffee table. Either way so far for this look I have spent about $121.00 not counting the sofa.

I must say so far so good!