Thrift store home decor is the best way to have fun decorating on a budget! Check out these favorite thrifted home decor and easy DIY ideas from 2024!  As we get ready to head into a new year, join me to get inspired with over 60 budget-friendly thrifted home decor ideas that will help us create the most cozy and inviting spaces in our homes!

It is really impossible to believe that we are in the last month of 2024!  What a fun year it has been of sharing home decor, favorite vintage finds, and home decor finds with styling tips here on the blog!  Today, we are going to recap some of YOUR favorite blog posts this year for thrifted home decor and styling ideas.  I know that for me, sometimes having a single place to go for reference is a great way to help me gather my home decor ideas.

So, before the after-Christmas winter blues hit and our homes blow up with wrapping paper and new toys that need homes, let’s take a quick look at some favorite home decorating ideas that you may want to pin and save when you give your home a good January refresh!

If you’re like me, you also start looking for some budget-friendly decorating ideas for that January reset, so thrifted home decor will be our big focus today!

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​Thrifting With the Gals

Each month, I love joining my blogger friends from Thrifting With the Gals and our amazing guest hosts to share our favorite thrifted decor, styling tips, vintage treasures, and even easy DIY ideas with secondhand finds.  For this month’s Thrifting With the Gals, we’ve rounded up some of your favorite posts to spark a little creativity to carry us into the new year.

I love each of these inspiring ideas that you can use to create your own thrifted home decor with affordable prices and a vintage look in the New Year!  At the same time, be sure to pin your favorites so you can easily find them when you are ready to refresh your home decor!

How to decorate on a low budget?

If you are reading this blog post, there is a high likelihood that you enjoy decorating and refreshing your home like I do.  However, we all know that home decor can be so expensive! Being creative with thrift store finds is a really fun way to add to your home decor collection.  In fact, I think secondhand shopping has been the very best way for me to enjoy changing around my home decor while sticking to an affordable budget.

Secondhand items are not the only way to decorate on a low budget, though!  There are many hidden gems in the clearance aisles, end-of-season sales, and even warehouse sales!  I love mixing great deals on new finds with thrifted home decor too!

In this post, we are going to share some great ways to decorate your home with some budget-friendly thrifted home decor!

​How to save on home decor?

There are great ways to save on home decor and it is 1000% possible to decorate a beautiful and cozy home on a budget!  These are my go-to places to purchase home decor pieces for affordable prices:

• Secondhand stores
• Facebook marketplace
• Estate sales
• Flea markets
• Garage sales
• Vintage shop
• Antique store (there are definitely very high-end antique stores but even in the more expensive ones, you can sometimes find a good sale corner!)
• Other online marketplace like Etsy, Poshmark, and Ebay
• Social media sales, like live sales on Instagram or Facebook

How do I change my home decor on a budget?

This post is going to show you some of our favorite thrifted home decor finds along with styling tips and ideas.  However, here are a few quick tips to get you started as you think about how you can change or refresh your home decor on a budget.

1. Be patient in the hunt; the best home decor items will be worth the wait!
2. Invest in neutrals that can be used in different rooms for varied purposes.
3. Shop your own home to see how you can repurpose what you already have.  The perfect piece might be hiding in another room of your home and the best part is that it will be FREE!
4. Use online resources, like FB Marketplace, to daily search for specific pieces.
5. Find out when your local thrift stores restock and visit THAT day or as soon as possible for the best items.
6. Declutter your own space before starting to fill it with “new” treasures.  Plus, having a yard sale or selling some home decor on an online marketplace can give you some extra cash on hand to help you change your home decor!
7. Look for the best deals on pieces that need a little love and be willing to put in some elbow grease!
8. Invest in thrifted home decor with better quality versus just what is “inexpensive”.  Project pieces can be fun and unique pieces, but make sure the “bones” of your thrifted treasures are in good condition!  
9. Only buy what you love.  Just because thrifted items are a great deal doesn’t necessarily mean that they are always the right kind of pieces for your home.  It’s okay to be picky with your favorite finds!

60+ Thrifted Home Decor Ideas to Decorate on a Low Budget

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Incorporate vintage style with thrifted home decor

Investing in unique items is a wonderful way to add vintage style to your home decor.  To decorate with vintage style while sticking to a budget is a fun challenge and no one does it better than my friend Rachel from The Pond’s Farmhouse!  Vintage decor can breathe new life into any home, from modern farmhouse to cozy cottage. When paired with contemporary pieces, it creates a unique and inviting aesthetic.  Rachel is sharing her favorite tips and ideas of how to combine vintage decor with new pieces for a curated, cozy, and inviting home!

How do you decorate your house on a low budget?

If you are looking for ways to save money while decorating the home of your dreams, Rachel from The Pond’s Farmhouse is also sharing 30 Inexpensive Thrift Store Finds and how to transform them into mind-blowing stylish home decor.  I guarantee that within these 30 ideas, you’ll find something that you will want to add to your own home decor!

Rachel’s home is so gorgeous and you’d never know by just looking that her home is filled with amazing thrifted finds that she has turned into beautiful home decor!  Get her ideas HERE!

Let thrifted home decor take you on thrifting adventures!

If you’ve been following along for awhile, you know I really enjoy traveling with my family and we try to visit lots of different kinds of places.  Whenever possible, I squeeze in a little time for some vintage shops and thrifted home decor.  My friend Ann from Dabbling and Decorating took her vintage treasure hunting to the next level with an amazing trip to France this year!

In THIS post, Ann takes you shopping with the gals and antiquing in Paris!  From trendy flea markets to exclusive antique shops along with a little vintage fashion, you get to immerse yourself in this city’s vintage culture…even if it’s through a blog post.

What I love is that even though I don’t have a trip planned for thrifting in France anytime soon, Ann has included a lot of great inspiration and ideas that I can use to spark my creativity with thrift shopping for some French cottage home decor styling right in my own home!

Have some DIY fun for thrifted home decor on a budget!

Besides hitting up the local thrift shop or taking a day trip to visit my favorite secondhand shops around the area, having fun with a DIY home decor idea is another perfect place to save money on home decor pieces.

If you are still working on your Christmas decor or need a fun idea for budget-friendly and affordable New Year’s Eve decor, you’ll love this post from Anna at Skylark House.  Anna was a guest host this year for Thrifting With the Gals and I love her pretty decor style!

Over on THIS post, Anna takes you through the simple steps of how to make papier mache bells with vintage paper!  So fun, right?!  Paper is typically a pretty inexpensive DIY and you can make an amazing decor statement while having a great time with Anna’s DIY bell tutorial!

Trash to Treasure with Thrifted Home Decor!

How can I decorate my house without spending money?

There is nothing like a good makeover on favorite finds to add unique style and even function to your home.  Lora from Lora Bloomquist: Create and Ponder shares in this post about one of favorite decorating challenges, which is to take something that was made for functional utility and elevate it to useful beauty.

Old tool caddies fit the bill!  Many of these vintage tool carriers were hand made and customized by the maker.  If you’ve spotted these at vintage shops while you’re thrifting, today’s ideas will make you want to get one!  Trust me.  Haha!

Check out 21 different ways to turn this “trash” to treasure with Lora’s great ideas!

Use Thrifted Home Decor Finds for Practical and Pretty Organization

I don’t know about you, but every January when the Christmas decor comes down, I have a deep need to clean out and reorganize all the things!  Wendy from WM Design House has awesome inspiration for taking thrifted finds and turning them into pretty and practical storage and organization!

On THIS post, discover how apothecary jars can elevate your kitchen space with timeless elegance and practical functionality. These classic vessels go beyond their traditional use, offering various opportunities—from organizing essentials to becoming decorative accents.

Use Yard Sale Finds for Low Cost Statement Decor

How do I change my home decor on a budget?

Who looks forward to yard sale season?  Over on THIS post, I am sharing some of my favorite yard sale finds.  I still can’t believe that I found some of these pieces at yard sales!!!  You can see how I style my favorites in our South Florida home.

I hope it gives you some fun inspiration for the next time you head out to hit up yard sales in your community!  Check out these easy ways to decorate with yard sale finds for budget friendly pretty decor!

Use Thrifted Home Decor to Create Cozy Spaces

How do I get the most out of thrifting?

Thrifted finds are one of the best ways to curate a cozy home on a budget!  But, it can feel overwhelming!  Check out these best ways to thrift for home decor and tips on what you should and should NOT buy when thrift shopping.

I absolutely LOVE great thrifted find of home decor that I can use to make our home feel extra cozy along with giving it a curated vintage style.  Chances are that you also love, or at least are intrigued by, ways to thrift for home decor and thrift store finds too!

In THIS post, we chat about the best ways to thrift for home decor at thrift shops, flea markets, antique stores, yard sales, and even the online marketplace.  Beautiful finds from all of these places definitely count as ways to thrift for home decor and I dive deep into the best secondhand items to hunt for, what thrifted home decor finds you should buy, and what thrifted items you should NOT buy!

No matter what style of home decor you love for your home, thrift store shopping can be a great way to create a beautiful home without spending a lot of money.  You may even find that some of the most unique finds for your own home end up coming from secondhand shops.

If I may be so bold as to say so, our home is proof that some of the best home decor items can be found in unexpected places, which are usually not my favorite big box store (although that is fun to shop too!)

In fact, my favorite things in our home have been unexpected finds at an antique shop, local thrift store, Facebook marketplace, vintage shop, or antique malls.  Head on over to THIS post to see what some of my favorite items have been and suggestions for your own home decor treasure hunt!

What are good thrifted home decor pieces to look for?

​Here are a few of the things I always get excited to find:

• Ironstone
• Architectural salvage
• Pretty picture frames
• Vintage artwork or wall decor
• Old books in the book section
• Brass candlesticks
• Other candle holders
• Wooden bowl
• Vintage dishes
• Straw hats
• Sea shells
• Baskets
• Free objects from nature
• Colored glass
• Architectural salvage
• Seasonal decor
• Outdoor pots
• Ceramic bowls or pots for plants
• Terra cotta pots and saucers
• Pretty dishes, old OR new
• Vintage books
• Basket paper plate holders
• Glass cloche
• Wooden bowls
• Seasonal tableware
• Decorative mirrors
• Stoneware
• Piece of furniture with good bones (preferably solid wood furniture), such as end tables
• Light fixtures and lamps
• Brand new items that are brands I like and decorate with such as Pottery Barn or Williams Sonoma
• Fun decorative accents that are super inexpensive and could be good for experimental DIY projects!

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Is your brain spinning with fun ideas yet?!  I know mine is!  This is the perfect time to just let your brain get creative because when the Christmas decor comes down in a few weeks, you’re going to want to hop back to the favorites you’ve saved and pinned.

The great news is that January is one of the absolute best times for thrifting.  Since so many, including me, are wanting to declutter before refreshing their own homes, you can score some awesome treasures to decorate your home in curated, unique ways with wonderful thrifted home decor finds!

After all, one decorator’s trash is another decorator’s treasure, right?!

For more decorative accents, accessories, and ideas, you can browse my storefront where I have curated collections of favorite pieces to give you inspiration and creative combinations of home decor!

Happy Thrifting and Happy Decorating!  Stay tuned for an all new Thrifting With the Gals beginning in January!

You may also enjoy these thrifting-related home decor posts:

• 17 Thrifted Christmas Decor Ideas to Shop For This Year
• 3 Easy Ideas to Display Beautiful Thrifted Art
• How to Use 10 Common Thrift Store Finds for Spring Home Decor
• How to Decorate for Summer: 34 Ideas to Thrift for Summer Decor
• The 35 Best Thrifting Finds of 2022: Thrifting with the Gals
• The Best Thrifted Vessels for Affordable DIY Fall Flower Arrangements
• 5 Easy Ways to Decorate with Thrifted Baskets
• How to Create a Beautiful Spring Centerpiece with Thrifted Pots
• 9 Easy Ways to Decorate with Thrifted Bread Boards
• 75 Favorite Thrift Store Home Decor Finds (and how to style them)
• 10 Unique Vintage Home Decor Ideas for Your Home
• How to Make Beautiful After Christmas Winter Mantel Decor
• 10 Ways to Decorate a Cozy Winter Bedroom Retreat On a Budget

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Blessings,

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