I love thrift STORES aka second hand / charity shops as we call them in the UK. It always reminds me that we are so blessed to have so much in the first world.
For the clever among us, Dollar Tree has an assortment of items that can be transformed into beautiful displays, and the items are only $1 each. Another thing that can bump up the look of a room is wall fabric, mirrors and indoor plants. You could do more for your room by far by placing mirrors across from a window to reflect the light, using draped fabric on a wall or two, and using hanging plants in stagnant corners. Other items such as colorful candles and stone or handmade crystals are amazing.
the fish bowls would have looked nicer without the stand he made and you would save $10! I do however like what he did with the picnic basket. I recently bought a vintage half moon shaped one that i need to re-line, and now i know how to do it, so thanks for that.
thought the same thing. all his ideas were cute initially then he did too much for my taste. the hanging cutting boards looked great till he flipped them over. i loved the picnic basket though!
I'm amazed how cruel people can be regarding a positive segment on TV. I liked viewing the video. He used recycled materials and used his creativity. I liked the cutting board idea, I'd use stencils.
The only thing I regret not buying at a thrift store is a glass vase in a deep red-orange. I love colored glass and I've never seen another piece the same, delicious color. Most bright ideas I have for "projects" end up going right back to Goodwill.
I stopped upcycing because it's just a mess. But I started to buy things I love!! and can use right away we bought an amazing dryer for $50!! my paintings all from goodwill, my cups good plates all from goodwill have found other amazing jars and glass as well as gardening items. I do nothing other than clean and use the items.
Learned that lesson when we lost a beautiful leather, really beautiful worn leather. And ottoman to match. For $75. We were coming back the next day w our truck. Already gone. 🤨
I find things in thrift shops from time to time. They are often priced too high, considering the items are donated. But I can still find "finds". Example; I find envelopes for my hand made cards; yarn that I knit scarves and hats to donate at charities, even find furniture on occasion. Once in a while, I strike out with a good find, but they are small items.
Sharon Martin Sharon, that is a long time rumor about Goodwill. I’ve served on the local Goodwill board off and on for years. They are a nonprofit who used the stores to provide jobs for people who have barriers to employment, like coming out of prison or rehab, age, physical disabilities, etc. Each Goodwill operates independently. I know our local Goodwill pays good wages and offers benefits. You should hear the testimonies of some of the people who work or have worked at Goodwill. Please help me to correct what some mean spirited person did to start this rumor. Goodwill AND Salvation Army both do a great job here in Abilene, Texas. Just wanted you to know that the post charging Goodwill was done by someone wishing them harm. I have seen so many wonderful lives turned around by a job at Goodwill. Public trust is so important. Thanks for listening.
@@myradean3452 I have never met an employee there who seems happier with their pay and condition especially here in Massachusetts. Maybe somewhere else.
Exactly. I went to a thrift store to look for extra onesies for my baby. They were trying to sell dingy used onesies for $3.00 each. I went to Wally world and bought a pack of 3 for $4.00.
Jackson Ogwindi I’m so sorry to hear that Jackson. Every Goodwill area is run independently, so I’m sorry yours is not up to your expectations. I actually worked at Goodwill for a while and I found the people to be very caring about the employees. Most employees are struggling to get back on their feet. Our local Goodwill provides jobs in the stores (which include health insurance and benefits) and also out in the community. There are all kinds of training opportunities. What a shame......Goodwill IS NOT about thrift stores, they are about providing jobs to people who probably would not have jobs if it weren’t for Goodwill. Maybe yours will improve. You might ask to take a tour and see how your local one is run.
Old pictures often have really nice wooden frames and with a little paint you can have a great decorative piece. Replace the picture with another one if u have one. Even if you have to trim down the pic before putting it in
This is not what an Interior Designer does. This is someone who does DIY, not designs interiors from the base up. No where in this video is he designing a room with the correct clearances, and making sure the room is functional. People keep getting it wrong. He may be an interior decorator, which is completely different than an Interior Designer. Anyone can be a decorator, you have to go to school and get a bachelors degree to be an Interior Designer.
Noah Kamnikar actually, the requirements for an interior designer varies from state to state. I agree he is not doing the complete job of a designer in this video. However, the video is not about designing a room. It is about choosing accessories for a room.
That beautiful old cutting board. And he murdered it! Sanding off a beautiful paint job to replace it with stick on letters? Noooo!!! And I don't know what that even was with the stand for the terrarium. The bowl doesn't even really fit into it right. It leaves gaps. When I first saw it sitting there I thought it was cardboard packaging to keep it from moving around in the box when it was brought to the show. I always try to leave a positive comment if I comment at all. But this was just plain sad. And a giant leap toward a hoarding issue later in life.
Unmmm, some nice ideas but nothing really tickled my fancy but cool of him to share, also you can find some really chic & stylish home decor thrifting 👍🏽
An ill-fitting, tacky stand for a goldfish bowl... the terrarium idea is nice but I saw no added value in the stand, only more clutter. Stick on lettering on a chopping board... who does that? The hamper renovation was an improvement, but I'm not buying into the mobile bar idea. I'm usually positive when making comments but all of this was impractical tat. I could shop the thrift store and upcycle better myself and I'm no interior designer. As for what he ended up doing with the plastic dinosaurs, well at least he didn't glue them onto the hamper.
Crazy... I just watched Vanderpump Rules and Tom Sandoval had his "bartender kit" with him on vacation, and I thought it was genius... this is the second time today that I see a portable bar, I think the universe is sending me a message!!! lol
Well, by the time you buy an electric saw and sander, rubbing oils, staining, spray paint, etc., you have just upped the price of this project through the roof. This doesn't include your labor, cleanup, gas for shopping, time shopping, and the smell of chemicals that you can't get out of your house for three weeks. I think I would just go buy something and save the fiasco.
Most of the projects you could use a handsaw ($4) sandpaper ($2-$3) stensil letters ($2) fabric ($3-$5) so it's really not that much especially considering most of it can be used again for other projects
I don't like the stand he made for the fishbowl but I do like the design. I think you can get those pieces from the 99 cent store. Making your end result even cheaper. I think I'm waaayy more thrifty than he is by necessity as I like nice things on a budget though. Another thing I do is get material i.e clothes from the thrift store and reinvent an outfit all together, again its due to necessity b/c I feel like Joann fabric in my area is astronmical. Cheers!
Chris, the first picnic basket un picked up WAS NOT a Picnic Basket, it was a SEWING BASKET. Just thought I'd mention it, in case u run across another one. I'm not into the toy thing. Love the bar uses for entertainers. I'm too old, don't do it anymore...boohoo. You did a great job though! L :)
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. It caters to the impulse buying tendency in many people. Grabbing stuff off the shelf and saying, "I'll find some use for this" is right up the hoarder's lane. Pretty soon you are buried in "some use for this" as the months and years click by and the pile gets bigger.
lol yeah specially good will they price items like if they are new...dirty, broken and out of season for the price of new retail...yeah...and they receive the items for FREE!!!!! I rarely rarely rarely go to goodwill or salvation army... which by the way salvation army sells shoes for 19 dollars and they are fit to go to the dump...incredible....and when one point out the items the manager gets upset with you. Shop around, mama and papa thrift stores, and others places that are cheaper...
Those other thrift stores aren't any cheaper. They're getting more & more expensive everyday. They still have bills to pay like insurance, water, rent, salaries, etc. They can't do that by selling everything cheap.
I only buy at thrift stores on half price day----local stores here have one day a week where everything with the exception of high-end items are half price. I have gotten brand new items for way cheap- and like- new items way cheap. I got Uggs that were like new for $20, a rotisserie oven for $6, books for .50cents, a solid wood rocking chair for $7
I've seen things priced higher w/ the back room piled to the ceiling w/ donations...Priced reasonably, items will sell & go fast, more money made...Some ppl are just greedy...
@@Marys_Life_64 Yes u are right they have to pay insurance, water, electricity and the works as we all do, however they receive items for free cost 0 nada ...and in top of that they are tax exempt...so no high prices are not welcome, specially if they say that they help low income people... but the executives make really good money..
If you are using the cutting board for food clean it with salt & olive oil, it’s not healthy to use non food cleaners to clean items used for cooking*, that also goes for your wooden utensils and bowls
I love thrift STORES aka second hand / charity shops as we call them in the UK. It always reminds me that we are so blessed to have so much in the first world.
Thank you! Well said...
AMEN! Thanks for being humble.
Good will is the best place to find great treasures.....with am awesome price!
Christian needs his own show. He is good and has the personality.
Oooooooo I'm loving the cutting board tips! Thank you Christian!
For the clever among us, Dollar Tree has an assortment of items that can be transformed into beautiful displays, and the items are only $1 each. Another thing that can bump up the look of a room is wall fabric, mirrors and indoor plants. You could do more for your room by far by placing mirrors across from a window to reflect the light, using draped fabric on a wall or two, and using hanging plants in stagnant corners. Other items such as colorful candles and stone or handmade crystals are amazing.
Now ok your an expert on this. Why don't you make your own TH-cam channel?
Christian is fabulous! I loved this entire segment.
I wish the thrift stores in the UK were as big as this! :)
the fish bowls would have looked nicer without the stand he made and you would save $10!
I do however like what he did with the picnic basket. I recently bought a vintage half moon shaped one that i need to re-line, and now i know how to do it, so thanks for that.
You learned something. That was the intent of the show. Good for you.
thought the same thing. all his ideas were cute initially then he did too much for my taste. the hanging cutting boards looked great till he flipped them over. i loved the picnic basket though!
they look like they cost $10 to make too
Great ideas!! Thank you. Love the 'bar on the go.'
I like your attitude! The world needs more of it. Thank you...
I'm going tomorrow to drop off a ton of stuff. Funny but one item I have to donate is a large picnic basket. Lol 😉👍
Thrift stores have become more expensive than the big box stores
No kidding!
I am in love with these segments.
I'm amazed how cruel people can be regarding a positive segment on TV. I liked viewing the video. He used recycled materials and used his creativity. I liked the cutting board idea, I'd use stencils.
Good for you but we all can't be nice. The world would be uneven...
@@TIMAFEY2 I love your comment. Thanks for being honest. Best laugh I've had in a while...
Yes I thrift all the time but yes it is easy to get sidetracked sometimes I end up getting things I don’t really need
I liked the retro dishes in the basket.
The only thing I regret not buying at a thrift store is a glass vase in a deep red-orange. I love colored glass and I've never seen another piece the same, delicious color. Most bright ideas I have for "projects" end up going right back to Goodwill.
I "source" them. I am rolling my eyes over here.
I stopped upcycing because it's just a mess. But I started to buy things I love!! and can use right away we bought an amazing dryer for $50!! my paintings all from goodwill, my cups good plates all from goodwill have found other amazing jars and glass as well as gardening items. I do nothing other than clean and use the items.
Good sense!
I have the exact picnic basket. I found it at the thrift store too. There were dishes in it too. LOL
That's what I was thinking! & mine was $5. Love it!
First rule of shopping: if you love it, snap it up. It won't be there when you go back.
flynn malin
So true. I have regretted not getting some some times! Lol! At Ross, TJ Max...
I just lost out on a area rug and tufted ottoman at Ross because I said I'll be back 😞. I was blown, but I saved myself $120, I guess
That is for sure
Learned that lesson when we lost a beautiful leather, really beautiful worn leather. And ottoman to match. For $75. We were coming back the next day w our truck. Already gone. 🤨
You only regret what you don’t buy!
I've got some great woodburning patterns for that cutting board.
Great idea
Thrift stores today price their old used items too high. Better off buying items new at a retail store during a store wide sale.
fabulous. Feeling very inspired. Thank you xx
Cool 😍 Thanks for ideas 🤗
But what did you do with the dinosaurs?!
I find things in thrift shops from time to time. They are often priced too high, considering the items are donated. But I can still find "finds". Example; I find envelopes for my hand made cards; yarn that I knit scarves and hats to donate at charities, even find furniture on occasion. Once in a while, I strike out with a good find, but they are small items.
*Notice he didn't find a cute use for that hideous pig.* 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
@@shonthedivinediva8462 cannot design for me.
True 😂
Sorry but the only thing he did was the bar basket!! Everything else was either ugly or really really kitschy!!
On wood cutting board Add linseed oil its safe for food you can buy it at loews or home depot
Love those ideas! Who would have thought that thrift stores would be so chic! I’ve been shopping in them my whole life and I’m 55!
Paige Mull it was kind of you to repost my comment.
These stores that get things for free charge almost as much as they were when new.
The Goodwill doesn't pay their employees much at all and their CEO makes millions. As far as charity thrift stores go, Salvation Army is far superior.
Sharon Martin Sharon, that is a long time rumor about Goodwill. I’ve served on the local Goodwill board off and on for years. They are a nonprofit who used the stores to provide jobs for people who have barriers to employment, like coming out of prison or rehab, age, physical disabilities, etc. Each Goodwill operates independently. I know our local Goodwill pays good wages and offers benefits. You should hear the testimonies of some of the people who work or have worked at Goodwill. Please help me to correct what some mean spirited person did to start this rumor. Goodwill AND Salvation Army both do a great job here in Abilene, Texas. Just wanted you to know that the post charging Goodwill was done by someone wishing them harm. I have seen so many wonderful lives turned around by a job at Goodwill. Public trust is so important. Thanks for listening.
@@myradean3452 I have never met an employee there who seems happier with their pay and condition especially here in Massachusetts. Maybe somewhere else.
Exactly. I went to a thrift store to look for extra onesies for my baby. They were trying to sell dingy used onesies for $3.00 each. I went to Wally world and bought a pack of 3 for $4.00.
Jackson Ogwindi I’m so sorry to hear that Jackson. Every Goodwill area is run independently, so I’m sorry yours is not up to your expectations. I actually worked at Goodwill for a while and I found the people to be very caring about the employees. Most employees are struggling to get back on their feet. Our local Goodwill provides jobs in the stores (which include health insurance and benefits) and also out in the community. There are all kinds of training opportunities. What a shame......Goodwill IS NOT about thrift stores, they are about providing jobs to people who probably would not have jobs if it weren’t for Goodwill. Maybe yours will improve. You might ask to take a tour and see how your local one is run.
Yessss thrifting rules!❤
Excellent ideas! Fun,fun,fun!
i do like that "bar on the go" idea..
Old pictures often have really nice wooden frames and with a little paint you can have a great decorative piece. Replace the picture with another one if u have one. Even if you have to trim down the pic before putting it in
This is not what an Interior Designer does. This is someone who does DIY, not designs interiors from the base up. No where in this video is he designing a room with the correct clearances, and making sure the room is functional. People keep getting it wrong. He may be an interior decorator, which is completely different than an Interior Designer. Anyone can be a decorator, you have to go to school and get a bachelors degree to be an Interior Designer.
Noah Kamnikar actually, the requirements for an interior designer varies from state to state.
I agree he is not doing the complete job of a designer in this video. However, the video is not about designing a room. It is about choosing accessories for a room.
THANK YOU
So many people think interior designers are just interior decorators and it's some prissy job anyone with half a brain can do.
He did a diy segment.
He’s actually a DIYer. He’s always introduced as DIY expert Christian dare
Love the ideas
I picked up that same picnic basket 🧺 at Savers 😀👍
Chris is literally me at Marshalls/HomeGoids😃❤️
That beautiful old cutting board. And he murdered it! Sanding off a beautiful paint job to replace it with stick on letters? Noooo!!!
And I don't know what that even was with the stand for the terrarium. The bowl doesn't even really fit into it right. It leaves gaps. When I first saw it sitting there I thought it was cardboard packaging to keep it from moving around in the box when it was brought to the show.
I always try to leave a positive comment if I comment at all. But this was just plain sad. And a giant leap toward a hoarding issue later in life.
He is so adorable!!!!!!
Does anyone actually think the glass bowls look better in that awkward stand he created...?
I like the stand but the d.i.y. version is cheap lookin
I like the bowl, lose the stand
They don't need any stand, or maybe just stand them on a circle glass mirror
Please give that man his own show!! He’s AMAZING!!
Deborah E ...., I absolutely love his ideas.
🤣😂😃🤣😂😃
Please tell me you're being sarcastic!?
I've been thrift store shipping since forever, so love that part of this video, but the fish bowl terrariums looked kinda crappy.
To I agree with you,I agree with you! All of it was kinda hokey,very 'hey mom I made it all by myself!'🤤
I came here to say the same about the terrarium.
Someone more skilled with a jigsaw could have probably made that look much nicer. It's a good idea but...
I agree with you I don’t mind them - but I don’t think I would use it. (the terrarium)
The look on her face... Priceless.
Unmmm, some nice ideas but nothing really tickled my fancy but cool of him to share, also you can find some really chic & stylish home decor thrifting 👍🏽
An ill-fitting, tacky stand for a goldfish bowl... the terrarium idea is nice but I saw no added value in the stand, only more clutter. Stick on lettering on a chopping board... who does that? The hamper renovation was an improvement, but I'm not buying into the mobile bar idea. I'm usually positive when making comments but all of this was impractical tat. I could shop the thrift store and upcycle better myself and I'm no interior designer. As for what he ended up doing with the plastic dinosaurs, well at least he didn't glue them onto the hamper.
Irene “clutter” is a pejorative used by people with tossy OCD.
Irene your comment about dinosaurs on the hamper gave me a real LOL!
Irene I was so scared he was gonna put them on the “mobile” bar!!!
Irene I love the dinosaur comment.
I liked the bowl, but lose the stand
Is it safe to use/food safe after deep-cleaning with TSP?
I would have sprayed the fish bowl with mirror paint to make a decorative short vase.
That's a better idea 👍
Tracie, your hair is adorable. Hugs
The Sorry Girls did that terrarium in their West Elm That Costs How Much months ago! Check it out if you're looking for step by step instructions
Crazy... I just watched Vanderpump Rules and Tom Sandoval had his "bartender kit" with him on vacation, and I thought it was genius... this is the second time today that I see a portable bar, I think the universe is sending me a message!!! lol
Most of the good stuff here in the UK is taken by the volunteers who work there.
Been that way here...I've seen it 1st hand...Also have seen in the news how workers get in trouble...Sad...😏
While visiting someone @ work, in the back, they try to get 1st dibs @ the door...Some stores sell leftovers b/c of this...Smh
This was so anticlimactic... Lol.
Love the cutting board idea for decorating a kitchen wall!
Well, by the time you buy an electric saw and sander, rubbing oils, staining, spray paint, etc., you have just upped the price of this project through the roof. This doesn't include your labor, cleanup, gas for shopping, time shopping, and the smell of chemicals that you can't get out of your house for three weeks. I think I would just go buy something and save the fiasco.
It'd be alright if he made something nice out of this stuff but it was all so tacky looking
Your comment reminds me of that meme: "why buy it for $7 when I can make it myself with $92 worth of supplies?"
Lol
Most of the projects you could use a handsaw ($4) sandpaper ($2-$3) stensil letters ($2) fabric ($3-$5) so it's really not that much especially considering most of it can be used again for other projects
Better than buying junk at Dollar Tree, Target and Walmart and calling it country chic!
Excellent!!!
Great ideas❗️More thrift DIYs please ❤️️
The fish bowl vase is drab. How about a nice green or aqua? After all it is a terrarium
I don't like the stand he made for the fishbowl but I do like the design. I think you can get those pieces from the 99 cent store. Making your end result even cheaper. I think I'm waaayy more thrifty than he is by necessity as I like nice things on a budget though. Another thing I do is get material i.e clothes from the thrift store and reinvent an outfit all together, again its due to necessity b/c I feel like Joann fabric in my area is astronmical. Cheers!
This man is awesome and can carry a show on his own.
That’s a hell of a thrift store
Great ideas, thank you
Chris, the first picnic basket un picked up WAS NOT a Picnic Basket, it was a SEWING BASKET. Just thought I'd mention it, in case u run across another one. I'm not into the toy thing. Love the bar uses for entertainers. I'm too old, don't do it anymore...boohoo. You did a great job though! L :)
The Goodwill Is NOT a nonprofit store!! Their prices are ridiculously high.
I would have used a metallic cloth in the picnic basket.
Beginning of hoarding
Lorraine Dusseau don't I know it.
That whole thang of hmmmm I could use it sometime,I'll find a use, I'll get all crafty,crafty.. bleh!
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. It caters to the impulse buying tendency in many people. Grabbing stuff off the shelf and saying, "I'll find some use for this" is right up the hoarder's lane. Pretty soon you are buried in "some use for this" as the months and years click by and the pile gets bigger.
Lorraine Dusseau ok
@@virginiaharrison9760 the
I have that picnic “suitcase “ basket
I really like Tracy Moore! I wonder if she will move to the USA. They could use a smart and intelligent woman there on TV.
When people think they are a "designer"
😂😂😂😂😂
momof2 and copying other peoples DIY 😂
Everything he needed was placed in the thrift store by the producers.
Agreed, but they are things you find in thrift stores. I have 2 picnic baskets that I got from thrift stores.
Sorry the terrarium is ugly!!!
I've begun live out of my car poor once. I've never been so poor that these would be the best I could do. Tacky trash
Love - love - love this designer and this video! More - more - more! (from Grandma Bunny in Phoenix, AZ).
Love these ideas. Thank you!
I love the bar-on-the-go!
Love his ideas
Why would you soak a wooden cutting board? Oh wait, it's a disposable world, and we are affluent. Carry on.
Loved that picnic basket, although I wouldn’t buy it for design. You can find creative results with some used stuff.
Omg! I’m not sanding any old granny wood! Lol!
Bar on the go, LOVE IT!
Love the ideas. Thank you
This guy it's GOOD! 👍
I have found some interesting things at Thrift Stores but honestly, things like those glass bowls, just go to Dollar Tree.
And support cheap goods from China.
Yeah $3.00 for each bowl...um,no!
TFS! Love this guy
Why do I feel like he is picking up the cutting boards I donated lol
“Paint it ou’oot!’
Not impressed at all with his ideas they looked cheesy
that's exactly what I thought too
I thought this too!! But each to there own I guess. 😂
Not sure which is more cheesy... this junk.. or the audience. Case in point: 7:01 😁🧀 😁🧀😁🧀😁🧀
I invite you to do better.
@Constance Keller Thank you for your positive attitude and comments. You helped make my day brighter.
So clever, that guy
me every day everywhere for everything 7:01
Just go to good neighborhoods in your area at the end of the month and wait for them to put out the garbage. You'll get everything for free.
Hmmm....crap remade into more crap that will end up being donated to Goodwill. Wasn't impressed.
Lol!!
Yeah, I swear I saw those personalized cutting boards there the other day...😬
🤭 yeah, I wish he would had purchased and updated the dresser instead.
Amazing the basket
lol yeah specially good will they price items like if they are new...dirty, broken and out of season for the price of new retail...yeah...and they receive the items for FREE!!!!! I rarely rarely rarely go to goodwill or salvation army... which by the way salvation army sells shoes for 19 dollars and they are fit to go to the dump...incredible....and when one point out the items the manager gets upset with you. Shop around, mama and papa thrift stores, and others places that are cheaper...
Those other thrift stores aren't any cheaper. They're getting more & more expensive everyday. They still have bills to pay like insurance, water, rent, salaries, etc. They can't do that by selling everything cheap.
I only buy at thrift stores on half price day----local stores here have one day a week where everything with the exception of high-end items are half price. I have gotten brand new items for way cheap- and like- new items way cheap. I got Uggs that were like new for $20, a rotisserie oven for $6, books for .50cents, a solid wood rocking chair for $7
I've seen things priced higher w/ the back room piled to the ceiling w/ donations...Priced reasonably, items will sell & go fast, more money made...Some ppl are just greedy...
@@Marys_Life_64 Yes u are right they have to pay insurance, water, electricity and the works as we all do, however they receive items for free cost 0 nada ...and in top of that they are tax exempt...so no high prices are not welcome, specially if they say that they help low income people... but the executives make really good money..
Bin days at goodwill are interesting. If you sew you can buy oversized clothes and repurpose
👨🎨 why do all t.v. diy people say, "paint it OUT"?! it's "paint it"!
If you are using the cutting board for food clean it with salt & olive oil, it’s not healthy to use non food cleaners to clean items used for cooking*, that also goes for your wooden utensils and bowls
Thank you for the tip.
Talented!
Awesome job!
Awesome ideas for sure!
ya and when you add them to a home design for a customer you charge way too much!