Garage Sale Rugs

Rhoda at Southern Hospitality is hosting a blogging event! Everyone is posting their favorite garage sale, estate sale or auction findings.

That is hard, because I like lots of what I've bought. (I admit to a few mistakes too!) So, I thought I would do a theme post on rugs. I always check out the rugs at garage sales. I think they add lots of warmth to a room.

Here are a few of the rugs in my house....all from garage sales!

This zebra print rug is a new addition this week. My daughter, Kelli, is having a garage sale this weekend and did not use this rug in her new home. So, being her mother I had the privelege of looking through her stuff first. She only wants $10 for this 100% wool rug! It is in our bonus room in front of a daybed with a leopard print cover.

This small leopard print rug is in a half bath. We have leopard print on a border, mirror and window treatment. My mother actually bought this rug at a yard sale, and let me have it! I'm still thinking of painting the cabinet black...one of my many undone projects.
This is another little rug from another of my daughter's garage sales. It is in the kitchen/breakfast room in a high traffic area. I may have to throw it out soon...it has been washed so much that the rubber backing is coming off. I really like it and will hate to see it go.
If you've been visiting my blog, you might remember this rug from a post made a couple of weeks ago. It had ivory colored fringe which I cut off as some of you suggested. The rug fits in the color scheme of the dining room as you can tell from the upholstery on the chairs. It cost $25. Before I show you the last rug, I want to show you a before picture. When we bought our house, the living/dining room had carpet. The carpet was pretty dirty, worn, and old. We put in hardwood floors throughout the area as soon as we could afford it. This is a picture of the floor covering before. Just overlook the baby and dog, at one time I didn't take a picture of anything but babies, kids, and dogs.

We were lucky enough to be one of the first at the sale where I bought this rug below. A young couple were either redecorating or relocating and I found this almost new Shaw rug for $50. I looked up the rug on the Internet and it is still available for $600! In fact, I did order another smaller one for the foot of the stairs.

Here's a larger picture of the rug with the sofa in the background. I was so happy to get a bargain on a rug since we had just spent a large amount of money on the hardwood floors! I think a coffee table would really set the rug off. Maybe I'll find one at a garage sale soon. One I could paint of course. Black would look good wouldn't it?
Thanks so much for looking at my garage sale rugs. With so little invested in them, I won't feel bad about replacing any of them if I run across something I like better!
I'm exciting about visiting all the other blogs. Thanks Rhoda for hosting this event! Click here to go back to Rhoda's site for lots of bargains others have found.