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If you had to spend 5K on accessories

9 years ago

If someone stopped you in the street and handed you $5,000, and the only caveat was that you had to spend it on accessories for your home, what would you buy? It has to be accessories that would bring you aesthetic pleasure only (so, no sofas, DR tables, new washer/dryer, and so on).

I'll go first:

1. A few months ago, I discovered a rug shop about 5 miles away that I didn't know existed. It's in an old mill and run by an eccentric gentleman who has an eye for beautiful antique rugs with just the amount of patina that only a vintage lover could appreciate. I don't need any rugs in my home, but I would buy 3 antique runners from him. I priced them about $800 each x3 = $2,400

2. Outdoor planters from my favorite garden shop. What I currently have are fine, but I'd love to have a few from this place. I could easily spend $1,000 on planters and accessories for outdoors. (I live in a northern climate, so this would truly be a luxury).

3. I'd then go to my favorite antique shop (which is actually a farm about 20 miles away) and find something funky and interesting for a blank space above my breakfast room window. It's one of those places that doesn't really need anything, but if I came across the right piece, I'd love to buy it without thinking twice. Allow $500 for the piece, and perhaps another oddity or two.

4. I have $1,100 left. I'd visit a local art gallery and buy a painting (or 2) from a local artist to hang in my center hallway. There's nothing there right now because I can't decide what to put there.

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