My $600 Living Room

One of the nice things about having a small space is that it doesn't take much to outfit it with furniture. One of the real nice things about having a small space AND being super scrappy is that you can do it for a few hundred bucks. In looking around my living room the other day, I realized the entire room had been furnished either by cheap deals on Amazon (not proud of that, but hey, it's hard to beat) or found used on Facebook Marketplace. I know there's some squeamishness around buying secondhand furniture, but what I like about Facebook Marketplace is you can kind of vet who you buy from, and in lots of cases, they are people I know or have mutual friends with. That, and I usually try to buy pieces I can wash anyway.

So here's the breakdown:

I have to say that I am MOST proud of my $400 sofa find. I had been eyeing this exact sofa (the Jovie sofa from Home Reserve) for about 6 months and it is amazing: the pieces are interchangeable, you can add additional pieces as you want to grow your sectional, the fabric comes off each piece and is machine washable, and every seat opens up to storage underneath. The layout I wanted was just over $2,000 and I was honestly gearing myself up to just go for it (or at least start to try to convince my husband to consider it), but decided I'd check out Facebook Marketplace just to see if there was anything there first. And there it was, about 10 listings down on my scroll, the Jovie sectional! Barely used, being sold about 45 minutes from me because the woman was moving.

I mean, if this room had cost me over $2,000 I suppose it wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have made for a much less interesting blog post. And at just shy of $600, I don't have to feel too precious about this room being punched and prodded and generally treated like an indoor playground. Cheers to second-life furniture.