salvage op |  Erin snagged the bedroom's hook rug from a yard sale, at the bargain price of $20. Before dragging it into her abode, she dragged it off to the Laundromat and ran it through two cycles of a mega washer with Woolite, to purge the dust and bugs. To cover the holes in one area of the rug, she used a couple of baskets -- which also served double duty as storage.
the little things |  Over the bed, Erin hung inexpensive white shelves. The shelves offered the perfect spot to rotate some pressed seaweed specimens that she'd collected along the beach. The art on the walls, meanwhile, were mostly prints from a floral calendar that she found at Salvation Army. >