On a Dime

When Refinery29 tweets about how to redesign your apartment on a dime, we can’t help but click through.

Summer is over but sandal weather isn’t (not until you tie us down and stuff our gangrened toes into boots sometime around mid-December, dammit!), and we love (cool, brilliant, girl-crush-worthy) Rory Evans’ ruggedly-stylish suggestion on momfilter of these $39 Joanne sandals from Bass— they’ll get you through September. 

We love iomoi, and their lucite trays make for an awesome apartment accent piece. But at $150 for the smallest one, we’d rather go with Textile Republic, which offers a similar style in a variety of patterns for $52.

ReadyMade magazine is folding but blessedly their website is still up, and here are their ideas for ten things to do with mason jars. And no, we are not yet over mason jars.

iVillage and the very stylish Lily Fleishman (you should SEE her apartment) share 11 ways to revamp your bedroom for under $100.

These floral Forever 21 shorts? $15.80. The (admittedly super-cute) Nanette Lepore version? $198.

Gotta love a style blog called Cheap Jap. With the motto “Shop cheap, look loaded,” this digital diary details the author’s thrift store finds and encourages others to do go on second hand excursions of their own.

Design Sponge inspires again with these before/after pictures showing a dumpy dresser transformed into an ikat-inked apartment centerpiece. Considerably more cost-effective than heading to Anthropologie for this similarly styled piece, no?

Of a Kind tells the stories of up-and-coming designers and commissions them to create limited edition items, like this Celia bag by Rachel Nasvik. So, $184 may not exaaactly be a bargain, but it is when compared with this similar Rebecca Minkoff offering, and only 19 other people on Earth will own it.

(Photo from Of a Kind)

The 2012 Fiat 500 is an updated version of the retro classic seen above— the quirky car costs 15k and gets 38 miles per gallon. We still prefer the subway.