Home décor — for the price of a Sweetgreen salad. Photo: Courtesy the retailer
Turns out you don’t need to schlep to Ikea to find cheap bowls, trash cans, water pitchers, or dish towels. Amazon is actually full of handsome and well-priced home décor — you just have to do a little digging. Which is what we did so you don’t have to. Below, the fuzzy pillows and metal napkin holders that are under $30 (and in most cases under $20). If you’re looking for some cheap decorating ideas for the bathroom, too, we went and found a bunch of those on Amazon.
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Yamazaki home Tower-Ladle & Lid Stand
$20 at Amazon
A home for your ladles and spoons, so you don’t get tomato sauce all over the kitchen. You can also fit your favorite cookbook.
Okay, this is $30, but it’s such a great little side table that we had to stick it on here. Place a lamp on it, your Amy’s tortellini bowl, or a Roku remote.
These dish towels from Nawrap (a Japanese company founded in the 1930s that originally made mosquito nets) are infused with an anti-odor and anti-microbial charcoal called binchotan.
Great for holding things that don’t have an obvious home, like a remote control, a pair of scissors, even an air plant. Could work inside a closet or on a foyer wall.
It seems 1970s-era “splatterware” is having a bit of a moment; it also happens to be very affordable. This long vessel can be used to store your kitchen utensils and would make a nice pop of color on your countertop.
For the black thumbs out there: A bunch of these unkillable dried buds will brighten up any room (and will look particularly great in a milk-glass vase).