I'm not a first time anything...but I still can't drive by a Goodwill without stopping to check out the furniture...and fur coats!

Very nice. Make the trashcan in the dining room go away

From Stella Pop & Goodwill,

The article is perfect!

All I have to say is - goodwill, good, will, goodwill, good, will and more goodwill, thank you for showing so much goodwill.
Goodwill giving a hand up not a hand out along side the Apartment Therapy community.

Cheers Apartment Therapy DC,
Stella Pop and Mike O

Haha, didn't notice the trash can till you said something, hippyvieja. :D

Our house is almost exclusively furnished with hand-me-downs and Goodwill finds that my mom collected. We recently got several pieces from my husband's grandma. I love that she had such a great sense of style! Grandmas are wonderful, as is free mid-century furniture. :D

our Goodwills have no furniture to speak of. It's really sad.

One of the many reasons I love Goodwill! So many wonderful bargains to be found.

While I admire recycling and reuse efforts, this was pretty bad.

I want to know which DC Goodwill Store has that much furniture for sale!

I agree with tfoss, I was really unimpressed with the end result of her apartment. It looks so 90s and "theme" - it's obvious that it was put together in a day. But I'm glad it was for a good cause, and I love Goodwill. I just felt like she could have done a bit more shopping around. Goodwills have great stuff every now and again, but it usually takes some hunting and time for the right things to turn up. It's also not advisable to furnish a whole apartment at any one source or in such a short amount of time.

Well done!!!

i am happy that the beauty of goodwill was given props on apartment therapy, but shhh, we don't want the word getting out to the people who can afford to shop elsewhere! i have a lot of really awesome finds from the g-dub over the years, and i agree with livc, it takes time, and it would be pretty hard to find everything in a short amount of time. because you never find exactly what you're looking for until you stop looking and are trying to find something else. it takes a lot patience, a little elbow grease, and a trained eye to see the potential in things. my family shopped there since i was a kid, so i have honed my skills over the years. i can scan those wares like no other. thanks, mom!

I don't know, maybe I'm tired, but that video made me feel weird. It was strangely edited, harshly narrated, and the end results oddly lack luster. Girl, come to my apartment, I'll show you how to thrift. *snap*

p.s. Betty Boop

My goodness that was an embarrassing video to watch. I think Goodwill serves an important roll in society, but decorating for Miss DC is not one of them. (Don't they have more important things to do?) Her apartment ended up looking just like a Goodwill inside- littered with cheap 90's decorations. Typically, when people have garage sales, they take their unsold/ unwanted leftovers to Goodwill. And Miss DC has all of that stuff in her apartment now.

(Yes, I know Goodwill also has a few nice things from time to time - but you have to be willing to leave the store empty-handed if you're going to be successful at shopping at a 2nd hand store.)

livc (and some others)--

I think you entirely missed the point of this.

Love the project, love the end result, good for her, and who knew Goodwill had a fashionista!

I would expect the audience here to stand up and cheer on this one... what's the issue?

For Goodwill (or any charity) to survive in this economy, they have to find innovative ways to find new and broader audiences, and I think this project does that beautifully.

I think it's great publicity for Goodwill to partner with Miss DC. And of course her apartment ended up looking just like a Goodwill inside... everything came from Goodwill. It's not going to look like a magazine cover or page out of a catalog. That's not what Goodwill is for. If your choices are purchasing a couch for your family at the Goodwill or sitting on the floor, I'm sure you'll be very happy with the nice couch you found at the Goodwill.

However, people may not realize that the Goodwill is not just a place for you to donate your old stuff so that poor people can buy it. They provide job training, employment and many other services to people who have disabilities, or who have trouble finding a job because of a lack of job experience or education. They fund all of this by selling donated items in their stores. It's not just a place for poor people to shop. They are more than happy to welcome ANYONE to shop in their stores to help fund these services.

That's the best Goodwill I've ever seen.

My cynical side (that'd be the left side) wonders if reactions would be so negative if we hadn't been told that Goodwill was the source and the project was done in a day. Or if the same items had been used but the color scheme had been more on-trend.

Or if it had been an average post-grad in Adams Morgan who did it all herself.

It looks OKAY. I like the dining area (without the trash can of course) but other then that, it's okay. Nothing about it says "retro Hollywood" and Marilyn and Audrey, as wonderful as they were, are licensed and merchandised to death. The 'artwork' is fine for a college student, but nothing here would make me think "Hollywood"

Pretty decent for the entire place being cobbled together from Goodwill though.

Goodwill must be better in other areas than Fresno. I have been to two stores here and the selection is terrible and the prices are ridiculous. There are no clerks to speak of and the place just seems abandoned. I like Salvation Army for selection and prices and they give a senior's discount on Tuesdays. I haven't bought much there, but I'll keep looking. As for Goodwill, NOPE, not here.

Awful. I admire the design on a dime attempt but this looks like a train wreck that would be on HGTV- just awful. I most especially dislike the fuchsia pillows at the dining room table.