craftgrrl | Decorating Beach Themed! (Reply)

Hello all! I need some major help.

My house has a sunroom area that was added about twenty years after the actual house was built. When we moved in, we painted the cement floor yellow and put a table with chairs in it to make it like a porch area with walls.

However, we never used the room so it became filthy with bugs and dirt.

Yesterday, I decided that I would clean it out and make it into a sunroom. So today, I took everything out and mopped the disgusting dirty floor. I made a plan for the room on the La Z Boy website and showed it to my parents who were very happy with it.

Today, I ask if we can go to the furniture store to look at some sofas for the sunroom.

"No, we can't because buying new furniture is not at the top of the list."

So, I have to basically furnish a sunroom with $0. We do have a couch that we aren't using that I could re-upholster or put a slip cover on and I do have a beachy rug that I am using. I also have a green glass bowl full of sand and shells that we recieved at Bar Mitzfah that I will be using as a centerpiece for a coffee table.

If anybody could give me some ideas of how to decorate a room beach themed for very little money, it would be great. My parents would not be opposed to buying fabric for curtains but they would be opposed to buying curtains, so anything that I can do myself would be great. There is no room on the walls for putting up pictures and the like because there are large windows on every wall.

Some of my ideas were:
-Knit an afghan or blanket in yellow/green/blue
-Put seashells from our vacations all along the window ledges
-Put a slipcover/reuploster the couch - How do I do this?

Thanks!