Affordable living room furniture allows you to get a new look on a budget. Your old pieces might be falling apart but you still have to work within a budget. This doesn't mean that you can't totally transform your room. It will take a little bit of hard work and creativity but the end result can look very designer inspired.
Learn how to coordinate your old and new pieces. Mixing and matching is a vital factor to saving money. You might just be sick of your living room furniture and think that everything has to go because you've been living with it for so long and want a fresh new look. Don't underestimate how much a few new pieces can really change how you feel about your room. You can pair an older blue sofa with crisp white chairs to get a modern look that will totally change how you feel about your sofa.
Find beauty in other people's castoffs. This is a budget friendly way to save money. It allows you to get furniture that is new to you for less than the cost of slipcovers. Instead, go with what you truly love. This may have been in style a few years ago or even a few decades ago. This allows you to pay for what you really love, avoid trends and save a lot of money in the process.
Learn how to mend flaws. This doesn't mean that you have to be a seamstress. It allows you to give new life to old furniture with just a little bit of work. This also ensures a unique look for your room and you can create any color palette you want. You won't have to just rely on what the stores have to offer. You can paint your end tables a bright white, and then recover your back sofa pillows in a stripe fabric for a beach inspired book. If the pillows on the couch are loose then it would just be really easy to recover those and then leave the rest of the furniture the way it is so that you don't have to worry about doing a complete reupholstering job. Salvage what you can from your furniture just by looking at it in a new way.
Change the rest of the room to work with the design style of your existing pieces. This doesn't mean that your room design has to appear used or dirty. You could go for a welcome country look by decorating with faux finishes and distressed furniture. This will make your existing older furniture pieces work right in with the new design style.