A little secret about me: I love to dumpster dive. Any affordable interior designer would. But I used to take it to an extreme. When I first moved to NYC, I got my sofa from a curb in the East Village and carried it all the way to my Times Square pad. I got lamps, vases, even my sheets (in retrospect, that wasn't my smartest move) from scouring the streets. But I never found anything as elegant to salvage as Pottery Barn's Architectural Salvage Lamp ($79, was $170). Guess their buyers do a little dumpster diving, too!