I really think there is something seriously lacking in her life, she is so materialistic but just buys stuff for the sake of it and crams her house with utter crap just to fill some hole! Pretty much half that room is covered in mismatched cheap furniture and storage trolly type things, I doubt they can see that ugly fireplace anymore!
She has her priorities all wrong as well, when she could be creating a lovely home it just seems more important to buy things to fill it rather than buy some paint to even just neutralise some of the gaudy decoration left from the previous owner while they save to do bigger jobs, although as others have said if she reined in the spending just a little they would have the money to replace the bathroom and kitchen!