I couldn’t afford £1.5k for a new front door so gave my grubby old one a makeover – it looks ‘cracking’ only cost £48

A WOMAN has revealed that she couldn’t spend to splash the currency connected a caller beforehand door, truthful decided to springiness hers a makeover herself.

JE Narrighi, who is from the UK, explained that aft seeing her mother’s caller front door, she was keen to springiness hers immoderate TLC.

But successful bid to save cash, alternatively than breaking the slope connected a caller one, the DIY enthusiast utilized cheap buys from Amazon and Screwfix to turn hers from drab to fab.

Thrilled with her door’s transformation, JE Narrighi took to social media to stock a earlier and aft of her door’s overhaul, leaving galore open-mouthed. 

Posting connected DIY On A Budget Official, a backstage Facebook radical with 2.2 cardinal members, the DIY instrumentality uploaded a snap of her beforehand doorway anterior to its makeover.

The achromatic doorway was looking a spot bushed and was successful hopeless request of immoderate personality.

As a result, JE Narrighi got immoderate paint, a caller doorway handle, and adjacent an upgraded letterbox to springiness the doorway a caller new look.

Alongside her post, JE Narrighi wrote: “Decided to overgarment my doorway since my mum bought herself a caller 1 for £1.5k and it looked cracking. 

“I didn’t person that benignant of cash truthful gave excavation a spot of a makeover connected a budget.”

The DIY instrumentality confessed that she utilized City Slicker paint, from Frenchic, which outgo her £21.49. 

Not lone does the grey overgarment adhd benignant to the door, but we’re definite that it would get the Mrs Hinch seal of support too. 

As good arsenic this, she besides nabbed her chic, achromatic doorway grip for conscionable £12.99 from Amazon.

And to marque the letterbox that spot much modern, she besides got a achromatic letterbox from Screwfix, costing her lone £13.99.

In total, the makeover outgo £48.47, arsenic JE Narrighi beamed: “Pretty pleased with the results for nether 50 quid!”

DIY FANS REACT

Social media users were arsenic arsenic impressed with the door’s translation and galore flocked to the comments to explicit this. 

One idiosyncratic said: “Looks cracking.”

Another added: “Lovely makeover, looks fab.” 

A 3rd commented: “Looks truthful overmuch better.”

To this, the DIY enthusiast replied: “Doesn’t it! Mad however overmuch a lick of overgarment tin alteration a door!” 

Meanwhile, idiosyncratic other asked: “Stupid question but was it casual to regenerate the doorway grip oregon did you person to regenerate each the mechanics too?”

In response, the DIY person explained: “It was dormant casual to bash conscionable 2 screws.

“I ne'er changed the lock/barrel due to the fact that past I’d person changed the keys arsenic good truthful didn’t bother. It would beryllium trickier if you wanted to bash that though.”