A WOMAN has revealed that she and her hubby gave her lime greenish bath a mega makeover without breaking the bank.
Mum-of-four Katy Stephenson explained that whilst homeschooling her children during the Coronavirus lockdown, she decided to overgarment her bathroom agleam green.
However, 4 years later, the savvy mum changed her caput connected the bath decor and wanted to springiness it a caller new look.
As a result, she nabbed bargain buys from the high-street and got her husband to work.
Thrilled with the DIY overhaul, Katy took to social media to stock a earlier and aft look astatine the space, leaving galore open-mouthed.
Posting connected DIY On A Budget, a backstage Facebook radical with 2.2 cardinal members, Katy shared snaps of her bathroom, which has been transformed from drab to fab, all whilst connected a budget.
Katy confirmed that to keep costs low, she bought items from Amazon, B&M and Dunelm and adjacent utilized a savvy curtain rod hack to adhd style to her space.
Alongside her post, she penned: “It's taken weeks with truthful galore problems caused by the builders who enactment successful the archetypal bath taking shortcuts.
“Quite virtually blood, sweat and tears person gone into this bathroom.
“All done by my fab hubby successful betwixt moving shifts.
“A fewer bits to adhd similar a achromatic hand-wash that I support forgetting to prime up and pictures for the partition supra the toilet but I haven't recovered what I'm looking for yet.
“But I'm truthful blessed with the extremity result.”
I gave my boring achromatic & grey bath a full makeover utilizing Dunelm buys - everyone can’t judge however gorgeous it looks
Katy’s bath has been wholly transformed - what was erstwhile a lime greenish country is present incredibly chic and trendy, with grey interiors we’re definite cleanfluencer Mrs Hinch would love.
Not lone person the walls been fixed a lick of caller paint, but she's adjacent got a caller ablution and flooring too.
We couldn't spend to wage thousands for a nonrecreational to bash it for america truthful my hubby decided to effort and bash it himself
Katy Stephenson
Katy added: “From Covid boredom lime greenish (left implicit from the boys’ container room) to the grey.”
The savvy mum explained that to truly bring her bath to life, she bought faux flowers from Amazon and “used a curtain rod to bent them.”
Most fashionable DIY jobs homeowners emotion to do
- Paint walls
- New carpet
- Paint obstruction
- Paint ceilings
- Wallpapering
- Paint skirting boards
- New airy fitting
- Re-grout/replace bath tiles
- Hang curtains/blinds
- Paint/oil interior doors
- Paint a shed
- Paint stairs
- New plug sockets
- New hard flooring
- New beforehand doorway
- Update room descend
- Replace room worktops
- Hang shelves
- Change/update doorknobs
- Paint/upcycle plot furniture
Katy aboriginal told Fabulous: “We decided to alteration our bath aft our ablution broke and needed replacing, we realised that down it the tiles weren't precise good.
“As Christmas was approaching, we couldn't spend to wage thousands for a nonrecreational to bash it for america truthful my hubby decided to effort and bash it himself.
Eight Easy DIY Tips & Tricks
The eventual usher for homeowners and renters:
“We utilized a section store for the panels and sourced a batch of the different items from online shops to support the outgo down.”
DIY fans respond
Social media users were intelligibly precise impressed with Katy’s bath overhaul, arsenic galore rapidly flocked to the comments to stock their thoughts.
People praised the bath arsenic ‘gorgeous’ and were impressed that it wasn’t done by a professional.
That lime greenish was atrocious but looks astonishing now
Facebook user
One idiosyncratic said: “Wow, what a transformation.”
Another added: “Absolutely gorgeous.”
A 3rd commented: “Massive hubby points there! Looks amazing.”
At the aforesaid time, idiosyncratic other claimed: “Would virtually wage anybody to marque my bath look fractional arsenic good!”
Not lone this, but 1 DIY enthusiast beamed: “That lime greenish was atrocious but looks astonishing now, good done.”