With a weekend or holidays coming up, there’s no better way to spend the leisure time than showing your old house some extra love and care to give it a brand new look. Though a bit of DIY may be overwhelming, it doesn’t have to be. With the minimum effort, these 5 DIY house hacks can help you have the most astounding results. Sounds good enough to be true? Read on for yourself and see.
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Switch old drawers to stylish shelves
If you want to save money and the world (at least a tiny bit), then the key to success is upcycling. If you have an old set of drawers that you will not need anymore or just don’t have the space for them, then you can put them on the wall as an artistic, makeshift shelf.
Shelves with old wood effects will be perfect, but you can produce an authentic, deteriorated look at a fraction of the price with a little paint and lotion (more on that later). Instead, charity shops can be your best friend to pick up vintage furniture that may not be suitable for their original purpose, but that is ideal for an upcycling project.
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Artificially distress furniture with lotion
Distressed furnishings used to be something you would never want. It’s a warning that your furniture was aged, battered, and repaired in desperate need. But as with most trends in home design, an antique is the latest, and getting distressed furniture is now very much in vogue.
You could buy an old piece of furniture from your furniture store of selection, or buy a piece of chemically distressed furniture, but there is a much cheaper and quicker way to get your furniture to have that elegant look. There is a whole range of options to convert your furniture to get that look, including using steel, wool, sandpaper, and candle wax with a variety of different paint styles used in the coating.
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Get creative with hidden electronic fittings
Most households will now have a few routers spread around to meet the increasing requirements of the internet that a house full of computer crazy little demons will have. Particularly if any of the kids have found Minecraft, or if you are in the habit of getting a bit crazy with shopping online on your iPad when you’re sitting down with a cup of tea.
A fake row of books combined with a wooden crate can clean up a nifty DIY router. Grab some old books that you are never going to be reading, or dive into the discount bin in the charity shop. Take 4 or 5 hardcover books, then cut out the spine pages. Take the back and the front of the two books you want to start and end your fake stack, and glue the spines and cover the front with a tiny wooden case, the kind you might see in a fresh fruit stall or garden center. If you don’t want to use a case, you can glue the spines into a bit of cardboard and just place the router behind it instead of putting it in the box. That should hold everything together.
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Remove carpet indentations with ice cubes
If you have a mark on your carpet created by a couch, a television set, a bed, or even just a groove worn by pacing or opening and closing a screen, this is a nice trick. Placing an ice cube on your carpet will clean out any awkward marks. Get your furniture off the path first, then simply place an ice cube on the mark if it’s a huge line-like open door mark or a seat drag.
Allow the cube to melt overnight so that the fibers are plumped up by the water. Protect the carpet with a blanket and use a fork to fluff gently any stray fibers that have remained flat. In the case of recurring dents, you may have to repeat it.
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Keep Rupert off the floor using Velcro
Sure, maybe he’s not named Rupert, but somewhere around the house, we all have teddies, whether they belong for little ones or they are a childhood friend you just can’t let go of. Keep them clean and off the concrete, and at the same time fix the clutter problem by securing them with a velcro stripe to the wall.
Not only does this DIY trick keep the space looking tidy, but it’s also perfect for a children’s room as a fun way for them to highlight their cuddly friends while keeping the floor clean. Even if they don’t use it, when you are vacuuming or cleaning up for a play date, you’ll have a nice place to put the teddies. You can opt for Velcro to keep off a number of other things from the floor as well.
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