A brand new kitchen often comes with a hefty price ticket.
However a mum-of-one, from Swansea, has saved greater than £1,000 by deciding to do the work herself.
Rosie Holt turned her old style kitchen right into a sage inexperienced delight, with Frenchic paint, vinyl flooring and new handles.
In whole, the 29-year-old spent simply £279 on the challenge – as a substitute of the £1,500 she was quoted.
‘I've all the time wished a sage inexperienced kitchen and knew after I was shopping for my very own home I used to be going to place my very own contact on it,’ Rosie tells money-saving Fb group DIY On A Price range UK.
‘I liked the unique kitchen nevertheless it was simply too plain for my persona, so I knew this was the chance for me to alter it and have my sage inexperienced kitchen.’
First, Rosie prepped the cabinets by washing them down with sugar cleaning soap.
She then painted them in Smart Outdated Sage Frenchic Alfresco paint – in two skinny coats.
The only mum says: ‘I saved the doorways on to color as my home is small and I wished to make it simpler for myself – however I do now want I took them off as I believe it will have been a nicer end, regardless that I'm pleased with the way it turned out.’
Rosie had deliberate to maintain the unique handles and spray paint them black – however this didn’t work out, so she purchased new ones from eBay.
Nonetheless, this was an sudden problem.
‘I couldn’t discover any the identical dimension because the earlier ones so had to purchase larger ones, fill within the outdated holes, sand them down, paint the doorways after which re-drill new holes and placed on the brand new handles,’ she provides.
Subsequent up was the ground. Rosie initially deliberate for herringbone flooring however when she noticed the vinyl possibility she knew it will be good for her kitchen.
However this was the largest price of the challenge.
She continues: ‘The flooring was costly as I needed to have latex positioned on the ground first because the tiles weren’t flat that the earlier house owners positioned.
‘I combined the latex and positioned this on the ground ensuring it was all stage. This needed to be left to dry for 5 hours earlier than including the vinyl.
‘As soon as it was dry, I glued the vinyl on prime after reducing it and ensuring it was centred.’
By way of price break-down, Rosie says the ground was £225, the handles have been £31 and the Frenchic paint set her again £22.95.
However she’s thrilled with the outcomes.
The mum-of-one provides: ‘I by no means had any intentions of getting a brand new kitchen – as this kitchen was nonetheless in superb situation, but when I wished a brand new kitchen it will have been roughly £1,500 on the least expensive.
‘So I've saved over £1,200 doing it myself.
‘I'm a single mum to a two-year-old little woman and actually wish to make our home a house.
‘I'm so happy with how the kitchen has turned out.’
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