34-year-old Fiona Gall wanted to revamp the boring kitchen of her council home but didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it.
Fiona Gall, who lives in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, moved into their council home two years ago after her husband Mark was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Ever since she wanted to revamp her boring kitchen but was short on cash. She decided to do it on her own and totally transformed her kitchen for just £218, saving nearly £3,000.
Fiona covered the dull brown cupboards with paint and the top of the dining table and shelves with sticky back plastic after taking DIY ideas from several websites.
Civil servant Fiona said: “I began re-decorating my home this year, starting with my two-year-old son Freddie’s bedroom, and I moved on to making a sensory garden for him too. But the kitchen was one of the rooms that I absolutely hated – I used to have the door shut all the time to try and hide it.”
“My husband spends most of his time at home between hospital visits for his ongoing treatment, and because this will now be our forever home I wanted to try and decorate exactly how we wanted so it was a nice environment to live in.point 439 |
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Fiona said that a brand new kitchen wasn’t an option for her as they also had the rest of the house to decorate. She was professionally quoted £3,000 for someone to fit the Fablon on their kitchen units and surfaces and that’s why she decided to do it on her own.
She said: “I make a lot of things myself, and every single room in my house has something DIY in it because I’m very crafty and like to upcycle furniture.”
“I absolutely love my kitchen now and I wanted it to be finished by Christmas as a present to myself!”
The revamping cost her only just £218:
- The chest of drawers on the Facebook marketplace for £40
- Union jack handles for £12
- The wood-effect Fablon for £28
- Two pots of duck egg blue paint for £28
- Pots of white paint for the drawers and window box were £30
- The brick wallpaper for £20
- Foliage for £6
- Union Jack teapot, lights and wicker hearts for £27
- Sponge rollers and silicon guns for £9
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