I gave my lounge a glow-up for just £13 using B&M bargain buys to create a panelling feature & it looks amazing
IF YOU want to give your home a glow-up but without splashing the cash, get inspired by this budget transformation.
Daniel Huszar, 30, who lives in Durham and works in quality assurance, wanted to give his lounge a bit of extra pizzazz.
To do so, he used a B&M wallpaper which cost just £9.99, to create a panelling feature wall in his lounge.
Panelling is very on-trend at the moment but this savvy DIY project proves that you don’t have to be a professional or have a tonne of cash to get it perfect.
Daniel told money-saving Facebook group : "I’d seen some wallpaper panelling ideas on Facebook by using wallpaper, and the layout of my lounge wasn’t really working.
“It felt quite cold, so I thought I would give the idea a try and do a feature piece.
"I rearranged the lounge, moved the TV over and measured the gap between the frames.
"I then started putting up the paper, and used two and a half widths for this.”
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Daniel purchased the wallpaper from bargain store B&M for just £9.99 a roll.
He explained: "The wallpaper was from B&M, it’s called 'Wooden Slats Wallpaper' and it cost £9.99 for a roll which was more than enough for the feature.
"The wallpaper paste mix cost £2.99 so it was a total of less than £13 to create the feature.
"It took approximately an hour and a half to do, and I have never put wallpaper up myself before!”
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Don’t worry if you aren’t a DIY-expert, Daniel explains how he created his panelling feature and it sounds fairly easy.
He added: “I just held the roll at the top of the wall, dropped it to the bottom and just put a little cut where the skirting was.
“I cut this to size and then pasted the paper and put it on the wall.
“I just fiddled around with the paper till it was right and matched up with no gaps.
"A tip for novices would be to get a paper that doesn’t have a difficult match, as that would’ve been much harder.
“I was anxious at first, prior to doing this, as I had never wallpapered before.
"But, once I took the jump and did the first strip, I thought 'I can actually do this!’
"When it was finished, I tidied everything up, and didn’t really look at it because I wanted to see how it looked when you walked into the room.
"So that’s what I did - I went out, shut the door, and walked back in.”
Daniel was very impressed with his DIY and is even more proud that he managed to do it by himself.
He continued: “I really love the wall, and am proud that I did it myself.
“It’s made the room feel so much warmer, with a feature and focus rather than just plain walls with some pictures on.
"I love doing things on a budget as it feels like an achievement.
“It really warmed up the lounge and made it feel so, so homely.
"Being able to achieve this look for £13 is incredible and it just changes the whole lounge and feeling of the room!”
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