A new kitchen can cost thousands of pounds, but one couple has managed to transform theirs for under £150.
Jodie Worboys, 28, and her partner Erien Memmi, 30, turned to high street stores to buy supplies and did the work themselves to keep costs down.
The couple used bargains from Dunelm, Amazon, Homebase and B&Q to give their kitchen a much-needed makeover.
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Speaking to money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk, Jodie said: "I follow DIY pages on Facebook and I’m forever saving posts of anything I quite like. During COVID, I got so sick of my kitchen that my fiancé and I decided to just completely overhaul it.
"I saw a few posts about vinyl stick-on floor tiles and we decided to give them a go. We wanted something chic but also with a bit of personality. The dark grey colour we went for matches our front room decor, and we wanted it to flow from room to room.
"I’m also an absolute sucker for copper and rose gold things, so we had to include this in the detailing. It was really easy to do. We started off by sanding the cupboards and then applying a good primer - this is key to anything DIY I find, never ever skimp on a decent primer as it’s the most important part!
"We then painted the cupboards with two coats of colour and then a top coat to seal it all, and then added the rose gold handles when it was dry.”
For the flooring, Jodie used stick-on tiles from Dunelm. She explained: “We ripped up the old floor, cleaned and swept the concrete below and again applied a couple of coats [of] a good floor primer.
"The tiles are all ready to stick but we used an adhesive spray for extra stick. Then we simply matched the patterns up on the floor and cut out around the edges with a Stanley knife, then once dry sealed the edges. We then got some new bar stools and some fake plants and voila, all done.”
In total, the couple spent £147 on the kitchen transformation. Jodie said: “We paid £14 for a pack of 10 Floorpop self-adhesive tiles from Dunelm. We used six packs with spares left over, so they cost £84 in total.
“For the paint, we used wood primer in grey from Homebase's own brand for £12, another Homebase own brand paint for the charcoal colour for £14, and we had the Rust-Oleum top coat left over from previous projects. We bought a pack of 10 rose gold handles from Amazon for £26.99 and the breakfast bar stools from B&Q for £20.
“If I had got it done professionally, I would guess it would cost around £1,500 minimum. It took three days of hard work for a fabulous kitchen. It’s great to save money - we are always doing our own DIY projects around the house, and it’s even better when you know you’ve done it all yourself.
“My main tips for people would be to always trust the process. There is absolutely nothing a YouTube video can’t teach you, I swear by this. We loved the kitchen as soon as we saw it finished, and it’s still one of my favourite rooms in the house, and always gets good comments from our friends and family when they come round.”
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