Taking off your suit, changing to casual clothes and picking up your tools, DIY one or two simple pieces of furniture is both fun and a good way to save money.
Although we have become accustomed to the one-stop package service of home improvement companies and also buy used high-quality industrial products in the home market, this year, saving money is becoming a key word for many people's lives.
Say goodbye to the idea that everything depends on skilled workers. Sometimes a small manual or simple common sense can help us to complete some transformations. And what you need to pay is just some time, simple operation and patience.
We use 12 ways of DIY (Do It Yourself) and 12 ways of saving money to explore more economical ways of staying at home.
Brushing the walls may seem complicated, but it is not too difficult to do so. After a little exercise, you can get started.
In the context of the economic downturn, saving money has become the main theme of many people's lives. Although the urge to buy what you like in the home market can be converged, the idea of ​​people arranging homes and improving the living environment will never stop.
If you want to change the color of your house, or want to redecorate the lifeless wall with wallpaper, have you ever thought about doing it yourself? Say goodbye to the idea that everything depends on skilled workers. Sometimes a small manual or simple common sense can help us to complete some transformations. And what you need to pay is just some time, simple operation and patience.
In addition, some home professionals can also try to make more transformations. For example, if the purchased furniture has faded after a few years, it can be completely painted and transformed to change its form, while saving money. Label it with personality.
In this era of saving money, use DIY to give yourself a stylish reason to save money.
ã€Foundation construction】
1 Brush yourself for a different color
Technical content: ★ ★ ★ ★ tools: flat brush, brush, wool board brush, paint brush, scraper, roller, sandpaper, ladder, etc.
The key step: Before painting, the surface of the area that needs to be painted should be treated. After it is dry, it should be ground with sandpaper before painting.
The general rule of brushing is from left to right, from top to bottom, first inside and outside, before the first is difficult. In the paint brushing process, the running speed should be consistent with the speed and force evenly. When brushing the upper part of the action should be quick, thin brush multiple times to prevent sag. At the end of brushing or middle rest, the brush should be soaked in solvent or washed and dried.
Popular colors: Today's popular colors are yellow representing the earth, green representing health, and blue representing fresh. Especially green, it is still the main color of the color of the bedroom. Neutral hues of mulberry bark green, mustard color green and mossy green and other light plant colors mix and match light and modern style, but also contains retro elements.
Saving money calculation: The artificial fee for brushing walls is mostly concentrated between 18 yuan and 30 yuan per square meter. However, if you want to change the color and color tone, you need to add extra money. There are special treatments that require extra money.
Note: In general, most of the paints are required to be used under normal temperature (20～25°C). In addition, the site humidity is also very important. The paint should be applied under normal humidity or slightly dry conditions.
2 wallpaper pattern to increase the charm of the room
Technical content: ★★★ Tools: Wool brush, roller, blade width about 15cm
Key Steps: Before applying the wallpaper, you should make up the cracks and pits on the wall. Try to clean the room first. In addition, it is best to apply a layer of glue on the wall, and what paste can be found on the wallpaper.
First take a roll of wallpaper and see the direction of the pattern to determine which direction is up. Then take the top of the skirting board as a starting point, use a steel tape measure to measure the height of the wall, take a few places, take the maximum value, and add 4 inches for the two ends. Then spread the wallpaper on the table and apply the adhesive, face down, measure the length, draw a line on the back with a pencil, and then cut the wallpaper along with the scissors. Then, turn the clipped wallpaper over, spread out the rest of the wallpaper, and align it with the opposite corner of the wallpaper. Take the first wallpaper as a standard and cut off the second wallpaper. Repeat the above steps to cut the next batch of wallpaper and write the pasting sequence on the back.
Fashion colors: The future wallpaper will be hand-painted, natural style and simple charm as the main trend indicator.
Save money: In general, the sticker fee is a small roll of 30-50 yuan, a large roll of 70-100 yuan; if calculated in square meters, the price ranges from 5-15 yuan.
Matters needing attention: After coating the wallpaper of the adhesive, according to the instructions on the package for a period of time to absorb the moisture in the adhesive. Thin wallpapers and vinyl wallpapers can usually be attached to a wall immediately after the adhesive is applied, whereas thicker wallpapers usually take 10 to 15 minutes. To start wallpapering, start with the adjoining wall of the main window and stick it from the light to the dark.
The partition made of wooden windows does not have a special atmosphere.
Already faded old furniture can be brushed with new paint to make room for heat.
ã€Renovation of old things】
3 old windows do partition
Technical content (star): ★ ★ ★ ★ tool preparation: expansion screws, old windows, hooks
Steps: First flush a few old windows in the flea market, clean it, polish it to your liking, create an antique surface effect, and then put expansion screws and hooks on the top surface where you need to install the entrance, and put a few flowers on the window. Fixed, the following can hang themselves, forming a unique entrance.
Saving money: A new entrance is not easy to say. The price is not low, at least 2000 yuan.
Old furniture conversion price = old door frame (no need to spend money on their own homes, the old goods market Amoy within 200 yuan) + expansion Screw, hook 20 yuan
Note: Because the wooden window has a certain weight, it must be fixed when it is fixed to the top surface. Want to make a fixed entrance, you can directly use the floor nails to fix the flower window on the ground.
4 old furniture refresh paint
Technical content: ★ ★ ★ ★ tool preparation: strong paint remover, rubber gloves, new paint
Step: Old wooden side cabinet with old colors and lacquer, want to rejuvenate it. You can use a strong paint remover to remove the paint (also can be sandpaper, but more laborious), after the paint off, clean the old furniture surface, paint can be painted. Can also wait for the paint to dry, choose polishing wax polishing.
Save money: A sideboard must cost at least a thousand dollars. The price of the old furniture change paint = old furniture (no need to spend money on your own home, on the flea market is generally within 100 yuan) + strong paint remover (15-30 yuan) + rubber gloves (10 yuan) + new paint ( 100-200 yuan)=300 yuan
Matters needing attention: paint remover is sold on the Internet and paint shop, even if it does not hurt the skin when used, it must be remembered with rubber gloves or other protective gloves, the general paint remover is a strong acid or strong alkaline substances, touch the skin Easily burned.
5 old furniture into children's furniture
Technical content: ★ tool preparation: electric saw, old coffee table, chair
Steps: The children's room in the home needs a small desk and a small chair. Not only are you worried about not being able to buy it very well, but you are also worried that the new furniture will harm your child's health. It is very good to use the old furniture for modification. The child was of low height and he took the old coffee table and chair legs with a power saw at a suitable height and placed it in the children's room. If you feel that the desktop is not good-looking, you can use a cloth to wrap the table and chairs and use it as a soft desk chair.
Save money: A new set of children’s desks and chairs is at least 2,000 yuan. Old furniture conversion price = old furniture (no need to spend money on your own home) + small chainsaw (within 100 yuan) + fabric (old curtain or old bed sheet, no need to spend money)
Note: It is best to retrofit the old wooden furniture. After the old panel furniture is cut, it must be sealed. Otherwise, it can easily spread the taste and pollute the indoor environment.
6 extra tiles to decorate
Technical content: ★★★
Tool preparation: cement powder, wooden mortar, etc.
Steps: You can smash some of your favorite and remaining tiles and re-assemble them and add them to the tile to increase the artistic beauty. When paving, clean the site, and sprinkle the right amount of water first to facilitate the construction. First, cement and sand are mixed in a ratio of 1:3 to mortar, and a wooden ruler with a length of about one meter will be used to thoroughly wipe the slurry. Flat, pick up the sample line and sprinkle cement powder on the construction floor.
Mix the cement powder evenly and sprinkle a small amount of cement powder again to increase the adhesiveness with the cement mortar. Paving should be carried out after the substrate has been consolidated. At this time, the tiles can be broken up and put together and put together by hand. The balance between the bottom and the veneer is balanced so that the air bubbles can be discharged. Then, the brick surface is tapped with a broom handle to allow the bricks. The bottom can fully pulp, so as to avoid hollowing phenomenon. Then use a mallet to knock the tile to a flat surface; at the same time, measure it with a horizontal ruler to make sure the tiles are level. After the paste is applied, it is necessary to use a caulking agent to fill the seams on the tiles.
Saving money: Indefinitely, you can save some tiles.
Matters needing attention: The product shop for about 12 hours, timely tapping the brick surface with a mallet, check whether there is hollowing phenomenon between tiles. All bricks can be walked after 24 hours.
â– Soft decoration
7 old curtains to make table and chair covers
Technical content: ★ ★ ★ ★ tools: old curtains, scissors, sewing, cloth head
Steps: After disliking curtains are removed and cleaned, cut out the required cloth and shape according to the size of the desktop and the chair, then select the appropriate cloth as lace, the seat cover needs to be fixed with straps, you can use the cut curtains The remaining cloth is used as a belt to ensure uniform color.
Save money to calculate: The cloth decoration of a table and four chairs needs at least 100 yuan. Old Curtain Transformation = Old Curtains (Bring Your Own) + Scissors (5RMB) + Needlework (5RMB) + Appropriate rags (use old clothes)
Matters needing attention: Of course, to make a good table and chair cover, you need to have a good manual technique. If you can't use your craft, you can ask the tailor to help you with cloth and your own tailoring plan.
8 Waste cloth to do decorative painting
Technical content: ★ ★ ★ tools: old cloth head, glue, 8-inch photo frame, scissors
Steps: Find this simple and beautiful picture book for children and choose a beautiful picture for the original picture. Find a cloth of the right color, cut it into blocks in accordance with the pattern on the album, and then glue it onto a piece of paper in accordance with the pattern. Then the whole piece is clipped into the picture frame and hung on the wall. It becomes a beautiful ornament. If you have artistic talent, you can imagine the content of your own design.
Saving money: The various artistic decorations in the store are surprisingly expensive. Fabric stickers = 8 inch photo frame (less than 30 yuan) + old cloth head (no money) + glue 2 yuan + scissors 5 yuan = 40 yuan
Matters needing attention: it is best not to choose a particularly complex pattern, children's pictures on the best of the strokes, other simple strokes, color patterns, bright colors and patterns are also good, this small decoration suitable for rural style rooms or children In the room.
â– DIY restricted area
Do not drill over the drill
During the renovation process, the most used tool is the electric drill. Sometimes the holes are punched at the same height on both sides of the wall, which will greatly reduce the load-bearing capacity of the load-bearing wall and also damage the safety of the house.
The installation and placement of heavy duty decorative objects such as crystal chandeliers should be done with care. The installation of hanging objects must not use cork stoppers or plastic bulges. Be sure to select the expansion bolts. Suspenders should be lightly weighted and installed over the top of the bed or seat to avoid falling.
â– Gadgets
9 disc pad
Technical content: ★ ★
The disc that the family does not want to look at again can collect 4-6, decorate the remaining wallpaper and cut out the corner of 13cm×80cm, can stick the wallpaper on both sides of the disc, stick with the scissors and cut along the edge of the disc , It became a few beautiful and practical plate mat, not afraid to burn the table, but also with the style of the home.
10 Simple Desk Lampshades
Technical content: ★★★
Any brand of instant noodles in a bowl, wrapped in a nice cloth, or affixed with the rest of the home wallpaper, cut off the excess. Adhesives on the edges were affixed with the decorations and laces that they considered to be good-looking, and then the covers made of bowls were put on the posts to create exquisite table lamps.
11 Hanging Photos with a Disc
Technical content: ★ ★
Prepare a few 7-inch photos, apply adhesive on both sides of discarded discs, and then cut off the excess along the side of the disc. Use the line to hang the photos on the roof and hang them down in different lengths to become a room. Focus. Or just stick one side and stick the other side to a wall or a closet, which can become a beautiful view of the room.
12 mobile tables
Technical content: ★ ★
Saw the old table legs short, put the four feet on the pulley, and immediately became a small table that can be easily moved, can be pushed to any room, become a mobile table with varying functions.
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