Single mother gives her drab kitchen a new lease of life with a lick of paint, modern tiles and £1 cupboard handles from eBay – and it cost less than £300
- Victoria Robinson, 33, part-time Tesco worker from Hertfordshire shared DIY job
- The mother-of-two completely transformed her kitchen for under £300
- Simply changed the handles for £1.69 eBay finds, painted the doors and swapped the wall tiles and floor tiles for ones from Homebase
A single mother has revealed how she completely transformed her kitchen by herself for under £300.
Victoria Robinson, 33, a part time Tesco worker from Hertfordshire, took to Facebook group DIY On A Budget to share how she turned her drab kitchen into a modern space – simply by swapping her handles for £1.69 eBay versions, and laying new tiles.
Shared to her Instagram account @Homeatrusselsride, the mother-of-two admitted she was proud of the results from her Homebase and B&Q purchases, racking up 2,000 likes and hunderds of comments.
Victoria Robinson, 33, a part time Tesco worker from Hertfordshire, took to Facebook group DIY On A Budget to share how she turned her drab kitchen into a modern space – simply by swapping her handles for £1.69 eBay versions, and laying new tiles (seen before)
Victoria decided to swap the handles for gold versions at £1.69 each, before painting the cupboard doors and draws, along with the wall, white, with a £18 tin of ronseal paint
Victoria started out with a white tiled kitchen containing a maroon wall, beech cabinets and a grey floor and worktop.
She decided to swap the handles for gold versions at £1.69 each, before painting the cupboard doors and drawers, along with the wall, white, with a £18 tin of Ronseal paint.
The thrifty mum then laid new white tiles with trendy black grout costing £18 for three packs, and injected some personality with patterned floor tiles, also from Homebase, costing £240 for eight packs – her biggest investment.
She then cut a new sleek black worktop using MDF she cut to size from B&Q.
Shared to her Instagram account @Homeatrusselsride , the mother-of-two admitted she was proud of her results from her Homebase and B&Q purchases, racking up 2,000 likes and hunderds of comments
The single mother has revealed how she completely transformed her kitchen by herself for under £300
Unveiling the results in the group, she wrote: ‘Here I have my kitchen I’ve managed to do on a budget , single mum to two children and have had no help financially apart from working part time. Proud of how far I’ve come and I’m making it a home for my two girls.
‘The gold handles are from eBay, I think they were £1.69 per handleThe paint I used was ronseal one coat (which is a LIE) I had to go over three times! But I did have dark cupboards. The tiles are from HomebaseThe MDF I had cut to size from B&Q.’
Speaking to Femail, she explained: ‘The handles were £1.69 each but I had a full refund due to not being received for two weeks.
‘The tiles on the wall were £6 a pack so roughly £18 and the paint was £18 a tin – the floor tiles were £30 for a pack of 9 and I ended up buying 8 packs that was my most expensive buy. ‘
Unveiling the results in the group, she wrote: ‘Here I have my kitchen I’ve managed to do on a budget , single mum to two children and have had no help financially apart from working part time. Proud of how far I’ve come and I’m making it a home for my two girls