A frugal couple from Birmingham renovated their 1970s-style kitchen for just under £100. Here's how:
A frugal couple from Birmingham have revealed the trick they used to completely transform their kitchen for just £100.
Brittany Taylor, 31, head of creative, and her fiance Nick Vincent, 35, a translator, bought a three-bedroom semi-detached house for £290,000 in January this year and moved in shortly after. Reconstruction has begun. The house had an area of 77.5 square meters. ft. The kitchen was fully functional but dimmed by its 1970s aesthetic. It took her three weeks to refine the color and style.
“I taped everything off before I colored it, but when I removed the tape, I didn't get a clean line and some of the paint came off,” Brittany explained. “I knew I needed to paint the grout so I bought a grout pen and it helped me get an even look.
“We did the rest of the kitchen without tape and used a small roller we had in our arsenal to color the rest of the tiles. We fixed up any imperfections with a small brush and grout pen, and painted the kitchen tiles. is finally completed.
After that, I decided to prime the kitchen walls and give them three coats of olive green paint. “The kitchen looked like a different space,” Brittany said. “When I look back at the before-paint photos, I can't believe how much of a difference there was.”
“The colors have held up very well. Despite the challenges of painting the tiles, the renovation is now really in our style and we couldn't be happier.”
Brittany said she was “pleasantly surprised” that everything she needed for the renovation was available for less than £100, adding: “As I already had art supplies, all I needed to buy was paint. .And it cost £99.78.The colors we bought were Farrow & Ball in Buncher for £47.20 and Rustoleum Tile Paint in Firebrick and Quarry Lime for £45.98.We also bought a grout pen for £6.60. ”
Brittany has amassed more than 21,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram since she started uploading photos of her renovation work to social media. Some of the comments were positive, mainly ones that said, “I highly value our work,'' [taken] While some people shared their own DIY suggestions, others were less excited.
“There are people who have shared their two cents about making the kitchen look worse than it did before,” Brittany explained, referring to followers' comments on her final kitchen reveal video. But even the odd negative feedback didn't deter the couple from her DIY project. They are currently working on a “very challenging” office renovation, which they are looking forward to completing and sharing with their social media followers in due course.
