It's Friday evening, which means it's time for our weekly Friday night pub quiz!
07.05.2024 - 09:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Transforming your home can be extremely costly and something that not everyone can afford to do, especially in the cost of living crisis. But one property expert, who often appears on TV, has proven ways that you can give your home a makeover at a far cheaper price than you might think.
Kunle Barker, who's presenting at Grand Designs Live which runs at ExCeL London from May 4 to 12, has recently renovated his own house at a fraction of the expected cost. He was expecting to spend £100,000 on the 'romantic renovation' of his home, but it ended up costing him £15,000.
Speaking about his appearance at Grand Designs Live, Kunle said: "I'll be doing a session on what we call romantic renovations, which is all about falling back in love with your house. And I did one on my house, which was going to cost £100,000, and in the end we spent £15k."
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He continued: "In the session, I'll be explaining how you can just take whatever budget you have, however small, and make changes to your home and really make a difference."
Here are Barker's easy tips to improve your home without spending a fortune:
Paint pops of colour
Barker's first tip is to think about painting colour in rooms. "A really good lick of paint makes a huge difference to a home, especially if you experiment with colour," he says. "And the beauty of that is it's something you can do yourself you can go and buy some paint and spend the weekend creating a feature wall or repainting a room with different colour and it will completely change that room around."
He says that while the trend for many years was 'Scandi sheep' white walls, "while we're not going back
It's Friday evening, which means it's time for our weekly Friday night pub quiz!
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