You don’t have to spend a lot of time and money to make your home a bit more comfortable and improve something around it. Undoubtedly, major upgrades should be left to professional remodeling contractors, who ensure high quality and durability of their work. But, there’re numerous DIY home improvement projects you may schedule for an upcoming weekend if you’re a creative, moderately skilled handy person willing to make the full use of his home’s upgrading potential or work on the repairs that have been put off for too long.
Easy home improvement DIYs you can do in one weekend
1. Wrap up your charging cord mess
Organize your gadgets and charging cord chaos they cause by setting up a hidden charging station in one of the TV console cabinets or nightstand drawers. Thread the cable of the power strip trough a tiny hole at the back of a drawer (use an existing one or drill it on your own), optimize the space with a few drawer dividers or plate racks to hold your family’s mobiles, cameras and tablets in place and get ready to remove tangled cords and charging gadgets out of your sight.
2. Give a second life to a piece of vintage furniture
Hit your attic or a local yard sale to find an antique grandma chair or a vintage nightstand, sand it down to the bare wood and repaint it to end up with a unique statement piece. Don’t hesitate to use bold colors and combinations like baby pink or turquoise for a modern touch and a bright accent.
3. Dress up your blank accent wall with barn wood
If you’re into rustic countryside inspired home interiors and wooden textures, you’ll enjoy refurbishing recycled barn wood planks and building amazing accent wall décor out of them. Wood paneling will bring a bit of warmth and natural appeal to your space, as well as make a noticeable visual statement. Just make don’t be too hard on sanding to preserve the true beauty of reclaimed barn wood, get creative with paneling patterns and complement your masterpiece with a few other wooden decorative elements, preferably the ones made of similar planks (like mirror framing, a headboard or a barn-style door).
Reclaimed panels will cost you $3-$7 per square foot depending on the quality of the wood, and you’ll spend a bit more on nails and a power gun if you don’t want to deal with a hammer. Covering the entire wall in barn wood will take a beginning DIYer a lot of time and effort, though, while experienced interior designers and remodeling contractors from HireRush.com will complete this barn paneling home improvement in a matter of a few hours.
4. Improve kitchen storage
Install a hanging rack for pots and pans above your kitchen island or a sink to free the space in your cabinets, ensure an easy reach to the household’s most used kitchenware, attach a magnetic strip to your backsplash to keep your favorite knives at hand and set up a coffee station to turn into a real coffee junkie.
5. Update your interior doors
If your home’s interior doors have seen better days and your budget isn’t ready for a costly door replacement, you may totally make your plain hollow brown ones last for a few more years by painting them white and upgrading them with thin trim and elegant paneling to showcase quality internal steel doors. This home improvement will instantly boost your interior’s appeal.
6. Improve your closet organization
Are you jealous of incredible Instagram walk-in closets and fancy celebrity wardrobe rooms? Show your own closet some love and commit to its organization as to this weekend’s home improvement mission.
To end up with an eye-catching clutter-free closet:
- double the hanging space by attaching the second row of closet rods
- glamorize your shoe rack with LED strips and vintage pattern backdrop wallpaper
- repurpose a wooden ladder as a railing system
- organize everything you have piled up on the floor with the help of wire baskets
- color coordinate your clothes
- replace your random hangers with matching ones
- improve the lighting game
7. Plumbing home improvement for a weekend
You might not be the best plumber in the neighborhood, but you’re surely able to replace worn-out washers, install a new faucet following the manufacturer’s directions or clear out clogged drains with a plumbing snake. Even if you experience some difficulties, you know the place to come for professional assistance (HireRush, obviously).
8. De-clutter your entryway
Don’t let the outdoor mess seep through your entryway to the rest of the house and keep it contained with a boot tray and a family-size shoe shelving unit made of stacked wooden wine crates. A simple coat rack, a cute corner bench and a spacious cubby for miscellaneous things and extra storage will complete your entryway mudroom.
