My Favourite DIYs of 2023 and Venture Plans for 2024! | Thrifty Decor Chick

Effectively hey! I hope your vacation and new yr have been great and stress-free! I am SO excited to deal with a bunch of tasks in our residence this yr, and I will be sharing a number of of these with you right here. 

However first, I wished to look again at a number of of my favourite DIYs from final yr. Most of those aren’t large, in depth tasks, however they appear nice and performance very well for us. 

You do not have to makeover a whole room to make an affect in your house! As a rule, I discover that the smaller adjustments make the largest variations. 

Painted fire 

After I painted and added that trim to the tall fire wall years in the past, I left the hearth trim white. Sooner or later it hit me how nice it could look painted to match the darkish blue (Our on-line world by Sherwin-Williams) wall. 

And I used to be proper! It is soooo a lot simpler on the attention and appears prefer it ought to have at all times been that approach!

Basement LVP flooring 

Our basement kitchenette was my essential focus for the primary a part of 2023 — I do not suppose I’ve ever labored so arduous on an area ever! 

I constructed this room from the bottom up, together with laying this superior and inexpensive LVP flooring from Residence Depot:

I had eyed this flooring for years and was excited to lastly get it down. 

Bench makeover with rug

I cherished the wooden legs on the bench, however the unique cloth was worn and bleached out. The brand new model appears to be like nice and is a lot softer and and comfy. 

I feel it provides a enjoyable little contact on this house!

DIY washable pet tray

Speaking about enjoyable…this large DIY pet food tray solved a giant downside for us, but additionally appears to be like fairly darling as nicely:

It has labored out so nicely, and I made certain to deal with it with a protecting coat so we will wash it when wanted. 

I used scrap wooden for many of that tray mission in order that was an excellent cheap DIY. 

In-built bookcases on counter tops

Our basement house wanted some top on the opposite facet of the room, however I did not need to shut it in with extra higher cupboards (that we actually did not want anyway). 

Now onto my plans for this yr! I’ve so many swimming in my head. 

So my plan for early this yr shall be to color the entire partitions, exchange the baseboards to match the lobby and add an ornamental trim to the decrease third of the partitions. 

I feel it should look SO nice!

Our bed room is one other room on my record. We have cherished the comfy darkish grey shade on the underside portion of the partitions (Westchester Grey by SW, identical as our basement), however it’s turn out to be arduous to work with in right here: 

The darkish shade has restricted me slightly bit and I have been drawn to a lighter feeling bed room for the previous yr or so. I stored hesitating to color the window and door trim and I am so glad I did not!

And eventually, I am beginning the basement bar I have been dreaming up for years now. The cupboards arrived and I hope to start out assembling these this weekend. 

This would be the remaining massive mission in our basement (not less than for awhile), and I feel it should be superior! I’ve so many enjoyable concepts in thoughts for that addition. 

After some relaxation I am actually energized and excited to get began on these new tasks! These are just some of the concepts I’ve deliberate, so keep tuned this yr for all types of enjoyable stuff. 🙂