My Favorite DIYs of 2023 and Project Plans for 2024! | Thrifty Decor Chick

Nicely hey! I hope your vacation and new yr had been fantastic and stress-free! I am SO excited to sort out a bunch of tasks in our dwelling this yr, and I will be sharing a number of of these with you right here. 

However first, I needed to look again at a number of of my favourite DIYs from final yr. Most of those aren’t enormous, in depth tasks, however they give the impression of being nice and performance rather well for us. 

You do not have to makeover a whole room to make an influence in your house! As a rule, I discover that the smaller modifications make the most important variations. 

Painted hearth 

 

Once I painted and added that trim to the tall hearth wall years in the past, I left the fireside trim white. Someday 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 all the time been that method!

Basement LVP flooring 

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

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

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

Bench makeover with rug

I beloved the wooden legs on the bench, however the authentic cloth was worn and bleached out. The brand new model seems to be nice and is a lot softer and and cozy. 

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

DIY washable pet tray

Speaking about enjoyable…this large DIY pet food tray solved an enormous downside for us, but in addition seems to be fairly darling as nicely:

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

I used scrap wooden for many of that tray venture in order that was a brilliant cheap DIY. 

In-built bookcases on counter tops

Our basement area 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 can be to color all the partitions, substitute 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 listing. We have beloved the comfy darkish grey shade on the underside portion of the partitions (Westchester Grey by SW, similar as our basement), however it’s turn into onerous to work with in right here: 

The darkish shade has restricted me a little bit 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 at last, I am beginning the basement bar I have been dreaming up for years now. The cupboards arrived and I hope to begin assembling these this weekend. 

This would be the closing huge venture in our basement (a minimum of 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 only a few of the concepts I’ve deliberate, so keep tuned this yr for all types of enjoyable stuff. 🙂