10 Surprisingly Cheap Home Hacks that Changed my Life...and make my home look High-End!

you guys asked for more home hacks so that's exactly what we're doing today [Music] so this first home hack comes from gina gonzalez auten and she gave me this great idea for using dog nail clippers so i grabbed a set of dog nail clippers at walmart and what's great about these is they're great for cutting kind of thick pieces of wood i used it to cut through the dollar tree bamboo skewers with no problem at all i also used them with the dollar tree dowel rods now you have to push a little bit harder to cut the dowel rods but it's better than having to get out a saw another great option is to use these to cut your florals so i think this is a perfect home pack and a lot of us have these laying around our house all right so i want you to go out to your garage and see if you have an old can of wd-40 these cans have like really great sprayers on them [Music] if you have an older can you're just going to rinse it out and then what you can do is you can use these to top any of your spray paint so to do this just take off the old top to your spray paint and then you're gonna put on the wd-40 spray paint topper [Music] when you spray this on your project it's going to be very streamlined and give you that look of a paint sprayer i want to thank today's sponsor policy genius so who needs life insurance if you have family members that depend on your income you definitely need life insurance why should you get life insurance now well as you get older life insurance just goes up and up and it costs more so why go with a company like policy genius they're not an insurance company they're a broker that helps you to find the best policy for you so to sign up all you're going to do is go to policygenius.com in minutes you can work out how much coverage you need plus get a personalized quote with the best prices when you're ready to apply policy genius will handle the paperwork and scheduling for free since they are licensed experts working for you not the insurance company 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take some painters tape and mark as far down as you want your drill bit to go whenever you drill you're just going to stop whenever it hits the painters tape and you have the perfect measurement and then when you're done all you have to do is remove the painters tape so here's a great option to kind of rein in your trash bags you want to get a paper towel holder in my case i grabbed mine off of amazon i'll link it below along with anything else in this video you're going to get a big roll of trash bags these are from costco you may have to pull out a few of the trash bags in the center you're going to put them onto your paper towel holder and this is a great way to keep them nice and organized you can just pull one off whenever you need to use it and it stays nice and clean underneath my sink so let's say you're working on a diy project and you want it to have the look of a paint stain but you don't want to go out and buy a bunch of different stains here's a really inexpensive hack you can do with dollar tree acrylic paints or inexpensive acrylic paints from walmart so i'm going to start with the dollar tree acrylic paint that they have i'm going to take my foam brush and the black paint from dollar tree and i'm going to paint it on to any piece of wood after you paint it on go back in with a rag or paper towel and start pulling off the paint this is going to do the same effect as using stain with stain you immediately pull off the excess and then the wood grain is going to show through you can also do this with brown paint or any color that you have on hand so you can instantly use paint to make the same stained look that you have with a stain i wonder if you guys have any of these extra little drainage plates sitting around your house if not you can pick them up really inexpensive i grabbed mine at lowe's we're going to use this drainage plate to make a really cool centerpiece to set outside for an outdoor patio so i'm going to take the drainage plate flip it over and i'm going to start drilling holes in it this is just going to add in the drainage that we need when we use it as our centerpiece next i'm going to add a layer of soil across the entire plate i also picked up this drop and grow planter mix it's also called sedum i've seen it called that at lowe's and i just grabbed one whole palette of it so i'm going to start by removing the bottom of the plant and i'll start by just putting it across the center you can easily break the plant apart as you go so then i'm just going to take parts of the plant and put it on either side to really fill it out so fill up your plant until you're happy with it and i think this makes a great centerpiece or a little plant for your table i think it looks so lush i have a couple of hacks that are really going to help you be able to hang up things easily so the first one is when you're wanting to hang something up and you need to use like two nails or two screws on either side so i had this metal container that i wanted to nail to the wall so what you're gonna do is you're gonna start by putting some painters tape across the back then you're going to come in with a sharpie or marker and you're going to place the dots where you want your nail holes to be on whatever you're hanging then you can take that painters tape and actually transfer it directly to your wall from there you can either use your drill to screw in holes or in my case i was just going to nail some holes in the wall once you kind of have already started your holes you can take off the painters tape and continue nailing them in and this is an easy way to get your nail holes perfectly straight [Music] so if you guys love that hack i know you're going to like this next one using a fork that i saw on pinterest so you know how sometimes you have pictures that have like a hanging wire across the back i struggle so much to hang up those type of planters on my wall and when i saw this hack i knew it was for me so what you want to do is once you have your nail or screw in the center of your wall you're going to take a fork just a regular kitchen fork and you're going to place it on the nail then with your wire picture hanger you're going to take it and place it over the fork until it's sitting on top of the nail then all you have to do is remove your fork by pulling it up through the top it will come off easily and literally it's like one of the easiest ways to hang this type of picture i love this hack so easy and doesn't cost a thing so for this next hack i wanted to give you a diy fabric spray that you could use to freshen up any of your pillows or linens throw blankets anything that you have so you want to get some sort of a spray bottle i'm using a glass one i believe this one was from target next i'm going to use a rubbing alcohol i'm going to put in half a cup then i'm going to add in essential oils that i like now you could really do whatever you want i'm going to do 15 drops of lavender because that's one of my favorite and then i'm gonna do 15 drops of lemon you could really switch this up you could do tea tree oil or whatever scent you want next i'm gonna add in one and a half cups of distilled water and then i'll just mix that all together in my spray bottle then you can just spray it on any fabric you want for a nice refreshed scent let me know in the comments which hack you guys are going to be trying i love to know and let me know if you guys like these hack videos i'd love to do more in the future they're a lot of fun to put together if you're new here make sure you subscribe i post two diys each week if you missed our last one i'll link it right here for you and i'll talk to you guys in our next one [Music] bye

Channel: Liz Fenwick DIY

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Id: rR_T32a0PK0

Length: 9min 31sec (571 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 14 2021