30 *NEW* Home Hacks that ACTUALLY WORK! (LIFE CHANGING!)

hey everyone welcome back to my channel one of the biggest requests i get on this channel are for home hacks so today i have a ton to share with you so let's jump in first up i'm going to share with you one of my most simple and easy home hacks and these are these costco coasters that you can use they fit perfectly on the clear jars that you can buy at dollar tree the jars are in the vase section and they're usually always at dollar tree literally these fit perfectly on top of these they make great little containers for cotton balls and cotton swabs love these in a bathroom you could also use them in your kitchen as well [Music] here's the hack for dog nail clippers so you probably already have these on hand if you have a dog if not these are great for cutting different things like dowel rods or bamboo skewers i love using these literally if you're doing any craft project grab your dog nails scissors and they easily cut those items [Music] now if you're like me you may have trouble with water bottles falling everywhere you can buy some inexpensive magazine racks from walmart turn them on their side and you can easily store your water bottles so simple but makes a big difference and they're not rolling all around your cabinets all right this next hack is for a wall hanging so i went to the thrift store and i found this brand new pillow cover you could also do this with a piece of fabric as well this wall hanging was inspired by a piece that i saw on west elm's website so i wanted to create some circles so i found these wreath rings at walmart they also sell them now at dollar tree and they come in three different sizes [Music] so i'm going to grab the larger one and put it at the bottom and i'm just going to use a sharpie to draw a line around the bottom now i didn't want it to be a circle i actually wanted it to come down and be straight so on the sides i just drew my lines down to be straight down next i wanted to have a half circle so i'm just going to draw about half of the medium sized circle and then i'll use a straight edge to draw a line across for the top circle i'm just going to finish up what i have available and just trace my circle now really on fabric you can use any kind of paint the paint i'm using is actually a sample paint i got at sherwin-williams so use whatever you have on hand the thing whenever you're painting on fabric you can use quite a bit of paint to get the coverage you need i decided to use a regular paint brush because the detail brush just was not putting it on fast enough i like to use about a two inch angled brush whenever i'm painting anything and remember with fabric you can pack the paint on you don't have to go light with it or do a couple of coats i like to do one heavy coat when i'm painting fabric to hang this on the wall i added in hot glue and some nautical rope to the back [Music] i also put a bamboo skewer on the back to make it really sturdy now i will tell you after a couple of weeks on the wall i did have this fall down so i had to go back in and i used just some twine to sew the nautical rope onto this piece of fabric so if you're doing this project i would definitely sew the nautical rope to the back of your fabric instead of just using the hot glue because mine didn't hold up as well and here's how this looks on my wall this is one of my favorite pieces in my home i just love the way it looks this is in my bedroom [Music] as crafters we do a lot of painting so i love this paint brush hack so you're going to get a rubber band and you're going to put it around your paint can so as you're painting instead of wiping your brush on the side of your can you're going to pull it up on the rubber band the reason i love this is it keeps the paint in the middle of the cans so you're not going to get all that paint around the edge it's going to keep your paint can from getting all gloppy with paint i think this is a genius hack this next hack is what i use when i'm purchasing pillow covers now if you want the look of a really full pillow what you want to do is you actually want to buy your pillow inserts a size bigger than your pillow covers so if you buy a pillow cover that's 18 by 18 you want to purchase a pillow insert that's 20 by 20. it's going to make your pillows look so much fluffier and nice we've all had those stubborn stickers that just will not come off you put your hair brush on the sticker for about five to ten seconds it's gonna warm up that glue and then you can easily remove this this hack has helped me so much if you do not have a hairbrush don't worry another option is to use a steamer i've done that as well and i also love to do it with things that i get from the thrift store because it kind of cleans the pieces up when i steam them these plates i bought at the thrift store so i'm steaming off the stickers but then i'm just gonna wipe them down with a paper towel and it's just gonna kind of clean the whole entire piece up so if you don't have a hair dryer try that steamer let me know in the comments if you guys have any other ways that you guys like to remove stickers so here's a hack that i learned to do with my drill now sometimes when you're drilling you only want to drill down maybe like an inch or half an inch so like on this piece i don't want to drill down too far otherwise i'll go all the way through the piece so what you do is you measure how far you want to drill then on your drill bit you're just going to take some painters tape and put it at the inch mark then when i place my drill in my piece i know that once i get to the painters tape i have to stop drilling this is so genius so smart and really helps you to not drill down too far all right so our next hack is a trash bag hack how many times do you put trash bags underneath your sink and they just kind of go all over the place well here's a way to keep them nice and organized pick up a paper towel holder you can use any one but what you're going to do is you're going to take your roll of paper towels and you're going to put them onto the paper towel holder you may have to take out a few of the middle ones but then all you have to do is simply pull off a trash bag anytime you want to use it it keeps your trash bags neat and tidy underneath your sink [Music] here's a hack for creating a fun little display on your kitchen cabinet so i found two ceramic bowls at the thrift store that i thought were really cute that i wanted to use for this next i'm going to clean the bowl so that they're ready to use i'm going to use a fast drying gel on the base of one of my bowls and then i will put the other bowl on top and let that have time to dry now this next step is optional i decided that i wanted to paint the edges of this so i'm going to mix some acrylic paints i had on hand with some baking soda [Music] i'll paint the edges with two coats [Music] and here's a look at how it turned out sitting on my kitchen counter [Music] i don't know about you guys but i struggle with hanging up pictures i love any hack that's really going to help me out here's a way to keep pictures straight so you're going to put a few dots of glue on the bottom of your picture at the bottom let those dry completely so those dots are going to act as little sticky things on the bottom that are going to keep your picture in place [Music] now here's a way to hang something on the wall using painters tape so let's say you have to put in two nails or two screws so what you want to do is take whatever you're going to hang and put some painters tape on the back then with the sharpie mark where you want your nails or screws to go then remove that painters tape then you're gonna put the painters tape on the wall where you're going to hang that item all you have to do is put your nails or screws into the dots like this is so much easier than having to measure and do all that stuff then you just remove your painters tape and put your nails back in the holes that you've created and your piece is easily going to hang on the wall [Music] this is probably my favorite way to hang a piece let's say you have a piece that has one of those hangers in the middle this is a way to hang it on a nail or screw with a fork so you're going to place your fork onto your nail and what the fork does is it kind of sticks out a little bit and you can grab that hanging piece and then you're just going to pull your fork out and what that does is it allows that wire to go over your hook and then it slides down onto your nail i mean this has saved me so much time hanging things all right so here's a way to help you keep your paint fresh whenever you're storing it you want to grab some cling wrap and what you're going to do is you're just going to place it down and cover the top portion of your paint so you're just going to press it down into the paint and then you can put your lid onto the paint this is gonna help keep your paint as fresh as possible if you're looking for some decor for your bathroom i love this hack of putting really inexpensive soap into a container that i thrifted and then i just display it on a shelf in my bathroom [Music] all right so let's say you want the look of stain but you don't have any stain on hand you can use acrylic paints to make the look of a stain so i grabbed a piece of wood and i wanted it to have like a black stain to it i'm just gonna put acrylic paint onto my piece of wood and then i'm gonna immediately wipe it off with a paper towel so you're gonna be able to see that wood coming through without having all the mess of a stain i can do the same thing with brown acrylic paint paint it on and immediately pull it off so you get that appearance of a stain but you can use a paint all right so here is a fun towel hack for folding your towels up so they look super fancy so start with laying your towel out fold over one corner then fold in half lift the entire piece over then you're going to start at the edge that's kind of square rolling it up [Music] when you get to your little triangle corner piece you're just going to tuck it in it's a super simple way to fold your towels but i mean for your guests they look really fancy [Music] have you guys ever picked up this poster tack from dollar tree this stuff is great i love to use it on the bottom of containers that i don't want to slide around in my drawers you just put it on the four corners put your items in and then when your drawers go in and out everything's gonna stay in place this is just such a genius hack [Music] all right so this next hack is going to help you with storing your paint brushes overnight a lot of times when i paint i paint with gloves so you're going to take your paintbrush along with the glove that you're wearing put the paint brush in the hand with the glove and then you're just going to take the glove off folding your paintbrush in to the glove then you can use a twist tie or a rubber band and put it to hold it in place this is going to keep your paint brush overnight so that you can use it easily the next day without having to wash it love this hack [Music] so if you have a smaller trash can and you find that your trash bags are always falling down because you're using like walmart sacks grab some of these dollar tree command hooks and what you're going to do is you're going to put your walmart sack or dollar tree sack in it and then you're going to pull the handles down to the side then with the little dollar tree hooks you're just going to place a hook on either side of the handle pull it down to the bottom and secure it in place what this is going to do is it's going to create a little hook so that your trash bag will stay in place and doesn't come out until you want it to come out [Music] i love picking up eucalyptus at trader joe's i just think it's inexpensive it looks great around your house but another thing you can do with it is actually put it in your shower so i grab two bundles of eucalyptus next i'm going to put them together you could do this with a rubber band i'm going to add some jute twine and just tie them all together [Music] then you can tie them in your shower together these last up to like two or three weeks they smell so good whenever you have the steam from your shower plus they just look amazing so don't throw out those wd-40 cans that you have in your garage they have the coolest little spray nozzles and they're perfect for spray paint so you can take off the spray nozzles on your spray paint that don't work really well and put on these wd-40 spray nozzles these things are really targeted they work really well and they just give you a nice even coverage whenever you're spray painting this is also great if you have a spray nozzle that stops working [Music] [Applause] all right so i have this chair in my front room that always slides back when anybody sits in it and it's really annoying and the wall behind it is getting all scratched up i went on amazon looking for a solution for this and they have these scotch gripping pads that i decided to pick up these are really going to help my chair from moving back and you know causing problems they were a little bit big so i had to size them down a little bit and put them onto the chair but i tell you this chair stays in place now and it's not sliding back anymore [Music] so for this next hack you're gonna grab some vases at the thrift store we're gonna be doing a color block vase i'm gonna start by adding painters tape about halfway up my vase then i decided that i didn't want the top portion of this to have any paint on it so i grabbed some craft paper and i'm just going to add that to the top so that i don't get any paint on the top of my base next you can spray the bottom half of it with any color you want i'm going to be using a flat white spray paint i buy all of my spray paint at walmart it's really easy to just grab it you can also put it on your delivery order as well you can add in fresh florals or ones that you picked up at walmart either way they look great sitting out [Music] i have trouble with lids just going everywhere in my pantry so i picked up three of these napkin holders from dollar tree as well as some zip ties and i'm just going to zip tie them all together then i'm going to put it into my cabinet to hold the lids to all of my food storage i find that this works really well to keep everything in order and i know exactly where all my lids are you can also use it as storage in your bathroom i like putting hand towels in here just to hold them in place [Music] so here's a fun paint dip hack that i like to do just because i like to change up how i paint and you know just find something fun to do so we started by putting painters tape around the bottom edge of this stool i wanted to update this stool give it a new look and so i just tried to make the painters tape as even as possible [Music] [Applause] [Music] next i grabbed just some sample paint that i had on hand it's from sherwin-williams and i'm going to dip my stool into this paint can and then i'll get it to about where the painters tape is and then i'll pull the stool leg out i'm going to let all of the paint drip off before i move to the next leg and i'll repeat those steps with all three of the legs once your paint has a chance to dry you can take off the painters tape and here's how my stool turned out [Music] i love that dollar tree has these really expensive solar lights so i grabbed some solar lights i also grabbed some of their containers that they had all you have to do for this hack it's really simple you're just gonna take the lids off of the containers take the bases off the solar lights and you're gonna hot glue the top portion and put them into the jars these work great on your outdoor tables or you could put them on your front porch as well [Music] my next hack is having mirrors i love having mirrors in all of my spaces i really feel like they elevate the space they also help to make a room feel bigger if you don't know what to put on the wall a mirror is a great option or if you have a smaller room you're wanting to look larger add in a mirror [Music] for this next hack i'm gonna grab a bowl from the thrift store and i'm gonna paint it with two coats of a matte white spray paint for this hack i'm gonna show you how to put florals in a bowl so you're gonna start by creating a grid with scotch tape around your bowl so you're gonna put the tape going one way and the other now this is a great solution when you have a wide bowl like this because your florals are gonna stick down in there so much easier you can grab any florals that you want you can grab a selection from walmart they have a ton of different options to choose from you're just going to place your florals into the container adding around the edges sticking them into your grid when you have a wide open container like this it's just going to look a lot more full and lush [Music] you're gonna have to let me know in the comments which hack was your favorite and if you're new here make sure you subscribe i post two diys each week and i'll talk to you guys in our next one bye [Music]

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Length: 20min 3sec (1203 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 26 2021