Budget Hallway Makeover That Actually Looks Expensive!

0:01 Okay, so I'm going to be painting this hallway. This hallway drives me nuts. I don't know why. Must have OCD, I guess. But see how the trim is different here. This is the only part of the house where they have white trim and a white door. I guess [music] they did it because they couldn't get another garage door that's the same color as everything [music] else. I don't know, but I don't like it. So, [music] I'm going to remove all the trim, buy new trim, and I'm going to paint it.

0:47 yeah, this is going to be enter. Oops. Oh, that light's not working. Interesting. Okay. So, yeah. So, I'm going to paint all of this. Guess we'll change the light bulb while we're up there. And all of this. [laughter] Can I do this? I hope I can do this. [sighs] I'm always nervous painting over stairs because Yeah, that's a long drop. But I think I can do it. [music] I have faith in myself. All right, here we go. Okay, there's no turning back now.

1:38 Now that I'm painting, the space is a lot bigger than I realized. This video is brought to you by our Dining on a Dime cookbook. We have quick and easy recipes your family will love to help you get in and out of the kitchen fast. Please visit us at living on a dime.com. It's 25% [music] off now. >> Okay, you can see how dirty these stairs are. Yes, I got a little paint spills, but these stairs [music] have seen way better days. So, I'm going to use some of my favorite scrubbing stuff. The bucket and a rag. We're going to get these clean.

2:23 >> Okay, dear. Be careful. Don't be blinded. >> I'm here. >> Don't be blinded. >> Now, come and look. Yes. Come and look at the shining >> floor. See? You see the shininess of the floor? >> Wow, that is actually quite shiny. I've never seen it that shiny [laughter] since we've lived here. >> Okay, so shall we say that I've never ever cleaned this floor [laughter] since we lived here. >> And you know why she's cleaning it now? >> Cuz there was only one light bulb and one light. We just [laughter] now we can see that it needs it. >> So I got the scrub brush. I got my free floor cleaner from the

3:10 uh free pile at a garage sale. And actually, this stuff works really good. And I got all the little things. Oops, I missed one there. All the little things on the floor. So, you were just totally blinded, weren't you? >> I'm impressed. This whole place has gotten a lot cleaner. This was just a like [music] little dungeon in the back of the [laughter] house. Now, it's all painted and it's getting all clean. Now we're just going to want to walk in here cuz it's got so glorious. >> I know. I used to walk down into the dark hole to get downstairs. >> Light and now we have lighting and we're getting pictures and we're getting it figured out. >> Yay. Amazing. >> Yay. Okay, now [music] you can see how nice and fresh that is. All right, we're going to get our wallpaper on there.

3:56 All right, I got this wallpaper and I'm going to [music] use it I'm going to use it for the stair raisers there. Here's the [music] thing. I got two rolls. But I have a lot of stairs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [music] 13 14. And I don't think that's going to be enough. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go every other stair or every three stairs [music] probably. Maybe every three stairs. Just Oh man, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. And then I'll get a contrasting color. I [music] could

4:42 get the same one, but I saw a thing where they did every stair a different color. And I thought that would be really cool, but [music] I'm not going to buy that much wallpaper. So, I don't know if I should do every other one or every three. I'm [clears throat] going to think about this for a minute. Okay, I'm out here to check my window collection. And this is our pallet collection from [music] the books. We're probably going to start giving away the pallets. Um, but I got all these for greenhouse.

5:32 But I don't know. Ooh, these ones are cool. H I just love hanging my old windows. But there's my free galvanized tin I got. Okay. Let me see. shoot. Okay, I got some in the garage and I might use those other ones, but it is supposed to be it's January and we haven't had hardly any snow this year. So, before these get frozen to the ground, I think I'm going to bring a couple in. [music] So, when I was searching for ideas on how to do my stair treads,

6:20 I came across these cute little mouse stairs. [laughter] I don't know why I thought they're so cute. I'm not particularly into mice, but I thought they were so cute. So, [music] when my wallpaper didn't work out as anticipated, I am going to put some of these on the uh stairs that have nothing. I think that's going to be so cute.

7:31 All right, I got this picture here. It was a I think it's like wrapping paper at this boutique here in town and that was $5. I absolutely loved it and I just happened to have this frame and I thought, well, that looks kind of cool with the just the cardboard on the back. So, I did that. Got this for a dollar at a garage sale. Ended up getting this mirror for a dollar at a garage sale. And the leaves there. I haven't found I was going to hang my window collection here, but [music] I just didn't like the way it was looking. So, I haven't found anything to reflect into this yet, but when I do, I'll hang it up. Found this at the Restore for $10.

8:19 loved it. Thought, well, that's kind of cool. Then I also got this little mirror for a dollar at the thrift store. And over here, got this for I think it was 50 cents. Just kind of go with the Parisian sort of feel. [music] I don't know. This leads to our office. So, um, we just put everything for Mike to go down to the office. And then we have family pictures right along there and a few of my gnomes. I got that little squirrel at a garage sale. I thought it was cute. And then at the bottom, right down there, got that for

9:06 $10 at a garage sale and thought that was pretty cool myself. So, I got that. So tell me guys, what do you think of my stair makeover?