11 Affordable Home Improvement Ideas You Can Tackle This Weekend

1. A fresh coat of paint

Paint has a transformative effect on a room and is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to revamp your home. Whether it's updating your white walls or injecting a bit of colour into your space, it's quite amazing how much of a difference a fresh coat of paint can make and how it can change the ambience of a room.

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3. Swap out dated lights

Beautiful lights can significantly energise or soothe a space. Lighting is one of the essential elements of a room and can impact how everything else, from the wall colour to the art to the rug, looks. Whether it's updating an old pendant light or table lamps, consider swapping out your current lighting for something more inspiring.

5. Replace bathroom caulk and grout

It's not the most glamorous idea, but it's recommended you recaulk your bathroom every five years, and regrout when you see cracks and stains. If it's a rainy weekend and you've got no plans, it might be a good opportunity to refresh your bathroom.

7. Organise your pantry and kitchen drawers

If your kitchen pantry and drawers are looking a bit chaotic or you have no idea what is lurking in them, it's time to clear things out and better organise everything. Spend a weekend organising your kitchen, decanting pantry staples into matching labelled jars or containers to keep things neat behind closed doors.

If you have to keep certain things out on the bench, try to go for a uniform look. In drawers, dividers will help keep everything in its place. The end result will be a kitchen that feels functional and, crucially, a little larger than the small space that it occupies.

9. Use a high pressure washer

A high pressure washer is great for cleaning up footpaths/driveways, brick walls, fences, and decks, making them look good as new. Just a few passes with the machine will remove in-ground dirt and stains as well as surface algae and tree sap.

11. Change that shower curtain

When was the last time you swapped out your shower curtain? If you can’t remember, then it’s time to update it with a new version. Shower curtains, for those of us who use them, occupy important real estate in the bathroom, so your choice of colour, material and pattern makes a surprisingly large difference.

If you’re feeling uninspired by your bathroom, swapping out the shower curtain will elevate the room immediately, simply by introducing a new colour or print to the space. Best of all, shower curtains tend not to be expensive, so you can feel smug as you exchange your grimy old curtain for a fresh one.