If a round headed screw head is damaged use a metal file to make a new slot for your screwdriver.
Saw not gliding smoothly? Use candle wax to get it running well again, if a screw or nail needs lubrication run it through your hair.Make your own sanding blocks with glue sand paper and any thing square and hard that you might want to chuck away.
Tongue and groove is expensive, cut some grooves into hard board and paint it. No one will know the difference.
No dustpan or don't want to use it to clean up a DIY project? Use some newspaper and wet the edge, brush the dust into it and then just roll it up and throw away.
Always measure twice and cut once, you will waste less.
Try to have the right tools, borrow them, try boot fairs or look on second hand sites to get a bargain.
Want a lovely colour of paint but it costs a fortune? Buy a small pot of the paint and then mix it well into a large pot of white paint. The colour you will get will be slightly lighter but will be close to the colour you wanted.
Have a small area left but you have run out of wallpaper? Go back to the store and ask for a sample of the wall paper you are using, most stores will let you take quite a large piece. Take enough to finish the area.
Keep old paint and paint over any stubborn dirt marks.
Stir vanilla essence into paint to help with the smell.
Paint brushes hard? Boil some vinegar and dip them into it for a few minutes.
Wall paper edge coming away? Use some egg white, paint it on the wallpaper then let it go sticky, now re-stick without paying out for paste.
Salt water will clean a paste brush and stop it going hard.
Bicarbonate of soda in warm water will strip the wall paper quicker.
Lastly, try to have fun when decorating, put on music, order a pizza and laugh at any problems. It will all be much less stressful.
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