What’s better than renovating your home? Coming up with cool DIY home renovations to put your own stamp on things. Making things or adding stuff to your home is so rewarding when you’ve used your own two hands to do everything. You get a massive sense of achievement with the benefit of knowing that your renovations are a bit unique.
There’s one slight concern with this – do you have the right skills to embark on DIY projects? If not, you need to start learning. Practice makes perfect (and there are many online tutorials these days) so here are three core DIY skills worth learning:
Painting
If you know how to paint, you can transform any room in your house within a day. Learn the basics of interior and exterior painting so you know how to make everything fabulous. Believe it or not, it’s not as simple as buying a tub of Dulex and slathering it on the walls.
There’s an art to interior painting as you must ensure the layers look consistent and there are no patches. This is the easiest skill to learn as you’ll find countless resources on how to paint a wall like a pro.
Welding & Woodwork
Both of these skills are thrown together because they’re sort of similar things just involving different materials. Buy some tools to start welding – Unimig welding machines are good for beginners – and follow online tutorials. If you know how to weld things together, there’s no end to the DIY projects you can undertake. You’re able to make things, fix things and do so much more.
Similarly, woodworking skills help you work with wood. You know how to cut wood and work with it to create beautiful furniture or ornaments. Combining these two skills makes you an unstoppable DIY force.
Plumbing
Your kitchen and bathroom are two rooms that are perfect for home renovation projects. Replacing an old bath with a new one or installing a shower are two excellent examples of simple bathroom renovations. Likewise, you could swap out your old sink for a much nicer one and transform the way your kitchen looks.
Some basic plumbing skills will help you accomplish these tasks alone. You’ll understand how to remove things from plumbing fixtures and how to attach new items. As you develop your skills, you become capable of more advanced plumbing tasks, helping you fulfil grander scale renovations.
Oh, and you also benefit from understanding how certain plumbing things work. If there are issues in your bathroom or with pipes, you can DIY fix them instead of calling someone out.
There’s truly no end to the DIY skills you can – and should – learn. The more skilled you are, the more you can do around the house to improve it. Start with these three and slowly branch your skills out. You want to get to the point where virtually every home renovation project is handled in-house. Doing things yourself helps you save a fortune while giving you a fun hobby to focus on.
