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Buying and laying a new floor can be an expensive endeavour - but one mother-of-two managed to transform hers for under £50. Nicola Hill, 48, a civil servant from Stoke-on-Trent, created an incredible ...

• The floor area of the bathroom is 5m²; adjust the materials and costs to suit the size of your own project. • In preparation, the tiles on the side of the bath were removed, and this surface as well ...

Buying and laying new flooring can be an expensive endeavour. But one mum managed to create an incredible stencil floor for her utility room - and all for under £50. Nicola Hill, 48, a mum of two and ...

• Use one pot of Stencil of Paris for each square metre you wish to stencil. • Adding chalk paint to Stencil of Paris not only tints the paste but also makes the final surface more washable. • It ...

With a decorative stencil and some paint, you can decorate not just walls but just about any surface of your home. Wall decals and stencils have become more popular, says Emily Bidwell, an in-house ...

A mum from Stock on Trent has completely transformed the flooring in her utility room while recovering from coronavirus. Nicola Hill, 48, started the project after a leak forced her to remove the ...