I created my own luxury wallpaper in one afternoon for just £3, you need virtually no equipment & it works in any room

The Irish Sun

25-07-2025

FORGET having to splash out on expensive wallpaper to transform your home, one woman shared how she gave a room in her house a makeover for just £3.
Baylee shared how she bought a floral rubber art stamp from a crafts shop and then added paint to make the pretty print.
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A woman shared how she transformed her laundry room walls with a rubber stamp
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She picked up the stamp and paint and it took her two hours to do the whole room
Credit: TikTok / @bayleewhiteasheck
Although the US-based homeowner got her wooden stamp from Hobby Lobby, you can pick up similar style ones from The Range.
On her
Two hours of stamping later, and her laundry room had gone from plain white to being covered in the gorgeous floral print.
Baylee said: 'You know what? It worked out for me.'
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And she wasn't done yet.
She added that she then added a hanging basket to the wall, along with some artwork a friend had made her.
Showing off the finished result, she added: 'And that's my perfect, precious, gorgeous, beautiful cottage laundry room makeover for three dollars and fifty cents.
'Feeling absolutely unstoppable after finishing this project in two hours after putting my baby down.
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'Maybe I'll like doing laundry now.'
Many people will be hugely impressed with the DIY tip, which has racked up over 50,000 likes.
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One person commented: 'A tutorial I could actually follow and afford?!'
Another added: 'I fear I must go do this now.'
And a third wrote: 'I'm flabbergasted by how smart and easy this is.'
DIY FAIL
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A woman shared how she attempted a DIY stencilling job in her bedroom
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However, when she peeled back the stencil, she was not impressed with what she had done
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However, DIY doesn't always go according to plan,
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She thought everything had gone swimmingly, until she peeled back the stencil to reveal her hard work.
To her
horror
, the paint had spread until the stencil and it looked messy and not like the design she had wanted.
After she pulled off a larger section, she joked: 'But do we think it is giving cottage core (the goal) or chain link fence?'
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