How To Get Your Home Guest-ready
Spruce up your spaces before family and friends arrive with these 4 essential updates.
1. Paint your front door
The first thing your guests (and the carol singers) will see as they arrive is the portal to your home, the front door. Show off your wreath and door decs with a freshly painted, coordinated backdrop and give your door a lick of paint.
2. Fill in those cracks
It might sound daunting, but it’s actually very simple to fill in cracks on your wall. And it makes a huge difference to your room’s appearance. You will have to make cracks along walls a little worse before you fill them to make sure that the filler gets a good grip and is easy to sand smooth without falling out.
You will need:
- polycel
- Use an angled scraper and rake along the crack to create a shallow groove.
- Brush away any dust and use a filling knife to apply ready-mixed filler smoothly into the gap. Deep cracks may need two coats of filler.
- Sand smooth once dry with fine surface sandpaper.
For cracks along the edges of a room where the wall meets the ceiling or the walls meet any woodwork use decorators chalk, an easy to use flexible filler that you apply with a mastic gun. Fill and remove the excess before it drys with a damp cloth.
3. Paint furniture to match
Extra guests means extra seating, so if like most people, you’ve found yourself with an odd assortment of old chairs borrowed from other rooms and/or the attic, there’s a neat way to make them look coherent. Paint them, of course! Give all your chairs a revamp in the same shade and you’ll have a stylish Christmas dining table scheme that looks eclectic yet effortlessly coordinated.
4. Refresh your woodwork
A small detail this maybe, but don’t underestimate how much more polished freshly painted skirting, window ledges or banisters can make a space feel.
Source: www.dulux.com
Interesting ideas!
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