A SAVVY homeowner has come up with a cheap trick to decorate their walls without spending a penny on paint or wallpaper.
Shelling out on roll after roll of wallpaper might seem silly in the cost of living crisis and according to one helpful handyperson, there’s really no need.
Instead of spending over £50 on their favourite modern wallpaper, a DIY fan is using black marker pen on their walls instead – and it only costs £1.
Taking to TikTok, a user called Lorn4114 revealed their budget hack in a short video.
Almost a million people have tuned in to watch the one-minute clip.
The user begins: “When you refuse to pay £60 for wallpaper with lines on it…”
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Using a black marker pen, they carefully draw short, inch-long vertical lines on their white bathroom wall.
They leave just a few millimetres between each line and pick up speed as the video goes on.
Viewers can watch on as the black marker bleeds into the paintwork on the seemingly never-ending canvas.
The user then zooms out to reveal their handiwork – over 1,000 individual lines climbing the wall in neat rows.
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Only a quarter of the wall looks finished, but the user takes viewers right back to the beginning of their project to show us how it all started.
The camera focuses on the person’s hand, which holds a black Sharpie.
In the background is a white wall with a deep skirting board. Just 10 or so lines have been drawn onto the wall, which shows just how far they’ve come with their bathroom makeover.
Next, they zoom in on the loo with a blank wall behind it. Then they show the progress they’ve made behind it – six levels of little black marks lined up like soldiers along the wall.
The timelapse jumps forward as the user makes progress and the black lines climb up the wall.
By the end of the video, the user has finished their entire feature wall.
There must be about 100 levels and over 1,000 individual black lines covering the wall behind the toilet.
It’s not a job for busy folk, or the faint-hearted, but the finished result looks absolutely fabulous.
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