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Woman shares hacks to spruce up your home for less including 'marble' table made from PIZZA PAN

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A woman has given her home an incredible upgrade using thrifty DIY hacks - including using bedsheets to make curtains and turning a pizza pan into a marble-effect table.

Julie Story, 34, from Clearwater Florida, realised she had a passion for making things after leaving her last job to become a full-time content creator.

Now she shares her ideas online, with her curtain and table hacks helping her gain thousands of likes and views.

“In 2019, I was completely burnt out, It had been a rough few years personally and professionally," Julie said.

"I had been running my own business but it just didn’t make me happy anymore.

“I made a really difficult choice to quit everything and to focus on reconnecting with my soul to try and find myself and my happiness again.

“I decided I wanted to wake up every day and ask myself how I wanted to play that day and do whatever I was gravitating towards.”

Julie started creating Pinterest boards to inspire herself and it helped her put together her popular hacks.

She spent just $10 (£7.44) to make the table, using a pizza pan, stool, marble contact paper and metallic spray paint.

Julie said: “I really wanted a side table to go in my master bedroom I was making over, so I searched online and found so many were way overpriced so I decided to make my own!

“I happened to have the stool I was going to use for a different project and took the top of the stool to various places trying out different things to use as the top.

“Finally, I realised a pizza pan is perfect because it's affordable and it’s the right size.

"Since I was starting with a stool, I wanted to add details to the bottom of the legs so it took on the look of a table and cutting dowels and gluing them on worked perfectly.”

The video gained over 16,000 views with people commenting how much they love the hack.

Another popular hack was her curtains made from bedsheets costing only $7 (£5.22).

In the video, Julie takes her bedsheets and puts them into the dryer on the de-wrinkle setting.

She then irons the sheets before pinching the top of the curtains and clipping on curtain rail rings.

Julie said: “I was trying to create a budget-friendly West Elm curtain rod dupe and came across the idea for the bedsheet curtains from Pinterest

“I love long beautiful curtains and bedsheets were the perfect solution to affordable curtains that would reach the floor.”

After posting the video to Tiktok Julie received more than 8,000 likes and 75,000 views.

Julie has racked up over 444,000 followers on Tiktok (@juliestory) where she shares day-to-day life hacks as well as craft and DIY ideas.

She urges anyone considering DIY to give it a go and not give up.

Julie added: “Enjoy the process, have fun and make it your own.

“Mess up and keep going, the best part of the process is the joy in the journey of making.

“You might learn something new about yourself or learn a new skill.”

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