‘What a brilliant idea’ say people after a woman transforms ‘boring’ stairway with £5 IKEA buy – & everyone’s ‘obsessed’
A THRIFTY crafts lover has left people open-mouthed after sharing a stairway makeover using IKEA bargains.
Fitness fan Holly Cockerill took to TikTok to demonstrate how she gave her dull stairway a makeover without forking out a fortune.
Instead of adding art or painting the area, the gym enthusiast decided to follow a different approach – by trying out the viral IKEA mirror hack that’s taken the internet by storm.
The budget-friendly hack has become all the rage on social media, with several people creating the illusion of a larger space by simply gluing dozens of mirrors onto their walls for a funky design.
After getting fed up of her ”dull and boring” stairs, Holly ”decided to bedazzle them up” with two IKEA bargain buys – their BLODLÖNN mirrors, which sell for £5 for a four-pack, as well as YLLEVAD frames in black (£1.50 per frame).
In total, the costs, Holly estimated in her video, came to around ”£65 -£90”, making it the perfect transformation on the cheap.
Once the mini shopping haul had come in, it was time to get working – and the process was relatively easy and straightforward.
Holly first ensured to place all the mirrors into the picture frames and then began attaching them onto the white wall, starting from the bottom and working her way up.
For her DIY project, the fitness super fan used 30 mirrors – however, you can use more or less, depending on your preferences and the size of the space you want to cover.
All chuffed with the results, Holly said she was ”in love” – and insisted that others wouldn’t ”regret” giving it a go, too.
”It has completely changed how my landing looks! Obsessed,” Holly couldn’t get over the makeover.
It’s not just the DIY lover who left open-mouthed by the bargain transformation – dozens of fellow interior design fans raced to comments to praise her.
One felt so inspired by the wall glow-up, they couldn’t wait to try the hack too.
”Lovely, I’m going to do this in my hallway.”
Someone else chimed in: ”So creative! I love it!”
”What a brilliant idea! It really opens up the staircase,” a third penned.
”Good job, looks really well,” another person added.
However, not everyone was a fan of the makeover, as some reckoned it was ”silly”.
”Tacky, in my opinion,” a troll said.
To this, Holly – who certainly couldn’t care any less – hit back, writing: ”Thanks for your opinion, doc.”
Heading to IKEA this week? There’s another bargain buy people have been raving about – and it’s a must if you’re a driver and can’t reach the ticket machine in car parks.
One shopper, Brittany Nash, from Melbourne, Australia, recently found a neat way around the hassle of trying to stretch out through the window to grab the ticket.
The answer? A pair of kitchen tongs, which you can bag from IKEA for £2.50.
“Whenever someone new comes into my car, they’re always like, ‘Brit, why do you have tongs in your car?’,” she shared the game-changer of a hack online.
“Okay, great question, but I have an even better answer.
She went on: “You know, when you come up to those boom gates for the car park and they’ve got a little ticket machine, I can never get close enough to the ticket machine without my handy dandy little tongs.”
She said: “If there’s a person behind me, they always laugh at me. I watch them in the rear-view mirror.
“But you know what? I’d rather be that weirdo with the tongs who’s lowkey kind of smart than that person who’s like unbuckling and opening the door.
”How embarrassing! Okay, tongs for life.”