Charlotte Foster
Home & Garden

Bunnings shopper transforms Christmas decor for just $5

A Bunnings shopper has shared an amazing hack for transforming your home into a Christmas wonderland on a budget. 

With the help of one item for just $5, an interior designer named Cheryl - who shares home decorating tips on Instagram - transformed her entry hallway in a unique festive way. 

Cheryl revealed to Yahoo Lifestyle how she created the incredible look for under $100 from Bunnings. 

Cheryl's stunning space came to life with some $5 renter-friendly hooks from Bunnings, some solar-powered fairy lights and some baubles. 

Sticking the hooks on the ceiling, she threaded the fairy lights through, zigzagging them down the hall, and then hung baubles from the lights.

Describing the set-up, Cheryl told Yahoo it's "very easy" and you don't need DIY experience to pull off the festive decor. 

"All you need are some little hooks that stick onto your ceiling, some wire string lights and some colourful baubles. We got everything we needed for this from Bunnings," she says.

She also shared some hot tips for people looking to try out the hack for themselves, jokingly telling us, "All you need is a patient husband to do it for you! Just kidding... the best tip I have is to measure the overall length and divide it by the number of hooks you have and you also want the string lights to go diagonal from one another. What also looks better is to place the baubles offset from each other."

Cheryl added that they chose to use solar-powered lights to save money on energy use as well, saying, "To help on power bills we went with solar string lights and just placed the little solar boxes in a spot where they would be exposed to sunlight that way it automatically turns on at night and off in the morning."

She said, "It’s a really easy little Xmas DIY and I hope other families will get to enjoy it, it looks amazing at night."

Image credits: Instagram 

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home & garden, Christmas, Bunnings, decor