A DIY fan has given her garden the ultimate makeover thanks to her new privacy fence.
Liz Smith took to social media to share the new addition to her backyard and how she did it on a budget.
Sharing an image of the garden, Liz had put up a black privacy ‘fence’ and decorated it with a woodland-themed mural.
But instead of forking out for pricey wood, she decided to upcycle old items she had lying about in her house.
The DIY whizz revealed she had some old Ikea folding doors knocking about, so she decided to use them instead.
Liz said: “Used old IKEA doors and sticky back plastic murals from Temu for the frieze to make a focal point”
The black doors were sealed shut and Liz then added the stick-on murals to each door.
The cheap and effective decoration is currently on sale at Temu for £8 instead of £30.
She revealed she used screws to fix the doors to the top and bottom of the brick wall to keep them upright.
The gardening pro also pointed out that her plants were still growing despite the doors blocking the light out.
“Plants still growing so the lighting will soften on the house,” she said.
To finish the garden makeover, she added plenty of twinkling fairy lights around the border of the doors and along the wall of the house.
The post was shared on the Facebook group, Garden Makeover Ideas On A Budget, and people were in awe of her DIY skills.
One person wrote: “Stunning, love it. What a great original idea to do that with the doors!”
Another commented: “It’s lovely I love the lights.”
“Beautiful,” penned a third.
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Meanwhile a fourth said: “Love it and you are recycling too!”
“Looks fantastic,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “This is gorgeous.”
A WRITER has described how a man flew from the US to watch her sister take her own life after meeting on a “sick” online forum.
Adele Zeynep Walton, 26, told how her sister Aimee was discovered dead by cops in a hotel room in October 2022.
Aimee, who was just 21-years-old at the time, was found with a total stranger, who had flown from the US to watch her die.
The sisters – who were raised in Southampton, Hampshire, both had active online lives growing up, but Aimee more so.
Adele said that Aimee, who was neurodivergent, was bullied as a teenager and turned to online communities instead.
When the pandemic hit, Aimee withdrew even further into the online world, her sister – writing in The Telegraph – explained.
She broke up with her boyfriend and spent an increasing amount of time in her room.
The first Covid lockdown in England was announced in March 2020, and the third was on January 2021.
It was in October 2022 that Adele – who was 25 at the time – and her parents were told that Aimee was dead.
Aimee was found in a hotel room in Slough, Berkshire, 60 miles away from her home – with a stranger.
They had met through a sick online forum that “partners” up people looking to end their own lives.
This forum was also how she got her hands on the substance that killed her – reportedly from Kenneth Law, who has been linked to 88 deaths in the UK.
According to The New York Times, the forum was founded by two men who run several “incel” websites.
Adele took it upon herself to visit the thread and said many of the posts said: “Your family don’t care about you” and “You should do it.”
She told The Guardian that the man who was with her little sister could have been “living out a sick fantasy as an incel who wants to see a young and vulnerable woman end her life”.
The man told police he had been working for the 11 days he spent in the hotel room with Aimee.
Adele wrote in The Telegraph: “This forum has taken at least 50 UK lives, including my sister.
“From looking at the forum myself, I can see just how easy it is to end up in a rabbit hole of despair, where vulnerable users are told their loved ones don’t care about them.
“Being informed by police that Aimee died in a hotel room with a stranger who she met on this forum, and who flew from the US to witness her death, still haunts me.”
Adele now campaigns about the harms of the online world and has written a book called Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World.
If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the Samaritans for free on 116123.
THE first transfer window of the summer has slammed shut!
Manchester City completed a sensational £34million deal for French ace Rayan Cherki just in the nick of time.
Meanwhile, Chelsea‘s proposed move for goalkeeper Mike Maignan is OFF, and they’ll have to wait until the window reopens after their new bid for Jamie Gittens got rejected.
And Jobe Bellingham completed a move from Sunderland to Borussia Dortmund for £32m and is expected to withdraw from the England U21 to play at the Club World Cup.
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