Best DIY Marble Countertop TIPS

Hey guys, come on and welcome back to the world of Windows, so in today's video I'm going to show you some things that I've done to transform my small kitchen, so if you're interested in what I'm doing, keep watching. First things first, I needed to light things up in my kitchen because it's really dark in certain places, so I'm going to use those trusty motion sensor lights I keep talking about, all you do is just stick them up there and ready. They have a motion sensor light under their cabinets and I also added the lights inside my pantry because it is very dark in there and if you haven't seen the video of my pantry makeover I will link it in the description box below .

It was the last piece I needed for this pantry once I added the lights, it looks so good next to the glass and when I go in to grab something the lights come on automatically and it's so convenient. Next, I'll take on my florists. Please don't judge me, but you know what happens if you do. I deserve it because when I moved through the crowd, the rows wouldn't be white, they were all equally dark and I just assumed that's what they looked like, but no, they were dark guys. so I grabbed a bottle of the works that you can get at Dollar Tree and I have a grout brush.

I have two, actually a handheld one and I also bought a very large grout brush from Target. It's really good, it's not necessary. Get on your knees, but just a little work and a little effort and my floors look like new. It's actually scary how much dirt was on the floor between my grout lines. Okay guys, now for the next project I'm doing. I'm so excited because I've been wanting to update these dusty

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s for quite some time and I found this contact paper on Amazon that I had used before, but I found it in a

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size, the actual dimensions are 4 feet by 6.5 feet and so on. no cutting and pasting in the middle of the countertop you know the whole sheet covers the countertops so this particular contact paper was $44 so I started by wiping the countertops with my rubbing alcohol and once everything was dried, I measured everything and what I liked.

The contact paper has lines on the back so you can cut it very neatly so I started cutting everything out and lining everything up and once I got the layout of how I wanted everything to look I took it back maybe 2 to 3 inches at once. time and then I started sticking it on the counter so the nice thing about this contact paper is that it's very reusable so if you stick it in the wrong place you literally pick it up and try again but I find out that if you make the right measurements from the beginning you won't have any problems and you won't remove too much of the backing at once because that's how you get the air bubbles so I'm using my fabric softener that I bought. and I use the smoothest one in my wallpaper video.

If you guys didn't get a chance to see how my faux white brick textured wallpaper from Target turned out, then I'll link that video in the description box below so the scraper is good too. to line it up against the sink that you're going to come into contact with and you just line it up and use your knife to cut around it and give it that perfect look and I actually came back with some silicone caulk. to make everything look a lot better so I ran out of contact paper and yesterday it arrived so I'm going to finish this install so I'm going to end up putting it on top of the countertops and Hopefully it will turn out well because these countertops are rounded and it says to use a hair dryer, so I'll let you see how I do it in detail.

I mean, I'm just going to measure the filler and capstan and then cut. and then apply it like I did in the other areas of the kitchen and then I'll show you how these corners look so you can