a blog that inspires you to decorate, improve, and maintain your home on a DIY budget
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Create. Inspire. Teach
Thrift Diving’s mission is to educate, inspire, and empower you to DIY your home using simple step-by-step instructions to decorate, improve, and maintain your home without fear or compromising your wallet, the environment, or style!
Power Tools
Meet the author
Welcome! I’m Serena!
I’m Serena Appiah (rhymes with IKEA). I think home should be affordable. All you need is paint, power tools, and thrift stores.
My husband is Ghanaian, and “Appiah” is a very common name, sort of like how “Smith” is very common here in the U.S.
DIY Ideas
Home Show Celebrity
Serena won the 2016 Home + Garden Trendsetter of the Year Award. As a result, she was awarded the opportunity to present over 25 on-stage presentations at various Home + Garden home shows across the nation, teaching homeowners about how to get started with paint, power tools, and thrift stores. You can read about her home show adventures HERE and HERE.
Room Makeovers
Download the 5 freebies!
Thrift Diving inspires women to decorate, improve, and maintain their home themselves...using paint, power tools, and thrift stores! Use these 5 printables, checklists, and ebooks to get started!