IT’S not the first time that an interior design trend has taken off on TikTok with people claiming it’s so easy.
But one woman has shared how the viral idea of painting your stairs black turned out to be a complete failure for her.
In fact, she said she hated it so much that she branded it “the worst DIY project ever” and vowed never to do it again.
The lady called Nerrisa explained: “If you’re thinking of following the TikTok trend of painting your stairs black – don’t!
“Learn from me because I learned the hard way that this is quite possibly the worst DIY project I’ve ever taken on in my entire existence.”
Nerrisa then went on to explain the background, as she explained all in a video posted to her TikTok account @nerrisaexplainsitall.
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“So let's do a little rewind,” she said. “We bought a house four months ago and the first project I started to tackle four months ago was the stairs…
“And they’re still not finished, because every single day that I spent doing something on them, they somehow looked exactly the same.”
Nerissa then showed how the stairs were stripped down to the wood with specks of paint on them that needed removing.
She then prepped them by sanding them down – which she said “did absolutely nothing” – and then “hoovered 775 times.”
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She quipped: “[But] there was still dust everywhere, including my soul, lungs and heart.”
After her husband replaced the spindles for her, she felt like she was back to square one.
But she eventually used a heat gun to help strip the remaining paint off – a process she said “took approximately 45 years.”
However, she persevered and after sanding, hoovering and re-sanding, she was ready to apply her first layer of black paint.
But she admitted it still wasn’t a happy ending, as she said: “I did not know the world of pain I was in for.
“I thought, ‘hey, let me film this first lick of paint that I’m going to add to the stairs because it’s only going to take me two hours…
“Eight hours later, why am I still painting?”
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In a desperate bid, she even resorted to another TikTok hack of using a glove to apply paint to a particular surface for a smooth finish.
Her thoughts? The social media user said: “Let me tell you, it is the biggest waste of time – do not bother.
“I think it might even take longer, I don’t get it. I can’t be like you TikTok girlies – why have I done this?!”
She rounded off the video by saying that all she wanted was a “super cute staircase” but she feels like she just got “a bad back and 100 hours of my life I’m never going to get back.”
Yet Nerrisa went on to reveal that now she’s half way through the painting process, she “is going to persevere” and hope that the finished results are worth it.
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But before she signed off, she added one final warning: “Do not follow the trends that you see on TikTok unless you are very, very down for putting in the graft.”
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