Mum transforms her tatty white sofa using Amazon’s £8 fabric paint – and the pictures speak for themselves – The Sun

IT'S one of the most important (and expensive) pieces of furniture you'll ever buy – but we can't be the only ones who get bored of our sofa approximately 10 times a day. Can we?

Well rather eyeing up IKEA every time you fancy a change, one mum has demonstrated how you can revamp your furniture on the cheap using purse-friendly fabric dye.

Posting incredible before-and-after photos on the Facebook group DIY On a Budget Official, the mum revealed how she transformed her tatty white sofa for only £8.

Asking the group's thousands of members for their feedback, the woman wrote: "Just painted one of my sofas – what do you think?"

The woman photographed every step of the process – from the first brushstrokes she took to when it was half completed.

Rather than painting the dye directly onto the surface, the woman diluted it in a bowl of water which helps it seep into the furniture.

After covering the whole sofa, the woman left it to dry for a few hours before coming back to do another coat.

According to the product instructions, you can even dry it down with a hairdryer if you need to speed up the process – but with any DIY project, the longer you leave it the better.

What's more, the Scratch Doctor dye costs just £8 from Amazon, is available in 25 colours and can be used on clothing too. *Adds to basket*

Needless to say, other users were blown away with the incredible results and the post has racked up over 10,000 "likes" and 2,000 comments.

• The Scratch Doctor Liquid Fabric Dye, £8.95 from Amazon – buy now

One user replied: "Incredible. Well done you!!!"

Another added: "That looks amazing! I want a grey fabric sofa but can't afford a new one and this has totally opened up my second hand options now!"

A third wrote: " Brilliant, can't wait to do mine."

For more amazing DIY hacks, this woman transforms her dated leather bed using a £7.50 velvet fabric from The Range.

And this woman transformed her "tatty" pine furniture with a lick of B&Q paint and people are flocking to do the same.

Plus this woman revamped her bathroom with B&M's glittery leopard print wallpaper – and it costs just £3.

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