DIY with Anja

DIY with Anja

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Women's DIY Tutor, Handywoman, Interior Designer and Soap Maker based in Manchester. I consider myself an expressionist craftswoman with a fine art sensibility.

Hi, I'm Anja,

I’m a freelance wood and interior designer based in Manchester. My working interests are broad and ever-evolving, including woodwork, furniture design and improvisation from reclaimed materials as well as designing and re-imagining interior spaces. I spent the first part of my professional life favouring the analytical side of my brain and personality. With a degree in Sociology, Me

24/06/2026

This is a common problem. Rusty screws in your garden.

In this video, I'm showing you how to get rid of a wall-mounted pot that's held in by a rusty screw.

If you fancy learning more useful DIY for Gardeners, check out my upcoming classes.



Photos from DIY with Anja's post 23/06/2026

A couple of drill jobs today at a lovely client's in Newton Heath. A curtain pole had come off the wall (because the screws used by the boyfriend were too short and the holes not deep enough to accommodate the plugs) and needed proper fixing and a tv bracket needed putting up. All sorted now and nice and secure.

Did you know that if you'd like to learn how to do these relatively simple DIY jobs yourself, you can just come to one of my Basic Drill Skills classes. For only £55 you'll learn everything you need to know to do these drill jobs yourself. That's less than a call-out fee for a handyperson.

Classes coming up in August and November! Link in comments

Photos from DIY with Anja's post 22/06/2026

Before and after // Re-siliconing shower tray. Book me in before I go away in mid August or sign up to my November classes to learn how to do it yourself.

21/06/2026
21/06/2026

This weekend I'm continuing to make improvements to my workshop space, the place where I welcome you to do my diy empowerment classes and where I make my soaps and wellbeing products.
This was my first time working with a laser level (you can see it faintly in the video). While not necessary to get things level, it worked out ok. You can see where I had to use filler, because the first bracket I installed was too long and would have looked daft.
I went for chamfered dowels as support brackets as an experiment. I had lots left over and thought they might look a bit more stylish. What do you think.

More workshop news to come.

Photos from DIY with Anja's post 20/06/2026

Here is what I do when I don't do DIY... :)

I had the best time at the Ethiad Stadium last night seeing Take That.

I've been a fan since the early days in 1993 and had penpals all over the world swapping posters and photos of the lads as a teenager in small town East Germany.

Never did I think that 33 years later I would still be seeing them live and getting such a thrill out of their music and performance.

Before changing my career to do hands-on interior design and diy classes, I was a freelance journalist. Partly so I could interview my favourite pop stars (cheeky, right?!). I got to talk to Gary for an hour in his studio in London about health, diet and fitness stuff for the lifestyle pages of a big German broadsheet paper. That was fun 😊

Now I'm happy just to dance and sing away at their shows.

If you've missed it, Amazon Prime will broadcast tonight's show live from 8.30 to 10.30.

Can you guess who my favourite is?

19/06/2026

I'm making some changes to my workshop space this week. I felt it was starting to look a bit cluttered in there, so I thought a few storage tweaks would solve that problem. I need the space to work for both my soap-making and my DIY classes that require lots of tools and materials.

Anja Löbert Interior Design 18/06/2026

Manchester women: ever wished you could tackle garden DIY jobs yourself instead of waiting for someone else to do them? Three spaces still available for my DIY for Gardeners class in Whalley Range in July.

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16/06/2026
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