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Home Improvement (DIY) Vocabulary

Home Improvement (DIY) Vocabulary

Lexique pour le bricolage

Looing to do some work around the house in French? This page offers a list of French words for home improvement (DIY).

French home improvement DIY vocabulary

French vocabulary for tools

  • un marteau hammer
  • un tournevis screwdriver
  • une pince pliers
  • une scie saw
  • un mètre ruban tape measure
  • un pinceau paint brush
  • un rouleau roller
  • une perceuse drill

People

  • un bricoleur, une bricoleuse somebody who does DIY
  • un électricien, une électricienne electrician
  • un plombier plumber
  • un peintre painter
  • un menuisier carpenter

Verbs

  • refaire l’éléctricite to re-do the electricity
  • installer un tuyau to install a pipe
  • repeindre une pièce to repaint a room
  • réparer un meuble to repair a piece of furniture
  • décorer une pièce to decorate a room
  • cirer un meuble to polish a piece of furniture
  • vernir un meuble to varnish a piece of furniture
  • poncer, décaper un meuble to sand a piece of furniture
  • tapisser to wallpaper, upholster
  • enlever la peinture to remove the paint
  • peindre une pièce to paint a room
  • installer un lavabo to install a sink
  • réparer un robinet to repair a faucet, tap
  • fixer un miroir to put a miror into place
  • poser un planchet to lay flooring
  • coller to stick, glue
  • clouer to nail
  • visser to screw

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