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Quick and Easy Paper Application For Furniture

Ready to kick your furniture up a notch?  If you’ve ever thought your piece needed a little extra oomph, you’ve come to the right place because I’m going to show you a quick and easy way to apply paper to a dresser for a fun punch of pattern and color.

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Before I get started on the tutorial, I’ll share some details about this dresser.  This Drexel Triune chest of drawers caught my eye because of the gorgeous hardware.  Those simple brass pulls are some of my favorites.

 

FURNITURE DECORATION PRINTING PAPER

 

I sprayed it in Sherwin Williams Holiday Turquoise in Industrial Enamel with this HVLP gun.

PS If you want to know more about everything I use when painting, you can download your copy of The Glossy Furniture Guide for free! I’ll show you everything I use!

Solid wood, vintage Drexel Triune chest of drawers with beautiful original brass hardwareVintage Drexel dresser painted in Sherwin Williams Holiday Turquoise makes a bold statement with its bright punch of turquoise Drexel Triune chest of drawers receives a lovely painted makeover in bold turquoise.Quick and easy paper application for furniture. Make your dresser pop with a fun punch of pattern and color. Follow this simple instruction for applying paper to your furniture!

Is that about the cutest dresser you’ve ever seen?  The paper matched the paint so perfectly!  I bought it from Hobby Lobby.  Ok so here’s how I did it.

What you’ll need:

  • Paper – Heavy gift wrap or scrapbook paper works the best for this.  Most people ask me if this is wallpaper.  While you could use wallpaper, it’d be fairly expensive.  Gift wrap from Spoonflower or craft paper like what I used here is much more cost effective! *UPDATE: Spoonflower no longer carries gift wrap, but they do have peel and stick wallpaper that works great! All you would need to do is peel it and stick it…no mod podge!*
  • Mod Podge
  • Razor
  • Smoothing tool
  • Brush
  • Something to put it on:)

What you do:

  1. I like to roughly measure the surface I’m attaching paper to then cut the paper several inches bigger than needed
  2. With your brush, apply an extremely thin layer of Mod Podge to the surface.  Make sure it’s very thin.  If you’ve ever gotten a bubbly disaster when using Mod Podge, chances are you had too much glue!  A super thin and evenly brushed layer is the key to no bubbles!  
  3. Starting with one corner, begin attaching the paper to the surface while using your smoothing tool to get it nice and even and bubble free as you slowly put the paper down.
  4. Using medium pressure, smooth the entire surface until the paper is bubble free and completely adhered.
  5. Cut the excess paper from the edges with the razor.
  6. Allow to dry then coat the paper with Mod Podge to seal and protect the surface.  Two coats is recommended
  7. DONE!

I filmed a Facebook Live video of this process a few months ago.  If you’re a visual learner, this will be better!

So what do you think, easy enough right?  If you haven’t tried this out before, I hope you’re inspired to give it a whirl.  A word of caution though, don’t go to Spoonflower unless you have hours to kill because I promise you….it’ll be HOURS!



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