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Wallpapering a cabinet: here’s how to make it the most beautiful piece in your home
Wallpapering a cabinet is easy, even if you’ve never hung wallpaper before. You can give your plain cabinet character and style with beautiful wallpaper and matching furniture paint.
Materials needed for wallpapering a cabinet:
- Cabinet (these instructions use an ‘Ivar’ cabinet from Ikea)
- Wallpaper
- Furniture paint and a roller or brush
- Tape measure
- Ruler and pencil
- Scissors or a utility knife
- Wallpaper paste
- Water-soluble universal glue
- Wallpaper brush
How to wallpaper a cabinet
- Wipe the cabinet doors clean of grease and dirt.
- Paint the sides of the cabinet, the shelves, and the inside of the doors.
- Measure the areas to be wallpapered precisely. Cut the wallpaper about a millimeter smaller than your measurements, as it will expand when it gets wet.
- Wallpaper the cabinet’s back wall and doors with a mixture of half wallpaper paste and half water-soluble universal glue.
- If the wallpaper instructions specify a soaking time for the paste, follow them even when using the glue-paste mixture.
- Smooth out air bubbles using a wallpaper brush or your hand for smaller surfaces.
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