EASY STEPS TO PAPER DRAWERS

Gather your supplies

• Timber tallboy

• Primer

• Paintable wallpaper

• Chalk paint

• Drawer knobs

You’ll also need Drill; sanding block; 180-grit sandpaper; dropsheet; pencil; ruler; scissors; wallpaper paste; paint stirrer; paint tray; PVA glue; roller; large paintbrush; utility knife

For you to note Superfresco Easy Paintable Wallpaper was used for this project. It’s textured, with a paste-the-wall (or other surface) application.

Here’s how

STEP 1 Remove drawers from tallboy, then unscrew faces and take off knobs.

TIP If your drawers don’t have separate face panels, just remove the knobs .

STEP 2 Sand drawer faces, and tallboy top, sides and frame pieces, using a block and sandpaper.

STEP 3 Spray drawer faces and tallboy with primer, working on a dropsheet in a well-ventilated area. Leave to dry.

STEP 4 Roll out a length of wallpaper, right side down. Place drawer face, primed side down, on wrong side of wallpaper and mark it in pencil, using a ruler, then cut out with scissors.

STEP 5 Mix paste and water in a tray with a paint stirrer, and add a healthy squirt of PVA glue. TIP You can also get premixed paste.

STEP 6 Lay drawer face right side up, then use a roller to apply paste.

STEP 7 Position wallpaper, on drawer face and smooth it from the centre out, then use a large dry paintbrush to get rid of any air bubbles.

TIP Don’t use a straight edge smoother as you would for wall-hung paper, as it will fla en the design.

STEP 8 Trim excess edges of wallpaper from drawer face with a utility knife.

STEP 9 Sand the cut edges smooth, then allow the wallpaper paste to dry for the recommended time.

STEP 10 Paint wallpaper drawer faces, spraying evenly from side to side. Give tallboy 2 coats of paint. Leave to dry.

STEP 11 Drill a screw hole through back of drawer faces to a ach new knobs. Return drawers to tallboy.

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