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How to Wallpaper the Inside of Your Shelves
Dress up plain shelves with a colorful wallpaper border. When finished, you will have a fresh new dining area!
Tips & Creative Alternatives:
- For a highly textured look, eliminate the paint and choose both a wallpaper and coordinating border when covering tall shelves. First wallpaper the back and sides of the shelf with a very subtle print. Then apply a border at the top and bottom edges of the shelf as shown.
- To provide unity the shelves as well as make the cabinet appear larger, wallpaper the shelf itself as well as the back and sides. A light color choice will brighten the inside of a dark cabinet. A dark color can provide a dramatic backdrop for unusual china.
- Before you shop, measure the length, depth and height of each shelf. Count the number of shelves. Choose from borders that measure 1/3 or less the height of your shelves.
Materials Needed:
- Wallpaper border - purchase 2 times the width and 4 times the depth of each shelf. Add the length of the pattern repeat for each length purchased.
- wallpaper border paste
Tools:
- paste applicator brush
- smoothing tool
- razor knife and single edge blades
- broad blade or putty knife
- bucket, warm water and cleanup brush
