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Chez Larsson

Making a home in Stockholm, one drawer at a time

Wallpaper project #4

There are wallpaper offcuts in the house and they will not leave me alone.

I cannot stop. There is a pile of wallpaper offcuts in this house and every one of them is asking to be used for something.

I should admit that I get bored of finished projects fairly quickly. I enjoy a thing for a while and then I am perfectly happy to take it apart and redo it, which is not a very economical trait but does mean the house keeps changing.

Marking the drawer front against the back of the wallpaper

This chest of drawers was customised once already, back in October. This time it is getting wallpaper.

The method

It is almost too simple to write down, and the trick is that the drawer is the template.

Roll the paper out face down. Cut a piece roughly to size. Bigger than the drawer front, no measuring.

A roll of yellow patterned wallpaper beside the drawer

Spray glue the back of the paper. Lay the drawer front down onto it and press.

Turn it over and cut along the edge of the drawer with a sharp knife, using the drawer itself as the straight edge. You get an exact fit with no measuring and no cumulative error across four drawers.

The finished chest with yellow patterned drawer fronts

Any notch or cut-out for a handle: do it from the front, after the drawer is turned back over, so you can see what you are cutting.

Repeat for each drawer.

Trimming the wallpaper to the drawer edge with a knife

That is the whole of it.