Here's one I made earlier from a particularly repulsive chest of drawers and some rather fetching gift wrap!Instructions:
You will need:
PVA glue
Varnish
Water
A scalpel or stanley knife
A very wide paint brush
thick, matt finish giftwrap
- clean the item to be wrapped so that its surface isn't greasy
- put paper on the floor (don't mean to patronise, but you don't want to stick you furniture to the floor!
- mix pva 3:1 with water
- brush pva all over the first surface to be covered.
- stick paper on
- brush all over to flatten the paper, brush out any bubbles and ripples, and mould paper into grooves and corners
- add a little more water to the pva, then rub all over the paper with the brush. The paper will start to ripple and bubbly (normal)
- push out any bubbles you can with the brush. any remaining bubbles stab with the knife, and push the air out with your fingers.
- allow to dry overnight
- cut off any loose paper and cut out any drawers / edges that have been covered over
- do this to all sides to cover (the chest of drawers was covered on 4 sides so took 4 sittings)
- when the item is wrapped to perfection, varnish to protect. (I did 2 coats - 2 days apart)
