Give a new lease of life to any nasty solid furnishings by using pretty paper!

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

1. clean the item to be wrapped so that its surface isn't greasy
2. put paper on the floor (don't mean to patronise, but you don't want to stick you furniture to the floor!
3. mix pva 3:1 with water
4. brush pva all over the first surface to be covered.
5. stick paper on
6. brush all over to flatten the paper, brush out any bubbles and ripples, and mould paper into grooves and corners
7. 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)
8. push out any bubbles you can with the brush. any remaining bubbles stab with the knife, and push the air out with your fingers.
9. allow to dry overnight
10. cut off any loose paper and cut out any drawers / edges that have been covered over
11. do this to all sides to cover (the chest of drawers was covered on 4 sides so took 4 sittings)
12. when the item is wrapped to perfection, varnish to protect. (I did 2 coats - 2 days apart)

VOILA!