Speed, and the ability to let go of perfection.
I do not have OCD.
What I do have is the desire to finish a project, without wasting valuable time and energy.
Unfortunately sometimes this results in a job not well done.
Sometimes I cut corners.
I'm a corner cutter.
Shall I go on?
Remember my china cabinet...
Well, this super cute girl from Kansas City advised me to try paintable wall paper.
Brilliant!
I went with this one on Amazon.
Great price.
Love the pattern.
I even bought this fun new metallic paint from Home Depot to go with it.
The wallpaper is pre-pasted but immediately I realized it just wasn't going to stick to the cabinet. I ended up just gluing it with my hot glue gun and stretching it as best as I could.
The next problem was the paint was just not coating the paper well, and taking forever to dry.
Should I have primed it? Is this new metallic paint just over priced craft paint? Dunno.
In the end the wallpaper looked all stretched out from three coats of paint.
I went ahead and put the dishes back in thinking they would hide most of the wrinkles, but no.
I think I was in just to big of a hurry to finish this.
Also... my good friend came over and asked what I was up to mid project.
When I explained I was going to make the paper look like copper tiles, she said, why don't you just buy copper tiles?
Doh!
So... back to the drawing board.
I still love the paper and the idea of having it there.
I am now thinking I will prime and pre-paint it, and then glue it back up again.
Color suggestions? (No metallics please!)
Anyone tried this paper before?
Any certain trick I am missing?
Anyone have OCD and want to teach me a little bit about following through?
Anyone want to come rip out the old paper?
No?
It was worth a try.
Did you trying using a brayer? I do alot with different kinds of paper and I usually end up using a brayer when I glue it down to get the wrinkles and air bubbles out.
ReplyDeleteI tried one of Martha's new paints {the sparkle one} and I'm not loving it either. I used a paintable bead board wall paper on my wall, but it stuck with the adhesive that was on the back and looked great, I think copper tiles will be awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering, what if you wet the paper first then dry it out?
ReplyDeletejust thinking like when you stretch watercolour or heavy cartridge paper:
maybe it won't be so absorbent to primer or paint and will wrinkle less: then, you can glue it up with slightly watered pva:
worth a try on a test piece?
love what you've chosen, rather lush and like beaten copper panel!
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Just wondering if you truly followed the instructions (no offense meant!). Did you "book" the paper, if that was required? Sometimes the adhesive needs time to "activate" before it will adhere to the surface. Also, it sounds like you need to really press and smooth and get a good adhesion -no glue gun allowed! Let that dry completely before you paint--maybe a day or two even. I think the idea is fabulous and will look great as metallic copper--if you can get the paper to stick correctly. By the way, I don't know if I would paint first--that might scrape off as you are smoothing out bubbles when you are applying it to the back of the cabinet.
ReplyDeleteOh NO! I'm sorry this didn't turn out for you! I have yet to try it on my bookcase, but now I'm worried. Do you think the adhesive just doesn't work on wood? Maybe trying an additional paste to the pre-pasted wallpaper would help? I'll try playing with it this weekend and let you know.
ReplyDeleteI agree with some of the others. Definitely don't hot glue gun it. So we bought some of this paintable wall paper for our boys room. It looks like bead board, but it's really wall paper. People can't tell the difference. But I had to paste the wall then apply the wallpaper and then use the brayer (the tool the other girl mentioned smoothes it out and takes the bubbles out.) I have one if you want to borrow it. I know you said yours was pre-pasted, but I think this would help it smooth out. It looks similar to what we used so I think it might work the same. Just a thought.
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