Bed Makeover
I have been updating my guest bedroom by painting all my old furniture. After I painted the nightstand, here is what I did to the old bed.
Here is the bed before. The color was a little tired. This set is over 20 years old and came from a discount furniture store.
I wanted to paint the bed white and add some interest by adding some grass cloth peel and stick wall paper to the head board and footboard.
I started at one end of the foot board, and slowly and carefully started sticking the wallpaper on while trying to smooth out any bubbles as I went.
Then I started pressing it up and over the footboard to the other side, again smoothing as best as I could along the way.
Lastly, I cut off any excess paper using an exacto knife. I have to admit this was A LOT harder than I thought it was going to be.
After the paper was done, I started painting it white, using furniture paint from Lowes in Bright White.
Also, I ended up painting the headboard BEFORE I wallpapered. It was a lot easier!
There were quite a few bubbles that formed after I applied the wallpaper on both the headboard and foot board, and no amount of smoothing or pressing them down was working. So, of course, it was Google to the rescue. I watched a video where a man used a hair dryer to heat up the bubbles, then simply smoothed them down with a smoothing tool. I really didn’t think it would work, but it DID! Hooray. No more bubbles.
Once it was all wallpapered and painted, I felt the need to replace the gallery wall behind the bed. I found these amazingly gorgeous hand woven seagrass wall hangings on Amazon and LOVE them. They are really beautiful in person and well made.
What do you think? I think it looks a lot more updated now.
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You, are the queen of contact and wallpaper! Not an easy job with all those curves. How did you manage to get all the bubbles out and to not allow the paper to get stuck to itself? Great job.😊
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Thank you! This was not the easiest job and it might not lol perfect if you look to close! Lol. To get bubbles out you can use a blow dryer.
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I never would have thought of a blow dryer! Thanks for the tip. In the past, I have used a pin to pop the bubbles and allow the air to escape. Then I used my thumb nail to flatten the paper and erase the pin prick.
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It does look nice and the new decor above the bed as well. Wonder why you didn't paint it instead ?