After setting pu my cabinets in my craft room, I quickly got to ripping out the contact paper the previous owners had placed in all of my drawers. (Using a cabinet that someone else had in their home without washing them down and replacing the contact paper kind of freaked me out.) I especially wanted to do this in the vanity that was in someone’s bathroom… cause you know, it was in their bathroom.
Look how much this needed to be scrubbed!! Grooooooossssssss.
I tried to carefully remove the contact paper first, but after ripping the “stain” off the wood underneath on one cabinet, I knew I wasn’t getting that paper off without destroying the drawers. So I stopped caring and came up with a new plan: Decoupage the drawers with maps!
After removing all of the contact paper, I got all of the dust out of the cabinets and got to work cutting pages out of an old atlas.
To decoupage the drawer, I painted a layer of mod podge onto the bottom of the drawers (one at a time). I then layered pages of the atlas in the drawers. I smoothed out the bubbles in the paper, then did a thick layer of mod podge on top of the maps.
Once it dried, I sprayed it with a clear sealer — mod podge can dry a little tacky, so the sealer really helps this.
I wish the maps I had were a little cooler — the hubby refused to let me cut up the first atlas I found at a thrift store because he said it was too cool — but I am glad to have clean drawers to use. It feels so much more sanitary now.
My craft room is coming along so nicely! I even huddled up in there a few nights ago to craft and watch HGTV!
A Smith of All Trades 