We got to peek at this great project when we went to shoot Alison's lovely apartment for a house tour (coming up later this week!). Her apartment she shares with her boyfriend had a wardrobe that took up a sizeable portion of one of the bedroom walls and was a bit plain. Seeing a blank canvas, Alison came up with the idea of creating a wood tone on wood tone pattern using wood-grain contact paper. We think it came out so seamlessly and successfully that we admit we didn't realize it wasn't an expensive, custom-made wardrobe until we stepped closer and noticed the contact paper!
Alison used Ultra Honey Oak Adhesive Contact Paper found on Amazon, and came to this pattern after some experimentation. You can see all the steps of creating this project with your own IKEA (or otherwise) pieces at Alison's blog I Could Make That!
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Very clever. The use of wood grain Contact paper on a wood grain veneer cabinet gives it a kind of boho chic marquetry.
Love it!
Neat and simple hack!
great idea, iffy on the execution... perhaps if the woodgrain on the dark contact paper was all running in the same direction, the effect would be cleaner...?
Yeah, if I did the whole thing again, I would've made it all go the same direction. But it would've been difficult, since I didn't know where each leaf was going to go until after I'd cut it out.
I'm glad you guys like it! Thanks
Cool idea. I have an armoire that's similar in grain and color...I've been wanting to do something to it but I'm in an apartment in a dense urban area and with NO outdoor space so I've been stumped. This has inspired me!
Love the design! Kudos!
That's it...I've decided I'm going to to multi-colored, different-sized polka dots, since the armoire is in my little girl's room.
Or...dots on the doors and stripes on the drawers.
Thanks, bluishorange!
Wow!!!
Very nice... Kind of Japanese...
citygirlsf - there are a ton of cute wall decals out there in polka dots. I kind of have a mulicolored/sized polka dot theme going on in my walk in closet (you're never too old for polka dots!).
I like it alot!!
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cool and easy, this is the kind of DIY i prefer :)