Getting Sticky With It: 11 Things Contact Paper Can Completely (and Immediately) Transform

Contact paper has a bad reputation. Well, at least it used to. If you get flashbacks of ripping out gingham-printed or chicken-adorned versions of the sticky stuff from your parents’ kitchen drawers upon moving day (or is that just me?), it’s time you considered giving it a second shot…perhaps on one of these 16 places or products around your home.

If you’re a renter (or basically just someone with a non-renovated bathroom), the woes of bad floors plague you. Cuckoo 4 Design didn’t let her bland beige and white checkerboard floors get her down. Instead, she used black contact paper that she cut out and adhered to her tiles to add a wow-factor (though the black walls and red mirror don’t hurt either!)

Aside from spray paint, contact paper is perhaps the easiest and most cost-effective way to temporarily transform just about anything in your house, like these marbled frames we found on Plateful of Love, which we’re totally trying ourselves this weekend.

During a bout of boredom (and sheer genius, we think), the maestro over at Likainen Parketti dug out black contact paper from the depths of her kitchen and transformed the front side of her bathroom door with this striking design.

We spotted this crafty appliance solution over on Craving Some Creativity. The whole metamorphosis cost about $10. Smart!

Okay, so A Beautiful Mess technically decoupaged this super cute entry table with marbled paper, but she could have also used a marbled contact paper for a similar effect, and so can you.

Though Cape 27 used varying shades of yellow paint for the above dresser, you can achieve a similar look with 3 hues of contact paper. We would love to see this done in metallics—think chrome, gold and copper.

Thought just the front of your dresser was for DIY adornment? Nope! If the sides of your drawers are flat (as opposed to indented with side rails), try adding a patterned contact paper, like Chelsea from Bright & Bold did, for an unexpected design moment.

Alternating triangle and square shapes cut out of black contact paper take the above IKEA BILLY bookcase from run-of-the-mill to “Where did you get that?!?” (via Maiju Saw)

What can’t marble contact paper transform? This IKEA KLUBBO coffee table overhaul, featured on Poppytalk, looks so authentic, you’d probably have to touch the surface to confirm it wasn’t actual marble.

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We all have random boxes laying around that we’ll likely never use again, yet insist on keeping (mostly anything that our precious tech has come in). If you refuse to get rid of them, at least turn them into something pretty to look at, and use them for storage, the way Homey Oh My did above.

My very crafty family friend Melissa ached for brass fixtures as she set out to remodel her kitchen remodeling her kitchen. When she couldn’t bring herself to take the $$$ plunge, she opted for gold contact paper to satiate her gilded addiction.