Or perhaps not, those of you who have known me for awhile. Maybe you can see it better here… I’m happy to say my tables are in fabulous shape this year! Not one scrap of electrical tape has been picked at so far (knock on wood…or contact paper!).Where do you get the contact paper?Ok, here’s where you’ll think I’m really strange. Instead, we thought if the contact paper itself wrapped under the desk edge, and the electrical tape was flush with the desk/tabletop, it would prevent this from happening.And it has!!! You can kind of see what I mean here…the tape does not go onto the top of the table, just meets the top edge… So, I do model how to take care of our beautiful desks and tables and the importance of not picking at that enticing tape, but kids are kids…To curb the picking this year, we decided not to have the tape so overlappy on the desk/table edge (you can see a big black border on the blue contact paper above). The downside? It can be very pickable…sigh Which leads us to the next question…Do the kids pick at the paper? The upside? It looks really slick and finishes off the contact paper edge nicely. We’ve been using electrical tape for the edges for years now. It’s the edges you’ll have to be careful of. Once it’s down, it stays on great on the overall surface. I only do this on the big wrinkles, I promise…even I have my limits of patience for this project. I also learned this summer that you can use a little thumbtack to push holes and smooth out any air under the paper. How do you get it to go on smoothly?The best way we’ve found is what my sister said above (to press lightly and smooth side to side). Here are some other questions I’ve been asked about the contact paper: You can never see it once everything is covered and the room is done anyways. We (um, she) goes nuts about this and likes them to look perfect (you see, the type-A-ness runs deep in our family) but I really don’t mind the overlap… So if you are covering a long table, it is easier to place multiple sections overlapping one another in the short direction…rather than a huge long piece running the length of the table.So you will have some seams and they might not look perfectly straight. We’ve (she’s) also learned over the years that smaller sections are easier to work with than larger ones. Smooth the paper down with a side-to-side motion (like your hands are meeting in the middle and moving away from each other…that’s totally clear I’m sure, haha!).Smooth the paper down lightly…makes it easier to lift it up again if you don’t like how it’s coming out.Shorter fingernails are easier than long (she’s into nails big-time).I’m trying to persuade her!).īut she does want me to tell you the following things are important, should you attempt the contact paper: Nope, I just asked her, but she politely declined (she’s a teacher, but not really into blogging. Perhaps she should be writing this post to you! Hang on. My sister does the bulk of the contact-papering while I’m running around like a nut hot gluing labels, making lists, and what not. My lovely bff sister helps me do this each summer.Īctually, let me rephrase that in case she reads this tonight. Here’s a before picture from early this summer…Īnd an after picture (this was right after the tables were covered)… What I didn’t realize at the time was what a huge impact it would make on the overall look of the room! I wanted a way to make the different pieces of furniture in my room a bit more uniform. I’ve been covering my desks and tables with various shades of contact paper for about 3 or 4 years now. I know I have mentioned covering my tables with contact paper before, but I’ve had some more questions about this and wanted to share a bit about what works and what doesn’t…in case you’d like to try it out.
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