an undone calm

Remember how I was bored with my light-colored wood veneer shelving units?  Well, my family talked me out of my crazy idea to paint them and a few hours of Apartment Therapy browsing gave me the idea to cover the shelves with wood-grain contact paper.

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After:

The contact paper is the “Maron Dark” color and available at DesignYourWall.  It’s a bit more user-friendly than regular contact paper because it isn’t super sticky.  It sticks well to the furniture once you’ve got it where you want it, but if it accidentally gets positioned wrong or folds back on itself you don’t have to start over again.   I chose not to do the inner supports because I was hoping to eventually find either a contrasting color or an interesting pattern to cover those elements.  Covering the shelves was relatively tedious and required a modest amount of patience, attention to detail, and x-acto knife skill.  At $65 for a 49 foot roll it’s eminently more affordable than buying new shelves.