Christina approached us a few weeks ago about a project on her to-do list:  covering the back face of the cabinetry in a built-in entertainment center.  Covering the back of a cabinet is a fairly common project for CSP customers.

An issue she had was that Christina chose a damask pattern and wanted the pattern oriented so it ran up and down within the bookcase. Pattern orientation changes are frequent concerns for our customers.

The answer?

We are a printer, so we have a lot of flexibility for this sort of request.  We made a slight change by rotating the pattern 90 degrees and shipped her two rolls of our fine weave fabric material.  Fine weave fabric is what we recommend for vertical services; it has full adhesive backing but a dull finish so there are no reflections.  It is also easily repositionable, or easily removed without residual adhesives after some time, unlike Con-tact Paper™ and some lesser quality shelf paper/drawer liners.

The results? See for yourself—pretty spectacular!

We found Christina’s blog to be a great resource filled with ideas, advice, and project how-tos.  Check it out: No. 29 blog.

Happy decorating!

This customer contacted us before ordering and had some questions about how to modify her order to get exactly what she wanted.  I think it came out great!

What do you think?

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Donna took a roll of our Cheetah print laminated vinyl and did a simply amazing and creative job in decorating this furniture her cat, um, uses.

Feline theme and wonderful execution really makes this piece come alive. Donna says Montana [the cat] really enjoys the custom quarters to do her business. Check it out:

Cat Bench 1

Cat Bench 2

Cat Bench 3

Great Job Donna!

What are you planning to do with your Chic Shelf Paper? Let us know!

We got a nice mention in a blog post from Nicole at Creative Dish. This is a great little site with lots of cool and interesting ideas for busy people. Nicole did a nice and simple (and inexpensive) project using Chic Shelf Paper’s Mauve Memories pattern to dress up drawers under this bed.

Check out the entire post here!

One note for this project:  Because we are a print-on-demand company we have an incredible amount of flexibility.  With a bit more up front communication about this project, we could’ve actually seam-matched the six drawers on this bed for a cohesive field. If you have a special need like this just let us know an we will do what we can to help execute your project just the way you want it.

Times Union “House Things” columnist Janet Reynolds wrote a lovely blog about Chic Shelf Paper, and really got the sentiment right:

“What better way to celebrate new beginnings than to empty out drawers filled with who-knows-what, cleaning them and then placing lovely, clean shelf paper that immediately brightens your mood as soon as you open the drawer?”

It’s the details…the little things that inspire a quality life.  For me, in the morning it’s good coffee and a decorative mug. In the bath, it’s quality towels.

And that’s what inspired Eric and I to create Chic Shelf Paper. Who wants white plastic paper when they can look at Flower Riot?

Flower Riot pattern

In our visit we stumbled upon this amazing cabinetry company that we thought should be prospected for potential collaboration.

But there was no one there to speak with at the time, and for what ever reasons we were unable to make a firm contact.  And so as happens, you get busy on move on to more pressing matters.

Early this year, this very nice person sent us a note and described that she was interested in working with Chic Shelf Paper. After a quick discussion it became clear who she was: Malka Sabroe-JoHanson who works as a cabinetry designer and manufacture specializing in organization for efficiency.   Her company is CLOSET INNOVATIONS, and yes, sure enough, she is from the same company we had looked at months before at the SF Design Gallery.

So props to Malka for tracking us down!  And if you ever need amazing cabinetry or closet organization, start with Malka.  She recently published a nice write up on ChicShelfPaper and that blog and her contact information can be found here.  Check her out!

“It’s the details that can make so much of a difference, don’t you think?
Drawers can either be something you open and sigh happily at what you see or something you open, cringing, scrounging around as quickly as you can to find the object you need and then quickly slamming it shut.”

Where you have invested in the details in of your home — and loved it?

Mirrored Closet Doors Get a Makeover

Sure, wallpaper works but but that’s way more of a hassle than using the Chic Shelf Paper:

1) We have more than 275+ patterns from subtle to bold; no reason to wait for leftover wallpaper ; )

2) You can get your project cut-to-size so it’s ready to install upon arrival

3) Chic Shelf Paper’s removeable adhesive means no messy pasting

Brilliant! If you have a photo share, we would love to see it!

~Francie

Recently, I wrapped two cardboard coffee cans with Flower Riot from Chic Shelf Paper.

"Flower Riot" saves cast-off cans from the recycle bin

You can use the up-cycled cans for pens, make-up brushes, fresh cut flowers (with a plastic insert), kitchen utensils—you name it. I’m using mine for watercolor paint brushes.

 Here’s the 411 on how to do it:

Step 1: Wash, rinse, and dry an empty can and peel off the label carefully.

Step 2: Use the label as your template to cut the correct size strip of wallpaper. Or, if the label has ripped create a new template from scrap paper.  

Step 3: We used laminated vinyl for these which already has adhesive backing.  Trim the material to width and length before removing the backing.  We used about 1″ overlap here, that is enough for good adhesion on this diameter of can (for smaller diameter, increase overlap).

That’s it, my friends. Try it and let me know how it goes!

~Francie

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