Decorative Wall Shelves

A plain white glass shelving unit is certainly not the most exciting piece of furniture – unless its back wall is covered with a beautiful wallpaper. It's so easy: Create your own wall shelves design!

Level of difficulty Original & quick
Duration 30

We need:

White shelf or glass cabinet wallpaper with blue-white pattern (here "Indigo Wallpaper blue" by Graham & Brown) yardstick pencil ruler scissors tesa® Handicraft tape

This is how we do it:

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Collect all items and let's start!
Hands measuring and marking wallpaper with a ruler and pencil on a wooden table. A roll of blue and white patterned wallpaper, scissors, and tesa tape are visible. (This text has been generated by AI)
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Measure the backwall surface of the cabinet or shelf, and transfer the measurements onto the backside of the wallpaper using the ruler and the pencil. Cut the wallpaper.
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Depending on the size of the surface, apply at least six 5-cm pieces of tape at the corners and in the center of the longer sides.
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Remove the protective films from the upper border. 
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Glue the upper border of the wallpaper onto the backwall.

Peel off the protective films on the bottom border, and glue the wallpaper crease-free onto the wall – press firmly.