Craft: My attempt at decoupage using Harry Potter books

adding harry potter pages to furniture

One of my good friends recently posted the image shown below over on Instagram and I loved it, admired it and stored it away in my brain under lovely.



I then looked at my rather boring "bits and bobs" drawer and my friend's image popped into my head and that is when I came up with the crazy idea that I'd cover my ENTIRE unit with Harry Potter pages!

The love for harry potter books

I went down to my local charity shop and managed to pick up Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for 50p (my favourite book).

I carefully pulled the book apart and armed with what felt like a bucket load of Mod Podge glued the pages to the unit.

I found this wonderful website overthebigmoon.com which had potion label templates and I used this to put on the front of the drawers and all looked fabulous..... but.....I made a rookie mistake!

Putting layers of paper on drawers that are already nice and snug in the unit meant the drawers would no longer go back in the unit!!

Two days later I finally got over my strop and wahey the drawers now fit back in the unit.

IKEA basic units

using potion labels as drawer labels

How to change a boring Ikea unit into a potter craft unit


How to change a boring Ikea unit into a potter craft unit

How to change a boring Ikea unit into a potter craft unit


How to change a boring Ikea unit into a potter craft unit




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