Think of it as a giant sticker. Simply pick the place you want to redesign, make sure your panel is level, peel off the back, and stick it on. It’s fast, affordable and, as interior designer Katie Davis says, “as long as you have patience, anyone can do it. Truly anyone.” Here’s the kicker: it’s not just for creating statement walls. With some outside-the-box thinking, you can apply peel-and-stick wallpaper almost anywhere to create a totally new look. We rounded up our favorite peel-and-stick Instagram posts for a little project inspo. “The great part is, if it doesn’t last or I change my mind or I don’t like it, it’s not permanent,” she says. Lozauskas started out with one step. After seeing how great the paper held up to rain and wear-and-tear, she finished the project a few months later. She measured every drawer, cut templates from Kraft paper, and used them as guides for adding brass wallpaper. The result: the stylish, unique look of her original find, for a fraction of the cost. And (bonus!) by peeling off the brass and applying a new pattern, the dresser’s style can be changed in a flash. “With.. everybody being sequestered, if you’re in a tucked room like that, you want to feel like you at least have some windows or the outdoors,” she says. “You want to have something visual that’s stimulating.” Lamb says she opted for the peel-and-stick backing rather than painting the wall to make the space more eye-catching and girly. Plus, as her daughter gets older, the wallpaper is easy to remove and replace with another, more sophisticated print. Glover says for a smaller space like drawers, you can use a credit card to smooth the paper and remove any bubbles. But if you’re working large-scale, you’ll want to invest in a wallpaper smoothing tool. “It is honestly one of the most easy DIYs I have ever done,” she says. “After I decided on the design I wanted, Minnie and Me Interiors custom cut the wallpaper to size for me. All I had to do was peel and stick. It’s that easy!” “[The client] was really eager to finally have a closet she felt was actually all her own,” she says. “She just wanted to make it special in that way. So I thought, what better idea than to use a fun wallpaper?” After emptying and painting the closet, Davis revamped the space in a matter of hours. “The tricky part about doing it inside closets is that there are all these corners and tight spots,” Davis says. “There’s a lot of measuring and cutting out your exact pieces of paper.” The method was as easy as taking out the shelves and sticking on the paper, and you can try this same method for a hutch or bookshelf, too! It took about eight hours to wallpaper the entire room. The height of the board and batten was perfect for the wallpaper panel—it left her a few inches so she could sneak the wallpaper behind the board and batten so it would fill out the space seamlessly. “Any of the cons you’d find in removable [wallpaper], you’d find also in traditional,” Brigham says. “But then there’s even more limitations as far as it doesn’t just come off the wall.…I have to be honest, I think it’s a gift from the design gods.”
