I want to decorate a dressing table with wallpaper... advice, please!

[PassTheTwiglets]

I've got an old dressing table and want to jazz it up with some funky wallpaper. I'm presuming that I just stick the wallpaper on the table and then paint some sort of clear coating over it, but what should I use? I'm sure PVA must come into it somewhere :)

Any advcie gratefully received, thanks!

You should sand the dresser down first...and are you painting some of it? I can't see how you will cover it all unless it is a plain shape?

When it is sanded...just roughed up...not perfect....you can use wallpaper paste...then a coating on top of water based matt varnish.

covering with glass would look nice and be hard wearing

Yes and expensive too germy. I think OP probably wants cheap and cheerful.

i got some glass for my 'malm' from ikea for a fiver sorry to impose with my post though mushroom

pva would just peel off

where in the op does she say cheap?

I never said you were "trying to impose" don't be so defensive. As for PVA I suggested varnish. That's what I use.

Sorry, I should have said that I only want to cover the top, not the whole thing.

Glass is a good idea but I don't really want that, as it's for DD's bedroom and she would break it within seconds :)

Thank you both!

Clear sticky-backed-plastic might be a solution. one can buy it off the roll.

I've just bought some of that to line my wardrobe shelves with. That's a good idea...

Yesterday I discovered decopatch, perhaps that would do it? I'm not in the slightest crafty or creative so feel free to ignore

Modpodge would work for this, and comes in different finishes if you wanted gloss or Matt effect.