Decorate Your Old Table with Household Items

Who would’ve ever thought that sheet music would make a great table top? Actually, sheet music, old maps, song book pages, and similar items are a really cheap way to cover an old table top and make it look new again. It’s very easy to add the sheet music to the tabletop and you can do so to most any table top you have.

Spray on adhesives make a quick cover-up job a breeze. The sprays are found at department stores, craft stores, and home improvement shops. Read the can to make sure it’s the proper type of adhesive for paper and wood, or paper and whatever your table top is made from.

Use full sheets of music, torn sheets of music, titles ripped from the page and other piece of paper to cover the table. Spray a little adhesive on the back of the paper, or on the table in the area where you intend to lay the sheet, then stick the sheet to the table. Don’t try to align the sheets up in rows, or arrange them in any particular fashion. Let some sheet music cover other pages, turn them to various angles, and be sure to cover every square inch in this manner.

After attaching the sheet music to the table top you can brush on stain, if you desire. The stain makes the sheet music look dark, old and brittle. It’s an interesting new look for the old table, making it appear to be old while making it new again. After staining the table, use a couple coats of clear lacquer, to protect the paper.

Call shops that sell sheet music, places that sell musical instruments, or even your local schools to see if you can locate sheet music that’s no longer needed. Of course, your interests might not run towards decorating in a musical theme, therefore, you might want to try something similar yet different.

The technique works with maps, children’s coloring book pages, children’s artwork or school work papers, pages ripped from an old novel, restaurant menus from your travels, old letters, brochures, documents, flyers, newspapers, magazine articles and other papers.

Not only can you resurface tables – of wood, plastic or metal – but you can also do cabinet doors, drawers, walls, book cases, mantles, mirror borders, shelves and other hard surfaces. You don’t have to cover the entire project with the sheet music or other papers, either. Section off a place in the center, make a border instead of covering the area completely, or just make a unique design by placing the papers only in certain areas.

You’ll be surprised at how quickly you can change something ugly or ho-hum into something gorgeous – a conversation piece that is like no other. And for the price of paper – some of which you may already have lying around the house – you’ll definitely be proud of your accomplishment on this project.