I posted my kitchen worktops makeover on the Fb Frenchic Group and I’ve obtained so many questions I believed I might reply them proper right here. We had a quote for model new worktops, it was £1,000 and we merely would not have that correct now. So, I found a vinyl overlaying generally known as DC Restore that covers our outdated worktop fully and creates a model new look. All for beneath £50. This submit particulars how I did it and what you will want.
What did I make the most of?
The material is a a sticky once more vinyl wrap. It comes as a roll, like wrapping paper, and you should measure and cut back what you need to cowl your worktops. I chosen ribbeck oak from Create Your World. I ordered 90cm by 10 metres and it worth £39.00. I hottest this oak coloration as a result of it appeared pretty rustic and I believed it might go most interesting with my painted cupboard doorways. My worktops measured spherical 7 metres, so I knew ordering further I might have spare for incase I made a mistake or definitely I wished to change it at a later date.
You could possibly have in mind I painted our cupboard doorways remaining Summer season season with Frenchic Paint, Al Fresco and the colour is Cool Beans. It made such a distinction to the kitchen as a result of it brightened it up. I really feel the pretend picket kitchen worktops now make it look full. Similar to the Shabby Fashionable, Nation actually really feel I am after.
What devices did I would really like?
I truly used a pair of scissors and a DC Restore gear pack I found on Amazon, it bought right here with a smoother and craft knife. It’s about £5 and the smoother and craft knife are vital to creating positive this wrap goes on simply with none bubbles. The craft knife moreover glides all through the wrap which suggests you’ll get fully clear edges. That’s it. These 3 devices. The beneath {photograph} moreover reveals what the ground appeared like initially:
Step-by-step data to changing into DC Restore vinyl on kitchen worktops
Firstly, you need to clear your current worktop down. Use sugar cleansing cleaning soap whether or not it’s considerably sticky and soiled. As quickly as clear, dry it down totally. You don’t need any water on the ground if you end up sticking the vinyl down. Now we’ll begin!
I flipped the wrap the fallacious method up and used the ruler guides on the once more to work out the place to cut. This means you can also use the scissors to get a fairly straight line (within the occasion you haven’t acquired entry to a guillotine).
Then I flip the wrap once more over, so the wood aspect is coping with up and I place it when it should be. It is important take into accounts the edges. As you will must wrap spherical an edge that is wider than one different edge (which suggests you will not be trimming a straight edge off the tip of the wrap). I moreover used the wrap to mould throughout the curved bullnose edges of the worktop.
Then it grew to change into just a bit robust! My methodology was to align it, then stick it on the WALL end (shortest edge) and work my strategy all through the worktop to the alternative end. Working all through the longest edge. So, within the occasion you take a look on the beneath {photograph}, you’ll discover I’ve caught the wall edge down and used the smoother to remove any bubbles.
my methodology was to tug the backing off, from beneath the wrap with my left hand (so inserting your arm beneath the wrap) after which use the smoother software program with my correct hand to push out any bubbles. It is important push the air from the aspect you’ll have caught and push away, in every other case you’d create a bubble and push it backwards. It is important use forward strokes, away from the sting you started at. Hope that’s sensible.
As soon as I acquired to the tip of the worktop I used the craft knife to get a precise decrease throughout the edging. This express piece of worktop was pretty robust as a result of it has an angled decrease. So I wrapped it throughout the prolonged edges and decrease it to swimsuit the best. Then I decrease gadgets of vinyl out notably for the three edges of the worktop. It was fiddly and it took me a few makes an try, nonetheless I am pleased with the best way it accomplished.
I then tidied up the edges. It didn’t have to be good. We’re overlaying the tiles subsequent with a splash once more, so I will use a white beading to finish the wall edges. Nonetheless I decrease it down so it appeared tidy until we get to that stage.
Listed below are some footage of the worktops:
Have you ever ever tried to utilize this? Do you’ll have another solutions for people having a DIY second? I might wish to know inside the suggestions beneath, or on social media: @mummyconstant. I am however to do the sink area, as I want to buy just a bit further bullnose worktop to finish off throughout the dishwasher. Nonetheless this has made an infinite distinction already.