When you get an incredibly ugly file cabinet, what do you do with it?!?

The trend is to apply a wallpaper or even paint it with chalk paint... OR both! For this project, I used contact paper. It's a super cheap material ($8 for a roll at Home Depot). Contact paper is kind of like a durable sticker. I'm new to chalk paint, so the front took 3 coats of some careful paint to achieve a texture and color I wanted! If you do this, be aware of the bubbles! You can use a pin needle to get rid of the pesky ones and iron them out with a credit card or something similar! 

Before

AFTER!