How Do You Remove Stickers From Furniture?

Children enjoy playing with stickers and often decorate every surface they can find with their favorites. When that surface ends up being your furniture, you are left with the task of removing the sticker and its sticky residue. Use products and supplies from home to remove stickers and residue from your furniture. The sooner you tend to pesky stickers, the more easily they will come off and the less residue they will leave.

Things You'll Need

• Clothing iron
• Rubbing alcohol
• Cotton swabs
• Plastic scraper
• Vegetable oil
• All-purpose cleaner
• Paper towels
• Mild dish detergent
• Water
• Bucket

Instructions

Hard-Surface Furniture

1. 

   Moist steam from an iron can loosen a sticker.

   Heat your clothing iron on the steam setting. Apply the steam to the site of the sticker on your hard-surface furniture. The steam from the iron is often enough to loosen the sticker from hard surfaces such as glass, metal or wood.

2. Dip a cotton swab in rubbing alcohol and wipe it over the sticker if it's really stuck on the hard-surfaced furniture. Allow the rubbing alcohol to sit on the sticker for a few minutes.

3. Scrape the sticker off the furniture with a plastic scraper.

4. Soak another cotton swab in vegetable oil and rub it onto the sticker residue left on your hard-surface furniture.

5. Spray on an an all-purpose cleaner and wipe the furniture with a paper towel to remove the oil and any remaining sticker residue.

Upholstered Furniture

1. Steam the sticker on your upholstered furniture using your clothing iron. If the sticker hasn't been on the furniture long, you may be able to lift it right off after steaming. If not, proceed.

2. 

   Cotton swabs help you direct the cleansing agent to a precise location.

   Dampen a cotton swab with vegetable oil and dab at the remaining sticker and residue on your upholstered furniture. The oil breaks down the sticky adhesive, making it easier to remove both the sticker and the leftover adhesive.

3. Mix a cleaning solution of 1/2 gallon warm water and a few drops of mild dish detergent in a bucket. Dampen a paper towel with the soapy solution and blot at the site where the sticker was stuck on your upholstered furniture. Continue to blot at the upholstery to clean up the oil used to remove the sticker.

4. Lay a folded paper towel over the upholstery and apply pressure to wick up the soapy solution used to clean your furniture. Toss out wet paper towels and apply more paper towels until there's no further transfer of cleaning solution to the paper towels.

5. Allow your upholstery to air-dry.

Tips & Warnings

• Purchase a sticker book for your child so they have a place to stick stickers that doesn't involve your furniture.

• Old stickers that are really stuck on hard-surface furniture may need to sit overnight with oil on them in order to loosen the adhesive enough for removal.

References

• Learn How To Remove: How To Remove Stickers