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Default Lining a lazy Susan cupboard


"Bull" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>> I have two of those lazy Susan type cupboards where the roundish shelves
>> just sort of go around and around. The cupboard is not a complete
>> circle.
>> I had previously lined them with white Contact paper but that didn't work
>> so
>> well. I couldn't get a piece that was the right size so I wound up
>> piecing
>> some together. It looked like crap. I decided to remove the paper in
>> the
>> flour cupboard after I discovered the weevils. That cupboard has since
>> had
>> pretty much everything replaced except for the salt.
>>
>> The other cupboard has mainly canned goods but the liner is old looking
>> and
>> starting to rip.
>>
>> I have bought some of that spongy liner with the holes in it in the hopes
>> that it will keep things from sliding. One problem I've had is stuff
>> flying
>> off the sides as the shelves spin around.
>>
>> But how to cut it? This might be easier to install because it is more
>> flexible. I had purchased some white liner online that just didn't work
>> at
>> all. It was very stiff and slick and even when cut in pieces there
>> turned
>> out not to be enough of it. I am not sure the stuff I have now is big
>> enough to be able to put just one piece in. I don't really know how to
>> explain it but the curved design is baffling me. Also the fact that I
>> can't
>> access the entire cupboard at once. I can only get to like...half of it
>> or
>> so.
>>
>> Any ideas? Or hmmm... Maybe I could pay my nephew to do the lining for
>> me.
>> He's had a heck of a lot more math than I have.

>
> I made a pattern. Cut the liner like the pattern and fit. If the
> material isn't large enough make a butt seam and tape it on the
> underside. (I used packing tape) Install fitted liner.


But how do you make the pattern? What is it made of and how do you do it?