The popularity of Hand-Made products is growing day by day, among them the painting of furniture with their own hands. Fascinating occupation brings and practical benefits: With the help of painting, old furniture items acquire the second life. But it is not necessary to deal exclusively by restoration. A new simple furniture without findings can be turned into a real interior masterpiece. The main thing is to choose the appropriate painting technique.
The method of furniture design depends on the professional skills and the time you are ready to spend on creating a masterpiece. Novice who do not own artistic drawing art, it is better to start using simple stencils. A more complicated and interesting painting is obtained by mastering the decoupage technique. The main composition in the future can be supplemented with small items made by yourself.
Masters owned by a brush, it is better to try the painting of furniture with the use of acrylic paints. The time to work is more, but the freedom of creativity is not limited to a certain composition. For the first experiments, small furniture items are suitable - stool, chair or shoe regiment. After counting the skills of painting, you can proceed to more overall subjects - chests, cabinets.
Comment! For painting fit furniture from natural treeProducts on the basis of chipboard Or MDF will have to set aside. The exception is the design of surfaces with decoupage.
Depending on the selected equipment, you will need:
Golden paints give the drawing on extra brightness furniture, getting a blurred image will help using hair dryer with painting.
Before starting work, the surface of the furniture requires purification and degreasing. To eliminate the irregularities, sanding, scratches and dents are sweeping, after which the furniture is covered with primer composition. By the beginning of the painting, proceed after careful drying of the treated surface.
Comment! If the preparatory stage is missing, an image applied by painting can be spoiled after a short period.
After carrying out preparatory stage Go directly to the design of furniture.
Painting with a stencil is the easiest way to transform the interior of the room. By choosing the option from numerous examples, it is originally printed, and then transferred to a tight sheet. Ornament or other image gently cut out. Simple and at the same time attractive patterns are presented below:
The surface of the furniture is initially painted with background color, usually choose calm shades for these purposes. After drying the paint, the stencil is securely fixed on the furniture and fill the prepared cutout cuts with a brighter paint. Work is carried out with a sponge, so the surface is painted more evenly. It is better to gradually apply several layers on the furniture.
Depending on the selected pattern, the painting of furniture makes a monophonic or multicolor. In conclusion, it is recommended to additionally circulate the painting contour to obtain a brighter image. If the stencil is small, it is possible to use the pattern on several subjects, the main thing is to comply with moderation to avoid the interior surgery with bright colors.
The essence of the decoupage technique is to fix the pattern made on paper or tissue, on a dense basis. It can be small vases and jars or more overall furniture. The advantage of decoupage compared with the painting acrylic paints - for design it is not necessary to choose a wooden surface.
Huge importance in the preparation of materials has a choice of varnish. Depending on the composition, the surface of the furniture can be:
For the imitation of painting, special material with the drawdle is acquired. There are the following options for furniture decor:
Attention! Regardless of the selected drawing, a piece of furniture designed to paint the decoupage technique, paint in a white background. The reason for the requirement is simple - before applying paper with a pattern is moistened, if the base is color, the color of the painting will noticeably distort. On a white background, the color gamma will remain in primeval form.
Fixing the pattern passes in a different way. Typically, the surface is treated with glue, after drying, apply paper with a pattern and thoroughly smash, achieving the complete absence of bubbles or wrinkles. When the paper snacks, the drawing is covered with varnish, which will retain the integrity of the painting.
Visual examples of painting made using the Decoupage technique are presented in the photo:
A full-fledged painting is more suitable for people who can independently create an interesting picture on furniture. But this is not a prerequisite. A simple drawing in the form of a cherry on a children's chair is quite under the power to fulfill both a newcomer.
The main stages of the work:
Depending on the necessary effect The base layer of paints is given to dry or apply the other tone from above, without waiting for full drying. Rate the variety of images that can be decorated with furniture, help photo:
When choosing an image is guided by the functional destination of the room and the interior style. The most common painting on the furniture is in demand in the style of Provence. Natural motifs, all kinds of vegetation and birds fully meet the concept of design with the flavor of the French province. It is extremely organically painted. If desired, the furniture in the kitchen can also be made painting, although it is easier to contact the decoupage technique. In addition to floweks, birds and vegetation, there are other interesting compositions.
Children's room is a space for creativity. Newcomers are better to choose simple images, it can be fish, colorful numbers and letters. If desired, the child's room will be filled with bunnies, fairies, cars and sailboats. It all depends on age, gender and preferences of the beloved chad.
For furniture design, you can choose neutral themes - geometric shapes, overflowing bubbles, the choice is limited exclusively by its own fantasy.
The kitchen is a suitable place for still lifes. Extremely effectively look at the furniture painting in the form of a tree, the trunk of which is located on the penalty, and the branches smoothly go to the next locker.
Dare, and by decoring the surface of the furniture headset, you can transform the interior of the room beyond recognition. The main thing is to take into account the functionality of the room, the general stylistic solution and not to overestimate its own capabilities.
The times of furniture deficit have long passed, and today we can buy for an apartment and at home all that we wish. But so far, many owners of furniture objects of the era of socialism are trying to repair them, give them new life. And it is not from greed or acute attachment to things. Just such an item like old dresserIt may not be trash, the place of which is except in the country, but to establish your own imagination and the ability to create your own hands.
Repair and restoration processes are similar, but have several significant differences. Repairing old furniture, we simply transform it most often: we remove the plated paint, squeak, we apply a new layer, tighten the separated elements. Restoration - deeper work, significantly overlooking the boundaries cosmetic repair. In addition, the renovated dresser can become more valuable if it was originally a rather original, exclusive product.
Before deciding to restore the old chest, make a thorough assessment of its value. Inspect the product on the subject of tags or stamps indicating the name of the wizard and the manufacture time. It may turn out that your chest of drawers is an old work of furniture art, and, starting to process it, you will lose a truly valuable thing.
Old dresser can represent antique value
Signs of antiquities may be as follows:
The last two features may indicate that the fasteners were manufactured manually, and not an industrial way.
All of the above can be found in the unarmed look. A deeper analysis will be conducted by a specialist whom you invite to evaluate the product. Until the final conclusion, it is not recommended to start restoration or repair work.
So, you decided to restore the old chest with your own hands. The work will have a painstaking, requiring attention and time. Each step is extremely important, so try to miss anything.
Old dresser in need of restoration
To work, you will need:
Old dresser must be cleaned so that the surfaces and decorative parts are damaged. To begin with, wipe the product with a sponge with soap solution. Water should be warm, but not hot, but as a detergent - economic or stained soap without chlorine.
Vintage furniture items, especially the chest, are often decorated with small details and carved inserts. It is good to clean them to make a toothbrush.
Remove the furniture fittings (this will give you access to surfaces under items for better removal of dirt) and soda the cleaning agent. For example, for silver it is good for the dental powder.
Such hard-to-reach places like slots and corners, clean the sewn or toothpicks. Retain and dirt can be removed with thin sandpaper. It should be used very carefully, otherwise the finish can sweep as a result of strong pressure.
If you decide to change the color of the old chest or cover it with a new layer of varnish, the surface must be carefully stabed.
After the old chest is washed and dried well, replace or replace damaged items. Finding suitable parts will most likely be difficult. To do this, it is better to contact the antique shop or carpentry workshop to order the manufacture of the necessary decor items. There you can get professional help on installing parts.
Check how well the screws and bolts are tightened, whether the tree crashed. Rusty or discharged bolts Remove: they need to be replaced with new ones. Little cracks on the surface clutch with wooden glue; Those, which is larger, squeeze the woodpath, pick it up strictly into the tone. If you are planning to subsequently cover the chest of drawers with a verse, then use a special putty.
Now rarely meet furniture made of natural wood on a wide sale. Old chest can not be combined with modern style Your home. Therefore, in addition to the fresh type of this product, you can give a new image. The easiest way is to paint it in one color, for example, white.
First, remove the old coating from the surface. Do it carefully, so as not to damage the wood and do not leave the traces of the old coating in the slots and corners.
Carefully clean the surface of the chest so that there are no irregularities
Now skill surface to get rid of irregularities and small flaws.
Good sand surface
After sanding, go to the putty. Thoroughly close all chips and unnecessary holes. After drying the shtalavka, set it in fine-grained sandpaper.
For painting of the chest, use special paint for wood. May be needed once again to skill surface. To give the checkered chest, on top of the paint you can apply a layer of varnish (naturally, after complete drying).
On the old chest used in our example, there were iron handles. Of course, they are beautiful and apply an antique look. But unfortunately, some of these handles are hopelessly damaged. The easiest way out is to completely replace them with new, more suitable in style. Make it simple: Drill the holes for the desired diameter in suitable places And insert the elements of the fittings.
Replace old chest handles to new to give the product a modern view
As you can see, the chest of drawers became completely different: new, modern and exclusive.
New life of old furniture
If a pure and white color seems to you little in order to breathe new life in an old chest, make a decoupage.
That's all, your chest of drawers played with new paints! Decoupage is good because you can choose any pattern and pattern, which will allow your imagination.
This method will help you turn the old and boring cumbersome chest in a lightweight and elegant interior object. For transformation, we will take a classic model without special decorative jewelry: Three wide drawers and two small.
Classic chest of drawers with three large and two small drawers
You will need the following tools and materials:
Unscrew the handles at the chest. Carefully inspect it from all sides. Special attention is paid to the lid and legs: in these places, wood is usually susceptible to the greatest damage. If the shortcomings are minor, eliminate them optional. But in case of detection of more serious damage, it is sometimes necessary to replace some details completely.
Free the dresser from the old varnish or paint. The upper layers can be removed by the chisel; Usually they easily depart. The remnants carefully set the emery so that clean wood is visible.
Clean the product from the old paint and remove the accessories
To the places where noticeable irregularities and dents are found, apply the mastic with a spatula and align the layer. After drying, stick these places with fine-grained emery paper. Do it carefully, do not press too much, otherwise damage the fresh layer of mastic. As a result, the surface should be perfectly smooth.
You bought new handles for the chest can be smaller or more than old. In this case, you need to close the tailoring of the holes that remain from the old handles that you removed, and do new in the right places with a drill.
Note! There are handles that are attached to special self-tapping screws. For them, you do not need to drill holes. If you have the opportunity, purchase such fittings to facilitate your work.
Divide PVA glue with water. Using tassels, treat the entire surface of the chest. You can replace glue by any primer. When the surface is completely dry, you can start decorating.
First of all, prepare the main elements of the decor - the frame for sidewalls and boxes. They can be made from ordinary polyurethane moldings. In this work, the main thing is that the measurements are correct. Frame for drawer Must be located strictly around the edge. On the sidewalls it is better to make a small indent.
Correct the size of decorative frames on drawers
It is also very important to properly cut the angular parts of the molding.
When you prepare all the details for the frames, proceed to their mount. For greater reliability, screw the frames with screws with screws, then close the places where they enter the moldings, mastic so that no hats are distinguished.
Mastigine places in which screws come in Moldings
Now color the installed frames of acrylic paint. Choose any color that you like or comes to the interior of the room. For example, for the chest in french style It will be good for light coffee or beige. Paint in a few layers, every time waiting for complete drying.
Inside the frames, turn the wallpaper. Well, if they have a thick texture and bizarre pattern. The ornament should be darker of common background. After you finish your wallpapers, gently screw the handles to the seats.
For the originality of the decor, use wallpaper
The last barcode is a transparent lacquer coating. It should be applied in several layers.
Chest after restoration in the bedroom interior
To make drawers easily extended from the groove, lubricate the paraffin wooden parts of the retractable system. Slide will be significantly facilitated.
As you can see, turn the old bulky dresser in a completely new and attractive element of the interior is not at all difficult, although troublesome. But all the difficulties are fascinated before the result of the work. Tell us in the comments about your ideas of restoration and alterations of old furniture. Good luck to you and comfort your home!
The decorator and artist on the painting of INGA aggregary tells in detail about all stages of decorating the chest. If you wish, you will independently repeat all actions and eventually get a bright individual thing adorning your home. Inga loves unusual items in the interior, conducts master classes in painting and decorative painting for children and adults.
» soil for wood. In this case, it was necessary to keep the texture of the tree, so the usual PVA glue was used as a soil, which can be found in a construction or stationery store;
»Normal thin paper 80gr to translate pictures. You can take a dense traction;
»Several simple pencils of different softness, handle, eraser, scissors;
»Grinding machine with fine-grained skin or simply fine-grained peel on the bar. There are in every construction store;
»Acrylic paints, 1-2 bulk contours (can be on the glass or universal);
»Brushes, protein (simulation of proteins) and synthetics or speakers. Numbers 0, 00, 000, 1, 2, 3 (depending on the complexity of the selected pattern);
»Acrylic lacquer water-based. Sold in construction or art stores. Depends on the size of the work. Matte or glossy. Lacquer without smell, brush is easily washed with warm water with soap;
»Brush-flirts Synthetic from a construction store for lacquer coating;
»Palette, pair of rags, apron.
To begin with, it is important to determine the subject matter what exactly you want to portray in the dresser, how much a lot of wooden background is supposed to leave.
I wanted to leave the maximum tree and focus on beautiful handles, colors and image sizes.
At the starting point, an Indian elephant was taken, which is depicted on the bedspread of the owner of the chest.
Next followed the selection of images of Indian elephants, Pavlinov, Paisley Indian cucumbers, "Mandala" symbols on Pinterest. Just save the images into a separate folder. Pictures can be colored, black and white - the main thing is that they correspond to your idea.
The most important thing is to be primed and stabbed the chest. A tree with pleasure absorbs paint, even lines can be slightly spread over the fibers. Mix the PVA glue with water in a proportion of 90% of glue + 10% water (sometimes 20% depends on the initial glue thickness).
We unscrew the chest of handles, they will also be primed. We are covered with a wide brush with a soil, let dry, then grind. In this way, we close the pores of the tree, not allowing to absorb very paint, and the lines will not work "spread".
Then you should make a very approximate sketch on paper to understand what pictures, where and in what size is transferred to the chest. The image can be arbitrarily draw on the desired scale or immediately print all the necessary dimensions of the selected drawings.
After drawing a single instance that was circled by a handle, turn the image to the other side and make a mirror image of the picture through the window glass. Thus, to obtain a mirror image, you will not need to spend over time and strength.
The opposite side of the picture tightly fasten the soft simple pencil, then when pressing the handle on the tree, the contours of the picture imprinted.
After transferring all images, it is time to choose paint.
I wanted to make more cold blue shades in the chest, because warm red and orange in the interior abound.
Dark blue became the main color of the painting. They made contours of birds, elephants, paisley, mandala.
Additional - 6 colors in which the handles are painted.
As a bulk decor - a bronze outline.
It should be started with large forms - the blue frame and painting of the ends. 
Then proceed to the painting of the front of the chest. First apply the dark blue contours, then make accents with multi-colored paints, and after drying - Decor by contour.
When working with the contour, it should be borne in mind that after applying it takes about an hour to dry out so that it can not be lubricated.
After the painting of the entire chest, you can proceed to the handles. They are painted in the colors of the chest and are decorated with dark blue colors and decorative contour. You can fasten them to the chest in any combination. 
After painting, cover the chest of drawers.
Pens, boxes, housing are covered separately. 
We pull everything, put on a steady surface (this is especially true for the handles), we take our wide brush and cover the thin layer of varnish. It is important that no lacquer drops do not get - they are then difficult to clean. 
Each layer of varnish dries 12 hours (more information can be found on the lacquer bank). Acrylic varnish after a couple of hours will not stick, but still better evening Covered and leave until the morning in the room without drafts, sticking fluff and pets.
The next evening the procedure can be repeated. 
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Good way Decorate, update or give it elements of the situation. A specific style is the painting of furniture. Of any, even the oldest interior items, you can create a unique piece of art. Everything is limited only by the fantasy and the reserve of patience.
There are no restrictions in the choice of items. The main factor determining suitability is the material. For the embodiment, the old furniture made of wood is better suited. This is precisely its value with respect to modern products made from chipboard and fiberboard. "Furniture from sawdust" is definitely not suitable.
With a wooden surface easier to work. Old paint Or varnish can be easily removed, various defects (chips, cracks) can be eliminated or left to impart the effect of "composition". In addition, most of the ways of applying drawings are calculated on wood. Any pattern or ornament looks good under varnish on wood texture. Suitable furniture covered with natural veneer. Example of this - old cabinet Or the chest made from multilayer veneered plywood. After removing the old varnish or paint, the surface is ground, color in the desired color and apply a drawing.
But also furniture from modern materials Do not cross out from the list. The facades from MDF, coated with acrylic, after some preparation can be painted in any style. Acrylic coating is a layer of paint polished after drying. This type of coating is often used in the manufacture of facades of kitchen heads.
Modern paints and varnishes allow you to apply them on top different coatings. There are also paints designed for glass painting without special training.
The most common option is a simple decorative painting of furniture. It is mainly the application of small elements, ornaments or repetitive patterns. For a simple drawing, the paint is used in one color, and templates or stencils for painting are used to simplify the process. This type of decoration is suitable for modern furniture. Gilding is widespread. This type of painting is characteristic of interiors in classic styles. Under gold decorate curly elements of furniture finishing.
A more complex option is artistic painting. This is a rather painstaking work, all stages of the crust are performed manually, including the smallest details. The painting on furniture can be in the form of a pattern or a small fragment, as well as be a complex volumetric pattern. The author's works are especially valued.
A separate place is occupied by the manufacture of interior items under ancient. This can also include the restoration of the old furniture. We use various paintings and styles. Surfaces and finishing elements are subjected to "edition" different ways. Vintage things are very popular among wealthy people and collectors. Usually this species Decoring is performed under the order.
The final result depends on the choice of paint on the straight line. The basis for the coating is the primer. It should be designed to work on the tree. It is not bad with the task of the primer material based on acrylic.
Any latex or acrylic paint is suitable for the upper layer. The surface is better to make matte. Gloss does not always look well. A good option will be paint in aerosol packaging. This will allow its uniform layer.
For painting on furniture, acrylic paints are often used. They are well suited for drawing different patterns. You can also use oil mixtures. Their traditional appointment is painting.
It serves as a protective coating. It is possible to use alkyd or acrylic lacquer for furniture. Also, like paint, it can be matte or glossy. Applying a layer of varnish on top of the drawing - the comprising stage of work.
For applying primer and paint layer on large square It may take a roller. With curly elements will help to cope with a wide brush.
Draw small patterns and lines is convenient with thin artistic brushes. For acrylic paint It is better to use brushes with a synthetic pile. It will not stick together. Oil paint It will require a brush with a natural pile.
A simple pencil, paper and ruler will be suitable for creating thumbnails and markup surfaces under the drawing. In addition, it may be needed to make patterns or stencils for painting.
Clear furniture from the old varnish or paint can be sanded by its sandpaper. It will take the "sandpaper" of different graininess for more thorough surface treatment. In some places, the old coating will have to remove the spatula.
Remove some types of varnish or paint with old furniture using special chemicals. You can find them in any economic store.
To remove dust you should be worse. Accommodated dirt from cracks and others hard to reach places A brush with a long and rigid pile will help.
The painting of furniture do it yourself - a long and painstaking work. The process can take a long time. Sometimes it takes more than one day and even a week. It is especially difficult if there is no experience in such a matter, it does not matter, we paint the old furniture or give the new kind Modern subjects.
For beginners, there will be no superfluous advice:
The process of embodiments of the idea consists of several stages. The first one is preparation for primer and painting. Classic option with old wooden furniture It implies the removal of the paint coating. To do this, you will need sandpaper large and medium grain or special chemical - Washing and spatula.
There is not one way to apply drawing on the furniture. Hand painted is especially valued. Top mastery can be considered painting. Combining various ways and painting techniques, it is possible to create truly unique things:
The art of painting makes any item unique. You can paint furniture using any traditional or modern direction. The painting of furniture in Russian style is very popular: Khokhlomskaya, Zhostovskaya, Mezenskaya. Each of them is unique in its own way. And of course, nothing prevents the creation of your own, no less unique style.
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