House, design, repair, decor. Yard and garden. Do it yourself

House, design, repair, decor. Yard and garden. Do it yourself

How to decorate the old cabinet

It happens that the old objects of the situation become so expensive in morally, that send them to the scrap is not real. It is this situation that often consists of older wardrobes, originate from the "polished" Soviet Union.

Repairs were made, the design of the room was changed, the new generations were adjusted ... But never and no one had a hand on an old polished cabinet, at least before that time. We offer several options for how to update the usual furniture for clothing storage.

Stages of restoration

It is possible to achieve an exceptional result of all efforts only by complying with the strict sequence of all actions. So, proceed:

  1. If there is a strict lacquer coating on furniture, or faulty items, they should be eliminated. Lacquer or paint is perfectly removed by special solutions that need to be applied for a certain period of time. Literally after half an hour, the cleaning of varnishes varnish and it is filmed first with a spatula, and then a rigid sandpaper. As a result, it should be dry, clean, homogeneous and rough surface.
  2. Then you need to proceed with the scrupulous study of all individual parts for the presence of cracks, chips and other defects. To eliminate them, a specific spacing of a tree and a soft rubber spatula will be useful. As the mixture is drying, it needs to be grinding.
  3. After that, all processed surfaces need to be covered with a mourn of the desired shade.
  4. Applying several layers of coloring matter allows you to achieve a homogeneous blasting. The last layer of the veil should be dried throughout the pair of days, at room temperature. And only after this period of time, you can apply the first layer of acrylic varnish on the basis of water.
  5. The application of varnish occurs with a specific brush with natural and rigid pile. Mails need to do only from top to bottom.
  6. Cabinet decoration is possible only after complete drying of the final varnish layer. For this stage, it is worthwhile to be a self-adhesive furniture cat, imitating "gold". It needs to reorganize the central sash of the cabinet, its side walls and the necessary parts of the entire facade.
  7. If necessary, the cabinet can be equipped with a new bus for her shoulders made by their tree or metal.
  8. The final varnish occurs using a specific ultralyant varnish, usually selling in an aerosol canopy. It is very easy to spray and allows you to literally transform furniture, giving her chic and novelty.
  9. Internal boxes can be decorated with the remnants of the furniture Cant.

The result of two- or three-day efforts will be the transfiguous grandmother's cabinet, which most perfectly fit into the modern interior.

Cabinet Decor in Modern Style

To perform such a transformation of old furniture, you need to be as follows:

  • the cabinet itself;
  • braid;
  • cotton cloth;
  • harsh thread;
  • buttons of different sizes;
  • material for marking;
  • scissors;
  • pVA glue, "moment" and acrylic paint.

Before starting the creative part, it should be replaced with all wear or broken fittings. And only after that you can start:

  1. Eliminate all protruding elements, such as inclusions or influx of old paint or varnish.
  2. At all surfaces of the cabinet very thin layer, attach a cotton cloth. At this stage, it is impossible to allow squares in the form of deformation, roughness or warping.
  3. It is necessary to decorate the closet not only outside, but also inside, avoiding the layers of the fabric in the joints of the joints.
  4. All bored surfaces must be opened with a layer of PVA, after which the design dries over the hour.
  5. With the help of acrylic paint, all elements of furniture are toned, and the procedure will have to repeat more than once. The latter depends on the final artistic plan.
  6. We need to decorate all sides of the front door. This is done using the "moment".
  7. The "sewing" of buttons is also done through the "moment".
  8. The final varnish occurs with the involvement of a transparent varnish based on acrylic.

After complete drying, your old locker will look like in a photo.

Decoration in classical execution

Guide to action:

  1. From the cabinet, you need to dismantle the sash and put them on a flat plane.
  2. Prepare stencil from the selected sketch.
  3. Transfer the pattern to a sheet of plastic, carefully cut empty places, leaving technological jumpers.
  4. Sandage to eliminate all roughness from the door, degrease the surface.
  5. Prepare plaster and tape attach the workpiece to the cabinet sash.
  6. Fill the finished mixture of stencil attached to the door, while avoiding the appearance of cavities and shells.
  7. Stencil remove, clean the surface of plaster.
  8. All surfaces open the acrylic paint into several layers, and then apply transparent varnish.

As doors dry out, they can be mounted back to the old wardrobe. This technique allows you to get the unique surfaces of the frontal elements of furniture, which will be imitated by an old wood thread, as can be seen in the photo.

Wardrobe decor with photographs.

To implement such a designer idea, we will use the collages of their own photos or ready-made photo wallpapers. The Cabinet Transfiguration itself will take at least time:

  1. Clean furniture from the old coating.
  2. Surfaces cover primer or paint white.
  3. Photo cards of gloves, bending angles and sections.
  4. After complete drying of the glue, the furniture is covered with varnish.

Well, the easiest and most quick option of how and how to decorate the old closet, is the attachment of mirrored canvases.