Artificially aged furniture: secrets of stylish solutions

A very large number of people dream of living in a luxurious house or apartment, filled with antiques, handmade carpets, forged products, and original artwork. However, the re-establishment of a similar style of interior design is quite expensive, so these people's desire to remain just a dream, sometimes they are not even voiced aloud.

In fact, to get the desired situation, it is not necessary to have a lot of money, you can simply use the existing well-furnished house, just giving it a patina "old".

Secrets of creating a "rarity" furniture with their hands

There are three primary ways to create out of the ordinary, just yesterday acquired objects are real masterpieces of furniture. Each option has its pros and cons, and each provides slightly different end result.

Important: before work is required to prepare the surface decoration by way of its clean-up, the old coating (paint, varnish) and removal of accessories.

Mechanical

This option is considered the most safe and easy. Antique furniture, obtained by means of these actions, different reserve and is more suitable for the creation of a "simple" style, as an option, for a country or provence.

So, give the "old days" cupboards, lockers and chairs can be mechanically using abrasive paper, wire brush blue and white, which is a kind of decorative coverage.

Council: if you first do aging furniture, to begin with a small, select the product and work out on it.

Step-by-step instruction:

• select the object, which is to "grow old" in the eyes;
• go over the entire surface thereof with the abrasive cloth;
• walk trace metal brush;
• Clean the treated place of sawdust;
• cover subject azure white;
• Repeat the last step if, after drying the first layer is not observed the desired effect (no relief);
• coat paint product.

Thermal

This embodiment helps to give the "age" of wooden objects by means of fire, brushes (metal), stain and varnish.

After completion of the aging procedure, the furniture, which has a dark, lofty shades, as well as possible better suited to the creation of seasoned, stylish and never lose their relevance classic interior.

How to do it:

• knock out all the furnishings, which should be given "the old days", on the street;
• anneal its entire area using a blowtorch or kerosene burner;
• remove carbon deposits;
• walk across the roasted square brush to achieve a clear relief;

This step can be done before the lamp or torch to be used.

• cover the treated area stained, and, after it dries, and varnish.

Council: during firing does not linger long on only one site that simply does not burn a thing

Chemical

Using ammonia and sandpaper (the method is only suitable for hardwood)

The secret of adding "age" of the furniture in this case is simple: initially handled carefully nazhdachkoy surface and then across the surface roughness obtained traversed brush dipped in ammonia.

This antique furniture for creating bright, luxurious interiors.

With the application of paint and cracelures

In this case it turns out antique furniture and interesting interior? On the processed piece of furniture paint is applied the necessary shade. After drying it necessarily produced polishing cloth and then applied krakelyurny lacquer.

Top craquelure covered another layer of paint, which must be lighter tones 1-2 lower. After the lacquer dries, the entire surface there are small cracks.

If you are using paint and gold patina

This method is considered to be one of the fastest options for transformation of a new piece of furniture in the "old days."

So, after the owner of the walk through the entire area of ​​a skin, a furniture item should be covered with paint. After its drying with a sponge is applied to particular sections golden acrylic based paint. In this optional finishing touch lacquer acts, allowing to fix the result.

How do you determine when it is necessary brushed?

Brushed - sampling process soft wood fibers to impart a pronounced structural. To create such an effect in a production environment using brashirovalnye or sandblasting machines. At home, the same conditions performed brushed with a wire brush and chisel.

Plus brushing is that it can be combined with any of the methods aging furniture. As the disadvantages are the following facts: this treatment can be subjected only hardwood (oak, larch) and the first time a novice can not achieve the desired effect on the product.

Thus, the "force" antique furniture for external indicators does not differ from the rarity of furniture, which allows even a modest budget easily create a royally luxurious, beautiful and stylish apartments.

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