Cabinet with their hands decor. Make your own furniture design

After several years of marriage, you suddenly find yourself thinking: "What is this cabinet awkward and gloomy." And throw a pity - a new no money, and this is still a resource is not developed. It's time to make a decoration of the cabinet with his own hands.

Flick of the wrist turns into a closet ...

There are many ways to donate old but still sturdy furniture a second life. In this case, it will not only carry out normal functions, but is also a lush and vibrant part of the interior of your apartment.

"Rehabilitation" course

First complete the inspection and restoration. The audit is required to show up subtle defects and faults.

The main stages of restoration.

• Dismantling. Remove the doors and shelves, disassemble the box.
  
  

  Performing disassembly, do not damage certain parts of the subject of restoration.

• Replacement or repair of fittings and fasteners. If they had deteriorated, replace with new ones.
• Cleaning the non-removable metal elements from corrosion.
  
  

  With the help of special cleaning agents to remove rust stains from metal.

• Removal of the old coating, stripping contaminants.
  
  

  Treat the door and the outer wall and the inner-side grinding machine or sandpaper.

• Rinse all parts with clean water and dry thoroughly (for at least 2 days).
• Sealing defects - scratches, cracks, nail holes and screws.
  
  

  Small can be eliminated with the help of furniture wax, and large - filler, applied in several thin layers.

• Coating acrylic (or alkyd) paint or lacquer in several layers.
  
  

  Dry the required each new layer.

NOTE! Restoration of furniture any useful, not just the old cabinets.

Read on if you want to make a masterpiece with his own hands.

Wallpaper can be glued on furniture

Better to use vinyl wallpaper and a special glue. Pre-audited and renovation, do the following.

• Leave in the restoration of unpainted areas on which will be pasted wallpaper.
  
  

  Treat with acetone or gasoline. Apply the primer.

• Make accurate drawings plots on the wallpaper and cut them out.
  
• Promazhte carefully carved piece of wallpaper glue and carefully attach to the surface.
• Smooth special roller or clean dry cloth.
  
  

  Do not let peeling and blistering.

ON A NOTE! If the outer surface of the old cabinet have convex or decorative elements, it is possible to fully pasted wallpaper.

Plaster can make patterns

It can be applied to the bulk pattern. This requires a stencil pattern, a spatula and a special decorative plaster. After the termination of minor defects, do the following.

• Secure with tape the stencil to the surface to be decorated.
• Apply the plaster on the stencil.
• Remove the stencil and affix it to the next station.
  
  

  Plasters are ideal for creating decorative coatings.

• Thoroughly dry the plaster.
• Coat with acrylic paint in several layers.
• Apply final layer of varnish.
  
  

  Decorative shtukaturkana Today is a great alternative for interior decoration.

ON A NOTE! Stencil better be made of plastic or PVC. Cardboard quickly wears out, gets wet and loses its shape.

"Dress" for the old cabinet

Yes, you can paste over the body and the door with a cotton cloth with a suitable pattern! You also need - PVA glue, acrylic paint and varnish.

After priming, do the following.

1. Promazhte carefully glue the outer surface of the cabinet.
2. Carefully apply and wipe roll pre-made fabric preform. Avoid the formation of bubbles and folds.
3. Apply a second layer of adhesive.
4. Dry thoroughly.
5. Apply drawing paints.
6. Make inlay of the materials at hand - beads, buttons, colorful pieces of the correct form of the glass. Along the edges of the doors can be made of lace edging. "Moment" glue it all with the help of glue.
7. Coat with acrylic lacquer several times.
   
   

   Cloth strap a better large elements such as the doors of the wardrobe.

Cute locker with Decoupage

If you admire this technique decor, old furniture is perfect for the experiment. Pick the image on a paper basis, buy a fine sandpaper.

After restoration, proceed as follows.

• Carefully treat sandpaper edge of the picture to the thinning.
  
  

  Lay out a pattern on the surface.

• Wet them with water and spread out so that they come to nothing stuck, such as a piece of cloth.
• Spread white glue space reserved under the picture.
  
  

  On disposal locker elements napkins and glue with white glue.

• Gently apply and smooth the image with a roller.
• Wait until dry decoration.
  
  

  Once the glue dries, you can begin to varnish.

• Coat varnish in two layers.
  
  

  This ingenuous at first glance decoration technique greatly transform your old furniture.

Acrylic paints a broader range of expressive means available to you as a designer.

To conduct "experiments" over the cabinet are required:

• Paints dark and light pastel shades, as well as two or three bright colors;
• Clear varnish and shellac;
• Sheet grained sandpaper;
• Furniture wax - bitumen (dark) and transparent;

Perform the following steps in this order.

• Cover thoroughly clean the exterior of the dark pastel paint cabinet.
• After it dries coat the inside and outside of the cabinet pastel painted a light shade.
  
  

  As well as to be dry.

• Sandpaper sand the some parts, simulating the abrasions.
• Apply with a brush you like drawing or using the prepared stencil.
  
  

  The geometry figure tried to observe via reference points.

• To create the "aging" effect on the dried drawing apply bituminous wax, good spread it over the entire surface with a brush pattern or ornament.
• Powertrowel this place a transparent wax to the desired uniform color.
  
  

  To paint brightly colored elements of the pattern.

• Put to dry for at least 24 hours.
• Cover shellac places subject to "aging", to secure the wax.
  
  

  After all dry (12-24 hours), may be coated with varnish.

NOTE! To avoid being issued this age of the cabinet, "aged" with their own hands, use the wooden handles and other accessories, treated by the above method.

Olden in noble cracelures

Create your own hands out of the closet with a beautiful uncommon antique gilt texture consisting of many small and deep cracks, "testifying" about the old age stuff.

To create the "magic potion" required:

• Biphasic krakelyurny varnish;
• Clear acrylic lacquer matte texture;
• "Gold" as grout powder (powder made of crushed to a fine state of nonferrous metals - bronze, aluminum, copper);
• Sponge for grout.

Sequencing.

1. Apply the first phase krakelyurnogo varnish. Wait for it to dry to a thick sticky consistency.
2. In the same manner, apply and dry the second phase.
3. Sponge powertrowel in the cracks "golden" powder.
4. Apply a layer of matt lacquer finish and how to dry.
   
   

   How expensive antiques will look aged using cracelures cabinet technology.

ON A NOTE! Instead of powder composition suitable special patination and bitumen wax, "dry" pastel. The longer drying krakelyurny the deeper layer gets cracked on the surface of furniture.

Secrets of good design

If you want to decorate furniture pattern, do not use more than two or three colors. They need to overlap with similar shades of the room décor. In this case, the furniture will not look foreign body. When pasting wallpaper furniture keep the same principle.

There is another option. When the walls are painted in lush colors (eg, dark purple), use light-colored paint (E.g., white), and the door and the front walls of the drawers with a small wallpaper obkleyte interesting ornament. There are cabinets with open shelves, which will be small interesting little things - paintings, statues, books.

Color pick up so that he did not "scored" items on the shelves, and emphasize their beauty. Do not rush to dispose of old furniture. With a little effort, take advantage of our tips and you're out of the closet with their own hands to create a small miracle.

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