Artificially aged furniture vintage kind of brings an interesting note in the design of the interior space of your home. Proper use of this technique you will create a glory great connoisseur of antiques among your friends and acquaintances, and inexpensive wardrobe or chest of drawers in the living room will be the object of universal admiration. Learn with us how to make old furniture the hands.
Occasional or antique furniture - this is a very elegant and beautiful, but this pleasure is not everyone can afford.
However, do not just upset, because there is a proven way to help artificially age the elements of your home furnishings.
Content
- 1 With age it is necessary to prepare
- 2 Chic dresser cracelures
- 3 The effect of the golden web
- 4 The effect of rubbing and fading paint on the furniture
- 5 subtleties brushing
- 6 There should be a noble patina
- 7 VIDEO: How to age a tree with his hands.
- 8 Antique furniture in an interior - 50 photo-ideas:
With age it is necessary to prepare
Start the aging process furniture with the audit. The wooden parts may have cracks and mechanical damage, not compatible with the operation, mounting elements - rust.
Before you start sostarivayut furniture in the home, it is necessary to conduct a thorough preparation of all wood surfaces that will be processed.
To get rid of the old cracked paint or varnish, as well as to dismantle the fittings and other disturbing elements.
- Disassemble and thorough inspection furniture.
- Use of emery or hand sander to remove traces of the old coating.
- Wash with clean water all the wooden parts and plywood.
- Dry for 1-2 days.
- If necessary Retouch minor scratches furniture wax chosen color furniture.
- Replace the old handles, locks and hinges, if necessary.
To keep your furniture looked shabby and worn, it is possible to use the technique of staining.
IMPORTANT! New elements of accessories also need to wear out - they can give your trick with furniture.
After assembly, you can proceed to the decorative aging.
The combination of rich foundations and light of the second layer will create the effect of faded colors.
Chic dresser cracelures
Create a simulated web of cracks in the protective coating inveterate old sideboard, carved frames hinged mirrors, pictures or tables dressing table. This requires:
- Krakelyurny water-based lacquer from quality gum arabic;
- The primer and paint of two colors - light base and a matte finish imitating tarnished old paint.
Thoroughly dry and prime the workpiece.
Wide uniformly apply paint roller base coat of paint. After drying apply krakelyurny layer. Let it thicken slightly dry.
The criterion of readiness for the final stage will be a test for detachment finger.
IMPORTANT! The thicker the layer, the larger the obtained "cracks". On the dried layer, they can not succeed.
Cover detail finishing coat of paint matt finish, being careful not to apply twice to the same place.
When fully dry on the surface formed miniature "cracked", which will not harm the wood.
The effect of the golden web
Use it with the two-phase technique cracelures. Obtain the following items:
- Biphasic krakelyurny varnish;
- The paint for the first layer;
- Powdered grout under the "gold" of copper or bronze;
- Transparent furniture polish.
With their hands, you can create the effect of cracking or in the language of decorators - craquelure.
NOTE! As the first phase of the great shellac.
the base coat of paint apply a thin layer of the first phase and wait for drying. Apply a second phase. When it is dry to the formation of cracks, with a sponge therein powertrowel powder and cover furniture lacquer.
You can achieve a similar effect by using a single-phase craquelure.
For this gold paint applied first layer.
IMPORTANT! Before you begin, remove the deep defects (cracks and chipped surface) Using multiple layers of fillings.
The effect of rubbing and fading paint on the furniture
It gives a cabinet or table view of the beaten life, but still good veteran.
Antique furniture can be quite easy to create on their own at home.
You will need:
- Acrylic paint or stain dark color to the first layer;
- The same paint light shade;
- Furniture wax or paraffin candles.
As a basis we choose whichever palette color, the main thing - is that it is saturated.
carefully grind surface sandpaper. Special sticky wipes clean from the resulting fine dust. Evenly apply a dark paint roller wide. Wait until dry. Grit sandpaper to 200 lightly sand the places where possible scuff - edges and corners of table tops, doors and facade of the drawer, wooden handles. Apply for them and good rub wax. cover furniture light paint.
Re-polish the place of imitation paint wiping finer sandpaper.
NOTE! To consolidate these places can be covered with transparent furniture varnish.
subtleties brushing
Many admire massive countertops or cabinet, made of rough planks with darkened surfaceOn which the visible growth rings. It seems amazing that in this advanced age, they have not lost their beautiful appearance and durability.
Make no mistake - before you brushed antique furniture from wood.
This method is the most time-consuming and complex process of aging furniture. A truly high quality brushing the wood can only be achieved in industrial environments. Special tools and fixtures - machine or router.
With a tenacity and spending more time, you will be able to achieve good results with a hand drill and special nozzles.
IMPORTANT! Particularly suitable for brushing larch, walnut and oak. These rocks have a distinct ring structure and are composed of wood fibers with large, well-treatable. We do not recommend to use maple, birch, alder and beech.
This method can be used both alone and in combination with other techniques of aging.
Classical brushing technique consists of three steps.
| stage №1 | Combing soft "spring" steel wire fibers nozzle |
| stage №2 | Grinding nylon abrasive brush to clean the nozzle from the small particles and wood crumb |
| stage №3 | Finish polishing platen of sisal fibers |
IMPORTANT! To reduce the amount of dust in the first stage moisten surface water. Do not forget to dry the workpiece before grinding.
Now the material is ready for aging.
To give the appearance of a dull wood, use a variety of tricks. You can blank cover with special structure of the varnish and powdered pigment, giving different shades of gray or gold color. If you want to get more contrast picture on surfaceDensely stained smear it and quickly remove the excess with a sponge.
Looser fibers have time to be painted in a dark color.
Create an artificial worn by a grinding machine, and fine-grained sandpaper. It is at this stage the maximum taste and imagination to achieve credibility.
Coat the assembled product is transparent furniture varnish in several layers, carefully prosushivaya each of them.
There should be a noble patina
Inspecting the samples antique furniture, you can easily notice that the corners of the relief items, carvings, deep elements of metal casting covered with rich dark patina. It appears on surface as a result of long-term oxidation dye, or lacquer coating and the metal particularly appreciated by connoisseurs.
The result of a natural process of oxidation will have to wait more than one year.
With minor tweaks can make rapid appearance of a noble patina surface completely new furniture MDF and laminated veneer lumber. This requires:
- Primer for wood;
- The main acrylic paint;
- Patinir part - antique gold patina or bitumen varnish;
- Furniture wax;
- Shellac varnish;
- Special sponge (Scotch Brite), or fine emery nozzle grinding-machine or a drill;
- Flannel cloth.
Apply the primer or paint a thin layer, through which a picture should appear wood.
Dry the preform during the day. Cover the whole patina surface details. It dries in ten minutes. Do not regret Patinir composition for three-dimensional parts, the joints and the wood folds - contrasting dark recesses will give them more expressive.
You can use for this purpose a bitumen varnish.
IMPORTANT! Rub the patina so that it does not look like an ugly stain or dirt poor removal of old paint with clearly defined boundaries.
Put on surface relief elements wax small portions, rub his Scotch-Brite. Remove residue with a flannel cloth. Emery grinding make light all the details without affecting the recess. Fine dry brush to apply wax gold patina.
To consolidate the effect for a long time, cover the furniture finished with transparent varnish.
ON A NOTE! If the base paint or wood is dark, use nitrocellulose lacquer. For light breeds of suitable water-based lacquer.
Do not despair if you can not buy your favorite old cabinet or chest of drawers. Arsenal ways to produce made old furniture, very diverse. Some of them you can apply at home. For complex methods, such as brushed, attract experienced specialists - carpenters and restorers furniture. Just do not try to sell his creation like a real antique.
Experienced professionals will notice a dirty trick.
VIDEO: How to age a tree with his hands.
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