How to decorate a wardrobe with your own hands?

Decorative decoration of furniturecan be called real creativity, in which there is no room for vanity. Perhaps you also thought about renewing your old furniture for a long time, but all the time you were afraid to spoil it outwardly with a familiar or out of fashion wardrobe? Then consider several options, techniques and ideas that allow you to radically change the design of the cabinet with your own hands. Maybe you will like something. In fact, even from the old simple wardrobe you can make an original, stylish and unique work.

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Popular furniture decorating options

You can decorate the cabinet yourself using the following techniques and ideas. Among them there are such, for example, color film or photo printing, which do not require any skills at all. The same options as the use of stencils or matting, not everyone can do it - there still will need some skills.

First we will find out, with the help of which it is possible to decorate cabinets:

• Photo wall-papers or photo printing.
• Matting a mirror or glass.
• Vinyl stickers or stained-glass color film.
• Decorative plaster( stencils).
• Ordinary or vinyl wallpaper.
• Painting or restoration.

Now in detail we will consider all methods of decor.

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Application of photo wallpapers or photo printing

This technique is used mainly to decorate the doors of cabinets. By the way, large-format printing has long been used in interior design. The pattern is applied to paper using a special printer. The difficulty lies only in the fact that this service is not cheap - it is necessary to look for a workshop specializing in the provision of this service.

Much cheaper to glue the wardrobe wallpaper, or rather photo wallpapers. Sell ​​them on the Internet and building stores. Their subjects can be the most diverse - landscapes, animals, floral compositions, fairy-tale characters, cartoon characters.

Important! They glue with glue based on starch, so in the future it will be quite easy to remove the pattern and replace it with any other.

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Decorating with vinyl stickers and stained-glass film

If you are looking for an option how to decorate the cabinet with your own hands so that it is as simple as possible in terms of performance, then stop on vinyl stickers and stained-glass film, because it's easy to apply them yourself. Your closet will become more presentable thanks to the decor. By the way, today stained glass windows are at the peak of popularity.

Important! In addition to decoration, the film protects the surface of the cabinet from various damages.

You can also remove this sticker yourself. Believe me, no one can distinguish from your real stained glass your own created imitation. The cost of the material depends on the size.

Important! Since the stained-glass film has a self-adhesive base, it is possible to periodically change the entourage.

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Matting of mirrors or glasses

This is a great idea how to decorate a mirror on a cabinet. It is more suitable for the closets.

Important! Matting in industrial conditions involves the removal of the upper layer of glass or mirror, resulting in a volumetric multilevel image.

You can make your own matting using special paste. You will need a rubber spatula and a stencil for work:

• It is put on the surface, the paste is applied from above with a spatula.
• In this form, everything remains for a while.
• If you use a paste with abrasive particles, you will have to rub for about an hour on the glass.
• The residues are washed off with plain water.

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Decorating with vinyl or plain wallpaper

Perhaps, after the repair you have a lot of materials left, then you will need an idea how to glue the wardrobe with wallpaper in order to update it.

Important! Decorate in this way is recommended only old wooden furniture. It is particularly strong, it is good, thorough, durable.

Features of the application of materials:

• You can decorate the cabinet with simple paper wallpaper, which is sufficiently glazed with glue, then glued. Yes, and they are inexpensive, much less vinyl colleagues. But they have two minuses: uninteresting figure, low level of strength.
• Vinyl wallpaper can have a non-woven or paper backing. They are heavier, they need to be degreased before the label.

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Application of decorative plaster

If you master how to decorate the cabinet with decorative plaster, then you will get quite a large decoration due to the use of relief elements. If desired, they can be painted in any shade.

For decoration you will need:

• Plaster.
• Plastic, cardboard or vinyl stencil.
• The old closet.
• Painting Scotch tape.
• Flat spatula.
• Acrylic paint.
• Sandpaper.
• Varnish.

How to proceed:

1. If the cabinet is already covered with paint, then its surface should be treated with sandpaper until the wooden substrate starts to appear.
2. If it is not painted, then it is necessary to remove the top layer with sandpaper, then remove the grease.
3. Cracks available.
4. Then take the ready-made stencil, attach it to the door, fix it with adhesive tape.
5. Using a flat spatula, apply decorative plaster to the stencil, filling each groove.
6. Remove the stencil, without waiting for the hardening of the plaster, correct any unevenness with a knife.
7. Allow the plaster to dry, coat the cabinet in several layers with acrylic paint.
8. At the very end, cover the surface with a varnish.

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Decor with paint and wallpaper

In this section we will learn how to decorate an old cupboard with paint. For work, prepare:

• Old cabinet.
• Acrylic lacquer.
• Acrylic paint based on enamel.
• Adhesive PVA.
• Paper wallpaper.
• Roller or brush for paint.
• Fine and coarse sandpaper.
• Paint for gold.
• New hardware.

Below we will look at how to decorate an old cabinet in stages:

• First, disassemble the cabinet, pull out all the boxes.
• Take the sandpaper, treat the surfaces of all the parts.
• Apply the paint brush first in the corners, then swipe across the entire surface.

Important! Painting is necessary until the dark color disappears.

• Decorate the boxes: paint their faces with white acrylic. Wait until it dries.
• Glue the adhesive tape to decorate each element with the "gold" paint. Cover it with all the details.
• Paint all the boxes with white paint. Remove the adhesive tape.
• Take wallpaper, cut out strips, glue them with glue, glue them gently.
• Glue the wallpaper on the inside of the cabinet.
• All that remained dark, carefully paint, while inserting the new hardware.

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Staining and restoration

Before decorating the old cupboard with your own hands at home, carefully inspect it - it may need restoration. This often happens that the old furniture needs to be adjusted slightly, repaired.

It is possible to restore the cabinet in this way:

• If the wood has decayed in places, it can be treated with a metal brush. So you take away the "dead" fabric. Then it is enough to wash off the dust with water.
• Cabinet before painting should be dried for several days in the air, not in the sun.
• If there are scratches on the surface, holes from nails or other defects, then they should be puttied with a thin layer of rubber spatula.
• If some parts are covered with rust, they must be treated with a special composition against rust.
• Staining is recommended by acrylic.

Important! The varnish can also be used glossy, matte or silky. It is better to give preference to the spray, because it is better to lie down.

On this useful tips and ideas are over, they will certainly come in handy if you decide to update your furniture yourself. Now you know how and what to glue the cabinet of chipboard, wood and other material, what materials are better to use and why.