- Contents:
- Ways to create the effect of aging wooden furniture
- Studying the method of decoding
- Painting an old wood
- Another way to make furniture
Today, at the peak of fashion, various interior items are "antique", and the adherents of this trend are trying their best to follow it. But such furniture is not cheap, so not everyone can afford to bring a note of luxury and special color to their home. Fortunately, you can make the same wooden table "antique" with your own hands. This is a fairly simple process, if you read this article, in which we will tell you how to do everything quickly and efficiently.
to the contents ↑Ways to create the effect of aging wooden furniture
To understand how to transform furniture "antique" with your own hands, you need to have an idea of what exactly is today the technology of aging of wooden products.
At the moment, in the production of furniture, the following methods are used to create the effect of old age wood:
- thermal;
- chemical;
- mechanical.
Consider various options to understand how to make a wooden chair or an antique-style table with your own hands at home.
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braiding method Wooden furniture "antique" with your own hands in everyday life, as a rule, is done by a method of brashing. Due to its use, you can unobtrusively equip your interior in the style of Provence or Country. This method can also be applied to the processing of other wood products:
- ceiling beams;
- wall panels;
- floor covering.
All the above elements, if competently combined, can create an atmosphere in the style of truly ancient houses.
Important! With the help of brashing you can easily decorate your interior in the style of Country, in which aged wooden furniture is effectively combined with forged elements. It perfectly combines with any living plants. This style is great to use for decorating a terrace, bedroom, veranda. In this way, you can perfectly emphasize your exquisite taste, as well as show your social status.
Features of technology:
- Wooden furniture with their own hands "antique", made in this way, can simulate the headsets, which belong to a variety of epochs. With all this, the very surface of the same table remains virtually unaffected, in addition to the top layer.
- Thanks to this feature, if necessary, the object can be cleaned, thereby, relieve the furniture of this effect.
Ways of creation:
- From a technical point of view, the bargaining is the elimination of soft wood fibers with a special metal brush and further staining it in a dark or brown color. After that, the treated product is varnished in order to protect it from adverse effects, and this is what allows your furniture to serve your well-being for a long time.
- In addition to the metal brush, this effect can be depicted using a chisel or metal grinding wheel. To such tools are resorted only in the case when it is necessary to process a large volume of wood. But this does not affect the final result - the effect will be approximately the same as during the use of a metal brush.
- If you want to make the effect of brashing more pronounced, we recommend combining this method with thermal or chemical. They will add their features to the shade of your product, creating the effect of a long stay in the basement or ignition of the same table.
Preparing materials for the work of
To make a wooden table "antique" with your own hands, you will need to use the following materials and tools:
- sandpaper of different caliber;
- metal brush;
- stain of dark color;
- special lacquer for furniture.
We produce furniture:
- At the very beginning, you need to perform the process of brushing the laborious parts of the table, and it's best to do this when the table is in disassembled form.
- Once you have finished the brazing process, cover the prepared surface with a stain of dark color. For this, wear a respirator and gloves.
- Remove any excess stain immediately from the surface of the tree with a damp, lint-free cloth or sponge. The layers of stain have a direct influence on the degree of prescription of any part of the table.
- The final stage of the effect of aging is coating the furniture with lacquer to protect wood and stain from mechanical damage and abrasion. It can be transparent or dark, just under the color of the main coating.
Important! If the design of the chair or table was made of different materials, for example, additional fabric was used, they would also need to either be changed to original old fabric covers or artificially aged.
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Another fairly common way of aging wood is to paint furniture "antique" with your own hands. At the same time, finishing is done in the style of contrast-loose color, therefore the product is able to completely change the appearance.
Important! In this technique, as a rule, the processing of tables, shops and cabinets. But at the same time the most unusual are chests, shelves, chests of drawers.
Technology features:
- It also uses roughing wood with sandpaper to clean the old paint from the surface. But the soft parts of the tree do not chip, because it must be smooth.
- In order for the process to go faster, you can use a drill and a grinding wheel.
- Once you have processed the entire surface, be sure to dry it.
- As for the paint itself, for this operation, as a rule, use any coloring matter with finish of matte shade. In this case, better choose a blurry hue, not bright.
Important! Professionals argue that for this purpose the paint is best suited for painting walls and ceilings of premises.
- After you have chosen the paint, get to work. First, try to paint some inconspicuous place to understand all the subtleties of this process. Apply the paint itself with smooth and wide strokes, which will avoid streaks on the surface of the furniture. Pay special attention to the corners.
- Once the first coat of paint is completely dry, you can apply the second one.
- When you have already covered the furniture with varnish, you can start to age it. To do this, with the help of fine sandpaper, treat the places that are most susceptible to abrasion, namely: protruding parts, places near the fittings, corners.
Important! Another option, how to make a wooden table "antique" with their own hands - this is also a coloring, but such a game on the contrast. Use for this purpose a paint of contrasting shade, which creates a rather interesting effect. Apply the paint on the brush in order to make it look almost dry. Then apply chaotic strokes. Due to this technology, there will be an effect that this product was already in use.
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There are other aging techniques. So, for example, combine barging together with painting in the style of scuffs. For this purpose, freshly scraped wood is painted with a faded paint. In the final result, the ridges are stained, well, the furrows continue to have a natural dark shade.
Important! To decorate furniture "antique", you can put on it a gold thread. This can be done using a sponge, which must be lowered into a golden paint. But in any case, the last step is always lacquer, which gives the product a complete finish.
Having an idea of what needs to be done to decorate an interior piece "under the old days", you can decide for yourself whether you are ready to cope with this work. And if so, we wish you an excellent result!
