How to update old furniture?

If your furniture looks far from the way you'd like,then do not rush to change it, there are still chances to restore it. Perhaps your furniture is very strong, a rack, but with a visual component has long been out of fashion, or you decided to make repairs, and old furniture does not fit the current style of your room, apartment. Why buy a new, not cheap furniture, if you can update it and give it its former beauty and freshness. It is here that you will learn how to update the old furniture yourself.

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Chair

The chairs are used most intensively, therefore they grow old the fastest. How to be? Very simple! Update this old furniture.

Materials for the work

To give a second life to a stool or a chair made of wood, you will need a certain list of tools:

• White acrylic pastel paint;
• Brush;
• Painting Scotch.

We observe the following instruction for restoring a chair or stool:

1. Take the chair in the first cases, carefully sand it with sandpaper to remove the old coating.
2. After - must apply a primer coat of white paint.
3. When the paint dries, you need to glue the sticks with paint tape at the correct height.
4. On top of the scotch paint the legs in a contrasting color.
5. Allow the paint to dry and then remove the protective tape.

Actually everything, your updated stool is ready!

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Strip chair

Let's consider one more variant of registration of an old chair.

Materials will need such:

• Primer or putty;
• Acrylic paints;
• Brushes;
• Paint roller;
• Painting Scotch tape;
• Machine grinder.

Master class of furniture renovation

We proceed directly to the process itself:

1. Again, the first thing you should do is remove the old layer of varnish and paint from the old chair.
2. Use a sanding machine to even out possible irregularities, cracks and dents.
3. Further it is necessary to paint all the chair with an even coat of primer.
4. Allow to dry.
5. Dye all in the first color and also allow to dry.
6. Then take the paint tape, glue the stripes around the entire perimeter of the stool and paint in another contrasting color.
7. After drying the paint, you need to remove the paint tape.

That's it, the chair will look fresh and in a new way!

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Table

We turn to more serious furniture products, as you already understood, they will go in ascending order. Now we will carry out the restoration of the cabinet for the bed or cabinet.

Tools and materials:

• Acrylic paints;
• Painting Scotch tape;
• Paint roller;
• Brushes.

Instructions for restoration

After you have collected this set of materials, we are going to work:

1. The table is cleaned from past paints and varnish.
2. We paste a zigzag pattern on the table top with a paint tape.

Important! Observe equal intervals between zigzags.

1. Dye in contrasting color and wait for complete drying.
2. Remove the tape and varnish.

Yes, it's as simple as you can imagine!

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Replacing the glasses

There are situations when it is necessary to update with your own hands old furniture that has glass elements. In other words, you need to replace the old and worn glasses that are present in the furniture for new ones.

Important! This is due to the fact that almost any glass becomes duller over time and loses its transparency.

Definitely, you can just replace the old glass with a new one. But there is an easier way, for example, to update the glass surface with stained glass.

For this use:

• paint on acrylic base, which has the effect of frozen glass;
• sponge foam fine-pored;
• adhesive tape.

Let's move on to the process itself:

1. The first step is to paste the paint tape on the glass surface, and this is done from strips of different thicknesses.
2. Then the sponge is dipped in the paint and the entire surface of the glass is painted.
3. After thirty minutes, when the glass is completely dry, you can remove the paint tape.

The result is a frosted glass of a rather beautiful and original color. It definitely will please you.

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Old cabinet or chest of drawers

Do not rush to throw out an old chest or a cabinet, think a few more times, because you can get good dividends in the form of financial gain and time spent.

So, go directly to the restoration of the bedside cabinet.

You will need:

• Fine-grained abrasive paper;
• Planks decorative wide;
• Wood glue;
• Polyfoam products, decorative;
• Brushes;
• Acrylic paint.

Process description:

1. As always, first of all we clean the chest or the tub with the sandpaper from the old coating.
2. The next step is to cut the required size of the decorative panels.

Important! For the strip use a wide plinth at an angle of 45 degrees, and narrow stripes - under 90. All the slats are fixed with glue to the selected places in the cabinet.

1. Next you need to find a place to decorate. On the finished sample, apply a thin layer of glue and gently glued to the wall of the piece of furniture.
2. At the end of the whole process, the paint of the desired color is applied, if desired - varnish, which will not be superfluous.

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Restoration of the pedestal

Another very simple way to update old furniture can also be convenient and interesting for you.

You will need:

• Actually the material for finishing - self-adhesive film, wallpaper;
• Liquid for washing dishes;
• Sponge;
• Adhesive;
• Dry cloth.

Technology:

1. Furniture should be thoroughly washed with detergent and wipe dry.
2. All drawers and pens are removed and removed.
3. Precisely measure the length of the film and add to this result a margin of several centimeters on each side.
4. Then gently remove the protective layer and paste.
5. It's important to move from top to bottom, without hurrying and smoothing with a napkin.
6. When the entire perimeter is pasted, take a dry napkin and wipe the surface to get rid of possible air bubbles.

Important! If suddenly a large bubble forms, it can be gently pricked with a needle and immediately smoothed.

1. We repeat the procedure also with drawers and doors, only after unscrewing the handles. If necessary, make holes for the handles after gluing.
2. Superfluous pieces of film are carefully cut and smoothed.

Important! If you use wallpaper or other paper materials, when restoring furniture in the decoupage technique, then at the end of the gluing you need to give the object a good dry and then varnish for durability.

We move on to more heavy artillery, that is, cabinets.

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The bigger the cabinet, the less to do

Despite the fact that the cabinets are very large, efforts for them will need a minimum amount.

Find the following materials:

• Decorative panels or film;
• Pencil;
• Double-sided adhesive tape.

As you can see, not only a minimum of effort, but also a minimum of funds to implement the next plan.

Technology:

1. Cut out a piece of wallpaper on the measured dimensions of the sides of the cabinet.
2. The resulting rectangle must be glued with double-sided adhesive tape or glue.
3. After gluing, wipe with dry cloth from above.

Everything is so simple, and most importantly - original and refresh your furniture.

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Varnishing

Varnishing is a good way to definitely refresh your furniture, but it will not make it brighter and more fashionable if it is not.

Materials for work

Remember that it is best to use oil varnishes in the varnishing of furniture. Here are some reasons to choose these:

• versatility - they are suitable for all types of wood;
• quality - form very strong, shiny and waterproof coatings.

The only negative - a long period of drying( can go up to 12 hours).For comparison: varnish-shellac dries in 1-2 hours, and nitro-lacquers - and in 30-40 minutes at all.

Having determined your goals, quality or time, you must make the right choice.

Lacquering instructions for old furniture:

1. The varnish should be applied with a brush or a piece of thick fabric without lint folded 2-3 times.
2. The varnish is applied in 3-5 layers, and after the application of each new layer it is necessary to increase the drying time.
3. Surplus varnish should be pressed against the edge of the jar, the brush can sometimes be rinsed in a solution of alcohol.

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Crack lacquer

Crackle lacquer - there are many varieties with patina, gilding, etc.

Basics of application:

• The standard kind of varnish is applied thickly over the main paint layer, then covered with a different color to emphasize cracks.
• Also craquelior lacquer can consist of two components: the first is applied to aging the treated surface, the second - to create decorative cracks.

Important! Restoration of Soviet furniture with the help of craquelure is perfect for you, if you are a lover of old and country style.

Above, almost all possible methods for the restoration and renovation of furniture were presented. Agree that it's better to go to the business yourself, do something that you really like, in the future will not be an eye opener. Especially - it is more profitable for you in almost all aspects, which is also very important. Such furniture decor options are universal and original. Look at them, and try, most importantly - start, and then everything will turn out.