How to recolour old furniture

How to recolour old furniture

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Furniture which is pleasant to you and corresponds to tastes of all your family for some reason, as a rule, costs quite much. To buy though something unsatisfactory quality, but at low price there is no wish. From such difficult situation there is exit in the form of restoration of your old, but qualitative wooden furniture. The style vintage in mode is not going to leave it for a long time and yet - it is time to use it.

Instruction

1. Purification of old paint from furniture surface has to become your first step. Rough large abrasive paper rub paint to remove it and to bare tree. Brush away garbage wide rough brush, but not rag not to hammer it into tree time. Continue work as small abrasive paper and again shake dust brush. Now it is a high time to clean up the room where you conduct work properly. When you impose layer of new paint, it will not be good at all if all dust from old on it accumulates. Carefully wipe with the wrung-out wet rag the cleaned parts, and then absorb moisture already dry napkin.

2. Wait for fidelity several hours that everything has well dried out. Ground parts that soil which is suitable for paint which you have chosen. After soil has dried, put the main coat of paint, let's dry out also to it. Then be engaged in dressing of furniture, only thus it is possible to give it uniqueness and antiquarian look. Decoupage popular now looks adequately and it is simple to make it. Find pictures in uniform style which as you think, will well look on furniture elements, and unpack them on the color copier. It is possible to use drawings on napkins - if to work with them accurately, then decoupage with napkins looks more advantageously than the rest. Paste part to surface of furniture and from above varnish. In this case it is possible to use varnish with effect of aging which is caused with thick layer. After it dries and will crack (in it and there is effect), put layer of finishing varnish which will protect surface.

3. Buy thin relief paste for cliche (the cliche can be got in office or economic shops). You apply paste brush or rubber with spatula, only at all do not shift cliche. Paste can give color by means of kolerovka. Remove cliche, let's paste dry out and slightly you zashkurit it small nazhdachka, varnish all surface of furniture.

4. One more effective reception of coloring of old furniture - facing. This work easily and quickly by means of the liquid paint poured in saucer and polyethylene film is performed. After you have put the main layer of new paint and have waited when it dries, dip the polyethylene crumpled somehow in the container with liquid paint. Also you apply with this lump paint on furniture - the drawing, as on marble turns out. Make paint two or three similar tones and put in turn - the effect will be amazing!

5. Use effect of aging which gain when you apply with rigid construction brush dense paint over basic color of furniture. Gather paints on brush very little and you carry it in all directions.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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