Probably, in each house there is furniture, the age of which is more than the total age of all members of the family. If in your house there is such a family heirloom, do not rush to get rid of it, because the old thing can be turned into a unique design object in a few hours. Let's try to figure out how to restore the furniture that you saw, using the chest as an example.
How to update an old chest of drawers?
If you do not know how to decorate an old chest of drawers, the universal decoupage technique will come to your rescue. Decoupage is the decoration of the object, using multi-colored paper cuts combined with paint, gold leaves, etc. This time-tested technique will update the decor of the old dresser quickly, cheaply and without much effort.
Before decoupage, you need to check whether your chest is in need of deep restoration. Such restoration of the old chest is to remove the old covering and puttying chips and cracks, followed by the treatment with soil. If, all of the above is already done, or the chest does not need a deep restoration, we turn to the most interesting - the decor. And then we can safely let go of our fantasy: colorful wrappers, favorite postcards, clippings from magazines, decorative sheets of precious metals, in a word everything you want can be used in decoupage.
Decoupage of the old dresser - step by step instruction
For decoupage we need:
- paper (in our case we used a smooth, fibrous fabric, in the style of Art Nouveau);
- ruler, pencil, scissors;
- glue PVA, or any other white glue;
- water;
- brush.
- First we measure the paper strip, the size corresponds to the length and width of the chest shelves + ¼ on the allowance, which is wrapped inwards.
- Dip the strip in the water for a few seconds, or walk on them with a dipped brush. This method will "relax" paper fibers and make them more flexible.
- Lubricate the surface of the chest, which you want to apply decoupage.
- When gluing paper, use a plastic card to smooth out the formed bubbles, or wrinkles. ¼ of paper, which is turned inside, in addition impregnate with glue. Cut the remains.
- After drying, cover the dresser with acrylic lacquer, or liquid polyurethane.
- And this beauty can come from an old ugly dresser!