How to update an old wardrobe

There comes a time when you need to make an important decision - to throw the old furniture. It has long been "not fit" in modern interior, but still something does not include the junk to the dump. And rightly so, it is best to update an old wardrobe, you throw it.

We are talking about the old good-quality wood furniture. Of course, if your home has Chinese-made products, made of chipboard and plastic, then restore it will be much harder. But if you stayed a wooden "Soviet" cabinet, then just need to breathe new life into it.

Consider the popular methods of renovation:

1. Restoration in the style of "Art Deco".
2. Decoupage.
3. The coating of self-adhesive film.
4. Craquelure.

Restoration of the "art deco"

The head always turns a lot of ideas and translate them sometimes so difficult! First you need to think about how to make your updated wardrobe in harmony with the design of the room. Select the appropriate shade of paint and pick up the appropriate accessories.

Look at this image, something like this will look our new cabinet:

What tools will be needed:

• sander (sandpaper or with different grain);
• screwdriver;
• screwdriver;
• construction narrow spatula;
• freyts or paint roller;
• brush;
• glue;
• selfless.

You must purchase the following:

1. Putty (for working with wooden surfaces).
2. Primer liquid.
3. Enamel in cylinders (buy car black and metallic);
4. Varnish.
5. Furniture scotch.
6. Glass (mirror).

Before you start working carefully inspect the wardrobe. All discharged mounts need to tighten, and the old nails replace the screws. If there are speaking loops, it is desirable or twisted, or replaced with new ones. In addition, when installing a new fastener, the connection is additionally processed by glue. If the rust has fired, it must be removed (you can also clean or remove with a solution for rust removal).

Work plan:

1. Remove the old coating sandpaper or grinding. Perhaps after removing the top layer in the tree you will find a bug-tree. In this case, the surface must be wiped with an antiseptic.

2. Carefully inspect the wardrobe. If dents and chips were found, they can be "perturbed" as follows: Protect the surface, give it to dry and fill them with a spacion mixture. Apply it with a subtle layer, because if it is dense and thick, then the mixture will not dry, and it will be cracked.

3. Cracks and deep scratches can be filled with furniture wax. It happens different types: solid, soft, as well as colorless or with the addition of shade. Wax you need to warm up and fill the cracks. If you are going to paint the surface of the cabinet further, then work with colorless wax. Clean the small defects can be sandpaper.

How to paint an old wardrobe?

After all damage is eliminated, you can prepare a wardrobe under painting. Want to transform your furniture to such an extent that even your relatives do not know? First, you need to clean the sandpaper places with a putty and apply a layer of primer mixture. This important part of the work cannot be passed, because the paint on the non-prepared surface may lie unevenly.

How to paint a wardrobe:

1. First take the basic color can. We chose the Color "Metallic". Limit the construction scotch that part that will not be painted in the main color.
2. Apply to the surface at first the main color and wait until it dries.
3. The next stage is the applying of the second color.

Immediately after dyeing, you will see how your furniture will be transformed.

Then we start assembling: take the mirror glass and insert it into the door of the cabinet, screw the accessories.

Decoupage cabinet

Restoration of the old cabinet will bring you true pleasure if you choose a decoupage technique. Currently, its popularity increases day by day. The principle is as follows: with the help of the selected picture, your furniture design changes completely.

What instruments and materials are needed:

• tree primer;
• paint (acrylic);
• acrylic varnish (colorless);
• PVA;
• sandpaper;
• painting brush;
• roller (if the area of \u200b\u200bthe cabinet is big);
• picture (you can take a napkin with a pattern, cutting your favorite picture from the magazine or order a photo printing).

The work plan is:

1. Clean the surface with sandpaper.
2. We apply a primer mixture and leave it until complete absorption per day.
3. Collect the cabinet to the selected color (when selecting colors, focus on the shade of the selected picture).
4. We expect when the paint is completely dry (one or two days).

After the preparatory stage, proceed to the most important point. Cut out the selected image (do not forget to pick it up in color, size or on your interior).

Carved picture apply to the surface and look at what happens. If you do not really like it, then try another picture. Mark her pencil. Then, so as not to get the effect of the glued paper, but the effect of painting, you need sandpaper gently with the back side of the pictures on the edges of thinning it for five to seven millimeters. Thus, we will get very thin, literally the papyrus edge.

How to glue the image correctly:

1. Lower the picture into the container with water. Let the paper beep soaked.
2. Put it on the towel and top cover with a free edge.
3. With the help of a tassel, apply glue to the place where your picture will be.
4. Apply wet paper on the surface and gently straighten it from the center to the edge. Watch that the fit was perfect, without "wrinkles".

This is how the images should be glued.

As a result, you will get a gentle careful locker:

Restoration of the cabinet

The old wardrobe can be updated using a self-adhesive film. It happens matte and glossy, with color patterns, as well as "under the tree", "Marble", "Metallic".

The film is well covered not only the outer part of the cabinet, but also shelves and drawers.

Work plan:

1. The surface must be prepared in advance and clean from dust by any detergent. Pour a little warm water in the basin, drop the detergent and foam. A soft, well absorbing moisture cloth wipe the cabinet.
2. If the doors and sides of the wardrobe have roughness, chips or cracks, pre zashpaklyuyte them. Do not forget to apply the primer mixture.
3. Special agent for degreasing, treat the surface.
4. Take the tape from the inside and mark the desired size. Do not forget to add a couple of centimeters at the edges of allowances.
5. To paste the film, carefully remove the protective paper, but do not completely, but only ten centimeters.
6. Secure the released adhesive layer on the surface. Using a soft fabric or a special spatula carefully flatten the film. Take care to avoid air bubbles.
7. Thus, step by step, carefully remove the backing paper and stick the tape.
8. If the bubbles were formed, and remove them is no longer possible, it is possible to accurately pierce their needle and release the air.

technique craquelure

This type of furniture decoration is distinguished by its simplicity. Specific material costs of the old cabinet will not be required for restoration.

Necessary materials:

• pVA glue;
• acrylic paint;
• krakelyurny (single component) a varnish;
• acrylic matt lacquer;
• broad brush.

How to refurbish an old cabinet craquelure technique:

1. Prepare the surface clean and apply the primer in two or three layers, dry.
2. Apply the paint (the main color should be darker, because it is showing through the cracks). Wait until it is completely dry.
3. Quickly and evenly coat the entire surface previously painted with varnish craquelure. The thicker the layer, the more visible and larger will crack. Dry the varnish to such a state that it sticks to your fingers, but do not leave a trace.
4. Apply a second tone paint (bright). After a certain time will be typical "mesh."
5. After complete drying of the paint cover the surface with acrylic lacquer.

How to work with varnish:

• buy paint in the store, select a liquid, because the viscous substance will go worse and the layer will be uneven during drying;
• do not shake polish before applying, because air bubbles can ruin your work;
• if you are working with the material for the first time, be trained in advance on the other surface, to understand the principle;
• in the room where you are going to work, should not be cold and damp;
• for a few hours at the start of work to do in the room wet cleaning, so you get rid of getting small debris and dust particles to the drying surface.

The operating principle of a two-phase varnish craquelure

If the picture is pasted on the door of the cabinet, which you do not want to paint, then you need to use a two-phase varnish of cracker.

Cabinet Restoration Technique by two-phase crews:

1. Take a two-phase varnish. The first composition "old" surface, the second - forms cracks.
2. Oil paint.
3. Varnish (acrylic).
4. Brushes (medium size, two or three pieces).
5. Bitumen or color grout.
6. Foam sponge.

The surface must be covered with the first layer of varnish, dry. Quickly apply the second lacquer composition and dry the surface. When cracks appear, they need to be treated with grout. Use the foam sponge. Color powder "Wrongs" the pattern of cracks and give the closet a completely different appearance. Then apply a layer of varnish and leave until complete drying.

What the old wardrobe looks like, look in the photo: