How to restore a chair with your own hands

In almost every house where several generations of households live, there are objects of obsolete furniture sets. Old wooden chairs battered by time, but having original design, often become a family relic. The hand does not rise to throw them away, but it is also not always possible to enter into an updated interior.

In such a situation, there are no other options, except how, how to update the old chair too. What exactly can be done in order to give a second life to rare furniture?

Options for possible operations for the reconstruction of old chairs

1. Processing, restoration and painting of a wooden base.
2. Pulling or replacing soft parts (seats and soft backs).
3. Decoupage, painting or other finish.

Examples of how you can restore the chair with your own hands

How to restore an old chair with a varnished (or painted) base and a soft seat?

What do you need to stock up?

• The paper is sandpaper (large and small).
• Stapler with brackets (construction).
• Paint (acrylic or other rapidly drying).
• Varnish for processing the surface of wooden parts.
• Solvent.
• Glue for wood (or universal).
• Brush.
• Scissors.
• Marker.
• Technical fabric (flannel).
• Live fabric.
• Foam filler.

Step -by -step instruction

1. Dismantle the old soft seat.
2. Remove the old varnish coating with large sandpaper.
3. Smell the purified surface with small sandpaper.
4. Paint the prepared wooden part of the chair.
5. Let it dry completely.
6. Dilute the varnish with a solvent in a ratio of 1: 1.
7. Open a well -dried surface of the chair with varnish, wielding a brush.
8. Let the varnish completely dry.
9. Put the old seat on the foam.
10. Circle its contour by a marker.
11. Cut the workpiece of a new soft seat with scissors.
12. Fold the old seat, a foam blank and flannel fabric.
13. Wrap the edges of the fabric and fix it on the seat using a stapler and brackets.
14. Cut a piece of the same shape from the upholstery fabric as the seat +10-15 cm per allowances.
15. Turn and sweep the split edges.
16. Pull the upholstery onto the seat, fixing the fabric in the corners. Follow the uniform tension, fixing all the edges with a construction stapler.
17. Attach the updated seat to a completely dried stool with glue or small nails.
18. All. You can use your new-old chair.                                     

In the case when you have a chair with a soft back, the latter is restored in the same way as the seat.

How to restore a wooden varnished chair?

What do you need to stock up?

• Acetone.
• A sponge for household purposes.
• Brush.

The process itself

1. Apply the solvent to the sponge.
2. Process all surfaces of the stool, removing the old varnish coating.
3. With the help of a brush, open a chair with a new varnish.
4. Let it dry.
5. The chair is updated. You can use.

Subtleties

1. To close up minor damage to wooden parts, you can use a putty made independently: flour+PVA glue. This mixture should be as thick as plasticine.
2. To refresh the color of wood, use a stain (it happens of different shades), fixing it with furniture varnish, because the stain will smear clothes.

Other ideas for the restoration of old chairs

How to restore a chair, you should decide based on its condition, available materials, planned funds for this action, as well as your imagination and creative abilities. Here, some of the possible variations.

• The “aging” of the wooden part of the stool by applying the craquelure varnish between two layers of acrylic paint of various colors. In the upper layer of the paint, cracks are formed through which the contrasting lower layer is visible.

• Decoupage or painting. You can easily find a description of the decoupage technique on the Internet, painting, in general, a matter of your taste and imagination. To apply original drawings, use a brush and acrylic paints. Before that, the surface of the stool must be cleaned of the old coating, spaced, polished and painted with a single paint. The painted parts must be opened with varnish, then the product will last longer.

• The update of old chairs using what is at hand (leather belts, old jeans, fur vests, etc.). The results of such a non -standard approach are presented in the photo.

• Restoration in the style of "ethno". The same preparation and painting. Only in the paintings there are ethnic patterns and ornaments that are easier to apply using stencils. Such a chair can also be decorated with elements of weaving using the Macrame technique on auxiliary membranes or on the legs of a chair. You can also weave or knit the back and a canvas for upholstery.

• The use of covers. It can be both copyright covers for the seat and covers that hide almost the entire chair completely. There is where to walk around creative personalities. Original models, embroidery, knitting, etc. - everything will be by hand.

In addition, it should be remembered that a new-old chair should fully fit into the environment. Choose paint and upholstery materials that harmonize with the walls of the room and other furniture.