How to renovate a chair with your own hands

Almost every home where there are several generations of households, there are objects of outdated furniture sets. Old wooden chairs, battered time, but having an original design, often becoming a family relic. Hands do not throw them away, but also to enter the updated interior also does not always succeed.

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

Options for possible operations for recycling old chairs

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

Examples of how you can renovate a chair with your own hands

How to renovate an old chair with lacquered (or painted) base and soft seat?

What do you need to stock?

• Paper emery (large and small).
• Stapler with brackets (construction).
• Paint (acrylic or other quick-drying).
• Varnish for surface treatment of wooden parts.
• Solvent.
• Glue for wood (or universal).
• Tassel.
• Scissors.
• Marker.
• Technical fabric (flannel).
• Upholstery fabric.
• Foam filler.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Remove the old soft seat.
2. Remove the old lako-colorful coating large sandpaper.
3. Small sandpaper Severy purified surface.
4. Color prepared wooden part of the chair.
5. Give to dry completely.
6. Dilute the varnish solvent in a 1: 1 ratio.
7. Open the lacquer of a well-dried surface of the chair, an integral brush.
8. Let the lacquer dry.
9. Put the old seats on the foam rubber.
10. Circle his contour with a marker.
11. Cut the workpiece of a new soft seat with scissors.
12. Fold the old seat, foam billet and flannel fabric.
13. Wrap the edges of the fabric and fix the seat with a stapler and bracket.
14. Cut from upholstery fabric a piece of the same form as the seat + 10-15 cm on the allowance.
15. Separate edges are subjected to and wash.
16. Tension the upholstery on the seat, fixing the cloth in the corners. Follow the uniform tension, fixing all the edges by a construction stapler.
17. Updated seat attach to a fully dried chair with glue or small nails.
18. Everything. You can use your new old chairs.

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

How to renovating a wooden lacquered chair?

What do you need to stock?

• Acetone.
• Sponge for household purposes.
• Tassel.

Process itself

1. Apply the solvent on the sponge.
2. Treat all surfaces of the chair, removing the old lacquer coating.
3. With the help of a brush, open a new varnish chair.
4. Let dry.
5. Chair updated. You can use.

Subtlety

1. To close in small damage to the wooden parts, you can use the smelter made independently: flour + PVA glue. This mixture should be so thick as plasticine.
2. For the refreshment of wood color, use the veil (it happens different shades), fixing it with furniture varnish, because, the veil will smear clothes.

Other ideas of the restoration of old chairs

How to restore the chair, it is necessary to decide on the basis of its condition, the materials planned for this action of funds, as well as your imagination and creativity. Here are some of the possible variations.

• "ACTION" of the wooden part of the chair by applying crochelle varnish between two layers of acrylic paint of various colors. In the upper layer, cracks are formed, through which the contrast bottom layer is visible.

• Decoupage or painting. Description of the technology of decoupage you can easily find on the Internet, painting, in general, the case of your taste and fantasy. For applying original drawings, use the brush and acrylic paint. Before this, the surface of the chair must be cleaned from the old coating, sprinkle, pollute and paint the paint base. The painted parts need to be lacquered, then the product will last longer.

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

• Restoration in Ethno style. The same preparation and painting. Only in painting there are ethnic patterns and ornaments, which are easier to apply with stencils. Such a chair can also be decorated with weaving elements in Macrame technique on auxiliary membranes or on the legs of the chair. You can also weave or tie the back and cloth for the seat upholstery.

• Application covers. It can be both copyright covers for the seat and covers that hide almost all the stool completely. There is here where to get roaring creative personalities. Original models, embroidery, knitting, etc., - Everything will be by the way.

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