Mosaic is one of the first ways of art decoration. Traditionally, it is used for floors and walls, less often lay out pictures from mosaic. However, the range of application of this technique is much wider. For example, popular making tables from mosaic. Next, let's talk about all the intricacies of this process.
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Mosaic and its varieties
It is worth highlighting the most popular and common mosaic varieties:
- Glass mosaic. He is an undisputed leader among facing varieties. A huge selection of a wide variety of textures and textures, the widest palette of all sorts of clean and combined colors provided glass mosaic such popularity. It is distinguished by environmental friendliness and resistance to moisture and chemicals, so it is recommended to cover in the bathrooms.
- Ceramic variety of mosaic is the same tile, because it is manufactured by a similar technology, with a difference in size. Be sure to have a protective layer of glaze.
- Stone mosaic. It is interesting primarily by the naturalness of the material, and often manufactured from minerals, as well as remnants of marble production. It is more often used in combination with ceramic and glass mosaic.
- Metal mosaic. It is a blank with an applied coating or embossed that are collected in the matrix and make up a pattern. Metal mosaic has not yet acquired widespread due to the tactivity of the metal. In essence, such a mosaic is a wonderful conductor of a cold or heat and therefore its use is more dictated by the tasks of taste, rather than expediency.
- Wooden mosaic. It is often used to finish interiors, including even sanitary zones. Due to the naturalness of the wood and its stability to erasure, such a mosaic will last long enough.
- Porcelain booking mosaic. It turns out by cutting plates of ceramic granite. Since the elements are of considerable weight, such a type of tile is more correct to apply for cladding of walls and gender.
According to experts, the optimal choice will be the combination of colored tempered glass with a flexible tile, which is products from marble crumbs treated under the selected texture of stone or brick. Like glass, flexible tile has:
- moisture resistance
- high mechanical strength
- durability
- high level of frost resistance
- saves colors with long exposure to the sun and moisture,
- bowls to chemically aggressive media.
Due to the high level of the aesthetics of the material and the simplicity of its laying, it is this combination that makes it possible to give the selected object with a spectacular artistic image.
Framework of garden table
Many will rightly notice that it is easier to buy a ready wooden or plastic table and decorate it. However, the one table that was made with their own hands is most appreciated and certainly from natural wood. Since the mosaic already involves the creation of an art object, then there is no point in buying a model basis from the conveyor. It is not very impressive to look at the finished product. Gardening table is not so difficult to collect with your own hands, if you clearly determine its design and sizes in advance.
In case it is planned to create a small table on one leg, or large on the sole pillary basis, it is important to take into account that the table will be less stable and durable. For the base, either a thick bar is suitable or, which is even better, wood pillar. Optimally, if its diameter is at least 20 cm. Countertops for these models are made round or with a small oval. The simplest option is to knock down the boards and cut them up to the desired form. Minus - it looks not aesthetically. Therefore, it is better to use gluing technology. The finished tabletop is fixed to the base with the help of furniture corners from the inside and self-pressing tops that need to be placed so that they are through the base right into the leg. Of course, the seat under the self-tapping screw is predetermined by the drill of the same diameter as the self-pressing hat, to a depth of 4 mm so that they are securely hidden flush.
Make a table from mosaic and wood simple enough. In case you plan to build a four-legged design for better stability, 8 elements will be enough: 4 planks for frame and 4 legs. In order for the table to be convenient to sit people of different growth, it is necessary to choose the height of the legs of 75 cm, taking into account the thickness of the table top. That is, if its thickness is 2 cm, then the length of the legs will be 73 cm.
Wood for the legs are thoroughly grinding using sandpaper of different fractions, from twos to zero. Next, they are mounted in the frame using metal connecting corners. For a table frame, designed for four people, a regular plaques of 20 mm wide and 100 mm high, the load is distributed on the principle of columns, so the table withstands a sufficient weight. The garden table frame must have indents by 20-30 cm from the edge of the table top on each side. The base is installed with the help of furniture corners on the frame, after which it is reliably fixed by wood screws.
At the same time, the table top can have both round and square shape - it all depends on the wishes and taste of the owner. The base must have a square form to make the maximum stability of the table top with the load on any angle. After the assembly work, the table makes sense to cover with two layers of the antiseptic to protect wood from parasites and premature drying. This procedure is especially important if the garden table is constantly in the fresh air.
However, this is not all. Of course, the mosaic is able to give any subject of spectacular beauty and precisely for it and appreciate it as a great way to decorate, but it is hardly that it makes sense to produce a complete cladding of the table from all sides, including legs. Even laid out a figured table top with a base of simple, albeit polished timber, will also not call that ecstatic delight in people who will see the finished products. To create something really original, it makes sense to spend some decoration and wooden base.
Make it forces with the help of cutters and artistic skills. However, if they are missing, that is, the output. It is enough to take any pattern and make a template from it - printing the desired drawing on paper. The main lines are then neatly cut through and in the future, the drawing when applied to the wood surface will be burned over the lines with a simple pencil. Next, with a cutter, the drawing is transferred to the tree. By changing the angle of inclination and position, create a complex geometric pattern. Those areas of wood that will not be subjected to decorating a mosaic makes sense to cover with several layers of ship varnish, which will retain the natural color of wood without giving it yellow, or to cover the veil, which will reduce the appearance of the appearance of more valuable wood. Such a garden wooden table will pleasantly please the eye and will decorate any country area.
Preparation of the basis
Wood is a rather complicated and capricious material, so it is important for it to lay a mosaic to it with special care and some points should be taken into account:
- in relation to the wood, it is impossible to use soluble type mixtures prepared on cement basis,
- excessive moisture content of the adhesive composition can cause wood swelling and subsequent deformation of the layer of mosaic,
- for laying a mosaic, it is necessary to use glue with an increased elasticity. For example, the adhesive atlas-plus is different exactly with such characteristics, and at the same time its retail price is $ 12 per bag weighing 25 kg,
- wood is characterized by drying due to hot climate and swelling due to moisture, so the base under the tile must have a layer of primer,
- the mosaic elements are permissible to put on ordinary liquid nails, but it is better to use a special glue for a mosaic, which is a more convenient and economical option.
Garden tables, photos with which are presented in the article, are an excellent highlight for any interior.
Table from mosaic do it yourself
When the countertop was primed, it is necessary to apply the markup using a pencil, according to which the picture will later be posted. It is important to remember that all details of the future composition must have large sizes, and it should be refrained from unnecessarily direct angles and lines. After the drawing has become completed, you must select one of how to make cladding.
1. The first method, how to put the table with a mosaic, includes the use of simple plow glue or liquid nails and grouts. Pictures applied along the lines, mosaic elements are placed on glue. A day later, go to the grout of the seams. Next, using a wet cloth, it is necessary to remove excess grout from the surface of the table. Mosaic can not be exposed to any loads during the day to give the material to purchase end strength.
2. In the event that there is no need to decorate the table to resort to complex art compositions and sufficiently pattern from the elements of the mosaic of the same sizes and shapes - it makes sense to use the method of transferring finished drawings from a paper base to the surface of the table top:
- a sheet of mosaic gently put on a pre-harvested adhesive mixture with a paper base to the top. Moreover, it is important to know that the use of a white mixture will help glass mosaics to get rid of the manifestation of shades on the surface;
- paper gently flush with a wet napkin to the state until it starts freely separated from the surface of the mosaic elements;
- remove the remnants of the paper without applying the force so as not to move the position of the elements;
- after the paper base has been completely removed - it is necessary to give a laid out picture of a day to frozen before applying a grout;
- further, when the seams are grouting, it is necessary to remove its excess with a wet cloth.
3. The third method implies laying a mosaic using a grid. This is one of the easiest ways, involving a neat immersion of the mesh base with a mosaic laid on it in a glue solution so that the entire grid is evenly immersed by the same depth. Further, the drawing is left for a day for frozen and begin to finish finishing - applying grouts. In the event that traces of dried grouts remained on the surface, which cannot be removed using a wet cloth or sponge - it is worth using light solvents by the type "White Spirit", but it is advisable to produce procedures for cleaning with it. Not earlier than a week after graduation work.
Each of the ways in its own way is good and demonstrates that the table with a mosaic will become a good and noticeable decoration of any summer cottage. Moreover, the mosaic is suitable not necessarily purchased, quite bye forces to create a beautiful pattern or a picture of the fragments of an old broken tile or bottles of alcohol.
