How to reorganize old doors

Interior doors protect places from noise and penetration of dust, allow you to hide and stay alone. This is an important subject of the interior, without which it is impossible to do. What if you got an apartment with old interroom doors? Let's try to update old wooden doors.

Why do people increasingly resort to the update of the doors than to fully replace? Consider the main reasons:

• a large selection of doors, regardless of prices, pushes the buyer to the idea that all products are very similar. Related doors have relatives, neighbors or in the office. Therefore, few people want to acquire exactly the same doors in their home, because we all want the interior of our dwelling to be individual;
• even the oldest and unsightly door can always be replaced with a new one, just who will want to mess with the replacement of the door. This is not only extra money, but also a small repair in a residential room, and this is already a small natural disaster. You can imagine how much work will immediately fall: together with the replacement of the old door, you will need to still remove the old door frame, install a new one, close all the cracks, and maybe even have to replace the wallpaper, because it is rare when it is possible to replace the door so carefully so as not to spoil the door ;
• the old door can always be updated to your taste so that it harmonized with furniture and walls. Made a small deal with their own hands - this is already a big pride.

Now you understand that it is much easier to update the old door yourself than to buy and put a new one. Time will spend, maybe as much, but it will not be necessary to change the box, and all the work can be done immediately on the spot. Of course, if you have conceived to make a special decor of the doorway, then it is advisable to remove the door with the loops, everyone will cope with this work. By the way, if you have a couple of interesting ideas, but prevents the thought of "how you can decorate the old door" a newcomer who never kept building tools in his hands, I assure you, a huge desire and a little snarling will help you easily cope with the tasks set.

How to decorate old doors. Photo of interesting ideas:

How to decorate old doors

Let's look at a few options for updating the door leaf to improve and advantageously highlight the interior of the room.

How to update the old door:

1. Banal door painting is the fastest and easy way to update the old door. First you need to remove the web with the loops to prepare the work surface. These recommendations will help you to prepare the door not only to paint. So, after you removed the door with the loops, put it on the table or on the floor. Carefully inspect from two sides, if you have noticed gaps or scratches, the door led, it is best to remove the old paint. To begin with, unscrew the existing accessories (old handle, lock or latch). Most likely, we will no longer need it, as the new elements will look at the updated door much better than the old door handle. Now you can proceed to the most important thing - the removal of old paint. To do this, use the construction hairdryer to heat the surface. Once the paint becomes soft, with the help of a small spatula, we remove the old coating. If you coped with this work, then you will have to tinker a little to smooth all the cracks and scratches. To do this, you need to use a special putty on the tree (buy a small jar in the construction store). Apply a mask with a spatula so that it fill in the deepening, but did not perform on the surface so that there were no tubercles. As soon as the putty will dry up, with the help of fine emery skins, it is necessary to inchlip the processed surfaces. Next, we need to process the entire surface with a olifa or verse to refresh the clean tree and give the surface the required hue. You can use a colorless mourn to protect the tree from the penetration of moisture. Wait until the Olife gets up and only after that you can proceed to the main one - the decor of the door. Now a few recommendations on the choice of paint - it is best to work with acrylic paint, it will quickly dry, beautifully falls around, a wide range of color gamut is available. So choose the desired shade is no longer a problem. You will also need a brush or roller, you can of course use the spray gun, then the paint will fall perfectly. Do not despair if you do not have such a device, with the help of a painting roller, you can also paint the doors carefully. Prepare paint containers, all decor elements need to be protected by a painting ribbon if there are glasses - they need to be removed. Painting a wooden door is better along the fibers so that the paint filled all the recesses. If you want to refresh wooden doors and do without paint, you can use transparent varnish. It must be applied in several stages, between each layer to take a break and wait for the first layer.

2. The following idea is more complicated, as we suggest paint the door using several colors of paint. It is a bit troublesome, but the door will not be so boring and monophonic. On the door canvase, you can create a beautiful geometric pattern of triangles, rhombuses or squares. Figure - fully your fantasy. Before starting work, the door must be cleaned from the old paint and cover the colorless oil. Wait a little while the coating will dry up, then the next layer of paint will go to bed evenly. So, for our work, we will need several colors of paint and 2-3 rolls of painting tape to strip zones and not climb on the already painted surface with different color paint. Little Tip: To save money, buy a jar of white paint and sachets with a dye. Now you have the opportunity to experiment with the color. When choosing a picture, remember the laws of geometry and do not overload the cloth too much. You also need to stick to a certain style that the updated door has harmonized with the interior. For the style of "Country" better to make 1 wide strip in the middle of the door (light shade), bright, pastel colors divided into small segments are suitable for the interior of the classic style.

3. Chic and rigor - so you can characterize the selection of individual elements on the door canvas with a bright color. For example, it looks beautifully a snow-white door with black moldings. If such a combination of colors banal appears for you, feel free to experiment with contrasting shades. It looks great, the door painted into such colors: sky blue with gentle yellow, green with white or red with blue. Not a problem if there are no clearly highlighted moldings on the doors, they can be made independently - to nourish the wooden thin plate on the door. Only first it is desirable to paint in the right color, and then fix with small cloves. Then you will have to go through the surface with a brush over the surface to refresh the inserts. Another unusual solution - on an absolutely level door canvase, you can highlight bright areas and build a frame from wooden planks, painted in white. Gorgeous looks a bright pink door with white inserts.

4. Work with stencils is a very exciting occupation. Even if you have never kept a brush in your hands and do not know how to draw, with stencils you can make a beautiful and stylish door. Ready stencils can be purchased at the store (construction or specialized). First, the door canvas need to prepare, remove the old paint, and then paint into the base color (paint of light shades or vice versa, dark). After the paint is completely dry, it's time to start working with stencils. Secure the stencil in several places with a painting scotch, so that it fits tightly to the canvase and start work. You can arm yourself with a brush or use a small roller. The paint is applied in several layers to get a clear picture.

5. And why not try to draw your own pattern on the door? Art painting - it's a great idea decor of old doors with their hands. At this point you need to go through some preliminary lessons of artistic skill to be able to work with brushes. After the patterning template (pencil on paper) can begin drawing the main lines. Hand-painted looks advantageous, especially if the figure you come up with your own.

6. Decorate the nursery door can even the child itself, if given in the hands of a brush and paint. Only need to agree in advance with your child and show him the creative field. Children's drawings can be nice to beat, draw a frame or choose a gentle paint color for the general background of the door.

7. Just working with paint - it's boring, and you have not yet decided on the manual painting of the door canvase. Then you can offer to make an unusual texture of the door canvase again with the help of conventional acrylic paint and primary fixtures. Suppose if you take a rigid brush and spend bristles on a freshly stained door, then an interesting surface will be obtained, it is possible to use an old washcloth for the same principle, steel wool. And even better - to go to the store for creativity and buy finished paint with imitation of natural stone, denim, wood or canvas.

8. For those who do not want to mess around with tassels and paints, it is possible to offer a faster option - paste the photo wallpaper on the door canvas. A small cut of paper with the drawdrid will help to revive the room. When choosing a material, pay attention to the photo wallpaper, designed specifically for the salable of wooden surfaces. It is very important that the drawing will look harmoniously in the interior and has been completed. Standard sheets of photo walls are available on sale in a wide range (size 220x86 cm), such walls are suitable exclusively for doors without inserts and moldings. Before you begin to update the door, you need to handle the door canvas, it is advisable to polish and apply the solvent to degrease the surface. You can use glue for wallpaper for sticking paper web, but it will be better to cope with the task of the glue PVA. Of the minuses of this type of decor, the door is worth noting the shortwand, the paper is rapidly wear out, and a bright drawing can quickly get bored. But there are advantages - at any time you can remove the photo wallpaper and stick new ones. Work will take just a couple of hours.

9. To the question "How to decorate old interroom doors", most of our grandparents will advise you to take advantage of ordinary wallpaper. So before the shortcomings of the poor-quality door canvase hid and they tried to update old doors. Now this method has not lost popularity, on the contrary, according to designers, the wallpaper sticker on the door is considered an interesting solution. For example, in such countries as Canada and Sweden, you can find almost in every residential building door with decor wallpaper. In order for the canvas does not look sadly, you can make a highlight with moldings. If this idea will seem too boring you, try to attach a piece of cork wallpaper, and you will see how your old door is transformed. In order for the plug tree longer thanks the attractiveness, you can cover such wallpapers with colorless varnish.

10. As the idea to refresh the old door with the help of wallpaper - the option is short-lived, you can take fabric instead of paper. Such a door will look very original, and you have the opportunity to choose the fabric to your taste, starting with the texture and ending with the pattern. When finishing the door with a cloth you need to be prepared for the fact that not every fabric is suitable for this venture. The edges of the fabric will have to be processed so that the threads are not released and look at a small area, whether the glue remains on the surface. Such an ornament does not always look appropriate if the wrong drawing is selected and the door does not fit into the overall interior of the room. By the way, for the needlewoman there is a great idea - to decorate the door from different segments of the fabric (the "Patchwork" technique).

11. Starting with time - we revive the old door for the room, where a schoolboy or student lives. You can decorate the canvas with a poster, poster, stick old notes or a map of the world. The principle of work is the same: first preparation of the surface, then sticking. And also, refresh the old door and make the highlights will help conventional vinyl stickers. They can be bought in specialized stores or order in the online store. The cost is low, even a schoolboy will be able to stick, and the service life is more than a simple paper wallpaper.

12. Go from simple to complex - update the door in the decoupage technique. If you are a prigifying person and you have an interesting idea of \u200b\u200bdecorating the door with pieces of paper, then you can arm the necessary materials and proceed to work. It will take a sheet for decoupage with a pattern or napkins / cards with patterns, glue, brush, scissors, sequins, varnish and acrylic paint. In short, we describe the decoupage technique: we like the scissors like a fragment, we apply a separate pattern on the prepared surface, we take on the surface of the paper with a grinding with glue (some masters recommend using special glue or breed PVA glue). You need to try to stick the picture so that the paper does not shuffle and there are no air bubbles. Drawing strips and all small parts in the contour or pencil-glytter to revive the picture. After all the elements are pasted, we open the surface and wait when it dries.

13. Surface decoration technique mosaic. More suitable for decorating inlets of metal. For work, you can use pieces of ceramic tile or buy a special mosaic, a glass mosaic is suitable, and wooden fragments or plastic are suitable. Separate elements are mounted on durable glue ("Liquid nails" or "moment") on a predetermined surface. Before you start, you need to thoroughly think over and draw on paper the exact scheme of the location of the elements.

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