Modern unified furniture is quite convenient and functional, but often such products are completely splendid. It is possible to create in your house the disposable and comfortable atmosphere by placing suitable interior items in it, corresponding to the individual tastes of the hosts. You can give your home the atmosphere of the village house of the south of France by decorating furniture in Provence style. For this, the product is specially processed using various decoration techniques and giving the aging effect.
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Furniture for decoration of interior in the style of Provence
For furniture in the Provence style is characterized by the use of natural materials - wooden furniture and various forged parts. Modern chrome and nickelled products from blocks, glass tables and wardrobes in such an environment will not fit. But products made of wood or materials imitating the surface of wood are quite suitable. Such interior items, painted in soft pastel gamut, sometimes with separate bright interspersed on the facades, emphasize the features of the style of the original French province.
Wicker chairs, forged cornices, furniture decorated with sophisticated motives will fit perfectly into the overall picture. Wooden chairs and stools with carved legs, low “grandmother” cabinets in an ancient style, chests and chests of drawers are suitable - often such interior items look as if faithful and truth have served several generations. The bed in the Provence style also supports the overall impression of a provincial, “rustic” simplicity - as a rule, it is distinguished by a simple design and decorated with carvings or forged elements.
The style of elegant simplicity can also be supported in the bathroom - for this, coarse plaster is applied to the walls, painted on top of brickwork or sheathed with wooden boards. In addition, it is recommended to install a bathtub of a classic streamlined shape on the legs and a rounded shell built into the cabinet or installed on a forged console. Wicker chairs, low bathroom furniture in the style of wooden wood or MDF (toilet table, chairs, shelves and foam for linen, chest of drawers), including forging elements, box or vine basket - all this complements the picture and looks quite stylish , creating a feeling of elegant simplicity. The bathroom decorated in this way is characterized by convenience and practicality in operation.
The design in the style of Provence in the interior of the children's room looks especially organic. Natural materials and light “air” tones in the design of walls and floors, as well as pastel shades of children's furniture in the Provence style, create a feeling of spaciousness and light in the room, calm and create an atmosphere of relaxed comfort, beneficially affecting the psyche of the child. Equally chairs, cabinets and children's mini-cards decorated with decoupage technique or painted with acrylic artistic colors with animal images and plant motifs, a wicker box or a boot for storing toys will perfectly fit into the interior of the style of Provence of the children's room. The decoration of furniture items can be performed with your own hands, this does not require special artistic abilities, some negligence, naivety and deliberate simplicity here are only welcome. It is not difficult to select a suitable pattern for painting furniture with a child among illustrations of children's books, for applying the image you can also use suitable stencils.
Methods of processing and decorating furniture in the style of Provence
Furniture with places of a pastel gamut peeling and peeled, through which natural materials, roughly processed surfaces with a coating of patina, cracks and chips, shine through - characteristic attributes of this style. If you want to arrange furniture with your own hands in the Provence style, pay attention to various techniques for processing and decorating wood products. Such processing will not hit the pocket, while it looks very original and creatively. Artificially aged Provence furniture, as if burning under the rays of the southern sun, often cannot be distinguished from antique products made a long time ago.
If you want to independently design the interior in this style, try to transform the standard piece of furniture into a unique product in one of the following methods:
- in order to make bright accents to the relaxed atmosphere of a room decorated in monotonous pastel colors, you can use the technique of painting furniture in the style of Provence - set the pastoral plots, animals and birds, floral motifs and plant ornaments on it;
- to update the available furniture items, including quite old and got it from your parents, quite real with the help of a simple and very spectacular decoration technique - decoupage of furniture in the style of Provence. Having selected a suitable image on paper or fabric, it is cut and glued to the surface of the product, covering with several layers of varnish for a sufficiently strong fixation on top. This method of decoration allows you to quickly achieve very impressive results;
- you can decorate the furniture by decorative chips, deliberate scratches and even wormholes, and then giving the surface of the product the effect of burnt, wiped or cracked paint - using various staining techniques.
Ideas for decorating furniture in the style of Provence
Various methods of furniture processing provide almost unlimited scope for imagination and the embodiment of various creative ideas. Combining them for designing furniture in the style of Provence, you can achieve amazing decoration effects.
There are several ways how to age furniture in the Provence style with your own hands. Sometimes this process is quite long and requires a significant effort. If you want to get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow to paint furniture in the style of Provence, learn to artificially “aged” and decorate various furniture items (tables, chairs, chests of drawers, cabinets, etc.) yourself, try applying some quite accessible express methods. If you have a desire, it is not too difficult to do it at home.
To process the piece of furniture (for example, a chest of drawers) in order to give an artificial aging effect, it should first prepare it accordingly. To process the entire surface of the product without passes, it is necessary to facilitate access to it. To do this, you will need to remove various removable accessories - pens and decorative elements, pull out all the boxes and collapse shelves.
Aging furniture with paraffin and paint
To give the furniture of the aging effect, the following materials and devices will be needed:
- suitable paint of light tones;
- sponge - you can use the kitchen for washing dishes;
- sandpaper of fine granularity;
- wax candle.
If you are going to “age” the furniture yourself, do not forget to lay something on the floor in order to avoid its pollution in the process of work. Next, you need to do the following sequence of actions:
- If the chest of drawers is painted or varnished, it is necessary to remove this layer using sandpaper.
- After that, the surface of the furniture is thoroughly, without passes they rub with a paraffin candle along the growth of wood fibers.
- Next, the product should be painted. To do this, you can use aerosol paint in the spray can - with its help it is convenient to paint wood gaps and other inaccessible places. By placing a cylinder at a distance of about 50 cm from the chest of the chest of drawers, spray the dye with a thin layer until a uniform coating is obtained.
- To give the aging effect, it is necessary to treat the painted surface of the chest of drawers with an intense vertical moves with an intense vertical move. Start erasing excess paint with paraffin from the side parts of the product (first practice in a small, inconspicuous area). Try not to overdo it, otherwise spaces in the form of a bare surface will not look too aesthetically pleasing.
- If desired, on the surface of furniture treated in this way, using an acrylic paints or decoupage, you can place various thematic images, patterns and motives.
To consolidate the resulting effect, the prepared surface is covered with several layers of varnish. Such processing will reliably fix the product decor in its original form. To obtain the effect of cracking of paint, you can use Krakenur varnish.
Aging with steel wool for polishing furniture
You can also give furniture the effect of artificial aging in a slightly different way-using a metal wool (steel wool) of a gray-black color. Such a special material used for wiping and polishing furniture can be purchased in household goods stores.
To give the aging effect you will need to do the following sequence of actions:
- the processed piece of furniture should be pre -prepared similarly to the method described above - dismantle the handles, decorative elements and remove the old coating using sand grain paper, and then paint the surface monophonic or in several close shades;
- then, along the direction of the fibers, walk along the surface of the product with metal wool, wiping it with quite intense confident movements. Thus, you will cover it with a layer of black “soot”. Next, you will need to take a moisturized tissue napkin and wipe the product, partially erasing this layer and seeking the desired effect of the raid of time - giving barely noticeable “traces of dilap” and “scuffs”. Upon reaching the desired result, wipe the surface of the furniture with a dry rag;
- treat the handles of the furniture with metal wool, and then thoroughly wipe with dry fabric.
Decoupage of furniture in the style of Provence
It is not difficult to effectively arrange an old thing in the Provence style, using the decoupage technique. To give the furniture of the “rustic” French style, images of pets and rural landscapes, still lifes, a variety of plant motifs and floral arrangements are optimally suitable.
For decoupage furniture in the Provence style, we will need:
- rapid -drying acrylic paint - white or light pastel shades;
- three -layer napkins with a suitable pattern;
- scissors;
- pVA glue or adhesive pencil;
- kitchen sponge for washing dishes;
- acrylic varnish;
- patin powder.
First you need to prepare the surface of the furniture. To do this, it is necessary to clean the remnants of the old paint and varnish using sandpaper with fine grain, and then paint the surface with acrylic paint of light pastel colors in several layers (white paint can be used as the basis, apply a beige or other pastel shade on your choice).
Having prepared the surface of the furniture for further processing, you can proceed to subsequent actions:
- Cut out the selected motive for decoration and stick it to the surface of the product using a small layer of PVA glue, and then carefully wet the image with a sponge to remove excess glue. You can also use an adhesive pencil.
- Having waited for drying the glued motive, carefully wipe the surface of furniture around it with sandpaper around it in suitable places, achieving the effect of light scuffing of the paint.
- Apply a layer of acrylic varnish in sequentially on the furniture surface, and then treat in arbitrary places powder for patining.
- Fasten the result using two or three layers of varnish.
Provence -style furniture - photo
